• Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet
• Paris reveals her passion for pruning trees in NY
• Molly White's first appearance, stupid Wikipedia edit wars
• Ed Zitron's first appearance, elon's shady non-profits
• NYC apartment with a podcast studio
• What are cow magnets?
• Paris and Cathy, tab hoarders
• Paris digs into the source of the human cells used in a robotics experiment
• Craig stops by to talk about pancakes and his philanthopy
• Leo's audition for Megalopolis
• AI Genereated podcast of Paris' stories
• Paris getting her license to prune trees in NY

Host: Leo Laporte

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Windows Weekly wishes all viewers and listeners a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here's a look back at Microsoft's 2024!

• NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft
• Copilot Pro announced
• Copilot GPT Builder Impressions
• XZ Utils Backdoor Found by Microsoft Hero
• Copilot+ PC & Recall Announced
• Recall Drama Prompts Opt-in Changes
• Thurrant: WSJ Hit Piece on Qualcomm?
• Lenovo's nutty ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid
• 3 Mile Island Revival
• Halo Studios & Unreal Engine 5
• Snapdragon Dev Kit Unboxed
• Coffee and Nespresso tangent!
• Steve Gibson's Worry About "Connected Experiences"
• Intel's CEO "retires"
• Clonakilty Whiskey in studio!

Host: Leo Laporte

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Leo revisits some of the year's top Security Now segments of 2024.

• 956. Apple's Hardware Backdoor: Steve reflects on the previous week's 'The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606' deep-dive. Did Apple deliberately designed a secure backdoor?
• 960. Unforeseen Consequences of Google's 3rd-party Cookie Cutoff: As Google moves to phase out third-party cookies, the advertising industry scrambles to find new ways to track users, potentially leading to more intrusive methods like requiring users to create accounts on websites.
• 961. Bitlocker: Chipped or Cracked?: A clever hacker demonstrates how BitLocker-encrypted drives can be compromised on systems using separate TPM chips, highlighting the importance of integrating TPM functionality directly into the CPU.
• 964. So, What Is Apple's PQ3?: Steve analyzes Apple's new "PQ3" post-quantum safe iMessaging protocol, uestioning whether it truly offers superior security compared to Signal's existing solution.
• 976. Recall - The 50 Gigabyte Privacy Bomb: Examining Microsoft's new "Recall" feature that records users' screens every few seconds, raising significant privacy concerns.
• 984. CrowdStruck: A look at the disastrous global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update, affecting airports, hospitals, banks, and more.
• 1000. Steve and Leo reflect on 1000 episodes of Security Now.
• 1001. Artificial General Intelligence: Steve and Leo discuss the challenges in achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the debate surrounding its potential timeline and societal impact.

Host: Leo Laporte

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Join us as we take a look back at some of MacBreak Weekly's best moments from 2024:

• The Vision Pro finally arrives, but someone on the panel is less than enthuastic about it.
• The Apple Car is suddenly no more!
• Department of Justice files an Antitrust Lawsuit against Apple.
• Apple announces the M4 chip.
• Apple's finally makes its foray into AI with Apple Intelligence.
• The Vision Pro Jingle is born.
• People finally started receiving their settlement payments over the butterfly keyboard lawsuit. Plus, the last recording of MacBreak Weekly in the Eastside Studio and the retirement of Jammer B.
• Why is Apple waiting to release Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1.
• Apple announces the new M4 Mac mini with a much smaller form factor.

Host: Leo Laporte

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• What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR
• Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED
• Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows
• PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
• Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
• The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1
• Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
• Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
• Bluesky emerges
• The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
• Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
• SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms
• U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
• Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
• U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
• U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
• National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers
• Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.
• New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
• GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
• Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
• OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever
• Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
• Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event
• Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge
• Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
• So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas
• Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
• The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
• Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
• We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
• Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years
• In Memoriam

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Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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• Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
• U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes
• Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack
• YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January
• YouTube's year of the livingroom
• WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
• Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024
• NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version
• 1-800-ChatGPT
• Roose celebritizes Claude
• The weirdest job in AI
• Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer
• The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best'
• Joanna Stern book all about her
• Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics
• Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation
• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
• Seat patterns from public transports all around the world
• A compendium of transit tickets.
• Top uses of Claude (by country)
• Always Go To The Funeral

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Real-time translation, AI steak video, The Great Circle

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Is AI the Wizard of Oz? Or is it more?
• Microsoft's long standing effective MFA login bypass.
• Is TPM 2.0 not required after all for Windows 11?
• Meet 14 North Korean IT workers who made $88 million from the West.
• Android updates its Bluetooth tracking with anti-tracking.
• The NPM package manager repository has had 540,000 malicious packages discovered hiding in plain sight.
• The AskWoody site remains alive, well, and terrific.
• My iPhone is linked to Windows and it's wonderful. Yay.
• How has email been finding logos before BIMI?
• If we use Him and Her for people, how about Hal for AI?
• Another very disturbing conversation with ChatGPT.
• What's going on with the new ChatGPT o1 model? It wants to escape? What??
• Let's Encrypt plans to reduce its certificate lifetime from 90 to just 6 days. Why in the world?
• And all the best holiday wishes. See you in January

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Blackmagic debuts a new 3D camera to capture video for the Vision Pro, which gets Alex Lindsay very giddy. King Charles III visits Apple's headquarters in the U.K. What does the panel think of iOS 18.2? And is Apple working on a new, folding iPad?

• Blackmagic debuts $30K 3D camera for capturing video for Vision Pro.
• His Majesty King Charles III visits Apple's U.K. headquarters.
• Tim Cook dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
• Tim Cook impressed King Charles with this specific iOS 18.2 feature.
• iOS 18.2/macOS 15.2 Review: Picture not so perfect?
• BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline.
• Keynote, Pages, and Numbers get Apple Intelligence features.
• Apple's new vision for computing is a giant foldable iPad.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Pick: Mic Drop
• Alex's Pick: Shokz OpenSwim
• Andy's Pick: 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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• So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas
• Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge
• Federal appeals court declines to temporarily block ban on TikTok, teeing up showdown at SCOTUS over controversial law
• WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
• Crypto's Legacy Is Finally Clear
• Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration
• AI Is Detecting More Breast Cancer Cases, Study Suggests
• Huge randomized trial of AI boosts discovery — at least for good scientists
• GM Calls It Quits on Mary Barra's $50 Billion Robotaxi Dream
• You Can Buy a Car on Amazon Now

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Mike Elgan, and Emily Forlini

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Google introduces its new generative AI video model, Veo. TikTok is fighting back, seeking to pause the US ban pending a review from the Supreme Court. A judge is currently blocking the sale of Infowars to The Onion. And Leo and Jeff help Pars decide on the best gifts for a white elephant party.

• Google's new generative AI video model is now available.
• Google introduces A.I. agent that aces 15-day weather forecasts.
• Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip.
• Google is suing a federal regulator over supervision of its payment division.
• Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch.
• TikTok seeks to pause US ban pending Supreme Court review.
• Frank McCourt's Project Liberty advances bid for TikTok.
• The Supreme Court must intervene in the TikTok case.
• Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup.
• Are those drones over New Jersey? Sightings mount, and still no answers.
• Introducing Reddit answers.
• Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review.
• Instagram rolls out 'trial reels' that aren't shown to a creator's followers.
• Infowars sale to The Onion rejected by Federal bankruptcy judge.
• Debanking (and Debunking?)
• YouTube's new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content.
• The AI We Deserve.
• New KOSA, same as old KOSA, but now with Elon's ignorant endorsement.
• 404 Media objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's subpoena to access our reporting.
• Casey Newton: The phony comforts of AI skepticism.
• WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules.
• Bluesky stats!
• Advertising is stupid. AI is stupid. The singularity is never.

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