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From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control.

Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you.

France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution.

A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom.

AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump.

A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The recent public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27, and iPadOS 27 are available. What Tim Cook hopes others will view as his legacy as Apple's CEO. Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US. And will the iPhone 18 skip the fall launch?

Apple releases public beta 4 for iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27.

Here's what's new with iOS and macOS 27 beta 6.

iOS 26.6.1 has fixes for 20+ security issues on iPhone.

Tim Cook on his Apple legacy: 'I hope people say I was a good and decent man'.

macOS Tahoe 26.7 beta references several unreleased products like Home Hub.

Apple's camera-equipped AirPods confirmed.

Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US.

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union.

It looks like Apple's iPhone 18 really will skip the fall launch this year.

Leaker details A20 Pro chip's new speed gains.

Apple's Back to School offers have been extended, but you can do much better.

Apple in talks to pay publishers to improve AI-powered Siri.

Apple's China AI strategy now includes training its own custom model.

Apple sends fresh wave of mercenary spyware warnings worldwide.

Golf's US Open Championship could come to Apple TV in latest sports bid.

Jessica Chastain says Apple TV will finally release 'The Savant' after postponement following Charlie Kirk assassination: 'We're going to see it'.

Picks of the Week

Andy's Pick: SuperDuper! 4

Christina's Pick: Sony MDR-7506

Jason's Pick: Unforgetful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg's open AI manifesto, or is it just another play to keep control out of your hands? The panel debates the future of personal superintelligent agents, who really stands to benefit, and whether anyone should slow things down before it's too late.

Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay

Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He's Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks

Everything Google announced: Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, Pixel Watch 11, more

Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse

Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US [U]

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

Transportation Sec. Decides to Turn Air Traffic Control Into a Game

Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

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Guests: Denise Howell, Joey de Villa, and Gina Smith

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Does 10% make this the Year of the Linux Desktop? ClamAV gets some important CVE fixes, and the kernel staging area is now a no-AI zone. We talk about DEF CON, QR codes, and rolling servers. For command line tips we have userdel for removing users, rclone's listremotes option for managing remote backup destination, and socat for shuffling bits around the network. You can catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/4xMjaNh and happy Linuxing!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Ken McDonald

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On this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers Al's question about why their gigabit internet plan isn't delivering the promised speeds during a Wi-Fi speed test, and who's really to blame: the ISP, the router, or the device.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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