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This episode dives into early MS-DOS/PC-DOS source code, Snapdragon X2 gaming, and the "We are Xbox" messaging. Plus, Paul details 2 big changes in the Windows Insider Program. The latest PowerToys adds 2 useful new utilities and many improvements. And a TWiT listener asked about buying Windows 11 on Arm to virtualize it on a Mac. You're not going to believe what happened next.

Windows

Microsoft announces big changes to Windows Update

Microsoft announces Windows Insider Program changes, with Experimental channel

Hands-on with both predictably shows some nice improvements

Hands-on with Snapdragon X2 gaming - more wins, but still some losses

Microsoft open sources some of the earliest MS-DOS source code and related materials

Intel loses $3.7 billion and Wall Street could not be happier. WTF is happening - Paul has a theory and its called collusion

AI

Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership again and wait for it...

OpenAI immediately signs on with AWS

Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agentic AI features

Copilot in Outlook can manage your inbox and calendar, but seriously stop using Outloook

GitHub Copilot's switch to usage-based billing starts June 1

OpenAI is reportedly working on a phone because of course it is

Adobe Firefly AI Assistant is now available in preview

And then Anthropic goes deeper into the creator market

Xbox and gaming

Microsoft Gaming is being (re)rebranded to Xbox!

New Xbox leadership can't stop explaining its plans and it's glorious

Microsoft still plans a mobile game store, waiting on Apple to stop being so f'ing terrible

Valve's Steam Controller will cost $99 and launches next week

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Windows licenses, $, and you

App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.99

RunAs Radio this week: M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver

Brown liquor pick of the week: Reifel Rye

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.

Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.

Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.

GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.

Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.

A bunch of terrific listener feedback.

Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The panel can't stop talking about John Ternus becoming the next Apple CEO! Is the iPhone Ultra the official name of Apple's folding iPhone? Apple's product timeline for 2026 and beyond. And Apple's Q2 2026 earnings report is this Thursday, and Jason will be ready with the charts!

Time to serve some delicious claim chowder regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO transition.

Apple's 'Ultra' roadmap confirmed: iPhone, MacBook, and more on the way.

OpenAI set to redefine smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare key to its AI agent phone.

iPhone 18's new specs might bring subtle regressions to cut costs.

M6 MacBook Pro: Six new features coming later this year.

Apple taps Samsung for 20th-anniversary iPhone's quad-curved display.

Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote.

What to expect from Apple's Q2 2026 earnings on April 30.

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones.

New Mac malware goes straight for developer keys.

NASA shares iPhone video capturing Earthshine from Orion during Artemis II.

Pluribus' & 'Come See Me In The Good Light' win Peabody awards for Apple TV.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: Oversight

Christina's Pick: PowerPhotos

Andy's Picks: Free Comic Book Day 2026 & The Outer Limits Comic Book Store

Jason's Pick: TextSniper

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

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Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.

Toyota Woven City

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today

Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model

China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims

What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'

Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty

Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment

The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet

To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

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Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell

Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion

Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI

Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War

AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too

Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Depths of Wikipedia

GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

Is Your Site Agent-Ready?

Jeff's Gemini happy ending

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

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Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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