Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon pits tech ethics against government demands, raising explosive questions about AI's role in surveillance and weaponry. If you care about who controls the future of artificial intelligence, this episode is a must-listen.

• Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
• The whole thing was a scam
• OpenAI allows NSA to use GPT for surveilling Americans
• Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection
• Layoffs at Block
• Crypto exchange Gemini plans to lay off up to 200 staff, exit Europe, and Australia
• Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover
• An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 \ Anthropic
• Keep Android Open
• Colorado moves age checks from websites to operating systems | Biometric Update
• Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
• New Apple product launch starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms
• Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked: The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4 and more
• Here's how the new Samsung Galaxy S26 compares with last year's S25
• Hacked Prayer App Sends 'Surrender' Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes
• The Big One: The cyberattack scenarios that keep officials up at night
• CISA replaces acting director after a bumbling year on the job
• New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
• Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data
• Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
• Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows | TechCrunch
• Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'
• Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service - Slashdot
• Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
• Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77

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What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.

• Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
• Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
• Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
• How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
• My first vibe coding project!
• Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
• QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
• IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
• OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
• ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
• "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
• Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
• Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
• Gemini 3.1 Pro
• Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
• You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
• Claude Remote-Control
• Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
• OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
• More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
• What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
• AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
• LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
• Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
• Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
• Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
• It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke
• I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
• This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
• Famous Signatures Through History
• Finally got a Fujifilm!
• I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
• Jeff's new friends
• How far back in time can you understand English?

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Just last week, we asked about Phil Spencer and why he's been so quiet lately. Now we know why! Also, OneDrive for the Mac is finally going to look like it belongs on the Mac. And Google Chrome finally picks up a split view like the rest of the planet, plus a few other new features.

PHIL SPENCER OUT AT XBOX

• Phil Spencer has retired from Microsoft and his heir-apparent, Sarah Bond, left Microsoft as well
• Report details the Xbox reorg
• Ex-Xbox executive issues an old guy shouting at sky assessment
• New Microsoft Gaming CEO discusses "return to Xbox"
• Hot-take: This person seems unqualified to run Xbox/MS Gaming, but let's give her a chance
• Alternative hot-take: She is literally here to wind down this business, which makes no sense... unless there's a spin-off

Windows

• WSJ report sheds some light, and adds a lot of confusion, to Nvidia's Windows PC plans
• Week D arrived on time this month
• Preview of March Patch Tuesday updates
• Network speed test, pan and tilt in Camera settings, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP background image support, Emoji 16.0
• And you thought the Canary channel was weird already
  -New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta. Canary gets features we already saw elsewhere, Dev and Beta get context menu, settings, and Taskbar improvements
• Paul has published (an incomplete version of) De-Enshittify Windows 11
• De-enshittifying Copilot and AI is doable but not yet automated
• What about the alternatives?
• Next step: Security and Apps chapters
• HP revenues up 6.9 percent to $14.4 billion but RAM warning is more dire than expected
• Apple to add multitouch to MacBook Pro lineup in late 2026. Oh the irony

AI

• Xbox February update brings 1440p streaming to Xbox consoles, updates for Xbox ROG Ally, more
• Xbox app is delivering post-game recaps on Windows 11 for Insiders
• EA had the most game downloads on PC and console in 2025, thanks to having the three most popular AAA games of the year (BF6, EA Sports FC 25, and EA Sports FC 26). Microsoft was number two, followed by Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Sony. Fortnite is somehow still the biggest game overall on console, and Counter-Strike 2 (!!!!) is the biggest on PC. 20 million Fortnite players on PS, 15 million on Xbox

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: OneDrive for the Mac
• App pick of the week: Google Chrome
• RunAs Radio this week: SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Sons of Vancouver Wheated Rye Whisky

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ETH Zurich's deep-dive into the world's top password managers exposes how feature overload and legacy design obscure real security flaws, forcing a rethink of what "zero knowledge" actually means for your vault. Learn why recent fixes matter—and why open source may be your safest bet.

• CA's warn us to urgently prepare for the inevitable.
• Three U.S. states attempt to ban 3D printed firearms.
• Denied ransom, ShinyHunters leaks 967,000 personal details.
• "Billions" of U.S. social security numbers leaked.
• Is Apple planning to add cameras to three new gadgets.
• No more security fixes for Firefox on Windows 7 & 8.
• Russia blocks the official Linux kernel site they need.
• Will the U.S."freedom.gov" site post EU blocked content.
• LLM's will offer secure passwords. Do Not Use Them.
• As predicted, the "ClickFix" attack strategy takes over.
• A listener believes his computer is compromised.
• How could three popular password managers get things wrong.

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Welcome, Christina Warren, to the MacBreak Weekly panel! Looking back at Steve Jobs and what would have been his 71st birthday. Jason Snell unveils the Six Colors report card. And Apple plans to manufacture Mac Minis in Houston.

• Remembering Steve Jobs on his 71st birthday.
• Steve Jobs Archive releases 'Letters to a Young Creator' featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and more.
• David Pogue shares first look at upcoming 'Apple: The First 50 Years' book.
• Apple's next big thing is a push into visual artificial intelligence.
• The Six Colors report card.
• The evil LeapFrog tablet in Toy Story 5 appears to be running the macOS window manager.
• Disneyland's "MuppetVision 3D" will be released on the Apple Vision Pro. Here's why Brian Henson is okay with it.
• Apple plans to manufacture Mac Mini in Houston.
• iPhone satellite features helped Lake Tahoe avalanche survivors get rescued.
• Apple and Google employees customized their own Tudor watches. Now they're up for sale.
• PageMaker pioneer Paul Brainerd, 1947-2026: Aldus founder devoted his second chapter to the planet.

Picks of the Week

• Christina's Pick: Updatest
• Andy's Pick: Acme Weather
• Jason's Pick: macOS 26 Tahoe
• Leo's Pick: Thaw

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What do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache.

• Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
• Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction
• Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot
• Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
• Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
• Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10
• Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
• Tucson Daily Brief
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud
• Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain
• Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
• Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters
• The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth
• A flood of cheap used EVs is coming
• Signal guide for everyday folks
• PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
• Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on
• You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
• Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack
• Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges
• F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot
• In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
• Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)
• CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

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OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
• Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
• Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
• Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
• Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
• Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
• Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
• Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
• A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
• Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
• GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
• An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
• I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
• Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
• AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
• Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
• Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
• Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
• Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
• DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• ai;dr
• I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
• Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
• Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
• peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
• Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
• Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

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Microsoft might finally give power users what they've been demanding: the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar wherever they want. Plus, 3 major new chapters in Paul's next book, and a strange pick that solves his big issue with Windows Spotlight.

Windows 11

• Potentially good news for the 13 people who want to move the Taskbar to a different screen side
• Beta (but not Dev) with one new "feature"
• Release Preview for 24H2/25H2 with emoji 16.0, QMR improvements, network speed test, pan and tilt controls for compatible cameras, widgets improvements, more
• Lenovo revenues up 18% to $22.2 billion

AI/Dev

• Google announces 30-second audio generation
• Google sets a date for I/O 2026, but where in the Carmen Diego is Build 2026?
• Android 17 Beta is here with an even shorter runway
• With '26.3 out, Apple releases '26.4 Beta 1s

Xbox and gaming

• Phil Spencer is always in the spotlight, but he's been on the down-low for months
• Some hints for the future coming GDC 2026
• Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Witcher 3, more coming to Xbox Game Pass
• Avowed comes to the PlayStation 5 along with the Anniversary Update
• Microsoft is retiring user-created Xbox social clubs
• NVIDIA GeForce Now comes to Amazon Fire TV 4K Sticks

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Major progress on De-Enshittify Windows 11, the book
• App pick of the week: Bing Wallpaper
• RunAs Radio this week: Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Lot 40 100% Pot Still Rye

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