As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

• Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
• Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
• You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
• Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
• AI anxiety is turning volatile
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
• Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
• The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
• Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
• Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
• Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
• Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
• Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
• Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
• Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
• What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
• TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
• Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

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When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

• Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
• Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
• Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
• OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
• The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
• Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
• Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
• Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
• Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
• Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
• After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
• Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
• 'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
• AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
• I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
• Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
• OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
• Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
• I/O schedule
• Haunted Paper Toys
• Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
• DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
• TRAIN JAZZ
• The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?
  

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Guest: Craig Mod

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With Microsoft finally doing right by Windows 11 and the Windows Insider Program, it's time to start testing and provide some feedback. And then we'll see if we can really trust these people. Also, Stardock's Connection Explorer 1.0 is here! And if you want one of macOS's dumbest features on Windows 11, you can get it now.

Windows

• Yesterday was Patch Tuesday - Another month in paradise
• 26H1 - Eh, 24H2/25H2 - Narrator, File Explorer, display, Pen settings, WRE, Remote Desktop improvements
• Microsoft reveals how it will simplify the Windows Insider Program
• Two top-level channels, but really three
• A way to enable all features in new builds, finally, and easy channel switching. But there are complexities, of course
• New builds for Canary, Beta, and Dev - Two for Canary, but nothing new, Beta and Dev get Storage, networking, Windows Security, and Feedback Hub improvements
• The first Snapdragon X2-based PC is out, and Paul has that waiting in PA, and two more PCs are coming to Mexico
• PC sales were somehow up 2.5 percent in Q1, but the rest of 2026 will be a bloodbath
• Also, smartphone sales are doing even worse
• NVIDIA reportedly wants to buy Dell or HP ahead of a big PC chipset push. Interesting

Surface/Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is forced to hike Surface prices dramatically
• Microsoft reportedly kills Surface Hub
• Microsoft College Offer: 12 months of Microsoft 365 Premium, 12 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a custom Xbox controller when students in the U.S. purchase a PC

AI/Dev

• Microsoft AI releases a faster and more efficient image model
• Amazon CEO tries to explain the AI spending
• Google app for Windows rolls out worldwide, but the Mac gets a Gemini app
• Claude for Microsoft Word arrives in Beta
• Claude for Desktop gets a major redesign for multiple AI agents
• Microsoft's reported plans to charge for AI agents
• .NET 11 Preview 3 arrives right on schedule, but there's nothing to see here
• Build session catalog is up - joking, but the new Windows native app strategy should just be vibe coding
• Google I/O registration is open, and you are never going to believe what the main topics will be - number five will shock you

Xbox & gaming

• New Xbox CEO says Game Pass is too expensive, also that the sky is blue
• Xbox will show off the next Metro game soon
• Starfield for PS5 is getting a fix
• Amazon Luna is stripping down to the basics e.g. "pulling a Stadia"

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: It's time to get involved
• App pick of the week: Stardock Connection Explorer
• RunAs Radio this week: Internal Corporate Communications in 2026 with Emily Mancini
• Brown liquor pick of the week: ScapeGrace Vanguard

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We may already be living through the most consequential hundred days in cyber history, and the arrival of AI that can autonomously chain zero-day vulnerabilities into working exploits means the software industry's long-standing "ship it and patch it later" era is officially over.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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There's strong demand for the MacBook Neo as Apple ramps up production on the budget-friendly laptop. A fake crypto wallet app was recently removed from Apple's App Store. And Apple is testing AI glasses that could come out sometime next year.

• Apple ramps up MacBook Neo production to 10 million units amid strong demand.
• Apple removes fake crypto wallet app that stole $9.5 million from Mac users.
• Why you can't trust Privacy & Security.
• Apple AI glasses will rival Meta's with several styles, oval cameras.
• How the "AI Loser" may end up winning.
• Blackmagic's camera for Apple Vision Pro content is now available for $30K.
• The space between by C&S app.
• A fake Ledger App on the Appl App Store drained $9.5 million in crypto.
• Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network.

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Pick: PureMac
• Christina's Picks: DaVinci Resolve Photo & Glider
• Andy's Pick: Google AI Edge Eloquent
• Jason's Pick: Strawpoll

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Anthropic has built an AI model so sharp it's being withheld from the public, sparking debate over who gets access to world-changing tech and who's left behind. Hear how this "too dangerous" AI could tip the balance for the world's most powerful players. This episode unpacks the fresh moral minefields created when cutting-edge tech collides with politics, security, and human lives.

• Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing
• Sam Altman Fire Bombing Response
• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
• Samsung flags eightfold jump in quarterly profit as AI chip demand pumps prices
• SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending
• Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million
• CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads
• GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed
• FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages - 9to5Mac
• ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
• Helium Is Hard to Replace
• John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement
• France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
• The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
• DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement
• My Quest to Solve Bitcoin's Great Mystery
• Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
• 'Abhorrent': the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

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A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.

• Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf
• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
• Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status
• Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"
• Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy
• How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?
• Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
• Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds
• How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
• The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"
• It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
• Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress
• JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman
• Mvidia
• Old NYC records
• Basketball is.... good?
• QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency
• AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

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Guest: Daniel Miessler

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Julia Liuson is leaving Microsoft. Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, the same year as CEO Satya Nadella (she worked on Access at first). She helped build the first version of Visual Studio and was the first female corporate vice president at Microsoft. Liuson has been president of Microsoft's Developer Division since 2021. Also, curious about life on the other side of the fence? Paul has a tip for finding games that are optimized for Linux. Plus, Chrome joins the 21st century with vertical tabs and a real reading view. Just be sure to install those anti-tracking extensions.

Windows

• Microsoft promises more native apps for Windows 11, but... which apps? New apps? Replacements for existing apps?
• Thanks for making us revisit the web app vs. native app thing yet again, Microsoft
• Windows 11 version 25H2 is now being pushed to all compatible PCs
• Compatibility milestone, not a big deal because 24H2/25H2 features are identical, same underlying codebase - but some will complain that Microsoft is "forcing" 25H2 on them
• Secure Boot certificate notifications are now available so you can see where your PC is at
• Another month, another emergency Windows Update patch
• New Dev/Beta builds add Xbox Mode, new haptic effects, etc., plus a new Canary build with features we've seen before
• Microsoft is taking the Insider Program on the road
• Component shortages trigger another Raspberry Pi price hike, but also a promise for the future
• The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor will be available from leading retailers starting Apr. 22 with a retail price of $899

AI

• Microsoft's terms of service for Copilot say it's for entertainment purposes only. Yes, really.
• Microsoft AI releases new foundational models for transcription, voice, and images
• Word on iPhone gets Copilot co-create capabilities - used to be AI Mode, you need a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription
• Anthropic has hired away a key AI executive from Microsoft, and what he has to say about the opportunity is interesting
• Anthropic brings Computer Use to Windows
• Google: Seriously, we are not training AI with your Gmail
• Google AI Pro plans now offer 5 TB of cloud storage, yikes

Xbox & gaming

• Xbox is refreshing the look of achievements on the console
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, more coming to Game Pass this month
• Was this the best COD ever? In search of greatness
• Also: Forza Horizon 6 launches May 19 and will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, and playable day one with Xbox Game Pass
• Xbox will hold FanFest events around the world

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: So you want to try gaming on Linux
• App pick of the week: Google Chrome
• RunAs Radio this week: Securing AI Agents with Niall Merrigan
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Corowa Peated Single Barrel 521

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