• CISA's Emergency Directive to ALL Federal agencies re: SharePoint.
• NVIDIA firmly says "no" to any embedded chip gimmicks.
• Dashlane is terminating its (totally unusable) free tier.
• Malicious repository libraries are becoming even more hostile.
• The best web filter (uBlock Origin) comes to Safari.
• The very popular SonicWall firewall is being compromised.
• >100 models of Dell Latitude and Precision laptops are in danger.
• The significant challenge of patching SharePoint (for example).
• A quick look at my DNS Benchmark progress.
• Does InControl prevent an important update.
• An venerable Sci-Fi franchise may be getting a great new series.
• What to do about the problem of AI "website sucking"

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Low-cost MacBooks could begin production soon, with a release period for early 2026. The developer beta for iOS 26 Beta 6 is out now. Could the iPhone 17 be introduced with a higher price point? And Alex Lindsay is excited to play with a new camera to record Vision Pro content.

• Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing.
• Apple's MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED might not launch until 2027.
• Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain.
• Apple will bring GPT-5 to Apple Intelligence in iOS, iPad OS and macOS 26.
• Everything New in iOS 26 [dev] Beta 6.
• AirPods could soon get Live Translation, iOS 26 beta code suggests.
• iPhone 17 models 'likely' to have higher prices, another analyst says.
• Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon.
• Japan law is forcing more browser choice on iPhone in December.
• Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct.

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• Alex's Pick: The BlackMagic Immersive Camera
• Jason's Pick: Instapaper

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• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
• Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
• Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
• Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
• Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
• Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
• Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
• Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
• Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
• Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
• Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
• Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
• Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
• San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
• Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
• Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

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• Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
• OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
• Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
• Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
• Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
• Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
• Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
• AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
• Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
• The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
• A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
• When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
• AI vegans
• Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
• Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
• Good guy humpback whales

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Microsoft's fiscal year ended on a high note, assuming you didn't just get laid off. WinSAT's formal assessment will give you some interesting PC performance information, similar to the old WEI score from Windows Vista. And Proton finally makes a standalone authenticator app; How to transition from whatever you're currently using and why you'll need to keep using Microsoft Authenticator too.

Microsoft Earning

• Quarterly: net income of $27.2 billion on revenues of $76.4 billion. Those figures represent gains of 24 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
• Annual: a net income of $101.8 billion (up 16 percent YOY) on revenues of $281.7 billion (up 15 percent)
• Another look at layoffs, which are nothing new under Satya Nadella - Over 17,000 in CY 2025 so far, despite over $100 billion in profits in FY
• Headcount "unchanged" YOY
• Big announcements below were likely made to avoid Qs about layoffs and it almost worked
• AI spending in FY was about $85 billion, higher than promised
• AI spending in this quarter will jump to $30 billion (!!!!)
• Azure earned $75 billion in revenues in FY, its first-ever disclosure of this number - Fun with math, that means $56 billion in revenues in previous FY. How far back can we go?
• Microsoft's market cap exceeded $4 trillion after earnings release
• "Copilot" has over 100 million MAUs, really M365 Copilot, which even Nadella thinks is a new M365 tier
• GitHub Copilot has over 20 million MAUs, probably most are free
• HUGE gains in Microsoft Gaming/Xbox, discussed below

Windows 11

• But first, something completely different: Microsoft's "vision" for Windows in 2030
• David Weston a curious choice for this video, first in a series - he's in security
• Daily work life changes thanks to AI - less toil work, less eyes and more talking, multimodal interactions
• Security - customers want appliance-level security, "it just works" security -
• Degenerates into a general security discussion
• Back to AI, reclaiming our lives
• Windows 11 SE, RIP - We hardly knew you. Literally.
• Insider: Changes to Home view in File Explorer for Work and School sign-ins, Settings app changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)

More earnings

• AMD - HUGE gains in its PC businesses!
• Qualcomm up 10%
• Apple up 9.6%
• Amazon up 13%

AI & dev

• OpenAI releases its first open-weight reasoning models and Microsoft gives them away for free
• Apple is trying to Sherlock ChatGPT
• Of course Alexa+ will get ads
• Dev: Microsoft has a native app problem on Windows
• Microsoft says it will fix Windows App SDK
• Paul just switched .NETpad to the Windows App SDK and can confirm it's a nightmare
• WPF is half-assed... and last year, it took Microsoft over 9 months to deliver the first Windows Copilot Runtime capabilities to devs, but you still can't use this in production. Also, it's not called that anymore

Xbox & games

• Microsoft Gaming has over 500 million MAUs - More fun with math
• COD has 50 million MAUs
• Microsoft has nearly 40 games in development
• Xbox Game Pass has $5 billion in revenues in FY, over 500 million hours played in FY
• Gaming Copilot (Beta) is available on Game Bar for Windows PC for Xbox Insiders enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview
• Assassin's Creed Mirage and more coming to Game Pass this month
• OG Switch models now cost more thanks to tariffs

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week:

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• A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.
• How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.
• "Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.
• Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.
• YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.
• Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.
• A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.
• A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.
• What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.
• An update on "Artemis".
• With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?

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Apple's Q3 2025 results are here, and Jason Snell has the charts generated and ready to go! Tim Cook holds a rare company-wide meeting to talk about AI. Could Visa take over the Apple Card from Mastercard? And Google is making fun of the delay of Apple Intelligence & Siri in its latest Pixel 10 ad!

• Apple Q3 2025 results and charts: $95B revenue.
• Apple CEO tells staff AI is 'ours to grab' in hourlong pep talk.
• Apple's new 'Answers' team eyes ChatGPT-like product in AI push.
• Google makes fun of Apple Intelligence Siri delay in ad promoting Pixel 10.
• Tim Cook has now been Apple's CEO for longer than Steve Jobs.
• Visa offers Apple roughly $100 million to take over credit card from Mastercard.
• macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 retires the old Macintosh HD icon.
• Japan mandates Apple must allow third-party app stores and payment systems.
• Man controls iPad with his mind using Synchron brain implant.
• Apple TV+ continues push into original podcasting with Unicorn Girl.
• New Apple TV still launching this year.
• Pico Mac Nano no longer sold assembled due to Apple.
• David Pogue announces 'Apple: The First 50 Years' book.

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• Andy's Pick: LisaGUI
• Jason's Pick: Anova Sous Vide
• Alex's Pick: Nugs

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• A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
• Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
• Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
• Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
• Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
• Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
• YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
• Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
• A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.
• Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'
• AI Capex is Eating the Economy
• Will data centers crash the economy?
• What content strategy looks like in the age of AI
• Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout
• Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
• How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
• Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
• Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

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