Apple's struggles to get AI right, and what Apple could do to correct itself. A never-ending update with Epic Games and Apple. Can China kill the iPhone overnight? And a new original Peanuts special is coming soon!

• Why Apple still hasn't cracked AI.
• Apple to open AI models to developers, betting that it will spur new apps.
• Apple developer app updates with WWDC 2025 iMessage stickers.
• How will Apple re-think AI features for WWDC 2025?
• Epic asks judge to reinstate Fortnite on the App Store.
• New 'Apple in China' book convincingly argues that the iPhone could be killed overnight.
• Apple Maps gets in on F1 hype with Monaco update.
• Trump praises Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Saudi Summit.
• Trump says he doesn't want Apple building products in India.
• Apple is 'dying to make' Vision Pro affordable, says Bono.
• The Price is Right' contestants were off by thousands when guessing the cost of Apple's Vision Pro.
• Universal Music Group and Apple Music announce Sound Therapy.
• Apple TV+ announces "Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical," new original Peanuts special premiering globally July 18, 2025.
• CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today.
• Oops! I accidentally vibe-coded a ChatGPT client for my Apple Watch.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Pick: Pushover
• Leo & Andy's Pick: NotebookLM
• Alex's Pick: Murderbot

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• GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation
• Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust
• Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI
• How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed
• OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away
• 25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince
• Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad
• Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI
• Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores
• Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store
• Nextcloud accuses Google of "Big Tech gatekeeping" over Android app permissions
• Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era
• Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table
• Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot
• Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
• The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
• The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair
• They're just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

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• The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment
• Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office
• Meta's new AI glasses could have a 'super-sensing' mode with facial recognition
• Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
• The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP's Favorite 'Save The Children' Laws
• neat Gemini airline hack
• Interview with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
• AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests
• Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices
• Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company
• E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
• The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall
• Crypto boys are the worst....
• Parisbait: I've watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here's what I learned about him – and myself
• Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
• Uncle Tony's Reptile Shack
• neal.fun
• Testing Paris' language proficiency and youth
• The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI
• Artifice and Intelligence
• The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency'
• Information literacy and chatbots as search

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It's go time: The biggest Patch Tuesday of 2025 sets the stage for 2025! Microsoft has finally revealed whether it will further extend Windows 10 support past October (it won't). Also, Microsoft designed notifications in Windows 11 to be annoying and pointless, so Paul has some advice. Plus, Proton Drive gets a long awaited albums feature, and more on the way.

Windows 11

• Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) come to stable for the first time
• Let's give Microsoft a bit of credit for this one non-reported behavior
• Also: Improvements to Settings, Narrator, Start, Phone Link, Widgets, File Explorer
• You knew this was coming: Microsoft now testing a "Hey, Copilot" feature
• It's opt-in and an alternative to holding down Alt + Spacebar for two seconds
• Microsoft discusses the new Start design and it's not a s#$t show like it was three years ago
• No builds for the second Friday in a row
• Improvements to Settings AI agent, intelligent text actions in Click to Do, a few small changes come to 24H2 in Dev and Beta channels
• Copilot Vision gets Highlights and 2-App Support across all channels
• Google's big Android reveal includes Material Expressive, big Wear OS update. Android, like Windows 11 (and iOS) is just being updated all the time now

Windows 10

• Extended support program
• Will support Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 through October 2028
• Those time frames are identical
• So what about those Surface PCs that can't upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft has an answer (for all unsupported PCs) and it's not as cynical as you think
• Microsoft quietly discontinued entry-level 13.8-inch Surface Laptop and 13-inch Surface Pro when it introduced those smaller new models last week

Layoffs

• Microsoft just made $70 billion, so naturally it's laying off employees. How to explain this?
• The FTC's losing streak against Microsoft continues
• A proposal for solving the "Mozilla problem" in U.S. v. Google
• Fortnite could return to the iPhone App Store as soon as today

AI

• OH MY GOD IS THERE NO AI NEWS FOR ONCE. OK, three small items
• OpenAI brings OneDrive and SharePoint integration with ChatGPT for paid business customers
• "AI mode" could replace "I'm feeling lucky" on the Google home page
• Spotify's AI DJ keeps improving

Dev

• Build is next week in Seattle, a few thoughts
• .NET 10 Preview 4 is out

Xbox & Games

• Today's the day: DOOM: The Dark Ages goes live at 8:00 ET tonight!
• Xbox Insiders can now play cloud-enabled games with mouse and keyboard
• Paul reviews the Backbone Pro controller
• Nintendo revenues slide big ahead of Switch 2 - 15m consoles expected in first year
• Sony sold 18.5 million PS5s in the most recent fiscal year, down 11 percent YOY

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Windows 11 notifications make iOS look sophisticated
• App pick of the week: Proton Drive
• RunAs Radio this week: Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Limeburners Albany Tawny Cask

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• The state of Virginia passes an age-restriction law that has no chance.
• New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead.
• A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K downloads.
• The FBI says it's a good idea to discard end-of-life consumer routers.
• What's in WhatsApp? Finding out was neither easy nor certain.
• The UK's Cyber Centre says AI promises to make things much worse.
• A bunch of great feedback from our great listeners, then:
• Is true end-to-end encryption possible when records must be retained?

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple unveils a new slew of accessibility features ahead of WWDC. Apple is looking to line up 2027 with a slew of new planned products to be released that year. The new Pope is rocking an Apple Watch. And you could receive up to $100 if eligible for a settlement payout over allegations of Siri-enabled spying on private conversations!

• iOS 18.5 now available with these new features.
• Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year.
• Can we still love Apple? Should we ever have?
• Alphabet shares sink 7% after Apple's Cue says AI will replace search engines.
• Netflix getting user interface with AI, has no plans to bring back App Store subscriptions.
• Nearly three decades later, Apple owes everything to the iMac.
• Apple's 2027 product blitz can't come soon enough.
• Pope Leo XIV wears Apple Watch in first official mass.
• Don't delete that 'Lopez Voice Assistant' email — it's about Apple's Siri settlement.
• Trump says China will 'open itself up to American business'.
• Trump says he talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook after China tariff rollback.
• Jude Law & Andrew Garfield to play Siegfried & Roy in limited series ordered by Apple TV+.

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• Jason's Pick: iPhone 16e
• Leo's Picks: windy.com & Ulanzi Quick Release Mount
• Alex's Pick: Cadrage
• Andy's Pick: Graphic for Mac and iOS

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• Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals
• Proposed Amicus Brief – #1300, Att. #1 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC (D.D.C., 1:20-cv-03010) – CourtListener.com
• Eddy Cue Causes a Stir for Google
• DOJ pushes for Google to sell its advertising platforms
• Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission
• What Stacey has been doing
• Attorney General Bailey Files Groundbreaking Rule to End Big Tech's Censorship Monopoly and Protect Online Free Speech
• DOGE bro Kyle Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs
• The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
• Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk
• Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - Slashdot
• How AI Demand Is Draining Local Water Supplies
• Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and other big names are mostly off the hook from the FTX fallout
• FTC Bans Hidden Fees For Live Events and Short-Term Rentals - Slashdot
• The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
• 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth | Bill Gates
• Mexico is suing Google over 'Gulf of America' name change for US users
• Switzerland To Hold Referendum on Introducing Electronic ID

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Google Pixel 5, Amazon One, AppleTV+

• Google's Launch Night in was a snooze
• Amazon Sidewalk will join your neighborhood together - or invade your privacy
• Amazon wants your palm print. Will you give it to them?
• James Bond delayed to 2021: Movie theaters are dying
• Subway sandwiches are not made with bread in Ireland, and their chicken is less than 50% chicken, but Popeye's is the best
• Apple TV+ is about to lose a whole lot of subscribers - what should we watch?
• How soap operas are filming during the pandemic
• Prime day is October 13th - will you shop?
• Libraries are being squeezed by publishers over ebooks and audiobooks
• Google TV is good, but Google seems to have lost interest like they lose interest in everything
• MIxer screws Ninja over; Ninja makes bank
• Sonos sues Google for multi-room audio patents
• Facebook merges Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook logins
• US judge saves TikTok; Fleetwood Mac rejoices
• The Social Dilemma is Reefer Madness for 2020
• If you pay ransomware, the Treasury Department will come after you
• H1-B visas cut off; tech giants cry out

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