• AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
• US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
• Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
• The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
• Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
• Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
• Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
• Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
• 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
• Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
• How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
• YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
• Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
• So ... is AI writing any good?
• Project Indigo
• We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

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Leo, Paul, and Richard break down Google's Pixel 10 launch spectacle, poking fun at celebrity overkill and asking whether anyone actually cares about new phones anymore. Plus, they dig into Lenovo's record-breaking quarter, surprising shifts in the PC market, and the ongoing struggle between innovation and copycatting in the AI arms race. Also, Notion has finally added basic offline support, which should make it stickier than ever.

You got your AI in my Windows

• Pavan Davuluri discusses how AI will impact the Windows user experience
• Not the same video series as the previous "vision" video
• Davuluri leads Windows and Surface, so his words matter
• Changing: Interactions, business models, experiences
• Multimodal - in this case, meaning adding natural language interactions and vision to keyboard, mouse, touch, pen, etc. - "experience diversity"
• Powerful AI models running on-device are "transformational"
• Predictably, the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on.

Windows 11

• Semantic search and new Copilot home page for all Insiders
• Click to Do selection modes, minor improvements in Beta and Dev
• Recall and other Copilot+ PC features FINALLY come to Canary
• A few minor additions to Canary, nothing new to everyone else
• Notepad is getting an updated context menu and the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on!
• Lenovo earnings up 22 percent, best PC market share ever, number one in AI PCs too

AI

• Google Chrome takes the subtle approach
• Brave found a major security vulnerability in Comet
• Like my wife, Gemini remembers everything I ever said now
• Duck.ai gets GPT-5 Mini access, web search results
• Grammarly announces CODA-based editor, several AI agents

Xbox and games

• Another stunning Windows on Arm development
• The Xbox app actually works now on Windows 11 on Arm, meaning not just game streaming but also downloads. Except, of course, that it mostly doesn't work
• Heretic/Hexen installs and runs great
• Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to launch on October 16
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with four-player co-op campaign
• Indiana Jones coming to the Switch 2
• Gears of War: Reloaded, more coming to Game Pass in late August
• To help Xbox, Sony raises prices on the PS5
• GeForce Now gets more powerful cloud GPUs

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide, 25H2 Edition is on the way
• App pick of the week: Notion
• RunAs Radio this week: Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain Whisky

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• What AI website summaries mean for Internet economics.
• Time to urgently update Plex Servers (again).
• Allianz Life stolen data gets leaked.
• Chrome test Incognito-mode fingerprint script blocking.
• Chrome 140 additions coming in 2 weeks.
• Data brokers hide opt-out pages from search engines.
• Secure messaging changes in Russia.
• NIST rolls-out lightweight IoT crypto.
• SyncThing moves to v2.0 and beyond.
• Alien:Earth -- first take.
• What can we learn from another critical vulnerability?

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A slew of Apple's planned upcoming products got leaked in software code! Blood Oxygen for the Apple Watch is back, but with a unique twist. Are the upcoming iPhone 17s for the U.S. market all manufactured in India? And Samsung is slowly taking more market share from Apple with the growing demand for folding and slimmer phones.

• Liquid Glass. Why?
• Every Apple secret that leaked Wednesday.
• Leaked S11 chip details reveal no major performance upgrades for 2025 Apple Watches.
• U.S. Apple Watches get blood-oxygen sensor reprieve.
• Explore the Disney+ 'Alien: Earth' immersive environment with the Apple Vision Pro now.
• Apple code suggests Touch ID could be coming to Apple Watch.
• Apple preps native Claude integration on Xcode.
• Apple expands iPhone production in India for US-bound new models.
• Apple workshop on privacy-preserving machine learning 2025.
• Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum.
• It's Google's turn to convince us to care about AI on our phones.

Picks of the Week

• Jason's Pick: EOOUT Mesh Zipper Pouch Bags
• Andy's Pick: Tot from Iconfactory
• Alex's Pick: Voyage Dante 2nd Order Ambisonic Mic

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• Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
• The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
• Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
• AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
• Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
• More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform
• Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower
• Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays
• Elli-q
• After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake
• Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
• The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale
• PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
• Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X
• Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

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There's drama about the latest RISC-V patches in the kernel, SparkyLinux and Kaisen Linux have updates, and GCC is looking to drop some architectures. Nvidia ships a driver update, ffmpeg and OnlyOffice adds AI, and distros are shipping the soft reboot. For tips we have SystemD-Manager-TUI for managing Systemd, a step-through of auditing a downloadable install script, the timeout bash command, and an interesting question about how to get colors back in grep output. You can find the show notes at http://bit.ly/4mEkufi and have a great week!

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Tariq is back from the Far East and bursting with space news! This week we'll look at the passing of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, potential re-tasking of NASA's Juno probe from Jupiter to the interstellar interloper, 3I/Atlas--Avi Loeb wants it, of course--the third launch of ULA's Vulcan rocket, Artemis 2 lunar flyby updates, Virgin Galactic's new spaceplane (can they ever make a profit?), a proposed Pluto orbiter--with a planned mission of 50 years--and much more, on This Week in Space!

Headlines:

• Remembering Apollo 13's Jim Lovell
• ULA's Vulcan Rocket Hits New Milestone With Powerful Launch
• Could Juno Chase an Interstellar Visitor?
• NASA Eyes Pluto Orbiter Mission Persephone
• Virgin Galactic Preps Next-Gen Delta Spaceplane
• Strange "Helmet" Rock Spotted on Mars
• Artemis II Orion Capsule Fuels Up for 2026 Launch

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A recent article on ZDNet talks about how modern TVs monitor your viewing habits using ACR (automatic content recognition) and why that could be a problem for you. The article also explains how to disable ACR in various makes of TVS, but the instructions don't always match the TV's menu system. Scott Wilkinson talks about this important issue.

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Windows 11's next big update, 25H2, is finally official—but Microsoft quietly revealed it in a way only Microsoft would. This week, Paul breaks down the hidden gems and impactful privacy, security, and AI features you'll actually care about, with some changes that might just surprise even seasoned Windows users.

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• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
• Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
• David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X
• A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)
• Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise
• Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn
• Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over
• Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network
• What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
• Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
• Two-mile suspension bridge
• Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

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Patch Tuesday was yesterday, so find out what's new! Plus, two of the best-ever Doom engine games are now available in remastered form (4K/120 FPS, new episodes, cross-play, multiplayer, more) on Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC (Windows), PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam, GOG, and various cloud streaming services. It's a free update if you already own either game. Also, if you have a local library, you should use it. If only for Libby by Overdrive free audiobooks and free access to periodicals. But then be surprised by all the services they offer!

Windows 11

• Copilot+ PCs: Recall comes to the EU, Recall Reset, Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings
• All: Quick Machine Recovery, black screen of death, Snap layouts improvements, Gamepad layout for Windows Touch Keyboard
• Blender is now native on Windows 11 on Arm
• Search settings consolidation in Canary
• Mobile device companion sidebar for Start gets a new layout in Dev
• More Control Panel settings move to Settings app in Dev and Beta

Windows 10

• Consumer ESU licenses will support up to 10 PCs
• Microsoft will support Edge on Windows 10 through October 2028 (as expected)

AI

• OpenAI releases GPT-5 but not everyone loves it
• Quickly brought back GPT-4o
• And now the model picker is back, for now
• Microsoft is adding it everywhere, of course, and Apple says it will add to Apple Intelligence - And Bing just added support for GPT-4o image creation
• Perplexity makes unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome
• Comet - New tab page with Chat, can choose a Google Search as you type, Assistant in a sidebar, Summarize webpage/document, voice dictation, voice mode, big feature is website interactivity
• Microsoft Edge in Copilot Mode - most evolutionary update, new New Tab page, Quick assist with Copilot button location change, Simple task handoff (which needs work), Voice navigation
• But some bigger UI changes are on the way
• Dia (Mac only for now) - Also, there's a Pro subscription - New Tab page with chat and an attempt at orchestration, @mentions for tabs, Skills (built-in, can edit, can make you're own), and personalization
• Next up: Opera Neon - And what is Google doing with Chrome?
• Copilot 3D can turn images into 3D models - It's a "Creators Update"!
• Microsoft is EOLing the Lens app - use Microsoft Copilot 365 app instead

Microsoft/Surface

• GitHub CEO is leaving, Microsoft is rolling GitHub into its Core AI organization
• Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 get firmware update to add battery charging modes

Xbox and games

• Sony sold 2.5 million PS5s in quarter, now over 80 million cumulatively
• Microsoft rumored to have sold only 21 to 29 million Xbox Series X|S consoles
• Big Windows 11 on Arm updates!
• Game downloading is coming to Xbox app on Windows 11 on Arm
• Epic Games and Qualcomm bring Easy Anti-Cheat to Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X
• Apple and Google have illegal mobile app store monopolies in Australia, so Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone there via Epic Games Store
• Microsoft is updating Xbox Dashboard and app to show game trials and demos in "Free with Xbox" section
• Microsoft has paused the production of Contraband
• Steam for Chromebooks Beta will never leave beta, discontinuing in January instead

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Go to the library
• App pick of the week: Heretic and Hexen

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• 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.

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick: DockLite Board
• 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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This week we cover the latest Audacity update, an EU grant for Bottles, and the dustup with the DuckStation PS1 emulator on Linux. KDE Linux has a pre-alpha, Chrome is looking to play nicer with Wayland, and there's a really big AI Lawsuit on the horizon. For tips we have an intro to WirePlumber and wpctl, a howto for clearing the RAM cache and Swap, and our first time covering tr to translate characters in a string. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fDoPgM and enjoy!

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If we're ever to make Mars a second home, we have some serious housekeeping to do... as in a total renovation. The Red Planet has little atmosphere, no radiation shielding, and some seriously toxic soil. How can we make it more Earthlike... and should we? Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis joins us to discuss how terraforming might work, how it could be done in decades instead of millennia, and the questions surrounding the ethics of changing another planet to suit humanity's needs. We say it's a trailer park of a planet, but the best bet for human expansion. Dr. Rick Jenet is this week's co-host. Join us for the conversation!

Headlines:

• NASA aims to place a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, competing with China's similar plans for the Moon.
• NASA's planned commercial space stations are facing delays. As ISS retirement nears, the U.S. risks losing its foothold in low-Earth orbit within the coming years.
• SpaceX hits 100 launches in 2025, dominating global orbital launch activity and enabling rapid rocket reuse.

Main Topic: High-Speed Terraforming of Mars

• Guest Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis shares new, biotech-driven concepts for terraforming Mars much faster than traditional proposals.
• Dr. DeBenedictis shares a modern understanding of Mars' past and present environment, including radiation, toxic perchlorate-laced soil, and thin atmosphere.
• Discussion on the importance and challenges of Mars Sample Return for accurate soil and resource analysis.
• Modern synthetic biology as a tool for creating microbes tailored for Martian soil and future terraforming.
• A step-by-step outline by Dr. DeBenedictis on building a breathable Mars atmosphere via engineered photosynthetic microbes, engineered atmospheric warming, and greenhouse construction.
• Exploration of the ethical considerations and philosophical implications of turning Mars into a habitable "garden," weighing preservation versus transformation.
• Dr. DeBenedictis makes a case for Martian settlement, terraforming technology, and legal and resource challenges for commercial space expansion.
• And Dr. DeBenedictis' vision for Mars' future as a unique, partially Earth-like biosphere with new opportunities in planetary stewardship and human adaptation of the planet.

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Guest: Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis

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Edwin Boone loves his Panasonic plasma TV, which is still working well. But he wants to know what modern TV technology is most compatible with plasma. Scott Wilkinson has a definitive answer.

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Unlock the secrets to a seamless browsing experience on Windows 11 without ever touching Microsoft Edge again! This week on Hands-On Windows, Paul promises to show you how to configure your system to make the most of alternative browsers like Chrome and Brave. With practical strategies, we'll tackle those pesky Edge pop-ups and guide you through setting your default browser effectively.

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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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