Total Leo (Audio)

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...

• 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...

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 maj...

• 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 ...

• 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, w...

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 ...

• 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.
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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'...

• 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 t...

• 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 ind...

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 in...

• 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 ...

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 ne...

• 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 te...

• Interview with Ian Krietzberg
• Leo's shows off his new AI toys
• Paris unveils her new desk setup
• Personal Superintelligence
• You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
• Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
• Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
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Ten years ago yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10, fixing the issues with Windows 8.x and giving Windows 7 users a solid upgrade. One historical curiosity: It was the first Windows release without a major launch event. In other news, Microsoft publishes a Nadella email to the troops about the layoffs, but he never really addresses the layoffs.

Windows 10 turns 10

• The Bad: Its legacy is mixed, as this is when the enshittif...

• Brave randomizes its fingerprints.
• The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default.
• Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages.
• 6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear.
• Warfare has significantly become cyber.
• Allianz Life loses control of 125 million customers' data.
• The CIA's Acquisition Research Center website was hacked.
• The Pentagon says the SharePoint RCE didn't get them.
• A look at a ...

The public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and others are available now. A new feature in iOS 26 could help filter spam messages more effectively. Will Chase be the new home for the Apple Card? And is Apple's new AppleCare One service worth it for you?

• Does iPadOS 26 steer the iPad in the wrong direction?
• First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta.
• iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new.
• ...

• OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
• Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
• Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
• FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
• Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims...