Total Leo (Audio)

• Interview with Jacob Ward
• Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute
• A rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California
• You can't lick a badger twice
• Mark Zuckerberg is planning a prem...

YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.

Windows

• Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
• Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce t...

• Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
• And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
• North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
• The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
• New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
• Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
• How malware has taken to hiding ...

• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
• Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
• Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
• Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
• What Ha...

Cosmic is nearly Beta-worthy, The NVIDIA Beta driver is solid, and we look back on a Code of Conduct legacy at Gnome. Then a shiny new RISC gadget catches our eyes and wallets, there's plenty of controversy in the Kernel, and new things are coming for Linux Graphics. For tips we have mispipe for a slightly different take on piping commands, Bitwarden's Command Line interface, and a quick primer on quotation marks on the command li...

• Interview with Harper Reed
• AI Horseless Carriages
• Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'
• Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:
• After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT
• China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
• Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Work...

It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?

Windows

• New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)
• Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta
• Voice access impr...

• Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping.
• Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out.
• The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life.
• China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan).
• CISA says what Oracle still refuses to.
• Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise.
• An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)
• The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(
• A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley.
• Andro...

It's a rumor-filled edition of MacBreak Weekly! Is an updated Apple TV coming soon? New connectivity features are reportedly coming to the upcoming Apple Watch Ultra 3. Apple is dropping the 'available now' tagline from its Apple Intelligence page. And Apple is celebrating Earth Day!

• Tim Cook honors Pope Francis on X.
• One of Pope Francis's last prayer intentions urged people to 'look less at screens'.
• New Apple TV 4K is com...

• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
• AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
• OpenAI's secret Yap score
• 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
• FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
• Trump Signal...

• Interview with Nikita Roy
• Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
• When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.
• Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
• The Dark Power of Fraternities
• Monkey.zip
• High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers
• A weird phrase is plaguing scientific p...

Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!

Windows 11

• Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:
• Semantic search can now search for Windo...

• Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
• What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
• Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
• My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
• Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
• Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
• Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
• An Apple -vs- the UK update.
• "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better nam...

Apple gets a break from the Trump tariffs. What's going on with Apple? France is planning country-wide digital IDs on iPhones. Could Instagram be finally coming to the iPad after 15 years? And could Apple be working on two versions of the next Vision Pro headset?

• Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions.
• Trump touts how he 'helped' Tim Cook with US tariff pivots.
• Trump signals semiconductor tariff...

• Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
• Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
• Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'
• 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial
• Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters
• Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief
• Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cau...

• Interview with Cory Doctorow
• AI hasn't killed radiology, but it is changing it
• Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
• Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn't Amused
• Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can't Do the Job
• The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now
• The 35th anniversary of Twin Peaks
• Eddy Varekamp

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cory Doctorow

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Introducing the Windows 11 Feature Tracker

"From the 'I should have done this two years ago' files, the 'I have wasted my life' files, and the, 'great, I needed more work to do' files ... There is a need for this. So I made one. But it will evolve. Maybe into a web app/wiki/something else... like a Notion website?" - Paul

• Patch Tuesday brings a metric ton of new features - And what the tracker showed clearly
• ...

• Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
• Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
• France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.
• Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?
• Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?
• Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?
• AI bots h...

Sales of Apple devices spike heavily as tariffs and potential price hikes drive customers to a shopping frenzy for Apple goods. Apple, alongside Google, is given permission to keep TikTok in its App Store until the US deal is finalized. Could the iPhone's auto-suggested contact be to blame for the Signal scandal? And even though Severance is a big hit, it isn't enough to give Apple TV+ a boost in subscribers.

• Apple stock bloo...