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Microsoft's latest round of layoffs hits Xbox Gaming hard as the company cuts approximately 9,000 jobs despite record profits. This week, Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell discuss the impact of these layoffs, Windows 11's new version naming, Microsoft Copilot coming to Mac, and dive deep into passkey security.

LAYOFFS

As expected, Microsoft began a massive round of layoffs across Xbox/Microsoft Gaming on Wednesday.

• Let's Encrypt drops its long-running email notifications.
• Microsoft's new "Unexpected Restart Experience".
• Microsoft's response to last year's massive CrowdStrike outage.
• Windows 10's extended service updates will sort of be free.
• Russia-sold iPhones MUST include the RuStore app.
• Lyon, in France, says bye-bye to Windows. Hello to Linux.
• The US Gov gets more serious about memory-safe languages.
• A new unbeliev...

Are people furious about the F1 Movie Apple Wallet ad? Apple could look to using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri AI features. The EU could miss out on new iOS 26 features when it rolls out later this year. And Pixelmator Pro gets new updates that integrate Apple Intelligence features!

• More on Apple's trust-eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet ad.
• Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri in major reversal.
• iOS 18.6, m...

• The panel discusses the current gaming environment
• More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad
• Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions
• Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
• ICE Is Using a New Facial Recogni...

• Interview with Richard Gingras
• Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
• Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It
• Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI
• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch
• OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and say...

Windows 10 EOL update

• Microsoft confirms that Windows 10 EOL is a go for October. But...
• Consumers can now get a free year of extra security updates instead of paying(!)
• Businesses can now enroll in extended security updates program
• Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 to get security updates through October 2028

Windows 11

• A few new features via the Insider Program
• Recall gets a new home page and some nice updates...

• China's Salt Typhoon claims another victim (or two).
• State healthcare portals are tracking and leaking. No kidding.
• Apple adopts FIDO's Passkeys and other credentials transport.
• Facebook gets Passkey logon.
• TikTok continues ticking for at least another 90 days.
• Canadian telco admits they were infiltrated by Salt Typhoon.
• Microsoft to remove unwanted (and hopefully unneeded) hardware drivers.
• The Austrian government le...

Apple silicon was announced five years ago this week. Apple held internal talks about purchasing AI startup Perplexity. New camera features could be coming to the iPhone 17 Pro later this fall. And why did Apple pull its recent ad campaign video after just one day?

• Intel to Apple silicon transition for Mac was announced five years ago.
• The infamous Apple typewriter memo is 40 years old.
• RIP Mickey Mouse glove: macOS Tahoe h...

• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
• Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
• Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
• Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
• The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
• It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
• AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
• Mastodon updates its terms to p...

• Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum
• Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI
• Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
• Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition
• Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'
• OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
• They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers...

No, it's not you. Windows Hello doesn't work in the dark anymore. For reasons. Say "Hello" to the Windows Hello controversy of the month!

Windows

• AI agent in Settings and Recall export experience in Dev/Beta channels - plus the old clock is back, baby
• July Patch Tuesday preview: App defaults (EEA only), Share images with visual preview, and some fixes for Windows 11 (The first one is coming to Windows 10 too - tied to the D...

This week's episode dives deep into the post-WWDC hangover, exploring Apple's remarkable software improvements across platforms. The hosts examine the first third-party immersive video production using Blackmagic's new camera, celebrate major Vision Pro persona upgrades, and discuss Apple's complete re-architecture of iPad windowing. The conversation reveals how Apple's software teams seem to have hit their stride after years of c...

• An exploited iOS iMessage vulnerability Apple denies?
• The NPM repository is under siege with no end in sight.
• Were Comcast and Digital Realty compromised? Don't ask them.
• Matthew Green agrees: XChat does not offer true security.
• We may know how Russia is convicting Telegram users.
• Microsoft finally decides to block two insane Outlook file types.
• 40,000 openly available video camera are online. Who owns them?
• Running S...

• Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
• Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow
• Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
• Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
• Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete
• Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel
• Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses...

• Interview with Stephen Witt
• Altman's Gentle Singularity
• Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40
• Paris on Apple Glass
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
• Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement
• Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
• Futurism on the paper
• Could AI m...

Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. ...

• In memoriam: Bill Atkinson
• Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.
• The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.
• Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?
• The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.
• Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(
• A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.
• Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhap...

Apple unveiled many things at WWDC25 this year, including the newest versions of iPadOS and visionOS, with a new unified naming convention across its OS's. Apple Intelligence gets a slew of new capabilities across Apple devices. And the panel remembers Bill Atkinson.

• iPadOS 26 introduces powerful new features that push the capabilities and versatility of iPad even further.
• visionOS 26 introduces powerful new spatial experien...

• Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
• Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
• A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
• Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
• TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back
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