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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...

• 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 ...

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...

On this week's Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps out Larry with devices to help cast his phone to a TV when on the road.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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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 plan...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent on this episode of Tech News Weekly! Apple is rumored to launch a series of AI-powered devices, the upcoming Pebble Time 2's design is shown off, a look into a global SMS phishing scam ring, and the blood oxygen feature is returning to Apple Watches?

• Apple is seeking to expand its product offerings into AI-powered robots, home security, and smart displays, according to ...

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.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

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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.

Host: Paul Thurrott

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Is your Mac taking forever to start up? Mikah Sargent reveals the hidden culprits slowing down your macOS boot times and walks through proven solutions to get your machine running like new again.

• Login Items Management - How to identify and remove unnecessary apps that automatically launch at startup using System Settings - General - Login Items and Extensions
• Terminal Commands for Advanced Users - Using "launchctl list" to ...

Get ready for back-to-school season with the best iOS apps for students and educators! Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard take a field trip to the land of essential productivity apps, note-taking powerhouses, and study tools that can transform a student's academic experience. From infinite-scroll note-taking to AI-powered math problem solving, discover the digital tools that can make this school year your most organized yet.

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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, 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...

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 ...

On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps Ryan find ways to remove duplicate photos automatically without wasting time manually removing them!

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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