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Windows

 
 • Microsoft declares 2025 the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."
 
 • As likely as "year of the Linux desktop"
 
 • The theory: Windows 10 EOL, AI PCs, lingering security fears from CrowdStrike
 
 • The issue: Windows 10 has 63 usage share right now. At this point in time, Windows 7 had only 25 percent usage share (and was in second place, not first)
 
 • Intel joins in on this fever dream but we've stopped listening
 
 • More interesting: AMD is kicking ass and taking names. And we thought the existing chips were good (they are). Related to this, PC makers are embracing AMD like never before. Check out HP's workstations (including laptops)
 
 • Microsoft is blocking the 24H2 update on PCs with Auto HDR enabled
 
 • New Canary and Beta builds ring in the New Year
 
 • Not that it matters, but Windows 11 almost had Vista Ultimate Extras-like dynamic wallpapers
 
 • Dell kills XPS and all its other PC brands because Dell is stupid and doesn't know what it had
 

Arm & PCs

 
 • Qualcomm defeated Arm Holdings in licensing dispute court case. And, yes, it won big time, contrary to Arm's nonsense
 
 • Qualcomm announces an even lower-end Snapdragon X chip for $600 PCs, so ASUS announces an $1100 laptop that uses it
 
 • Snapdragon Dev Kit update
 
 • Part 2 of Paul's history of Windows on Arm is up
 
 • New Arm PCs announced, including desktops. Ahead of CES, Geekom jumped the gun and said it was coming out with a Snapdragon X-based NUC. Lenovo has a NUC/SFF
 
 • NVIDIA and MediaTek confirm partnership on Arm chips for PCs
 

Microsoft 365

 
 • First, GitHub Copilot, but now Microsoft 365 Copilot will allegedly stop using OpenAI exclusively
 
 • Microsoft reveals (confirms) it will spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in FY 2025 as it suckles up to Trump like the rest of the tech industry
 
 • Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly tied AGI milestone to profits, not intelligence
 

Xbox & Gaming

 
 • Microsoft discusses a console-like experience for Windows handheld gaming. Tied to that, a new generation of handheld gaming PCs is on the way
 
 • Xbox Game Pass says Happy New Year with a full slate of Activision Blizzard titles. Just kidding
 
 • NVIDIA announces new graphics cards for PCs
 
 • No one wants this, but Xbox is coming to LG smart TVs
 
 • Xbox Rewards shuffles the deck chairs, hopes no one notices it's worse now
 

Tips & Picks

 
 • Tip of the week: Spend a little, upgrade to Windows 11
 
 • App pick of the week: Microsoft PowerToys
 
 • RunAs Radio this week: Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik
 
 • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
 

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Windows Weekly 914: Something Weird From the Closet

• Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a "community notes" system similar to X
 
 • (30+) kottke.org: "oh s**t new logo just dropped"
 
 • Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies
 
 • Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
 
 • I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj
 
 • The Bitter Lesson
 
 • Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
 
 • Public Domain Day 2025
 
 • CES 2025
 
 • New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
 
 • Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
 
 • Google's AI Help Me Read feature
 
 • Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
 
 • Altman's latest gospel
 
 • Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro
 
 • Nicvember Post Mortum
 
 • The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements
 
 • VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
 

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This Week in Google 801: Human Beans

• The panel discusses CES 2025
 
 • How Watch Duty's wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
 
 • Worst in Show awards 2025
 
 • Aaron Swartz v Sam Altman
 
 • We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure 
 
 • All the Meta stuff (fact checking, etc.)
 
 • Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors
 
 • The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers
 
 • Twitch Streamers Come Home After Big-Money Contracts at Rivals Dried Up
 
Candy Crush, • Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Cory Doctorow
 

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This Week in Tech 1014: Just Say It's Capitalism

Leaked CarPlay 2 UI Widgets were discovered in an EU database, Apple is planning a plethora of products to be launched in 2025, and TSMC's Arizona chip plant is nearing Apple certification.

 
 • Talking about the Apple Watch Ultra 3 that is rumored to be coming out later this year.
 
 • CarPlay 2 custom widgets UI revealed as Apple continues development.
 
 • Vision Pro 2 won't release in 2025, but lower-cost headset is 'ramping up'.
 
 • Apple's 2025 Plan: iPhone Overhaul, Smart Home Push and AI Catch-up`.
 
 • Mark Zuckerberg slams Apple in Joe Rogan interview: 'They haven't invented anything great in a while'.
 
 • Apple's board recommends shareholders vote against proposal to eliminate diversity programs.
 
 • TSMC's Arizona chip plant nears Apple approval, but will never rival Taiwan.
 
 • Apple donating to LA wildfire recovery & allowing affected Apple Card holders to delay payments.
 
 • Apple CEO Tim Cook's total compensation rose 18% to $74.6 million last year.
 

Picks of the Week:

 
 • Jason's Pick: CalDigit TS4 Dock
 
 • Andy's Pick: Pentel Prestol Correction Pen
 
 • Alex's Pick: Air Table
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
 

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MacBreak Weekly 955: Squeeze, Don't Shake

• Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow?
 
 • Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only).
 
 • IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care?
 
 • "SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update.
 
 • Government email is not using encryption? Really?
 
 • Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication.
 
 • Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible.
 
 • What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next?
 
 • To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two?
 
 • And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens.
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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Security Now 1008: HOTP and TOTP

The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 brings temporary but sweet relief. There were no preview updates last month, so this month is just security/bug fixes. Plus, will Microsoft back down from its Windows 10 EOL line in the sand? It appears not. Finally, got New Year's resolutions? Paul's got a better idea. Maybe...
 

Windows

 
 • New Canary build with nothing in it
 
 • Microsoft will not support Office on Windows 10 after October EOL date
 
 • Microsoft is auto-installing the new Outlook in Windows 10 too - Don't let the door hit you on the way out
 
 • Parallels Desktop for Mac now supports running x86 Windows VMs. Very slowly
 

AI, Microsoft 365

 
 • New business models for AI emerge in 2025. Pay as you go vs. pay or no pay
 
 • Microsoft has shifted its business model strategy over two years
 
 • 15 months of Copilot in Windows: Madness
 
 • Microsoft announces pay-as-you-go AI agents
 
 • Google has a different (better) take with "the best of Google AI" in Workspace
 
 • What to expect: Price hikes on subscription services to pay for this AI
 
 • Massive reorg of Microsoft's engineering groups is all about AI - There are PM-level layoffs happening now all over Microsoft
 
 • OpenAI adds tasks in beta to ChatGPT
 
 • Microsoft Excel in Windows will soon support dark mode. Wait, what?
 

Hardware

 
 • Surface teases a big announcement on January 30
 
 • AMD surges on incredible new x86 chips and Intel's epic fail
 
 • Former Surface design lead Ralf Groene joins Panos at Amazon. Why?
 
 • Arm Holdings plans massive licensing price hikes. Everyone needs to settle the F down
 
 • There's a 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 now. But at this price, a low-end NUC is the better choice for most
 

Dev

 
 • .NET 9.0.1 arrives - and with it, the fix for the app-crashing WPF/Windows 11 theming bug
 
 • Paul tried GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. It is MAGIC
 

Xbox

 
 • Microsoft is clearly planning something big for gaming handhelds. Windows or Xbox? Or both?
 
 • Happy New Year, Xbox fans! Microsoft to bring more Xbox exclusives to PS, Switch
 
 • Xbox to host a Developer Direct event next week
 
 • Microsoft introduces new Xbox repair options
 
 • The Nintendo Switch 2 is leaking all over the place, and there were prototypes at CES
 

Tips and Picks

 
 • Tip of the week: Think about making micro changes each month or quarter instead of huge, sweeping changes once a year
 
 • App pick of the week: Start11 v2.5
 
 • RunAs Radio this week: DevOpsDocs with Mattias Karlsson
 
 • Brown liquor pick of the week: Buchanan's Deluxe 12

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
 

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Windows Weekly 915: Magic Tricks for Cats

• Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument
 
 • Alito and Playboy
 
 • A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
 
 • Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
 
 • Free our feeds fundraising
 
 • The people should own the town square
 
 • Lemley's post
 
 • Google's 'Daily Listen' lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed
 
 • Leo's AI toys
 
 • She Is in Love With ChatGPT
 
 • Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA
 
 • Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards
 
 • American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
 
 • Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe
 
 • Cursormania!
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
 

Guest: Cathy Gellis
 

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This Week in Google 802: A Sycophant in Your Pocket

• Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban
 
 • Trumpcoin
 
 • Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
 
 • Skyrocketing car-insurance premiums are pushing inflation higher
 
 • Behind the Curtain — Coming soon: Ph.D.-level super-agents
 
 • 4 surprise products we could see at Samsung Unpacked 2025
 
 • Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts
 
 • US Finalizes Rule Banning Smart Cars With Russian, Chinese Tech
 
 • Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit - WyoFile
 
 • Cash App parent fined $175 million for 'woefully incomplete' response to fraud
 
 • FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Jason Hiner, Paris Martineau, and Molly White
 

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This Week in Tech 1015: Smarter Than a House Cat

TikTok is back up but unavailable for download in the App Store and Google Play Store. Could Apple be making Wi-Fi routers again? Is Goldman Sachs eyeing an early exit from Apple's partnership with the Apple Card? And it's been nearly one year since the Vision Pro was available for pre-order.

 
 • TikTok is partially back online in the US, but it's not back in the App Store yet.
 
 • Apple might start making Wi-Fi routers again, but in a way you wouldn't expect.
 
 • Redesigned Apple Mail app coming to Mac and iPad in April.
 
 • Apple Card's future in question as Goldman Sachs CEO eyes early exit.
 
 • 'Severance': Apple TV+ series has made more than $200M for streamer.
 
 • He didn't respond... so they kicked the door down – Tim Cook reveals how the Apple Watch saved his father's life.
 
 • Tony Fadell wanted Apple to buy Sonos; Steve wanted to sue it.
 
 • Apple makes it easy to donate to Red Cross's LA Wildfire relief efforts.
 

Picks of the Week:

 
 • Jason's Pick: SuperWhisper
 
 • Alex's Pick: nuphy Air75 v2 Portable
 
 • Andy's Picks: Letterboxd and the 500th episode of the Material Podcast
 

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MacBreak Weekly 956: Asparagus Chips

• What do we learn from January's record breaking 0-day critical Patch Tuesday?
 
 • Microsoft to "force-install" a new Outlook into all Windows 10 and 11 desktops?
 
 • GoDaddy required to get much more serious about its hosting security.
 
 • More age verification enforcement is coming, including globally.
 
 • What another instance of a widely exposed management interface teaches us.
 
 • DJI drone's official firmware update lifts geofencing for unrestricted flight.
 
 • CISA's efforts pay off with MUCH improved critical infrastructure security.
 
 • Listener feedback about TOTP, HOTP and age-verification.
 
 • And we take a deep dive into cracking authenticator keys
 

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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