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What if your smart TV and Firefox extensions were secretly hijacking your security and privacy? This episode reveals the jaw-dropping discovery of a massive TV botnet and the surprisingly clever malware lurking behind innocent browser icons.

 
 • North Korea's profitable fixation on cryptocurrency.
 
 • Amazon uncovers a cryptomining sneaking into customer clouds.
 
 • Insecure Docker API servers are also hosting cryptominers.
 
 • A new and truly massive SmartTV-based botnet discovery.
 
 • DNS Benchmark's 4th release.
 
 • Who, besides Let's Encrypt, offers free automated certs.
 
 • Some interesting listener feedback.
 
 • And how a PNG Icon was used to infect 50,000 Firefox users
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1057-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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Security Now 1057: GhostPoster

An update on the story about an Apple developer who lost access to their Apple ID. Apple receives clearance to activate the Apple Watch hypertension detection feature in Australia. Italy fines Apple $115 million over App Tracking Transparency. And we say goodbye to one of the original MacBreak Weekly panelists.

 
 • Apple developer's account restored after compromised gift card incident.
 
 • Apple receives clearance to activate Apple Watch hypertension detection/notification feature in Australia.
 
 • Apple agrees to third-party App Store alternatives in Brazil.
 
 • Apple's iOS 26.3 will introduce proximity pairing to third-party devices in the EU.
 
 • Free two-hour delivery from Apple Stores now available for a limited time.
 
 • 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio - RDMA over Thunderbolt 5.
 
 • Italy fines Apple $115 million over App Tracking Transparency.
 
 • Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results
 
 • Apple quietly discontinued flyover city tours in Apple Maps.
 
 • Why Apple's foldable iPhone may be smaller than expected.
 
 • Apple TV releasing Pluribus season finale early.
 

Picks of the Week

 
 • Alex's Pick: Homey Pro
 
 • Andy's Pick: Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas & Patrick Stewart's 'A Christmas Carol'
 
 • Jason's Pick: Some of his favorite books, TV shows, and podcasts from the past year.
 

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

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MacBreak Weekly 1004: A Sad Farewell

After a year tangled in political drama, AI hype, and regulation battles, the TWiT crew explains how many of tech's "biggest stories" simply fizzled into nothing or left us with new headaches by year's end.

 
 • Year-end tech trends: AI, politics, and security dominated 2025
 
 • Major stories faded fast: TikTok saga, political tech drama, DOGE scandal
 
 • TikTok's ownership battle—Oracle, Trump donors, and US-China tensions
 
 • China tech fears: banned drones, IoT vulnerabilities, secret radios in buses
 
 • Rising political pressure for internet privacy and media literacy reform
 
 • Surveillance and kill switch concerns in US grid and port infrastructure
 
 • Convenience vs. privacy: Americans trade data for discounts and ease
 
 • Age verification, surveillance, and flawed facial recognition across countries
 
 • Discord's ID leak highlights risks of rushed compliance with privacy laws
 
 • Social media's impact on kids pushes age-gating and verification laws
 
 • ISPs monetize customer data, VPNs pitched for personal privacy
 
 • Global government crackdowns: UK bans VPN advertising, mandates age checks
 
 • The illusion of absolute privacy: flawed age gates and persistent tracking
 
 • AI takes over: explosive growth, but profits elusive for big players
 
 • Arms race in LLMs: DeepSeek's breakthrough, OpenAI/Meta talent bidding war
 
 • Ad-driven models still rule; Amazon's playbook repeated in AI
 
 • Humanoid robots and AGI hype: skepticism vs. Silicon Valley optimism
 
 • AI-generated art, media, and the challenge of deepfake detection
 
 • Social platforms falter: Instagram and X swamped by fake or low-value content
 
 • Google's legal, regulatory, and technical woes: ad tech trial, Manifest V3 backlash
 
 • RAM price spikes and hardware shortages blamed on AI data center demand
 
 • YouTube overtakes mobile for podcast and video viewing, Oscars move online
 
 • The internet's growth: Cloudflare stats, X vs. Reddit, spam domain trends
 
 • Weird tech stories: hacked crosswalks, Nintendo Switch 2 Staplegate, LEGO theft ring
 
 • Sad farewell: Lamar Wilson's passing and mental health awareness in tech
 
 • Reflections on the year's turbulence and hopes for a better 2026
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Paris Martineau, and Steve Gibson
 

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This Week in Tech 1063: The Year's End

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.

Windows 11

 
 • Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order...
 
 • Dark mode improvements to File Explorer
 
 • Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed
 
 • Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller
 
 • Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only)
 
 • External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS 

 • 

 • -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only)
 
 • Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel
 
 • Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement
 
 • Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones
 
 • AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool
 
 • Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well)
 
 • Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls
 
 • Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always
 
 • Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs
 

AI

 
 • An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected
 
 • Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it
 
 • GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3
 
 • ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro
 
 • Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google
 
 • Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month
 
 • AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now
 
 • Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes
 
 • Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products
 
 • Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation
 
 • Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud
 

Mobile

 
Fortnite • is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice
 
 • Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight
 

Xbox and gaming

 
 • Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones
 
 • There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January
 
Half-Life 3 • may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while
 

Tips & picks

 
 • Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11
 
 • App pick of the year: 
Fortnite 
 • RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante
 
 • Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1

 

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Windows Weekly 963: I've Got an Apple Guy

Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
 

CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge

 
 • Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
 
 • The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI
 
 • Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?
 
 • Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot
 
 • OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
 
 • "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
 
 • Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
 
 • Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
 
 • Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
 
 • It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
 
 • Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
 
 • This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?
 
 • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
 
 • Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029
 
 • When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
 
 • Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice
 
 • The worst person in tech bracket
 
 • Banned fonts
 
 • Subway bagel rats
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
 

Guest: CJ Trowbridge
 

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Intelligent Machines 850: Bagel Rats

Australia's nationwide social media ban has put tech's age verification tools under the spotlight, exposing the flaws and privacy risks in today's facial detection systems and sparking worldwide debate about what's coming for the rest of us.

 
 • Home Depot's puzzling reluctance to close a bad hole.
 
 • GNOME's shell extension manager is unhappy with AI.
 
 • How attacks on open source repositories compares in 2025.
 
 • China's researchers have taken aim at the US power grid.
 
 • How bad has the React2Shell vulnerability turned out to be.
 
 • More new React vulnerabilities.
 
 • Apple moves to iOS 26.2.
 
 • Let's Encrypt's crosses into one billion servers managed.
 
 • A DNS Benchmark update.
 
 • Some interesting listener feedback, then...
 
 • How things going with Australia's social media ban and what we are learning
 

https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1056-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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Security Now 1056: Australia

Apple releases OS 26.2 right before the holidays! Pluribus becomes Apple TV's most-watched show ever. And why you should consider backing up more of your stuff locally.

 
 • Apple releases OS 26.2 updates.
 
 • With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again — this time on the Lock Screen.
 
 • 26.2: Here are the security fixes for all of Apple's operating systems.
 
 • tvOS 26.2 brings kids mode to the Apple TV app.
 
 • iOS 26.3 beta reveals how Apple plans to handle EU-required notification forwarding.
 
 • Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case.
 
 • Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect.
 
 • Pluribus becomes Apple TV's most watched show ever.
 
 • Cadillac and Chevy are getting native Apple Music.
 
 • Apple buys two new buildings in Cupertino, topping $1B spend.
 
 • UK to push for nudity-blocking software on devices to protect children.
 
 • 20 years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple.
 

Picks of the Week

 
 • Jason's Pick: Fosi Audio BT20A Pro Bluetooth 5.0 Amplifier
 
 • Andy's Pick: "Will Return" Screensaver
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell
 

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MacBreak Weekly 1003: The Intersection of Greed and Delusion

Are we witnessing an AI-fueled gold rush or the early signs of an epic crash? Listen to these hard-hitting discussions on bubbles, breakthroughs, and the real impact behind Silicon Valley's AI obsession.

 
 • Time Magazine's "Person of the Year": the Architects of AI
 
 • The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
 
 • 'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges
 
 • Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
 
 • It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
 
 • Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub
 
 • Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
 
 • Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
 
 • Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
 
 • The countdown to the world's first social media ban for children
 
 • US could demand five-year social media history from tourists before allowing entry
 
 • Reddit making global changes to protect kids after social media ban - 9to5Mac
 
 • There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale
 
 • Paramount CEO Made Trump a Secret Promise on CNN in Warner Bros. Convo
 
 • Whatnot's Schlock Empire Shows Digital Live Shopping Can Thrive in America
 
 • The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
 
 • Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
 
 • Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
 
 • Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot
 
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 • sweeps The Game Awards — analysis and full winners list
 
 • Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
 
 • An ex-Twitter lawyer is trying to bring Twitter back
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Jason Hiner
 

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This Week in Tech 1062: The Architects of AI

What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.
 

Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi

 
 • ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
 
 • From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
 
 • Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
 
 • Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
 
 • Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
 
 • OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
 
 • Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI
 
 • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
 
 • TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
 
 • The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)
 
 • Techdirt fundraiser
 
 • From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
 
 • Bare Metal Email
 
 • Jeff in Austria
 
 • Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy
 
 • Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
 

Guest: Pliny the Liberator
 

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Intelligent Machines 849: AI Cricket Sorting

December 2025's Patch Tuesday brought major shifts, but the real action is in Microsoft's pricing, privacy battles, and the arms race to control AI-enabled browsers. Plus, Paul recommends Tiny11 Builder for a clean install, or Win11Debloat for an existing install. Then, Rufus to create installation media without the forced Microsoft account (MSA) sign-in or hardware requirement checks. Use MSEdgeDirect to use the default web browser for stories from Widgets, web-based search results, etc. And ExplorerPatcher can fix the performance and reliability issues in File Explorer.
 

It's the final Patch Tuesday of 2025

 
 • Major dark mode updates (with a fix for the "flashbang" problem)
 
 • AI Agent in Settings, Click to Do, Windows Studio Effects, and Search improvements for Copilot+ PCs
 
 • Many other improvements: FSE, Share, Settings, Widgets, more
 

More Windows 11

 
 • New 25H2 preview build on Beta/Dev adds MCP public preview, Quick Machine Recovery auto-enabled, Unified Update Orchestration Platform, Windows MIDI services
 

Microsoft 365

 
 • Microsoft 365 is getting a lot more expensive in mid-2026. You didn't think all those free AI updates were free, did you?
 

AI 

 
 • Paul has been talking about "programmatic" apps and services because he wasn't sure of a term for this type of interaction. But there is a term for this: Semantic. As in semantic web. And there you go
 
 • Microsoft one of 1,000 companies partnering on Agentic AI Foundation because you're getting agents whether they work or not
 
 • Gartner says NO to AI web browsers
 
 • The New York Times is suing Perplexity for all the obvious reasons
 
 • After a big win in the legal battle with OpenAI
 
 • Opera for Android gets a big AI update
 
 • Google Workspace Studio brings code-free agent creation to business users - automation is a solid AI use case
 

Xbox

 
 • Xbox Series X|S notably absent during Black Friday sales
 
Call of Duty • won't repeat the mistakes of the past anymore since it didn't work out twice now
 
MS Flight Simulator 2024 • is now available on PS5
 
Red Dead Redemption • comes to mobile for the first time, free with a Netflix account
 

Tips & Picks

 
 • Tip and app(s) of the week: De-enshittify Windows 11
 
 • RunAs Radio this week: Incident Management and the Crowdstrike Event with Liam Westley
 
 • Brown liquor pick of the week: Old Farm Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey
 

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
 

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