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Leo Laporte brings some of the most interesting personalities in technology together to talk about the most important issues. Fun, relaxed, informative and always entertaining, count on TWiT for the best tech podcasts in the world.

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Emily Forlini is filling in for Mikah Sargent this week! Lyft is entering the robotaxi space as it partners with a robotaxi company. Some of the latest self-driving tech is making its way into vehicles. Is ChatGPT's search feature a worthy rival to Google Search? And what does the feature hold for technology as the US enters a new administration in the coming months?

  • Abrar Al-Heeti talks about autonomous vehicles as Lyft partners with robotaxi companies to explore deploying autonomous vehicles within its network and how a company called Zoox seeks to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco and Las Vegas in the coming weeks.
  • Emily Forlini continues the autonomous vehicle discussions about new self-driving systems being utilized in GM and Ford vehicles.
  • Lance Ulanoff of TechRadar stops by to talk about his experience using ChatGPT Search and how it can rival the dominant Google search engine.
  • And Dan Patterson from Blackbird AI chats with Emily about how the upcoming Trump administration could shape the tech industry's future.

Hosts: Emily Forlini and Abrar Al-Heeti

Guests: Lance Ulanoff and Dan Patterson

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  • Tech in the new Admin
  • TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope
  • Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'
  • Elon Musk says Trump win is just the start of his political ambitions
  • Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence
  • The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
  • NYTimes Games for the strike
  • Florida Access Network
  • WebCheck

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guests: Emily Forlini and Mike Elgan

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On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week.

Windows

  • New 24H2 bug
  • More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!)
  • New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad
  • Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys
  • Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm
  • Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently)
  • Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates

A Tale of 2 Chips

  • Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome
  • Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced
  • Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues
  • COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low
  • Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues

More Earnings Learnings

  • Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW
  • Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues

Microsoft 365/AI

  • Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase
  • This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable
  • OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for

Xbox

  • It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024
  • Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI
  • Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March
  • Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA
  • App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive
  • RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn
  • Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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  • Google's record-breaking fine by Russia. (How many 0's is that?)
  • RT's editor-in-chief admits that their TV hosts are AI-generated.
  • Windows 10 security updates set to end next October... or are they?
  • When a good Chrome extension goes bad.
  • Windows .RDP launch config files. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Firefox 132 just received some new features.
  • Chinese security cameras being removed from the UK.
  • I know YOU wouldn't fall for this social engineering attack.
  • What's GRC's next semi-commercial product going to be?
  • And what's the prospect for AI being used to analyze code to eliminate security vulnerabilities?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-999-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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As expected following the end of last week's MacBreak Weekly, Apple announced the new M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max MacBook Pros. Jason recaps the results of Apple's Q424. And Apple acquires Pixelmator.

  • Early Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max benchmarks hint at a massive performance boost.
  • Apple's new MacBook Pro features the incredibly powerful M4 family of chips and ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence.
  • Apple finally finds its gaming console with the new Mac mini.
  • First M4 Max benchmark tears apart the M2 Ultra Mac Studio.
  • Apple's Q424 results: $95B revenue–with a twist.
  • A new home for Pixelmator.
  • Per Ming-Chi Kuo: "Cheaper Vision Pro" delayed beyond 2027."
  • Apple explores push into smart glasses with 'Atlas' user study
  • Apple is buying 20 percent of its iPhone satellite services partner.
  • US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau orders Apple and Goldman Sachs to pay over $89 million for Apple Card failures.
  • Rumor: Apple developing 90Hz display tech for iPad Air, Studio Display, and iMac.

Picks of the Week:

  • Jason's Pick: Everlights
  • Alex's Pick: ESI Neva Duo
  • Andy's Pick: Tot

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

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  • The panel discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections to the tech industry
  • Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
  • Why do we keep changing our clocks?
  • ChatGPT Search
  • Online political ads--we're almost done!
  • Elon Musk Wants You to Think This Election's Being Stolen
  • Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
  • Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine
  • Digital ad market booms for Big Tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Nicholas De Leon, and Amy Webb

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On Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers questions about adjusting a setting within the Google Maps app, whether there's a difference in audio and video quality between a Roku TV and an Amazon Fire stick, what music players will work for Android to play all the songs of an individual artist, getting legacy hardware to connect to an iPhone hotspot, and what passkeys are!

  • Martin-Guy is a retired cyclist who uses Google Maps while cycling. However, the cycling times reference speed within the app is too fast for him. He's looking for a way to adjust that setting if possible or if there's an alternative app he can use that would allow him to make such an adjustment.
  • Michael owns a 4K TCL Roku TV and the most recent Amazon Fire TV Stick. Is there a difference in audio or video quality between the Roku TV and the Amazon Fire TV Stick?
  • Lane just got a Pixel 9 Pro and stores his music in a folder on the device. He uses an app called Musicolet as his player and wants to know if there's a way to play all the songs of a selected artist in shuffle mode or if there's another app that can do this.
  • Jon is trying to connect older "legacy" hardware to his iPhone hotspot but is having trouble doing this and wonders if Mikah knows of any tricks to get this older hardware to connect to the hotspot.
  • Todd has heard Mikah talk about Passkeys on the TWiT network many times in the past. However, he doesn't understand what a passkey is and asks Mikah for any insight he can share about passkeys.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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On this episode, we take a look at how the space workforce of the future will be educated and, perhaps more importantly, engaged with Dr. Rick Jenet of Expanding Frontiers. Located in Brownsville, Texas, just a stone's throw away from SpaceX's Starbase, expanding Frontiers works with underprivileged communities to bring them into 21st-century space-related trades and to encourage individual entrepreneurship. Dr. Jenet has a fascinating history as well, attending MIT as an undergraduate and earning his PhD in astrophysics from Caltech, then progressing through his work at various places, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before founding Expanding Frontiers. Join us!

Headlines:
- Voyager 1 spacecraft uses backup radio system from 1977, and last utilized in 1981, to phone home after a recent glitch
- China aims to conduct a Mars sample return mission before NASA, potentially launching in 2028
- Boeing considers selling its space division, excluding SLS contracts, as part of a restructuring effort

Main Topic - The Spacer Pipeline with Dr. Fredrick Jenet:
- Dr. Jenet's journey from MIT and Caltech to founding Expanding Frontiers in South Texas
- The importance of giving back to the community and fostering a culture of innovation
- Stargate: The first building at SpaceX's Boca Chica facility, a collaboration with Dr. Jenet's team
- Expanding Frontiers' programs for students and aspiring entrepreneurs:
- Space Entrepreneur Summer Academy: Introducing high school students to space entrepreneurship
- Space Settlement Design Tournament: Industry simulation for students to design space settlements
- Space Coders: Internship program focused on coding for space industry projects
- Tech Trek: Developing programming for entrepreneurs working on space-related technology
- Expanding Frontier Space Tech Pitch Competition: Showcasing startups utilizing NASA technology
- The role of funding from local, state, and federal sources, as well as sponsorships, in sustaining non-profit organizations like Expanding Frontiers
- Future plans for Expanding Frontiers, including the development of a space innovation corridor from Brownsville to Houston
- The importance of continued support and funding for programs that promote STEM education and entrepreneurship in the space industry

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Fredrick (Rick) Jenet

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Like Google, Amazon has a list of products the tech company discontinued. Is one of your favorites on the list? What Apple announced this past "Mac Week." What GitHub announced at its GitHub Universe 2024 event. And how Apple's Genmoji generator will operate when it's released with the future iOS 18.2 release.

  • Mikah Sargent talks about a great article from The Verge highlighting a handful of Amazon Echo products that the tech company has discontinued over the years.
  • Dan Moren of SixColors joins the show again to discuss the new M4 Mac products that the company announced this past week.
  • Martin Woodward, VP of DevRel for GitHub stops by to talk about some of the new things that GitHub announced at its GibHub Universe 2024 event, including the new GitHub Spark.
  • And Mikah talks about Apple's Genmoji service that is slated to come in iOS 18.2 and some of the things you can and cannot do with it.

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Dan Moren and Martin Woodward

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  • Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
  • Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
  • Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
  • Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
  • Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
  • Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
  • Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
  • Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
  • More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
  • Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
  • McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
  • RIP Foursquare
  • Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
  • WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
  • LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
  • Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
  • Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
  • Masnick on Elon Musk Events
  • TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
  • The Age of Cage
  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
  • McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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