• YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video
• Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition
• Citizen pruners
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
• Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
• LLMs don't do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
• Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout
• October Pixel Drop: Helpful enhancements for your devices
• Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments
• Google Shopping's getting a big transformation
• The latest Gboard beta lets you switch between Roboto and Google Sans fonts
• Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
• Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
• TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
• The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites
• Joe Trippi starts a social network: sezus
• Short-selling company goes after Roblox to profit
• Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China
• Defector: Year 4 in review
• Doritos to open first restaurant
• AI - generated restaurant via Taylor Lorenz

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On this episode, Leo Laporte shows off his new Snapdragon Dev Kit to Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell. He also tries setting it up, and the process is TOTALLY "seamless." AMD has revealed the Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series alongside Intel's launch of the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. The FIDO Alliance has published new credential exchange specifications. Sarah Bond announces that Xbox games will be purchasable on Android. And Paul unveils his new "get rich" scheme... as he looks for some feedback.

x86's Last Stand?

• Intel and AMD announce partnership that is clearly aimed at taking on Arm.
• Intel was already working on simplifying the x86 architecture by removing older, unused bits
• Don't worry, Intel and AMD will still compete. And AMD just released new AI processors, with Intel also announcing first Core Ultra chips for Desktop
• Which raises a question: Why do the desktop chips not meet the Copilot+ PC spec?

Windows

• Redmond, we have a quality problem: 24H2 is besieged by a curious number of issues despite several months of gestation and a shared feature set with 23H2.
• Dev and Beta: Beta is minor, but Dev has some Taskbar updates
• Release Preview: New builds for 23H2 and 24H2 hint at this month's Week D preview updates - since this announcement, some features have been delayed

Microsoft 365/Surfac

• Google Workspace is adding a OneDrive (for Business) data migration capability
• Is there some new cloud interoperability thing going on? We're seeing this in the consumer space too. Wondering if this is related to regulatory attention
• A Lunar Lake Surface Laptop? Probably not

Passkeys Get Real

• As expected, FIDO Alliance will standardize passkey portability
• Two sides to this: Portability between devices but also import/export between password managers
• Amazon has 175 million customers using passkeys - one year after initial unveil

Xbox

• With Google antitrust loss, Microsoft vaguely reveals that Xbox games are coming to Android
• Long-forgotten ability to stream games you purchased over Cloud Gaming is now coming soon
• Microsoft settles BS "Gamers' lawsuit" for what we hope was a pittance
• The only gamers with a case to sue Microsoft are Xbox fans - one year this week
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more are headed to Game Pass if anyone still cares
• Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S mid-season replacements are here, and they come with a fun surprise
• New Xbox wireless headset is incoming
• Microsoft to host Xbox Partner Preview tomorrow, October 17
• Steam forced to communicate that you don't own anything you buy

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Check out the Thurrott swag
• App pick of the week: Arc browser, now native on Windows 11 on Arm!
• RunAs Radio this week: Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Irish Whiskey
  

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• uBlock Origin to the rescue
• National Public Data files for bankruptcy
• Will the .IO top level domain be disappearing?
• Patch Tuesday
• Firefox under attack
• Miscellany
• Sci-Fi
• The Sequence
• uBlock Origin
• Eero Routers
• Pep Link Router
• BIMI (up Scotty)

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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New, refreshed iPad Minis were suddenly announced Tuesday morning! What does this mean for a possible Apple October event? What are Apple's future plans for the smart home market? Alex and Jason both saw Apple's new immersive short film, Submerged, and both have interesting takes on it.

• Apple introduces powerful new iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence.
• iOS 18.1 includes option to set 'primary' email address and change iCloud email.
• Man learns he's being dumped via "dystopian" AI summary of texts.
• iPhone 16 Pro review: Control before Intelligence.
• LLMs don't do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem.
• SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms.
• Apple's Dan Riccio, key executive in both the Jobs and Cook eras, to retire.
• "Submerged" brings immersive narrative to Vision Pro.
• Here's Apple's lineup of new Immersive Video content coming soon to Vision Pro.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Pick: PolyCapture
• Alex's Pick: Sonic Sunshine Benefit
• Andy's Pick: Erika Moen's "Art In The Public Domain" on Bluesky

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

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• Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot
• The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
• How to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or Pixel
• US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case
• Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs
• More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
• A Whole Bunch Of States File Garbage Grandstanding Lawsuits Against TikTok With The Main
  Complaint Being 'Kids Like It'
• Two Scientists Share Physics Nobel for Machine Learning
• Three Scientists Get Chemistry Nobel for Research Into Proteins
• This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
• Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again
• How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
• A closer look at Nintendo's adorable Alarmo alarm clock
• Samsung is turning your Galaxy phone into a smart door key

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• More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
• Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unmasked: Will HBO reveal who really made the cryptocurrency?
• How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
• OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
• Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI Who Expressed Alarm Over the Technology, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics
• Paris Megalopolis review
• The Wordpress saga
• Justice Department weighs fixes for Google search monopoly
• Google's response
• U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store
• Why Caroline Calloway Is Staying Put in Sarasota for Hurricane Milton
• When Cell Service Is Down, You Can Send iPhone Texts via Satellite
• A Google Doc of 2024 Events
• Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
• First a statue. Now Zuck designs a minivan for his wife.

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Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio.

Windows 11

• 24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time
• 22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)
• 24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same
• Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live
• Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline
• New Canary build today as well
• Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.
• Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say

Antitrust

• Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking.
• DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better
• Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list

Microsoft 365/AI/Dev

• Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive
• Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification?
• .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features
• RIP, Surface Duo

Xbox

• Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans
• Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC
• Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29
• Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read
• App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)
• RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge

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• Facebook's parent Meta not hashing passwords
• A New, forthcoming PayPal default opts their users into merchant data sharing
• DDoS breaks another record
• Speaking of these ASUS routers
• Do you know who you're hiring?
• Vitamin D
• The CUPS vulnerablility
• Routers for normal people
• uBlock Origin & Manifest V3

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