• Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.
• Signal threatens to leave Sweden.
• Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.
• It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.
• "The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.
• Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).
• What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?
• What exactly are memory-safe languages?
• Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
• Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
• A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
• An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

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Apple updates the iPad Air with the M3 chipset, forgoing Apple Intelligence it. iFixit does a teardown of the iPhone 16e. A new documentary film about Bono will be released later this year, with an immersive version of the film for Apple Vision Pro. And Apple has launched a legal challenge to UK's 'back door' order.

• Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor.
• New M4 MacBook Air could debut on Wednesday.
• Apple Park rainbow arches gone, but reportedly being rebuilt.
• Apple's artificial intelligence efforts reach a make-or-break point.
• iPhone 16e Teardown: Never before has skipping the upgrade made more sense.
• Skype is shutting down after two decades.
• Apple sets premiere of 'Bono: Stories Of Surrender'.
• Apple just released two brand new apps in iOS 18.4 and visionOS 2.4 beta 2.
• Introducing ADIB spatial banking on Apple Vision Pro.
• Apple Park in 8K 3D 180 HDR.
• Apple faces likely French antitrust fine for privacy tool, sources say.
• US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty.
• Apple launches legal challenge to UK 'back door' order.

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: Peak Design - Roller Pro Carry-On Luggage
• Mikah's Pick: WiFiMan Wizard
• Alex's Pick: Neat Video Noise Removal
• Andy's Pick: Zen Browser

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• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
• Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
• "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
• Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
• An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
• All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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• Interview with Stephen Wolfram
• OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
• Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
• AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.
• Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers
• Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI
• Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue
• Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition
• Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1
• To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral
• Grok 3's "sexy mode"
• Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
• When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
• Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'
• Touch grass
• Bracket City
  

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Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive?

Windows

• 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.
• Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
• Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views
• Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
• Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop
• Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows
• Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more
• Amazon kills Appstore for Android
• Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
• Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

• Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot
• Alexa enters the AI era
• OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users
• Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI
• Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist
• Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
• ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
• OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers
• Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder
• Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks
• NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone
• .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox

• Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one
• Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix
• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
• RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

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• Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
• Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.
• Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.
• Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.
• Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.
• The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.
• What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?
• The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.
• Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.
• We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".
• A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

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It's not surprising that Apple announced the iPhone 16e the day after last week's MacBreak Weekly. Already, some information about the upcoming iPhone 17 is being leaked, including some information about the rumored slim iPhone 17. And Apple is removing encrypted security features for your cloud data within the UK following the UK government ordering Apple to leave backdoor access to users' data.

• iPhone 16e: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone.
• Apple officially bids farewell to the Lightning port after 13 years.
• Per Ming-chi Kuo: all iPhone 17 models will use Apple's in-house Wi-Fi chips, enhancing connectivity and cutting costs; only the slim iPhone 17 will use the C1 modem chip.
• Apple removes cloud encryption feature from UK after backdoor order.
• Apple currently only able to detect Pegasus spyware in half of infected iPhones.
• Apple to invest $500 billion in U.S. as Trump tariffs loom.
• MacBook Air stocks start to dwindle ahead of M4 update.
• Apple Vision Pro immersive video 'Arctic Surfing' available now.
• Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April.
• Apple prepares to add Google Gemini to Apple Intelligence.
• Steve Jobs Archive marks Apple co-founder's 70th birthday.
• The new Beeper app combines all of Automattic's messaging systems.

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• Leo's Pick: Hyperspace
• Jason's Pick: Framous
• Alex's Pick: Blackmagic 2110
• Andy's Pick: Desert Island Discs, with Johnny Ive.

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Google Pixel 5, Amazon One, AppleTV+

• Google's Launch Night in was a snooze
• Amazon Sidewalk will join your neighborhood together - or invade your privacy
• Amazon wants your palm print. Will you give it to them?
• James Bond delayed to 2021: Movie theaters are dying
• Subway sandwiches are not made with bread in Ireland, and their chicken is less than 50% chicken, but Popeye's is the best
• Apple TV+ is about to lose a whole lot of subscribers - what should we watch?
• How soap operas are filming during the pandemic
• Prime day is October 13th - will you shop?
• Libraries are being squeezed by publishers over ebooks and audiobooks
• Google TV is good, but Google seems to have lost interest like they lose interest in everything
• MIxer screws Ninja over; Ninja makes bank
• Sonos sues Google for multi-room audio patents
• Facebook merges Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook logins
• US judge saves TikTok; Fleetwood Mac rejoices
• The Social Dilemma is Reefer Madness for 2020
• If you pay ransomware, the Treasury Department will come after you
• H1-B visas cut off; tech giants cry out

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