Total Leo (Video)

• Leo opens his copy of "Shift Happens"
• Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
• Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form
• The rise of obituary spam
• Biden administration taps Gina Raimondo to direct new AI Safety Institute
• University of Pennsylvania announces first AI undergrad degree
• When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
• "Societal misalignments" could pose AI dangers, OpenAI CEO says
• Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
• TikTok tunnel girl says project at Northern Virginia home is moving along
• Everyone keeps asking me to talk about this Tunnel Guy so I'm finally doing it
• New Mass Gmail Rejections To Start April 2024, Google Says
• Google One AI Premium is $19.99/month with Gemini Advanced
• A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
• Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media
• The Web Design Museum on Instagram
• ohmygit.org
• in Finland, Windows95Man is going to Eurovision.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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On this spicy episode of Windows Weekly, Paul, Leo, and Richard try to pronounce "Sudo," watch an expensive Copilot ad, marvel at big Arm revenues, discuss the latest in internet browser news, and debate the FTC's motivations as they go after Microsoft once again!

Windows 11

• Big changes in Insider, with Canary and Dev moving to the same 24H2 builds
• Windows 11 is going to get its AI moment this year
• With the announcement of 24H2, does that mean nothing big mid-year as rumors suggested?
• Patch Tuesday arrives. Copilot moves to the right of the system tray after 10 seconds of testing
• Brave ships its browser on Arm in stable
• Windows will likely get an AI game upscaling feature

AI/Antitrust

• Report: Azure is allegedly 2/3rds the size of AWS by revenue, thanks to AI
• Microsoft Bing and Edge avoid the EU DMA
• Google Gemini officially replaces Bard
• Grammarly lays off 230 to focus on AI
• Mozilla scales back dramatically, will focus on AI in Firefox
• Arc Sync comes to Arc on Mac only

Cloud/server/dev

• Google One surpasses 100 million users. New AI tier is coming to take on Copilot Pro
• Arm revenues are in. Look at those margins!
• Notion acquires Skiff. Ladies and gentlemen, the Notion Office is coming
• .NET 9 Preview 1 arrives. Are annual updates too much?

Xbox

• Xbox says it will come clean on its strategy
• The FTC claims that Xbox layoffs violate the terms of its Activision Blizzard acquisition promises
• Microsoft tells the court that the FTC is wrong on multiple levels
• There's a new Xbox system update
• Sony doesn't meet its quarterly PS5 sales target, will miss its annual target, and the PS5 is falling off a cliff
• Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic Games. "F U, Apple!"
• Flight Simulator jumps the Minecraft Shark

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the Week: Microsoft PC Manager - Avoid at all costs
• App Picks of the Week: DuckDuckGo browser, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Devices for Windows
• RunAs Radio this week: Maximizing Metadata with Emily Manicini
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Starward Pedro Ximenez Cask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Toothbrush Botnet
• "There are too many damn Honeypots!"
• Remotely accessing your home network securely
• Going passwordless as an ecommerce site
• Facebook "old password" reminders
• Browsers on iOS
• More UPnP Issues
• A password for every website?
• "Free" accounts
• Keeping phones plugged in
• Running your own email server in 2024
• iOS app sizes
• SpinRite 6.1 running on an iMac
• SpinRite update
• Bitlocker's encryption cracked in minutes

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-961-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Jason published his review of the Apple Vision Pro on sixcolors.com! Are there privacy concerns when using the Apple Vision Pro? Jon Stewart says Apple canceled his show because of "things that might get me in trouble." And iOS 17.4 adds a 'virtual card number' feature to Apple Cash.

• Apple Vision Pro review: Eyes on the future.
• Apple shares an in-depth look at Vision Pro privacy in new paper.
• The Vision Pro's scary side effect: Apple's new VR goggles may rewire our brains in some unexpected ways.
• Seeing the World through Digital Prisms: psychological implications of passthrough video usage in mixed reality.
• Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing dodge EU's big tech crackdown.
• FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown.
• Jon Stewart says Apple TV+ canceled his show because 'They didn't want me to say things that might get me in trouble.'
• Apple overhauls its entire Windows app suite, including iCloud and Apple Music.
• Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them.
• iOS 17.4 adds new 'Virtual Card Number' feature to Apple Cash.
• Apple releases a new 15-minute short film, shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
• $300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device.
• The Apple Vision Pro Developer Strap is Thunderbolt capable, not USB 2.0 only.

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: A built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch.
• Jason's Pick: Dial M for Murder
• Andy's Pick: Superlist
• Alex's Pick: Stalman Clamp

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

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Is Canada going to ban the sale of Flipper Zero's in Canada? Why is Netflix going into weekly live sports following acquiring the broadcast rights to WWE Raw? Should you be updating your router's security? Plus, Sam Abuelsamid stops by to talk about EV vehicles!

• Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown.
• Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple's App Store.
• What kind of changes can I make with my ISP service? What should I be looking for when making this kind of change?
• What are Leo and Mikah's thoughts on streaming services acquiring rights to broadcast certain events, like Netflix exclusively streaming WWE RAW?
• Should I use my Acronis backup to clone the bootable OS or use the backup drive on another machine?
• How can I prevent my credit card information from being stolen?
• Why is my iPhone contacts information duplicated in my contacts' memo section when uploaded to iCloud?
• Is there security concerns when my router isn't receiving security updates?
• Why can't I access my drives on my Linux machine through my Windows machine?
• Sam Abuelsamid and electric vehicles.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Sam Abuelsamid

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