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When a popular antivirus and even Notepad++ turn into infection vectors after supply chain breaches, it's clear no software is safe from attack—or from its own update system. Steve and Leo unpack the risks hiding right inside your next auto-update.

An anti-virus system infects its own users.

Apple's next iOS release "fuzzes" cellular locations.

cURL discontinues bug bounties under bogus AI flood.

AI discovers and fixes 15 CVE-worthy 0-days in OpenSSL.

Ireland did NOT already pass their spying legislation.

AI irreversibly deletes all project files. Says it's sorry.

Windows has a serious global clipboard security problem.

ISPs have the ability to monetize their subscriber's identities.

MongoDB has lowered the hacking skill level bar to the floor

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1063-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple had a very strong Q1 2026, thanks to iPhone 17 sales. Apple acquires an AI company, its second-largest acquisition behind Beats by Dre. An Apple-1 computer prototype board #0 sold for $ 2.75 million. And new tech spec leaks of Apple's potential iPhone Fold hit the web!

Apple's record quarter: Is this what a hit iPhone looks like?.

Apple reveals it has 2.5 billion active devices around the world.

Apple's historic quarter doesn't change the need for AI reckoning.

Apple revamps how you buy a Mac online, removes preconfigured options.

Apple's second biggest acquisition ever is an AI company that listens to 'silent speech'.

Apple Design Team gains Halide co-founder, but the pro camera app isn't going anywhere.

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app.

Apple was fined a total of $851M last year for privacy and antitrust violations.

Continuity Camera lands Apple in legal trouble for 'Sherlocking' Camo.

Apple-1 computer prototype board #0 sold for $2.75M.

Very first Apple check & early Apple-1 motherboard sold for $5 million combined.

New iPhone Fold specs revealed, including design, cameras, more.

Report: Apple 'exploring' clamshell foldable iPhone as potential follow-up model.

New MacBook Pro release date: Here's when M5 Pro and M5 Max might debut.

Agentic coding comes to Xcode.

Auto-resizing columns in Finder.

iOS 26's Passwords app has a new feature that can save you a headache.

Apple Maps gets a 'Drops of God' wine guide curated by actor Tomohisa Yamashita.

Apple C-series modem enables new privacy-focused limit precise location feature.

Today's Apple TV press day.

New 'Humans of Apple TV' video debuts, watch it here.

Apple TV launches F1 programming in app ahead of season kickoff.

Two years after release, Apple still hasn't decided what to do with Apple Vision Pro.

More Accessibility for Winter Olympics.

Picks of the Week

Shelly's Pick: Transit App

Leo's Picks: AppleUnsold and Bugs Apple Loves

Andy's Pick: ReelGood

Mikah's Pick: Picky Pad

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko

Guests: Shelly Brisbin and Mikah Sargent

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What happens when AI bots get their own social network, Silicon Valley execs cozy up to power, and Apple takes a cut from creators? This week's panel calls out the bold, bizarre, and often problematic ways tech's biggest players are reshaping everything from AI assistants to your everyday privacy.

There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets

Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline

Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines

What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis

A rival smart glasses company is suing Meta over its Ray-Ban products

TikTok, YouTube, and Meta are headed to court for a landmark trial over social media addiction

The 'Social Media Addiction' Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself

TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US

Groundhogs are bad at predicting weather, but they're valuable animal engineers\

Satellites encased in wood are in the works

Belkin reminds users that its Wemo smart home products are shutting down this week

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Guests: Gary Rivlin, Devindra Hardawar, and Victoria Song

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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday blunder triggers emergency fixes, surprise layoffs ripple through Amazon, and the crew debates whether rapid AI advances spell the end of traditional apps. Also, password managers do a lot more than manage passwords, so there's one thing everyone needs to get right.

Windows 11

Dev splits from Beta, tests what will surely be 26H1 - After last week's show, Microsoft did issue that same Beta build in the Dev channel for some reason

Dev and Beta get same fixes in different builds, but no new features

24H2 and 25H2 Release Preview update(s) are a peek at the next Patch Tuesday, lots of changes

January Patch Tuesday update was so terrible it required two emergency fixes, the second of which went out late Sunday

Earnings/industry

Intel falls flat in Q4, full year 2025 despite U.S. "investment"

Amazon lays off 16,000 employees

Microsoft, Apple, earnings this week, Alphabet, Amazon are next week

AI

Microsoft announces Maia 200 AI datacenter processor

Like Baldric in Black Adder, Apple has a cunning plan for an AI Siri

With AI costs soaring, cheaper new AI plans appear somehow

OpenAI was last week with big expansion of ChatGPT Go

Google does the same this week with AI Plus plan

OpenAI, Anthropic (this week), others are adding "apps" to their chatbots

Microsoft is exposing app features as AI Actions in Windows 11

Paul opined that this semantic/programmatic capability was the end of apps

But we can now essentially vibe-code our own custom apps - this is vaguely reminiscent of the home computer/DIY era, but without the technical knowledge requirements

The age of native apps is over, at least on desktop. Will mobile fall next?

Dev

Microsoft introduces the Windows App Development (winapp) CLI. For some reason

Xbox and gaming

Microsoft refreshes the Xbox Cloud Gaming web experience — bigger changes coming?

Fable is coming to Xbox, PC, PS5 in late 2026

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Choose a single password manager, make your life easier

App pick of the week: Proton Pass

RunAs Radio this week: Business Process Automation in 2026 with Ian Cooper

Brown liquor pick of the week: Tullibardine 18



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.

State of Mozilla 2025/26

Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash

Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini

Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen

I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Proof of Corn

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says

How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence

Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models

Claude's new constitution

"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL

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Guest: Mark Surman

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