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What do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache.

Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court

Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot

Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20

Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving

Tucson Daily Brief

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud

Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters

The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth

A flood of cheap used EVs is coming

Signal guide for everyday folks

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on

You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack

Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware

Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499

Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3

Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words

I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.

Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs

AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion

Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story

Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories

Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting

DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

ai;dr

I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal

Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent

Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

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Microsoft might finally give power users what they've been demanding: the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar wherever they want. Plus, 3 major new chapters in Paul's next book, and a strange pick that solves his big issue with Windows Spotlight.



Windows 11

Potentially good news for the 13 people who want to move the Taskbar to a different screen side

Beta (but not Dev) with one new "feature"

Release Preview for 24H2/25H2 with emoji 16.0, QMR improvements, network speed test, pan and tilt controls for compatible cameras, widgets improvements, more

Lenovo revenues up 18% to $22.2 billion

AI/Dev

Google announces 30-second audio generation

Google sets a date for I/O 2026, but where in the Carmen Diego is Build 2026?

Android 17 Beta is here with an even shorter runway

With '26.3 out, Apple releases '26.4 Beta 1s

Xbox and gaming

Phil Spencer is always in the spotlight, but he's been on the down-low for months

Some hints for the future coming GDC 2026

Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Witcher 3, more coming to Xbox Game Pass

Avowed comes to the PlayStation 5 along with the Anniversary Update

Microsoft is retiring user-created Xbox social clubs

NVIDIA GeForce Now comes to Amazon Fire TV 4K Sticks

Tips & picks

Tip of the week: Major progress on De-Enshittify Windows 11, the book

App pick of the week: Bing Wallpaper

RunAs Radio this week: Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess

Brown liquor pick of the week: Lot 40 100% Pot Still Rye

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.

Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.

Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.

What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.

Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.

More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.

The return of Roskomnadzor.

Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.

Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.

Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.

30 malicious Chrome Extensions.

287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.

The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.

Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.

What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple has announced a special experience event occurring in New York, London, and Shanghai. Apple Podcasts is launching new video features. iOS 26.3 is out now. And Apple acquires the rights to the show, Severance, for $70 million!

Apple's doing something on March 4th.

Apple wins long-running court battle against Optis over 4G patents in the US.

Apple makes four promises to developers about fairer treatment.

Apple Podcasts is launching new video features, looking to keep pace with YouTube and Spotify.

Apple updates its own iOS version figures.

Tesla CarPlay held back by need for wider adoption of Apple's iOS 26.

Find My outage & iCloud issues hit users once again Tuesday evening.

Apple Creator Studio AI usage limits seem dramatically lower than promised.

iPhone 18 Pro's new C2 chip will bring three advantages over iPhone 17.

Apple testing, but still undecided about clamshell folding iPhone.

iOS 27 'Rave' update to clean up code, could boost battery life.

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues.

iOS 26.3 adds unique new privacy feature, and it's Apple at its best.

Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices.

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day.

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware.

A code snippet in iOS 26.4 shows Apple TV is coming to CarPlay.

macOS Tahoe 26.4 adds a charge limit slider to preserve your MacBook battery.

iOS 26.4 has iPhone Stolen Device Protection on by default.

macOS Tahoe 26.4 warns if your apps won't work when Rosetta 2 dies.

It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro.

visionOS 26.4 unlocks new 'foveated streaming' feature for apps and games.

The new F1 channel has appeared in the Apple TV app ahead of first race.

Severance' acquired by Apple for $70 million, expect a 4-season run and spinoffs.

Apple TV is adding MLS for free starting this week, here's the new promo.

Picks of the Week

Dave's Pick: Neo Network Utility 2.0

Leo's Pick: NetNewsWire and freeflow

Andy's Pick: Wordgrinder

Jason's Pick: Indigo

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Dave Hamilton

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