A slew of Apple's planned upcoming products got leaked in software code! Blood Oxygen for the Apple Watch is back, but with a unique twist. Are the upcoming iPhone 17s for the U.S. market all manufactured in India? And Samsung is slowly taking more market share from Apple with the growing demand for folding and slimmer phones.

• Liquid Glass. Why?
• Every Apple secret that leaked Wednesday.
• Leaked S11 chip details reveal no major performance upgrades for 2025 Apple Watches.
• U.S. Apple Watches get blood-oxygen sensor reprieve.
• Explore the Disney+ 'Alien: Earth' immersive environment with the Apple Vision Pro now.
• Apple code suggests Touch ID could be coming to Apple Watch.
• Apple preps native Claude integration on Xcode.
• Apple expands iPhone production in India for US-bound new models.
• Apple workshop on privacy-preserving machine learning 2025.
• Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum.
• It's Google's turn to convince us to care about AI on our phones.

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• Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
• The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
• Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
• AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
• Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
• More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform
• Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower
• Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays
• Elli-q
• After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake
• Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
• The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale
• PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
• Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X
• Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

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There's drama about the latest RISC-V patches in the kernel, SparkyLinux and Kaisen Linux have updates, and GCC is looking to drop some architectures. Nvidia ships a driver update, ffmpeg and OnlyOffice adds AI, and distros are shipping the soft reboot. For tips we have SystemD-Manager-TUI for managing Systemd, a step-through of auditing a downloadable install script, the timeout bash command, and an interesting question about how to get colors back in grep output. You can find the show notes at http://bit.ly/4mEkufi and have a great week!

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On this week's Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps out Larry with devices to help cast his phone to a TV when on the road.

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Tariq is back from the Far East and bursting with space news! This week we'll look at the passing of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, potential re-tasking of NASA's Juno probe from Jupiter to the interstellar interloper, 3I/Atlas--Avi Loeb wants it, of course--the third launch of ULA's Vulcan rocket, Artemis 2 lunar flyby updates, Virgin Galactic's new spaceplane (can they ever make a profit?), a proposed Pluto orbiter--with a planned mission of 50 years--and much more, on This Week in Space!

Headlines:

• Remembering Apollo 13's Jim Lovell
• ULA's Vulcan Rocket Hits New Milestone With Powerful Launch
• Could Juno Chase an Interstellar Visitor?
• NASA Eyes Pluto Orbiter Mission Persephone
• Virgin Galactic Preps Next-Gen Delta Spaceplane
• Strange "Helmet" Rock Spotted on Mars
• Artemis II Orion Capsule Fuels Up for 2026 Launch

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent on this episode of Tech News Weekly! Apple is rumored to launch a series of AI-powered devices, the upcoming Pebble Time 2's design is shown off, a look into a global SMS phishing scam ring, and the blood oxygen feature is returning to Apple Watches?

• Apple is seeking to expand its product offerings into AI-powered robots, home security, and smart displays, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble smartwatches, unveils the design of the company's Pebble Time 2* watch.
• Harrison Sand, Senior Security Consultant for mnemonic, unveils Darcula. This global SMS phishing-as-a-scam ring sends SMS messages hoping to steal credentials from those who click on the links in the messages.
• And Apple announces that it's bringing back the Blood Oyxgen feature for Apple Watches, which was a clever workaround following a recent U.S. Customs ruling against Masimo.

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Guest: Harrison Sand

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A recent article on ZDNet talks about how modern TVs monitor your viewing habits using ACR (automatic content recognition) and why that could be a problem for you. The article also explains how to disable ACR in various makes of TVS, but the instructions don't always match the TV's menu system. Scott Wilkinson talks about this important issue.

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Windows 11's next big update, 25H2, is finally official—but Microsoft quietly revealed it in a way only Microsoft would. This week, Paul breaks down the hidden gems and impactful privacy, security, and AI features you'll actually care about, with some changes that might just surprise even seasoned Windows users.

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