Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!

• Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
• Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
• Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
• Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
• The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
• X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
• Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
• iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
• AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
• Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
• George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
• Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
• PNG is back!
• 3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
• What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
• Withings Beamo

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Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

• Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
• OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment
• Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
• Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup
• Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up
• Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot
• 12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%
• The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation
• How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?
• What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids
• If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go
• LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• No. 10's synthetic voters
• Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers
• Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country
• My torture for you
• Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
• 'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
• How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
• Tort Law museum visit
• Bread and Puppet Museum
• We're famous in Germany
• Brand new bridge

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Guest: Kevin Kelly

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Windows 11 just got its most noticeable Start menu revamp in a while, but is it a productivity boost or just more Microsoft meddling? The team digs into Patch Tuesday's big surprises and whether generative tools are transformative essentials or just a passing fad.

Windows 11

• Patch Tuesday was yesterday, your new Start menu is right where Microsoft left it
• Copilot+ PCs: Improvements to Click to Do, File Explorer, Voice access, and Windows Search
• All PCs, eventually: Taskbar improvements, Administrator Protection (off by default), Quality updates
• Heading into Ignite next week, Microsoft cites recent security wins in Windows 11 and Surface
• First 26H1 build comes to Canary to prove that there will be nothing new in it, ever
• Qualcomm takes a one-time $5.7 billion hit thanks to Big Stupid Bill but still nails it in quarterly earnings

Microsoft

• WSJ continues its Microsoft financial accountability criticisms
• Also reports that internal documents state OpenAI expects to lose $74 billion in 2028, the year Anthropic will break even
• If Paul starts a business and it loses money for three years in a row, it becomes a hobby. So WTF is OpenAI exactly?

AI

• Microsoft AI creates a Superintelligence team as a sort-of alternative to AGI
• Microsoft launched .NET 10 at .NET Conf on Tuesday - Plus, Visual Studio 2026 with a new monthly release schedule and Insider versions going forward
• Double-digit performance improvements again, somehow
• Uno announced Uno Platform Studio 2.0 with a fun surprise for Paul: They upgraded the original WPF version of .NETpad into a cross platform app in 3 minutes! There will be a demo on Thursday
• .NETpad is transitioning to WinUIpad with the Windows App SDK rewrite. It is going poorly because Windows App SDK is terrible, cannot be open sourced quickly enough

Xbox

• Steam announces a new videogame console, the Steam Machine!
• Backbone Pro Xbox Edition is now available
• Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is here with with Xbox Play Anywhere support, Creations
• Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming, so Halo: Infinite becomes a lot more finite
• Call of Duty Black Ops 6 player on PC? Hope you enjoyed that 180 GB "update" you had to install before playing a year-old game (also got a 6.7 GB update Wednesday. For the love of God)
• GTA VI has been delayed yet again as it edges into Duke Nukem Forever territory
• Sony has now sold over 84 million PS5 consoles, meaning it has outsold every Xbox generation ever made
• Sony is selling a 27-inch gaming display in the U.S. and Japan

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Solving the problem over identifying the problem
• App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder
• RunAs Radio this week: Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Kyoto Whisky Kuro-Obi Black Belt Blended

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.

• FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.
• The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.
• A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.
• Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.
• The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.
• XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.
• Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.
• Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.
• Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).
• The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.
• More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.
• More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.
• Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.
• What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers

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What is the iPhone Pocket? Apple is nearing a $1 billion a year deal to use Google AI with Siri. Could the OLED MacBook Pro redesign be limited to just the M6 Pro and Max models? And is Apple TV's new show, Pluribus, good? It's good enough to have brought Apple TV down for a period of time during its initial release.

• Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone.
• Apple nears $1 billion-a year deal to use Google AI for Siri.
• Report: OLED MacBook Pro redesign may be exclusive to M6 Pro and M6 Max models.
• The iPad Pro at 10: a decade of unrealized potential.
• Apple's losing its podcast legacy — why it matters, and how to save it.
• Forget Liquid Glass, Apple TV's new logo was shot with actual glass.
• Did Pluribus trigger the AppleTV+ crash?
• Vince Gilligan wants you to know that Pluribus was 'made by humans'.
• Apple original films acquires J S Mayank & David Carlyle's manuscript 'Fallen Astronaut'.
• Future of Apple Fitness+ 'under review'.
• B&H lists HomePod Mini as discontinued amid refresh rumors.

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Club TWiT & Central Heating!
• Stephen's Pick: Foodnoms App
• Alex's Pick: The Oh Hellos

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Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).

• Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man
• SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum
• Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft
• YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
• Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024
• Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform
• YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight
• YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'
• Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess
• Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
• The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
• China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors
• Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
• Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments
• Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
• Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year
• Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet
• After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good

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Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.

• Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
• The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
• Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
• Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different
• Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'
• How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
• Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
• Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
• Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
• Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
• Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year
• Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat
• The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show
• The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
• TikTok announces its first awards show in the US
• Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
• Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
• American Museum of Tort Law
• Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain
• Nicvember masterlist
• Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

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Guest: Jeremy Berman

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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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