• Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
• Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
• Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
• Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
• White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
• UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
• Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
• President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
• Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
• Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
  Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
• Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
• Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
• Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
• How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
• Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
• Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
• Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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• Interview with Jacob Ward
• Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute
• A rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California
• You can't lick a badger twice
• Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta's AI app
• Zuck video promoting Meta AI learning all about you and your loved ones
• Melanie Mitchell: LLMs & World Models part 1
• Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
• Take It Down Act heads to Trump's desk
• Attention Kmart Shoppers
• Digital creator jobs jump 7.5x since pandemic
• Rabbit ears
• Orb.net

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YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.

Windows

• Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
• Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
• Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
• Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
• Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
• That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting

Corporate

• Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
• Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
• Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
• Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales

Dev

• Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
• Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
• What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC

AI

• Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
• Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
• Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
• Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
• OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
• ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
• Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
• YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
• Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
• DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
• Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want

Xbox

• Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Be prepared
• App pick of the week: Firefox 138
• RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024

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• Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
• And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
• North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
• The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
• New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
• Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
• How malware has taken to hiding inside the Windows Sandbox and what you can do to stop it

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• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
• Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
• Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
• Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
• What Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?
• 4chan Is Back Online, Days After The Infamous Hack That Leaked Its "Janitors" Emails
• Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
• Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome
• Google's revenue tops Wall Street's expectations — and the stock climbs
• Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
• PC shipments spike as Windows 10's end and U.S. tariffs loom
• Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China
• Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders: Sold out at most retailers including GameStop, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others
• The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
• Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue
• In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
• Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare

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Cosmic is nearly Beta-worthy, The NVIDIA Beta driver is solid, and we look back on a Code of Conduct legacy at Gnome. Then a shiny new RISC gadget catches our eyes and wallets, there's plenty of controversy in the Kernel, and new things are coming for Linux Graphics. For tips we have mispipe for a slightly different take on piping commands, Bitwarden's Command Line interface, and a quick primer on quotation marks on the command line.

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• Interview with Harper Reed
• AI Horseless Carriages
• Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'
• Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:
• After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT
• China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
• Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere
• Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
• Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.
• Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
• A New Form of Verification on Bluesky
• Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year
• The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content
• Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
• The Welikia project
• 18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain
• Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon

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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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