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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

(11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

Muse Wonder

OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers

Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'

Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting

REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent

Cupertino

Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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Microsoft's latest Windows event left even diehard enthusiasts scratching their heads, with new AI-powered hardware and "RTX Spark" PCs getting top billing but little clear reason for anyone to buy them. If you're wondering what actually matters in the world of AI PCs. or why no one can explain it, you're not alone.

Windows

We need to talk about last week's Windows event... what the heck was this?

Lots of Windows, lots of Surface, a little bit of ecosystem, confusing local AI story, no major new end user features that are unique to RTX Spark, a weird Osborne Effect for RTX Spark, and a stunning lack of self-awareness combine for one of the weirder Microsoft events in memory

The RTX Spark era begins this week. How is this different from Copilot+ PC?

Patch Tuesday is here and it's a big milestone

Minor changes for 24H2, 25H2, 26H2

Big changes for 26H1

This is the first Patch Tuesday for 26H2, the last one for 24H2 (Home, Pro)

1400+ security fixes, a new record(!!) - This is almost 15x the normal number of patches

ASUS allows reviewers to show unboxing, so here's the RTX Spark-based ASUS ProArt P16

PC market fell over 20 percent in Q3 as component crisis takes its toll

Googlebooks suck, and everyone is finally noticing what I reported last week. But there is another, and it's an unexpected option

Tiny11 Builder gets a major update with a WinUI makeover

AI/dev

This has been the most exciting week in AI advances since this era kicked off in February 2023

ArtCraft releases impressive clones of the top 7 Adobe Creative Cloud apps

ArtCraft is also working at replacing Microsoft Office, with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint clones so far - Also clones of AutoCAD and Audacity(?)/audio editor

Google Playground lets anyone create a game that you can share with anyone

Google AI Studio now lets anyone vibe-code Android and web apps, and you will soon be able to put them in the Google Play Store

Big changes to Microsoft 365 for consumers - Family/Premium loses 1 TB per user, goes to a single pool of 2 TB, but all users now share the same Copilot rights

Apple makes a long-overdue smart home push thanks to Siri AI finally making sense - New HomeView smart display is the star

.NET 11 heads to the finish line

XBOX and gaming

XBOX creates an XP division for non-game entertainment. They should have called it XBOX One, cough

Asha Sharma creates XBOX LABS team to explore how vibe coding changes gaming

Microsoft announces an XBOX Nano Controller

Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 in January

GTA VI coming to the PC in early 2027

Epic Games vibe-coded its new launcher, and it's available in preview for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Just make it

App pick of the week: ArtCraft for the win

RunAs Radio this week: Choosing Tools in M365 with Joy Apple

Brown liquor pick of the week: Bunnahabhain 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments.

Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing.

Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end?

What alternative AI technologies are underway?

Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source.

South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks.

Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks.

For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding.

A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween.

Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI.

We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI

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Apple held its "Welcome Home" event, debuting Apple HomeView and Apple Home Collection, a lineup of new smart home accessories in partnership with LG. Apple also unveiled its Apple TV 4K. And will Apple finally debut its Touchscreen MacBook Pro later this month?

Meet Apple HomeView, a new way to enjoy entertainment and manage the home.

Introducing Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of smart home accessories.

Apple unveils the new Apple TV 4K, supercharged by Siri AI.

Apple set to debut touch-screen MacBook and new iPad Mini in late October.

You can now start the iPhone Duo pre-order process.

iPhone Duo has a book-like two-page Quick Look layout.

Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe.

Apple may have to officially support Apple Intelligence removal on Macs to protect sales.

Tim Cook, Elton John, King Charles launch Apple x King's Trust Creative Labs.

'Remnants' – Ti West directed the first immersive horror movie for the Apple Vision Pro.

After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: Sprout Pi

Jason's Pick: HA Green + Claude

Leo's Pick deskflow/desktflow

Andy's Pick: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

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Windows unveiled its Surface Laptop Ultra & Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its recent Surface event. Google's SynthID Detector is open to everyone now to check for AI-made media. OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia and its tools to make unauthorized edits. And AI tools are now flooding into underground cybercrime markets.

Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double.

Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event.

Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it.

Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media.

Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a 'virtual cell'.

OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads.

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic.

Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake unsolved murder tip.

OpenAI is pissing off a bunch of mathematicians — again.

Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt.

Hackers steal 8 million citizens' records from Danish government database.

AI tools flood into underground cybercrime markets.

Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts.

FBI arrests founder of ransomware negotiation firm.

These midterm races will decide data centers' political fate.

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth.

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service".

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use.

The U.S. Army's desert tech test shows long road to AI warfare.

The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear.

Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX seek blockbuster debt deals to pay for AI chips.

A mysterious nonprofit run by SpaceXAI's top lawyer is paying the salaries of government workers.

Man vs. 'Terminator'-like robot in a cage. California called tt illegal.

The inside story of Roku's sale to Fox.

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