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Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.

More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple

After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children

EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine

Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion

Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street

A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers

AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer

Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem

Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set

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he podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.

Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks

Data centers in space makes no sense

The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo

Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature

OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month

Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims

French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers

Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut

Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe

The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph

The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys

Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products

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Microsoft is burning through billions on AI, but Wall Street is finally demanding to see where the payoff is. The earnings announcement triggered a $357 billion valuation wipe-out, the largest in Microsoft's history and the second-largest in history overall (Nvidia managed to lose $593 billion in value in the wake of DeepSeek in early 2025).Windows

Windows 11 has over one billion users - and, surprise, it got their faster than Windows 10 without any of the shenanigans

Microsoft to address the quality issues in Windows 11 in 2026

There is already evidence that Microsoft is trying to make Windows 11 suck less: Recent OneDrive changes that address a key ensh*ttification, and let's not forget all those security advances

What did Microsoft really promise? Not much

Microsoft has new EVPs for Security and Quality

Microsoft belatedly delivered the January Week D update last Thursday, a preview of this month's Patch Tuesday

Dev and Beta builds both deliver Mark Russinovich's sysmon tool

Microsoft earnings deep dive

Microsoft reported a net income of $38.5 billion on revenues of $81.3 billion in the quarter ending December 31. Those figures represent gains of 60 percent and 17 percent, respectively, year-over-year

Earnings analysis: All eyes are on AI and no one is happy

Microsoft spent $37.5 billion on AI infrastructure (capex) in the quarter, up 66 percent YOY, and it's on track to spend $150+ billion in the fiscal year

Every single question was about this and how it will ever recoup the costs

There are now 15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats out of 450+ million Microsoft 365 seats

OpenAI is Microsoft's biggest Azure customer, but it's unclear if there is any real money there because of accounting tricks

Windows, Edge, and Bing all "gained share," PC maker revenues were up just 1 percent, the Windows 10 upgrade cycle was mostly a bust (it's likely that most of it was tied to RAM pricing fears, too)

Xbox fell off a cliff with content and services revenues down 5 percent in a holiday quarter somehow and Xbox hardware revenue declined an astonishing 32 percent YOY

Standalone Office 2025 suite was a surprise hit, Hood is curious if that continues

Microsoft 365 "cost of business" up 10 percent YOY because of AI costs

AMD revenues up 34 percent to $10.3 billion

Apple delivers record revenues of $143.8 billion; iPhone made more revenues by itself than all of Microsoft

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Microsoft is going to basically make an app store for content makers who wish to be paid for use by AI

Anthropic advertises that Claude will be advertising-free, unlike ChatGPT

The next Firefox will include the promised AI kill switch and Vivaldi "extends the middle fingerˮ to AI

Xbox and games

AMD reveals next Xbox console in 2027

We're getting a solid collection of Xbox Game Pass titles for the beginning of February

Battlefield 6 was the best-selling shooter of 2025 and EA made $1.9 billion in Q4

Epic Games has big plans for its PC launcher/store

Nintendo has now sold 17 million Switch 2s as OG Switch hits 155 million units

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Make OneDrive Folder Backup work for you

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RunAs Radio this week: Getting Started using Purview with Erica Toelle

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glendronach Ode to


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When a popular antivirus and even Notepad++ turn into infection vectors after supply chain breaches, it's clear no software is safe from attack—or from its own update system. Steve and Leo unpack the risks hiding right inside your next auto-update.

An anti-virus system infects its own users.

Apple's next iOS release "fuzzes" cellular locations.

cURL discontinues bug bounties under bogus AI flood.

AI discovers and fixes 15 CVE-worthy 0-days in OpenSSL.

Ireland did NOT already pass their spying legislation.

AI irreversibly deletes all project files. Says it's sorry.

Windows has a serious global clipboard security problem.

ISPs have the ability to monetize their subscriber's identities.

MongoDB has lowered the hacking skill level bar to the floor

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Apple had a very strong Q1 2026, thanks to iPhone 17 sales. Apple acquires an AI company, its second-largest acquisition behind Beats by Dre. An Apple-1 computer prototype board #0 sold for $ 2.75 million. And new tech spec leaks of Apple's potential iPhone Fold hit the web!

Apple's record quarter: Is this what a hit iPhone looks like?.

Apple reveals it has 2.5 billion active devices around the world.

Apple's historic quarter doesn't change the need for AI reckoning.

Apple revamps how you buy a Mac online, removes preconfigured options.

Apple's second biggest acquisition ever is an AI company that listens to 'silent speech'.

Apple Design Team gains Halide co-founder, but the pro camera app isn't going anywhere.

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app.

Apple was fined a total of $851M last year for privacy and antitrust violations.

Continuity Camera lands Apple in legal trouble for 'Sherlocking' Camo.

Apple-1 computer prototype board #0 sold for $2.75M.

Very first Apple check & early Apple-1 motherboard sold for $5 million combined.

New iPhone Fold specs revealed, including design, cameras, more.

Report: Apple 'exploring' clamshell foldable iPhone as potential follow-up model.

New MacBook Pro release date: Here's when M5 Pro and M5 Max might debut.

Agentic coding comes to Xcode.

Auto-resizing columns in Finder.

iOS 26's Passwords app has a new feature that can save you a headache.

Apple Maps gets a 'Drops of God' wine guide curated by actor Tomohisa Yamashita.

Apple C-series modem enables new privacy-focused limit precise location feature.

Today's Apple TV press day.

New 'Humans of Apple TV' video debuts, watch it here.

Apple TV launches F1 programming in app ahead of season kickoff.

Two years after release, Apple still hasn't decided what to do with Apple Vision Pro.

More Accessibility for Winter Olympics.

Picks of the Week

Shelly's Pick: Transit App

Leo's Picks: AppleUnsold and Bugs Apple Loves

Andy's Pick: ReelGood

Mikah's Pick: Picky Pad

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