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DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microsoft's heavy-handed response, left critical infrastructures exposed.

The FCC decides router firmware updates are useful.

Netgear applies for and gets a full FCC pass.

AI uncovers a 21-year old critical FreeBSD RCE.

What was behind that Let's Encrypt outage.

AI model repositories are overflowing with malware.

The CISA 2015 info-sharing act is being renewed.

Edge leaves ALL usernames and passwords in the clear.

An examination of DigiCert's breach and their response

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1078-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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If you purchased an iPhone between June 2024 and March 2025, you could receive a payment from the $250 million settlement over Apple's intelligence features on iPhones! Apple could be using Intel chips again in future Apple products. More Mac mini and Mac Studio models are no longer available on the Apple Store. And Apple is now requiring verification for education discounts.

US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit.

iPhone users could get up to $95 per device as Apple reaches $250M settlement over Siri delays

Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again.

Intel's stock jumped 13% today over Apple chip manufacturing report

Additional Mac mini and Mac Studio models cut from the Apple Store website as AI data centers strain available RAM, SSD supplies

Apple requires verification for education discounts, ENDS discounts for k-12 unless you're homeschooled.

Tim Cook among CEOs confirmed for President Trump's China trip.

More refunds possible for Apple as Trump's 10% global tariffs found illegal too.

Apple releases tvOS 26.5, HomePod 26.5, and visionOS 26.5.

Apple to make design changes in macOS 27 to address Tahoe quirks.

Here's how I finally got Google's uninvited 4GB AI model off my Mac.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel.

Apple kicks off new run of A18 Pro chips as MacBook Neo demand exceeds expectations.

Not dead yet: Apple Vision still has a future.

visionOS 27 will bring these new Vision Pro upgrades.

The $1 Steve Jobs coin.

Google denies copying Apple's Liquid Glass design for Android.

You can purchase Apple's Mac Pro wheels kit for $699.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: whatcable

Christina's Pick: Obsidian's Plugin Site

Andy's Pick: Snapseed Photo Editor

Jason's Picks: Indigo & Gnome

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica

Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong

Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI

Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October

Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money

Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;

Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA

Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi

We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.

When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd

I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.

Say Hello to the Internet of AI

The greatest capital misallocation in history?

AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog

China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.

Academy announces major overhaul to rules

AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs

Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?

As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art

Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'

He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Empty Screenings

Furwall by Ollie Wagner

DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI

So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet

The Python Hunt

News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content

Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive

Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page

Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

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Guest: Troy Hunt

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Microsoft's earnings report went out last week, and the company spent a lot on AI in the quarter. Microsoft updates its customers on what it's done to address Windows 11 problems. And Xbox kills Copilot plans for the console.



Microsoft Earnings
Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $31.8 billion on revenues of $82.9 billion in the previous quarter.

Windows: 1.6 billion monthly active devices, a focus on quality after years of enshittification - but revenues from PC makers were down 2 percent YOY.

Microsoft Edge "has taken share for 20 consecutive quarters," which isn't supported by the evidence.

Bing "monthly active users reached one billion for the first time," raising questions about how Microsoft defines the term "user."

Xbox: "The team is recommitting to our core fans and players, and shaping the future of play," new records for monthly active Xbox users and game streaming hours.

AI: Capex spending in the quarter was $32 billion, down from previous quarter as previously described, but up 49 percent YOY.

More earnings

Apple, Google/Alphabet, and Amazon.

AMD - Up because of AI datacenter.

Qualcomm - Plus, Intel just hired away a key Qualcomm exec.

Windows

Microsoft shares an update about what it's done to address Windows 11 pain points so far.

Marcus Ash is one of the good guys.

Some of this is happening in Insider, some is rolling out to retail.

Windows Insider Program and Windows Update improvements we discussed last week - two primary channels in WIP now.

Simplifying AI experiences - fewer Copilot icons (Notepad, etc.).

File Explorer improvements - performance, fewer hangs, better polish and consistency.

Widgets - Feed will be off by default, fewer interruptions, no hover activate.

System performance - Smaller memory footprint, more aggressive RAM restoration, and more.

Soon: Taskbar updates, Start updates, and more to share at Build in June.

Week D update arrives with a peek at May's Patch Tuesday.

Major: Xbox Mode, AI agents on the Taskbar are the first two big features of 2026.

Minor: Also adds File Explorer improvements, new haptic feedback effects, touch keyboard improvements, and more.

Shocking new report that Microsoft Edge is incredibly insecure should surprise no one.

AI

Microsoft Agent 365 Platform is out of preview, supports local AI agents and Copilot Cowork Agent arrives on mobile with plugin support.

Microsoft launches a Legal AI Agent in Word.

Apple's plan to open up to multiple third-party AIs is a good one.

Canonical's plan to add AI to Ubuntu is also good, but you're never going to believe what happened next.

Xbox and Gaming

Asha Sharma reorgs Xbox, kills Copilot on the console.

Forza Horizon 6, more coming to Game Pass in May.

Xbox April Update is out with updates for all platforms.

Next Call of Duty will not ship on Xbox One, PS4.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is coming to the Mac for some reason.

And finally, with the Supreme Court refusing to block the implementation of the ruling in Epic v. Apple, Microsoft's Xbox game store for mobile is one step closer to happening.

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Embrace inconvenience.

App pick of the week: Windows Defender.

RunAs Radio this week: Securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi.

Brown liquor pick of the week: Stalk & Barrel Whisky.


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