This Week in Tech 976: Serial Churners

MacBreak Weekly 921: The Vision Division

The new iPad Pros are here! Jason Snell shares his thoughts on the iPad Pro, and Mikah unboxes his iPad Pro as Leo and Andy watch with excitement. Logic Pro gets updated for the Mac and iPad with new AI features: is this a prelude to this year's WWDC? Apple is working on revamping Siri to catch up to its competitors' offerings in generative AI. And people are mad at Apple's 'Crush' iPad Pro ad.

• M4 iPad Pro review: here we go again.
• Breaking down the iPad Hype: M4 and Tandem OLED!
• Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features.
• Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros.
• Apple will revamp Siri to catch up to its chatbot competitors.
• Apple working to fix iPhone alarm problem.
• Apple releases iOS 17.5 with cross-platform tracking detection, EU app downloads from websites and more.
• VMware Fusion Pro 13 goes free for personal use, here's how to get it.
• Hydraulic Press Channel reproduces the iPad ad for real.
• Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy.
• Apple still isn't done building its dream iPad

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick: Not Boring Habits
• Mikah's Pick: Morpholio Trace
• Jason's Pick: Ferrite Recording Studio

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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Windows Weekly 881: Big Boy Teams

Windows 11

• Patch Tuesday
• Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
• Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
• Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
• New Dev and Beta builds
• Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
• Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

AI

• OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
• Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote

Xbox

• Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
• Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
• Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
• We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again
• Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
• Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
• Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
• Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
  time

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
• App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
• RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Security Now 974: Microsoft's Head in the Clouds

• Picture of the Week.
• Most to least common 4-digit pins.
• Enhanced LORAN.
• Passkeys.
• Microsoft's Head in the Clouds.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-974-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week in Google 768: Google A/I

Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation.

• Gemini
• Search with Gemini
• Agents
• Deepmind
• Gemini Flash
• Project Astra
• Imajen 3
• Veo
• Trillium
• Search
• Ask with Video
• Gemini for Workspace
• Virtual Teammate
• Gemini App
• Android
• Google AI Studio
• Gemma
• SynthID
• LearnLM

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

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TWiT News 403: OpenAI Spring 2024 Update

Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis watch OpenAI's Spring 2024 Update as the company unveils the latest update to its ChatGPT system, GPT-4o, and demos its AI system's new capabilities as it interacts with text, voice, and photos.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

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