Total Leo (Audio)
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Total Leo (Audio)
A compendium of podcasts from the Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte. This feed includes all of Leo's audio or video releases and sometimes includes his appearances on other podcasts. One feed to serve them all.
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Security Now 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI
Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomwar...
MacBreak Weekly 1034: The Other Side of the Corn
Apple is raising its subscription prices for both Apple Music & select Apple One bundles. The OpenAI & Apple legal battle is escalating. And are Siri'...
Intelligent Machines 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who...
Windows Weekly 992: Gassy Jack
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday just shattered records with hundreds of bug fixes, and AI is the force behind the surge. Are we witnessing the beg...
Security Now 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Fi...
MacBreak Weekly 1033: Liquid Glass Half Full
Apple sues OpenAI! Public beta for iOS 27 & more is now available. Apple seeks to move to the M7 chips quickly. And Apple TV gets a record 87 total Em...
Intelligent Machines 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown
Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transfo...
Windows Weekly 991: Strategically Repositioned Productivity Surface
Microsoft's latest round of layoffs and game studio shakeups reveal deep cracks in the XBOX business, as years of unprofitability and missed expectati...
Security Now 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary
From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfoldi...
MacBreak Weekly 1032: I Like Turtles
The aftermath of Apple's price hikes. Apple is taking its fight against Epic to the Supreme Court. More AI features coming to Apple's Creature Studio....
Intelligent Machines 877: Model Now Available
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" c...
Windows Weekly 990: Don't Be Nostalgic for Stupid
Windows 10's Extended Security Update program quietly gets extended for another year for consumers. Microsoft reportedly kills Surface Go products & i...
Security Now 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign
AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out h...
MacBreak Weekly 1031: It's Girl Math
Not long after Tim Cook's interview with The Wall Street Journal about price increases for Apple products, Apple raised prices on products such as the...
Intelligent Machines 876: It's No Melania
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet g...
Windows Weekly 989: Deer Hate MSDN
Windows 12 is stalled and the real reasons go far beyond software. The conversation unpacks how soaring hardware prices, AI chaos, and market confusio...
Security Now 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat
A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to...
MacBreak Weekly 1030: Impulse Pork Lo Mein
Tim Cook signals that the company will likely raise its prices down the road due to the memory chip shortage. Apple's AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor...
Intelligent Machines 875: Florida Dad
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down t...
Windows Weekly 988: Bubbleable
With major leadership shakeups and rumors of studio closures, the future of XBOX inside Microsoft suddenly looks uncertain. Is this the beginning of a...
Security Now 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI
This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversar...
MacBreak Weekly 1029: Intimate Functionalities
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel this week! A deep dive into Apple's new Siri following WWDC. Why Apple Intelligence & t...
Intelligent Machines 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon
Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The futur...
Windows Weekly 987: SelfLoathing.md
If you think code is safe from automation, think again. This week's discussion tackles why the rise of vibe coding and AI-powered tools could upend lo...
Security Now 1082: The Malicious Use of AI
Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats...
MacBreak Weekly 1028: The Finder Guy of Your Choosing
Apple held its big WWDC 2026 keynote and introduced the new Siri AI for iOS 27, with sign-ups now available for the iOS 27 beta. However, Siri AI will...
Intelligent Machines 873: Superman's Mustache
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood...
Windows Weekly 986: Liminal AI
Build 2026 is underway in San Francisco this week, and it started with a big, overly-long keynote as always. And Computex is this week, too. There's a...
Security Now 1081: AI Captured the Flag
AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the score...
MacBreak Weekly 1027: The Paris of the South Bay
WWDC is happening very soon: Monday, June 9th! Will this WWDC be Apple's AI do-over? Bloomberg gives a potential look into iOS 27. Dell unveils a new...
Intelligent Machines 872: Infinite Jeffs
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artific...
Windows Weekly 985: Putting the Mental in Experimental
Paul has been testing various Linux distributions and other Windows alternatives for months as part of a Switcher series. The zen of Linux can mostly...
Security Now 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues...
MacBreak Weekly 1026: Double-Wide Mode
A slow week in Apple news as we wait for WWDC to begin on Monday, June 8th! Apple is seeking a Supreme Court review of the Epic Games case. Apple unve...
Intelligent Machines 871: CTRL-F Techno King
Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise...
Windows Weekly 984: For Entertainment Purposes Only
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Security Now 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how...
MacBreak Weekly 1025: Below the Plimsoll Line
How will Apple follow up on any AI announcements made at WWDC later in June, after Google held its Google I/O keynote? Some leaks of iOS 27's new desi...
Intelligent Machines 870: Meet Me In Alaska
British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom...
Windows Weekly 983: Puts the Buh in Benelux
It's not just Recall: Security vulnerabilities that require you to sign into an account on your PC are not necessarily vulnerabilities. Also, Windows...