Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?

• The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
• Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
• Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
• There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
• White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
• Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
• Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
• Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
• ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
• David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
• I'm tired of talking to AI
• In Memoriam: Don Newhouse

Picks of the Week:

• KMart Muzak
• Infinite Jeffs
• isaiprofitable.com

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Guest: Rick Sammon

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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 apply to Windows, too: Install and manage software with package managers, and embrace the command line, especially. And if you're going to use a local account, at least be smart about it. Also, Vivaldi 8.0 looks awesome and appears to deliver what Firefox is promising with its Nova UI. Plus, Discord has a native app for Windows 11 on Arm now.

Windows

• Week D arrives with a surprise: 24H2/26H1 are aligned and getting the same new features
• Shared audio with BT LE, multi-app camera support, many improvements - but the big deal may be the performance and reliability improvements across the board
• This is the next Patch Tuesday, today
• Friday builds - new accessibility features in Experimental and Beta, more
• Microsoft CMO Yusuf Mehdi to leave company after an astonishing 35-year run - started in Windows, but with IE, Bing & MSN, Interactive Entertainment (Xbox), Windows and Devices, and then a SLT position before the end. Incredible run. Paul has three milestones and one throughline to share.
• Lenovo revenues surge 27 percent to $21.6 billion
• NVIDIA revenues really surged 85 percent to $81.6 billion

AI/dev

• Google adds Google Drive sync to NotebookLM, and moves preferred sources into AI Mode and AI Overviews
• Saying no to AI: DuckDuckGo usage surges in the wake of Google I/O's AI tsunami
• OpenAI releases ChatGPT plugin for PowerPoint
• .NET MAUI to get Material You support for Android in .NET 10
• Follow-up on last week's vibe coding adventures: Paul talked about this last week, but a lot has happened since then. The Android app creation capability in Google AI Studio is live. A few thoughts on vibe coding with Android Studio, Claude Code, and more

Xbox and gaming

• XBOX—and, yes, it's XBOX now—has an official merchandise store to go alongside all its other official merchandise stores
• The Steam Deck is back in stock! Also, it's 40 percent more expensive

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Understanding the zen of Linux can help a Windows user too
• App pick of the week: A grab-bag of apps for Windows
• RunAs Radio this week: Team Productivity using Loop with Karinne Bessette
• Brown liquor pick of the week: John Sleeman & Sons Rye Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage.

• Cisco meets Mythos
• Can the aging CVE system survive AI
• Patch deployment latency in the AI age
• MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation
• Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities
• Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection
• Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor
• GitHub hacked - all of its source code exfiltrated
• Russia is using very old Western software
• Why to get a no-charge AI chatbot account
• New Sci-Fi on Netflix
• What we learn from Mozilla's use of Mythos

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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