British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
• Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
• Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
• Students boo AI at commencement: video
• Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
• (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
• 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
• Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
• Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
• Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
• VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
• Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
• Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
• Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
• Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
• The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
• Internet Archive Switzerland
• Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
• Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
• The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
• AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
• Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
• Hallucinopedia
• Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
• Sand shortage
  

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Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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It's not just Recall: Security vulnerabilities that require you to sign into an account on your PC are not necessarily vulnerabilities. Also, Windows 11 gets its first big feature updates in this week's Patch Tuesday releases. Snapseed 4.0 comes to Android/iOS, and Claude FM is great for relaxing or getting coding/work done. Plus, the Helium browser has emerged as a favorite with 2 notable caveats: No online settings sync and no mobile client.

Windows

• 25H2/24H2: Xbox Mode, Agents on the Taskbar, more
• 26H1: Smart App Control improvements, other things we saw previously (26H1 is like the stable version of Canary, it seems)
• Microsoft used a new Mythos-like model called MDASH to find vulnerabilities this month, so expect the numbers of fixed bugs to jump in coming months
• A low-latency profile for Windows will let it optimize for app/UI launch performance just like mobile platforms already do
• New builds across most channels with two major changes: Touchpad improvements in Experimental and free upgrade path to Pro for education users in Experimental Beta.

A new threat emerges

• Google announces Googlebook, an Android-based laptop platform with Google Intelligence
• Some morning-after thoughts, including Microsoft promising AI and that Copilot will be the new Start, while Google delivers AI and is remaking the laptop as an intelligent device

AI

• Microsoft Edge gets big AI and productivity updates on desktop and mobile
• An Anthropic engineer argues that AI should use HTML for output, not Markdown. He's right.
• About that 4 GB Gemini Nano model that Chrome secretly downloads
• OpenAI brings Codex to Google Chrome

Security

• A Bitlocker concern emerges
• Microsoft Edge loads all saved passwords into plain text when it launches, Microsoft says this is as intended
• Mozilla patched 423 vulnerabilities in Firefox during April, most courtesy of Anthropic Mythos
• 465 million Amazon customers have enrolled in passkeys

Xbox & gaming

• Xbox Insider Program: New build for console with previously announced new boot animation, tiered Gamerscore badges, new filters in Game Library
• Forza Horizon 6 leaks on Steam, those who play it early will be banned until the sun swallows the earth
• Discord Nitro now has an Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition perk
• Mojang will host a special MINECRAFT LIVE event on May 30
• Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5s in most recent quarter, its lowest number yet
• Nintendo sold just 2.49 million Switch 2s in quarter, lowers annual estimates
• Supreme Court gives Apple the 🖕 so Epic v. Apple will head to remedy phase

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: A web browser is the 1st step for anyone looking to escape Big Tech
• App pick of the week: Helium
• RunAs Radio this week: Production LLMs with Vaishnavi Gudur
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Gouden Carolus Port Oak

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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

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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

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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

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Raspberry Pi Imager levels up with org support and CM5 Secure Boot tricks. Valve drops a new Steam Controller with a 35-hour battery and Grip Sense, plus a client update to match. Ubuntu's Twitter got hacked — yes, really. Inkscape 1.4.4 squashes 24 crashes and picks up the pace. There's a Dirty Frag kernel flaw letting locals escalate privileges, so patch now. VideoLAN previews dav2d, an early AV2 decoder. And while RHEL dropped 32-bit, AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta is keeping the flame alive. For tips: chess-tui brings the board to your terminal, and csplit helps you slice files by context. There's also a free open-source mobile dev hackathon coming to the Netherlands on May 16. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/49bAd1t and have a great week!

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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, a listener asks why Android Auto has stopped displaying message banners and why voice commands are no longer working across multiple vehicles.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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Many of us grew up idolizing astronauts as the best of the best that America—and other nations—have to offer. After leaving NASA, many of them go on to relatively routine careers in business or academia, but some stay "on mission" and continue striving to improve the human condition. The 100-plus astronauts behind Astronauts for America, led by Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey—a Democrat and Republican—have decided to speak out about their concerns for our democracy. As the nonprofit's website says, "Astronauts For America is a nonpartisan organization of former NASA astronauts who have sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States. We are committed to science, evidence-based decision-making, public service, and the rule of law." Reisman and Lindsey join us for this important episode.

Headlines:

• Pentagon Releases Official UFO Files Online
• James Webb Space Telescope Directly Observes Nearby 'Super Earth'
• Curiosity Rover's Wheels Show Severe Wear on Mars
• Curiosity Rover Gets Its Robotic Arm Stuck on a Martian Rock

Main Topic: Astronauts for America—Combatting Political Polarization

• Group of 100+ Retired Astronauts Form Nonpartisan Organization
• Mission to Counter Extreme Partisanship and Foster Civil Discourse
• Oath to Uphold the Constitution Drives Their Advocacy
• Experiences in Space and Military Inform Their Approach
• Emphasis on Data, Science, and Rule of Law in National Debate
• Concerns Over Erosion of Democratic Norms and Civic Trust
• Civil Rights, Political Violence, and Challenges in Congress Prompt Action
• Organization Seeks to Educate, Engage the Public, and Partner with Other Groups
• Launch of Voter Scorecards Based on Constitutional Values, Not Policy Positions
• Call for Informed Citizen Participation and Election Integrity Initiatives

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Guests: Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey

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