Anthropic's Claude AI is now playing Pokemon through Twitch - albeit slowly. Emily Forlini was at the Amazon event this past week and talks about Alexa+ that was announced at the event. And Framework announced a new desktop PC, but did Framework really need to get into the PC desktop space? Mikah Sargent talks about how Anthropic's Claude AI is being utilized to play Pokemon Red through Twitch. Emily Forlini attended Amazon's February 2025 Devices & Services event in New York and talks about Alexa+ which was announced at the event, and what could possibly happen to Amazon Prime when Alexa+ starts to roll out to users in the coming weeks. And Sean Hollister from The Verge talks about Framework's first foray into a desktop PC. He spent some time with the PC and shares his thoughts on it! Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini Guest: Sean Hollister Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: veeam.com get.stash.com/tnw zscaler.com/security

Paul Thurrott takes you on an exhilarating exploration of the tools now available on Copilot Plus PCs, including the integration of Microsoft Designer right within the Photos app.

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Save space harmlessly on macOS! Mikah Sargent explores Hyperspace, a clever Mac app that helps users reclaim disk space without deleting any files. Unlike traditional cleaning apps, Hyperspace leverages the APFS (Apple Protected File System) to optimize storage by identifying opportunities to create space-saving clones of duplicate data. Traditional systems create entirely new files for each version, while APFS cleverly maintains one copy of the base data with different metadata references, saving significant space.

Users who have had their Macs for a long time or work with mixed file systems are most likely to benefit from Hyperspace, as they may have files that aren't optimized for APFS. The Hyperspace app (from Hypercritical) is free to download and scan with, but reclaiming space requires either a one-time unlock or subscription payment.

Hyperspace: Reclaim Disk Space - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperspace-reclaim-disk-space/id6739505345?mt=12

Hypercritical: Hyperspace - https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/

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Daniel listened to episode 463 about an amazing home theater, in which the owner mentioned that the room was disturbingly quiet. That led Daniel to wonder if a room can be too quiet and not sound its best. Scott offers some insight into this very important question.

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Pass the time productively! Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard explore apps that can help listeners start and maintain new hobbies. From geocaching to coloring apps, learning piano to birding, they showcase versatile options for various interests.

• Geocaching - Rosemary showcases this app that helps users find hidden caches around the world, offering a purpose-driven outdoor activity with puzzles and challenges.
• Brilliant - Mikah demonstrates this learning app that teaches coding and computer science through interactive puzzles, also offering courses on math, data analysis, and more.
• Coloring Book Painting Games - A free, ad-supported coloring app recommended by Rosemary as an alternative to subscription-based options, featuring thousands of designs and Apple Pencil support.
• Imprint - Mikah highlights this app that distills complex concepts and books into bite-sized summaries, featuring daily reads on topics like Andrew Huberman's morning routine.
• GeoGuessr - A geography game that drops players into Google Street View locations around the world, challenging them to figure out where they are with single and multiplayer options.
• Simply Piano - An app that helps users learn piano through progressive lessons, featuring popular songs and keyboard calibration.
• Apple News+ - Rosemary reminds viewers about hobby-related magazines available through Apple News+, including titles for crochet, photography, and other interests.
• Birda - A birding app recommended by Mikah that helps users identify and track bird sightings, featuring a free version and AI identification with a subscription.

News

• Apple Account Purchase Migration - Apple has introduced the ability to migrate purchases from one Apple account to another, with some limitations including regional restrictions and requirements that accounts can't be child accounts.

Feedback

• Trip Planning Apps - In response to a listener named Reid asking about alternatives to the soon-to-be-discontinued Tripcase app, Mikah recommends Tripsy as a great option for tracking travel information with various subscription tiers.

Shortcuts Corner

• Timer Controls for Audio Apps - Rosemary addresses Rick's question about creating a shortcut to open iHeartRadio and set a sleep timer.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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Interview with Stephen Wolfram OpenAI now serves 400M users every week Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy. Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1 To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral Grok 3's "sexy mode" Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel' Touch grass Bracket City Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Stephen Wolfram Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT get.stash.com/machines canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT expressvpn.com/twit

Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive? Windows 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc. Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev) Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar Microsoft 365 Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more Amazon kills Appstore for Android Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability AI/Dev Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot Alexa enters the AI era OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals! ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else Xbox Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026 Tips and Picks Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly cachefly.com/twit

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users. Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine. Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links. Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess. Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH. The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems. What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in? The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday. Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines. We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor". A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be). Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT uscloud.com canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

It's not surprising that Apple announced the iPhone 16e the day after last week's MacBreak Weekly. Already, some information about the upcoming iPhone 17 is being leaked, including some information about the rumored slim iPhone 17. And Apple is removing encrypted security features for your cloud data within the UK following the UK government ordering Apple to leave backdoor access to users' data. iPhone 16e: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone. Apple officially bids farewell to the Lightning port after 13 years. Per Ming-chi Kuo: all iPhone 17 models will use Apple's in-house Wi-Fi chips, enhancing connectivity and cutting costs; only the slim iPhone 17 will use the C1 modem chip. Apple removes cloud encryption feature from UK after backdoor order. Apple currently only able to detect Pegasus spyware in half of infected iPhones. Apple to invest $500 billion in U.S. as Trump tariffs loom. MacBook Air stocks start to dwindle ahead of M4 update. Apple Vision Pro immersive video 'Arctic Surfing' available now. Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April. Apple prepares to add Google Gemini to Apple Intelligence. Steve Jobs Archive marks Apple co-founder's 70th birthday. The new Beeper app combines all of Automattic's messaging systems. Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Hyperspace Jason's Pick: Framous Alex's Pick: Blackmagic 2110 Andy's Pick: Desert Island Discs, with Johnny Ive. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit get.stash.com/macbreak zscaler.com/security

Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order iOS18.4 Beta adds priority notifications, support for robot vacs in Apple Home, but no smarter siri Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event OpenAI now serves 400M users every week The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August Spotify is making it easier to release audiobooks narrated by AI California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers Donald Trump Is Turning CISA Into The Embodiment Of His Election Conspiracy Theories Asus Continues Fragrant Device Trend With an Aromatic Mouse - Slashdot iPhone 16E: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone Smart ring tracks health, fitness data with long battery life Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Larry Magid Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit ziprecruiter.com/twit uscloud.com threatlocker.com for This Week in Tech Melissa.com/twit

Rust in the Kernel is still hot news, with Linus chiming in. Asahi has new leadership, there's a new way to detect hung GPUs, and one of those other OS makers wrestles with encryption backdoor rules. Mozilla announces their new plans, Gentoo publishes a VM image, and Meta is taken to court for torrenting. For tips we have kew for terminal music playing, killport for ending a process based on the port it's listening on, and stable-diffusion-webUI for taking advantage of AMD's ROCm for AI image generation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3CRPBTL and we'll be back next week!

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In this episode of This Week in Space, hosts Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the latest space news, including a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans to launch and land in the Bahamas, and the ongoing debate surrounding the retirement of the International Space Station. They also touch on NASA's budget cuts, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the development of new radiation protection technology for deep space missions.

- Asteroid 2024 YR4: While initially considered a potential threat, the chances of this asteroid impacting Earth have significantly decreased as more data has been collected. Rod and Tariq discuss the changing odds and the importance of tracking near-Earth objects.

- NASA budget cuts: The hosts discuss the proposed 20% budget cut for the James Webb Space Telescope and its potential impact on the groundbreaking observatory's operations and scientific output.

- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Moon lander: Launched weeks ago, the lander is now in lunar orbit and scheduled to land on or about March 2nd, carrying 10 experiments to Mare Crisium. With several other lunar missions on the horizon, including those from Intuitive Machines and Japan's iSpace, the hosts discuss the exciting developments in the new lunar exploration era.

- SpaceX in the Bahamas: Elon Musk's company is in talks with the Bahamian government about launching and landing rights. The hosts speculate on the reasons behind this move and its potential implications for future missions.

- The retirement of the ISS: Elon Musk suggests de-orbiting the station as soon as possible and to press on to Mars, while others argue for maintaining it until suitable replacements are ready.

- "Stranded" astronauts controversy: The hosts address the recent claims that astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore were "stranded" or "abandoned" on the ISS due to political motives. They clarify the situation and express their disappointment with the misleading narrative.

- Radiation shielding technology: The development of 3D-printed hydrogels offers a promising solution for protecting astronauts from harmful radiation during deep space missions. The hosts explore the potential applications and benefits of this innovative technology.

- Search for Extraterrestrial Life: The COSMIC project, working with the Very Large Array telescope, has been using advanced computer processing to seek out focused radio transmissions that might indicate the presence of alien civilizations. While no signals of interest have been found yet, the search continues, and the project serves as a valuable educational tool for aspiring radio astronomers.

- NASA workforce reduction: While NASA has not yet implemented the anticipated workforce reduction, the hosts discuss the potential impact of such cuts on the agency's future and the importance of maintaining a skilled workforce in the face of increasing competition from China.

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