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Windows unveiled its Surface Laptop Ultra & Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its recent Surface event. Google's SynthID Detector is open to everyone now to check for AI-made media. OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia and its tools to make unauthorized edits. And AI tools are now flooding into underground cybercrime markets.

Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double.

Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event.

Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it.

Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media.

Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a 'virtual cell'.

OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads.

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic.

Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake unsolved murder tip.

OpenAI is pissing off a bunch of mathematicians — again.

Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt.

Hackers steal 8 million citizens' records from Danish government database.

AI tools flood into underground cybercrime markets.

Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts.

FBI arrests founder of ransomware negotiation firm.

These midterm races will decide data centers' political fate.

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth.

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service".

Spotify opens new front in war on fair use.

The U.S. Army's desert tech test shows long road to AI warfare.

The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear.

Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX seek blockbuster debt deals to pay for AI chips.

A mysterious nonprofit run by SpaceXAI's top lawyer is paying the salaries of government workers.

Man vs. 'Terminator'-like robot in a cage. California called tt illegal.

The inside story of Roku's sale to Fox.

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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Clyde, who is shopping for a new phone after his last one died in a sink full of dishwater, asks what an IP68 water resistance rating actually promises, whether it wears off as a phone ages, and what to do in the first few minutes after a phone gets wet.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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The end of proprietary programs may be upon us, and a project ends and goes proprietary. Ubuntu surprises us with changes to Grub, Qualcomm is making moves in the Linux space, but the Radxa Raspberry Pi killer has a software shortcoming. Huawei has an expirimental filesystem, Google is looking to Kage kernel drivers, and more! For tips we have pcguage for a quick heads up on system stats, mokutil for managing system secure boot certs, and the Adafruit Arcade Bonnet for building an arcade on a Raspberry Pi. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4jhiE5N and have a great week!

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Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and Rob Campbell

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From the earliest works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to the best of contemporary space science fiction, Tariq and I dive deep into our favorite space si-fi across the ages! And our challenge to you for some of the most obscure titles we know.



Headlines:

Remembering Apollo Era Legends Margaret Hamilton and Milt Windler

Soviet Meteor 27 Satellite Breaks Up, Raising Space Debris Concerns

Elon Musk Receives National Science Award Amid NASA Science Cuts

Main Topic: Space Science Fiction Books and Media

Influential Childhood Sci-Fi Classics and Lesser-Known Gems

H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and the Enduring Power of Classic Novels

Comic Books as Gateway to Space Narratives, from Star Trek to Modern Series

Golden Age Science Fiction: Venus Sagas, Heinlein, and Asimov

Modern Standouts: The Expanse, Jack McDevitt, Martha Wells, and Ann Leckie

Women in Sci-Fi: Hidden Voices and Impactful Authors

Sci-Fi Landmarks: War of the Worlds' Grover's Mill Monument and Other Cultural Footprints

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What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple job: guess the next piece of text. Along the way, he shows why the same question can get a different answer every time, where all those numbers came from, and why a chatbot can sound completely sure of itself and still be wrong.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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