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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X

Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Lon Seidman

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Microsoft's record-breaking Patch Tuesday unleashed nearly a thousand fixes, but the bonus story is in the chaos that followed as out-of-band updates and AI-driven bug hunts left admins scrambling to keep up.

Windows

Patch Tuesday was so buggy Microsoft had to release an emergency fix to address all the issues

New Release Preview builds for 24H2/25H2 - I guess we're moving past the features that are also in the initial 26H2 release - New Copilot key remapping feature, they will get it right eventually

Five builds across Experimental and Beta channels - All over the map as you'd expect

Google releases the Gemini app for Windows

Adobe released Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2027

AnyType is a top-tier Notion alternative and it's about to get very interesting

Microsoft previews an October Windows + Surface event that's clearly all about Nvidia - but is this also tied to 26H2 release?

HP announces a new Ryzen-based portable workstation with an interesting detail about unified memory

Apple announced iPhone 18 Pros, iPhone Duo, Watch 12 + Ultra 4, AirPods 5, and then released its '27 OS updates - And sure whatever

AI

AI fear-mongering reaches new heights (or new lows): Is this just PR from Big AI to keep the money rolling?

Bill Gates says Gates Foundation will donate $1+ billion to solve AI inequality

Big AI could solve the PR problems by actually doing something positive for mankind. Just a thought

Copilot Work and Copilot Studio get app building capabilities

Google will bring MCP to Google Home, in early preview now

Mozilla and Mistral partner on Firefox Smart Window AI

XBOX and gaming

Gears of War: E-Day and more is coming to Game Pass in the second half of September

XBOX is going to the Tokyo Game Show and a nice surprise for Kojima fans

Valve opens up Steam Frame preorders and it's only $1060!

Amazon Prime Gaming and Luna are having a pretty g26ood September

Apple is reportedly making an iPhone game controller for some reason

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: There's a new MSA bypass for Windows 11 Setup

App pick of the week: Google Dreambeans

RunAs Radio this week: Patching in 2026 with Susan Bradley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Art of the Spirits Honored to Serve

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.

Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?

Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.

Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!

Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.

Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.

"Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple held its first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, and unveiled the iPhone Duo! Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 with a new AI feature called Siri Recap, bringing some concerns over its continuous ambient listening. And Apple wins 29 Emmys at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards!

John Ternus enters, with folding phones and AI watches.

Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, a foldable phone that costs $1,999.

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 unveiled with upgraded health tracking system.

Apple's always-listening watch features test eavesdropping laws.

Apple's OS 27 updates will be released on Monday, September 14th.

Apple hid a classic Mac easter egg in the iOS 27 Settings app.

pdfu on X: "iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate have private hooks that let apps add Siri Extensions..."

Apple's Siri AI can be swapped out for Claude, ChatGPT, code shows.

macOS 27 Golden Gate review: Bridging the Tahoe gap.

visionOS 27 updates.

Apple wins most Emmys.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Picks: Spigen iPhone Duo Cast Concept & View Tweet extensions.

Andy's Pick: Mac Duo

Jason's Pick: Strategery 4

Leo's Pick: Homebrew 7

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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AI insiders are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, but is this a real threat or a convenient narrative serving Silicon Valley's biggest players? Tune in as the panel untangles fact from hype and digs into the power plays shaping AI's future.

Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables

Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999

Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other device

The Flock backlash is coming for retail

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking

iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Correction: Mikah incorrectly stated that Live Rewind and Siri Recap would also be available on iPhone 16 and newer. Apple says the features require an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4 paired with a supported iPhone. They are not iPhone features.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Daniel Rubino

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