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This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections

Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach

Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud

Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment

Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!

OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"

AI Spenders Get Spooked

Musk says Grok bot's costs were 'unsustainably high' weeks after touting rapid growth

He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too

The best coffee is back at PERC

Padre's Cofeemaker

Cupertino

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Microsoft's business unit shuffle and shrouded AI spending spark a sharp conversation on whether shareholders and users can trust what's hidden behind new financial reports. Also, Start11 v3 adds Start widgets and menu sharing, plus Taskbar Islands, app groups, and more. Finally, LM Studio is the obvious place to start with local AI, and it works on any PC (not just an RTX Spark). Just be sure to get the right app.Microsoft Earnings

Microsoft earned a net income of 36.6 billion on revenues of $92.3 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2026

Those are both double-digit gains over the year-ago quarter, or 32 percent and 19 percent growth, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)

We were promised more transparency, but what we got is a mixed bag

Microsoft is too complicated a business for only two top-level business segments

Windows revenues from PC makers down 27 percent (!)

XBOX gets a hard revenue number, and it's not bad

Microsoft spent $45.2 billion on capex (AI) expenses, up 30 percent - this is not the real number - and it will get bigger

No paid Copilot numbers, weird

Microsoft "earned" $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI - OpenAI still owes Microsoft money - MS stake in OpenAI is down; no one said why

Windows

We talked about this last week, but I now have two sources at Microsoft confirming that Microsoft's AI strategy is the reason it's fixing Windows 11

Microsoft discusses its work to make Windows 11 fit in 8 GB of RAM

Microsoft Edge is the first Windows browser to support accelerated app launches

Experimental and Experimental 26H1 get new inline actions for the new Windows Search

Hardware

It's been weird watching other reviewers try to figure out RTX Spark, but this much is clear: This platform is not ready

Baby steps: A few minor victories after weeks of defeats

More earnings

AMD up 45 percent to $13.4 billion

Intel up 21 percent to $16.5 billion

Google/Alphabet up 25 percent to $127.6 billion

Apple up 12 percent to $114.5 billion

Amazon up 12 percent to $202 billion

AI/dev

Three and a half years after it should have happened, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI agree to let sites opt out of scraping

OpenAI to unify chat and Work but not Codex

Google says schools that disable AI will lose access to Google Search - They're integrated. It's nice to see Google channeling Microsoft again

.NET Conf is next week, and Microsoft just posted the schedule

XBOX and gaming

There was a bit of drama when XBOX COO left after only a few months on the job, and now there's more

New titles coming to Game Pass in early November

The next Elder Scrolls game is ES VI Sentinel

GTA VI to rival Call of Duty - in the amount of disk space it requires

Tips and picks

App pick of the week: Start11 v3

App pick of the week #2: LM Studio

RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.7 and DSC 3.3 with Jason Helmick

Brown liquor pick of the week: Caol Ila 12

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent


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What happens when a 27-year-old gets handed the keys to completely refactor nearly all of Cisco's code? This week's episode dives into tech's strangest management bets and the friction brewing inside one of the industry's giants.

Cisco gives a 27-year old the task of recoding 98% of their software with AI.

A serious but not earth shaking vulnerability found in PXE booting.

The largest ($6.3 BILLION) financial heist in history (with crypto).

710 Polymarket gambling wallets emptied of $2.7 million.

A new robots.txt control for AI bots, and agreement to obey it.

Google generates haiku from the first orbital AI.

From our listeners: Does stealth updating make sense, how to move web servers off the Internet, books don't contain knowledge, a small company attacked by powerful AI, how would an "AI kill switch" be implemented.

Another new and worrisome application of reverse-engineering AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1103-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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Apple unveiled the MacBook Pro with touchscreen capabilities at its LA event last week. Apple shared its fourth-quarter results on Monday. And Siri Recap and Live Rewind debuted in the latest watchOS beta.

Apple unveils groundbreaking MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch for the first time on Mac.

The inside story of why Apple finally brought a touch display to the Mac.

Apple reports fourth quarter results.

Siri Recap and Live Rewind debut in watchOS beta.

Safari update brings vertical tabs, adaptive dark mode, AI integration.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: PopSocket Low-Pro Grip

Andy's Pick: Snapseed 4.2

Stephen's Pick: Baseus AM72 iPhone Duo MagSafe Battery

Hosts: Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren

Guest: Stephen Robles

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Are we headed for a slow-motion collapse of the AI bubble, or is this just the next phase of tech's endless hype cycle? The panel digs into Apple's hardware bets, the latest in self-driving cars, and what a more human-centered tech future might look like.

Binance says 90% of its $6.3 billion hack losses are now covered

FBI says North Korea was responsible for the Binance hack

Apple unveils its first touchscreen laptop: The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display

Sam Altman says its "quite terrible" for your PCs to have RAM, because of course datacenters need it more

AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

Anthropic expected to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

Chinese Executive Close to Nvidia CEO Suspected of Giving China Information

The Internet Might Need to Be Rebuilt From Scratch

Doordash to acquire Instacart for $17B

Grok releases seven minutes of its AI Odyssey

Meta built a humanoid robot, but it's only for internal research

RIP Patrick Stewart

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Anthony Ha and Paris Marx

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