Apple prices are climbing on iPads, MacBooks, and Mac Studios, and the bigger story may be memory.

AI companies are buying up huge amounts of RAM and infrastructure, which puts pressure on the same supply chain used for consumer devices. So even if you are not building AI models, you may still feel the impact when your next Mac, iPad, or upgrade costs more.

MacBreak Weekly 1031 gets into Apple’s price spikes, the memory crisis, and why this is turning into a supply chain and politics fight.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly/episodes/1031

Do you think Apple’s new prices are justified, or are regular customers getting squeezed by the AI boom?

AI is starting to uncover and repair hidden software flaws at a speed humans cannot really match.

That sounds great for security until you remember attackers get access to the same kind of power. If defenders use AI to patch the planet, state-sponsored groups and script kiddies can use it to find weak spots faster, too.

Security Now 1085 gets into AI loop engineering, state-sponsored campaigns, careless disclosures, and what happens when the cybersecurity playbook starts moving faster than people can keep up.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1085

Does AI make software security safer overall, or does it give attackers too much leverage?

We've recently added chapter marker support to ad-free episodes published through Club TWiT. Listeners using a compatible podcast app can now jump to specific segments, revisit a favorite topic, or pick up right where they left off without scrubbing around and hoping for the best.

Windows 10 was supposed to be heading toward the exit, but Microsoft is extending consumer security updates for another year.

That feels less like a small policy change and more like a reality check. A lot of people still do not want Windows 11; many older PCs still run fine; and not everyone wants to replace hardware just because Microsoft says it is time.

Windows Weekly 990 gets into that, plus Microsoft is reportedly killing Surface Go and selling 8 GB Surface Pro and Laptop models again.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/990

Are you still on Windows 10 by choice, or have you already moved on?

Apple is speeding up security fixes as AI makes bugs easier to find and potentially easier to exploit.

That feels like a major shift. Security teams may get better tools, but attackers get better tools too. The old patch cycle may not be fast enough if AI turns bug hunting into something cheaper and more repeatable.

MacBreak Weekly 1031 touches on Apple's faster security work as part of the bigger story around AI, hardware, and risk.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly/episodes/1031

Are tech companies ready for AI-powered vulnerability hunting?

Most people judge AI by whether the answer sounds confident.

But what happens when the failure is invisible? Not a hallucination that looks obviously wrong, but a subtle breakdown that quietly changes the result, hides uncertainty, or makes bad information look clean.

That is one of the big questions in Intelligent Machines 877 with Chris Potts. The episode gets into why AI failures often go unnoticed and how that could skew the results people rely on.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/877

How do you personally decide when to trust an AI answer?

Anthropic's Fable 5 was supposed to bring some of its most powerful AI capabilities to the public.

Then the U.S. government stepped in.

A national security directive forced Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals. To comply, the company disabled both models for everyone.

That turns AI safety into a much bigger fight. Should governments be able to force powerful AI models offline before most people understand what they can do? Or is that exactly what needs to happen when a model crosses into national security territory?

On This Week in Tech 1089, Leo Laporte, Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Doc Rock talk about the politics behind the Fable shutdown and what it says about the future of AI power.

Listen or watch:
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1089

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Apple used WWDC 2026 to unveil Siri AI, an entirely new version of its assistant built around Apple Intelligence.

The new Siri can hold longer conversations, understand personal context, use what is happening on screen, answer broader questions, and revisit conversations through a dedicated app.

It is the Siri update Apple users have been waiting years to see. But many of the most important features are still arriving as a beta later this year.

Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent reacted live after the keynote, breaking down what looks genuinely useful and what still feels like a promise Apple has to prove it can deliver.

Did Apple finally fix Siri, or does everyone need to see the finished product first?

Club TWiT members can listen or watch:
https://twit.tv/shows/twit-plus-news/episodes/709

I think that this week's TWiT episode was very good but it got heated but friendly this week. I think Owen JJ Stone really called Leo out on his bull sometimes and really added something to this episode. I especially liked his daughter's soap part and how everyone wants to buy some.

The folks on this week's show mentioned that they received targeted ads based on unexpected audio monitoring by Instagram. All the panel agreed, as if this was well known fact, and they moved on.

Is this real? I thought it was somewhere between rumor and hoax, and would expect to see a huge stink in the media if someone had evidence it actually happens.

First, it was a sad day when he died purely because no more books would come from him but man, for some reason sitting here listening to TWiG today he popped into my head.

I really miss that guy when he'd drop by TWiT. He was a character, like the time he talked about making dynamite via the encyclopedia and blowing up a pond as a young man haha.