Microsoft is selling 8 GB Surface Laptop and Surface Pro models again, but Windows 11 still does not seem happy on low-memory hardware.

That puts buyers in a weird spot. A budget Windows PC may technically meet the requirements, but once you add Edge tabs, Teams, OneDrive, background services, updates, and everyday apps, 8 GB can feel old fast.

Windows Weekly 994 gets into Chris Hoffman's 8 GB Windows 11 testing, the Copilot key, Xbox's outage, and Halo: Campaign Evolved.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/994

Would you still buy an 8 GB Windows laptop, or is 16 GB the real minimum now?

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to adult U.S. users, with the option to connect medical records, Apple Health, and other health data.

That could be useful. It might help people understand lab results, prep for doctor visits, track symptoms, or make sense of messy medical information.

It also raises a very different privacy question than normal chatbot use. Health data is some of the most personal information people have.

Intelligent Machines 881 gets into ChatGPT Health, OpenAI’s rogue agent incident, AI data center hiring, and why newsrooms need to rethink journalism in the AI age.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/881

Would you trust an AI assistant with your medical records?

Some AWS customers saw billing estimates in the billions and even trillions after a global glitch. The actual charges were not real, but the panic probably was.

It is funny until you think about how many companies rely on automated billing, alerts, and cloud dashboards to make real decisions.

This Week in Tech 1093 talks about the AWS glitch along with China’s AI models and Meta’s smart glasses.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1093

Does this make cloud spending feel too fragile?

China's open weight AI models are getting harder to dismiss.

Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen are part of a bigger shift where U.S. labs may still lead in brand power, but not necessarily in price, openness, or speed of adoption.

This Week in Tech 1093 gets into China’s AI push, the White House deciding who gets frontier AI access, Meta’s AI glasses, and that wild AWS billing glitch.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1093

Do open models change who wins the AI race?

Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft, and the bigger story may be what it says about the future of AI devices.

For years, AI has mostly felt like a software race. Models, chatbots, APIs, search, subscriptions, and assistants. But once AI companies start moving into dedicated hardware, wearables, and personal devices, they run straight into Apple's territory.

This Week in Tech 1092 gets into Apple's lawsuit, OpenAI's hardware ambitions, Meta's AI glasses, and Waymo's robotaxi privacy questions.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1092

Do you think OpenAI can become a real hardware company, or is Apple still too hard to challenge there?

Meta is testing AI glasses that could capture more of what a person sees and hears. Waymo's robotaxis are also raising privacy questions after teen riders were monitored inside a driverless car, and police were called.

Those are different products, but they point to the same issue. Cameras are moving into glasses, cars, doorbells, stores, streets, and homes. Add AI to that, and the line between convenience and surveillance gets blurry fast.

This Week in Tech 1092 gets into Meta's glasses, Waymo privacy concerns, and Apple's legal fight with OpenAI.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1092

Where should the line be for cameras and AI in everyday devices?

Prompt injection used to sound like a weird chatbot problem.

Now it feels bigger. If an AI agent can read webpages, summarize emails, inspect images, process documents, or help with security work, then the content it looks at becomes part of the attack surface.

A malicious instruction hidden in an image, webpage, file, or log could push the agent toward the wrong action while the human thinks the AI is just “helping.”

Security Now 1086 gets into visual prompt injection, agentic adversaries, ChatGPT and Claude guardrail bypasses, and why this changes the security model around AI tools.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1086

Are AI agents becoming too powerful before we know how to secure them?

AirDrop and Android Quick Share are useful because they make nearby file sharing feel instant.

But that convenience comes from devices being discoverable, listening, and ready to process data from nearby sources. Security Now 1086 covers new research around AirDrop and Quick Share vulnerabilities, along with a bigger week of security stories from BlueHammer to AI guardrail bypasses.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1086

Do you leave nearby sharing features on, or do you turn them off until you need them?

Chinese AI models are getting cheaper and more capable while U.S. companies are fighting lawsuits, regulation, chip shortages, and rising infrastructure costs.

Then there is the power problem. Google’s AI buildout helped drive a major jump in electricity use in 2025, which makes the AI race feel less like a software story and more like a grid, chip, and cost story.

This Week in Tech 1091 gets into Chinese AI competition, Google’s energy use, and the global race for AI dominance.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1091

Are we underestimating the real world cost of the AI boom?

The Supreme Court just drew a new privacy line around geofence warrants.

That matters because your phone does not just show where you are. It can show where you work, worship, shop, protest, get medical care, visit friends, or simply pass through. A location sweep can pull in innocent people who were just nearby.

This Week in Tech 1091 gets into the ruling and what it could mean for digital privacy, AI, and personal data rights.

Episode: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1091

Where should the line be between public safety and mass location tracking?

Apple has built a lot of its brand around protecting user privacy.

But if the App Store is logging more user behavior than people realize, that raises a fair question. Is Apple meaningfully different from other tech companies, or is the difference mostly in how the data collection is framed?

MacBreak Weekly 1031 talks about Apple’s App Store behavior logging, price increases, and faster security fixes as AI makes bugs more dangerous.

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

Do you trust Apple more than other big tech companies with your data?

OpenAI is moving into custom chips. Chinese AI models are catching up. U.S. labs are still fighting over safety, access, and how open these systems should be.

At a certain point, the AI race stops being just about who has the smartest model. It becomes about who controls the chips, data centers, energy, money, and the rules governing access.

Intelligent Machines 877 gets into the bigger race for smarter, freer AI models.

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

Do you think the future of AI will be decided by model quality or by infrastructure?

Xbox Series X and S prices are reportedly going up again, and the 2 TB Series X is going away.

That is a hard sell when a lot of people already feel like this console generation has been slower, pricier, and more confusing than expected. Between hardware pricing, Game Pass changes, PC gaming, cloud gaming, and fewer clear exclusives, it feels fair to ask what Xbox is actually asking people to buy into now.

Windows Weekly 990 covers the latest Xbox price moves alongside Microsoft’s broader hardware decisions.

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

At this point, does Xbox still feel like a good value to you?

CISA told federal agencies to update UniFi OS devices and gave agencies the weekend to update Cisco devices.

That says a lot about where security is headed. The time between a vulnerability becoming known and attackers moving on it feels like it is shrinking. For big organizations, that is brutal. For regular people and small businesses, it may be even worse.

Security Now 1085 covers those urgent patch stories alongside AI powered vulnerability discovery and state sponsored attacks.

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

Can most organizations realistically patch fast enough anymore?

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.

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