What happens if your internet provider gets the blame for what you download? This week, the panel unpacks a billion-dollar copyright battle at the Supreme Court that could upend how we all use the web.

• Justice Alito Makes The Most Sense, Or This Week At The Supreme Court In The Cox-Sony Copyright Case
• First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of
• These new FDA-approved glasses promise to slow nearsightedness in kids. Here's how they work
• Amazon Tests U.S. Ultrafast Delivery Offering
• What the heck is going on at Apple? | CNN Business
• Meta's Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts
• Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
• Instagram mandates total return to office for employees in 2026
• Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? - Slashdot
• School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement
• RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: 'Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art'
• People who talk with their hands seem clearer, more persuasive - Fast Company
• (a petition to cancel Twitter's trademark for abandonment)

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Guests: Amy Webb, Cathy Gellis, and Brian Woolf

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Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

• Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
• OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
• AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
• I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
• Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
• Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
• Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
• AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
• The race to AGI-pill the pope
• Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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Can the AI boom survive its own hype? This episode takes on the future of OpenAI, tech's subscription fatigue, and why "Made with AI" labels might be the new scarlet letter. Plus, Microsoft's ugly sweaters are back for some reason.

Windows 11

• Week D comes a week late and in the wrong month, but it's a big one, and a preview of what to expect next week in Patch Tuesday
• More pervasive dark mode
• Copilot+ PC exclusives: Improvements to Click to Do, Windows Search, Windows Studio Effects, Agent in Settings
• Expansion of FSE availability
• Improvements across Settings, Share, File Explorer, Desktop Spotlight, more
• Aluminium OS is the name of the ChromeOS/Android Frankenstein that will take on Windows
• Android 16 QPR2 is here with about 1,000 new features and maybe a saner approach to OS updating than what we see on Windows

AI

• AI slop is no enshittification: Human error is still a much bigger issue
• Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is right: The "Made with AI" label is silly and needs to go
• OpenAI declares a "code red" after Google finally figured out AI
• Opera quietly does an about-face on AI in its browsers
• Opera Neon gets one-minute deep research, Gemini 3, and Nano Banana

Xbox and gaming

• Mortal Kombat 1, more coming to Game Pass in first half of December
• Valve is quietly bringing SteamOS, Windows games to Arm

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Time to cull
• Tip of the week #2: Time to look back
• RunAs Radio this week: The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Stumbras Starka

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