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The PC Pro Podcast
Every week the team behind the UK's biggest technology monthly discusses the latest news and issues in computing and mobile tech. Subscribe to the magazine at https://subscribe.pcpro.co.uk (https://subscribe.pcpro.co.uk)
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Episode 813: They said macOS wouldn’t work on a touchscreen, and now we have the proof
The team discusses the surprisingly low-key debut of the touchscreen MacBook Pro and ponders reports of mechanical problems with the first batch of iPhone Duo…
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Episode 812: This week it’s PHP’s turn to be disastrously compromised
The team discusses a major vulnerability in the ubiquitous PHP utility, mulls over the fallout of a Google Cloud outage in the UK and looks forward to a world…
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Episode 811: In which Barry takes a dim view of HomeView
The team discusses Apple’s multi-pronged foray into AI smart home devices, welcomes Amazon’s new range of Google Play-enabled tablets and laments technology…
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Episode 810: It's good to TalkTalk
This week, the team chews over BT's potential rescue bid for TalkTalk and OpenAI's agents running amok on Wikipedia. We also chat about ArtCraft's similarities…
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Episode 809: We guess they’re called “Dots” because “Minions” was taken
The team tries to figure out what the hell ChatGPT’s new “Dots” are supposed to be, bids farewell to the Copilot+ PC and shares concerns over the rise of…
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Episode 808: Are you enthused by Muse?
The team gives a puzzled welcome to Google’s new “Googlebook” laptops, and a more cautious one to Meta’s new Muse AI assistant. We also explore why mobile…
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Episode 807: Let's throw social media through the round window
This week, Barry Collins, Jon Honeyball and Lee Grant decide if the brakes need to be deployed on AI development. We also look at a study saying that teenage…
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Episode 806: An unfolding story
The team discusses the newly unveiled iPhone Duo, along with other announcements from John Ternus’ first major event as Apple CEO. We also ponder whether…
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Episode 805: Apple Inc. has been updated to CEO 8.0
The team welcomes incoming Apple boss John Ternus, ponders warnings that AI could wreck financial systems and gapes incredulously at Sony’s attempt to argue in…
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Episode 804: Don’t tell mum the babysitter’s Facebook
The team discusses Meta’s $18bn settlement over claims its platforms are harmful to children, welcomes LinkedIn’s battle against “AI slop” and ponders a major…
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Episode 803: AI watermarks CouLd be Almost UnDetectablE
The team reveals what excited them from last week’s Google Pixel Event (spoiler: not much), engages in a thoroughly depressing game of The Price is Right and…
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Episode 802: Alexa, can you smell gas?
This week the team discusses Google’s AI staffing shakeup, NVIDIA’s latest funding round and Amazon’s new gas-powered data centre. We find out what happens…
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Episode 801: What secret code do you have to enter to erase this podcast?
The team discusses the case of a US citizen who tricked border agents into wiping his seized phone; new ways to prove your identity with a video selfie; and a…
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Episode 800: I am begging Sam Altman to read just one Isaac Asimov book
In a landmark episode the team discusses an alarming AI jailbreak, the EU’s continuing efforts to weaken Google’s monopolies and LG’s ingenious but deplorable…
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Episode 799: Will Windows’ solution for searching finally be a searching solution?
This week the team discuss proposed improvements to Windows Search, Apple goes to war against OpenAI, Meta's AI HR wrangle, social media curfews and a…
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Episode 798: Want to be anonymous online? Start by ditching Windows
The team discusses a hidden ID code in Windows that could be used to track your online activity; updated regulations that make it harder for Brits to object to…
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Episode 797: Windows 10 refuses to die...again
This week the team discusses Microsoft's stay of execution for Windows 10, a worrying report on social media's safety features and the return of Fable 5. We…
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Episode 796: Can EU regulation really make it easier to switch clouds?
The team discusses reports that AWS and Microsoft Azure may be classed as “gatekeeper” services by the European Commission; we also look at the first court…
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Episode 795: I’m-a let you finish, but these are 50 of the best apps of all time
In a deviation from our usual format, the team sets out to nominate the top 50 apps of all time, with help from our live listeners on Discord. Listen in on the…
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Episode 794: Hey Siri, can you actually do AI now?
In a rare double-header, Barry and Darien discuss the main announcements from Tim Cook’s final WWDC, what’s next for two of the biggest AI platforms and…
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Episode 793: Live (sort of) from Computex
In a secluded hotel room somewhere in Taipei, Jon and Tim discuss the most interesting and promising products they’ve seen at Computex, plus some of the week’s…
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Episode 792: Who's making money from the memory crisis?
This week we discuss memory crisis profiteering, a new piracy clampdown, confusing roaming charges and an expensive accident with a MacBook Pro. The Hot…
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Episode 791: Google is getting smarter (whether you want it to or not)
The team discusses the throwing-out of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, new product announcements at Google I/O 2026 and an investigation of Microsoft’s…
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Episode 790: The data centres are coming (and we’re all going to pay)
The team discusses how demand for new data centres is driving increased electricity bills and water shortages – sort of – and checks out the latest regulations…
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Episode 789: A bumper week for cyber-criminals
The team discusses a spate of major security flaws affecting Linux, Microsoft Edge and the cPanel web administration software. We also look at how kids are…
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Episode 788: “It’s a bit like watching Chelsea play Arsenal”
The team discusses the high-profile legal showdown between Sam Altman and Elon Musk; new Claude Design features that could transform the way we create websites…
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Episode 787: It's time to Ternus the page on Tim Cook's tenure at Apple.
This week the discusses the legacy of Tim Cook and his replacement as the CEO of Apple, John Ternus. Also on the agenda is Meta's plan to use staff to train AI…
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Episode 786: You wouldn’t download an ebook to your car
The team discusses steep price hikes for Microsoft devices, argues over Amazon’s controversial cutting-off of old Kindle models and wonders exactly who would…
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Episode 785: Cynnwys gwleidyddol ar gyfryngau cymdeithasol
The gang discusses a new experiment to see how Welsh voters are exposed to political content on social media, waves an unsentimental farewell to the Mac Pro…
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Episode 784: Making Windows cool again (good luck!)
The team discusses Microsoft’s plan to make Windows slicker and more user friendly, America’s ban on basically all foreign-made home routers and the closure of…
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Episode 783: What we really think about the Apple MacBook Neo
Let's start with what we finished on for a change: the Apple MacBook Neo, in the flesh. Jon Honeyball proposes it as the Hot Hardware of the Week, but not…
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Episode 782: Sure, the code took Amazon down for six hours, but at least it’s commented
The team looks at Amazon’s embarrassing AI-related outages, asks whether BBC iPlayer should join forces with other major UK broadcasters and weighs up a…
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Episode 781: Eight gigabytes ought to be enough for anybody (it never gets old)
The team discusses Apple’s latest product announcements, including the cheap and colourful MacBook Neo; we also look at Lenovo’s new modular laptop concept…
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Episode 780: Claude would like to be your Coworker
This week the team chat about Claude Cowork, the change in leadership within Microsoft's XBOX division, rumours of a touchscreen Mac and Ofcom's fines for…
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Episode 779: PodcastPlayer.exe wants to access your podcast feed
The team discusses the growing impact of worldwide shortages of RAM and storage, new security alerts in Windows and a prediction that white-collar jobs could…
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Episode 778: Could too many Jaffa Cakes lead to a call from the GP?
The team discusses new research that analyses your personal shopping history for potential health issues; explores Moltbook, the new social media platform…
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Episode 777: Ejecting the Copilot?
Barry, Olivia, Jon and Lee discuss whether Microsoft has finally realized that users don't want Copilot forced into every corner of Windows. The Data Use and…
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Episode 776: Will Apple pay over Apple Pay?
The team discusses a class action lawsuit alleging that Apple Pay has pushed up banking prices for everyone, asks whether Microsoft was right to hand over…
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Episode 775: The return of the 4GB laptop?
The team discusses the ballooning cost of RAM, and a steep and sudden price hike for Rackspace email customers. We issue a cautious welcome to the newly…
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Episode 774: Grok, remove the new clothes from this emperor
The team discusses reports of Elon Musk’s Grok platform creating non-consensual smut; Apple’s big AI partnership with Google; and dissatisfaction over Roblox’s…
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Episode 773: Live (almost) from CES in Las Vegas
In our annual dispatch from the world’s biggest consumer technology showcase, Tim Danton and Jon Honeyball battle jetlag to discuss the top technologies…
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Episode 772: Our 2025 Tech Quiz Extravaganza
It's time for the annual PC Pro Podcast's festive quiz extravaganza! Dust off your Santa hats and grab a glass of eggnog! Darien Graham-Smith returns as our…
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Episode 771: Is the kids’ social media ban fair dinkum?
The team debates Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s, the return of smart glasses and a US proposal to require tourists to hand over a trove of…
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Episode 770: ✅ If you like, I can generate hot singles in your area
Joined by special guest Geoff Campbell, the team discusses the arrival of advertising in ChatGPT, Apple’s apparent defiance of the Indian government and…
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Budget 2025 for tech: the good, the bad and the missing
After a six-month absence, we welcome back Rois Ni Thuama to the PC Pro podcast. What's she been up to? Well, it all started when she helped a woman who had…
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Episode 768: You’ll have to talk to my agent
The team discusses new “agentic” features being added to Windows, debates the merits of AI-generated podcasts and asks how angry we should be with Cloudflare…
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Episode 767: Steam Machine, ClickFix and Norfolk
This week the team discuss the state of computing within the UK education sector, the forthcoming trio of gaming goodies from Valve: the Steam Controller…
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Episode 766: A small church, two pubs and a data centre
The team discusses the pleasant surprise of Affinity making its creative software suite completely free, an unfortunate bug in Windows 10 and the smalltown…
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Episode 765: Grokipedia's a Wikipedia copy, right?
There's no getting away from the march of AI this week, whether it's Elon Musk's AI-generated Grokipedia, how OpenAI is dealing with searches related to…
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Episode 764: Sorry, I can’t because of the Amazon outage
The team discusses the massive AWS failure that took down some of the internet’s biggest sites and services, and look forward to the AI-powered future of…
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Episode 763: Microsoft's potty training
This week the team discuss Windows 10's role in the battle against software obsolescence, Clearview's slap down by the Information Commissioner’s Office…
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Episode 762: Don’t blame me, the AI was controlling my browser
The team discusses Qualcomm’s acquisition of Arduino, and AMD’s new partnership with OpenAI. We also look at the rise of AI-powered web browsing, plus Apple’s…
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Episode 761: Hey Google, are you actually going to be intelligent now?
The team discusses new smart home devices from both Amazon and Google, Spotify’s crackdown on AI-generated content, an experimental digital DJ for YouTube and…
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Episode 760: Not content with taking our jobs, AI is now taking our CVs too
The team discusses LinkedIn’s bid to use your professional data for AI training, Nvidia’s big partnership with Intel and Mark Zuckerberg’s latest attempt to…
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Episode 759: The dirty future of AI comes to Essex
The team discusses Google’s big investment in a new UK data centre – and the concomitant environmental cost. We also share frank opinions of Apple’s latest OS…
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Episode 758: For everyone who’s ever looked at an iPhone and thought “if only it were thinner”
The team discusses the latest product unveilings at Apple’s annual iPhone event, plus Tim’s pick of the announcements at IFA. We also discuss two new court…
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Episode 757: In which Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome after all
The team discusses a court victory for Google and the company’s proposal to restrict sideloading of unverified apps onto mobile devices. We also look at…
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Episode 756: Life looks good at 100x zoom
The team discusses the UK government’s apparent climbdown over its previous demands for a back door into Apple users’ encrypted communications, and casts an…
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Episode 755: Just when you’re getting to know an AI…
The team discusses how OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model has proved disruptive in the worst possible sense, and how Starbucks in South Korea is fighting back against…
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Episode 754: What might Windows look like in 2030? (And will it be running on Intel?)
The team discusses Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, bad news for Intel’s hopes of reclaiming the CPU crown, and a suggestion that Amazon might…