The iTechGear Weekly - Episode 153 - Not Ready for Prime Time

Recorded Sunday November 23, 2025 - Live from iTechGear Central

Hosts Chris Spera - EiC iTechGear.org Christopher Gavula - Editor at iTechGear, former Contributing Editor Gear Diary and pocketnow.com Joel McLaughlin - Editor at iTechGear, former Contributing Writer Gear Diary. Current The Linux Link Tech Show Host, Living in the Retro Arcade Podcast and Fitness for the Rest of Us Larry McJunkin - Editor at iTechGear, Co-owner, WUGNET Publications, Retired

Apple Segment iPhone Side Button will soon Trigger other Voice Assistants - Larry https://t.ly/LyIXX IL Joins Apple Wallet with State Driver's Licences - Chris https://t.ly/kqdtd iOS 27 to Focus on Stability - Chris G. https://t.ly/xutEJ

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Mobile/ Linux Segment Google Pixel 10 can now AirDrop to iPhones - Joel https://t.ly/QDZLS I will also talk about an ALTERNATIVE: LocalSend https://localsend.org/ Bezos' new AI Startup Project Prometheus has him as Co-CEO - Larry https://t.ly/JXvU0 Cloudflare Suffers Major Outage, takes down ChatGPT, X, & Spotify - Joel https://t.ly/wARNe, https://t.ly/WSxk4 Gemini 3 Debuts - Larry https://t.ly/pQdv- (and it helps Android Auto, too!) https://t.ly/JZ-PP Verizon Begins Mass Layoffs - Chris G. https://t.ly/WnGyh

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Windows Segment Microsoft adds Toggle Switch to Turn on Agentic AI Features to Win11 - Joel https://t.ly/jJn2s, https://t.ly/nxyrm MS Mistake-a-thon: Thanksgiving Edition MS365 Goes Down Day after Cloudflare Outage - Chris https://t.ly/_ouha MS Knows it has a lot of Work to do After AI Backlash - Chris https://t.ly/HmiFP Microsoft Admits - It broke Windows… in July - Joel https://t.ly/WOgAN

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Tip of the Week Segment iTechGear was founded with the intent of making technology easy for everyone to use and understand. This team has dedicated their writing careers to that purpose. Every week, the iTechGear Weekly will feature a new Computing Tip, authored by one of our experienced editors. Questions, requests and suggestions can be sent to tips@itechgear.org.

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Pick of the Week Segment I’d like to take just a moment to let our listeners know that our show picks are typically hardware, software and other items of interest that we have individually purchased and actually use and like enough that we want to recommend them to you. They are not paid advertisements or items with which we have an affiliate marketing relationship. We sincerely believe in the picks we bring you at the end of each show.

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