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F5 Live: Refreshing Technology (Video): September 29, 2019 - Episode 539


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DescriptionThis week, Apple's phones can be broken, Microsoft's streaming can be tested, and Google's news results can't be previewed.ParticipantsScott Ertz (https://plughitzlive.com/staff/1-scott-ertz.html)HostScott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLuGHiTz Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the DDR community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bar Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and judging engineering notebooks at competitions. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors.Avram Piltch (https://plughitzlive.com/staff/15-avram-piltch.html)HostAvram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.OpeningPowered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com)Nifty GiftiesPowered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft)A new iPhone jailbreak is unpatchable on all affected devices (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3338-a-new-iphone-jailbreak-is-unpatchable-on-all-affected-devices.html)It is not unusual for companies to discover software vulnerabilities. The thing that makes software great is that it can be patched if an issue is discovered so that the issue can be mitigated. However, a hardware-level vulnerability is far less common and even harder to repair. This is the situation that Apple has found itself in, as a hardware-level vulnerability has been discovered and actively exploited in a wide range of iPhones.read full article (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3338-a-new-iphone-jailbreak-is-unpatchable-on-all-affected-devices.html)Piltch Point with Avram PiltchPowered by PureVPN (http://piltchpoint.live/purevpn)Extra LifePowered by Razer (http://f5live.tv/razer)Project xCloud is closer to reality, Microsoft looking for testers (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3339-project-xcloud-is-closer-to-reality-microsoft-looking-for-testers.html)There is no doubt that the big players in the gaming industry believe that the future of gaming lies in streaming. Microsoft, Google, and even Electronic Arts are working on game streaming platforms. While EA began testing their platform (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3330-ea-begins-technical-test-of-its-upcoming-game-streaming-service.html) a few weeks ago, Microsoft has been holding out on public testing of Project xCloud. That is until now, as the company has officially announced (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-streaming) the beginning of their public platform test for October.read full article (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3339-project-xcloud-is-closer-to-reality-microsoft-looking-for-testers.html)News From the TubesPowered by RiffTrax (http://f5live.tv/rifftrax)Microsoft is attempting to fend off a data request gag order again (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3340-microsoft-is-attempting-to-fend-off-a-data-request-gag-order-again.html)As the tech industry swings heavily towards cloud services, the government has been issuing a lot more data requests to cloud providers. Often, the requests for data are sealed, meaning that the cloud provider is legally forbidden from informing their client that their data has been taken by the government. While many companies simply turn the data over, one of the biggest players regularly fights these gag orders: Microsoft.
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