The MacVoices Live! panel provides a warning about text message phishing, condemn Microsoft’s dirty tricks with Bing, and discuss a new entertainment app for Apple Vision Pro. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Butts, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jeff Gamet, Marty Jencius, and Jim Rea also discuss the Sonos situation and (another) data breach.

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Show Notes:

Chapters:

00:05 Text Message Phishing Scams

00:58 Bing's Google Deception

6:07 Apple Vision Pro and Plex

15:03 Sonos App Troubles

23:23 EU's Tech Regulation Woes

Links:

This New Text Scam Tries to Get You to Disable an iPhone Security Feature

https://lifehacker.com/tech/new-iphone-text-phishing-scam?utm_medium=RSS

Bing is trying to trick people into thinking they're using Google, and it's really sneaky

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/06/bing-trick-users-google/

The best Plex video player for Apple Vision Pro just got way better

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/06/the-best-plex-video-player-for-apple-vision-pro-just-got-way-better/

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