• The implications of the recent increase in bounty for the purchase of 0-day vulnerabilities.
• The intended and unintended consequences of last week's Windows Patch Tuesday.
• Speaking of unintended consequences, the US Government shutdown has had some, too!
• A significant privacy failure in WhatsApp.
• Another Ransomware decryptor (with a twist).
• Movement on the DNS-over-TLS front.
• An expectation of the cyberthreat landscape for 2019.
• A cloudy forecast for The Weather Channel App.
• A successful 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency.
• Another court reversing compelled biometric authentication.
• An update on the lingering death of Flash... now in hospice care.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Apple touts privacy and shows off HomeKit at CES.
• How important is privacy for Apple?
• Battery replacement program cost Apple some sales, but not as many as China's bad economy.
• Tim Cook focuses on health tech for Apple's future.
• Wherefore art thou, AirPower?
• Apple vs Qualcomm takes an unexpected turn in Germany.
• HomePod hits China this week.

Picks of the Week

• Jim's Pick: A Pale Horse Named Death
• Andy's Pick: dueling Fyre Festival documentaries
• Rene's Pick: Netatmo Smart Doorbell
• Leo's Pick: Primephonic Classical Streaming

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

Guest: Jim Dalrymple

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss their favorite health apps, including SmartGym, Obtain, and YouTube. Plus, Leo shows off the new Duet Display that lets you use your iPad as a second screen.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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All of our favourite products and trends at CES 2019!

• Impossible Burger
• Health and wearables
• Amazon vs Google
• Smart products and "Smart" products
• Laptops
• 5G
• Wireless power
• Toilet tech and ultrasonic bladder monitoring

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Cherlynn Low, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Sam Abuelsamid talks about the car tech that was shown off at CES this past week, using a Google Voice number with old phones, when to look for phones with 5G connectivity, the advantages of using a paid email service instead of Gmail, how to record interviews for a podcast out in the field, flickering screens on the new i9 MacBook Pro with Vega 20 graphics, alternatives to cable internet, and more of your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Sam Abuelsamid

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Will an Android smartwatch work without the phone nearby? Android tablet recommendations, cord-cutting for beginners, do you still need anti-virus software? Uploading your own music to the cloud, unlocking a used iPhone and more!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. She talks with Leo Laporte about how social media is being used to influence people.

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Guest: Shoshana Zuboff

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• CES is this week: let's not beat this to death. A lot of computers were announced, including a Surface Studio clone from Lenovo.
• It looks like Intel is serious about moving to 10nm this year, and Intel is talking up 'Project Athena,' its strategy for going beyond ultrabooks.
• Privacy (as a service): Microsoft should stop marketing AI and market privacy instead. First step: Bali, a way for users to control data that's been collected about them.
• Microsoft giveaway update: we gave away the Xbox Game Pass and Office 365 Home product keys and the hardware just arrived. Here's how you can win a Surface Go with Type Cover or Surface Headphones! (U.S. and Canada only, sorry)
• Two major signs of sanity in Windows 10 19H1: 7-day update delays in Windows Update in Windows 10 Home, Microsoft finally silences Cortana in Windows 10 Setup (but not in Home).
• Windows 10 19H1 build adds support for password-less Microsoft accounts and sign-ins.
• Build 18312 was released today with Reset This PC improvements.
• Let's revisit Windows 10 on ARM. Yes, this really matters.
• Non-controversy of the week: Windows 10 will now set aside 7 GB of disk for coming updates
• About Citrix's plans for Windows Virtual Desktop
• GitHub to give free users unlimited private repos
• Microsoft should make Surface-branded wireless earbuds (Update: They are working on it)
• Microsoft continued losing to Sony in the console wars in 2018, but there was a lot of good news too

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Choose the right digital assistant
• App pick of the week: Firefox ARM64 for Windows 10 on ARM
• Enterprise pick of the week: Teams gets more firstline worker features
• Buzzword pick of the week: "Partner"
• Beer pick of the week: Firestone Walker Propagator Generation 1

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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• Google Assistant is everywhere at CES 2019, including an amusement park ride.
• Facebook opens its political ads archive, showing who is targeting you and how much they spent.
• Don't blame millennials: Fake news is spread by boomers.
• The Internet Archive tries to save Brazil's internet.
• German politicians hacked - lone hacker confesses.
• How can you get free samples from Amazon?
• Amazon becomes the most valuable company in the world just in time for the Bezoses to divorce.
• It is false and defamatory to say that Julian Assange is easily offended.
• Plus: Fortnite, fountain pens, and not-so-naughty limericks.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Google moves into a West LA mall.
• Mathew's Stuff: Join the Internet Archive Team.
• Leo's Picks: Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse, The State of the World 2019, Pepsi robots, and AT&T's fake 5G.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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• The NSA announces the forthcoming release of an internal powerful reverse-engineering tool for examining and understanding other people's code.
• Emergency out-of-cycle patches from both Adobe and Microsoft.
• PewDiePie hacker strikes again.
• Prolific 0-day dropper SandboxEscaper ruffles some feathers.
• A new effort by the US government to educate industry about the risks of Cyber attacks.
• Welcome news on the ransomware front.
• VERY welcome news of a new Windows 10 feature.
• A note about a just-published side-channel attack on OS page caches.

We invite you to read our show notes.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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