Tech Break (Video)

It is officially spring. Where is Microsoft's previously announced spring hardware launch? What can we expect them to announce?

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The FBI has indicted four men -- three Russians and one Canadian -- with charges of hacking Yahoo, starting back in early 2014, to obtain access to half a billion Yahoo accounts. According to the FBI's forensic investigations and subsequent allegations, Yahoo was a persistent target of these attacks. A portion the attacks were Spear Phishing, inducing targeted recipients to open malicious documents or click on links taking them to spoofed Phishing websites where, for example, Google Gmail credentials would be requested.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Without holding a special event, Apple quietly launched a new 9.7" iPad and a 128GB iPad Mini 4 today. Does this mean there will be no new iPad Pro this year?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Rene Ritchie

Guests: Jim Dalrymple and Adam Engst

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The System Integrity Management Platform (SIMP) is an Open Source framework designed around the concept that individuals and organizations should not need to repeat the work of automating the basic components of their operating system infrastructure. SIMP is designed around scalability, flexibility, and compliance.

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Florence Ion, Ron Richards and Mark Burstiner discuss whats new on the recently revealed Android O developer preview.

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Hosts: Florence Ion and Ron Richards

Guest: Mark Burstiner

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Standard Innovations, a Canadian company, manufacturers and sells the "We-Vibe," a Bluetooth-enabled, remotely controlled vibrator. Customers have alleged and complained that the manufacturer was secretly tracking their use, and after a class action lawsuit was filed, the manufacturer has recently reached a $3.75 million dollar class action settlement with its users following their allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used.

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Attacks on Net Neutrality, the policy that calls on Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally, has turned some of the biggest names in tech into activists. Not many voices have been louder than Netflix in defending Net Neutrality. But as Jacob Kastrenakes at the Verge noted in a recent report, Netflix has a history of flip flopping, and it seems to be softening its stance in the Trump era. Find out how Netflix stock price, subscriber count, and programs like Binge On have changed the way the company looks at the free and open internet.

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles talk to Matt Haughey of Slack and founder of Metafilter about his volunteer experience with Defy Ventures. Matt used some of his internet and entrepreneurship experience to help serve people with criminal histories. One of the ideas of the day was "transform the hustle," which is designed to help people use the skills they honed in their criminal past to help create a company. Matt talks about the transformative experience and how you can get involved.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about FoodGenie, an iPhone app created by Dad coder Nick Perkins. If you've ever been stuck in a dinner rut, you can now spin a wheel to find a restaurant. Perkins coded the app using the Yelp API and a few CocoaPods. Great for families, couples, colleagues, or friends.

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Brian Reich, author of "The Imagination Gap," talks to Leo Laporte about how we, as a society, seem to be focused too much on small innovations, and not enough on big-picture imagination.

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