Technado (Archived)

Don was out on vacation, but Technado never rests! With Wes Bryan joining the show, the team discussed Microsoft's announcement that Windows 11 is available for hobbyist PC builders, the impact of the European heatwave on Google Cloud and Oracle servers, a hardcoded password in the Confluence app causing chaos, and 32-bit Linux remaining unpatched for Intel vulnerabilities. Finally, they looked at some updates to previous stories in Deja News, including Microsoft once again blocking macros by default and Windows 11 turning on settings to shut down ransomware.

The Technado team was back together in the studio this week to discuss the new Intel Core i9-12900K benchmarks, Microsoft's shift in Windows development cycles, Unbreakable Oracle Linux 9's Btrfs support, Lenovo patching UEFI code execution vulnerabilities, and a phishing campaign that can get around MFA. Finally, the team talked about CIA hacker Joshua Shulte's conviction and how it compared to the Edward Snowden leak.

Even with Don in the UK and Peter in quarantine, the crew managed to get together for a socially-distanced Technado. They discussed Apple's public betas for iOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS9, Drobo's bankruptcy filing, NIST's quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms, a spear phishing attack on a crypto game, and Marriott confirming yet another breach. Finally, they covered the takedown of a billion-dollar scheme to traffic fake Cisco networking gear.

Don and Daniel are joined by Ronnie Wong this week to talk about the first laptop with a RISC-V processor that’ll come out soon. Then, the team discussed bypassing Windows 11 install restrictions, Azure capacity issues, Microsoft Exchange servers getting hacked, how HackerOne handled its own ‘internal threat' actor, and British army crypto scams.

Don was back this week to help explain what happened at Cloudflare. Then, the team discussed the Windows 98 update for the Mars probe, the new Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2, Adobe Acrobat blocking antivirus access, and the poor benchmarks on the M2 MacBook Pro. Finally, they laughed about the IT worker in Japan who lost some important PII after a night at the bar.

Don was back this week to help explain what happened at Cloudflare. Then, the team discussed the Windows 98 update for the Mars probe, the new Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2, Adobe Acrobat blocking antivirus access, and the poor benchmarks on the M2 MacBook Pro. Finally, they laughed about the IT worker in Japan who lost some important PII after a night at the bar.

Chris Ward joined the Technado team this week to talk about the falling prices for GPUs. He and the team also discussed Microsoft's Defender coming to macOS and Android, Ubuntu Core 22, a fitting tribute to Internet Explorer, hackers playing Doom on an IKEA lamp, and allegations of nepotism at Google.

It was a busy week in hardware news, as the Technado team looked at Microsoft's move to ditch HDD boot drives, a new Quantum chip saving 9 millennia of computing time, and macOS planning to block unknown USB-C devices. In other news, the guys covered the hack of online gun shops, Jack Dorsey's new Web 5 plan, and a Google engineer who fears their AI chatbot became sentient.

Apple's WWDC is wrapped up, but how important were the announcements that came out of it? On this week's Technado, the guys break down the M2 processor specs, as well as the changes coming in macOS Ventura. In other news, they covered Microsoft adding WSL2 support in Server 2022, the FBI blocking an attack on a children's hospital, DuckDuckGo allowing certain Microsoft web trackers, and security concerns around Meeting Owl videoconferencing devices.

There were two big events generating headlines in the IT world: Computex and Google I/O. The guys covered the highs from Computex with Nvidia's Grace ARM server chip, AMD's Zen 4 releases, AMD's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, and Corsair's gaming laptop complete with a touch bar. Then, they lamented Google rehashing some past duds at I/O 2022 before looking at the upgrades in the new Framework laptop.