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For the first time in a long time, security wasn't the main headline of the week. Instead, the crew talked about Starlink coming to a major cruise line, a new underwater datacenter launch, Windows Defender catching some false-positives, Apple overhauling their anti-malware, and Dell laptops literally falling apart. Finally, they tried to decipher how next-gen USB could get double the speed out of the same cables.

We continue to see the impact of the Twilio breach, and the Technado team shared the latest on who is affected and how. In other news, they discussed Slack's free plan changes, 25 gig Internet service in Chatanooga, AMD's Zen4 updates, and Hyundai shipping cars with example encryption keys. Finally, Don shared how the Plex breach affected his weekend.

After taking a week off the news for BlackHat, the team had a lot to cover! Wes and Sophie filled in for Don as the team discussed Windows 11 Encryption issues, Google Fiber staging a comeback, Microsoft 365 flagged as a false positive by Meraki, and a man who built his own ISP to spite Comcast. Finally, in WTF, they debated if the World Excel Championships were real, as well as the story of a Janet Jackson song that crashes certain hard drives.

Peter and Daniel were at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada meeting with some notable BlackHat attendees. Some, like John Hammond from Huntress and Shane Hasert from CyberGRX, may be well known to Technado fans while others, like Shane Harsch from SentinelOne and Tonia Dudley of Cofense, should be on your radar.

Intel plans to release Wi-Fi 7 to client PCs in 2024, Fedora 37 will offer support on Raspberry Pi 4 devices, Microsoft scripts will have stricter browser privacy protection, and post-quantum encryption was hacked by a single-core PC in an hour. And finally, in “Who Got Pwned”, the Twitter vulnerability exposed the data of 5 million account owners and Twillio had a data breach after an SMS phishing attack on employees.

It was a bad week over at Intel, and the Technado team broke down all their current issues. In other news, they covered the launch of Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon, Linux 5.19 being released from a MacBook, Hackers gaining access to restaurant payment terminals, and the 911 proxy service imploding after a breach. And finally, in 'Tin Foil Hat Time,' they confirmed that CERN isn't trying to open a portal to hell.

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.

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.