Chrome vs abusive ads, patch Tuesday palooza.

• BlindSide and BLURtooth
• Chrome gets tough on abusive ads
• The last hurrah for IE & Flash exploits
• Chromium Edge on Win10: Forcing the issue
• Edge enables "Ask me..." for each download
• Patch Tuesday Palooza!
• Excessive SSD Defragging also fixed
• The WordPress File Manager flaw... two weeks downstream
• Zoom... now with 2FA
• New Raccoon attack

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-784-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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Apple Watch OS 7
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• Blood oximeter sensor
• Three new health studies
• A13 Bionic Chip
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• New Watch faces, including developer-customizable faces
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• S6 Chip

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iPad Updates

• iPad 8th generation
• Apple Pencil
• iPadOS 14

New iPad Air

• 5nm A14 chip
• Zoom and enhance!
• USB-C

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo & Mikah show you how to get your iPads, iPhones, and other iOS devices ready for an iOS update.

• Prepare for an update: How to back up your iOS device, how to update your iOS device, iMazing, Google Photos, Dropbox, and Amazon Photos.
• News: Adobe Illustrator for iPad is available for pre-order. AirPods and AirPods Pro get a firmware update that enables spatial audio and automatic device switching. Apple announces "Apple One" subscription bundle. Apple says Epic customers will still be able to use Apple's "Sign in with Apple" feature.
• Listener feedback: Dark Sky's fate and Shortcuts for silencing unknown callers.
• Mikah's App Cap: Shop by Shopify
• Leo's App Cap: NFL

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo Laporte explains what to look for when buying a replacement battery for your laptop or other devices.

Host: Leo Laporte

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Microsoft Won't Buy TikTok, Nvidia buys ARM, Surface Duo Review

• Microsoft out of the running for TikTok
• Will the TikTok sale go through before Trump's deadline?
• Nvidia buys ARM
• Microsoft Surface Duo review: twice the screens, half as good
• Microsoft Surface Neo: when is the next two screen Microsoft device coming?
• Apple event: Apple Watch 6, iPad Air, maybe Apple Silicon?
• TWiT finally got invited to an Apple event after our ten-year ban
• Viacom wants to sell CNET
• The Office of Technology Assessment: what government needs
• US DOJ may file an anti-trust complaint against Google this week
• $36 toilet paper? Wasn't me, says Amazon. Blame the algorithm
• The Social Dilemma - Zuck "hopes" Facebook won't destroy the world
• Android 11 update is pretty much just 3 features - iOS 14 is a much bigger deal
• The fastest mobile networks in 2020 are not 5G
• 37% of households don't have cable
• Fortnite launches a concert series

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Ed Bott, and Bill Detwiler

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Unable to order air purifier filters from Amazon within California, troubleshooting Chromebook issues, USB ports failing on a computer, external hard drive unable to be read, phone GPS lagging, Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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First impressions of the Microsoft Surface Duo, troubleshooting Adobe Creative Cloud, why are VPN speeds a lot slower? Do I need to use a VPN at home? Troubleshooting PC crashes with Windows 7, blocking ads online, getting a reliable Zoom connection over Wi-Fi, are external drives safe from ransomware? And more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Syncthing, a free open-source program, syncs multiple computers securely. Use it for backup, file sharing, or to keep the same files on all your computers - Mac, PC, and Linux. Leo gives a demonstration by setting up some synchronization between his devices.

Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac!

Host: Leo Laporte

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California is Burning, Android 11, Chip IoT Standard

• California Fires: Götterdämmerung in real life
• Android 11 Update - get all your messages in one place
• Phone screens of the Future: Projectors and Glasses
• Glob: Your phone will convey who you are to the world
• Android 11 permissions auto reset
• Leo tries not to lose his faith in technology
• Chip: Apple, Amazon, and Google create an IoT standard
• Playing Doom on a Pregnancy Test
• Will Chip solve Leo's IoT Nightmare?
• Steve Gibson's IoT security solution- trust nothing
• IoT Security Cage Match!
• NextDNS protects Leo from malware - Comcast does this as well
• Google is tracking you and using that data to recommend you videos
• YouTube's algorithm is better than Amazon's
• The new emojis are here!
• Yellow Pages rathole
• If you need consent on YouTube, tweet about it
• Stanford Cable TV News Analyser
• Amazon bans foreign sales of plants
• Amazon's fake reviews - use Fakespot
• Amazon is the world's biggest pyramid scheme
• Snowflake is the hot new company
• Microsoft wins JEDI: Jeff Bezos is Sithed off
• Should Woodward have saved the COVID tapes?
• Google Changelog: Verified Calls | Carnac the Magnificent | Google Podcasts adds Cast button

• Leo's Tool: Trader Joes Cacio e Pepe
• Stacey's Thing: IFFFT Pro
• Jeff's Number: The Sit-In - Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show
• Ant's Stuff: Clean HDMI-Out On Your Mobile Phone with Filmic Pro
• Karsten's Mask: 3M TEKK Protection Full Face Respirator

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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

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