YouTube stars vs. movie stars, trouble logging into Gmail, can a QLED give you a headache? Scott Wilkinson is impressed by a Bluetooth speaker, adding a third monitor with USB-C, is an iMac Pro too much for my needs? Is it safe to travel yet? Can you trust your router? The GizWiz get s ripped off, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• Jeff gets a Taco Bell care package
• CES 2021 is happening in-person. Would you go?
• Google delays Android 11 beta event out of respect for Black Lives Matter protests
• YouTube drops the 3rd season of Cobra Kai, pivots away from scripted TV
• Facebook employees walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to stand up to Trump
• Snapchat stops promoting Donald Trump over his tweets
• Here's how much money Donald Trump spends on Facebook
• More people are complaining about Pixel Buds
• AT&T says HBO Max will not count towards data caps, but Netflix and Disney+ will
• The German newspaper that is delivering beer, shoes, bread, and office supplies to people sheltering in place
• Elon Musk is taking a break from Twitter
• Netflix buys Grauman's Egyptian Theater so its features can win Oscars
• Italian prosecutor demands the banning of Project Gutenberg's collection of public domain books over copyright infringement.
• Publishers sue the Internet Archive for online book lending. Here's a better way to borrow e-books.
• Third Pixel Drop fixes your battery, improves Recorder, and makes bedtime better
• Google's new AR tool makes social distancing easy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Microsoft released Windows 10 version 2004 ... or did they? (if a tree falls...)
• Discontent is growing in the community. Two key issues:
• Why don't Surface PCs get new Windows versions on Day One?
• Why were their sudden over a dozen known issues that had never come up during testing?
• Microsoft essentially stole WinGet after courting the developer of AppGet and offering a job that never materialized.
• Microsoft's response is inadequate.
• Beigi says he's talking to MS and may have more to share soon (whatever that means)
• Microsoft reveals deprecated, removed features in Windows 10 version 2004
• HP reveals a new Windows Mixed Reality headset. Why?
• New Edge starts rolling out to Windows 10 users via Windows Update (starting w. 1803/1809)
• Google is sued for tracking users in Incognito move. Seriously, people use Brave. Or Edge.
• Microsoft enables Windows Spellcheck API for all Chromium browsers
• Samsung Access - a new subscription service that gets you an S20, premium support, and ... Microsoft 365 Personal. Interesting.
• Microsoft says Xbox Series X will be the most compatible console ever.
• Sony starts making the PS5
• Microsoft launches that simpler new Guide in latest Xbox System Update
• Tip of the week: Wait. I know you want Windows 10 version 2004. Just wait if your hardware isn't ready. Seriously.
• App pick of the week: Any browser not named Chrome. Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Firefox, Safari are all better choices.
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft bot tools you can use. Microsoft is adding more bot tools to its stable for developers and non-developers, including a tool for building Alexa stills using the MS Bot Framework
• Codename pick of the week: Bicep. Microsoft has started developing a new ARM desired-state language, codenamed as "Bicep." ARM as in Azure Resource Manager. Thanks to Aidan Finn for the link from the Build content about this
• Beer pick of the week: SlackTide Brewing Angry Osprey IPA. I haven't had this beer, but I chose it in honor of Slack's Stuart Butterfield, who continues to act like an angry osprey when it comes to Teams. It sounds like a good one – a west coast IPA with Citra and Centennial

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

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Zoom gets end-to-end encryption.

• ACLU takes Clearview to court, but maybe they should worry about their own website first
• The state of drive-by malvertising downloads
• Google will be bad listing notification abusing sites
• Who else is doing the eBay-like ThreatMetrix port scanning?
• Facebook to require identity verification for high impact posters
• Google Messaging is apparently heading toward E2EE
• The return of a much more worrisome StrandHogg
• The SHA-1 hash to finally be dropped from OpenSSH
• What happens when you fuzz USB?
• Zoom's end-to-end encryption design

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-769-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The Week's Stories:

• Apple Music and Tim Cook support Black Lives Matter. Facebook is another matter.
• Tim Cook's George Floyd memo to staff
• iOS 13.5.1 update blocks Unc0ver jailbreak
• Apple updates macOS Catalina to 10.15.5
• Apple pays security researcher $100k for "Sign in with Apple" flaw
• WWDC Preview: Download the developer app now
• Alex Lindsay's Office Hours Zoom call and YouTube channel
• Italy launches "Immuni" COVID app using Apple/Google contact tracing API
• MacBook 13" RAM upgrade doubles in price
• Powerbeats Pro launches four new colors
• Apple TV+ gets Gal Gadot and Martin Scorsese. Theater owners should be scared.
• What could go wrong if you loot an Apple store?
• Want to own a former Apple CEO's mansion? Now is your chance.

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Anker Soundcore Life Q10 Headphones
• Alex's Pick: Yellow Duck
• Rene's Pick: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay

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• Leo and Mikah show you apps and services that will help you maintain your privacy, take a stand, and protest safely.
• Take a stand: ACLU Mobile Justice, 5 Calls, Shortcuts to use if you're pulled over or detained by police, how to prepare your phone for a protest, and EatOkra. Matthew's shortcut at https://bit.ly/2XPs5xY
• News: Apple launches #TheShowMustBePaused campaign in cooperation with the rest of the music industry, Apple releases iOS 13.5.1 update that fixes a jailbreak, and 9to5Mac shares an early look at Apple News+ Audio.
• Listener feedback: Saving settings across device updates and how to enable Face ID using Siri.
• Mikah's App Cap: Oh Bother
• Leo's App Cap: Hey Mayo

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo Laporte explains what RAM disks are and why it's probably not worth setting up on your computer.

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• Trump vs Twitter, SpaceX, George Floyd Protests
• Trump vs Twitter: what is Section 230?
• Trump vs Twitter: what does Trump's executive order say?
• Trump vs Twitter: who would be hurt most by Trump's executive order?
• Trump vs Twitter: who gets to determine "truth"?
• Trump vs Twitter: France passes a law that platforms must remove illegal content within 24 hours
• SpaceX launches humans into space from American soil for the first time in 9 years
• Google postpones Android 11 beta launch due to protests
• Switzerland's Apple/Google COVID contact tracing app vs France's StopCovid app
• France offers Twitter a new home if they want to leave America. What country do you think Twitter should move to?
• Microsoft lays off dozens of journalists, will replace them with AI. Journalist Bill Detwiler desperately defends his fellow humans.
• US House of Representatives to vote to allow FBI to read your browser history without a warrant
• HBO Max is one streaming service too many
• Amazon Look style camera will stop working in July. Denise Howell's Instagram will never be the same
• Some Good News sells to CBS
• Pokemon Go Fest this July will be fully virtual
• Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to be Black" discusses his reaction to the racial events of the past week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Bill Detwiler, Denise Howell, and Baratunde Thurston

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Good and affordable tablets, adding a standard user account in Windows, paying for an OwlCam subscription, longevity of a Windows phone, choices of broadband companies for home internet, and more of your questions!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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