This Week's Stories

• TikToK Takes Over VidCon
• Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook vs Congress over anti-trust, censorship, data tracking
• Elon Musk Wants to sew wires into your brain
• FaceApp gives Russian your pictures
• Facebook Fined $5 Billion - is the biggest FTC fine ever big enough?
• Facebook and Congress wrangle over Libra cryptocurrency
• Baby Google
• New Twitter style
• The influencers are taking over business
• Prime Day was huge
• Most of the Google walkout organizers have left
• Yes, Google is listening when you say OK Google
• Neilsen wants to track podcasts

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Number: Google made 3200 changes to search last year
• Stacey's Thing: Wyze Bulbs
• Leo's Tool: Firefox + Startpage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Randal Schwartz and Jonathan Bennett talk to Leo Laporte about FLOSS's history and the TWiT Network.

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Leo Laporte

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In honor of Paul 'emoji hater' Thurrott travelling, it's WORLD EMOJI DAY!

• Inside the Microsoft emoji design studio

Windows 10 updates

• Microsoft is starting to automatically push Windows 10 1903 to Home, Pro users on 1803 or older via Win Update
• The second 19H2 build is out with new features (which no one can test right now)
• Surface Book 2s are blocked from getting 1903 (it makes the GPU "vanish")

Chredge: Now ready for enterprise testers

• Microsoft is encouraging IT pros to start kicking the Chredge tires
• We now have an updated enterprise roadmap listing which features are coming when
• But we still don't have a date for GA or even the Beta channel

Partners: More Inspired (or tired)?

• Crisis averted: Microsoft undid those Internal Use Rights changes that had so many up in arms last week
• But questions remain: When and how will Microsoft try to "fix" this situation again. Also, how did this fiasco happen in the first place?
• Related: Microsoft does a holoportation demo live at Inspire (and it worked!)
• Related: Azure Lighthouse – what is this thing?

Meanwhile, back at the Office...

• Microsoft has more AI tricks up its sleeve with Cortana reminders - heads up emails
• Teams is now at 13 million daily active users. Is that a lot?
• Skype is going to lose its SMS Connect feature at the end of August

Xbox news

• Microsoft Finds the Tipping Point for the All Digital Xbox One
• New Xbox Game Pass titles

Tomorrow is MS Q4 earnings: Any predictions?

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Surface Code Name – Serenity
• Enterprise pick of the week: Rust
• Rumor pick of the week: Microsoft buys Adobe
• Beer pick of the week: x

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Brad Sams

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• Bullet points from last Tuesday's monthly Windows patches as well
• Notes from the end of Windows 7
• Laporte County Under Ransomware Attack
• The mixed blessing of fining companies for self-reporting
• A survey of enterprise malware headaches
• Some Mozilla/ Firefox news
• Another (kinda obvious) way of exfiltrating information from a PC
• DNS Encryption

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This Week's Stories
• Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dragged to Capitol Hill
• Apple fixes Zoom vulnerability (again)
• Is Apple giving up on AR glasses?
• 2019 MacBook Air SSD slowdown
• Apple disables Watch Walkie Talkie function for fix
• Apple TV ramping up
• Apple Card coming any minute
• Hong Kong protesters use Apple AirDrop
• OurPact is back

Picks of the Week
• Andy's Pick: Default Folder X
• Dave's Pick: AppTamer
• Lory's Pick: Midsommar

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Lory Gil

Guest: Dave Hamilton

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Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent talk about their favorite food apps from sharing recipes to tracking calories, Leo turns his iPad into a second screen for his Macbook Air with macOS Catalina's Sidecar, Mikah tries out a new hairstyle with the AI photo-editor FaceApp, and Picstructions founder demo's their app for creating and sharing step-by-step instructions. Plus, Mikah has an app for getting a cellular data plan that uses the iPhone's eSIM and Leo shows how to create the perfect Instagram Story with Unfold.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Dave Smith

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Learning to run a NAS, rolling back an Android launcher, companies spying on your data at home, Java services, avoiding CAPTCHA and more of your calls!

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Guest: Sam Abuelsamid

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Top Stories This Week

• Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
• The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
• Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
• Instagram vs bullies
• Prime Day deals and dilemmas
• Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
• Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
• Your car is watching you
• Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
• RIP MacBook
• Mac update kills Zoom hack
• Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
• Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
• Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
• Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
• Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
• Netflix Cuphead Show
• Prime Day phishing scams
• HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
• France's Tech Tax
• Niantic kills its first app
• Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
• Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
• Google is listening to you in Flanders
• Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
• A eulogy for the father of the password
• Chatterbox will teach children robotics

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins

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This Week's Stories:

• Google's 4000 word Privacy Policy
• Google and Dish, sitting in a tree?
• The problem(s) with YouTube
• Facebook privacy is already a problem
• The Chome OS 75 debacle
• Debian 10 Buster is not for Chromebooks
• Linux is the future
• Google Stadia FAQ: multiplayer, VR, how to order
• Instagram fixes online bullying
• Trump can't block you on Twitter. Neither can AOC.
• Facebook fought Fake News (about Facebook)
• Android - Google = /e/ foundation
• AT&T blocks robocalls
• FCC vs SF
• Amazon at 25
• Amazon warehouse workers to strike on Prime Day
• Amazon keeps Alexa recordings indefinitely
• YouTube and Amazon Prime Video kiss and make up

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Number: Giant GDPR fines for Marriott, BA
• Kevin's Stuff: JGrasp: an open source IDE with an awesome visual debugger

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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