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November 27, 2024This Week in Google 796: Holding Space for Defying Gravity
Paris' stuffing recipe.

Source: Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, not the Tab 3.

Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users' ages.

A complex new age of face tech.

Musk unleashes online army on federal workers. 'A tough way to find out she's losing her job.'

Elon Musk admits X is making it harder for people to read news.

Elon Musk's Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal.

Google's new chess game lets you customize pieces with AI.

Google's Black Friday sale features record low prices on Pixel, Nest, and more.

Here's the full list of Gemini extensions and what they can do.

Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go back to Search.

Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs.

Holding Space for Defying Gravity.

What Leo, Paris, and Jeff are thankful for with the Internet.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 33 min
November 27, 2024Windows Weekly 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred
Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)
Windows
Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters

Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice

Look at how facile the complaints are now

This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues

Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features

Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?

HP and Dell earnings

The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025

Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?
Microsoft 365
Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week
AI, antitrust, corporate
Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI

This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS

Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI

Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results

DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US

Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs

Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested
Xbox
Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes

Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar

Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now

Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it

Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation

App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133

RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 40 min
November 26, 2024Security Now 1002: Disconnected Experiences
What's the new "nearest neighbor" attack and how do you defend against it?

Let's Encrypt just turned 10. What changes has it wrought?

Now the Coast Guard is worried about Chinese built ship-to-shore cranes.

Pakistan becomes the first country to block Bluesky.

There's a new way to get Git repos "swatted" and removed.

Who's to blame for Palo Alto Networks' serious new 0-day vulnerabilities?

If you have any of these six D-Link VPN routers, unplug them immediately!

It turns out that VPN apps are against Shariah Law. Who knew?

The Return of Windows Recall. What are we learning now?

How many of today's systems remain vulnerable to last year's most popular exploits?

We share and respond to a bunch of terrific feedback from our listeners.

What are Microsoft's "Connected Experience" and why might you choose to disconnect from them?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1002-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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2 hr 33 min
November 26, 2024MacBreak Weekly 949: Glick-ed
Alex Lindsay has some thoughts on the Concert for One Vision Pro immersive video. Following the movie's debut on Apple TV+, what's going on with Jon Watts and the 'Wolfs' sequel? And what could be Apple's plan to make Apple Intelligence available in the Chinese market?
Concert for One - An Apple TV+ immersive experience.

Drake ropes Siri into his feud with rival Kendrick Lamar, for some reason.

Jon Watts explains demise of George Clooney & Brad Pitt 'Wolfs' sequel after streaming pivot.

Incoming FCC chief Brendan Carr declares Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google part of "censorship cartel..."

How Tim Cook cracked the code on working with Trump.

Brazil antitrust body rules Apple must lift restrictions on in-app payments.

The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model.

Indecision at the intersection of Mac Studio and Mac mini.
Picks of the Week:
Jason's Picks: Good Eats Roast Turkey & Traeger 650

Alex's Pick: Good Eats Deep Fried Turkey

Leo's Pick: Combustion Predictive Thermometer

Andy's Pick: Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 18 min
November 24, 2024This Week in Tech 1007: All the Hotdogs in the World
In this episode of This Week in Tech, the panel tackles the "biggest hack in US history," the future of AI, and the role of government in tech. From the Chinese hack's implications to Microsoft's AI-powered Recall, the Supreme Court's tech-related cases, and the push for social media age verification, Leo Laporte, Patrick Beja, Wesley Faulkner, and Alex Wilhelm provide insightful analysis and lively discussion on the most pressing issues facing the industry today.
China's "Salt Typhoon" hack, dubbed the "worst hack in our nation's history," which compromised US telecommunications infrastructure and allowed surveillance of high-profile individuals

The panel debates the challenges of securing outdated infrastructure and the role of government in regulating tech companies

DOJ's push for Google to sell off Chrome to break its search monopoly, and the potential implications for competition and innovation

Alex Wilhelm's article "If you like startups, you should love anti-trust" and the importance of fostering competition in the tech industry

Microsoft's Windows 365 Link, a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud, and the potential for thin client computing

Microsoft's Recall AI feature, which records and indexes users' screen activity, raising security concerns but offering potential benefits for users

The Supreme Court's involvement in cases related to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data breach and the fate of America's low-income broadband fund

The panel also discusses their personal experiences with parenting in the digital age and the challenges of balancing screen time, privacy, and education for children

Meta's push for Apple and Google to verify users' ages on social media platforms, and the challenges of implementing effective age verification while protecting user privacy

Amazon's talks with Instacart, Uber, Ticketmaster, and others to enhance its AI-powered Alexa assistant

Spirit Airlines filing for bankruptcy amidst financial losses and mounting debt payments

Alex laments the addition of ads to Amazon Prime Video and the panel debates the tradeoffs of bundled subscription services

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Wesley Faulkner, and Alex Wilhelm

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3 hr 10 min
November 20, 2024This Week in Google 795: Alf's Hog is Skeeting
DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome to break search Monopoly.

Trump's pick for FCC chair has vowed crackdown on big tech 'censorship'.

Musk joined call between Trump, Google CEO.

CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash.

What Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC pick, wrote in 'Project 2025' chapter.

Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads.

Google's Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app.

Live Scam Detection in calls rolling out to Pixel 6-9 Phone app.

Coca-Cola causes controversy with AI-generated ad.

Instagram will let you 'reset' your recommendations.

Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices.

Meta's reward for providing free global communications? FTC lawsuit.

Comcast to Spin Off Cable Networks, Including MSNBC and CNBC.

Google fixes Chrome issue that broke text highlighting on some sites.

Mobile browser Arc Search is now generally available on Android.

Google Lens can now check prices and inventory when shopping in the real world.

Source: Google is turning Chrome OS into Android to compete with the iPad.

Exclusive: Google Pixel laptop in development!

Can we talk about ALF hog?

YouTuber Rosanna Pansino smokes cannabis grown from her father's ashes.

Mike Masnick: One Billion Users, the Social Media card game.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 32 min
November 20, 2024Windows Weekly 908: Twenty-Six Boxes of Napoli
It's Microsoft Ignite and we are totally not there
One word summary: Agentic

A wave two for Copilot, essentially

Agents that work on your behalf autonomously

The Snapdragon Dev Box was such a success that Microsoft is offering more hardware

Copilot+ PCs are getting new AI capabilities. Eventually

Copilot Actions brings, um, actions to Microsoft 365
Windows 11
Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 on Arm ISO - Here's some advice

When you think about Windows, we're guessing security and resiliency aren't what comes to mind. So why is Microsoft pushing this so hard at Ignite??

Google Drive is now available in Beta for Windows 11 on Arm. Paul's national nightmare is over!

Here's what's coming to Windows 11 SOON - a new Release Preview channel build shows that 24H2 was just the start of this coming year's updates

Canary: Mostly bug fixes, no clear vision for this channel we can see - new Canary build today with the new Hello experience, new Taskbar thumbnail previews

Beta: Jump list sharing and other features no one has ever, ever, ever asked for

Microsoft is shutting down Beta channel for Windows 10, just months after it revived it

Lenovo revenues surge, PC sales only up slightly but it sees big growth in the coming quarters
AI, antitrust, more
DOJ reportedly wants Google to sell off Chrome - How does this compare to the previous Microsoft breakup attempt?

Some thoughts about Uno Platform Studio and a re-do of last week's .NET news now that Richard is back

A WPF on .NET 9 update
Xbox
Phil Spencer speaks: Portable Xbox hardware, mobile store, more

Microsoft's new Xbox ad triggers PTSD or celebration, depending on your views

You can now play (50) games you own on Xbox Cloud Gaming!

It's been a while, but this is a killer month for Game Pass

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available

Avowed is an Xbox console exclusive and it's coming in February

Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters arrive alongside Warcraft 3: Reforged 2.0 - celebrating the 20th anniversary

Valve celebrates the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2!

The OG Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free, and they run on modern PCs too

Sony PlayStation Portal can now stream some PS Plus games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Get 1 TB of additional Xbox storage for just $99

App pick of the week: ChatGPT for Windows and Mac

RunAs Radio this week: Testing Databases with Dan Mallott

Brown liquor pick of the week: Haavaldsen Sledgehammer 2024

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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3 hr 31 min
November 19, 2024Security Now 1001: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
How Microsoft lured the US Government into a far deeper and expensive dependency upon its cybersecurity solutions.

Gmail to offer native throwaway email aliases like Apple and Mozilla.

Russia to ban several additional hosting companies and give its big Internet disconnect switch another test.

Russia uses a diabolical Windows flaw to attack Ukrainians.

The value of old Security Now episodes.

TrueCrypt's successor.

Using Cloudflare's Tunnel service for remote network access.

How to make a local server appear to be on a remote public IP.

How to share an 'impossible to type' password with someone.

How to find obscure previous references in the Security Now podcast.

What are the parameters for the expected and widely anticipated next generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? What do those in the industry and academia expect? And is OpenAI's Sam Altman completely nuts for predicting it next year? Is it just a stock ploy?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1001-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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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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2 hr 27 min
November 19, 2024MacBreak Weekly 948: Wicked Hard
Could Apple be ramping up its efforts to bolster itself in the smart home market? Apple released Final Cut Pro 11 with new features. The M4 MacBook Pro quietly got a quantum dot display over an LCD display. And Apple releases updates to iOS 18 and macOS that you should update to if you haven't yet!
Apple's next device is an AI wall tablet for home control, Siri and video calls.

Apple's fiscal 2024 in charts.

Apple releases updates to Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for the Mac and iPad.

Apple quietly gave the M4 MacBook Pro a quantum dot display.

Apple faces UK 'iCloud monopoly' compensation claim worth $3.8 billion.

Apple removes another RFE/RL app at request of Russian regulator.

Apple releases iOS 18.1.1 with 'important security fixes' for iPhone.

PSA: iPhone users receiving AppleCare+ refunds multiple years after Apple trade-in.

Top execs explain Apple's chip philosophy: 'We are not a merchant silicon company, trying to leave nothing on the table'.

Apple offers $100M to undo Indonesia iPhone 16 ban.

Trump's tariff proposal could add $240 to the cost of an iPhone. Here's the math.

Discriminatory job ads for iPhone workers ended after Reuters report; Apple didn't comment.

Apple now sells its own Apple News ads for the first time.

Apple shares the most popular podcasts of 2024.

Apple debuts The Weeknd: Open Hearts, the first-of-its-kind immersive music experience for Apple Vision Pro.

Porch pirates appear to be accessing AT&T data to track iPhone deliveries.

Apple seemingly discontinuing lightning to headphone jack adapter introduced alongside iPhone 7.
Picks of the Week:
Alex's Pick: Kondor Blue USB-C Mobile

Andy's Picks: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving & Feedbin

Jason's Picks: ReadKit & Unread

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 29 min
November 17, 2024This Week in Tech 1006: Underwater Alien Civilizations
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth

Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event

Biden Asked Microsoft to "Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity." He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.

CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash

Apple's Tim Cook Has Ways to Cope With the Looming Trump Tariffs

Apple Removes Another RFE/RL App At Request Of Russian Regulator

Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'

Elon Musk's X Corp. files notice in Alex Jones' Infowars bankruptcy case

Spotify's Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström

This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff

In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Daniel Rubino, and Iain Thomson

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2 hr 42 min

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