Total Leo (Video)

How is the Coronavirus affecting the tech industry? Is 8K going to be a big improvement over 4K? Setting up your own custom email domain, backing up programs on Windows, Johnny Jet: should you cancel your travel plans? Setting up a backup system for a business, what to look for when buying a new PC, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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This week's stories

• Get yourself some Stroopwafels at https://amzn.to/2w5siD9
• San Francisco declares state of emergency over coronavirus
• WHO says coronavirus cases may have peaked and plateaued in China
• Google starts announcing I/O 2020 ticket winners
• Google removes 600 apps for annoying ads
• Google will stop labeling pictures as "man" or "woman"
• Trying to trick Amazon Go with a banana
• Facebook bans fake coronavirus cures
• YouTube not bound by First Amendment
• Weather reporter accidentally broadcasts with Facebook filters on
• Trump asks the Supreme Court to back Oracle over Google
• Google warns against sideloading its apps on Huawei phones
• What are your smart speakers recording by accident?
• Verizon will still sell the Pixel 5
• Google moving data out of UK for Brexit
• Is Twitter real life?
• Twitter tries to fight misinformation, adds "continue thread"
• Clearview AI hacked, all clients and searches stolen
• Samsung "1" Find My Mobile data breach
• Dunkin' Bag of Bacon
• Mike Bloomberg busted for paying for tweets, but Facebook is fine with it
• Swiss law forbids liking hate speech
• EU to staff: use Signal
• TSA bans employees' Tik Tok use
• Gmail blocks malware with AI
• Musicians Copywrite every melody possible
• Intuit buys Credit Karma
• Bruce Schneier joins Tim Berners-Lee's internet alternative startup
• Creator of the Konami code dies at 61

Picks of the week

• Leo's Tool: Smithsonian Open Access
• Ant's Good Stuff 1: RIP Katherine Johnson
• Ant's Good Stuff 2: What My Grandfather Said: Finally Got 'Em
• Mathew's Stuff: NSA phone surveillance program cost $100 million and yielded one major investigation
• Jeff's Number: Andreessen Horowitz a16z Marketplace 100

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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

For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/661

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This Week's Security News:

• More Windows 10 lost profile pain
• A micropatch for the jscript.dll problem
• Coming in the next Feature Release (Win10 2004): optional device driver updates
• A new attack on 4G LTE and 5G
• Starting today: DoH by default on Firefox
• A new next-generation WebAssembly sandbox is coming first to Linux and Mac and then to Windows
• Chrome was just updated to close a 0-day attack
• Safari will only trust certificates with a validity of 398 days or less

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

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This Week's Stories:

• JIF vs GIF: The peanut butter weighs in on the pronunciation debate of the ages
• Let's just get rid of animated GIFs and use animated PNGs instead!
• COVID-19: Apple moves production to Taiwan, stocks down, but iPad purchases up
• Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Tech Deep Dive
• Warren Buffett finally switches from flip phone to iPhone
• Apple might maybe think about letting you use Chrome on your iPhone
• Safari requires 13-month HTTPS certificates
• Apple wants you to secure your router with HomeKit, but only 3 routers use it
• Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple-designed ARM Macs coming in 2021
• COVID-19: Apple asks shareholders to follow CDC coronavirus quarantine measures
• Steve Jobs would have been 65 yesterday
• Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician dies at 101
• How often does your TV set off your HomePod, Echo, Cortana, and Home?
• Supreme Court: Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million
• Apple will soon let you text someone your car keys
• Bob Iger resigns from Disney

Picks of the Week:

• Andy's Pick 1: Agrippina - Metropolitan Opera in HD
• Andy's Pick 2: Spend Stack
• Rene's Pick: Sachtler Flowtech 75: the world's fastest tripod legs
• Lory's Pick: Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition
• Alex's Pick: Leica BLK360 LIDAR Imaging Laser Scanner

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

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On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent:

• Using iOS with your family: Family Sharing, Screen Time for Family, purchase sharing, iCloud storage sharing, and Life360.
• News: The EU wants all phones to use interoperable chargers, iPhone 12 may feature a new short-range WiFi standard, AirTags may charge using an Apple-Watch-style charging puck, a research study aims to detect what causes smart speakers to trigger randomly, Apple and Johnson & Johnson team up for a stroke health study called Heartline, and Jif and Giphy are trying to tell everyone how to pronounce GIF.
• Viewer Feedback: Audio streaming issues using AirPods and the Apple Watch and location data tracking and sharing on iOS.
• Mikah's App Cap: Picsew
• Leo's App Cap: The Criterion Collection

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo Laporte explains how to connect and use TWiT.tv's IRC chat server.

IRC Chatroom: http://irc.twit.tv/
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Host: Leo Laporte

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Long computer boot-up times, preventing Time Machine from backing up everything, updating to Windows 10, the safety of guest accounts on a network, iDrive backing up photos, 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.

This Week's Stories:

• COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos
• Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19?
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype?
• COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while
• Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19
• Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation'
• Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better
• EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land
• Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default
• Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2
• Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google
• Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change
• Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation"
• Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day
• New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads
• Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes
• Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74
• Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83
• Adobe Photoshop turns 30
• $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck
• Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA
• Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren

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Can you use Windows on a Chromebook? Is there a device that will weigh you and take your blood pressure? Tips for building a gaming PC, SONUS vs an AV receiver for streaming, phishing scams, where to get an old classic amp, how to connect two buildings with WiFI, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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