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This Week's Stories

• How to fix the Windows 7 "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." error
• Win10's "One Button PC Reset" fails after KB4524244.
• And, also... "The new disappearing User Profile problem" (Desktop and all user data)
• The popular "GDPR Cookie Consent" Wordpress plugin had a critical flaw
• Whoa! The average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout
• Microsoft's "ElectionGuard" being used for the first time today!
• IoT lightbulb vulnerabilities are not such a joke, after all.
• SweynTooth Vulnerabilities: a set of more than 12 newly discovered vulnerabilities across a wide range of Bluetooth devices, many of which will never be updated, which allow for, among other things, full device compromise.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show 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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TWiT Audience Survey- ENDS FEBRUARY 19TH!!!

• It's time for TWiT's annual audience survey and we want to hear from you! It only takes five minutes.
• Please visit twit.tv/survey and let us know what you think.
• There's no sign-up form and we don't track you. Your feedback helps us make TWiT even better.

This Week's Stories

• Get a facemask you can wear without losing FaceID
• Apple warns of revenue loss due to COVID-19 coronavirus
• iPhone 9 / iPhone SE2 still on track for late March announcement?
• Is Apple launching "AirPods Pro Lite" March 31st
• Will Apple make a foldable iPhone Samsung Galaxy Z Flip competitor?
• What's the market for an inexpensive iPhone?
• Related: what are convolution kernels?
• Where will the next China competitor be? India? Malaysia?
• BlueMail sues Apple for stealing their features, gets kicked out of the App Store
• Apple: no push notifications on App Store apps, unless they are for Apple products
• Is Sign in with Apple a success?
• Rene Ritchie: what to do if you lose Pokemon Go access due to a job change
• MalwareBytes: malware threats on Mac increased exponentially last year
• Jason Snell's sixcolors.com: Malwarebytes is full of crap
• California court: Apple stores must pay employees for the time spent checking their bags for stolen merchandise
• The real reason there is no iPad Instagram app
• Apple Music Replay's new 2020 Replay playlist is still in beta
• Sonic The Hedgehog movie redesign pays off: best video game movie opening weekend haul in history

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Lego Lunar Lander
• Rene's Pick: Cairo Throw
• Lory's Pick: Logitech StreamCam
• Alex's Pick: LumaFusion
• Alex's Pick 2: TheMcDubbys on Tik Tok

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

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

• Augmented reality: Smash Tanks, Giphy World, Sky Guide, IKEA Place, ARia, Target, Pokémon GO, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• News: Instagram's CEO gives a perplexing excuse for the absence of an Instagram iPad app, Apple updates investors on guidance due to COVID-19, HQ Trivia shuts down, developer claims iOS is adware, Kuo claims Apple AirTags will launch in Q3 of 2020 due to increased ultra-wideband chip production.
• Viewer Feedback: Intermittent habit tracking with Streaks, location tracking on iOS, and a topic suggestion for parental controls.
• Mikah's App Cap: Pocket City
• Leo's App Cap: Signal

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to [email protected].

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Streaming from overseas using a VPN, getting a computer to use facial recognition, blue-screen of death on Macs, removing duplicate photos, using LastPass as a blind user, is ChromeOS secure, and more of your questions!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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This week's stories:

• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears
• China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead.
• RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences?
• China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next?
• Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases?
• Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech!
• Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold?
• Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years
• Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS
• Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home)
• Google's new OS is called... Pigweed?
• Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year
• Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild!
• $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes)
• Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years
• Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge
• Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars
• Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available
• Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA
• Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux!
• Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge
• Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism?
• HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst?
• Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year.
• T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way
• Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson

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The state of iTunes on Windows, is the iPhone more secure than Android? Dr. Mom on what we know and don't know about the Coronavirus, Scott Wilkinson with sad news for lovers of new music on vinyl, learning accessibility features on the iPhone, to recline or not to recline with Johnny Jet, managing bookmarks in Firefox, buying a point and shoot camera, troubleshooting Exchange email on iOS, problems connecting to the Google Play Store and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus fears
• Essential shuttered
• Google head of HR steps down
• The US charges Chinese military officials with hacking Equifax
• Huawei is "definitely spying on us" - US
• Sprint / T-Mobile merger passes another hurdle
• All the ways Coronavirus is affecting tech
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: the first great foldable, or the next big flop?
• FTC investigates Google acquisitions
• German Man's proposal shows up on Google Maps
• Epic Twitter thread: Amazon ships the wrong box, over and over
• Nest requires 2-factor for all accounts to satisfy California IoT law
• Facebook's Twitter account gets hacked
• Should Clearview AI be allowed to scrape your face?
• Wacom tablets track the applications you open - moral panic or privacy violation?
• Is Spotify going to destroy podcasting?
• Google files OS trademark "Pigweed"
• Google adblocker bans non-skippable preroll ads
• Google bans 3rd-Party cookies
• Bill Gates doesn't buy a hydrogen yacht
• Fill out the TWiT Survey!: twit.to/survey20

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Justine Haupt's Rotary Cellphone
• Ant's Good Stuff: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story on Netflix
• Stacey's Thing 1: Tweet Cute
• Stacey's Thing 2: Slay
• Jeff's Number 1: Google finds 6 needs states in search
• Jeff's Number 2: Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA for $165 million

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

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

MWC 2020 cancelled, Windows 10X Revealed

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

For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/659

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• Twitter, Google, and Facebook tell Clearview AI to stop stealing your face to catch crooks
• The NIST is testing methods to recover data from smashed smartphones
• Whoa! We get to REMAIN with Security Essentials under Windows 7!
• Microsoft drops a fix for the wallpaper stretch black screen
• Windows 7 users are being told: "You don't have permission to shut down this computer."
• Win10 Firefox users being "reminded" about Edge
• Last week Google closed an Android RCE flaw in the BlueTooth daemon.
• Data Exfiltration Technique of the Week
• CIA Uses Crypto AG to spy on the world
• Chrome 80 appeared last week with its implementation of the updated handling of the optional "SameSite" enforcement cookie property

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-753-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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

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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This Week's Stories:

• Taika Waititi blasts MacBook keyboard at the 2020 Oscars
• Samsung Galaxy S20 announcement - that's a lot of megapixels
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a laptop in your pocket
• Are all premium phones going to cost $1000+ from now on?
• Is Mobile World Congress 2020 doomed? Coronavirus fears may shutter this year's show
• Foxconn closed for Coronavirus - iPhone production delays
• Apple adds universal purchase for iOS and macOS apps - buy an iPhone app, get a Mac app for free!
• macOS kernel extensions (KEXTs) out, security in
• Catalina is breaking Mac apps left and right
• Apple joins FIDO alliance
• France fines Apple 55 minutes of revenue for slowing down iPhones
• You can now find your iPhone with your Android phone
• CIA used Crypto AG to spy on the world
• Apple Watch sells more than all Swiss watches put together
• T-Mobile Sprint merger clears final hurdle

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: How to turn off Netflix Autoplay Previews
• Andy's Pick: Sony NW-A55 Walkman
• Rene's Pick: Swift Playgrounds for Mac
• Lory's Pick: Locke & Key on Netflix
• Alex's Pick: Kabaq Augmented Reality food
• Alex's Pick #2: 090 Media

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

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