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This week's stories

• Microsoft surprises us all with the two-screen Surface Duo phone
• Apple's Deep Fusion poised to trump Google's Pixel 4 announcement
• More than 500 ransomware attacks on US schools so far in 2019
• More red flags than a Chinese parade: WeWork's failed IPO
• Apple loves freedom - except in China
• US, UK, and Australian governments vs encryption
• Lexy Savvides's Memoji secrets
• Tim Cook can woo Trump all he wants, but Apple still has to pay 25% tariffs
• CNET folds the Samsung Galaxy Fold until it breaks
• Why did Windows Phone fail? Iain Thomson: "It was a thousand cuts of stupidity."
• Microsoft's new Surface line is aimed straight at Apple
• Will there be an October Apple event? All signs point to yes.
• Google Seattle makes a literal product graveyard
• Levis' Jacquard jean jackets
• PayPal backs out of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
• Facebook vs Elizabeth Warren
• Facebook says it's ok for political ads to lie
• Twitter says it's ok for Trump to advocate civil war
• Should Zuckerberg step down? Would that change anything?
• Elon Musk's new Starship and its competition
• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned about Tesla's Smart Summon feature
• Hundreds of millions of "Words with Friends" accounts hacked
• Japan turns off pagers after 50 years of honorable service

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Iain Thomson, and Lexy Savvides

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Choosing to upgrade to a new MacBook Pro, unclogging an inkjet printer, does Samsung have an LTE Smart Watch?, alternative for iTunes, creating a slideshow of your photos, monitoring text messages and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Microsoft's Surface announcements this week, Chromebook vs. a cheap Windows laptop, is it safe to run in administrator in Windows? Repairing a TIVO, what to expect when using a VPN, troubleshooting Apple Watch complications, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Everyone agrees that the current state of online authentication is a mess. Passwords are complicated, hard to remember, and often easy to hack. Leo Laporte leads a panel of security experts discussing the future of authentication. What comes after passwords, and can we even get rid of them? How important is multi-factor authentication, and what are some of the risks? How can advances in biometrics help with authentication? In a post-quantum supremacy world, is encryption still safe? How can a new authentication system called SQRL help solve this mess?

Host: Leo Laporte

Co-Hosts: William "Ches" Cheswick, Gerald Beuchelt, and Steve Gibson

Guest: John Bennett

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Microsoft Fall 2019 Event

• Our description of the event, setting the stage from inside the 'tent'
• Paul is pumped!
• Everything was leaked before the event, okay, not all of it

Microsoft rolls out a bunch of Surfii (Surfaces?)

• New Surface Pro 7
• ARM-based Surface ProX
• 2 new Surface Laptop 3 models, a 13" and a 15"
• Is the new Surface Laptop 3 15" lappable? Let's ask MJF, the queen of lappability. Is it Thunderboltable? Let's ask PBT, the king of Thunderboltabilty
• Everything will ship later this month

The new Surface kids on the block

• Surface Neo: Microsoft's long-rumored "Centaurus"/Courier 2.0
• Surface Duo: An Android phone
• Both coming Holiday 2020

Other Surface stuff

• Surface Earbuds: $249! They look like saucers
• New Surface Slim Pen
• New magnetic keyboard without a trackpad for the Surface Neo

Windows 10X

• What is this thing and where did it come from?
• Related (sort of): Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is here

Other stuff

• Windows 10 version 1903 is now broadly available
• New titles for October in Xbox Game Pass for Console

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

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This Week's Stories

• The latest state-of-the-art secure solutions for cross-device, cross-location device synchronization
• Mozilla's recently announced plans to gradually and carefully bring DNS-over-HTTPS to all Firefox users in the US
• The EFF weighs in on DNS-over-HTTPS
• The 100% free VPN offering coming from our friends at Cloudflare

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-734-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories

• iPhone 11 Deep Fusion now available in beta - here's how it works!
• Checkm8 is an unstoppable boot rom hack for iPhone 4s- iPhone X, but not a full jailbreak - yet
• OMGCable lightning cable works like any other cable, with the added bonus of hacking you via Wi-Fi!
• Andy Ihnatko's amazing iPhone 11 photos
• iPhone 11 settings to get the best possible photos
• iPhone 11 Pro vs DSLR: which takes the best pictures?
• Apple releases iOS 13.1.2 to fix what iOS13.1.1 couldn't
• iOS 13 bug lets 3rd party keyboards send data to the internet without authorization
• Apple sued for Memoji trademark
• Apple to release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
• Apple will have to pay 25% tariff on Mac Pro Parts
• (Possible) Apple October Event preview
• Apple Arcade on Apple TV is a whole different experience
• Our favorite Apple Watch 5 bands
• Apple Watch 5 battery life not diminished by always-on display
• Apple Watch teardown finds bigger battery
• Apple Wins UN Climate Award
• Siri and Spotify make up and integrate

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: Untitled Goose Game
• Rene's Pick: Neuralcam
• Lory's Pick: Celebrate Spooktober with horror movies on sale in iTunes!

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

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

• Track yourself with these apps and accessories: Beautyrest Sleeptracker, Pillow, Cardiogram, Apple Watch, Oura Ring, Motiv Ring.
• News: Apple releases back-to-back updates to iOS 13, Halide gets a huge update for iPhone 11, Spotify will soon support Siri, and Call of Duty: Mobile is here.
• Viewer Feedback: Getting dark mode to work on iOS 13, submitting feedback to Apple, using "When App Opens ..." Siri Shortcuts, and automated routines with Siri Shortcuts.
• Leo's App Cap: Mario Kart Tour OR Sonic Racing
• Mikah's App Cap: Astound - Voice & Speech Coach

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo Laporte answers Ruchie's question about dealing with a phishing email holding her online passwords ransom for Bitcoin.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories

• What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event
• Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo
• Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you
• Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for?
• Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little nervous
• Do we really trust all these voice assistants?
• Amazon is throwing Alexa spaghetti at the wall
• Google wins major Right to Be Forgotten ruling
• Amazon Sidewalk is Amazon's proprietary mesh network for pet tracking and more - will they sell it to the police? Will this and Amazon's Ring Neighbors app lead to a police state?
• Amazon pushes voice agent interoperability - Cortana jumps at the chance, Siri and Google Assistant play coy
• Checkm8 is an unstoppable jailbreak that works on any iPhone from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone X
• Apple will release AppleTV+ movies in theaters as Oscar bait
• Mac Pro to be made in Texas
• Google will stop showing news snippets in France
• QuestLove is moving from Pandora. Is Pandora dead? What is the state of the streaming music world?
• Snapchat's 'Project Voldemort' tracks all the ways Facebook steals from them
• Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment so congress will know what they are talking about on tech
• Listen to TWiT's new show Smart Tech Today starting Monday, October 7th!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Mikah Sargent, and Caroline Haskins

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