Total Leo (Video)

Speeding up an old iPhone, an all-in-one password manager, and VPN solution, is buying a used Tesla a good deal? Optimizing your app, stopping robocalls, video doorbells, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories

• Android 10 arrives for Pixel phones
• YouTube pays $170 Million to settle child privacy complaints
• Google secretly gives your personal data to advertisers using cookie syncing
• Ad tech will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Half of all state Attorneys General probing Google
• Social Media #ChickenSandwichWars wipe out US chicken supplies
• Google Sidewalk Labs teams up with Ontario teachers to finance infrastructure projects
• USB 4 - a standard, or a "standard"?
• XKCD.com hacked!
• Are filter bubbles real, and does Google abuse them? (No and no)
• Facebook tests hiding likes
• Dorian tweets
• Are Chromebooks dying too young?
• Jack hacked! Hitgirl too! Twitter responds by killing SMS tweeting.
• Gmail can now warn co-workers not to send you email while you're on vacation

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: YourThings from Georgia Tech and UNC
• Jeff's Numbers: Project Jaquard's $877 Backpack Strap, and $70 off Facebook Portal

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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The Internet-centric Windows that could have been...

• Heading into 1997, Microsoft planned to replace Windows with an Internet platform that would be open and cross-platform. What happened? And what might the world have been like if it hadn't switched back to a Windows-based strategy?

IFA News

• Anything interesting coming out of IFA so far? Acer and Razer
• Other hardware stuff: USB4 = USB-C + Thunderbolt 3, as expected, and HoloLens 2 could go on sale starting this month

Windows 10

• New 20H1 build adds promised cloud-reset option, new tablet mode
• 19H2: Still an undecipherable mess. But RTMing "soon" - if only we could test it
• Microsoft has released ISOs for Insiders for 19H2 and 20H1 this week
• Windows 10 1903 users: Beware of a CPU spike introduced by an optional Cumulative Update last week
• Related: Microsoft confirms no more Flash in Chredge towards the end of 2020

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: It's that time of the month again. Microsoft details Xbox Game Pass and Games with Gold titles for console and PC
• App pick of the week: Firefox 69
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft starts posting Ignite sessions
• Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: VMWare and Microsoft make nice
• Beer pick of the week: Jack's Abby S'mores

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

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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

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This Week's Stories:

• Google expands its bug bounty program
• New bug bounty millionaires
• Google's Project Zero group dropped a bomb on iOS
• Ransomware attacks on local governments and businesses are on the rise

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-730-Notes.pdf

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

• iMessage Apps & Games worth checking out: GamePigeon, Moji Bowling, Bitmoji, Ditty, GIPHY, JibJab, and Trash Doves.
• News: Apple's event will take place on Tuesday, September 10; how much titanium you'll find in the Apple Card, Apple isn't getting rid of iMessage games, the Apple Watch will probably get sleep tracking features, and Apple is working on a Tile competitor.
• Viewer Feedback: More color on Apple's WiFi and GPS location database and syncing your iOS notes via email accounts.
• Leo's App Cap: OXENFREE
• Mikah's App Cap: Forest

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Today's Stories:

• Apple Event September 10th Preview: what does the candy-colored Invitation mean?
• Apple Event September 10th Preview: hints of a Tile- like bluetooth tracker with AR functionality
• Apple Event September 10th Preview: Features iOS 13 WON'T Have
• Apple Event September 10th Preview: Apple Watch 5 to get sleep tracking
• Apple Event September 10th Preview: Apple Watch to get Schooltime mode
• Apple Event September 10th Preview: Apple AR Glasses hints in iOS 13
• Apple offers free fix for Apple Watch battery issues
• Siri privacy issues: finding the usefulness/privacy balance
• Airlines ban MacBooks from checked luggage, but don't worry: TSA unbans Disney Star Wars thermal detonator Coke bottles.
• 15% Trump Tariffs hit AirPods, Apple Watch, and HomePod
• Apple TV scraps Bastards
• Apple Pay at 9% adoption rate
• Apple will deprecate scripting languages in the next version of macOS
• Project Zero at Google finds a years-long iOS exploit targeted at Chinese Uyghur Muslims
• Consumer Reports says Galaxy Buds are better than AirPods
• NYC MTA warns commuters not to lose their AirPods
• Apple Card is only 90% titanium
• USB 4 will include Thunderbolt
• Unown Pokemon Go Event ends September 9th

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: Hobonichi Techo
• Andy's Pick: Wikipedia official app for iOS
• Rene's Pick: Switch Lite
• Lory's Pick: Kerf wood Apple Card case

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

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Leo Laporte answers Scott's question: I have had my current Google account since Gmail was in beta. I want to get a new account that has a more, for lack of a better word, adult name. Problem is that I have my whole life in my Google account. My documents, music, and of course mail. I even have Project Fi attached to it.

Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com

Host: Leo Laporte

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Incorporating a second router for WiFi, protecting your private information online, apps for making music loops, inaccurate GPS, length of WiFi, can you get malware on your backup data and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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• Apple Event September 10th: iPhone. Which phone will be better, iPhone 11 or Pixel 4?
• Apple Event September 10th: Apple Watch. What health features should we expect, and how will they save Christina Warren's life this time?
• Jack Hacked! Twitter CEO's Twitter account hacked by white supremacists. (Again.) Can Twitter ever be properly secured? (No.) Will someone hack Trump's account next? (Maybe they already have, we just don't know it.)
• Trump proposes tracking US citizens with Fitbits to prevent mass shootings.
• Reddit detectives figure out which satellite Trump uses to track Iranian space launch facilities after he tweets a picture of one.
• 15% tariffs on Apple Watch, AirPods and HomePod start today! Apple vows to move all production back to America immediately. Just kidding - they're moving to Vietnam. So is Google Pixel. Coming soon: Iraqi-made Microsoft Surface Pro and Afghani HP laptops!
• Project Zero at Google discovered a very interesting iPhone hack that went on for years. China used those hacks to target Uyghur Muslim Chinese citizens.
• Black Hat attendees infected with a real-life virus: Measles!
• Google doubles down on third-party trackers, arguing that eliminating them will break the web. Why this is a big fat lie.
• Microsoft Surface event coming October 2nd. Greg Ferro wants to know why Windows still sucks.
• Apple turns 180 degrees, allows 3rd-party repairs.
• Microsoft gives ExFat to Linux. Can we please have NTFS next?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren and Greg Ferro

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Why can't I log into Windows? What not to do when you get suspicious messages on Facebook, what is using up data on my phone? Finding the right VPN, Windows 1903 update issues, the best digital picture frame, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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