Total Leo (Video)

• Ransomware in Florida and elsewhere
• The "Going Dark" anti-encryption debate
• A BlueKeep Proof of Concept demo produced by the guys at SophosLabs
• Massive publicly-exposed databases
• Chinese IoT manufacturer logs a million+ customer devices into a 2+ billion record publicly-exposed database
• The dilemma we have with the utter lack of oversight and control over our own IoT devices

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-721-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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• Jony Ive Leaves Apple
• Tim Cook vs The Wall Street Journal
• Jony Ive and Apple's Greatest Design Mistakes
• What We Want from Jony Ive's Design Studio
• Hopes for the Post-Ive Era
• Apple Moves Mac Pro Production from Texas to China
• MacBook Air Logic Board Failures
• OpenID Foundation Wants Apple to Fix Sign In with Apple
• Apple Kills Back to My Mac
• Six Kinds of Malware Hit Mac in June
• The iPhone Turns 12
• iPhone 11 will look just like the Pixel 4
• Apple News+ is Failing Publishers
• Apple TV Will Not Be Netflix
• 60 Million Apple Music Subscribers

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

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We welcome Mikah Sargent to the TWiT family as co-host for iOS Today and other TWiT shows. Leo and Mikah share their favorite writing apps like Scrivener and Ulysses and discuss Jony Ive leaving Apple, Apple Music surpassing 60 million subscribers, and how Apple News+ is underperforming. For their App Caps, Mikah picks wallpaper-finding apps Background and Wallpaper Wizard 2, and Leo shows off Spike, which simplifies your email's inbox into the chatting experience of a messaging app.

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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This Week's Stories

• The iPhone turns 12 today
• Jony Ive is leaving Apple
• Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
• Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
• Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
• Another city just got hacked!
• Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
• Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
• It looks like Huawei is back in business
• White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
• Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
• Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
• A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
• Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
• Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
• Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
• Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
• Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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Secure network & multiple routers, recording video games for YouTube, turning off memory dump in Windows, personal assistant Cortana, what NAS should I buy 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.

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Bluetooth printers, soundbar system supporting Dolby Atmos, WiFi slowing down, Time Machine backup not completing, buying a phone without a plan and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Get ready for Mandroid?

• Microsoft is rumored to be considering enabling Android apps on Windows Lite devices like Centaurus
• This isn't the first time Microsoft's been rumored to adding Android app support

Speaking of Android, Bill Gates says losing out to it was his biggest mistake.

OneDrive

• More storage for subscribers; more paid storage plans for Office 360 users and Personal Vault
• Still no plans to offer consumers the option of buying more than 2TB of storage

'Modern' apps

• Credge: Now available in preview for Windows 7/8/8.1 (canary only) and with a better dark mode as well.
• Related: The Credge version of WebView is not as powerful as the EdgeHTML version
• Windows Terminal is now in preview in the Microsoft Store

Windows 10

• New Fast Ring build today?
• Yet another week with no news about 19H2

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Learn the history of Windows from another perspective
• App pick of the week: Not Chrome
• Enterprise pick of the week: Adobe Document Cloud PDF Experience for Office 365 web app
• Codename pick of the week: Excalibur
• Beer pick of the week: Dogfish Head Slighty Mighty

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

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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This Week's Stories

• Mathew introduces the panel to Media Ecology
• Has the internet made us too distrustful?
• Google's new campaign to teach children to "Be Internet Awesome"
• Professor was 7 words away from being hacked
• Senator pushes for algorithm-free search results
• Just how much is your Facebook and Google data worth?
• Twitter, FB, and Google better watch out, the President is mad!
• Google's message to employees: don't protest us
• Google's mental health initiative
• YouTube is being investigated by the government
• FB might have another agenda for Libra
• What happened to Cloudflare this week?
• Who wants to live in a very smart town?
• Is there a difference between a platform and a publisher?
• Guess who's buying up NYC real estate?

Picks of the Week

Jeff's Pick: Google reviewer sued for $500K

Stacey's Pick: OXO Salad Dressing Shaker

Mathew's Story: Twitter Lists

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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

• Update on the Linux TCP SACK Kernel panic
• Hackers exploit a Firefox flaw and attack Coinbase
• Google corrects a flaw with Nestcam
• An elegant solution to OpenSSH key theft via Rowhammer attacks
• Update on the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability
• Verizon's negligence caused a major Cloudflare and Amazon customer outage
• NASA was infected by an APT for more than a year
• Should you pay ransomware?
• Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser Update
• The state of the commercial Bug Bounty Business

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-720-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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* Apple's latest OS beta has been released
* The iPad and improved productivity
* SideCar turns your iPad into a second screen
* Alex's thought on the MacPro
* Apple is considering moving a percentage of production out of China
* Apple is partnering with Best Buy
* Guess who is the 4th largest gaming company in the world?
* Apple has 47% share in the premium smartphone market
* More details on the Apple credit card
* Now you can use your iPhone to sync your Apple TV
* Hackers use macOS Gatekeeper to exploit adware company
* New features for the Apple watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Lory Gil

Guest: Alex Lindsay

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