Total Leo (Audio)

• Picture of the Week.
• Another Malicious Chrome Extension.
• Germany to join the Huawei & ZTE ban.
• Putting "phishing" into perspective.
• The Polynonce attack.
• Plex's RCE now in CISA's KEV.
• Sci-Fi: Andor.
• Sony Sues Quad9.

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-914-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Apple Music Classical app launching March 28.
• Tim Cook bets on Apple's mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy.
• To ship or not to ship, headset edition.
• First real-world look at Apple Mixed-Reality Headset parts seemingly shown in leaked images.
• Apple shareholders approve 40% pay cut for CEO Tim Cook at annual meeting.
• Why are so many Apple executives leaving? Who are successors at Apple?
• You can buy your next iPhone from Apple over a video call.
• Apple could reportedly release a HomePod with a display.
• Report: Apple to 're-examine' AI development.
• Apple TV+ wins Academy Award for best animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.
• Story of Sosumi & the Mac startup sound.

Picks of the Week

• Jason's Pick: Marvel Snap
• Andy's Picks: Swish & Rectangle
• Zac's Picks: The Cure Tour, Fleishman Is In Trouble, Tiny Crossword+, and 9to5 Mac Happy Hour

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Zac Hall

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Silicon Valley Bank collapse, FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, Apple headset

• Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank.
• Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.
• FDIC to Silicon Valley Bank workers. We'll give you a 50% raise or double-time OT, but you'll lose your job in 45 days.
• U.S. officials weigh protecting all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.
• Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers.
• Meta to end Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 becomes law.
• Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC.
• Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook Ordered Headset Launch Despite Designers Warning It Wasn't Ready.
• Daylight savings time change 2023 starts Sunday with "spring forward".
• Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle
• The privacy loophole in your doorbell.
• YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.
• Apple Music Classical app launching March 28.
• Chat with Jason Calacanis (post credits)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Reed Albergotti, Glenn Fleishman, and Jason Calacanis

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• Daylight Saving Time has begun!
• Silicon Valley Bank collapses: what this could mean.
• Why can't I broadcast MLS through Apple TV on my TV?
• Should I be using an ethernet connection with my Apple TV?
• Bill Nye on the importance of space exploration.
• What's wrong with the trackpad on my laptop?
• Dr. Mom calls into the show!
• What are the latest and greatest WiFi-6 Mesh system options?
• What are some alternatives to Google Photos to de-Google?
• Leo demos the new Rode NT1 and talks about 32-bit float recording.
• What options are there for a virtual audio mixer?
• Is there a better way to improve the speed when searching for something in Windows?
• Is there a speed improvement when plugging in a solid-state drive to a Raspberry Pi?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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• Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
• FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names.
• Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher.
• YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.
• Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle.
• 'Slavery was wrong' and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore.
• Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10.
• Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.
• How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply.
• The privacy loophole in your doorbell.
• Rest of World receives a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers.
• Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit, which is a big mistake.
• Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor to register with the state.
• Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, and software liability reform.
• A New 'M*A*S*H' Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J.
• 20% of YCombinator classes are built on machine learning.
• ChatGPT enters slack; the machine plays office politics.
• Prepare for the Textpocalypse by Matthew Kirschenbaum.
• Farewell to a tech brand of which I'll always be proud. Vox Media is "retiring the Recode branding" today.
• CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
• March 2023 Pixel Feature Drop changelog leaks out.
• Google rolling out Android 14 Developer Preview 2.
• Blurry subway photos may offer our latest Pixel Fold leak.
• Here's everything new in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 [Gallery].
• Google begins rolling out its new look for Docs and other Workspace apps.
• Google One brings VPN to $1.99/month plan, adding dark web info monitoring.
• Pixel Buds Pro spatial audio with head tracking update rolling out.
• Android 15's dessert is apparently 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.
• Google launches the new Google Trends portal.
• Google Chrome is making it easier to delete autofill data.

Picks:

• Stacey - COVID
• Leo - Opal C1
• Leo - Camo
• Jeff - The New Gatekeepers by Benedict Evans.
• Ant - Peak Design TRAVEL BACKPACK 45L.
• Ant - FINALLY coming to "TV". Silo series based on books by Hugh Howey.

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

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Microsoft adds Windows 12 to the Insider Program

• Last week's feature release shows you how these Insider channels map to the next release, which is sometimes a Moment now and not just a formal Feature Update. Don't worry. They didn't tell anyone that.
• Canary - big changes that need lots of incubation time (e.g. kernel changes), no release target
• Dev - changes that need incubation, no release target
• Beta- testing changes targeting the next release
• Release preview - testing changes that are slated to ship imminently in the next release barring any major explosions (e.g. printers)
• Stable - nothing works
• First Canary build today: Access keys and File Recommendations in File Explorer, LSA Protection Enablement on upgrade.
• Dev channel: This channel is "rebooted" to 23000 series now, per above. This build has live captions in more languages, access keys in the File Explorer context menus (another Win11 regression),  Recommendations in File Explorer, and other changes.
• Dev channel (last week): Microsoft is working on a new volume mixer.

Windows 11

• Microsoft is bringing "video super resolution" to Microsoft Edge
• We're still not done with PC maker results: Dell goes down in Q4 too

AI

• Satya Nadella, marketing AI, now says that Cortana was "dumb as a rock." Come on.
• Microsoft to talk up AI in work next week
• Microsoft talks up AI in Microsoft 365 - this will never end now
• Microsoft brings more AI to devs at Azure Open Source Day
• Brave Search adds an AI-powered Summarizer
• DuckDuckGo adds a similar Answer feature

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Outlook is now free on the Mac

Xbox

• EU likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Told you so?
• Halo Infinite Season 3 is live. Can it save this game?
• Halo players have created over one million maps with Forge Beta
• Microsoft announces new titles for Xbox Game Pass
• Starfield arrives in September

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Don't be a statistic
• App pick of the week: Start11
• RunAs this Week: FIDO2 and Passwordless with Kyle Kotowick
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Craigellachie Bas Armagnac Cask Finish 13

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Picture of the Week.
• DDoS'ing Fosstodon.
• DDoS for Hire takedowns.
• TikTok Insanity.
• Illegal Warrantless Surveillance.
• Strategic Objective 3.3.
• GitHub Secret Scanning.
• CISA's Covert Red-Team.
• What's left?
• What's old is new again.
• TCG TPM vulnerabilities.
• WordPress "All In One SEO".
• Russia fines Wikipedia.
• A Fowl Incident.

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-913-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Apple releases new watch bands! So your new yellow iPhone won't clash!
• Hello, yellow! Apple introduces new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
• Redesigned Outlook for Mac no longer requires Microsoft 365, rebuilt and optimized for Apple Silicon.
• Cabel Sasser: "A short story. We once submitted Untitled Good Game to the Mac App Store."
• First look at Google Chrome's Blink engine running on an iPhone.
• EU holds "stakeholder workshop" on compliance with new DMA standards; Spotify calls for two key changes in how Apple runs the App Store.
• Sonos speakers will support Apple Music spatial audio starting March 28th.
• When is Apple releasing new Mac Pro, 15-inch MacBook Air, New iMac, M3?
• Apple may kick off M3 launch with 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air by WWDC, OLED iPad with M3 coming next year.
• Rumors clash over new MacBook Air release date.
• Apple releases 600 MB beta firmware update for Apple Studio Display.
• Someone turned the iPhone alarm into a beautiful piano score and you need to hear it.

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Pick: T-Mobile offers customers a year of MLS on AppleTV+
• Jason's Pick: Zones - Time Zone Conversion
• Andy's Pick: Playdate March Updates!
• Alex's Pick: Izotope

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry

• Bing Chat has a secret 'Celebrity' mode to impersonate celebrities.
• @emollick: Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.
• CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
• Father Robert defines the Singularity.
• LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach.
• Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say.
• Amazon Illegally Fired NYC Union Organizer, Labor Board Says.
• 50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World.
• Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer.
• Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, software liability reform.
• Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state.
• U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
• White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren

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• Twitter cut off its API access, and developers of apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific are offering specific options to help them out.
• A new iMac is coming out soon?
• Why can't I access my files from the Google Takeout service? Is there another service I can use to access my Google data?
• Is there an iOS shortcut for this?
• The Father of Modern Genomics, Dr. George Church.
• Lucid dreaming & headphones you can wear to sleep.
• Is there an easy way to move contacts over to Fastmail?
• Ant Pruitt & moving from Windows to Mac.
• Is it worth setting up IoT devices on its own network?
• Does Apple send out a notification to your old iPhone when your device reaches its end of life?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Ant Pruitt

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