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• A near-Universal (Local) Linux Elevation of Privilege vulnerability
• TechCrunch informed AT&T of a 5 year old data breach
• Signal to get very useful cloud backups
• Telegram to allow restricted incoming
• HP exits Russia ahead of schedule
• Advertisers are heavier users of Ad Blockers than average Americans!
• The Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
• Canonical fights malicious Ubuntu store apps
• Spinrite update
• A Cautionary Tale

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Does Apple need help with its approach to immersive videos? During its production, Jon Stewart was not allowed to interview the FCC chairwoman, Lina Kahn, on its Apple TV+ show. And, Apple sues a former employee for leaking the iPhone Journal app to the media.

• Apple's Immersive Video problem.
• MLB for visionOS strikes out on Opening Day.
• PSA: The MLB app doesn't work on the Mac anymore.
• MLB tvOS app adds Multiview, and it's a winner.
• Spatial Personas launching on Vision Pro today.
• Vision Pro engineers moved to folding iPhone project; delayed to 2027.
• Here's what Apple retail's new machine to update iPhones in the box looks like.
• Jon Stewart interviews Lina Kahn, says Apple wouldn't let him.
• The AltStore, an alternative app store coming to the EU, will offer Patreon-backed apps.
• Apple sues former employee for leaking iPhone's Journal app and more.

Picks of the Week:

• Alex's Pick: SmallRig
• Jason's Pick: Baseball Savant
• Andy's Pick: Torchy Blane in Panama

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

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Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

• 20 years of Gmail
• Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
• An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
• EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
• Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times
• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
• Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project
• Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024
• Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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Leo Laporte shows off another one of his recent Instagram purchases. Can you send out text messages similarly to a BCC email? Gmail turns 20! Plus, Scott Wilkinson joins the show to talk with Leo and Mikah Sargent about physical media and how often one wants to watch older movies.

• An accidental discovery of a backdoor likely prevented thousands of infections.
• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
• What is My Ping Tag?
• Can I text multiple people on an iPhone to function similarly to a BCC email?
• With the changing landscape of broadcast television, a caller wants to know if Leo and MIkah think that traditional TV is dying.
• Scott Wilkinson and March 2024's Home Theater of the Month.
• 20 years of Gmail.
• How long can I continue to safely use an older version of an app on my phone?
• Is there a way to backup photos without using a laptop?
• With the discontinuation of Echo Connect, is there a similar service or process to announce phone calls and allow calls to be initiated by voice?
• What hard drives should I get when purchasing a Synology NAS?
• What's a good Linux OS to install on an older computer?
• Why are certain shows on my YouTube TV recordings quieter than others?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
• Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
• Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network
• Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
• AI news that's fit to print
• How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting
• Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America
• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
• BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access
• Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
• Collective AI' expected to resemble Star Trek's Borg — only nicer (hopefully)
• Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
• Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff
• Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better
• Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
• Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google
• Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
• Intercept sues OpenAI not on copyright but on DMCA
• Google Chat rolling out voice messages for Workspace
• Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some
• Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert
• General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
• Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
• ELON MUSK FOUGHT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE — WHILE PROFITING OFF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
• MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
• [Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL
• Shine by Sunshine on the App Store
• Good by David Kaye on the risks of internet regulation
• Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts
• Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists' Voices From AI Impersonation
• Apple's Journal app
• The fish doorbell
• 'Beyond our wildest dreams': How the Forward removed its paywall – and generated 37% more revenue
  New Google NY office has foot-washing station
• Sign o' the Times: Brooklyn apartment building to include podcast studio

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity.

Windows

• Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc.
• Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April.
• Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft.
• Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft.
• Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too.
• Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How?
• Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows.
• Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform.

Surface

• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6.
• For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based.
• Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors.
• It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.)
• This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None.
• Why is that? One word: Momentum.

AI

• In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company
• Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is
• Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities
• Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May
• Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the US

Xbox

• It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow.
• Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better.
• Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming.

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows.
• App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2
• Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free.
• RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards.
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Apple vs U.S. DOJ
• G.M.'s Unbelievably Horrible Driver Data Sharing Ends
• Super Sushi Samurai
• Apple has effectively abandoned HomeKit Secure Routers
• The forthcoming ".INTERNAL" TLD
• The United Nations vs AI.
• Telegram now blocked throughout Spain
• Vancouver Pwn2Own 2024
• China warns of incoming hacks
• Annual Tax Season Phishing Deluge
• SpinRite update
• Authentication without a phone
• Are Passkeys quantum safe?
• GoFetch: The Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chips

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In this week's episode, the gang discusses the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, the upcoming WWDC 2024 in June, Apple's chip vulnerability, and Tim Cook's goodwill tour in China. The panel also shares their thoughts on NAB 2024, Nikon's acquisition of RED, Canva's purchase of Affinity, and a recent auction of vintage Apple memorabilia.

• US Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general sue Apple for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act, alleging that Apple maintains an unlawful monopoly. The panel breaks down the DOJ's 88-page complaint, discussing its merits, challenges, and potential outcomes
• Apple announces the dates for WWDC 2024 (June 10-14), with the panel speculating on potential AI announcements and updates to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
• Mark Gurman's reports on the delay of new iPads due to software issues
• An unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips that can leak secret encryption keys, with the panel discussing its implications and mitigations
• EU announces investigations into Apple, Meta, and Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act, focusing on the App Store and restrictions on developers
• Nikon acquires RED Digital Cinema, with Alex Lindsay providing insight into the camera industry and the potential impact of the acquisition
• Canva acquires Serif, the makers of Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, raising questions about the future of the Affinity suite
• Tim Cook's visit to China to announce a new Shanghai store and meet with developers and companies, as well as his commitment to launch the Vision Pro headset in China by the end of the year
• Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia fetch high prices at auction, including a signed business card and a handwritten check

Picks of the Week:

• Andy: STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces - a two-part documentary about the comedian's life and career, premiering on Apple TV+ on March 29th
• Jason: HomeControl Menu for HomeKit - a Mac menu bar app that allows users to control their home devices without opening the Home app
• Alex: Nuphy Air96 - a mechanical keyboard which offers a great typing experience and customization options
  

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• U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
• Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
• Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
• In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
• Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
• Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver
• Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu

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Leo Laporte has returned from his vacation! What's the best way for guests to easily connect to your in-home WiFi network? How important is it to own your modem and router? What does your ISP see when using an encrypted DNS server? Plus, Dick DeBartolo stops by to share some of his favorite gadgets, as usual!

• United States sues Apple.
• 'Even stronger' than imagined: DOJ's sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise.
• The antitrust case against Apple.
• How can I set up a NFC chip to allow guests to connect to my WiFi network? Should I use another method instead?
• What website builders do Mikah and Leo recommend nowadays?
• Dick Debartolo and the ASUS Zenbook Duo and Fingerlings Bird!
• How do I set up a YubiKey & tie it to my Windows login?
• How important is it to own your modem or router with whichever ISP I may have? What's the difference when using a fiber connection?
• What's happening with my OTP Auth when Face ID doesn't work when trying to access it?
• Why aren't my AirPods not connecting to my Apple TV?
• What does "#21#" do when I enter it on my phone?
• A friend of the network calls in...
• What can my ISP see when browsing the internet through an encrypted DNS server?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Dick DeBartolo

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