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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk to Leo's mom about how she uses the Echo Show and the Echo Dot to set timers, listen to music, and remind her where she left her keys.Full episode at twit.tv/ios/373

Apple Watch to launch in the Spring, after Chinese New Year, Starwood Hotels begins rollout of iPhone/Apple Watch virtual room keys, Trent Reznor discusses his new role at Apple, the Beats acquisition, and U2's free album, Apple Asks PCalc Developer to Remove iOS 8 Widget, Christian Bale Exits…

Razer has revealed their Razer Blade Pro, a 17.3-inch laptop powered by the GeForce GTX 1080. It's being called a "Desktop in your laptop" by the company. It also has individually backlit keys for a colorful aesthetic.Full episode available at twit.tv/twich/386

Chezmoi helps you manage your personal configuration files across multiple machines. It's flexible, personal and secure, robust, and fast and easy to use. It has particularly strong support for security, allowing you to manage secrets (e.g. passwords, access tokens, and private keys) securely and…

Becoming a ham instructor with Gordo, a tour of the Begali Keys factory in Italy with Jim Marra N5HZ, Amateur Radio Newsline with Don, Space Weather News with Dr. Tamitha Skov, Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club 2019 Swapfest with Dan N9LVS, part 2 of the Battleship Iowa Radio Tech Tour, your questions…

Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout discuss the newly revealed MacBook Pro and its Touch Bar piece that replaces the function keys for more versatility. The laptop comes in 13-inch and 15-inch models.Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twich/387

Megan Morrone and Stephen Hackett from Relay FM discuss the Kingston Bolt drive for storing extra photos and videos. Great for backup or when you fill up your hard drive on your iPhone or iPad. It comes with a rubber case to clip onto your keys.Full episode at twit.tv/ios/361

Lost your keys, or a loved one? Try the Loc8tor Plus.For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWizBiz.com. Bandwidth for the Daily Giz Wiz is provided by AOL Radio

The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins. He is a well-respected developer and popular speaker at industry and Jenkins community events.The principles behind…

Comcast merger with Time Warner is dead in the water, Microsoft's Cloud March Continues, The Netherland's National High Tech Crime Unit snagged a large cache of keys, Pwnie Express has a solution for Stingrays, Dell goes after Cisco in the Data Center, Google goes "Google Fiber" on Wireless…

Leo Laporte reviews the Brydge Pro Keyboard. Cheaper than Apple's Smart Keyboard Folio, this wireless Bluetooth keyboard for the 2018 iPad Pro 11" and 12.9" blurs the line between MacBook and iPad with a hinge design and features backlit keys, 180-degree viewing angles, and 20-hour charge.Buy the…

Rick Hasen from University of California Irvine School of Law joins Denise Howell, Matt Curtis, and Mike Keys to talk about election law as it pertains to hacking elections both in the physical equipment we use to vote and manipulating the voters themselves. Rick just authored a book on…

The CIA has been trying to break Apple security for years, according to an investigative piece on The Intercept. The agency reportedly hired researchers to conduct a "multi-year, sustained effort," as the publication called it, to crack the security keys used to encrypt data on Apple iPhones and…

Brian X. Chen from The New York Times explains to Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Megan Morrone how to protect your data, smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets while traveling internationally. You can’t provide access to your data if you don’t hold the keys, Chen says.Full episode can be seen at twit…

Ron Richards joins Jason Howell to discuss Apple's new MacBook Pro lineup that includes the much-rumored Touch Bar in place of the function keys. Apple also announced a new app for Apple TV and iOS called TV that aims to unify content from more than 1600 content services. Amazon's record-breaking…

The self-inflating Key Buoy from Davis Instruments ends the nightmare of keys dropped overboard. About $7.For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWizBiz.com. Bandwidth for the Daily Giz Wiz is provided by AOL Radio

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for security. Now, Steve Gibson is here. He is raring to go. We're gonna talk about pass keys and what…

Borrowing Wi-Fi is a crime, Dell arrives at Wal-Mart, and Norton crashes Chinese PCs....A Symantec update has quarantined 2 critical files in the Chinese version of Windows which has bricked some machines.Male partial nudity is the cause of a delay in the impending Halo 2 PC launch.A Michigan man…

Samsung announces the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus to start out Mobile World Congress, Apple is storing iCloud recovery keys in China, troubleshooting Windows 7 shut down problems, how to back up a Linux machine in the cloud, updating a phone when there's not enough storage space left, protecting your car…

Samsung announces 2 new phones as Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. iCloud keys are stored in China. All 150 new emojis for 2018 revealed. Nokia's newest phone is a nod to The Matrix. GDPR and H.R. 1865 and their implications. Intel knew about flaws in chips but didn't mention it…

This week, we examine ROCA's easily factorable public keys, the surprising prevalence of web-based cryptocurrency mining, some interesting work in iOS password dialog spoofing, Google's Advanced Protection Program, some good "Loopback" comments from our listeners... and then we take a close look at…

Dealing with multiple cloud backup services, using technology to assist with disabilities, downloading Google Play Store apps onto an Amazon Fire Tablet, where to find a MacBook that still has function keys, what TV to buy, using older applications with macOS High Sierra, Scott Wilkinson talks…

Jeff Bezos' phone hackedRansomware attacks are targeting oil and gas operations on the OT sideLondon to Deploy Facial RecognitionThere's a pesky MacOS threat that just won't go awayAmazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them in MinutesDigital taxation at the…

Is the girl on wall street a derivative work of the bull? Join Mike Keys, Denise Howell, Evan Brown, and Matthew Curtis discuss the latest developments in technology law. What does it take to file for a declaratory judgment? Does the taking of wireless data violate the wire act?  How to exit…

CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys.With CryptPad, you can make quick collaborative documents for taking notes…

AMD announces laptop versions of Ryzen CPU w/ Radeon Vega graphics and claim they have "world's fastest processor for ultrathin notebooks." Is that claim legit? We discuss in the podcast! Meanwhile, NVIDIA's made the GTX 1070 Ti official, it's still impossible to buy a Vega 56 anywhere near…

Apple ships the new MacBook - will you pay $150 more for black paint? I did.Creative is trying to put the iPod out of business - suing over patent rightsThe Brits are proposing that people who encrypt files be legally forced to turn over the keys. If they manage this can the US be far behind?

Apple rumored to release 3 new iPhones this year: one big, one cheap, and all three gold. Updated AirPods will be waterproof, have hands-free Siri. Apple launches AC Wellness medical plan for employees. Chinese government takes the keys to iCloud accounts in China. Google cloud takes American…

Leo and I catch up with another packed week of security news, including an update on mobile ransomware, the successful extraction of Android's full disk encryption (FDE) master keys, Google's Tavis Ormandy finds horrific flaws in all Symantec traffic analyzing software, a Brazilian judge is at it…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for security. Now, Steve Gibson is here. Some final thoughts about pass keys and the potential problem…

Internet Speeds From SpaceX’s StarlinkCyberattacks on healthcare organizations during a pandemicThe first rechargeable zinc-air batteryDocker and AWS credentials are getting stolen by a crypto mining botnetNissan Source Code LeakedTwo CentOS ReplacementsGoogle Titan 2FA keys can be clonedDry Ice is…

From the Gadget Warehouse: The Missing ButtonAudible picks of the day: Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life, Unabridged, By Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang, Narrated by Suzanne Toren. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com…

Mikah Sargent takes a first look at the Brydge Pro+ Keyboard. Cheaper than Apple's Magic Keyboard, this wireless Bluetooth keyboard for the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro 11" and 12.9" blurs the line between MacBook and iPad with a hinge design and features an oversized multi-touch trackpad, adjustable…

Two feature pack/upgrades are on the roadmap for 2017 (RS2 and RS3), Redstone 2 test builds starting up again soon, Microsoft is not renaming Windows 10 Mobile to Windows 10 for phones, Placeholder support for OneDrive, Windows 10 rollback period cut, a number of posts claiming Win 10 Anniversary…

Another great show, this week we cover the Fish shell and a retro terminal emulator to run it in, the latest emulator news, and Upscayl for image upscaling on Linux. Debian is voting on their firmware future, Dell is Shipping Ubuntu again, and there's a new RICV-V board that hits a performance and…

Want to learn some powerful Mac keyboard shortcuts and how to create your own?Last week we spent some time in the Keyboard system preference pane, but you may have noticed many more features in there. Let's explore.Keyboard → Modifier KeysText - abbreviations and completionsShortcuts - macOS comes…

Five years later, Heartbleed is still unpatchedTrickbot operators have a new business: Selling Trickbot3D printing can keep aging Air Force aircraft flyingApple is suing former employee for stealing chip designsRetail cyberattacks could go up by 20% this holiday seasonGoogle Chrome now…

Security researcher warns of problems as many root certificates expire Honda breaks down due to ransomwareThe plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling againKnoxville shuts down parts of its network after being hit by ransomwareMobile Banking Means Mobile Theft for…

Leo Laporte's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 514 is the GPG Suite 2016.07, which is the first stable release for OS 10.11 El Capitan. This free and open source suite contains everything you'll need to communicate securely and encrypting files.After installing the suite, you'll have new options…

BBC Launches new Tor Website to thwart censorship attempts40% of Security Pros Job Hunting as Satisfaction DropsRepublicans storm ultra-secure “SCIF,” some with cell phones blazingUS Department of Homeland Security has become embroiled in the leakA new security vision outlined at Gartner SYMposium…

Galaxy customization continues on an even deeper level.Samsung Good Lock is customization to deep that there's too much to fit into a single episode. Jason Howell dives into the Family portion of the app to discuss a number of other wholistic ways that Samsung devices can be customized.Keys Cafe…

We take a first look at the Acer Aspire VX 15.* 15.6" 1920 x 1080 Semi-matte screen (IPS)* 7th Gen Intel Core i5-7300HQ (2.5Ghz up to 3.5Ghz)* 8GB of Dual-Channel DDR4 (ipgradable to 32GB)* NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti w/4GB GDDR5 (Optimus... so it only turns on when an application needs a GPU)*…

Tonya Engst’s pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 577 is The Running Buddy Pouch, so you can carry your phone while you’re on a run. It uses magnets to attach to clothing so it doesn’t require a belt or an armband, and won’t bounce while running. It has a water-resistant inner pocket and side…

Your next Pixel phone might also be your car keysAnnouncing the Android Ready SE AllianceT-Mobile is betting big on Google’s Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and moreGoogle's Android 12 preview lands another updateXiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phoneXiaomi’s new…

Rene Ritchie's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 526 is NOISE. This app utilizes the new taptic engine in iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, making it a great way to test its capabilities. NOISE app simulates playing an instrument, and as you move your fingers across it, the tapic engine will produce a …

Google’s Waymo is suing Uber's Otto for stealing 14,000 of its confidential secrets. Google says it has forensic evidence proving that Anthony Levandowski downloaded the cache of files mere weeks before his resignation that preceded his co-founding of Otto.Web performance and security company…

iOS, watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS Updates Apple's Universal Control feature for Mac and iPad delayed until Spring 2022 iOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3, iPadOS 15.2, tvOS 15.2 is here Apple updates macOS Monterey with SharePlay, MagSafe charging fix, and more Apple patches Log4Shell iCloud…

Rene Ritchie's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 594 is the August Smart Lock Pro. This lock installs inside of your door, so you don't need to change the lock, and you can use your existing keys anytime. It's compatible with Apple's HomeKit, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant.The August Smart…

Rosemary and Mikah unbox Apple's latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro and the new-and-improved Siri Remote. What should you do with your old Siri Remote? Try Better Touch Tool for Mac!NewsApple announces new background sounds, Apple Watch AssistiveTouch, and eye-tracking accessibility featuresApple…

Jason Howell and Ron Richards discuss the Washington Post's experiment that found that Facebook's Trending Topics is posing fake news as real news at a high rate. Apple is aiming to recover its business in China, and announced a new research and development center that it's building in Shenzhen to…