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Doug MacMillan is a corporate accountability reporter for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 2019 after covering technology companies from the San Francisco bureaus of the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News for nearly 10 years. His reporting has uncovered abuses by corporate actors of…

Mark Spoonhauer from Tom’s Guide shares his thoughts on the iPhone X after five days of use. Lucy Rohr from The Economist has found success bringing its content to the Snapchat audience in unique ways. Roger Cheng has been following the Senate hearing into election interference by the Russians and…

Picture of the Week.Atlassian's "Confluence" under attack.LS-Anvil.Google delays Chrome's cookie phase-out again.Attacker responding to loss of Office Macros.SpinRite.Closing The Loop.RIP: Nichelle Nichols."The Dropout" on Hulu and "WeCrashed" on AppleTV+.Winamp releases new version after four…

USB attacks, weighing cloud vs. on-prem, and data science with Anaconda.2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojanMillions of routers and IoT devices at risk as malware source code surfaces on GitHubBadUSB - Are you prepared to defend against a USB attack?Microsoft…

Broadcom is acquiring VMware, Industry 4.0 and smart factory security, MFA deep dive, and more.Broadcom is acquiring VMware for over 61BBig cyber hits on GM, Chicago public schools, & Zola showcase the password problemInterpol's massive 'Operation Delilah' nabs BEC bigwigResearchers urge China…

Picture of the Week.Patch Flashback Tuesday.Facebook is cautiously creeping toward default E2E encryption.VNC's inherent insecurity.The need to control domain names.And speaking of backup: Cyotek WebCopy.Google's Ryan Sleevi Retweeted Jens Axboe.SandSara Update from Ed Cano.Closing The Loop…

Father Robert Ballecer:  On this episode of Know How, Brian is going to show you some Linux magic then I’m going to make these LED’s dance.  Dance my dear boy, dance! Net Casts you love, from people you trust.  This is Twit.  Bandwidth for Know How is brought to you by…

Battery life, Google editing, LeWeb'08, and a look back at 2008.Links to all our stories are at http://delicious.com/twit/173.Audible wishes you Happy Holidays with a free audiobook about Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited at Audible.com/twit33 through Dec. 31, 2008. And for three audiobooks of your…

Google's QUIC internet standard now an actual standardBusinesses that have data breaches pay higher loan interest ratesCharter charges more for slower internet on streets where they have no competitionFreakOut malware upgrades to vulnerable VMware serversWays CIOs can help companies reduce their…

Picture of the weekBrowser NewsThe attacks on Google Chrome continue.Firefox special-cases anti-tracking for "Login With" functions.Security NewsiOS WiFi SSID bugWe still can't awaken from the "PrintNightmare"It's not a bug, it's a feature!Patch Tuesday ReviewUpdate Acrobat and ReaderRolling your…

Apple's WWDC this week looks like it may be a disappointment for anyone hoping for new hardware.Facebook is killing its "Trending Topics" section.Teens prefer Instagram and Snapchat to Facebook; close to half are "almost constantly" online.The Atari VCS is coming soon for expensive retro gaming…

Apple slowly rebuilds Maps with their own data - without sacrificing your pirivacy.Who is reading your email? And, more importantly, who is writing sensationalist headlines about it?iOS 12 and macOS Mojave betas: they are called "beta" for a reason, folks.Is the Mac line withering away?Apple's…

On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent:Apps for travel and finding your way around: Google Maps, Waze, GasBuddy, MAPS.ME, Zillow, and Citymapper.News: The ESA's Luca Parmitano streams a live DJ set from space, new Apple Watches may come with titanium and ceramic cases, Apple…

Last week's doozy of a patch Tuesday for both Microsoft and AdobeAn interesting twist coming to Windows 7 and Server 2008 security updates Eight mining apps pulled from the Windows StoreAnother positive security initiative from GoogleElectric scooters being hackedChipping away at Tor's privacy…

- (01:29) Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica spent a week with the Valve Index VR system, and it's really impressive.- (14:22) Twitter is a little late to cracking down on extremism, but Joseph Cox from Vice says they are considering deplatforming offenders.- (28:53) The Washington Post's Geoffrey…

Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage. His clients…

1:28 What's it like to be a 10 year old on a modern day smartphone? Katie Notopoulos from Buzzfeed set herself up to see for herself.14:44 Blockchain technology promises to help change how journalism is delivered. Manoush Zomorodi talks about her new podcast business that's built on the blockchain…

What role did Facebook play in the French riots?Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails.Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at.And then there were 5: Google tries to make…

Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.The internet is a garbage fire of hate.It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott…

Bruce Schneier talks about how security has become too dangerous and too important for companies to address on their own, and that regulation is the answer.The Google Pixel 3 XL has been torn down by the iFixit team, and CEO Kyle Wiens says that things aren't looking good from a repairability…

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard Apple's argument about why a class action lawsuit against their monopoly App Store should not be allowed to proceed. How could this affect iOS security?Google and Mozilla are looking to remove support for FTP from their browsers.From our “what could possibly go…

Update your Chrome browser, are over the air updates for cars safe? Why CBS will not broadcast the Superbowl in 4K this year with Scott Wilkinson, troubleshooting HDCP errors on a Roku, controlling audio in Google Meet for online learning, do I need 2 factor authentication if I use a fingerprint to…

Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook take action to limit President Donald Trump's access to his social media accounts and Rebecca Black stars in a dark comedy about a rogue digital assistant.Dave Gershgorn of Medium's OneZero publication stops by to talk about Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook's response…

This week we discuss AMD's release of their long-awaited Spectre variant 2 microcode patches, the end of Telegram messenger in Russia, the on-time arrival of Drupalgeddon2, Firefox and TLS v1.3, the new and widespread UPnProxy attacks, Microsoft's reversal on no longer providing Windows security…

The Google Pixel 4a is a solid mid-range device with a proven camera that takes high quality shots easily. The Samsung Note 20 Ultra is about as premium as devices get with a stoked array of lenses and the ability to shoot like a DSLR. Jason Howell escapes the confines of his home to hit the town…

Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad marketDHS partners with industry to offer cybersecurity aidFeds can’t ask Google for every phone in a 100-meter radius, court saysEFF on the Digital Services Act: Put Users in ControlMost IoT hardware easy to crackiOS 13.7 launches with…

Androids Earthquake Alert system is put to the test.Android 11 comes to Android TV... Slowly.How printing on Android 11 works now.Google Pixel 5 is now fully leaked ahead of the event.OnePlus 8T is beginning to leak too ahead of its event.(see a theme?)Sony's Xperia 5 II is announced and it's…

This Week's Stories:- L1D Eviction Sampling becomes “CacheOut”- Only one final version of Windows?- Windows 7 and the Free Software Foundation- Windows 7's final patch broke wallpaper stretching- RCE Exploit for Windows RDP Gateway Demoed by Researcher- Google more than doubles its own bug bounty…

iOS VPN bug, Coronavirus Folding@HomeVPN bug in iOS 13.4Folding@Home - how to donate your unused CPU cycles to help provide answers to COVID-19.RDP and VPN use skyrocketingTo 'www' or not to 'www'Firefox 76 to finally stop assuming “HTTP”Google again revises its schedule for Chrome…

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…

Netflix consumes 15% of the world's global internet trafficMagecart Group 4 linked to Cobalt Group in new researchLTE-M: 4G for the Internet of ThingsDutch police take down a hosting provider to stop DDoS botnetsMillions more embedded devices contain vulnerable IPnet softwareISPs vs. Google on…

Amazon and Cisco are working with Lockheed Martin to outfit NASA’s Orion spacecraft with AI and videoconferencingA Note from the DNS Cop...Google Docs comments weaponized in a new phishing campaignNew Mac malware samples underscore a growing threatRethinking cybersecurity jobs as a vocation instead…

Rich Siegel & his experience with the Apple App Store over the years.Microsoft finds macOS bug that lets malware bypass security checks.Apple continues to test new ‘Rapid Security Response’ updates, this time for macOS users.Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL.When will Apple…

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare, a service that combines social networks, location awareness and game mechanics to encourage people explore the world around them. Previously, Dennis founded Dodgeball, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in…

Samsung stops production of the Galaxy Note 7 after packing it with "so much innovation it became uncontrollable." Verizon wants a discount on its Yahoo purchase after the largest hack in history and possibly the most intrusive government surveillance program. Amazon Music Unlimited, released today…

Leo Laporte and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss Microsoft's new Surface Laptop and why so many people were fooled by the Google Doc scam. Then, they test drive the new virtual reality environment, Facebook Spaces. UL Labs certifies everything from door locks to toys. Nathan paid a visit to their…

Google vs. Microsoft, Vista security, Xbox failure, and the Dell rebound...This week's Audible Book: Thomas Harris's Hannibal Rising. Get your free audio book by visiting audible.com/windows.Check out Paul's Blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com…

This week, Leo and Steve discuss the "CloudBleed" adventure, another project zero 90-day timer expires for Microsoft, this week's IoT head-shaker, a New York airport exposes critical server data for a year, another danger created by inline third party TLS-intercepting "middleboxes", more judicial…

In this week's episode:We welcome our 1000th subscriber (in under one week) and give him a BitHead headphone amp from the great folks at HeadRoom as a way of saying thanks.Take a look at spyware for kidsDiscuss a significant exploit on Mac OS X TigerGive you the lowdown on WiMaxCheer the demise of…

Apple Computer is in a lot of heat for their iPod workers' living conditions. However, Apple is going to launch an investigation of the FoxConn factories.Google has said that they are not listening to what you are doing online.Apple's in trouble with Scandanavia for their iTunes user license…

Is Kazakhstan's new encryption law a preview of future U.S. policy?  FBI chief asks tech companies to stop offering end-to-end encryption, 13 million MacKeeper user's data exposed, Cloudflare, Facebook and others compromise on SHA-1 sunsetting, Google to deprecate one of Symantec's root…

Tonight, we talk about a new lawsuit that says Facebook's opt-out auto-tagging feature is a violation of our biometric privacy. If you want to devote your life to curing disease, the Oculus division of Facebook is apparently not the place to do it. Mary Lou Jepson, formerly of Google, is now…

Tonight we explore Uber's foray into self-driving cars. The ride-hailing company has confirmed that it's testing its self-driving Ford Fusion on the streets of Pittsburgh. The test car from Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center is a hybrid and will be collecting mapping data while it puts self…

Tonight we discuss Peter Kafka's article on Re/Code about how apps are over. Nobody told Apple that, because today SVP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller told the Verge about some big changes to the app store revenue model. We also talk search results and early cancer detection, a new network for…

Jeff Jarvis is the author of the upcoming book The Gutenberg Parenthesis as well as What Would Google Do? and Public Parts. He has blogged at Buzzmachine.com about media, technology, and life's irritations since 2001. Jarvis directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City…

Stacey Higginbotham's pick of the week on This Week in Google 368 is the new Philips Hue Motion Sensor. It also has an integrated daylight sensor to help save energy. This will simply turn on your Hue lights automatically when it detects motion and turn them off when motion is no longer detected…

This week we discuss clever malware hiding its social media communications, the NSA documents the Russian election hacking two-factor authentication bypass, meanwhile, other Russian attackers leverage Google's own infrastructure to hide their spoofing, Tavis finds more problems in Microsoft's anti…

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the new announcement of the Android One Mi A1. The aim of Android One program was to put quality, affordable phones in the hands of more people in developing countries. The program's been dormant for a while, but it lives on with the Mi A1, the first…

Picture of the Week.The Russians are coming.Ukrainian “Cyber Unit Technologies” is paying for attacks on Russia.StarLink in Ukraine.Russia blocks access to Facebook, Twitter, foreign news outlets.Google has become proactive.Namecheap says "no more".Telegram's use explodes.Microsoft also shuts down…

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns June 5.Apple mixed-reality headset may not appear at WWDC as mass production pushed back yet again.Apple was wrong on AR, says Tim Cook; Steve taught him to admit it.Gurman: watchOS 10 to bring ‘notable changes’ to Apple Watch user interface.GM plans…