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eBox, the open-source flexible server administration platform.Our guest is Javier Uruen CTO and lead developer for eBox technologies.TWiT Wiki for this showHere's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge…

Severe security bugs in Nvidia GPU driver and vGPU softwareMITRE adds MacOS, Linux and more data types to ATT&CK frameworkIoT device vulnerabilities keep piling upBackdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29,000 enterprisesWhen no one is in the building, what threats are in…

(01:42) The SMART Act would regulate addictive features in social media, and Emily Birnbaum from The Hill defines what that would mean.(15:07) Andrew Martonik from Android Central talks about Google's Pixel 4 leak strategy, how its working, and whether key features will be enough for consumers.(27…

Apple's most recent v12.1.4 iOS update and the two 0-day vulnerabilities it closedWorrisome new Android image-display vulnerabilityAn interesting "reverse RDP" attackThe new LibreOffice & OpenOffice vulnerabilityMicrosoft's research into the primary source of software vulnerabilitiesMaryJo gets…

Steve drills down to determine the security levels offered by Google Chrome.Audible pick: Orson Scott Card Selects Protector by Larry Niven. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.For 16Kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc…

The internet is in an uproar over supposed throttling issues with Apple's new 2018 i9 MacBook Pro. Is it as big of a deal as everyone is making it?Today Apple released a patch for the issue, and we test it out on air.Google Play Store gets more downloads, less money the App Store.Which is faster,…

On The New Screen Savers show recorded on Saturday, August 4, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone: Leo just got Microsoft's Surface Go and gives his initial impressions of the 10" tablet, its keyboard, pen, and mouse. Megan shows off the new Lenovo Smart Display with Google…

What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday?Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex"Amazon's government controversiesIBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase ever.Linus Torvalds is back!Trump's phone may be hacked by Russia and China.The midterms may be hacked as…

A sneak peek at the Nocturne Pixelbook tabletChrome 69's "forced login" will be optional in Chrome 70Tech giants want federal privacy lawsSplitting the Internet between China and the USInstagram and WhatsApp founders on why they left FacebookBig changes to Google search, Messages, and MapsWhat is a…

Rosemary and Mikah share some of their favorite augmented reality apps for iOS.Awesome AR AppsMeasure, Google Translate, AR Dragon, Playground AR: Physics Sandbox, IKEA PlaceNewsSteam Link Launches on macOS, Enabling Game Streaming to MacApple Bought the Most AI Companies From 2016 to 2020Apple…

1:59 Ian Sherr from CNET helps round up some of the biggest news from the RSA security conference and checks in on Facebook's progress after last week's Congressional hearing.13:40 Alex Colgan from Leap Motion discusses the idea behind Project North Star, an open source spec to get developers…

Frontier's bankruptcy reveals why big ISPs choose to deny fiber to so much of AmericaHealthcare targeted by more attacks but less sophisticationRaspberry Pi gets high-quality upgradeAttackers exploit a 0-day flaw in the Sophos firewallResearchers find vulnerabilities in popular remote learning plug…

China wants to rebuild the Internet.China's proposal to rebuild the internet is an authoritarian nightmareBruce Schneier on COVID-19 Contact Tracing AppsPolitical Correctness hits cybersecurityDHS's CISA says no to 3rd-party DoH“POWER-SUPPLaY: Leaking Data from Air-Gapped Systems by Turning the…

Who would have thought the pandemic would drive biometrics, cybersecurity in schools comes up short and we talk about how serverless can solve our DevSecOps problems.Pandemic drives innovation in biometric digital door lock marketUsing Adversarial Machine Learning, Researchers Look to Foil Facial…

New Zealand stock exchange halted by cyber-attackChina may be the world's leading cyber powerA Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS serversElon Musk confirms Tesla was the target of a foiled ransomware attackA vulnerability tsunami is overwhelming security teamsThere's a big…

Leo and Mikah show you some apps you can use to teach and learn at home.iOS home schooling help: Minecraft: Education Edition, Desmos Graphing Calculator, WolframAlpha, MarcoPolo World School, edX: Courses by Harvard & MIT, iTunes U, DIY.orgNews: Apple's latest iOS update adds COVID-19 contact…

(02:09) Douglas MacMillan of The Washington Post joins us to explain how and why universities are tracking the activity of prospective students. (18:22) Remember the Pebble smartwatch? iFixit's Kevin Purdy reveals how Rebble.io is breathing new life into the e-ink device. (36:38) Jason…

IT and User Remote Access Roundtable the TWiET hosts talk about best practices, things to watch for and taking advantage of this surge in remote access to fix some of your security problems.Cloudflare Dumps Google's ReCAPTCHA Over Privacy Concerns, CostsCriminals Selling Videoconferencing…

This is a beta episode for TWiT's new gaming show Game On! Most of the intros don't have audio and there were technical problems, but here it is. If you would like to participate with the show join us here:twitgameon.reddit.com@twitgameon+twitgameongame@twit.tvThe first episode will be on…

Apple held its big event in the Steve Jobs theater at the new Cupertino campus and showed off the Apple Watch 3, the Apple TV 4K, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, and the premium iPhone X.Zack Whittacker of Zero Day says the Equifax site many are using to put alerts or freezes on their accounts is…

According to the Intercept, 50 civil liberties and human rights groups have sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding an investigation into the widespread use of facial recognition technology by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. Yahoo and Intel reported earnings today…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Alex Davies, transportation reporter for Wired. We've officially got our jetpacks, but what about our flying cars? They've long been the dream of all kinds of techies from researchers at NASA to Google's Larry Page. But according to a new white paper, Uber has…

This week Steve and Leo discuss how one of the NSA's Vault7 vulnerabilities has gotten loose, a clever hacker removes Microsoft deliberate (and apparently unnecessary) block on Win7/8.1 updates for newer processors, Microsoft refactors multifactor authentication, Google to add native ad-blocking to…

Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson discuss what it really means when the NSA says it's halting collection of Americans' texts and emails, the Cassini Spacecraft crossing through Saturn's rings for the first time, and the new Amazon Echo Look. Then, NASA Astrophysicist C. Alex Young joins to discuss space…

In which we...Touch on SurfaceJobs and Gates make nice at DWhy is iTunes on Vista deleting my tracks?One million Zunes sold? Not!Windows Live games, a real achievementWindows Live wave twoGoogle gets in GearsCheck out Paul's Blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http:/…

Where are the Vista Ultimate Extras?Google vs Microsoft. AgainMass OKs OOXMLXbox 360 LettersThis week's Audible Book: Blood and Smoke, Stephen King. 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:/…

US Senate votes to end ISP privacy regulations. The "Turkish Crime Family" demand $100,000 in iTunes gift cards for iCloud hack. Android O needs a name. Supreme Court hears printer ink patent case. Tesla Model 3 is on the way. Samsung Galaxy S8's big announcement is coming this week. US and UK ban…

Leo Laporte's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 542 is Atlas Recall. This is an app that gives you a visual, searchable index of everything that you see across all of your devices and apps. It works in the background and instantly saves and organizes your content. When you search for something,…

Megan Morrone's app cap on iOS Today 492 is Airtable by Formagrid. This is a database app that is more visually appealing and fun to use. It rivals other traditional spreadsheet apps, but it touts itself as being a more modern way to organize and collaborate on anything.Airtable has a web interface…

Leo Laporte's pick of the week on This Week in Google 365 is the Samsung Gear 360. This is a portable 360 degree camera that can take fully immersive video and images. It can record high resolution 3840x1920 video and take 25.9MP photos. It's equipped with a bright F2.0 lens.The Samsung Gear 360…

The Summer crew covers releases and updates, as well as some new Open Source tools, like DreamWorks' MoonRay renderer. OBS has a new Beta release that supports HDR video, Framework is shipping Motherboard Upgrades, and Vint Cerf is talking about space Internet at Scale. Gitlab decided not to delete…

New HomePod can still stain some wooden surfaces.4chan members allegedly used Eleven Labs to create disturbing audio content in celeb voices.Apple is planning both a foldable screen and a kickstand for the iPad.Apple's Superbowl coverage.New 256GB Mac Mini and 512GB MacBook Pro have slower SSD…

Tonight we talk to Will Oremus about Twitter's deal with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday night football games. What will they stream next? We also discuss WhatsApp end-to-end encryption, how Facebook's object recognition is helping blind users see all those photos in their newsfeed, and PayPal's…

Denise Howell: Hi folks, Denise Howell here, and next up on This Week in Law we’ve got Kevin Thompson, Ron Rychlak and Michael Nelson. We’re going to talk about cyber-gambling, parents’ liability for their children’s social media misdeeds, archiving the web, a Silk Road catch-22, and lots more,…

Foxconn announced that it's investing $10 billion dollars to build an LCD display plant that will bring up to 3,000 jobs to Wisconsin.The Verge reports that a swimming robot called Little Sunfish might have just spotted nuclear fuel that melted six years ago. This could be the first step toward…

Leo Laporte and Jason Snell talk to Jeremy Burge from emojipedia.org about new Emojis, how they are handling diversity, and the top requests for this year. Barney Britton from DPReview joins us to discuss macro photography, and Jason and Leo take pictures of bugs. In 'Call for Help' we answer…

Microsoft-Yahoo, Apple/AT&T and Google Voice, Pogue's beeps, Palm Pre iTunes, and more.Wiki for this episodeTranscript posted 24 hours after show release by PodsInPrint.Story links at http://delicious.com/twit/206. Suggest stories for next week's show by tagging links "for:twit".Audible pick of…

- (01:16) Apple announced new MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, but the old MacBook is going away and that is an opportunity for change according to Raymond Wong from Mashable.- (14:39) Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica talks about the sacrifices that Nintendo made to bring the Switch Lite to release.-…

The large and emerging threat of website credential stuffing attacks.Privacy fallout from our recent coverage of Facebook and GoogleThe uptake rate of recent Windows 10 feature releasesThe source of the A/V troubles with the April patch Tuesday updatesThe NIST's formal fuzzing developmentA massive…

This Week's Stories The US vs Huawei San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Chinese Owners Must Sell Grindr FCC: Carriers Should Block Robocalls Do You Know if Your iPhone has Been Hacked? Big Tech's Problems Are Sociological, Not Psychological - Just Like Game of…

Britney Twitters, Apple's releases, LittleBigPlanet, Google G1 phone, and more.Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/165.Audible pick of the week: Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, Abridged, By Gina Kolata, Narrated…

The Google phone spotted in the wild, Facebook's privacy blunder, and a visit with Leo's mom...For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed Room.Transcript posted 24 hours after show…

 Apple tanks on Tim Cook's earnings warning - is the golden age of iPhone over? Are Facebook and Google too big to Fail? No. Here's why. China and the US duel over security, AI, and quantum computing. Qualcomm vs Apple legal battles heat up. Fortnite and Pokemon Go rake in…

This week we look at additional changes coming from Google's Chromium team, another powerful instance of newer cross-platform malware, the publication of a 0-day exploit after Microsoft missed its deadline, the return of Sabri Haddouche with browser crash attacks, the reasoning behind Matthew Green…

No Surprise - Voting machines are vulnerable to hacks, and they have been hackedThe shift to serverless is realNo, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from bootingNuclear fission rockets - the things dreams are made ofA DoorDash Breach Brings a Side of Exposed Credentials With Your…

Sam Abuelsamid breaks down the common misconceptions of Android Auto and Android AutomotiveGoogle Ventures invested in Nothing which then bought Essential for some reasonA Facebook Watch running Android is in the worksLastPass announced major changes to its free tier and people are angry about…

Ongoing WordPress attack, RCS gets End-to-end encryption.Chrome moves to release 87.Explicit Publication of Privacy Practices.Firefox 83 gets HTTPS-only Mode.Mozilla seeks consultation on implementing DNS-over-HTTPS.The comical announcement strategy of the Egregor Ransomware.Large-scale attacks…

Wubi, the easy and completely safe way to install Linux to dual boot on your Windows machine.Our guest is Agostino Russo, the lead devloper of Wubi.TWiT Wiki for this showHere's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at…

On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, April 7, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson:What if you got an alert before an earthquake hits? The founder of Early Warning Labs talks about their app QuakeAlert. It can give you up to 30 seconds of warning on your smartphone before you…

Is SDWAN worth the BIG upgrade, or will you stay MPLS?Enforce your privacy rights with a single browser tick.Rare firmware Rootkit discovered targeting diplomats and NGOs.SpaceX has launched enough satellites for Starlink's upcoming public beta.Supreme Court takes on Google vs. Oracle.Cyberattacks…