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I'm the co-founder and an active maintainer of Prometheus. Before joining SoundCloud in 2012 as an infrastructure engineer, I worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google in the production offline storage team (basically, backing up the internet to tape) from 2009 to 2012. Some time before that,…

Samsung to hit the reset button on the Galaxy S6 with "Project Zero," government requests up 24% since 2013 for Facebook, OnBeep's Onyx wearable lets you talk with friends similarly to the Star Trek communicator, Apple Watch rumored to come out February 14th, Spotify royalty payments are greater…

Privacy regulators in the European Union agreed to a new set of guidelines that would apply the EU's "Right to be Forgotten" censorship to all versions of Google worldwide. The rules would apply to other search engines as well. They also called for censoring the search engine company's own…

With iOS 8.0.2 update Apple lets HealthKit apps back into the App Store, Apple says they will release an OSX update to fix the Shellshock bug, Google said to be pressuring partners to include more apps, BlackBerry sells 200K Passport smartphones, more trouble for ride-sharing companies, an investor…

The Ashley Madison hack reveals they were involved in some hacking of their own, HTC's next phone looks way too much like the iPhone, a Dutch artist shows us the invisible world of WiFi, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's episode.

iOS 9 is officially available to download today, A 14-year-year old aspiring engineer arrested for a homemade clock, IT executives and scientists ponder what tech advances there will be by 2025, Porsche reveals an all-electric sports concept, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's…

This week, we'll be discussing LeEco's US entrance, the new BlackBerry DTEK 60, a look at the final version of the LG V20, the ZTE Axon 7 Mini, Xiaomi's bezel-less concept phone called the Mi Mix, and Big Android BBQ's walk into the sunset.Read our show notes here.

Some GWX (Get Windows X) news updates, a Windows 10 market share snapshot, hysteria over Windows 10 disk encryption, Google issues critical updates for recent Android versions, ransomware goes multi-platform with JavaScript, the next IoT Wi-Fi standard is ratified, smartwatch side-channel attacks,…

Java is finally leaving the browser, Google's February Nexus Android update, the ongoing encryption debate, and Steve talks about how to set up a secure network for all your devices with no less than three dumb routers.We invite you to read our show notes.GRC.com: NAT Router Security Solutions

I work in the online advertising industry. My job allows me to really take part in new and emerging technology (gaming, mobile devices, Google, Facebook) as well as be in the front lines in a lot of recent debates (online privacy, online vs TV vs print, etc.). It's an interesting position where I'm…

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone show you how you can record your own voice on the Waze navigation app from Google, so you're the one giving turn by turn navigation. Stay tuned to download Leo's voice for your Waze app or share your own voice so we can hear you while we're driving around town.Full…

Convert your records to MP3s with iConvert USB Turntable.For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Apple Watch pre-order sales numbers, Google is close to making Android Wear work with iPhones, Many Apple Stores are not carrying Retina MacBook stock on launch day, Apple releases iOS 8.3 with new emojis, wireless CarPlay, and a UI fix for the space bar, Apple previews a revamped Music app for iOS…

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…

On All About Android, Jason Howell and Matteo Doni discuss recent changes at Google that hint at the company taking its tablet efforts more seriously again... but is it too little, too late?#Android #Tablet #Pixel

iOS 17 to support app sideloading to comply with European regulationsGhostToken opens Google accounts to permanent infectionOver half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn't been wipedIT companions instead of managersConsumers are fed up with passwords, according to 1Password…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk burns Apple by saying that's where Tesla employee rejects go to work, a new web site is so distracting that you may never work again, SwiftKey launches an artificial intelligence keyboard, and more...Check out the full show notes for this episode here.

Tom Wheeler of the FCC goes after set-top network operators, Dell owns RSA and EMC, Rob Fuller of R5 Industries opens locked Windows/Macs with a small device, Google acquires Apigee for $625 million, AT&T finds a way to not provide cheap internet to poor people, thousands of Wells Fargo…

Source code published for unpatched iPhone exploitsGoogle finds new way to sneak malware past detection toolsWhat Facebook's latest apology reveals about its security and safetyShould manufacturers update their software forever?The Microsoft Airband Initiative wants to increase broadband…

Google’s entire lineup of new hardware devices leaked by Droid Life all in one day. The for-profit online education program Udacity is now offering new nanodegrees in the study of self-driving cars and flying cars. CNBC released a new report saying that Sprint and T-Mobile might be near an…

01:27 What a big tech breakup would look like, according to David McCabe from Axios.13:53 Foursquare is everywhere, whether you have the app or not, says Paris Martineau from Wired.27:42 Tom Merritt from Daily Tech News Show talks about how to solve all the problems of the Internet.43:24 What does…

Megan Morrone speaks with Jessica Powell, Google's former VP of Communications and author of The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional But Essentially True Silicon Valley Story. They discuss how she came about to writing this satirical novel about tech, becoming Medium's first print book, the…

The Internet is Doomed: BlueKeep Attacks Windows Remote Desktop ProtocolGoogle Stores Unhashed G Suite PasswordsSandbox Escaper Drops FIVE New Zero-Day ExploitsMicrosoft's Just-released Win10 Feature Update 1903Security Enhancements in Firefox's Release 67We invite you to read our show notes at…

Cyber Monday was Amazon's biggest day ever, but Jeff Bezos still lost his $100 Billion dollar crown. Apple fixes an ugly macOS security flaw, but then immediately breaks the fix. Google finally figures out how to make hamburgers and beer. Uber is still incredibly crooked. Bitcoin clears $10,000…

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…

8K UHD TVs at CES 2019 with Home Theater Geek Scott Wilkinson, restoring deleted data off an iPhone, issues texting with Google Voice, update breaks Android Auto, Chrome OS all-in-one recommendations, Johnny Jet travel tips with LAX Map Alerts and renting pools with Swimply, booting issues on a 15…

This week, we'll be discussing the Stagefright flaw, Motorola's new lineup of devices, the newly announced OnePlus Two, how your phone is tracking every move you make and its a feature, and more.We invite you to check out the full show notes for today's episode here.

Resetting a Mac password when locked out.The various "Office" application options available and which one is the best choice, what will take place of Google Hangouts, how eBay knows what one caller bought on Amazon, verifying if an Apple cinema display is working, has my Facebook account been…

Twitter's big hack, stabilize your camera with a gimbal, soundbars with Scott Wilkinson, the best way to scan text with an iPhone, keeping a domain name, stopping your Amazon Earbuds from overheating, starting an internet radio station, travel updates with Johnny Jet, saving business card data from…

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion talk about the expanded partnership between T-Mobile and Google to put the RCS Universal Profile in play on the network and how that could improve messaging for Android users going forward.Subscribe and watch the full All About…

Leading GitLab through Y-Combinator’s 2015 batch, Sid has since grown GitLab from 9 to 233 team members across 38 countries, and recently closed $20 in Series-C funding led by Google Ventures. A champion of the open source community, Sid is altering conventional wisdom on DevOps practices. GitLab…

SXSW features killer robots and killer barbeque. Alexa's spontaneous laugh makes us afraid of an AI takeover. Amazon wants to take over your checking account. Can blockchain reinvent fintech? Android users more loyal than iOS users. Is AI really all that smart? Apple hires M. Night Shyamalan…

The state of iTunes on Windows, is the iPhone more secure than Android? Dr. Mom on what we know and don't know about the Coronavirus, Scott Wilkinson with sad news for lovers of new music on vinyl, learning accessibility features on the iPhone, to recline or not to recline with Johnny Jet, managing…

Apple releases new 21.5 inch iMac with 4K display, improvements to Apple's standalone keyboard, trackpad, and mouse, interview with the creative team on the making of the new Steve Jobs movie, OS X El Capitan kills root, Apple said to deactivate its News app in China, Porsche chooses Apple…

Picture of the Week.Multiple Exploitable Samsung 0-Days.A good idea for NPM.The TikTok Tick Tock.Google pushes for 90-day TLS certificate life.CHESS is safe.CISA has begun scanning!Flying Trojan Horses.Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-915-Notes.pdf

The Justice Department is stepping up to combat ransomware and cybercrimeGoogle and Salesforce: How companies should use MVSPUpdating your service address a few feet delays Starlink ordersHackers are breaking into networks today for more data tomorrowQuestions to ask to help reduce risk and…

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone tell you how to use facial recognition in Apple Photos, Shutterfly, and Google Photos to find all the photos of your mom and her children to easily make musical slideshows, photo books, and more with just a few clicks. Then share them via Messages, Facebook, or email…

DeepMind learns to be aggressive as it gets smarter. Verizon reintroduces unlimited data. Leo reviews the Samsung Chromebook Plus. Amazon releases a Skype competitor called Chime. Space X will launch over 4,000 satellites to cover the world in broadband internet. Google Fiber is back. Bill Gates is…

Scott Johnson from Frogpants Network joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss Google's effort to tackle trolls on the Internet. GoPro shows off their new lineup of cameras and drones, but they aren't cheap. Lyft envisions a post-car ownership world for 2025. Samsung rushed the Galaxy Note 7…

Federal privacy complaint for Google's program to track shoppers, Roomba CEO says they won't sell maps of users' homes... or will they?  Where does your car's collected data go?  Anonymous browsing data can be exposed, what happens when the internet knows you're pregnant, read the…

Apple Watch pre-orders sell out, the new Apple MacBook and Samsung Galaxy S6 are released, critical security flaw in OS X 10.10.3 gets patched, Twitter is pushing for celebs to stop using Meerkat, Hillary Clinton hires Google executive to be CTO, how the Russians might have hacked the White House,…

Can Google Compete with ChatGPT?Rising 'Firebrick Ostrich' BEC Group Launches Industrial-Scale CyberattacksiOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura 13.2 add hardware security key supportMIT Engineers Invent Vertically Stacked MicroLEDs With Highest-Ever Pixel DensityAppliance makers sad that 50% of customers won…

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte. Jeff Jarvis, and Joan Donovan discussed "the slap" from the 2022 Oscars ceremony and the impact it had on Twitter when it happened.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/657#Twitter @Oscars #TheSlap

Yahoo rolled out a new alternative to passwords they're calling an Account Key, a real paper plane with a motor and a camera can be controlled in virtual reality, we'll show you the English town that's putting WiFi into the sidewalks, and more...Full show notes for this episode can be found here.

Fico and TransUnion are using algorithms that profile you based on what you post on Facebook, Tesla cars get closer to being able to drive themselves, a real hoverboard ships next week, Pokemon is about to escape into the real world, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's episode.

The Light L16 has 16 lenses focusing light into each of its own individual sensors, a new app from a cool game company gamifies stress relief, a new app from Adobe 'photoshops' unsightly tourists out of your pictures so you don't have to, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's episode.

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell take the TWiT stage at NAB 2016 one last time to tackle Google's anti-trust charge in the EU and how that could dramatically affect it's business model, a third party is bringing Amazon's Alexa to its smartwatch, the big tech companies weigh in on the encryption bill…

Live from the stage in Las Vegas for NAB 2016, Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss how Yahoo is getting frisky with Verizon and the Yellow Pages. Siri goes rogue by revealing the date of Apple's upcoming WWDC developers conference. A drone may have collided with an airplane, and air safety is…

For some of us making meals can be a difficult chore that ultimately leads to a bland dish that doesn't tantalize the taste buds like it should. Thankfully, there is an assortment of apps that will help you learn new recipes, and if you go out to dinner but aren't too sure what's on the menu. Now…

This is the 49th MacBreak Weekly, Which wasstarted almost a year ago.Leo turned off on the comments last week. Leo's friendly reminder... don't use the comments to pre-judge the content of the show.Is Andy Inhatko Fake Steve Jobs .Why isn't the iPhone software updated? Turns out Apple wants to…