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• Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
• What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
• Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
• My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
• Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
• Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
• Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
• An Apple -vs- the UK update.
• "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?)
• The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.
• When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages.
• Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit.
• Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1021-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
• Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
• Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'
• 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial
• Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters
• Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief
• Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
• Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from
• June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns
• The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do
• Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
• Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
• Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
• Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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• Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
• Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
• France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.
• Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?
• Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?
• Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?
• AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects.
• No Microsoft Account? No Microsoft Windows 11.
• Gmail claims it now offers E2EE. It kinda sorta does. Somewhat.
• A dreaded CVSS 10.0 was discovered in Apache Parquet.
• A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
• What's Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and why must all certificate authorities now do it?

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
• Trump delays TikTok ban again
• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
• China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot
• Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
• Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
• With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider
• Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

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Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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• Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.
• A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.
• Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.
• Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?
• Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
• A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?
• 23andMe down for the count (reminder).
• A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!
• "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.
• And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf

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Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T

• Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
• Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
• Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
• Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
• Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
• Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
• 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
• As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
• Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
• China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
• Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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• The dangers of doing things you don't understand.
• Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.
• A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.
• A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.
• A 10/10 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.
• Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!
• RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).
• How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? ...and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?
• Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.
• Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don't let them take your genetics with them!
• The White House says "the cyber guys should stay!"
• AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?
• Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
• Apple Can't Beat Spotify
• Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
• Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
• Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
• Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
• Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
• Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
• Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
• Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
• Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
• Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
• Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

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Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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