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• Offer to uninstall Recall was a bug, not a feature
• YubiKeys can be cloned
• Miscellany
• Is WhatsApp secure?
• Telegram vs Signal
• French elevators
• Freezing your credit
• The Quiet Canine
• Unix time
• Bobiverse book 5
• Exodus: The Achemedes Engine
• Watching SpinRite
• RAMBO

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-991-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

• The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
• Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator
• Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs
• Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder's arrest
• The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
• FBI busts musician's elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
• PwC tells employees it will use location data to police 'back-to-office' rule
• Apple's planned chatbot should have no 'personality'
• The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly.
• Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
• Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Host: Iain Thomson

Guests: Mike Elgan and Emily Dreibelbis

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• Telegram puts End-to-End Privacy in the Crosshairs
• Free security logging is good for everyone
• CrowdStrike hemorrhaging customers
• Microsoft to meet privately with EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) vendors
• Yelp's Unhappy with Google
• Telegram as the hotbed for DDoSass – DDoS as a Service
• Chrome grows more difficult to exploit
• Cox Media Group's "Active Listening" has apparently not ended
• Cascading Bloom Filter follow-up
• Closing the Loop
• Is Telegram an encrypted app?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-990-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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AnandTech Shuts Down, Brazil Bans X, Alexa Revamp

• Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
• Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App
• Telegram founder Pavel Durov transferred from police custody to court after arrest in France
• Brazil judge orders suspension of Elon Musk's X
• Elon Musk, Tesla (TSLA) Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin 'Pyramid Scheme'
• End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
• Oprah, Sam Altman, and MKBHD walk into a TV show about AI and it's not a joke
• Court orders a new hearing for Adnan Syed in 'Serial' case. Here's what to know
• Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI
• China's AI Engineers Are Secretly Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips
• 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' Review: A Search for a Black Luminary

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Louis Maresca, and Wesley Faulkner

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• CrowdStrike Exec's "Most Epic Fail" Award
• Hardware backdoors discovered in Chinese-made key cards
• Counterfeit CISCO networking gear
• SpinRite
• Errata
• NPD breach updates from listeners
• Looking back at old SN episodes
• Cascading Bloom Filters

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-989-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Pavel Durov Arrested, Hacking Bikes, Apple Event Rumors

• Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
• Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
• Elon Musk to the Rescue
• Tesla purging old blog posts claiming all cars have level 5 automated driving hardware
• National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security
• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster -
• Olympics talk
• Black Myth: Wukong Makes Gaming History in Launch Day Frenzy
• Bicycles Can Be Hacked Now
• American Radio Relay League confirms $1 million ransom payment
• When Is Apple Announcing the iPhone 16? Apple Planning Event on Sept. 10, 2024
• Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Sam Abuelsamid, and Reed Albergotti

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• Revocation Update
• GRC's next experiment
• Patch Tuesday
• "The Famous Computer Café"
• IsBootSecure
• GRC Email
• Working through WiFi Firewalls
• Transferring DNS
• OCSP attestation vs. TLS expiration
• Platform key expiration
• National Public Data

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-988-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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• bitwarden.com/twit
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• Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers
• Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
• The English Premier League Will Ditch Its Hated VAR Offside Tech for a Fleet of iPhones
• Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL: Satellite SOS, Android 14, $999 start price
• Google Team Pixel "reviews" controversy
• DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win - Bloomberg
• Dell announces second massive set of layoffs to employees
• The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here
• News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it
• Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You
• Apple (AAPL) Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics
• Pelosi Statement in Opposition to California Senate Bill 1047
• NVIDIA, OpenAI face YouTube creator lawsuits for using online videos
• xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
• AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink's mobile plan
• Consumers spent $3.8B on mobile entertainment apps in Q1
• Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo
• Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas Deleon, Dan Patterson, and Brian McCullough

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