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Surface Duo Peek, Azure Sphere Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/661 Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT FreshBooks.com/windows

This Week's Security News: More Windows 10 lost profile pain A micropatch for the jscript.dll problem Coming in the next Feature Release (Win10 2004): optional device driver updates A new attack on 4G LTE and 5G Starting today: DoH by default on Firefox A new next-generation WebAssembly sandbox is coming first to Linux and Mac and then to Windows Chrome was just updated to close a 0-day attack Safari will only trust certificates with a validity of 398 days or less Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. 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. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow plextrac.com/twit privacy.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories: JIF vs GIF: The peanut butter weighs in on the pronunciation debate of the ages Let's just get rid of animated GIFs and use animated PNGs instead! COVID-19: Apple moves production to Taiwan, stocks down, but iPad purchases up Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Tech Deep Dive Warren Buffett finally switches from flip phone to iPhone Apple might maybe think about letting you use Chrome on your iPhone Safari requires 13-month HTTPS certificates Apple wants you to secure your router with HomeKit, but only 3 routers use it Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple-designed ARM Macs coming in 2021 COVID-19: Apple asks shareholders to follow CDC coronavirus quarantine measures Steve Jobs would have been 65 yesterday Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy and paste, dies at 74 Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83 Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician dies at 101 How often does your TV set off your HomePod, Echo, Cortana, and Home? Supreme Court: Apple must pay VirnetX $440 million Apple will soon let you text someone your car keys Bob Iger resigns from Disney Picks of the Week: Andy's Pick 1: Agrippina - Metropolitan Opera in HD Andy's Pick 2: Spend Stack Rene's Pick: Sachtler Flowtech 75: the world's fastest tripod legs Lory's Pick: Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition Alex's Pick: Leica BLK360 LIDAR Imaging Laser Scanner Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: matias.ca/MacBreak casper.com/macbreak - promo code MACBREAK

On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent: Using iOS with your family: Family Sharing, Screen Time for Family, purchase sharing, iCloud storage sharing, and Life360. News: The EU wants all phones to use interoperable chargers, iPhone 12 may feature a new short-range WiFi standard, AirTags may charge using an Apple-Watch-style charging puck, a research study aims to detect what causes smart speakers to trigger randomly, Apple and Johnson & Johnson team up for a stroke health study called Heartline, and Jif and Giphy are trying to tell everyone how to pronounce GIF. Viewer Feedback: Audio streaming issues using AirPods and the Apple Watch and location data tracking and sharing on iOS. Mikah's App Cap: Picsew Leo's App Cap: The Criterion Collection Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today. You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv. Sponsors: casper.com/iostoday - promo code: IOSTODAY LastPass.com/twit

Leo Laporte explains how to connect and use TWiT.tv's IRC chat server.IRC Chatroom: http://irc.twit.tv/TWiT's Wiki: https://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/IRC_Chat Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guy Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Long computer boot-up times, preventing Time Machine from backing up everything, updating to Windows 10, the safety of guest accounts on a network, iDrive backing up photos, and more of your calls! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

This Week's Stories: COVID-19 coronavirus causing tech conference chaos Should Apple investors be worried about COVID-19? Samsung Galaxy Z Flip - does it live up to the hype? COVID-19 coronavirus will crash the tech economy for a while Apple iPhone 9 / SE 2 likely for March launch Samsung Galaxy Z Flip factory closed due to COVID-19 Target leaks inventory listings for 'AirPods X Generation,' 'Apple TV Gen X' and 'Apple Watch Series X' bands, and 'Apple iPod Touch X Generation' Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in Star Trek, Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in Back to the Future - deepfakes are getting better EU kills the Lightning port - USB-C is now the law of the land Apple considers letting users set 3rd-party apps as default Apple tries to- ban German book about App Store; book hits #2 on the bestseller list. Get the book at https://amzn.to/2VbRWk2 Trump urges Supreme Court to side with Oracle over Google Bezos to give $10 Billion to fight climate change Twitter bans 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts for "platform manipulation" Trump ads will take over YouTube on Election Day New ransomware scheme - hackers will make Google ban your ads Fortnite streamers demonetized over Rickroll emotes Larry Tesler, the man who invented cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74 Bert Sutherland, who helped develop the ARPANET, dies at 83 Adobe Photoshop turns 30 $400 Hot Wheels RC Tesla Cybertruck Get Dan's novel The Bayern Agenda at https://amzn.to/39ZGKLA Register for LastPass's RSA After Hours in San Francisco! https://bit.ly/2SVjAAm Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lory Gil, Owen JJ Stone, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: zapier.com/TWIT Wasabi.com offer code TWiT twit.cachefly.com LastPass.com/twit

Can you use Windows on a Chromebook? Is there a device that will weigh you and take your blood pressure? Tips for building a gaming PC, SONUS vs an AV receiver for streaming, phishing scams, where to get an old classic amp, how to connect two buildings with WiFI, and more of your calls! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Sponsor: Wasabi.com offer code TWiT

TWiT Audience Survey- ENDS FEBRUARY 19TH!!! It's time for TWiT's annual audience survey and we want to hear from you! It only takes five minutes. Please visit twit.tv/survey and let us know what you think. There's no sign-up form and we don't track you. Your feedback helps us make TWiT even better." This Week's Stories How to fix the Windows 7 "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." error Win10's "One Button PC Reset" fails after KB4524244. And, also... "The new disappearing User Profile problem" (Desktop and all user data) The popular "GDPR Cookie Consent" Wordpress plugin had a critical flaw Whoa! The average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout Microsoft's "ElectionGuard" being used for the first time today! IoT lightbulb vulnerabilities are not such a joke, after all. SweynTooth Vulnerabilities: a set of more than 12 newly discovered vulnerabilities across a wide range of Bluetooth devices, many of which will never be updated, which allow for, among other things, full device compromise. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. 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. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT FreshBooks.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

TWiT Audience Survey- ENDS FEBRUARY 19TH!!! It's time for TWiT's annual audience survey and we want to hear from you! It only takes five minutes. Please visit twit.tv/survey and let us know what you think. There's no sign-up form and we don't track you. Your feedback helps us make TWiT even better. This Week's Stories Get a facemask you can wear without losing FaceID Apple warns of revenue loss due to COVID-19 coronavirus iPhone 9 / iPhone SE2 still on track for late March announcement? Is Apple launching "AirPods Pro Lite" March 31st Will Apple make a foldable iPhone Samsung Galaxy Z Flip competitor? What's the market for an inexpensive iPhone? Related: what are convolution kernels? Where will the next China competitor be? India? Malaysia? BlueMail sues Apple for stealing their features, gets kicked out of the App Store Apple: no push notifications on App Store apps, unless they are for Apple products Is Sign in with Apple a success? Rene Ritchie: what to do if you lose Pokemon Go access due to a job change MalwareBytes: malware threats on Mac increased exponentially last year Jason Snell's sixcolors.com: Malwarebytes is full of crap California court: Apple stores must pay employees for the time spent checking their bags for stolen merchandise The real reason there is no iPad Instagram app Apple Music Replay's new 2020 Replay playlist is still in beta Sonic The Hedgehog movie redesign pays off: best video game movie opening weekend haul in history Picks of the Week Andy's Pick: Lego Lunar Lander Rene's Pick: Cairo Throw Lory's Pick: Logitech StreamCam Alex's Pick: LumaFusion Alex's Pick 2: TheMcDubbys on Tik Tok Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsor: HealthIQ.com/macbreak

On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent: Augmented reality: Smash Tanks, Giphy World, Sky Guide, IKEA Place, ARia, Target, Pokémon GO, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite News: Instagram's CEO gives a perplexing excuse for the absence of an Instagram iPad app, Apple updates investors on guidance due to COVID-19, HQ Trivia shuts down, developer claims iOS is adware, Kuo claims Apple AirTags will launch in Q3 of 2020 due to increased ultra-wideband chip production. Viewer Feedback: Intermittent habit tracking with Streaks, location tracking on iOS, and a topic suggestion for parental controls. Mikah's App Cap: Pocket City Leo's App Cap: Signal Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today. You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv. Sponsor: casper.com/iostoday - promo code: IOSTODAY

Streaming from overseas using a VPN, getting a computer to use facial recognition, blue-screen of death on Macs, removing duplicate photos, using LastPass as a blind user, is ChromeOS secure, and more of your questions! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit expressvpn.com/techguy

This week's stories: Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fears China virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead. RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences? China's response to COVID-19 includes increased surveillance and the "Close Contact" app. Is America next? Focals by North AR glasses could be the answer to COVID-19. Are we ready for AR+databases? Check out TWiT's review of Focals on Hands-On Tech! Apple stores and factories closed in China. Apple was expected to announce an iPhone SE replacement this spring - will it be put on hold? Samsung Z Flip Review - the most transformative new smartphone in years Windows 10X - Microsoft's first try at a 32bit-free OS and a two-screen device OS Windows 10X on a MacBook - it can be done! (But don't try it at home) Google's new OS is called... Pigweed? Windows 10X coming to dual-screen laptops and tablets by the end of the year Microsoft Duo caught on video in the wild! $1000+ flagship phones are now the norm. Are they worth it? (Yes) Cloud-based computing will become the norm in the next 5 years Amazon sues the US government over JEDI contract given to Microsoft; JEDI put on hold by a federal judge Taika Waititi blasts the crappy MacBook keyboard at the Oscars Raspberry Pi - the best kids' computer available Watch Hands-On Android! Episode 0 out now, Episode 1 coming 2/20/2020: twit.tv/HOA Coming soon: Hands-On Mac and Hands-On Linux! Spotify will destroy podcasting as we know it Elizabeth Holmes gets some of the Theranos charges dropped by a federal judge Is Venture Capitalism destroying capitalism? HQ Trivia crashes and burns - when will the current tech bubble burst? Essential shuttered - alleged sexual assaulter and Android inventor Andy Rubin's revolutionary phone company fails after less than a year. T-Mobile and Sprint merger passes second-to-last hurdle in its way Jeff Bezos buys the most expensive house in America Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Daniel Rubino, and Dan Patterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: FreshBooks.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit HealthIQ.com/twit

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 bookmarks in Firefox, buying a point and shoot camera, troubleshooting Exchange email on iOS, problems connecting to the Google Play Store and more of your calls! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Sponsors: simplisafe.com/twit LastPass.com/twit

Get Stacey's Thing SLAY at https://amzn.to/2vpaD99 and Tweet Cute at https://amzn.to/2HfrQ7A Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus fears Essential shuttered Google head of HR steps down The US charges Chinese military officials with hacking Equifax Huawei is "definitely spying on us" - US Sprint / T-Mobile merger passes another hurdle All the ways Coronavirus is affecting tech Samsung Galaxy Z Flip: the first great foldable, or the next big flop? FTC investigates Google acquisitions German Man's proposal shows up on Google Maps Epic Twitter thread: Amazon ships the wrong box, over and over Nest requires 2-factor for all accounts to satisfy California IoT law Facebook's Twitter account gets hacked Should Clearview AI be allowed to scrape your face? Wacom tablets track the applications you open - moral panic or privacy violation? Is Spotify going to destroy podcasting? Google files OS trademark "Pigweed" Google adblocker bans non-skippable preroll ads Google bans 3rd-Party cookies Bill Gates doesn't buy a hydrogen yacht Fill out the TWiT Survey!: twit.to/survey20 Picks of the Week: Leo's Tool: Justine Haupt's Rotary Cellphone Ant's Good Stuff: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story on Netflix Stacey's Thing 1: Tweet Cute Stacey's Thing 2: Slay Jeff's Number 1: Google finds 6 needs states in search Jeff's Number 2: Bezos buys Geffen mansion in LA for $165 million Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.