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• An update on the AT&T data breach
• 340,000 social security numbers leaked
• Cookie Notice Compliance
• The GDPR does enforce some transparency
• Physical router buttons
• Wifi enabled button pressers
• Netsecfish disclosure of Dlink NAS vulnerability
• Chrome bloat
• SpinRite update
• GhostRace

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-970-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• AI Music with Suno and Udio
• Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
• Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI
• How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
• AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
• Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
• Google and the CJPA
• Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated 'nutrition labels' for most broadband plans
• SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels
• Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 | Peter Higgs
• BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Larry Magid, and Owen Thomas

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Out-of-support DLink NAS devices contain hard coded backdoor credentials

Privnote is not so "Priv"

Crowdfense is willing to pay millions

Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution

SpinRite Update

Minimum Viable Secure Product

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-969-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill
• Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine
• Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
• Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
• X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for
• President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
• Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
• MrBeast calls for slowing down video editing styles
• A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
• Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
• App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more
• How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
• Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
• SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
• Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken

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• A near-Universal (Local) Linux Elevation of Privilege vulnerability
• TechCrunch informed AT&T of a 5 year old data breach
• Signal to get very useful cloud backups
• Telegram to allow restricted incoming
• HP exits Russia ahead of schedule
• Advertisers are heavier users of Ad Blockers than average Americans!
• The Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
• Canonical fights malicious Ubuntu store apps
• Spinrite update
• A Cautionary Tale

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-968-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

• 20 years of Gmail
• Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
• An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
• EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
• Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times
• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
• Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project
• Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024
• Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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• Apple vs U.S. DoJ
• G.M.'s Unbelievably Horrible Driver Data Sharing Ends
• Super Sushi Samurai
• Apple has effectively abandoned HomeKit Secure Routers
• The forthcoming ".INTERNAL" TLD
• The United Nations vs AI.
• Telegram now blocked throughout Spain
• Vancouver Pwn2Own 2024
• China warns of incoming hacks
• Annual Tax Season Phishing Deluge
• SpinRite update
• Authentication without a phone
• Are Passkeys quantum safe?
• GoFetch: The Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chips

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-967-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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• U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
• Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
• Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
• In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
• Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
• Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver
• Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu

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