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Meta quietly ditches encryption for Instagram chats while TikTok also backpedals on privacy, shaking up assumptions about how much big tech really values your secrets. Meanwhile, Steve Gibson reveals why CISA's free government security scans are an absolute must for businesses—plus what he learned when GRC took the plunge.

The Security Now "Caption That Photo" contest.

A mega social media company says "no" to strong encryption.

WhatsApp to give parents more control,

Consumer bandwidth proxying is becoming a big deal.

Meta buys the Moltbook duo.

The EU gives up and settles upon the status quo.

When a ransomware negotiation is not what it seems.

CISA compels federal agencies to submit their logs.

Is that a VPN in your pocket or something more malicious.

Be careful what you download, thinking it's AI.

A super-clever and super-simple A/V scanner bypass.

Will AI write code for me?

Another listener discovers the Joy of AI.

Steve's CISA Internet scanning experience

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1070-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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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.

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Someone is appearing on Jeopardy this week... Apple announces the AirPods Max 2. The MacBook Neo is its most repairable MacBook in 14 years. And are new colors coming to the next-gen iMacs later this year?

I'll take 'beach reading' for $1000, Ken.

Apple introduces AirPods Max 2.

2026 Apple Studio Display review: The smallest of upgrades.

MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook in 14 years.

Apple paying a premium to move iPhone production outside China as it hits milestone.

Should keycaps use text or glyphs for delete, return, tab, caps lock, and shift?

macOS Tahoe 26.4 beta 4, iOS 26.4 beta 4, and iPadOS 26.4 beta 4 distributions highlight nine upcoming emoji characters.

Rumor: Apple to debut "new colors" for next-gen iMacs this year.

Apple's Liquid Glass interface isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Gone (Almost) Phishin'.

Mac on-screen camera indicator light.

How to survive the loss of Rosetta.

First footage shows X-Plane 12 on Vision Pro, including an ARKit trick in action.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'F1: the Movie' is now an Oscar-winning hit.

Severance season 3 gets timing update, new characters teased.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: Lil Finder 5K Wallpapers

Christina's Pick: 3D Print Lil' Finder Guy

Andy's Pick: Stickies for Mac\

Jason's Pick: Delcom USB HID Handheld Programmable Button Switch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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From "gainfully employed robots" to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge.

Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery

U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story)

TerraPower gets permit to build reactor

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer

YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Richard Campbell, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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There's new releases all around, with Calibre 9.5, Gimp 3.2, Handbrake 1.11, and KeePassXC 2.7.12 all releasing updates. Then Fedora has a RISC-V complaint, the kernel is publishing an API specification, and systemd is adding AI-specific documentation. SUSE may be for sale, and the guys have ideas about who may be interested in purchasing, while TrueNAS makes waves by closing the future source of their system build scripts. For tips, we have "udevadm info" for querying the device database, arch-deckify for turning a machine into a SteamOS experience, and an intro to Bash's ctrl-r search function.

You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4lu7Osd and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie

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In this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah walks David through how to troubleshoot and set up a dual-boot system with Windows 10 and Windows 11 on separate SSDs.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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