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How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.

Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.

Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.

What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.

Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.

More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.

The return of Roskomnadzor.

Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.

Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.

Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.

30 malicious Chrome Extensions.

287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.

The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.

Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.

What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple has announced a special experience event occurring in New York, London, and Shanghai. Apple Podcasts is launching new video features. iOS 26.3 is out now. And Apple acquires the rights to the show, Severance, for $70 million!

Apple's doing something on March 4th.

Apple wins long-running court battle against Optis over 4G patents in the US.

Apple makes four promises to developers about fairer treatment.

Apple Podcasts is launching new video features, looking to keep pace with YouTube and Spotify.

Apple updates its own iOS version figures.

Tesla CarPlay held back by need for wider adoption of Apple's iOS 26.

Find My outage & iCloud issues hit users once again Tuesday evening.

Apple Creator Studio AI usage limits seem dramatically lower than promised.

iPhone 18 Pro's new C2 chip will bring three advantages over iPhone 17.

Apple testing, but still undecided about clamshell folding iPhone.

iOS 27 'Rave' update to clean up code, could boost battery life.

Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues.

iOS 26.3 adds unique new privacy feature, and it's Apple at its best.

Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices.

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day.

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware.

A code snippet in iOS 26.4 shows Apple TV is coming to CarPlay.

macOS Tahoe 26.4 adds a charge limit slider to preserve your MacBook battery.

iOS 26.4 has iPhone Stolen Device Protection on by default.

macOS Tahoe 26.4 warns if your apps won't work when Rosetta 2 dies.

It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro.

visionOS 26.4 unlocks new 'foveated streaming' feature for apps and games.

The new F1 channel has appeared in the Apple TV app ahead of first race.

Severance' acquired by Apple for $70 million, expect a 4-season run and spinoffs.

Apple TV is adding MLS for free starting this week, here's the new promo.

Picks of the Week

Dave's Pick: Neo Network Utility 2.0

Leo's Pick: NetNewsWire and freeflow

Andy's Pick: Wordgrinder

Jason's Pick: Indigo

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

Guest: Dave Hamilton

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Is social media addictive by design or just irresistible entertainment? The panel tackles the lawsuit that's dragging tech giants onto the witness stand and how surveillance tech is quietly expanding while lawmakers and users scramble to catch up.

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not 'Clinically Addictive' in Landmark Trial

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans

Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app.

Discord backtracks on controversial age verification rollout...kind of

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor that this man remotely accessed thousands of them

HP's laptop subscriptions are a great deal — for HP

FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says

Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show

OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China's ChatGPT Fans Aren't OK

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Stacey Higginbotham, and Thomas Germain

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On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent answers listener Don's questions on how to set up a Mac mini as a home theater system.

Send in your questions to Mikah at [email protected]!

Host: Mikah Sargent

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The Linux Kernel 6.19 is out, the Rust experiment is over, and it's time to talk about 7.0. Vim 9.2 is out, with a bit of a weird new feature in its changelogs, and IPFire is an intriguing, community-driven security domain block list. PearOS has a new release for those seeking an Apple-inspired Linux experience, and Linux Mint is adjusting its release schedule to better manage developer and tester schedules. River is a new project trying to do Wayland support with a modular Desktop stack, and Mesa 26.0 is out with impressive performance gains. For tips, we have cull for finding and deleting big files, a systemd program for detecting if the OS is running virtualized, preload for caching applications in ram, and new_script for a script-writing tool that *doesn't* feature an LLM. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ZCNcEc and happy Linux'ing!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie

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