even after the episode ends I can still hear the tech news buzzing it never
stops we'll get you help James don't worry I've been subscribe for so long
let's put the doctor subscribed Microsoft has changed course and
identified a zero day Windows exploit as a critical security vulnerability over a
month after initially dismissing it as nothing Idris the flaw is known as
folina by security researchers which doesn't sound deadly at all unless it's
like one of those sexy spiders oh so their confusion is understandable it'll
be a virus fatal exploiting Felina involves sharing a modified office file
which when opened executes malicious code by the Microsoft diagnostic tool
even when using protected View and at that point what happens is really up to
for Nina researchers have observed the attack being used to Target Russian and
Belarusian users and there's evidence Chinese state-backed hackers are also
used against a Target the Tibetan Community there's no patch yet but
Microsoft recommends users disable the diagnostic tool protocol for now or
better yet use anything other than Microsoft Office have you tried those
artisanal typewriters I feel like Hemingway while we're talking about
Microsoft we might as well mention that they just unveiled the surface laptop go
to go to where jail for making that pun
it's got a basically identical design to the original go with an aluminum and
polycarbonate shell 12.4 inch pixel sense touch display and a fingerprint
reader on the higher end model so your college roommate can't find your secret
folder ever again Steve stop it not this
time inside though our newer Intel 11th gen
processors 11th gen yeah it's not newer
newer a better 720p webcam and 128
gigabytes of storage in the base model which will run you or your parents 599
US Dollars and if none of this is impressive well find me another budget
Windows laptop that doesn't look like one of those dummy units from Ikea don't
bother trying to use them they don't work really good meatballs though and
the US Supreme Court has re-blocked the controversial Texas social media law
known as hb20 after it was unblocked by
an appeals court earlier this month reversing an initial block made by a
federal judge in December you got that do you know the physical toll that three
build blocks can have on a person I've unblocked one more time the lock
would prevent social media platforms with more than 50 million users from
discriminating against users based on their Viewpoint making all kinds of
routine platform moderation illegal and if we did that what's next forcing me to
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the quick bits are their own segment the quick bits do what they want Google has
announced they've seen the error of their ways and will merge Google Duo and
Google meet into a single video chat app because it's been two years and it's
time realizing you've made too many competing chat apps is hard but it's
part of growing up unfortunately the new unified app will be called Google me
with the old Google me being called meet original until it's eventually shut down
they only be called Dead Meat nobody's perfect in other Google News the tech
giant has finally turned off the feature that allowed companies in India to
mercilessly bowl over Android messages users with ads using Rich chat services
or RC yes RCS advertising will return once Google can figure out how to reduce
its amount and duration call the support line maybe each company takes turns it's
all Disney all week we want equal distribution of ads oop and even more
Google News kind of as an engineering sample of the pixel 7 phone showed up
for sale in some sketchy listings on eBay and Facebook Marketplace since
buying this phone would technically be illegal it's unclear what the seller
managed to achieve other than giving us some grainy close-ups of a phone that
Google already leaked themselves when they announced the pixel 6A that's what
they do now and it really takes the wind out of their own sales like why even go
on the internet what I want to see leaks leak me brooklyn-based neurotech company
open BCI has partnered with a VR headset maker
to integrate EEG sensors into its Aero
headset which can track brain activity as a user does stuff in VR oh wow stuff
over all this stuff so if you think the metaverse is stupid it still is but if I
can play a game in VR that lets me actually use the force by thinking about
it that would be cool because that would be just think about it for a second
that's what the force is consider it and there's a new kind of ransomware on the
Block it's called Goodwill and instead of extorting victims for money in order
to decrypt their precious files it forces them to do kind ax like give
clothes to homeless people and pay for someone's medical bills because it's
America and then post evidence on social media I'm sure these hackers hearts are
in the right place but if I grab five poor children and take them to Domino's
I'm pretty sure I'll be arrested so maybe you should just extort people for
money and then use that money to help people I don't know but don't do that
we're not saying you should do that we shouldn't do anything but this is not Financial advice this episode is over
come back on Friday for more not Financial advice Tech news because
frankly if we ever stop doing this show I don't actually know what happened