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even after the episode ends I can still hear the tech news buzzing it never

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stops we'll get you help James don't worry I've been subscribe for so long

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let's put the doctor subscribed Microsoft has changed course and

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identified a zero day Windows exploit as a critical security vulnerability over a

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month after initially dismissing it as nothing Idris the flaw is known as

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folina by security researchers which doesn't sound deadly at all unless it's

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like one of those sexy spiders oh so their confusion is understandable it'll

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be a virus fatal exploiting Felina involves sharing a modified office file

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which when opened executes malicious code by the Microsoft diagnostic tool

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even when using protected View and at that point what happens is really up to

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for Nina researchers have observed the attack being used to Target Russian and

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Belarusian users and there's evidence Chinese state-backed hackers are also

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used against a Target the Tibetan Community there's no patch yet but

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Microsoft recommends users disable the diagnostic tool protocol for now or

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better yet use anything other than Microsoft Office have you tried those

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artisanal typewriters I feel like Hemingway while we're talking about

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Microsoft we might as well mention that they just unveiled the surface laptop go

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to go to where jail for making that pun

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it's got a basically identical design to the original go with an aluminum and

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polycarbonate shell 12.4 inch pixel sense touch display and a fingerprint

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reader on the higher end model so your college roommate can't find your secret

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folder ever again Steve stop it not this

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time inside though our newer Intel 11th gen

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processors 11th gen yeah it's not newer

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newer a better 720p webcam and 128

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gigabytes of storage in the base model which will run you or your parents 599

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US Dollars and if none of this is impressive well find me another budget

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Windows laptop that doesn't look like one of those dummy units from Ikea don't

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bother trying to use them they don't work really good meatballs though and

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the US Supreme Court has re-blocked the controversial Texas social media law

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known as hb20 after it was unblocked by

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an appeals court earlier this month reversing an initial block made by a

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federal judge in December you got that do you know the physical toll that three

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build blocks can have on a person I've unblocked one more time the lock

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would prevent social media platforms with more than 50 million users from

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discriminating against users based on their Viewpoint making all kinds of

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routine platform moderation illegal and if we did that what's next forcing me to

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invite everyone to my party there's a certain buy by curing people you don't

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the quick bits are their own segment the quick bits do what they want Google has

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announced they've seen the error of their ways and will merge Google Duo and

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Google meet into a single video chat app because it's been two years and it's

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time realizing you've made too many competing chat apps is hard but it's

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part of growing up unfortunately the new unified app will be called Google me

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with the old Google me being called meet original until it's eventually shut down

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they only be called Dead Meat nobody's perfect in other Google News the tech

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giant has finally turned off the feature that allowed companies in India to

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mercilessly bowl over Android messages users with ads using Rich chat services

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or RC yes RCS advertising will return once Google can figure out how to reduce

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its amount and duration call the support line maybe each company takes turns it's

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all Disney all week we want equal distribution of ads oop and even more

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Google News kind of as an engineering sample of the pixel 7 phone showed up

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for sale in some sketchy listings on eBay and Facebook Marketplace since

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buying this phone would technically be illegal it's unclear what the seller

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managed to achieve other than giving us some grainy close-ups of a phone that

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Google already leaked themselves when they announced the pixel 6A that's what

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they do now and it really takes the wind out of their own sales like why even go

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on the internet what I want to see leaks leak me brooklyn-based neurotech company

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open BCI has partnered with a VR headset maker

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to integrate EEG sensors into its Aero

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headset which can track brain activity as a user does stuff in VR oh wow stuff

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over all this stuff so if you think the metaverse is stupid it still is but if I

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can play a game in VR that lets me actually use the force by thinking about

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it that would be cool because that would be just think about it for a second

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that's what the force is consider it and there's a new kind of ransomware on the

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Block it's called Goodwill and instead of extorting victims for money in order

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to decrypt their precious files it forces them to do kind ax like give

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clothes to homeless people and pay for someone's medical bills because it's

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America and then post evidence on social media I'm sure these hackers hearts are

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in the right place but if I grab five poor children and take them to Domino's

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I'm pretty sure I'll be arrested so maybe you should just extort people for

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money and then use that money to help people I don't know but don't do that

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we're not saying you should do that we shouldn't do anything but this is not Financial advice this episode is over

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come back on Friday for more not Financial advice Tech news because

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frankly if we ever stop doing this show I don't actually know what happened