ah that's good james can we do the show please oh sorry i was just enjoying a
refreshing drink from the new Linus tech tech tips insulated water bottle with a
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the latest Windows update was released on april 9th and it promptly started
breaking systems with anti-virus software installed naturally security
apps from sofos avast avira and archibit are all affected causing systems to
freeze or run ridiculously slowly when
their user attempts to log into Windows 10. now mcafee apps are also messed up
although they're already kind of freaking annoying when they work properly i can only imagine them acting
up as badly as the company's founder that
i don't i would delete it i don't install the the best fix right now seems
to be booting into safe mode disabling your antivirus then restarting and
strangely adding your own security apps folder to the list of excluded locations
to scan also helps apparently which is just
trippy i feel like i'm in one of the john mcafee's fevered dreams ah that
doesn't sound like a good time it's great to see tech giants playing nice
for a change amazon and google have both made one of the other services available
on their respective platforms with uh the youtube app now on fire tv devices
and prime video now accessible through chromecast now to be fair the fact that
they weren't available is a result of a spat between the two tech giants back in
2017 when amazon.com refused to carry google products so google pulled youtube
support from the echo show which prompted amazon to pull prime video
support on chromecast and then google also pulled youtube support from fire tv
sticks but this is progress people
holding grudges isn't healthy but since they're still competitors they also
launched competing services on the same day free ad-supported music playback is
now available on echo devices by amazon music and google home devices via
youtube music and you still can't use the youtube app on the echo show the
drama continues xoxo gossip girl
facebook stop enough the latest security snafu from
the social media giant is the news that it did an oopsy and unintentionally
uploaded 1.5 million users email contacts to the platform uh since may
2016. this screw-up was related to facebook's request for users to input
their email passwords in order to log in the email credentials were apparently
used to harvest users contact lists without their permission which would be
less concerning if facebook already hadn't demonstrated it it sucks at
security this week the company also admitted that
millions of instagram passwords were stored in unencrypted plain text format
in addition to the 600 million facebook passwords we've already heard about huh
sounds like a great time to announce that facebook is working on a voice
assistant to rival google assistant and amazon's alexa
no no it's not a good time for that facebook it'll probably never be a good
time ever in the future i don't think you should do that
at all stop but we can't stop because
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nintendo reportedly plans to release a smaller cheaper version of the switch
console by the end of the year before releasing a higher end model sometime
next year maybe the cheaper one won't come with controllers and maybe it'll
run Android and maybe maybe it's just a phone after an expose by the
hard-hitting reporters at buzzfeed news okay that's going to take me a while to
get used to google has taken down six seemingly benign apps made by chinese
company du group do group which were collecting and sending user data to
china as well as running background processes that clicked on web ads to
generate revenue the apps had over 90 million downloads altogether so next
time you think you need to download an app for something you better not
play it safe guys ride sharing service car to go saw over
100 of its vehicles hijacked in chicago and used to commit crimes
the incident was initially thought to be the result of a software hack but
cardigo denied this saying it was instead an instance of fraud
21 people have since been arrested and charged i don't know how 21 people drove
100 cars let me get to the math here uh we'll wait until the investigation
concludes either way pretty impressive probably used computers it's like when
you walk like six dogs at once amazon is bowing out of part of its
commercial operations in china after apparently failing to compete with local
companies like alibaba and jd.com chinese customers can still order
products off of amazon but the online store will no longer be open to
third-party sellers and that's most of the sellers amazon
found out the hard way china number one and of all the people to hack in the
whole world you wouldn't think that the weather channel would be at the top of
the list but yesterday the network was taken off the air by a ransomware attack
apparently they sorted things out as the channel came back up after an hour but
come on the weather channel they're just out here trying to help people avoid
getting unnecessarily wet no shame have you none none you have none you have no
shame no shame i'm upset i'm upset i'm
so upset that i'm going to end this episode now right now i'm sorry if you
wanted more tech news that'll make the rules come back on monday be some other guy
here and subscribe in the meantime maybe i can maybe i can cool down over the weekend
yeah i can get my get my groove back i'll come back in
full swing yeah coolness cucumber but right now i'm mad
i'm upset