• Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.
• Signal threatens to leave Sweden.
• Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.
• It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.
• "The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.
• Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).
• What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?
• What exactly are memory-safe languages?
• Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
• Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
• A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
• An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple updates the iPad Air with the M3 chipset, forgoing Apple Intelligence it. iFixit does a teardown of the iPhone 16e. A new documentary film about Bono will be released later this year, with an immersive version of the film for Apple Vision Pro. And Apple has launched a legal challenge to UK's 'back door' order.

• Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor.
• New M4 MacBook Air could debut on Wednesday.
• Apple Park rainbow arches gone, but reportedly being rebuilt.
• Apple's artificial intelligence efforts reach a make-or-break point.
• iPhone 16e Teardown: Never before has skipping the upgrade made more sense.
• Skype is shutting down after two decades.
• Apple sets premiere of 'Bono: Stories Of Surrender'.
• Apple just released two brand new apps in iOS 18.4 and visionOS 2.4 beta 2.
• Introducing ADIB spatial banking on Apple Vision Pro.
• Apple Park in 8K 3D 180 HDR.
• Apple faces likely French antitrust fine for privacy tool, sources say.
• US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty.
• Apple launches legal challenge to UK 'back door' order.

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• Leo's Pick: Peak Design - Roller Pro Carry-On Luggage
• Mikah's Pick: WiFiMan Wizard
• Alex's Pick: Neat Video Noise Removal
• Andy's Pick: Zen Browser

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• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
• Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
• "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
• Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
• An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
• All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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