• Crowdstrike post-mortem
• PiDP-11
• What Crowdstrike is fixing
• Marcus Hutchins on who is to blame
• Entrust's Updated Info
• 3rd-Party Cookie Surprise
• Security training firm mistakenly hires a North Korean attacker
• Google and 3rd party cookies
• Google's influence
• The auto industry and data brokers
• DNS Benchmark on Mac
• Platform Key Disclosure

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-985-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple Intelligence may miss the announced initial launch window. Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized Apple store in the country. And Jason Snell's prediction back in 2023 of adverts coming to Apple TV may be coming true.

• Apple Intelligence to miss initial release of iOS 18, iPadOS overhauls.
• Apple to adopt voluntary AI safeguards established by Biden.
• Apple cuts iPhone price in India amid China slowdown.
• Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland.
• Neuralink rival Synchron's brain implant now lets people control Apple's Vision Pro with their minds.
• Balenciaga and Rimowa launch apps for Apple Vision Pro.
• GenZD, a port of GZDoom for iOS, now available on the App Store.
• Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google.
• Apple TV plots UK adverts.

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Pick: Homebridge
• Andy's Pick: GoodLinks
• Alex's Picks: Dengue Fever & OWC 4M2

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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• CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft's Antitrust Problems
• Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
• An AI-built vegan cheese went viral. Here's what happened next
• AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
• Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
• Russia Throttles YouTube Access in Latest Attack on US Social Media (GOOGL)
• Video game performers to strike over AI concerns
• EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is "free"
• OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
• X's new data-sharing experience will train Grok with your Twitter data by default — Here's how to disable it
• Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Owen Thomas, and Parris Lilly

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