• Apple proposes 45-day maximum certificate life.
• SEC fines four companies for downplaying their SolarWinds attack severity.
• Google adds 5 new features to Messenger including inappropriate content.
• Does AI-driven local device-side filtering resolve the encryption dilemma forever?
• The very nice looking "Session" messenger leaves Australia for Switzerland.
• Another quick look at the question of the EU's software liability moves.
• Fake North Korean employees WERE found to install backdoor malware.
• How to speed up an SSD without using SpinRite.
• Using ChatGPT to review and suggest improvements in code.
• And Internet governance has been trying to move the Internet to IPv6 for the past 25 years, but the Internet just doesn't want to go. Why not? And will it ever?

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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It's new Mac week, and Apple is rolling out three new products. The new M4 iMac and Mac Mini have already been announced, and an updated MacBook Pro with the M4 chips is expected Wednesday. Apple Intelligence is now live with the iOS 18.1 update. Are you able to access Apple's AI yet? And Apple is rolling out the next wave of Apple Intelligence features in the iOS 18.2 beta.

• Apple unveils the new iMac with M4, supercharged by Apple Intelligence and available in fresh colors.
• Tim Cook is likely visiting China to bolster support for Apple Intelligence, analysts say.
• Apple ships $6 billion of iPhones from India in big China shift.
• Apple's all-new Mac mini is more mighty, more mini, and built for Apple Intelligence.
• Apple Intelligence goes live with iOS 18.1 update.
• Apple Intelligence .1 Review: A small start of something big?
• Apple Intelligence Isn't Very Smart Yet—and Apple's OK With That.
• Apple releases second wave of Intelligence features via new developer betas.
• Apple wins $250, but little else, at trial on watch patents.
• 'Oregon Trail' Action-Comedy Movie In Development at Apple.
• Starbucks to shutter downtown San Francisco storefront after 30 years

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• Alex's Pick: Inkbird Pool Thermometer
• Andy's Pick: Don Giller's (Donz) Teri Garr Collection On Letterman
• Jason's Pick: Fright Night (1985)

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

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Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing

• Foreign Election Interference
  
• North Korean hackers and bitcoin
  
• Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
  
• Delta actually sues Crowdstrike
  
• Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
  
• Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user's mouse cursor
  
• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
  
• Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro
  
• Kroger and Walmart Deny 'Surge Pricing' After Adopting Digital Price Tags
  
• Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead
  
• Musk steers X disputes to conservative Texas courts in service terms update

Host: Leo Laporte

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