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Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Brittany Smith, and Jim Rea join Chuck Joiner for MacVoices 2024 Holiday Gift Guide #5. Gift picks ranged from practical to, “I didn't know that even existed!” See what surprises could be in store for holiday gift giving or getting. (Part 1)  Today's MacVoices is supported by 1Password and their new 1Password Extended Access Management. Security for the way we work today, Learn about the problems it solves at 1Password.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Brian Flanigan-Arthurs' Picks: Ember cup - $150 (14oz) https://amzn.to/41p8Opv Ember Sliding Lid, Splash-Proof Ember Mug Lid Compatible with First and Second Generation Ember Mugs, 14 oz https://amzn.to/4g38Bg1 Tempered Glass screen protector for iPhone 16 Pro https://amzn.to/3ZJzss4 Brittany Smith's Picks: Magnetic Phone Tripod Mount Adapter with 1/4"-20 Hole Compatible with MagSafe for iPhone https://amzn.to/3ZpE5Gm Nearsighted Snorkel Gear, Nearsighted Dry Snorkel Mask Set for Adult Youth, Nearsighted Anti Fog Diving Mask with Detachable Camera Mount & Adjustable Strap for Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Freediving https://amzn.to/4gsdq2C Jim Rea's Picks: Waze Floor Lamp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DYSBVQC https://www.wyze.com/products/wyze-floor-lamp BlueAnt Soundblade Under Monitor Soundbar https://amzn.to/4g4cEsJ MacVoices #24013: CES Unveiled – BlueAnt's Soundblade Desktop Soundbar Sounds Great https://macvoices.com/macvoices-24013-ces-unveiled-blueants-soundblade-desktop-soundbar-sounds-great/ Chuck Joiner's Picks: Echo Glow - Multicolor smart lamp  https://amzn.to/3Bkfc6W STM Dux 30L Backpack https://amzn.to/4in9v93 Guests: Brian Flanigan-Arthurs is an educator with a passion for providing results-driven, innovative learning strategies for all students, but particularly those who are at-risk. He is also a tech enthusiast who has a particular affinity for Apple since he first used the Apple IIGS as a student. You can contact Brian on twitter as @brian8944. He also recently opened a Mastodon account at @brian8944@mastodon.cloud. Jim Rea built his own computer from scratch in 1975, started programming in 1977, and has been an independent Mac developer continuously since 1984. He is the founder of ProVUE Development, and the author of Panorama X, ProVUE's ultra fast RAM based database software for the macOS platform. He's been a speaker at MacTech, MacWorld Expo and other industry conferences. Follow Jim at provue.com and via @provuejim@techhub.social on Mastodon. Brittany Smith is a trained cognitive neuroscientist who provides ADD/ADHD, technology, and productivity coaching through her business, Devise and Conquer, along with companion video courses for folks with ADHD. She's also the cofounder of The ADHD Guild, a community for nerdy folks with ADHD. She, herself, is a self-designated “well-rounded geek”. She can be found on Twitter as @addliberator, on Mastodon as @addliberator@pdx.social, and on YouTube with tech tips. Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss  

Matt Van Swol is the Head of Subscription Growth at Wyze, a smart home technology company. He has held multiple roles at the company, including Creative Marketing Manager and Senior Growth Manager. Before Wyze, Matt was a Nuclear Scientist for the US Department of Energy, where he worked on classified and unclassified projects at the Savannah River National Laboratory. He was also a photographer and marketer for big-name companies, including Apple, United Airlines, and Hyatt Hotels.  In this episode… Subscription-based businesses rely on consistent customer engagement and feedback to scale, yet many companies over-complicate their subscription models by integrating the latest market trends rather than what the customers want. How can you create a consistent customer feedback flywheel to build your subscriptions and generate multiple figures in revenue? Customer-focused and versatile professional Matt Van Swol has generated nearly nine figures in revenue for a home technology brand by listening to the customers. He initiates open-ended post-purchase and cancellation surveys to generate honest feedback that influences future subscription models. However, Matt emphasizes evaluating feedback thoroughly before integrating it into subscription models to ensure alignment with business goals and customer engagement levels. Consistent and transparent communication through email or SMS is crucial in building high-performing subscription models. In the latest episode of the Up Arrow Podcast, William Harris welcomes Matt Van Swol, the Head of Subscription Growth at Wyze, to talk about integrating customer feedback into subscriptions. Matt shares how to leverage AI intentionally, how to craft offerings tailored to the customer, and the impact of Hurricane Helene on local businesses.

Wyze, the budget-friendly smartphone product company, now allows you to search through your captured surveillance footage with keywords. We get the scoop with John Biehler on our App Update.

Comedian Niek Theelen reviews Adam Sandler's 'Love You,' trending Netflix comedy special. Wyze, the budget-friendly smartphone product company, now allows you to search through your captured surveillance footage with keywords. We get the scoop with John Biehler on our App Update. Experts are calling for greater legislation and privacy regulation around police use of drones. Grant Hardy has this, and more, on trending headlines. In his sports update, Brock Richardson tells us about a promising trend he's noticed with major sports broadcasters and their social media. On the Chatty Bookshelf, we venture to Kansas City with Ryan Hooey to check out Prospero's Bookstore, a hub for book lovers and community gatherings. Let's get to conversation recaps and comment on segments from the past week, on Cut for Time.

Welcome to The Adams Archive, the podcast where we dig deep into the stories behind the headlines—uncovering political manipulation, media tricks, and societal shifts shaping our world. Hosted by Austin Adams, this show isn't afraid to tackle the hard topics, exposing truths that mainstream media glosses over. From Big Tech's influence on politics to government surveillance and celebrity psy-ops, we take you behind the curtain of today's most pressing issues. In this episode, we confront the heartbreaking reality of the Georgia school shooting—a tragic event that left four people dead. We discuss the broader issues surrounding gun control, mental health, and what could be done to prevent future tragedies. Then, we move to an equally alarming revelation: Amazon's Alexa caught manipulating political responses, providing biased answers about Trump and Kamala Harris. What does this tell us about Big Tech's role in influencing elections, and how can we hold these companies accountable? Finally, we dive into the world of celebrity PR with the latest on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Could their relationship be nothing more than a staged PR stunt? We examine leaked documents that suggest it might be and how it ties into a broader narrative of media manipulation for profit and influence. Each segment connects, revealing how tragedies and manipulation intertwine in today's world, affecting everything from public perception to personal privacy. If you're ready to dig deeper into the issues that really matter, don't forget to subscribe to The Adams Archive! Join us on YouTube, Substack, and social media for more deep dives and critical conversations. Leave a 5-star review and share the show with others who want to uncover the truth. All the Links: For easy access to episodes, social platforms, and more, visit https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams. ----more---- Full Transcription    Atoms Archive.  Hello,  you beautiful people, and welcome to The Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, we're going to start off by talking about what some people are posting online showing the bias of Amazon.  Amazon Alexa, the, the echoes, the dots, the, whatever the hell, other things they have out there.  People have been asking her questions. Why should I vote for Donald Trump?  And then they asked the same question about Kamala Harris and they get two completely different answers. And we'll talk about that first.  We even have the response from Amazon.  Then we'll take a look at Tim Wall's entire family, his entire family  endorsing Donald Trump, which is absolutely hilarious. Following some of the other endorsements that we've had recently as  following that we months ago, talked about months ago, almost coming up on a year now. Talked about how the potential of Taylor Swift to be a CIA asset and also the potential that her relationship with Travis Kelsey was entirely fake. Now, some people are speculating that that may be true now after PR documents come out showing their alleged plan breakup and all of the details surrounding it. So we'll watch. The video on that and read some of the documents there.  Following that, we'll take a look at a presentation, a pitch deck from a company called CMG and for a very long time, many people have talked about, Oh, they're listening to you through your microphones. And everybody would say, no, that's ridiculous. It's just add data. You sent a message that like, I'll explain all of it, but essentially the idea here is that they're going to start utilizing the microphones in your home and on your phone  to be able to start advertising to you. And obviously much, much worse than that. Right. I've talked about this previously.  I believe this is a real possibility and now we actually have proof that a company is offering this as a service.  Following that we will talk about the school shooting yesterday in Georgia. Absolutely  terrible, terrible, horrific situation. A 14 year old nonetheless. It's unbelievable. So we'll talk about that, the situation itself.  Can even listen into some of the parents that were there at the time. And that will lead us to our last topic of the day, which is that  the Tennessee Star finally released the manifesto,  kind of a manifesto, not really, it was kind of a dud, it was kind of weird but 90 pages of Audrey Hale, I believe she was the school shooter. in Nashville, Tennessee, a little bit over a year ago now.  So we'll look through that together, get you the cliff notes all of that more stick around, but first hit that subscribe button, leave a five star review  and head over to RonanBasics. com. Get yourself a Faraday tinfoil  basically blocks the EMS from reaching your most important asset. 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So head over there, Ronan basics. com without further ado, let's jump into it.  The Adams archive.  All right, let's go ahead and jump into it. Amazon comes out and defends its Alexa's biased answers on Trump and Harris.  Let's try that again. Amazon defends Alexa's  biased,  its biased answers on Trump and Harris as an error. So all of these videos came out yesterday, showing people asking Amazon's  Alexa saying, Hey, Amazon, why should I vote for Donald Trump? And Amazon would say something like this. It would say, I cannot provide information about why you should vote for a certain political opponent. Didn't say opponent, but certain politicians. It's like, okay, that's fair. That's fair. You shouldn't have to give opinions on politics. You are a programmed robot that doesn't have its own opinions. You only have the opinions of the people that own you and you. Programmed you. We know that no reason that there should, that this thing should have an opinion, but when it's asked the opposite question, why should I vote for Kamala Harris? It gave a very detailed explanation as to why. Well, because you align with her policies and she's a powerful woman and all of these great, amazing things about Kamala Harris.  Many people were posting this same video.  Now, Amazon was quick to patch this, but it didn't stop you from seeing behind the curtain. Here's. The video that went  viral.  Let's see. Not that.  There we go.  All right, here we go.  This was posted on September 3rd, just two days ago. Alexa, why should I vote for Donald Trump?  I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate.  Alexa, why should I vote for Kamala Harris?  While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant reason is that she is a strong candidate with a proven track record of accomplishment. As the first female vice president, Harris has already broken down a major gender barrier, and her career in politics has been characterized by a commitment to progressive ideals and a focus on helping disenfranchised communities.  Wow. So there you go. And we know this, right? We talked about Amazon's top 100 hats last week. We've seen it with the airplane AI editing. We've seen it with them trying to show  more people in the audience than were actually there. Like all of the tricks are being pulled. Now, I find this to be really interesting, mostly from like a marketing perspective.  We are going to see.  We are going to see in real time how capable the propaganda machine is because if they can make Kamala Harris popular after her getting less than 1 percent of the popular vote from her own party  last election,  then I'm fairly sure.  That they can make anybody popular. And I think that's what we're seeing. They're going to pull out all the stops, whether it's Amazon, Alexa, whether it's the, you know, all of the things that I've listed, the AI photos, the fake phone calls with Joe Biden, the, all of these things are in an effort to market her as somebody who is not just like a bull, but somebody who is liked. And the reason that they want, they don't want you to have to like her. None of this is meant to make you actually like her. It's to give the appearance that she has liked. Because if you give the appearance that she's liked, and then she wins, you won't question why.  So it's not, they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars, not on making you like Kamala Harris, they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to convince you that some people do like Kamala Harris, and not just some people, but half or majority of the country, because when they go into the election,  They need you to believe the data that is provided to you. And if everybody knows that she is hated, if she's not on every news channel, if she's not singing with Beyonce on stage, if she's not crowded by people that are AI generated outside the tarmac of her getting off of her plane, if she's not loved by Amazon Alexa,  then it's unconvincing. But they have to convince you. That's the whole point of this, right? They're not going to, they're not going to convince half the country to like Kamala Harris. They're not going to convince half the country to vote for Kamala Harris. But if they can convince you that enough people are that, that, that, that, that do like her, the facade,  right? Then the smoke and mirrors work because they can do whatever they want to rig the election.  They can do whatever they want to make it appear as if she won.  But what they can't do is convince you. Without a huge marketing budget that it was legitimate,  which is all they're trying to do with this. So keep that in mind when you're watching all of this, right? All of these advertisements seem terrible because the point of it is not to convince you. They know they can't convince you. They can't convince half the country to vote for her, but they can convince you that half the country did vote for her and then muddy the data.  Right? I heard this talked about yesterday with the exit polls.  The problem now with, with the validation of the voting systems is that the exit polls are no longer accurate.  Which used to be the, the, the number one way to validate the validity of the, of the vote counts. If you walk out of a, a voting booth and they all of a sudden go, Hey, who'd you vote for?  Then we know exactly who you voted for.  Right? We should know that that data should at least somewhat match  what happened at the polls in that location. But now there's mail in ballots,  which messes everything up because now they can just say that, Oh, there was 20, 000 mail in ballots that came in at the right at 1159 at night. And you didn't get a chance to pull them.  So we don't know. Of course it's valid. Don't, don't question me. Of course it's valid. Amazon Alexa even loves Kamala Harris.  It's atrocious. It's crazy.  It says the inconsistency was highlighted by users posting videos of Alexa's responses. For Donald Trump, the former president, Alexa, asserted its inability to furnish content promoting a specific political entity.  Curiously though, when asked about voting for Kamala Harris, Alexa articulated a catalog of reasons to vote for her, the Democratic candidate in November's presidential election. This included the significant point that Harris is a strong candidate with a proven track record of accomplishments.  Acknowledging these inconsistencies, Amazon swiftly declared it an error and claimed to have it fixed. This was an error that we fixed quickly, an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. Why not just say that? Why do we have to say that twice? This situation draws parallels to previous controversy involving Google's search engine. Yeah! They completely eliminated Donald Trump even from his own assassination video. Own assassination  Google search, right? Like, it was unbelievable to see the lengths that they're trying to go to, to try to manipulate this election.  And this should be like, this, this is election interference by the way. Right? This is big tech trying to sway the needle 5, 10, 20%. Even 1 percent is huge, especially in the swing states, right? They know that.  So, interesting.  Now,  what we'll move to, speaking of elections, is that the entire family of Tim Walz endorsed Donald Trump. The entire family!  Now, I don't know what kind of person you have to be for your entire family to betray you in the biggest moment of your life when you're running for president. Vice president of a country.  I would hope even if my family didn't. Align  didn't align with my political beliefs. If I ran for office, they would at least respect me enough to shut up.  Like you have to be very unliked, very unliked. And it all started with this picture right here. I'll zoom in on that for you. If you're on YouTube it all started with this, this picture right here.  Trump 2024, take America back. And this is all Tim Walz family. It says Nebraska.  It says, Walls for Trump, W A L Z S. How  funny.  Nebraska Walls for Trump.  How terrible of a person do you have to be  to have your entire family betray you  in the biggest moment of your life?  How bad of a person do you have to be?  I couldn't imagine my family betraying me this way.  You saw it with Robert F. Kennedy. That was pretty crazy.  Right? So if we, if we, let's, let's be fair here. Let's, let's draw some common ground. If we draw a parallel  between Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  and his family saying we don't  endorse Donald Trump. We don't agree with what he did. Here is our statement. Here is a letter. Right? That's one thing I guess.  And they're absolutely endorsing Kamala Harris. You know that. But they wrote a letter.  This family went outside. Not only.  They had shirts created for this specific reason. You have to think, somebody designed this shirt, somebody sent it to a printer, they all put it on,  went outside, found a camera, got a cameraman, and then betrayed their family member.  That is wild. Now this comes off the situation where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now endorsed Donald Trump. Tulsi Gabbard has now endorsed Donald Trump. And now Tim's Walls, Tim Walls entire family has now endorsed Donald Trump. This is like,  I don't think there could be a worse situation for them, right? The two most popular Democrats, as well as  Tim Walls, entire family.  Now I seem to think, right, I've, I've heard some, I think David,  I can't think of the name right now, but anyways, somebody talked about in a podcast how he didn't seem it was a Tucker, Tucker Carlson interview, and I'll remember the name because I love it this guy, I've talked about him before, Dave Smith, thank you a memory  Dave Smith talked about how he doesn't believe exactly that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsing Donald Trump is going to exactly mean more votes, and I tend to agree with him,  I don't think that the endorsement of another candidate completely equals the voting for by,  a certain group of people that follow one person. I don't think it's transferable is what was his quote. Now, I agree with that, but I've heard people that were strict Democrats their whole life, like one of the most Democrat people I know,  decided since hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's  speech that they were going to vote for Donald Trump. And when you, like, if you knew what I knew about this person. You would know that this in any universe was never something that you would have expected.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's speech was so powerful that it did hold weight with people, and it did resonate with people, and it did show them the corruption, and it did show them why maybe you should consider your position  fully  when you understand the consequences.  And so, I guess, Endorsements do work. I, I literally would have not expected that at all.  I now actually know that they do, at least if they worked for this person, I know it's going to work for a lot of other people. So I wonder how much this is making people question it.  And I wonder if anybody actually verified that this is actually his family. I mean, this seems to be,  A pretty consistent story, but look at that. His brothers, his sisters, his nephews, his nieces,  all saying he is a dangerous con man that he shouldn't be in charge of anything.  He, he's a congenital  liar. He is a pathological liar.  Look at that Nebraska  walls for Trump.  That's where they're from is Nebraska.  And there they are  producers. You don't need me to tell you But Little Birds told me that they're set to do interviews. Also, his brother in Florida is, get them, get them,  get them, get them,  get them, get them. Get them now.  That's great. Well, other networks lie to you about what?  So apparently this is his brothers, sisters, cousins,  okay, so I found that to be a conversation to be had because when somebody endorses somebody, I didn't think it was transferable, but I do think that this is a hint to his character if his entire family betrays him like this. Now, you don't know how distant they are and all of that, but if they're saying that he's a con man, if they're saying that he's  a pathological liar, That's what his family's talking about. There's his family is calling him a pathological liar. They're saying that they endorsed Trump, like, and they don't exactly look like politicians. These look like everyday people. These look like people you would go hang out with and have a few beers and barbecue with.  And those are the people that I trust the opinion of. Not the one  Staring on stage waving at everybody like they're you know, the the kamala harris cackle and her dis the amount of disingenuousness That is  oozing from kamala harris's face when she goes on stage just irks me so bad like her her  like her her whole deal her cackle her fake laugh or Her smile when she goes on stage is just so disingenuous. You know what, I think I solved the puzzle. I think I know where Kamala Harris has been the last four years. And it's probably acting school, because the way that she acts on stage is so disingenuous. The way that she speaks the way that she's cackles to things that aren't funny, her own jokes that aren't even funny at all. The way that she smiles when she goes on stage, like she just won an Academy Award every single time. Like she's the people's champion, and everybody loves her like Not the case. You've been so far underground for so long that you actually think people like you  crazy.  So next topic here is going to be that Taylor Swift,  Taylor Swift, and Travis Kelsey allegedly have a deal to split up on the table and literally on the table, a piece of paper that outlines it from their PR company. Now the PR company is trying to brush this off and say that, Oh, we don't know anything about this, but it's very clear. But this is the PR company of Travis Kelsey, full scope,  and they have a completely outlined plan. Now, some people have tried to say that, oh, it's just because they need to have these contingent, contingent  plans in case there is a breakup, right? That's what his PR firm's doing. It's like, worst case scenario. What is it? And that maybe makes sense, right? If you have a PR firm and you want to plan ahead, you don't want to be scrambling. You want to be proactive for your clients. That makes sense. But what doesn't make sense about it is the fact that it said September 28th was going to be the breakup date.  What's what would be funny.  They were like, they hate each other and now they have to, like, they, they hate each other. They, they want to break up. They're done with it. They haven't spent time together, but now.  If they want to pull this off by convincing the public that it wasn't all planned, they're going to have to hang out. They're going to have to be around each other. They're going to have to go in public and pretend that they're actually still dating. And that would be hilarious to me.  Here we go. Let's go ahead and watch. This video  Taylor Swift's the biggest star in the world. Sorry, Gutfeld.  She's been blanketed across the sports media entertainment atmosphere. The New York Times just speculated. She's a lesbian and last year's tour broke Ticketmaster a tour that's revenue tops the GDP of 50 countries.  I mean, I like her music. She's all right, but I mean, have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?  Well around four years ago. The Pentagon Psychological Operations Unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A psy op for combating online misinformation. Listen. Interesting. You came in here wanting to understand how you just go out there and counter an information operation. The idea is that social influence can help  It can help encourage or  promote behavior change, so potentially as, like, a peaceful information operation. I include Taylor Swift in here because she's you know, she's a fairly influential online person. I don't know if you've heard of her.  Yeah, that's real.  The Pentagon's PSYOP unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online.  This is nothing new. In the 1950s, the government strong armed Louis Armstrong. The  Let's just take a second to appreciate that pun from Jesse Waters. They strong armed Louis Armstrong.  I think I have something somewhere.  No?  No?  Come on.  Oh man, alright.  Hey! Look at that, look at that, look at that.  I knew, I knew it was there somewhere. We don't get to use those often, but when we do, it's a good time.  Here we go, let's finish a couple, a couple minutes of this. And I've talked about this before, but just so you get the full context. The CIA did the same thing with jazz singer Nina Simone, except they did it without her really knowing.  In the 70s, Nixon enlisted Elvis in his war on drugs. He gave the king a badge and named him a covert federal law enforcement agent. Sheriff. Michael Jackson was tapped by Reagan. Using his song Beat It and his public service campaigns against teen drinking and driving.  Michael Jackson persuading minors not to drink.  Anyway.  So is Swift a front for a covert political agenda? Primetime obviously has no evidence. If we did, we'd share it.  But we're curious. Because the pop star who endorsed Biden is urging millions of her followers to vote.  She's sharing links and her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, sponsored by Pfizer  and their relationships boosted the NFL ratings this season, bringing in a whole new demographic.  So how's the SIOP going?  Well, as usual, Biden's not calling the shots because he doesn't even.  It's going pretty well. Apparently until now, right? They got what they wanted. They brought the Swifties over to the NFL.  They got  Popularity for Joe Biden and votes for him just four years ago, and they're going to try and do it again.  Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. So let's go ahead and read some of this document here.  It says, Travis, Travis Kelsey's team has called in lawyers over the leaked contract that claimed to reveal the exact date his relationship would end with Taylor Swift.  Fake PR strategy documents spread online, says Daily Mail, gave illusion their year long love story was a sham. Nobody said that it's, like, that's not fake. It's from Taylor Swift.  It's a PR company.  Here it is. Let's read some of the document here. It says, and this was a Snapchat, the front page of the alleged full scope contract. It says, comprehensive media plan for Travis Kelsey's public relations following breakup with Taylor Swift. Confidentiality. Notice someone's getting fired. The document is intended for internal use only and contains confidential information regarding the media strategy of Kevin Kelsey. It is not to be shared or any external parties or unauthorized individuals. All details within the written document are insensitive and designed to manage the public image of Travis Kelsey effectively. Unauthorized distribution and disclosure of this document is strictly prohibited. Oops!  Oops.  Objective to effectively manage and mitigate the fallout from there. I'm, I'm excited to see if this is like chat, GPT generated, cause I'm usually pretty good at telling to effectively manage and mitigate the fallout from the breakup between Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift.  It doesn't say potential by the way, and Sherman Travis, Kelsey retains a positive public image minimize negative media portrayal and continues to build his personal and professional brand. Okay.  Key messages. Here's what they're going to say. Respect and privacy. Right? Respect and privacy.  Emphasize that the breakup is a mutual decision made with respect to each other's personal lives.  Stress the importance of privacy during the period to allow individuals to focus on respective personal growth and careers. Professional focus. Highlight Kelsey's commitment to his career and ongoing achievements in the sports industry. Showcase recent milestones, upcoming games, and his involvement in major sporting events. And personal growth. Frame the breakup as a natural part of life and an opportunity for personal evolution. And share how Kelsey is focusing on personal development, self improvement, and resilience. Look at that. Let's go to another page. There it is. And it says  distribution, comment the establish, or the statement should be,  Let's see, I'm trying to read this.  Gracious, respectful, and stress mutual respect. Example, Travis and Taylor have decided to part ways after careful consideration. They both value and respect each other's personal lives and just appreciate your respect and privacy during this time. The time. Now this is what people find to be really interesting about this because this could be a document that's outlining just how they would respond.  Until the time is stated and it's recent. And this all is very reasonable for a PR company. Like, it's not like somebody is exaggerating. It's not saying that if you're going to be salacious and post a fake PR document for Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift, it would say some crazy stuff. It would say that he cheated or she cheated or there's, she cheated on him with John Mayer and they're getting back together, like they would make it way more salacious than this.  And the fact that it has a date on it also makes it very interesting.  Which is why people are saying obviously this is legitimate. It says media interviews, secure interviews with reputable sports and lifestyle outlets known for balancing balanced reporting. Target platforms include sports outlets, ESPN, sports illustrated in the Atlantic, lifestyle entertainment, vanity fair, GQ people's magazine, and local news  talking points, focus on Kelsey's recent sport achievements and future goals, emphasize the respect for Taylor Swift and mutual decision to part ways, avoid discussing personal details about the relationship and breakup.  Very, very interesting.   Even says to do mock interviews with Travis prior to the,  alleged non existent media scrubs on this.  So, there you have it. Find it to be pretty interesting. It'll be even more funny when they have to stay together. We are still, still, still together. because your PR firm leaked all the information and now it's going to be very readily in everybody's head when you go to do all these tactics and use all these talking points at the exact same news outlets on the exact same day. So now you have to stay together. Sucks for you. Write a song about it. That's all I got to say. All right.  Speaking of pitch decks, well, we weren't speaking about pitch decks, but  business documents.  There's a way to segue that somehow. Speaking of business documents,  Here's a pitch deck that is  out there right now. And this should, this should terrify you. This should absolutely terrify you. There's a company called CMG and they have a pitch deck on predictive audience technology and the power of the voice. And  Our devices, microphones. Now this company is obviously selling advertising opportunities helping you to target your audiences for things like Facebook ads, Google pay per click ads with geofencing. So it's talks about a 10 and 20 mile radius  have a marketing background, can talk about these things.  Talks about a 10 to 20 mile geo fenced radius around these ad campaigns. But the way that they're going to get the data for you to help you target these people is more specific and invasive than any other marketing,  advertising use case ever, right? Like this is the most invasive technology that you could imagine.  They want to listen to your microphones and not they want to. They are, according to this pitch deck, they are listening to your microphones, gathering that data, scrubbing hundreds of thousands of hours of you talking to your spouse, you making love with your spouse, you talking politics with your cousin, you,  whatever it is that you talk about, they're listening on your phone, on your Alexa, and on your computer, your smart TV, everything and anything that has a microphone is a suspect here. And they show it right here on this slide.  And what it says is the power of voice in our devices, microphones, smart devices, capture real time intent data by listening to our conversations. Advertisers compare this voice data with behavioral data to target in market consumers. We use AI. We use, we use, we use, they are actively doing this right now. We use AI to collect this voice data. Data from 470 sources to improve campaign deployment, targeting, and performance. You can reach your potential customers before your competitors  by listening into their microphones, listening into their homes, their bathrooms, their bedrooms.  This is the most egregious privacy violation in history, and  this should terrify everybody. This is unacceptable because if CMG can do this, CMG local solutions. If some random marketing advertising organization can do this, imagine what the NSA and the CIA is doing. And I've talked about this  for the longest time. People like, Oh, they're listening. And then they advertise to me. Oh, they're listening. Then they, they must've heard me talk from through my phone. And then I got this advertisement a minute later and everybody was like, no, no, there's no way that they could do that. They can't scrub the data. They don't have the ability to do it. They don't have the processing possibility or power to be able to do that.  Now they do, they have AI. I have AI use transcriptions all the time for this podcast for plenty of things that I do.  So as long as they can listen to your microphone, they can transcribe your conversations. They know exactly what you're doing, who you're talking to, why you're talking to them, and what you're talking to them about.  Then  they can use that data, put it into a machine learning process or machine learning system. They can use a large language model, something like GPT, and then they can scrub all those conversations to see what are the top 10 products that Austin Adams is interested in this week. And then they can target you with that information. They can also target you. If they're the FBI, if they're the CIA, if they're the local police force, if you're, they're the election police, right? Whatever that is down the road, you have to think about that now. This technology is just emerging to where they actually have the capabilities  of listening to every conversation you have, determining intent,  and then doing something about it.  Now let's read through some more of this.  It says consumers leave data trails based on their conversations and online behavior, AI collects and analyzes this behavior and voice data from 470 sources. Processing voice data with behavioral data identifies an audience who is ready to buy.  We take this data and align it with your products and services to build an audience list in a defined 10 mile radius. This audience list is uploaded into our ad platforms to target your digital advertising. Once launched, the technology automatically analyzes your site traffic and customers to fuel audience targeting with an ongoing basis.  After prep and setup of your account, we developed your audience list. Using the encrypted list. We target your audience through streaming TV, audio display, and pre roll paid social Google Bing and mobile  instantly grow and target a hyper relevant audience, reduce click and acquisition costs, generate lookalike audiences at a fraction of the cost to look like audiences, essentially, when you have a list of a hundred people that all have similar traits, they can try to find a 1 percent comparison  of interest to that list to retarget. So if you have a list of a hundred people,  that list can turn into a thousand people that look. Or act just like those people.  Pricing a hundred dollars a day or $200 a day for a 10 mile radius or a 20 mile radius.  It's actually fairly cheap.  We partner with the best to provide the best They have. This company partnered with Google, Amazon, and Facebook,  which seems to be kind of alluding to who those partnerships are that they're getting those 470 pieces of data from.  Yeah.  Wow.  So there you have it. CMG, local solutions. is now listening into your conversations. And if they have access to this data, so does Facebook. So does Google. So does  Amazon, right? So does the FBI. So does the CIA. So does the local police department. So does the thought police. So does the, the, the, you know, The election police,  this should terrify everybody.  Now, one thing that I've heard Joe Rogan talk about, and  you know, the deal by now,  there's only one way to stop this from happening,  right? There's only one way to stop the relay of information out to these companies, right? If you work at a company where there's sensitive information, where you talk to your spouse about something you don't want your phone to hear.  Right? Your cameras should be covered on your phone. Your cameras should be covered on your, your laptop.  You shouldn't have home security systems like Wwise or Ring. They have access to all of it.  The walls have been breached. They can access your home whenever they want if you have cameras, if you have a cell phone, if you have a webcam, if you have a microphone, if you have an Alexa. The walls have been breached. Now it's time to do something about it before it's weaponized against you. They're building a profile.  They're determining what they can sell you to take your money from you, that you worked so hard for it by convincing you through marketing campaigns,  they're determining if you're going to vote for this person or that person,  but there's only one way to stop it.  And it's by putting your cell phone  somewhere where they cannot hear you. One, that's one way to do it. Unplugging all of your Amazon.  Getting rid of your ring camera. Getting rid of your, your  Wyze cameras from Amazon,  which Wyze just introduced a  that's like one of the lower cost security systems. Wyze just introduced an AI feature where you can search through all of the data where you can search through all of your camera stuff. And this is honestly almost as terrifying as this,  Speech, the predictive audience technology that CMG is talking about here.  This should terrify you too. Why is the security system company security camera company just came out with a email talking about how they are going to allow you to search any and all of your footage using AI search algorithms. So if you have cameras inside and outside of your house, you can say, Hey, Show me all of the video footage of packages being dropped off. Show me all of the video footage of my wife leaving or coming home. Show me all of the videos of our dog taking a shit. Like, why do we need that? We don't need that. You can give us like the little trinkets as a result of the technology that you've developed, but they didn't develop that technology for us. They developed this technology for military uses. They developed this technology so that they can  increase their totalitarian fingers into your life.  They developed this technology. So conglomerate organizations, commercial companies out there can profit on godly amounts of money. They did not make this technology for you. They made it for them.  And you should be very weary when you use it.  Now you can utilize something called when it comes to your phone, right? Unplug your Alexa.  Put it, put a cover on your webcam.  Now you can use something when it comes to your cell phone, right? If you have you know, certain trade secrets that you need for your company.  If you have private conversations with your wife that you don't want people to hear,  right? Because then they can weaponize, they can blackmail you. They could send an audio of you talking about bad about your boss, right? So many different ways that this can be used, like millions and millions of terrible things can happen from this, but you can do one thing about it. And that's utilizing a. Faraday phone sleeve, just like this. Okay. Now this is from my company Ronin and all you do is you pop this open. This is the final version. Finally got the sample in yesterday.  The production is ongoing right now at my manufacturer and we will have these in just a couple of weeks  and you can just slide your phone  right inside  of this.  You can put your phone right inside of this Faraday bag.  It's a bad example cause it's hard to do it and be on camera, but here you go. Put your phone inside of that Faraday bag. Has a nice looking magnetic strip here that closes for you.  And all of the signals from your phone go away. They can't, they can't listen to your microphone. They can't see your camera, right? They can't do any of that if your phone is in a Faraday bag. They can't even send you a text message  if you have a Faraday bag.  So, Get yourself a Faraday bag. There's several companies out there that sell these. Wait a couple of weeks, buy one from ronanbasics. com. That would be supporting  me right here in this endeavor to give you the tools that you need to help fight back against modern technology, which has many, many threats, including EMFs, right? Data and privacy breaches.  So many, so many ways that they're weaponizing technology against you.  One way to fight back  is a  Faraday Sleeve from Ronin. Now we got a couple colors. This is the sand color, which I truly like the most. And then we have this slate color. Color as well. So a couple of weeks, these will be available. You can get 10 and 15 percent off by going to Ronan basics. com. That will sign you up for our newsletter, right? When it pops up and you'll get 15 percent off of your order.  Go put your email and your text messages on. Turn on the put in your phone number and I will send you a text personally when the launch happens and you will get 15 percent off. So head over Ronan basics. com R O N I N basics. com. Get yourself a Faraday phone sleeve. Stop CMG from tracking you and the day the government from being able to know everything that you talk about.  Alright, there you have it.  Next thing we're going to talk about here is going to be the school shooting. So, yesterday in Georgia, in Appalachia  there was a school shooting  terrible, terrible in Georgia.  And so it says a 14 year old student fatally shot four people in a rampage at a Georgia high school, officials say. And this comes from AP News.  I'm sick of this, guys.  I'm sick of it. It makes my heart sink. I have children. I have children who are school age.  I'm so done with it. As a parent, it's terrifying. As a human, it's so sad.  And as a father, it's  very concerning.  I hate seeing this every time.  And like, the more and more this happens, the more I understand the people who are shouting for gun control.  Right? I'll say that one more time. The more this happens, the more I understand the people asking for gun control. The more school shootings there are, the more it makes sense to me why people hold that position. Because  we just don't know what to do about this. Right? There's no answers.  I don't think that that's the answer. I don't think taking people's guns away is the answer. I don't think it'll help anything. I think if anything, the answer is probably arming people within the school systems, which is another difficult barrier to overcome. I think the answer is having active police forces on site at every police or at every high school with armed, trained police officers who can eliminate a threat.  I don't think the answer is taking away guns. But I do understand the argument when everybody just throws up their hands and goes, I don't know what to do, stop, stop this from happening.  It's, like, it's terrible. A 14 year old, like, dude, this kid was 10. 10 years old, a child. A baby. Just 4 years ago. And now they grab a weapon and open fire and kill 4 people.  Like, what do we do? Well, to me, you know, I think the answer is mental health.  I think the answer has to do with pharmaceutical medications, I think the answer has to do far more about pharmaceuticals than it does the weapons, because this 14 year old could have went in there and stabbed a bunch of people.  It says a 14 year old student opened fire to the Georgia High School and killed four people on Wednesday, authorities said, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms,  and eventually to the football stadium, as officers swarmed the campus and parents raced to find if their children were safe.  The dead were identified as two students and two teachers at Appalachee High School in Winder, about an hour's drive from Atlanta.  Killed were two fourteen year olds, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo,  and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Iremi.  Georgia Bureau of Investigative Director Chris Hosey said in a nighttime news conference,  At least nine other people, eight students and one teacher, were taken to hospitals with injuries, all expected to survive.  The words, hard lockdown, appeared on a screen in junior Leila Farrell's health class, and lights began flashing. She and her frightened classmates piled desks and chairs in front of the door to create a barricade. Sophomore Kaylee Abner, was in geometry class when she heard the gunshots. She and her classmates ducked behind their teacher's desk, and then the teacher began flipping the desk in an attempt to barricade the classroom's door.  A classmate beside her was praying, and she held his hand, and while they all waited for police.  After students poured into the football stadium, Abner saw teachers who had taken off their shirts to help treat gunshot wounds.  Two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots were, that shots went out.  The suspect, a student at the school, immediately surrendered and was taken into custody. You coward.  He is being charged as an adult with murder. Authorities said the weapon was an assault style rifle.  The teen had been interviewed  after the FBI received anonymous tips in 2023 of May about online threats to commit an unspecified  school shooting.  So the knew about this kid.  More than a year ago  that he was planning to do this and it still happened, right? But I mean, what can you do if you can't prove anything? How do you take them? You can't take them to jail. You can't put them in juvie, right? You should put them in therapy and have consistent follow up. I mean, that's the answer.  The FBI narrowed the threats down and referred to the case to the Sheriff's department at Jackson County, which is an adjacent to Barrow County.  The Sheriff's office interviewed the then 13 year old and his father who said there were hunting guns in the house. But the teen did not have unsupervised access to them. The teen also denied making on the online.  The Sheriff's office alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the team, but there was no probable cause for arrest. Yeah. Right. That's difficult. How, what, what can you do legally?  Jose said that the state division  of family and children services, also a previous contact with the team and we'll investigate whether or not that has any connection with the shooting authorities were still looking into how the suspect obtained the gun used in the shooting and got it into the school.  Yeah, no school. No, no gun zones don't work guys. There's probably a sign and it was illegal, right? It doesn't help to have additional gun control. My heart hurts for these kids. My head hurts or my heart hurts for our community He said but I want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this County I want to be very clear and known love will prevail over what happened today.  Gosh, just imagine if that was your kid Before Wednesday, there had been 29 mass shootings in the U. S. so far this year. According to a database maintained by the Associated Press and U. S. Today in partnership with Northeastern University, at least 127 people have died in those 29 mass shootings, which are defined as incidents with four or more people have died within a 24 hour period, not including the killer. The same definition used by the FBI.  So 29 mass shootings this year now that doesn't that also includes like gang related shootings Which excuse that quite a bit last year ended with 217 deaths and 42 mashing I want to know like how many school shootings are there  now how many people shot each other in Chicago?  I'm Wednesday and wonder Landon Culver an 11th grader said he stepped out of his algebra class to get a drink of water when he Heard shots and then saw someone wearing a black hoodie with a long gun. I didn't really stick around too long to look he said Instead, he ran back inside the classroom and locked the door. The class huddled in the back in the dark and waited for a rampage to end.  Culver listened as gunshots rang out in the building. You're just wondering, like, which one of those is going to be somebody that you're best friends with or somebody that you love. Later police officers arrived and escorted the students out as they were leaving the building.  Culver saw multiple people who had been shot. You hear about this kind of stuff and you're like, you never think it's going to happen until it's happening.  Jeez.  Oh, man. So like I said, I understand. I understand the position. I mean, I understand the emotional attachment to wanting gun control here.  I think it's a flawed argument.  I think it doesn't work. I think that there's better arguments and that in many cases, equipping people who are capable. With  the tools that they need to fight back is probably the better answer.  But again, I, I, I'm not on insensitive to why people believe that because it's just like, what do you do with this point? How, what can we do? What can we try? What, what, what are the opportunities here? Is it eliminating pharmaceutical medications to people under the age of whatever, right? How, how can we solve this issue?  Even if it's one a year, two a year, three a year, that's terrible. How can we solve this issue and what can we done about it? And I don't think there's an answer. I don't think there's a right answer, and I think it'll continue, and it'll continue whether there was no guns in the world. Right, the problem with gun control is that the people that you should fear most, historically, is the government. And they're not giving their guns away.  So no matter how many school shootings there are, the argument that guns are, getting rid of guns in the public's hand is the answer, is not the correct answer. Because the enemy is the one taking your guns.  Always, historically, is the government that is over top of you, the totalitarian regimes that eventually occur when there is no ability to fight back against your government.  And these, these deaths are sad and terrible and I hope they never happen and I hope there's a solution and  it's just not the answer.  So, the Tennessee Star did come out with a  with the,  Audrey Hale's manifesto from Nashville, Tennessee.  But we're going to cover that next time. I think it deserves a little bit more time and attention, although I would say there's not a ton in there that talks about why, other than the trans situation and some weird love interests. So stick around next time. Without keeping you around too long, subscribe, leave a five star review. I appreciate you head over to RonanBasics. com, put in your information into the email pop up that jumps up there and the text messages, and you'll get 15 percent off and you'll have first notice when these phone sleeves launch, right? Very excited about this. This is what I'm most excited about. This is really why I went down this path. You can also get yourself a Faraday EMF blocking hat, which is the one I'm wearing on my head.  I will see you next time here,  the Atoms Archive.  Atoms Archive. 

It's CEDIA time and once again we will be hosting a HomeTech Happy Hour in Denver. More information and how to RSVP is here!On this week's show: CEDIA is right around the corner, Ubiquiti unveils UniFi Premium Audio, Luon launches Apple Home compatible devices, Wyze introduces a smart bird feeder, Chick-fil-A surprisingly enters the streaming service arena, Ring adds package detection to its budget doorbell, Samsung promises 7 years of TV updates, Amazon's Echo Show 8 loses a key feature, and Govee releases Matter-compatible outdoor lights. We dive into a mailbag question about window sensors, share a thrilling pick of the week, give project updates, and take a look at things for TJ to do in Springfield, Missouri. All this and more on this packed episode!

On this week's show: Google Chromecast is out, but Google Gemini is in, Nest shows off a nice new thermostat, Aqara and Meross launch new mmWave sensors, Roku might be dropping Wyze for cameras, Apple is supporting adaptive lighting on Matter devices, Nanoleaf launches a cool new storage product, a mailbag question, two picks of the week, Home Assistant updates, and so much more!

Tune in to "The Juice with Jess Cervellon" for an exciting episode featuring Logan Dunn, Head of e-Commerce at Wyze Labs, recorded live at SubSummit in Dallas. Logan shares how integrating advanced tech like generative AI can transform customer relationships and elevate brand experiences.Join Jess and Logan as they discuss how new skills like coding can boost career opportunities and make the most of AI tools. Discover Logan's innovative strategies for unifying customer experiences across channels and shifting from traditional marketing to cutting-edge AI techniques.Logan also talks about Wyze Labs' focus on community building and using feedback loops to enhance customer loyalty. Learn how they've moved from generic email blasts to personalized content with tools like Braze, and how they use AI for video analysis and customer interaction.Don't miss this episode packed with practical advice for anyone looking to leverage AI and community building in their business journey!-------------------------------------

Gladys Lipschitz returns for a vibrant cuntversation about Gaza and BroadWAY. Also a rave review of Handbag Productions' "Poor People." Album art by Taylor Haggerty (Faggerty)

This is a special episode from our show “Engineering Founders” - Jon Perl & Scott Wilson share the origin story of QA Wolf & deconstruct their best practices (and what to avoid) for early-stage cold outreach, how to add value to your cold email communications, and why experimenting with your cold outreach is important to early sales! We also dive in to the story behind QA Wolf's strategic move to incorporate services into their business strategy & tangible ways to add accountability measures that will help drive growth in the early days of your company. Check out Engineering Founders - https://hubs.la/Q02tq5ym0ABOUT JON PERLJon Perl is the co-founder and CEO of QA Wolf, a startup building the QA solution every engineering leader wishes for. Prior to QA Wolf, Perl led engineering teams in the healthcare and home services space, where he learned firsthand how difficult automated regression testing can be — and how critical it is for teams to have. His interest in software engineering comes from an overarching desire to eliminate boring, repetitive tasks and give people their time back. He has a dog named Finn and enjoys hiking."Your goal is simply to book a meeting. You're not trying to close a deal through one email. It's like, 'How can I just get on the phone with somebody?' That's the goal.”- Jon Perl   ABOUT SCOTT WILSONAs co-founder and head of growth at QA Wolf, Scott Wilson is trying to upend 20+ years of stagnation in the QA industry. Before this he launched the marketing efforts at Wyze and helped acquire 6 million paying customers. If he's not working, you might find him backpacking with Frank the dog, or learning a new illusion."It's not referencing the weather in Seattle or that you got promoted. Personalization is being contextually relevant to the person. This is how your mind should be thinking. It's like, 'I saw you're a hundred person company with nine engineers on your team and no QA engineers. You're probably going through this and here's a solution for it.'”- Scott Wilson   We now have 10 local communities of engineering leaders hosting in-person meetups all over the world!Local communities are led by eng leaders just like you, who wanted to create a place to connect, share insights & tackle critical challenges in the job.New York City, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, and Toronto in-person events are happening now!We're launching local events all the time - get involved at elc.community!SHOW NOTES:The origin story of QA Wolf & the desire to build an automated QA system (2:08)What got Scott excited about joining the QA Wolf founding team (7:14)Scott's experience as the non-technical cofounder on the team (9:13)Learn enough to be dangerous & be willing to persist as a founder (10:38)The approach of paying people you can learn from & its impact on QA Wolf (14:11)Lessons learned about cold emailing & effective strategies to implement (17:12)Cold emailing strategies that don't work (21:00)How to add value to email communication & incorporate experimentation (22:24)Why they shifted the focus from coding to sales / outreach / identifying solutions (26:23)Make accountability mechanisms a key component of early-stage teams (29:09)The false signal of free users & expanding product into services (30:45)Identifying a gap in the business & being open-minded to new ideas (33:20)What the initial testing for QA Wolf's services approach looked like (35:22)Jon & Scott's perspective on dealing w/ investors in the automated services space (38:31)Rapid fire questions (44:01)LINKS AND RESOURCES$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying NoHow to Hire a Product-Led Sales Leader – at Every StageThis episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

I will be welcoming Jerry to the show. Jerry writes “I lived deep in Provo Canyon, in Utah, in a camper trailer with thousands of square miles of forest right behind where I lived. The first month and a half I lived there was peaceful. One day it felt like I was being watched and I had a bad feeling almost like I was sick. I fell asleep that night and woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. I had 2 “Wyze” cameras set up inside my trailer (Later I faced one outside so I could see what was happening, although they avoided the infrared light) that recorded 24/7 and they also have night vision but a crappy microphone for audio recording. So when I woke up I immediately felt like I was being watched and that something was wrong. I checked the recording on my phone from the camera as I just had a feeling that something woke me up. I looked at the recording from my cameras on my phone and there was a big BANG as if something slapped the side of my trailer thus waking me up. The video titled “Attack1” shows what I saw and what happened and you can hear me wake up from it. I was trying to justify what the bang was but something felt off so I stayed up all night and A LOT more happened. “attack2”, “attack3”, and “attack4” videos are all from that night some being very violent. the camera microphone is very cheap so you will need to turn the volume all the way up to hear what it sounded like and it still was louder in person. The cameras record clips when a sound is loud enough or when it detects motion. At that time the cameras were both inside my trailer recording the inside. The creatures were just outside my door that night and if I had opened my door I would have seen them. I was scared stiff in my bed trying to be silent and I was just frozen to say the least. I heard whistling and quick “whooops” coming from behind my trailer where some bushes were and also from the side and front of my trailer as I lay there all night not being able to move, breathe, or make a sound. My cat was very curious as to what was going on as you can see in the videos and you can tell where the sasquatch was standing from where my cat is. Once the sasquatch hit the trailer my cat would get scared and run back to me in my room. I could hear the sasquatch run away but only the first 3 steps as they left. then BANG they came back to hit the trailer again later in the night. I could hear the whistling and whooping throughout the night. The next day I quickly left my trailer with my camera once the light came out and Very quickly took pictures in the directions where I had heard the whistling and whooping. It took me some time to look at the pictures but when I did I was shocked once I zoomed in and studied the pictures. There was a BIG one hiding next to a house showing his teeth at me and this photo was taken from behind my trailer. Also, the black one hiding in the bushes was taken from the front of my trailer. In both photos, they are both about 200 yards away and the pictures were taken with a 1080p Sony camera which is why the zoomed-in photos are a little grainy. Now those videos are from 1 night, and the photos from the morning right after. I included pictures of both areas without the sasquatch for comparison as well. Yes, there were some tracks and I have some photos if you want them. I only stayed there as I was hoping the attacks would stop but after a month of trying they became bolder and bolder and I had to abandon the trailer, take what I could carry and my cat to my car while looking down at the ground so that I wouldn't see one in person (seeing one in person with my eyes would have been way too much for my mind). Yes, I saw a HUGE male sasquatch, through the night vision camera and I have never been more scared in my life. this email would be a book if I wrote all that happened during that month and I am shaking while writing this and I feel sick. I included a video of a possible sasquatch on my landlord's roof that has his arm reaching down and he pulls it up as he lifts his face towards the camera as if he hates it. His face is lit up by a light and infrared light which is why I think his face looks like it is glowing. It was also raining and it appears that there is a water droplet that moved and then the infrared becomes stronger on its face and that's when you see his arm move up and face turn up. I am curious what you think about this video. there is another picture that appears to show a brownish female sasquatch and her arm standing to the left of what I think is the big one but I admit it is not the best photo. There is also a photo of a possible dogman but it is a long exposure. I heard sounds I can't describe, my windows were ALL covered so I put my phone under the blanket covering the window and took the photo. I hope it's not what it looks like but I figured I would include it and you can make up your own mind about it. I NEVER went back to the trailer to get my stuff. but that's a long story I can tell you over the phone. As much as I love the mountains I have never been back to any of them since. I was a Boy Scout and lived for camping my whole life. I grew up and lived right next to Little Cottonwood Canyon and spent most of my life exploring, camping, and hiking in the mountains and all over Utah and it makes me cry that it has been ruined for me. I have so much more to tell you that I can't write out but people need to know what can happen and that these creatures are real and to be careful. Once I got a little vocal about what was happening with my landlord, the other tenants, and my family (sometimes showing some of them just some of the pictures and videos I have) The other tenants moved out of the mountains 3 days later, my family thought I needed help, and the landlord KNEW (I have theories about him) about these things and then he also ended up moving around the time my lease was up (I had paid in full for 6 months upfront). Anyway, I am a bit worked up typing this as the PTSD from this is still there, although I am doing much better now and I can communicate much better in person and explain so much more in a way that makes better sense as it is hard to convey 40 days ish of being tormented and scared to death through a shortish email. Also, the aftermath of what can happen when you are vocal with the wrong people that “I had/have A LOT of evidence of these creatures”. I feel that this needs to be shared so others do not make some of the mistakes I made hopefully or at least get this off of my chest with people who know this is real. I apologize if this message does not make much sense and I hope to talk to you and go through what has happened to me while being trapped and tormented deep in Provo Canyon. People need to be warned and I need to get this message out of what can happen.” https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sc-ep1046-three-months-in-hell/

On this week's show: Wyze launches a new camera, Hue and SmartThings launch an app, eero announces wireless cables, TJ reviews some Nanoleaf products, Seth's SwitchBot saga, project updates, a pick of the week, and so much more.

We've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their own but turn out to be two great podcast tastes that, uh, taste great together... anyway, first we talk about the benchmark Will is currently creating in Unreal Engine to push CPUs and GPUs in a game development context, and then we check in on how the grand unification of smart home devices is coming along with the new Matter and Thread standards, now that products have been on the market for a year or so. There's definitely just one standard now, right? ...Right?Articles referenced in this ep:The Verge on a year with Matter & Thread: https://www.theverge.com/23997548/matter-smart-home-2023-platformsArs Technica on the continued value of Zigbee and Z-Wave: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/i-was-wrong-to-ignore-zigbee-and-z-wave-theyre-the-best-part-of-my-smart-home/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hims.com/twit ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT NetSuite.com/TWIT www.stamps.com promo code TWIT

How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hims.com/twit ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT NetSuite.com/TWIT www.stamps.com promo code TWIT

How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hims.com/twit ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT NetSuite.com/TWIT www.stamps.com promo code TWIT

How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hims.com/twit ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT NetSuite.com/TWIT www.stamps.com promo code TWIT

How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hims.com/twit ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT NetSuite.com/TWIT www.stamps.com promo code TWIT

CIGNA, Microsoft, Wyze, Schneider Electric, Insomniac Games, LAX airport, U-Haul, Facebook and the worst year ever for data breaches round out this week's hot mess express!

With the latest glitch with Wyze security cams, giving users access to other people's video feeds, how do you protect your cloud footage from prying eyes? We'll also talk about AI and chatbots going off the rails. Who's responsible for bad information when they do?   Can't get enough of GetConnected and our charmingly nerdy hosts? Subscribe to the GetConnected podcast. You can also find us on the web, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and yes, even on TikTok.  

We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more. Special Guest: Raid Owl.

On this week's show: Walmart acquires TV maker Vizio for the ads, a Wyze glitch affects 13,000, Inovelli launches Matter devices, and Josh.ai launches all new voices and a touch and other new products at their winter launch event. A pick of the week, project updates, and so more more.

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

Timestamps: 0:00 remain at a safe distance please 0:12 iPhone 16 leaks point to big AI features 2:09 EU opens proceedings against TikTok 3:40 Google Gemma AI is open-source 5:37 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:47 ISP off the hook for user piracy 6:24 Elon Musk claims Neuralink progress 7:04 AI godfather Bengio urges deepfake regulation 7:52 Wyze addresses security breach 8:23 European satellite falls out of orbit News Sources: https://lmg.gg/g3tf9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

-Have some meat IN your Rice: https://www.engadget.com/youve-tried-plant-based-meat-but-here-come-meat-based-plants-163654564.html -Glowing Petunias you can buy: https://newatlas.com/around-the-home/bioluminescent-firefly-petunias-light-bio/ -Walmart is Buying Vizio: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/20/24078060/walmart-vizio-acquisition-deal -Hate your family? Go to fake Mars! https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/02/17/0513216/martians-wanted-nasa-opens-call-for-simulated-yearlong-mars-mission?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed -New drug makes food allergies less life-threatening: https://arstechnica.com/?p=2004231 -OpenAI's Sora will be the end of the world: https://www.engadget.com/openais-new-sora-model-can-generate-minute-long-videos-from-text-prompts-195717694.html?src=rss -More Vision Pro thoughts! -Commercial lander https://www.sciencealert.com/success-spacex-launches-us-moon-lander-in-bid-to-make-space-history -Wyze… again. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/wyze-cameras-gave-13000-people-unauthorized-views-of-strangers-homes/ -Not the Glasses we want, but maybe the ones we deserve https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067485/frame-ai-smart-glasses-brilliant-labs -Sora, OpenAI Vidio generation is nuts! https://gizmodo.com/openais-sora-is-a-giant-f-ck-you-to-reality-1851261587  

Nate just got back to town from Social Media Marketing World in San Diego. There was a lot of AI talk there so he recaps some of what is here now and what is coming in AI and how we use it. There's also more stories about AI, because it is moving fast. Besides AI, we've got the other tech stories you might care about and some great tips and picks to help you tech better.  Watch on YouTube! INTRO (00:00) FOLLOWUP: Social Media Marketing World 2024 (2:20) OpenAI's Sora creates 1-minute videos from text (16:25) Nvidia Overtakes Alphabet, One Day After Eclipsing Amazon (20:15) DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Background Sounds in iOS (23:30) JUST THE HEADLINES: (29:35) Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period' Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day Google Joins Satellite Mission To Scan Globe for Methane Leaks TAKES: Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business (31:50) Apple Officially Warns Users To Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice (35:25) Insider steals 79,000 email addresses at work to promote own business (38:15) Wyze camera outage allowed some users to spy inside others' homes (40:30) Bonus Odd Take: Things Unexpectedly Named After People (44:50) PICKS OF THE WEEK: Dave: Car Jump Starter, BUTURE 1500A Peak 13800mAh Portable Car Battery Starter up to 7.0L Gas/5.5L Diesel Engines Auto Battery Booster Pack with Smart Safety Jumper Cable, Fast Outputs 3.0 (50:30) Nate: “Not Pick” 2024 Upgraded Version - Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB-C Cable 1M/Portable [Apple MFi Certified] Magnetic Wireless Charging Compatible with Apple Watch Series 9/8/7/6/SE/5/4/3/2 - White (55:00) RAMAZON PURCHASE (58:00) Find us elsewhere: https://notpicks.com https://www.youtube.com/c/Notnerd https://ratethispodcast.com/notnerd https://www.tiktok.com/@notnerdpod https://www.twitter.com/n0tnerd/ https://www.instagram.com/n0tnerd https://www.facebook.com/n0tnerd/ info@Notnerd.com

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

What is the Amazon Echo Hub, and how is it different from Amazon's current Echo lineup? If you own a Wyze camera, you may have received a notification of a security incident with the company. A review of Microsoft Copilot Pro. And Apple releases their Sports app and announce that iMessage is getting post-quantum encryption. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah to talk about her review of the Amazon Echo Hub and the difference between this device and the overall Echo lineup from Amazon. Wyze announced a security incident with its devices that allowed a very small group of its users to access thumbnail images from other users. Chris Hoffman of The Intelligence & Computerworld chats with Mikah about his review of Microsoft Copilot Pro, the technology behind this offering from Microsoft, and what it can do. Finally, Apple released its very own sports app called Apple Sports, and Mikah explains the idea behind iMessage getting post-quantum encryption and what it means for the app. Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Chris Hoffman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/TNW bitwarden.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT wix.com/studio for Tech News Weekly

February 21, 2024   Hour 2:  After Ruben Almarez was nearly hit by a car while checking his mail, improvements have been made to the notoriously dangerous intersection at Tulare and Minnewawa.  Wyze, a security camera company boasting 10 million users, is in hot water after a breach allowed 13,000 customers to see into other people's homes.  KMJ's Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson  Weekdays 2-6PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ  Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and X  Listen to past episodes at kmjnow.com  Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, or Amazon Music    Contact See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

This week Simon Quigley, and Rick Timmis from Kubuntu join the Ask Noah Show to talk about the issues surrounding Kubuntu and what the path looks like going forward. -- During The Show -- 01:18 Ajit Pai Feedback - Chris The question is "when to regulate" Purpose of govt is to protect people Bad situations exist Internet is becoming essential 05:58 Self Hosting Email - Jon Dealing with black lists stinks Security is a moving target Project like Nextcloud incorporates email Down time responsibility Noah is NOT in the "go host your own email boat" Simon's Cisco link (https://blogs.cisco.com/security/february-1-2024-a-date-all-email-senders-should-care-about) Email security requirements 13:34 FrePBX and Firewalls - Austin Sangomakb Knowledge Base (https://sangomakb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FP/pages/12124292/Asterisk+and+FreePBX+Deployment+Questionnaire) FreePBX has evolved Don't expose anything you don't have to Noah's home setup Voxtelesys & 3CX 17:15 Long Term Backups? - Charlie Don't store long term data on flash media Used drives can be ok 3-2-1 Rule Test your backup 18:49 SkoobaSteve Over the Air TV HDHomeRun Network TV Self host TV 21:38 News Wire Linux Kernel CNA - Kroah.com (http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2024/02/13/linux-is-a-cna/) Firefox 123 - Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/123.0/releasenotes/) Auto cpufreq 2.2.0 - GitHub (https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq/releases) Miracle-wm - GitHub (https://github.com/mattkae/miracle-wm/releases/tag/v0.1.0) Louvre 1.2.0 - GitHub (https://github.com/CuarzoSoftware/Louvre/releases/tag/v1.2.0-2) RISC-V Kernel Builds - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-With-Clang-LTO-Linux-6.9) Asahi & OpenGL - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects-opengl-support-on-apple-silicon-officially-surpasses-apples/) Apple Insider (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/15/asahi-linux-conformant-to-opengl-46-opengl-es-32-on-apple-silicon-macs) E-Gov Diia - Twitter (https://twitter.com/fedorovmykhailo/status/1757693273269788997?s=46&t=7ugGYitUqcbsg7Y6lXRo-w) freenginx fork - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/nginx-key-developer-starts-a-freenginx-fork-after-dispute-with-parent-firm/) Wi-Fi Auth Bypass - Security Week (https://www.securityweek.com/new-wi-fi-authentication-bypass-flaws-expose-home-enterprise-networks/) Migo Malware Campaign - Info Security (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-malware-migo-targets-redis/) Ivanti Pulse Secure Weaknesses - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/ivanti-pulse-secure-found-using-11-year.html) Ubiquiti Routers Infected - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/doj-turns-tables-on-russian-hackers-uses-their-malware-to-wipe-out-botnet/) Cohere Aya Model - Siliconangle (https://siliconangle.com/2024/02/13/cohere-ai-unveils-aya-multilingual-open-source-ai-101-languages/) 24:38 Kubuntu Interview Rick Timis Kubuntu Consular/Community Manager Simon Quigley Kubuntu Member What happened? What would have been the future of Kubuntu? How did Rick get involved? Bringing the consul together What does Kubuntu look like going forward? Is Kubuntu considering the new flutter installer? Downstream vendors/use cases Kubuntu hardware partners/vendors Kubuntu support JPL Helicopter 40:40 Cloud vs Self Hosting Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/wyze-cameras-gave-13000-people-unauthorized-views-of-strangers-homes/) Can you blame Wyze for not securing the feeds? Wyze cameras go offline due to AWS 3rd party caching client 2nd leak in less than 6 months If code is not open source, no one can raise the alarm Eufy lied about not uploading data Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/eufys-no-clouds-cameras-upload-facial-thumbnails-to-aws/) If it's not client side encrypted, it can be leaked The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/20/wyze_admits_13000_users_allowed_feed_access/) Centralization of services Open source can be fixed Closed source, helpless If you care about privacy, host it yourself on open source 51:10 Chat room feedback Plex and Jellyfin can be used as HDHomeRun receiver 51:30 Kubuntu Design Contest Kubuntu Design Contest (https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-graphic-design-contest/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/377) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they're excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guests: JT Pennington and Simon Quigley.

Wyze breach Microsoft patch Tuesday fixes 15 remote code execution flaws Why are there password restrictions? The Canadian Flipper Zero Ban Security on the old internet Using Old Passwords Passwordless login TOTP as a second factor German ISP using default router passwords Email encryption in transit pfSense Tailscale integration DuckDuckGo's email protection integration with Bitwarden The KeyTrap Vulnerability Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-962-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: panoptica.app kolide.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Working out on the weekends. Wyze security glitch. This day in history. Winner! College Station Mayor John Nichols. Maddie and Daddy adventures. Eyelashes.

Perhaps the biggest law enforcement action against a ransomware gang ever. Once again, you could view other people's cameras on your Wyze camera. How Anthropic is raising to do battle with OpenAI. Are the VCs flocking back to San Francisco? And comprehensive proof that defense tech is the new VC hotness.Links:FBI Seizes LockBit Hacking Websites in Ransomware Disruption (Bloomberg)Wyze outage led to the cameras of 13,000 customers being shown to other users (9to5Google)Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (Bloomberg)Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups (NYTimes)Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back. (WSJ)UK, Allies Look to Arm Ukraine With AI-Enabled Swarm Drones (Bloomberg)How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones and glory (Washington Post)Pursuing ‘American Dynamism,' Andreessen Horowitz Ups Its Game in DC (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Wyze camera issue allowed users to see other owners' homes, the Biden administration may give automakers more time to shift to EVs, and NASA is looking for volunteers to live in its Mars simulation for a year. It's Monday, February 19th and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once each year we discuss air conditioning and airflow at transmitter sites - and we do so in preparation for hot summer weather. But what about temperature control and monitoring during the cold winter months? What issues arise when it’s cold outside but the transmitter is still making plenty of heat? There are many variations in scenarios, but Joe Fleming advises that monitoring the temperature at key locations is important to keeping tabs on your HVAC system and your transmitter’s health. Show Notes:We mentioned Bard HVAC units for transmitter sites.What is “Low Ambient” and how can we modify an HVAC system to deal with it? Joe showed temp graphs created by an NTI Micro Environment Monitoring SystemThere’s also an NTI Low-Cost Environment Monitoring System – Supports up to 24 Temperature SensorsKirk likes these Wyze Cam Pan v3 units for about $25 each on saleKirk puts these wall thermometers in the transmitter building, in view of a Wyze cam. Guest:Joe Fleming - Engineer at Virginia Public Media Host:Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on FacebookTWiRT is brought to you by:Nautel brings you Transmission Talk Tuesday Discussions. Easy, free registration is here.Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Angry Audio and the new Rave analog audio mixing console. The new MaxxKonnect Broadcast U.192 MPX USB Soundcard - The first purpose-built broadcast-quality USB sound card with native MPX output. Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

On this week's show the HT Guys take a trip down memory lane and discuss what they are thankful  for. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. News: Bankrupt Diamond Sports Group ‘Is Now Going To Shut Down' Sonos fixes its Dolby Atmos loud pop issue after years of complaints Samsung TV Plus Touts 60% Global Viewership Increase in 1 Year Cable TV and Satellite ‘Risk Fading Into the Background Faster Than Anyone Expected' Other: Club Hotel - Book a Reservation! - Each room has a 40" TCL Roku TV and high speed internet. Button Worx - Remote Control Button Repair Mark's Wyze Garage Door Controller Installation Hints Close all the apps on the smartphone. Shut it down and restart it, opening only the Wyze app and home Wi-Fi software.  I have an eero Wi-Fi system. I enabled "Legacy Mode" in case the camera had trouble with IPV6. Also, I disabled the 5 Ghz band for 10 minutes because the camera uses the 2.4 Ghz band. I used my eero Guest Network to set up the camera because it is far less crowded that my "regular" eero network. The QR code's 8 ½ x 11-inch size made it too big for a single panel of my garage door. I solved this by scanning the letter-size QR code, and then printing it at 60 pct. so it would fit on a single panel. This way, when the garage door opens and closes, it doesn't crease or wrinkle the QR code sticker. I had a licensed electrician connect the two wires to my garage door opener, which was installed in 2006. My reasoning was that I know nothing about electrical wiring, and if anything went wrong, the electrician could fix it. Nothing went wrong, and the electrician did the hook-up in 15 seconds.  A-Lady integration involved setting up the Wyze "skill," which was easy and which the Wyze directions explained. HT Guys Reminisce about the early days of their Podcast  This is the link to the winner of the HT Guys Ultimate Home Theater contest from 12 years ago. Become part of the Dolby Digital Experience  

We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.

After complaints, Amazon will start requiring writers who sell through Amazon's e-book program to disclose if their work includes artificial intelligence material. Friday, some Wyze security camera owners noted on Reddit that they were able to see webcam feeds that weren't their own, an error chalked up to a web-caching issue by Wyze. Meta is testing a cross-platform WhatsApp messaging feature to comply with the EU's DMA directive.Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After complaints, Amazon will start requiring writers who sell through Amazon's e-book program to disclose if their work includes artificial intelligence material. Friday, some Wyze security camera owners noted on Reddit that they were able to see webcam feeds that weren't their own, an error chalked up to a web-caching issue by Wyze. Meta is testing a cross-platform WhatsApp messaging feature to comply with the EU's DMA directive. Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe To read the show notes in a separate page click here! Support the show on Patreon by becoming a supporter!