Day: January 3, 2006

The first TWIT of the new year! This week’s hosts are Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, and Kenji Kato, and the discussion is off to a glorious start.

Everyone is getting geared up for CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), and the crew chat a little about science fiction becoming science fact. The crew wonders if Apple will use Intel branding on its systems, and Intel drops the “Intel Inside” marketing slogan and is replacing the term “pentium” with “core.” Interesting. The crew talk about how both the White House and the NSA public websites violate federal guidelines and use tracking cookies.

Also in the bad news department, Symantec has flaws in 62 of their products, and the fact that the Windows Metafile Flaw still goes unpatched by Microsoft is no consolation. The group discuss the pending Intel Macintoshes, and wonder whether or not those systems will run windows seamlessly, and what that means for the business of porting software from Windows to Mac (and whether anyone will continue doing it at all). Seagate buys Maxtor, Sony settles it’s class-action suit over the rootkit DRM, and much much more! Enjoy!

This Week In Tech [TWIT] Episode 36 // January 1, 2006
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Weezy and The Swish ring in the new year with their 30th podcast! Congratulations, Laura, Louise, and Matt-for 30 hilarious episodes that make the beginning of the week that much more worthwhile! This week on Weezy and The Swish, special comedian guests, Kelly Kursten and Wyatt Cenac join the crew and the group ring in the new year in style-complete with resolutions, best/worst lists, and much much more. Get the new year off to the right start, listen to Weezy and The Swish!

Weezy and The Swish Episode 30 // January 2, 2006
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On this lovely episode of DiggNation, Alex and Kevin wrap up but a few of the top-rated stories on Digg (because a lot of them are growing in number), most specifically, a man whose camera was stolen and he winds up buying his stolen camera back on eBay, footage from the new Zelda game coming out for the Gamecube and (potentially) the Nintendo Revolution later this year, an actual Bender prototype, Pando, and 25 interesting webcams! Download and enjoy!

DiggNation Episode 27 // December 29, 2005
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Like any good technology security show, Security Now! is out of the gate and all over a new windows vulnerability, doing overtime to make sure we’re well informed and well prepared to deal with a gaping hole in all versions of Microsoft Windows that several websites are already trying to exploit. It[‘s a super short special edition, but it’s definitely a must-hear, so Windows 2000 and Windows XP users can snag the fix for the vulnerability that’s out on the net from a gracious third party-Microsoft has yet to produce a patch.

Security Now! Special Edition: WMF Vulnerability Update // January 1, 2006
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Like any good technology security show, Security Now! is out of the gate and all over a new windows vulnerability, doing overtime to make sure we’re well informed and well prepared to deal with a gaping hole in all versions of Microsoft Windows that several websites are already trying to exploit. It[‘s a super short special edition, but it’s definitely a must-hear, so Windows 2000 and Windows XP users can snag the fix for the vulnerability that’s out on the net from a gracious third party-Microsoft has yet to produce a patch.

Security Now! Special Edition: WMF Vulnerability Update // January 1, 2006
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The 20th Security Now! is a question-and-answer episode, with Steve and Leo taking listener questions and providing answers to all manner of question. They get us up to speed with a serious and unpatched security flaw in all versions of windows for which there is a virus out right now, and once we’re settled in on that, we start working on listener questions.

The pair talk about everything from logging in to secure websites, securing Windows Remote Desktop, NAT routers as hardware firewalls, speed issues with VPN, and much much more. It’s a good show, enjoy!

Security Now! Episode 20 // December 29, 2005
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