Hey Microsoft, FIX THIS

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Timestamps:
0:00 you should know this
0:09 Windows "Downdate" attacks
1:14 Apple's new EU app linking fees
2:28 Intel microcode patch update
4:33 QUICK BITS
4:40 GPT-4o impersonated testers' voice
5:38 SteamOS beta hints at general install
6:25 0.0.0.0 Day vulnerability patched
7:06 3 BILLION people's data exposed?
7:41 Solving fusion energy with mayonnaise

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[techlinked]

look it's 11pm over here but the important thing is that we got the video up. also I forgot to mention that the Windows Downdate vulnerability requires access to the PC, so it's kind of serious for enterprise, but most of you quirky gamers aren't really in danger. sleep tight

[willynebula]

Why the actual F is there an online company with the records of three billion people in the first place!

[rrune]

Showing the Windows Exploit in public is part of the responsible disclosure. If a researcher found it, chances are a malicious actor found it too and is using it right now. They gave Microsoft time to figure it out, and because they obviously didn't care until now, they just got a pretty good reason to care. The publication part is necessary to put pressure on the company to fix it before it goes public

[awaisahmed]

Engineer - someone just flinged some Mayo at me

What the Hell-man

[ejtaylor]

Let's hope that lawsuit for the data breach wins, 3 BILLION people is almost half the entire world population. If companies are going to collect people's personal data, then they need to be responsible for safe guarding it, and be forced to pay extremely excessive fines when they fail to, and pay for the people they doxxed, to have their stolen identity fixed.

[mistaboombosticyt]

Apple: "Explain it to me like I'm 5."

EU: *explains*

Apple: "Explain it to me like I'm 4."

[AnonymousFreakYT]

1:13 - The main reason for actually presenting the flaws before a fix is available is "responsible disclosure" - you give the vendor plenty of time to fix it, but when that time is up, you release it.

Because without that deadline of "I'm going to release it on Aug 11" - the vendor might just keep ignoring it.

Responsible disclosure is supposed to give the vendor time - and six months (since February) is plenty of time.

(Disclaimer, I am "a hacker" currently at the DEF CON conference, and looking forward to this talk.)

[AndreiKucharavy]

Re: Blackhat - unfortunately it is the responsible thing to go public after 6 months to ensure companies treat disclosures responsibly and patch.

[billyeveryteen]

No, Apple is perfectly aware of what they're doing. It's called "malicious compliance." It's charming when a homeowner does it to spite stupid HOA rules, less charming when it's a trillion dollar company doing it to keep anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices in play.

[pianissimo]

At this point, just ask for my personal data, its being leaked everywhere anyway.

[alezanders]

ChatGPT accidentally impersonating you is genuinely one of the creepiest bug I’ve ever heard and definitely doesn’t make me feel better about how irresponsible OpenAI is

[TalesOfWar]

The data breach story here is the absolute most important one and was largely glossed over. How the hell does ONE company have that kind of information on HALF the planets population? That's practically every person who has internet access.

[jackhumphries]

Hackers: “so we heard you like old windows better…”

[billyeveryteen]

I'd be really interested in seeing before/after benchmarks of non-Steam Deck handhelds running SteamOS. The Deck was able to outperform much better hardware in 1% lows and stability, which I imagine was due to the performance overhead cost of running Windows. An Ally/Legion Go/Upcoming Zotac handheld/etc running SteamOS would, at least on paper, be the best of both worlds.

[kshitijvarshney]

Well Microsoft doesn't have any time in their hands since they're trying to figure out how to show more ads in my start menu and taskbar

Edit: Guys I'm talking about the ads for all the Apps and Subscriptions in the All Apps (On by default) and the Widgets Tab and a part of your search bar (On by default). The taskbar stuff isn't necessarily Ads yes but do you guys really not see the trend of taking up increasingly more space on your taskbar? Also the comment says "figuring out how to show more"

[loganiushere]

How did we allow one company to have access to the information of 37.5% of the Earth’s population in the first place?

[lumberfoot_jpg]

2:00 Biggest missed opportunity of 2024

[Say-Hello]

Still can't move the taskbar off my primary monitor in Windows 11. Microsoft is so out of touch with how people use their products...

[KingofArsenal]

It's Saturday now Riley! It's almost 2am in NYC. Yet I'm watching tech news! Haha

[pibob]

Susan, the former CEO of YouTube died today due to lung cancer. RIP Susan