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it's time now for the news and joining us here on tech refresh is of course alley our amazing content

queen and ben our trusty news director and our bona fide geek of the week. And so, Allie, why don't we start

with you with the news? Yeah, we all know that the government loves acronyms, right? We've all heard about

stir-shaken. You probably know it involves all those lovely scam calls and text. Basically,

it prevents caller ID spoofing. So when you get a call, it looks like it's a legitimate company. It's actually spam. Well, stirs, shaken, stops that. But do you know what it stands for?

Anybody?

You have any ideas, Ben? No, I mean, the James Bond reference, definitely.

And that's definitely where it came from, the way James Bond takes his martinis, shaken, not stirred.

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