TNW 345: Hands-On With the Samsung Galaxy Ring - HomePods, Cellebrite, Stalkerware Apps
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What is the future for Apple's HomePod? Leaked documents show what phones Cellebrite can and can't unlock. The security risks when using stalkerware apps. And initial thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy Ring after some hands-on with the device.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins Mikah this week on Tech News Weekly! Jennifer talks about the future for Apple's HomePod following code discovered in the public beta for tvOS 18.
- Mikah Sargent talks about the Cellebrite leak, which 404 Media obtained and verified, and what devices Cellebrite can and can't unlock.
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai of Techcrunch talks about stalkerware apps and, besides the ethical reasons for using such apps, why using them can present a security risk for users.
- And finally, Lexy Savvides of CNET got her hands on the Samsung Galaxy Ring and shares her thoughts on it.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guests: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Lexy Savvides
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson Toey is here and Jennifer has a great kind of thought exercise about the future of Apple's home pod given the rumor upon rumor now that that home pod may soon get a |
| 0:16.3 | screen. How might it look? What might it do? We'll find out hopefully soon. |
| 0:23.1 | Then my story of the week is all about Celebrate |
| 0:26.0 | the Forensics company that tries to crack into smartphones. |
| 0:31.2 | Apparently, it's not so great at cracking into the most recent most |
| 0:36.1 | updated smartphones on the market. After that my first interview is with Lorenzo Francescke Bikiorai of Tech Crunch, who stops by to talk about Stalkerware apps and why frankly no one should be using them for more than one reason, not just the ethical concerns involved. |
| 0:55.6 | And then Lexi Savides, the principal video producer of CNETch, joins us to talk about the Samsung |
| 1:01.5 | Galaxy Ring because she got to go hands on or rather it went on her hand. |
| 1:08.7 | A great review of that device all coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:13.4 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:19.1 | This is Twit. |
| 1:30.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, with Jennifer Patterson Toey and me, Micah Sergeant, episode 345 recorded Thursday, July 18, 2024, hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Ring. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:43.7 | making and breaking the tech news. I am your host Micah Sergeant and it is time to |
| 1:49.8 | introduce my co-host of this week. It is Jennifer Patterson Toe of The |
| 1:56.3 | Verge. Welcome back Jen. Thanks Micah, always happy to be here. It feels like an age |
| 2:01.4 | because I was here early last year last month so it's |
| 2:04.6 | been a while and it's nice to be yeah it has been a while I'm glad to have you back |
| 2:08.2 | glad to get to chat with you and for the folks tuning in for the first time I'll explain that at the beginning of the show, |
| 2:15.3 | my wonderful co-host and I both bring stories of the week to the table. |
| 2:20.0 | And Jennifer will be kicking us off this week with her story of the week. |
| 2:25.6 | Yeah, so I, it has been a kind of a slow news week in my space. |
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