TNW 397: Meta's New Muscle-Reading Wristband - Meta's Prototype Wrist-Based Controllers
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Dan Moren joins Mikah Sargent for this episode of Tech News Weekly! A zero-day bug was discovered in Microsoft's SharePoint. T-Mobile's new satellite texting service, T-Satellite. Apple announces AppleCare One. And Meta's Reality Labs published new papers on the latest advancements in its wrist-based controllers.
- Mikah shares details about the zero-day bug discovered in Microsoft's SharePoint on Monday, which affected over 400 organizations worldwide.
- Jeff Carlson of CNET spent some time using T-Mobile's new satellite-based texting service, T-Satellite, and shares his thoughts on the company's Starlink-based service.
- Dan Moren talks about Apple's latest iteration of its device coverage program, AppleCare One, a $19.99/month subscription that covers up to three devices of your choice.
- Breaking news as Apple's iOS 26 Public Beta arrives Thursday morning!
- And Mikah talks about the latest on Meta's wrist-based controllers that use surface electromyography (sEMG) to allow you to interact with paired devices.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guest: Jeff Carlson
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, we kick off the show by talking about that Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability. |
| 0:06.8 | Then Jeff Carlson of CNET stops by to talk about using satellite texting from T-Mobile. |
| 0:13.2 | Afterward, Dan Morin of Six Colors joins us to talk about AppleCare 1, the subscription service, and the public betas, |
| 0:20.4 | which just launched before I round |
| 0:22.4 | things out with a conversation about being able to control our devices with impulses sent |
| 0:29.7 | from our mind. Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:36.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:37.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:40.3 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:43.8 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 397, with Dan Moran and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, July 24th, 2025. |
| 0:54.4 | Meta's new muscle reading wristband. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:05.5 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and we will be joined later today in the show by my guest host this week, |
| 1:13.1 | who is Dan Moran of Six Colors. |
| 1:16.7 | Before we get there, though, I have an interview coming up, |
| 1:20.8 | and before that, I've got an alert, a warning, a cautionary tale, and everything in between. |
| 1:30.0 | So let's kick off the show by talking about security vulnerabilities. A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint has |
| 1:37.2 | rapidly escalated from a concerning discovery to a full-blown cybersecurity crisis, because |
| 1:43.5 | hundreds of organizations worldwide have fallen |
| 1:46.4 | victim to what researchers are calling actually one of the most significant zero-day exploits in |
| 1:52.2 | recent memory. The breach has compromised sensitive government agencies, including, you know, |
| 1:58.1 | no big deal, the National Nuclear Security Administration and the National |
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