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Hosts: Robert Heron, John C. Dvorak, Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Kenji Kato

• Leo is reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near and finds it fascinating
• Will nanotech turn the earth into gray goo?
• Alex says we vastly underestimate the human brain
• Machines are bad news for Golgafrinchams
• Dvorak reveals his “give me your new card trick”
• Robert is expecting thin flat 1920×1080p TVs at CES this year
• The key to quality is the chip - Robert likes HQV powered by Teranex
• Intel is dropping Intel Inside and replacing Pentium with Core
• Will Apple use Intel branding?
• Bill Gates used to own a big stake in AMD
• Silicon laser is going to give Intel a technology lead
• The White House and NSA web sites both violate federal guidelines and use tracking cookies
• Maybe they should switch to Mint?
• Symantec has a security flaw in 63 of their products
• Robert uses Spyware Blaster, but no anti-virus
• The Windows metafile flaw is very serious and exploits are everywhere
• Will Apple run Windows in OS X seamlessly?
• And will that discourage porting Windows software to OS X?
• Leo whines about Apple’s Soundtrack Pro - it’s not ready for primetime (although Alex used it to edit this week’s edition)
• Leo prefers Adobe Audition
• Google’s Zeitgeist is cracked
• But Dvorak loves Yelp
• Social Networking at MacWorld with Jambo.
• Seagate buys Maxtor
• 2005 is one second longer than 2006 - and Steve Martin says it’s a left-wing conspiracy
• Cinema ticket sales slide again in 2005
• Dvorak recommends Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC
• Andy Serkis is King Kong
• HD-DVD will be at CES
• It was a big year for online retail
• Massachusetts CIO resigns
• Sony settles a rootkit class action lawsuit
• Coldplay’s laughable CD insert
• Dvorak correctly predicted the Apple Intel switch in March
• If you’re going to be in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 10, sign up for tickets to our live show at 6:30p at the Zeum, next door to MacWorld Expo.
• Next week, CES coverage!

Thanks to Golden Gate Studios for our new studio!

Running time: 1:20:00

We start 2006 with an urgent special edition of Security Now! with Steve Gibson.

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Malicious web sites and malware taking advantage of the Windows metafile flaw are now rampant on the net. All versions of Windows are affected, but Windows 2000 and XP users can download a special fix from Ilfak Guilfanov. Steve recommends downloading and installing this fix as soon as possible.

Steve also hosts transcripts, show notes, and a 16kbps version of the show for the bandwidth impaired at grc.com.

Running time: 11:07

Happy New Year everyone! And what better way to start off the new year than by watching a presentation by Will Wright? Will recently spoke at the When 2.0 workshop at Stanford University and talked about the role of time in game play. CNET just posted a short video of his speech for all to view and even though its only four minutes long it is quite interesting.

For those who have never heard a lecture by Will Wright before, it is a truly memorable experience. Listening to him talk for just a few minutes and you quickly realize that Will is really on a whole other level when it comes to designing games.

Also make sure to view his presentation from last year’s Game Developers Conference where he unveiled to the world his next game creation, Spore (which we at Gaming Steve are following quite closely).