SN 1044: The EU's Online Age Verification - Consumer Reports vs. Microsoft

• Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.
• Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.
• China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.
• WebAssembly v3.0 officially released.
• Firefox v143 updates and new features.
• Firefox for Android now offers DoH.
• A nearly terminal flaw in Microsoft's Entra ID.
• Chrome hits its 6th 0-day this year. Emergency update.
• DRAM (now DDR5) still vulnerable to RowHammer.
• SAMSUNG kitchen refrigerators begin showing ads.
• China says no to NVIDIA.
• 300 more (new) NPM maliciouspackages found and removed.
• The EU is already testing proper online age verification.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1044-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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