1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Windows Defender ships with every modern Windows computer, and it has carried a serious flaw. An attacker who has already gotten onto the machine can use Defender itself — the thing that was supposed to stop them — to do whatever they want. Microsoft has released the fix. Craig's message this week is short: patch it. That leads Jeff to the obvious question. Billions of dollars and thousands of brilliant people — why is it still like this? Craig's answer is a history lesson worth the segment. Windows and classic Mac OS started as toys and had security crowbarred in afterward. Unix was designed with it in mind, and the internet was built on Unix. Chromebooks run Linux. Macs run a FreeBSD lineage. And Microsoft's real constraint is compatibility: the same discipline that lets decades-old software keep running is what keeps the old architecture in place. Intel has the same problem. Also in this segment: The MacBook Neo — Apple's first genuinely low-end laptop, and the clever part: it's built from iPhone chips that failed binning, with the bad cores switched off. Nothing wrong with the rest of them. Why the $500 price Craig quotes is $699 on Amazon by the end of the segment, and what the RAM shortage has to do with it Grok's new release hallucinating around 54% of the time, up from about 25% — and what folding everything into one company does to the downside The homework: get rid of programs you don't use and programs that stopped being updated. Those are the doors. Free newsletter: CraigPeterson.com Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity https://cptt.libsyn.com/podcast <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/42602190/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/42602190