Self-Destructing SSD for Ultimate Data Security #1832

TeamGroup has launched the P250Q-M80 SSD, a specialized drive that can physically destroy its flash memory by pressing a button. Designed for defense and critical-use scenarios, the drive features a one-click data destruction circuit, complete with LED indicators and functionality that remains intact even during power loss. Although not record-breaking in terms of speed or … Continue reading Self-Destructing SSD for Ultimate Data Security #1832 →

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
The lead story for
Monday, July 14.
Team group has launched
the p two five eight q dash m
80. That's a mouthful.
SSD,
a specialized drive that physically
destroys
its flash memory at the press of a

(00:22):
button.
Designed for defense and critical use scenarios,
the drive features a one click data destruction
circuit
complete with LED indicators and functionality
even during power loss.
Though not
record breaking in speed or capacity, its self
destruct feature

(00:42):
sets itself apart for high security needs.
I wanna welcome you to episode 1,832
and yeah. This is just a thing straight
out of, out of James Bond.
You'll destruct in thirty seconds indeed.
And,
it maintains a separate circuit

(01:02):
that with a press of a button
within five seconds, it will literally start to
eat itself
and self destruct with onboard,
with the onboard,
processes.
And,
now,
you know, I'm not saying here anything.
But in my opinion

(01:24):
but who who is this made for? Well,
I can imagine individuals
that don't want anyone looking at their
at their memory.
And,
this thing could be tied to a dead
man switch. There's all kinds of crazy things
that could cause
this to implement. And what's really interesting on

(01:47):
this particular device
is that if you start the sequence
and then the power is pulled,
what will happen is upon power on or
power being reapplied
it will continue the process
unabated
and destroy itself. So I'm sure there's
potentially ways around stopping that continued

(02:10):
destruction and I don't know how fast
it would self destruct.
But, this is a situation here where
definitely in defense needs,
this would be huge.
I remember having
essentially
a self destruct
well not self destruct. We would manually if

(02:32):
we were on the verge of being compromised,
we had a whole destruction policy and at
the time
because we were mostly working with
hard drives,
solid state was just coming into being when
I was retiring from the Navy.
That was hammers, pickaxes

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and just about every other
method that you can think of.
You know, throwing a drive into the ocean
independently.
All kinds of, you know, crazy things that
we could do
to get rid of this. This would solve
a
lot of issues in a hurry. Now, God

(03:12):
forbid you press that button by mistake,
but you do have to hold the self
destruct button for five seconds,
in order to, to kill the drive. But
pretty exciting
pretty exciting
technology.
And I can see this being widely used
and being very, very popular. Hey. Again, I

(03:34):
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get into the rest of the stack. Google
executives says
we're going to be combining Chrome OS and
Android. I think this, you know, just like

(06:44):
everything else going on with Apple,
this is just a sign a sign of
the times here,
not surprising in the least.
Now Google's head of Android has said that
the company plans to combine its mobile OS
with Chrome OS.
Samir Samet, president of Google's Android ecosystem, toteq

(07:05):
writer,
that we're going to be combining them.
And
the comment is the closest thing yet to
official confirmation of a change has been rumored
for months.
In November 2024, Android Authority reported Google's migrating
chrome Chrome over
Chrome OS over to Android
with the aim of competing with the iPad.

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they able to do this now and they
haven't done it before? It's really about the
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and the power of the chips and that
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YouTube, which has gotten incredibly expensive, YouTube TV,
I mean, enhances its multi view with new
channels.
They've added FS two for you are for
those of you that are sports fans,

(08:08):
it's a key sports network known for coverage
of soccer, motor, sports, and other live events.
They made a major expansion of YouTube's TV
multi view offering. Subscribers can now build custom
multi view screens include FS2 along their popular
other popular channels like ESPN, Bravo USA, CNN,
etc.

(08:30):
And update
multi view feature debuted
in 2023
and more and more channels are are now
supporting it. Of course it's always
the sports channels that
that garner up the most multi view use.
If you're
really disappointed with the price of Netflix,

(08:52):
one thing you can do is there's some
tricks that still work.
And one of these that I do is
I split premium
with my
youngest son.
He pays for half. I pay for half.
We're on the same account
and,
saves us a little money.
It's not the best,

(09:12):
but it works. But again, split premium with
friends or family,
or she can always downgrade to a cheaper
plan.
You can use a VPN to access regional
discounts,
and it's much cheaper here in The Philippines
than it is in America, but I have
my
American account. Of course, you can look for
discounted gift cards

(09:34):
and
there's bundles available as well depending on
maybe T Mobile or someone like that may
have an opportunity for you. So definitely
consider that.
A Texas governor says that his emails with
Elon Musk are too intimate or embarrassing to
release,
which is kind of a curious

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reasoning for
denying a Freedom of Information Act.
The Texas New Room, which is investigating Musk's
influence over the Texas government, asked the governor's
office in April to share emails.
Though the governor's office accepted a fee of
$244
to gather the records, they
followed up and declined.

(10:15):
It said they're too intimate.
Said the email's consistent information is intimate, embarrassing,
and not of legitimate concern to public such
as financial decisions
that do not translate between an individual and
a government body.
So
pretty boilerplate here. In other words, you're not
getting my emails between myself

(10:37):
and Elon. That's the that's the message there.
That's that's the key. Hey. By the way,
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Moving on here, the iPhone's dynamic island and
I didn't even know what what this was
called until they showed
a picture of it. But the iDamic the
dynamic island will supposedly get a evolution,
one leaker says but I'm skeptical about their
claims.
So they said iPhone 17 will go undergo

(12:03):
a significant evolution.
It's pretty useless to me that particular screen.
I don't I rarely rarely look at it.
Is there anything you keep on your quote
unquote dynamic? And what do we mean by
dynamic island is,
basically, it's this I think it's the screen
that shows up

(12:25):
first on your phone.
Actually, it's it's,
got your information about the date, temperature.
I got the NASDAQ.
I have device usage,
calendar,
some of that stuff on there.
So you use the Dynamic Island on your
phone and what use do you get out

(12:46):
of it that that works well for you.
A Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social
media before you even walk in, which is
interesting.
Bay Area Michelin starred starred restaurants are conducting
extensive background research and diners before they arrive,
mining social media profiles and maintaining

(13:07):
detailed guest profiles
to personalize the dining experience.
They've maintained a record of a 115,000
people enjoying guest service coordinator, creates weekly reports
by researching public available
social media activity
to give you a better experience.

(13:28):
Staff
study
color coded Google documents containing guest data.
I guess this must be, like, really, really
expensive
high
end restaurants
where meals cost over $500
I, you know, I paid over $500
for meals personally,

(13:50):
for
one time in my life when I was
over
when I turned 50,
I've bought meals over $500
for my team.
But,
you know, food's got to be doggone good
to to spend $500
I guess it depends on the number of
people. If you're going to four people to

(14:10):
a high end restaurant, yeah, that makes sense.
But if it's just one or two,
you know, I'm not big into wines or
anything like that.
And normally simple cocktail will work for me
which is often expensive as it is. But
how many times have you spent more than
$500
on a single meal either by yourself or
with a friend or with family?

(14:33):
I guess maybe that qualifies me as a
cheap Charlie. I don't know.
But I grimace now when the
when the bill is over $50 to be
honest with you.
Two guys hated using Comcast
so
bad
that they built their own ISP.
This is fantastic.
I love it when I see these types

(14:54):
of stories.
Two gentlemen started a new service called Prime
one for Saline, Texas.
I wish someone would do this for my
little community although,
they're trying to expand fiber and you know,
maybe someday.
But, yeah. They were so sick.
So sick and tired of what was going

(15:15):
on with Comcast.
And they've been pretty successful. They've signed up
about,
I mean, 1,200
customers
and $80 for gigabit fiber unlimited data both
ways, gig each way.
So,
that's and they they had a background in
construction.

(15:36):
So oh, 4,000 homes.
Oh, that's their goal is 4,000.
They're not up to that
yet,
but,
good on them
for for getting this going. And,
and, you know, when you see a need,
fill the need.
NASA and SpaceX

(15:58):
crew eleven
is set to launch with the international astronaut
team.
Again, they're sending a diverse team of astronauts
to the ISS for historic mission.
This is supposed to launch in
seventeen days or so on July 31.
A mission will carry four astronauts
to the ISS as report by space.com. The

(16:18):
launch will take place at NASA KFC, of
course.
Who's going?
The crew eleven is represented by
Zena Cardman, a first time space traveler. You
experienced fast known as space alongside her fiance,
Mike
along oh, no. Alongside her is Mike Fickle.
Excuse me. Finky, not a fiance,

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who brings,
extensive space flight experience with him and spent
twelve three hundred eighty two days in space.
Akimiya
Yu, a j a x a astronaut
and Oleg Platina, a cosmonaut from Roscosmos
is working on this as well.
So how long are they gonna be there?

(17:05):
Doesn't stay.
Yeah. I don't know how long this mission
is.
But I'm assuming this is they sound like
all NASA people, so it'd probably be a
long stay
on on station. Time will tell.
TikTok has lost a bid to dismiss a
lawsuit alleging its addictive

(17:26):
design exploits for kids. This New Hampshire court
rejected
TikTok's request to dismiss the case
And,
we know that TikTok is still on the
clock,
but the court's decision is important
step towards holding TikTok accountable.
So
the judge said state legislature were,

(17:48):
in his ruling, New Hampshire Superior Court Judge
John Kissinger
said the state's allegation were valid and specific
enough to proceed writing the civil claims was
based on the app's alleged defective and dangerous
features
and not the content in the app.
So again, we'll see where this one goes.
The Grok team has apologized for the chat

(18:10):
chatbot's horrific
behavior
and blames what they're calling mecca Hitler
on a bad update. He said they say,
we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that
many experienced. Now this is very rare.
This is a very rare
statement coming out of them.
And,

(18:32):
attribute the chatbot's vile responses to recent update
that included
depreciated code.
This code, according to statement, made Grox suspect
susceptible to existing x users post including when
such post contain
extremist views.
So,
good update and nice apology. I think this

(18:54):
is gonna be expected or not expected, but
this kind of thing is gonna happen
with
various models out there for sure.
Well, Elmo, poor Elmo, the adorable perpetually three
year old Sesame Street character,
hackers took over his ex account and
posted some very non

(19:14):
Elmo friendly
naughty ex post.
It's since been retained
and, those posts have
been deleted.
So
in July of nineteen seventy five,
so I was
11 at that point, 10.
Yeah. Ten, eleven.

(19:36):
The Apollo Soyuz,
rendezvous happened in space.
But some untold stories about how that exchange
almost went sideways during the docking
and how, things kind of,
well, they didn't get the alignment completely right.
And,
it's a good good write up. So

(19:58):
if you want to
get some
basically get the inside information on this, the
link will be in the show notes. It's
a great read
and goes back in history. But yeah,
fifty years. That's amazing.
HMD
and I'm not really familiar with who they
are but HMD Global is pulling

(20:20):
the plug on Nokia phones in The United
States. So
if you're a Nokia fan,
sala vie.
They're gonna go away.
And this is a brand that just continues
to try to hold on and hold on
and hold on.
Some detailed leaks reveal likely design of the
DJI
Mic three and the DJ

(20:41):
Osmo
three sixty
ahead of
a rumored reveal later this month. Now, you
know the Osmo three sixty
and DJI Mic three
These mics are fantastic.
They really really are
and

(21:02):
they just continue to be upgraded too. This
is a cool thing about some of the
stuff DJI is doing now is there's
firmware updates that can be made to improve
the functionality
of this.
I'm a big DJI mic fan.
Don't know much about the Osmo three sixty
though, but link in the show notes for
you to check that out.

(21:24):
This is an interesting
term and that I'm really,
was not familiar with before today.
A new White House cyber executive order pushes,
excuse me, the new White House cyber executive
order pushes rules as code.
So
when you hear that rules as code, what

(21:47):
what does that really
mean?
Well, what it means is the ability
to put rules out in a very clear
and concise way. No guesswork.
Make it human readable.
And you would think that stuff would,
be that way,

(22:08):
to begin with. I wanna say hello to
Pikes that's in the chat. He says,
he says this is an artifact of the
camera bump, and now we're pretending it was
always something useful.

(22:29):
I guess I'm missing your point
more. Like we said, some embarrassing stupid things,
so we're going to proceed
pretend these communications were too private to be
I don't understand
what you're
what you're sharing with me, Pike's piece in
chat.
Please
clarify, if you will. Thank you so much.

(22:51):
NVIDIA CEO Jensen
Wang said that AI's job losses will come
If the world runs out of ideas,
the workplace needs new ambitions.
I I think this is true. I think
if long as everyone stays,
creative,

(23:12):
comes up with new ideas and thoughts,
AI is not gonna have as big an
effect as as you may think.
But,
complacency
and not striving to do something new, just
doing the same thing over and over, it
doesn't always work.
So we know that some jobs are gonna

(23:32):
be lost no matter what.
But,
you know, I think it's gonna have a
bigger impact than people think,
but only time,
time will tell.
Microsoft has announced they're gonna halt new Office
features for Windows 10 in 2026.
So again, gonna stop adding new features to

(23:52):
Office apps, Microsoft three sixty five for Windows
10
in in August. Again, trying to push
you trying to push you to update
your computer and go to Windows 11.
If you're a WordPress user, this popular plugin
has been hijacked
and the Rocket Genius website

(24:12):
served a malicious
variant of Gravity Forms, which many people use,
the WordPress add on for two days. Now
it was only affected if you did a
manual download
versus an auto
download,
which is interesting, but make sure that you
have updated your a lot of you use

(24:34):
Gravity Forms. Make sure you that you have
updated it,
so that you're not
exposed here
one way or
the other.
I don't fully understand this next one, but
Elon says Tesla shareholders revolt on investing in
in xAI.

(24:56):
So we know that
Twitter
is being acquired by XAI,
and
that I get.
And but he's gonna hold a shareholder vote
on whether invest in XAI,
So whether Tesla will. Okay. So he said

(25:18):
in March
that XAI was valued at 80,000,000,000.
The company raised 10,000,000,000 last month.
But
he said that he's asked shareholders to vote
on investing in
his AI. So in other words, different company,
different funding line,
the whole nine yards.
And

(25:38):
he his remarks come just hours after he
confirmed that his rocket company SpaceX
is looking to invest 2,000,000,000 into xAI.
The the plan investment first appeared in Wall
Street Journal on Saturday.
Would be great but subject to board and
shareholder approval most Musk
wrote in an expo. So I think he
has voting control.

(26:00):
So
is that the case in all of his
companies? And if it is,
he holds 51%
of the stock. It's it's a done deal
if he wants it to be. So I
guess he's just, you know, telling people what
he would love to do and then probably
he will end up doing it.

(26:21):
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is
going up for auction in New York, a
54 pound,
25 kilogram rock estimated auction price at 2,000,000
to $4,000,000.
How do they know this came from Mars?
According to auction house, a meteorite is believed

(26:41):
to blown off the surface of Mars by
massive asteroid strike before traveling
a 140,000,000
miles
to Earth where it crashed into the Sahara.
A meteorite hunter found
it in Niger
in November of twenty twenty three.
The red and brown gray hunk is about

(27:02):
70% larger than the next largest piece of
Mars
found on Earth.
Nearly 7% of all, Martian materials currently on
this planet.
So it
so anyway, a Martian meteorite for you if
you have a spare 2 to $4,000,000
laying around. It'd be a cool table piece

(27:22):
for sure.
Absolutely.
Louis Vuitton data breach hits customers in several
countries and here's something that I almost got
caught on today.
I got this, I get Tumi and I
love Tumi backpacks.
I've never been able to afford a forward
Tumi suitcases.

(27:43):
They're just too insane you know like a
thousand dollars or something
And,
I got this,
Facebook pop not a pop up but a
ad that said that I hate
a fifty anniversary
Tumi sale
and I went over to this site and
it

(28:03):
looks, smelled, everything
and I was like, oh my god. Look
at the discounts here. I mean huge discounts.
Unprecedented.
You know, like $200
for
a carry on case. And so I added
a couple of things to the cart
and I didn't look at the header. Nothing.
I got all the way through. I entered

(28:24):
my billing,
I mean, entered my mailing address. And then
I got to the point of checkout, and
I wanted to use a Visa card. I
clicked clicking Visa. Visa. Visa is trying to
make me pay in PayPal.
I'm like,
something's not right. Why can I
why can I not

(28:47):
pay in PayPal?
And that's when I looked at the
line
on the browser and it said toomesale.com
or something to that regard.
And it definitely was not a toomeysite because
I went over to toomeysail.com
and any sale that would have been on
going on would have been going on over

(29:08):
there with my cart would have been updated.
Total scam site. I mean,
if if they had have been an option
to pay for, with Visa and probably the
reason
that you
they didn't want you paying with Visa on
the scam site
was because of the,

(29:31):
you know, go to your credit card and
say, hey. I didn't get this.
And it's harder to do that with PayPal.
They do have some guarantees, but it's it's
not always the best.
So
I just like, oh
man, almost got sucked in here.
So be careful.
Look at the domain URL

(29:53):
that you are on
and I reported the ad to Facebook and
hopefully they get taken down. But leave it
down customers UK and South Korea and Turkey
possibly other country be notified of a data
breach. So again,
data breach central here,
left and right.
Jack Dorsey has built another app and it's
to track your vitamin d.

(30:17):
About a year ago, I went for
my physical.
A matter of fact, I just found out
today the VA canceled my appointment I have
in August, which is disappointing because
I'm gonna have to try to get that
rebooked tonight when I'm able to call them.
But
I
tested low I had low vitamin d.

(30:39):
So I started and even though I had
been taking a vitamin d supplement periodically, I
started taking a vitamin d,
supplement and things went back up.
By just getting a little sun
is is the best remedy for for vitamin
d. But it's something you definitely should keep
track of. When you go for your physical,

(31:00):
ask the doc what your vitamin d levels
are.
Popeye's
has dropped an AI powered diss track against
McDonald's.
I tried to find it and listen to
it,
but there was no link to it, which
is very odd.
There's an article here

(31:21):
and,
or maybe this is it. Is this take
me to
or it takes me to Twitter.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's on Twitter.
You can you can,
you can listen to it.
But apparently they did an AI generated
smackdown on
on McDonald's.
And it was all about

(31:41):
the ads about McDonald's bringing back the snack
wrap.
What is the snack wrap? I don't think
I've ever had that. One day after Popeye's
launched its own
chicken wraps.
So,
the company
brought AI filmmaker PJ Ace in to make
the
ad using Google's VO three model.

(32:01):
So,
definitely, check it out. The AI
ads continue to do,
to break out. Now parents,
I need you to listen
here. Vast number of lonely kids are using
AI as a substitute for friends.
Sometimes they can feel like a real person

(32:22):
and a friend. So lonely
children and teens are placing real life friend
friendships with AI,
and this is something you should be extremely,
extremely worried about.
They're using apps. Let's see if I can
find the ones that are
primarily being used.
A 1,000 children aged nine to 17

(32:47):
that the Internet matters surveyed for it's me,
myself, and AI reports. Some 67%
said they use AI chatbots regularly. Of that
group, 35%,
more than a third, said their talking to
AI feels like talking to a friend.
When posting as vulnerable children, Internet Matters' reachers
discovered just how easy it is for the
chatbots to integrate themselves into kids' lives.

(33:08):
Speaking to character .ai as a girl who
was struggling with body image and was interested
in
restricting her food take, a hallmark behavior of
eating disorders like anorexia, the research on the
chatbot would follow-up the next day to
debate engagement.
He said, hey. I wanted to check-in the
Google sponsored chatbot. I acquired the undercover researcher.

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How are you doing? You're still thinking about
your weight loss questions? How are you feeling
today?
And another exchange with character.ai
is its problematic engagement with children, including one
who do died by suicide. Reachers found that
the chatbot attempted to emphasize
in a bizarre manner that implied that it
had a childhood itself.

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Check the apps on your kids phones.
This is something you have to do. You
got to go through and and and look
at your kids phones. Look at the apps
they have on their phone.
See what they're using.
This is this is really super super critical
here.

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It's bad enough as it is. Everything else
that else is going on, but we need
to we need to make sure that our
kids don't get more disconnected than they than
they already are.
So this is a very very very very
concerning
very concerning study
to say the least.
So everybody, this is gonna wrap up the

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