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Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.

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Links:

• Apple silicon woes:
  • Mark Gurman on the Mac Pro.
  • Wayne Ma at The Information on the graphics capabilities of the iPhone 14 Pro's A16 SoC.
• Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
• Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
• Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
• Glenn's books on security.
• Stochastic screening.
• "Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.