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2:24This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, April 6th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, we give you some context, and we help each other understand. Today, we say goodbye to Samsung messages and congratulations to RCS on its complete victory. Hey, congrats, RCS. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob Dunwood. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. Hat tip to R.W. Nash, who noted this on our DTNS subreddit. Samsung posted an end of service announcement on its website saying that Samsung messages, the app, will be discontinued in July 2026. And they encourage users to switch over to Google messages as their default messaging app.

3:06Support for Samsung messages on Android 11 and earlier will continue after July. So most people have to switch. But if you're really using an old phone with an old operating system, you don't have to. Samsung had already stopped preloading Samsung messages, starting back with the Z Fold and Flip 6, as well as the Galaxy S25. So it's kind of been in the cards for a while. Samsung has not yet removed the messages app from the Galaxy Store yet, which might have to do with those Android 11 people. And it has yet to say which day in July it will end the service. They said you will get a notification in the app to tell you the exact day.

3:46But I think they're trying to get everybody to just switch over to Google Messages before that. Rob, have you been using Samsung Messages? Have you ever used Samsung Messages? So I did use Samsung Messages at one point. But this was years ago back when Google didn't know what it wanted to do from a messaging standpoint. And they had 19 different apps. And the best ones weren't the ones that they went with. They kept changing the names. They just kept changing the name and all that kind of stuff. So there was a time when it just kind of made sense. well, this Samsung one just works or this Verizon one just works.

4:18But pretty much since since Google has said we're going to use messages, we're going to put RCS in that. And that's what we're going with. I have been standardized on just the plain Google messages or just messages as Google calls it. So, as you said, I am an S25 user. I didn't even realize that I didn't have it until this until this article, because it was something it was just kind of out of sight, out of mind. I didn't use it for years. so the fact that it wasn't there i didn't even notice so i'm literally today years old when i'm finding out that it is not on like the latest android devices that come from samsung anyway so really the the writing is on the wall i don't know anybody who was still using this i would imagine that there are some but uh messages is it's just better it's just it's just better in almost every way yeah it's it's both significant and not significant it's not significant kind of for the reasons you just said which is most people using samsung devices probably haven't used it in a long time.

5:12But it's significant in the sense of it's kind of another concession by Samsung to Google over the default parts of its operating system. Samsung has always operated a little bit of a foot in the Apple world and a foot in the Android world. And when I say in the Apple world, I mean wanting to be the company that gives you all the services. And it's been giving up some of that real estate over the years. I'm actually kind of surprised, although I shouldn't really be that Samsung hasn't just said to Google, you know what, we'll just build you a Google Play version of a device and you tell us what you want it to have and we'll just do that.

5:53We'll make it, it won't be pixel because that's your thing, but it'll be the, it'll be the galaxy equivalent of, of a pixel and it'll just have the, the Android services on or the Google Play services on it. Now, I can understand why they wouldn't do that. They make so much money off of selling panels and everything to everybody else. It's like, hey, we still want to try to cut the edge where we can. And there are some places where it does make sense to use Samsung services over using the Google ones. For example, DeX. DeX is kind of awesome. I've been playing around with DeX on Samsung phones for the past, I don't know, six or seven months, you know, in depth and really testing them out and using it is really good.

6:31If you compare that to what you can now do, Tom, on your Pixel with Android desktop, Android desktop is not DeX. It's not even close, even though DeX is built on top of it. So there are places where it makes sense for Samsung to continue to do development in their own stuff. Vixie is one of those areas where you can say that's their own AI platform that works really well with Gemini. It works really well with it, but it does do some stuff on phone. And then Messages was just one of those ones to where I think that once RCS came out, RCS to Android is what iMessage is to iPhone. It's just what everybody is eventually going to use.

7:09And trying to compete with that probably was an exercise in futility, hence the reason that Samsung decided to do away with it. Yeah, this really is the victory lap for RCS. Samsung could have implemented RCS into Samsung Messages, but that would have required a lot of expense and a lot of time and a lot of work. I think what they looked at was Google pushing forward RCS and saying, wow, that was a lot of work that they did. Let's let that be the app. Let's let that carry the torch. And the fact that Apple now also supports RCS, which they should. RCS is not the same as iMessages in that iMessages is a proprietary thing, whereas RCS is a standard that should exist across platforms.

7:52Yeah, I think, if anything, this is a bit of a victory lap, as we said at the top of the show, for RCS, that Google's version of it anyway is predominant. Yeah, and RCS, I mean, it's actually doing things that it didn't do before. You can now actually do iMessage type stuff with it with iPhones. You can, you know, it's not all the way there, you know, but it's pretty good. You get the read receipts regardless of whether it's a, you know, an iPhone that you're sending it to or not. You can send high res images back and forth. So it is a platform that the operating system manufacturer, you know, here's the thing that Google always will have more than Samsung.

8:34They will always have more Android users than there are Samsung Android users. So I think in this situation, messages are there other platforms that are better than than Google messages as far as sending text messages back and forth? Yes, they are. But they are generally named things like WhatsApp is really the only one or iMessage. Those are the two that really compete with with this. Messages was a rounding error compared to the number of people who use those other platforms. So from a cost-saving standpoint, does it make sense for us to continue to put all this development into something that our people are just not using, into something that we've already told our people, you know, we've already told our customers, hey, don't use our thing that we're continuing to create, go use this other thing.

9:18Once they started doing that, the writing was really on the wall that they're not going to continue to create messages or their version of messages forever. I feel like that is the big next question, which is, can Google Messages make any headway against WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk? Obviously, they're not going to make any progress against WeChat because the Google version of Android doesn't operate in China. But the rest of those are predominant in their regions of the world. In fact, KakaoTalk's success in South Korea is probably one of the reasons that Samsung Messages is being withdrawn as well.

9:51It's not just the success of Google Messages, but it's also the fact that nobody was using Samsung Messages even in its home market. So I doubt that we're going to see Google Messages steal anything away from the WhatsApps of the world, but that would be the next target for it to see if it could work its way back into that because it can do SMS and more. the default application that comes on billions of people's devices is a powerful thing to be so the fact that messages is just the default on so many android devices people are just using now you know it is not uncommon that i will run into someone who has a really old android device they just haven't updated their device in eight or nine years because it still works it still makes phone calls and that's what they use it for and they're using something other than google messages That is not an uncommon thing.

10:43But over time, it'll just be to where everybody's just kind of using it because when you get a new phone, it's just the thing that you use on there. Even if you were using something else, if you get a new phone, if it's using Google Play Services, they put it so front and center, you may not even realize that it's not the thing that you were using before. It's just, oh, I got a new phone. It must work better now. It's a nicer interface. Although not that that many people move back and forth between Android and iOS, but if you do, you don't have to change everything if you're on WhatsApp, you know?

11:15So I think that's one of the advantages is that they are cross platform. Line is cross platform. Even KakaoTalk is cross platform. so so yeah so like i said it's one of those things where i didn't even realize that i did not have samsung messages on my phone because it's been so long since i've actually used it like say years ago i did because it was better than the you know than the the non-default that google had because they had 19 things you know pick which one you like no i'll pick this one that a lot of other people use but once once they really started to focus on messages is going to be the thing from a google standpoint that's kind of just where i've been literally for years and now they have to keep it because it's the it's the default for everybody so they can't they can't change it around again stop it so dts is made possible by you the listener thanks to paul boyer d laser brad we got a raise from dave and kenny and we've got brand new patrons acrea 13 grateful o sadam boyd winson woo matthew adam jh and mark oh last week was full of new people Welcome.

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15:15There's more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. There's been some discussion in our Discord of just how serious this story is. A report independently confirmed by Bleeping Computer shows LinkedIn uses a JavaScript file with a randomized file name that checks the browser extensions, CPU core count, available memory, screen resolution, language settings, battery status, audio information, and storage features. Collecting this kind of data is a common way to track users by fingerprinting them. The script was first identified in 2025 when it detected approximately 2 ,000 extensions. Bleeping Computer could not verify allegations about how LinkedIn used the data, such as whether it shared it with third parties.

15:55LinkedIn said the original report's claims are, quote, plain wrong and said that the person behind the report is, quote, subject to an account restriction for scraping and other violations of LinkedIn's terms of service. A German court denied the developers request for an injunction against LinkedIn for unlawful obstruction and discrimination and that LinkedIn was entitled to block accounts to prevent automated data collection. LinkedIn says it detects extensions in order to protect users from having their data scraped from LinkedIn by them. Yeah, there was a good debate in Discord and nobody disagreed that this was probably being exaggerated by a lot of outlets because this kind of fingerprinting is fairly common.

16:35But some folks felt like this is an overstep and they don't like it when anybody does it. And the fact that LinkedIn was doing it did not make them very pleased with LinkedIn. And, you know, if you don't trust LinkedIn when they say we're only using this for fraud prevention, then I get that. I think it is easy to just not trust people and or not trust companies. But a lot of times you are looking at something that you would need to do if you needed to prevent fraud. So if LinkedIn is saying, look, we know when you're logged into LinkedIn, you've got a lot of sensitive information regarding your work life in there that you probably don't want scraped by some extensions.

17:14And yeah, you probably shouldn't have those extensions installed, but if we can do a little something to help prevent it, then that's great. The question is, are they using it for everything, anything else? And we don't have any clarity about that, but they don't necessarily have to be. So we just don't know. I'm probably going to get myself in trouble by saying this, but it's Microsoft. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. I feel a little better about Microsoft not doing things they say that they aren't doing, then social media companies whose sole purpose is to make money off of the end user by by using this kind of information.

17:54So like I said, that's that's probably a way to get myself into trouble because LinkedIn is run fairly independently from Microsoft. But it just it gives me a little bit of solace because I understand that in order for them to keep me safe, they need to look at these things to see if other people are using the things that they would use to keep me not from being safe. I get that. It's kind of a catch 22 situation because you could use it for something else. But if you have that concern, and it's like, once again, I'm being careful in saying this, if you have that concern that you're not trusting LinkedIn, should you be using LinkedIn?

18:25It's a very gray area. I'm not sure. I'm not, I'm not really sure how to say anything else about this, but it's like, If you don't trust LinkedIn, you probably shouldn't have LinkedIn on your phone. But what they're doing, it makes sense that this is what they do to protect you from the kind of things you absolutely don't want third parties to be doing. Yeah. I mean, it's OK to say you don't know, right? Like that's where I'm at. It's like, I don't know if you should trust LinkedIn here or not. Yeah, I do not know. This is not evidence that you should not trust them, but it is something to be aware of and think about when you're making your own decision.

19:01It definitely doesn't make you trusted more. I don't know. It doesn't do either. I'm going to take your tutelage, Tom. I don't know if this should make you trust LinkedIn any less than it does. Yeah. But then we'll hear something in six weeks and say, Rob, I can't believe you said that. That's where my concern is. The temptation when you're LinkedIn, yes, Microsoft makes most of their money off cloud services. And so they don't have the pressures to try to do this. But LinkedIn is benefiting from running very independently. And so the temptation to be like, oh, but we could use this data to really like a target information.

19:35And it would be good for the user because they get a higher quality ad. Like you can see the rationalizations they could make. I'm not saying they are making them. I'm not saying they aren't resisting those rationalizations. But I get why you raise an eyebrow at it. I'll just wait and see, you know, if we find out anything else. what I would say is it does feel like given the German court case and everything that the motivations of the people exposing this were to make LinkedIn looked bad, not necessarily to help all of us defend ourselves. Let me just say it like this. This does not make me feel like I need to uninstall LinkedIn, delete my data out of LinkedIn or check my data out of it and no longer use it as a service.

20:18I am one of the 11 people that actually find LinkedIn fairly useful. I think there's 12. Yeah, this is not the reason for me to no longer, you know, to use LinkedIn. I hope that folks don't think, oh, Rob, you're just a shield for LinkedIn. I am not. I just I find this service useful. And this is I understand what this is. I understand what this is. And this is not the thing that makes me say, oh, because they have the opportunity to use this software in a way that they're saying that they're not. I'm going to stop trusting them because I've already had that level of distrust. why would I have been using them in the first place?

20:53Your mileage may vary, of course. As we saw in our Discord, reasonable people can have different perspectives on this. The US FBI released a public service announcement warning users that, quote, apps that maintain digital infrastructure in China are subject to China's extensive national security laws, enabling the Chinese government to potentially access mobile app users' data. They're basically saying, you should be careful what apps you install. all. And in fact, the FBI recommends that users take precautions to protect themselves against any app, whether it's forum developed or not. Here's what they recommend.

21:28And I'm with them on almost every one of these points. Let's see if you can identify the one that I have a problem with. Number one, disable unnecessary data sharing. Number two, only download verified apps from official app stores. I'd put a caveat on that one that like, you know, unless you really know what you're doing, but for general advice, that's good. Change and update passwords regularly. Perform regular device software updates and read the terms of service or end user license agreement before downloading the app. Now, we all know the last one no one's going to do. They know that, but they're saying you really should know what's in there before you agree to a service.

22:06But changing the update passwords regularly goes against the actual advice from another part of the U.S. government. Since 2017, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has advised, and I quote, verifiers should not require memorized secrets, which is their word for passwords, to be changed arbitrarily, e.g. periodically. However, verifiers shall force a change if there is evidence of a compromise of the authenticator. So NIST has said since 2017, you shouldn't force people to change their passwords because that just means they're going to pick weaker passwords. You should change it if you need to.

22:47Like if there's been a compromise and somebody has their password that you shouldn't, you should give them the ability to do that if they're worried that it's been compromised. And maybe what the FBI is saying is, you know, change your password if you think it's compromised, but that's not what they said. They said change and update passwords regularly. And that's not what NIST says you should do. we've figured out that you know um data center managers data administrators folks who work in this world network administrators they figured out 15 years ago that telling people just change their password every 90 days just because it's a good thing to do is arguably the worst thing that you could possibly do because basically what happens is that the first password is actually pretty secure but every password that comes after that is significantly less secure than the last one.

23:36And it's just every, not every study, all the studies that I've actually looked at have showed that it's just not a good idea. And this is not something that is new. This goes back to, I was still in the middle of my corporate career when these things, you know, 15 years ago, we knew it was bad to tell people to change their passwords all the time. So the fact that the FBI is saying that, you know, Hey, change your passwords regularly on this. And it's like, but why? It's like, if, what does that do? If you're telling me I need to change my passwords all the time because something could happen.

24:05I'm more concerned about the something that can happen. The password shouldn't be the thing that is, you know, is the thing that's keeping me safe in that situation. So that's not necessarily a good thing to tell people. I mean, my advice is if you can use a passkey without anything else, do it. If you can use a passkey, do it. If you can, if you have a password, if you have to use a password, even as a backup to a passkey, use multi-factor authentication and passkey can be that multi-factor authentication. And you should always use multi-factor authentication. It's offered almost everywhere. Use a password manager if you're the kind of person that's, you know, like, it's so hard to remember all these passwords.

24:44Yeah. Just you remember one ridiculously secure long password that you, they're never going to say change it unless there's a reason for you to change it in one password or, you know, last pass is problematic in some ways, but a lot of people still use it. They have not had any issues recently. Those applications are so much better to just manage your passwords for you to where you have no idea what your password is than to just try to keep a list. Because what will end up happening is that if you got to recycle your password like every month or something like that, you'll just have a list of passwords that you use.

25:15It's January. I need to use this. And having the list inherently makes you less secure than you were if you didn't have. ProtonPass is what I use and it's great. But any of those, any of those are good after we record today's episode the artemis 2 mission will make its flyby to the moon the first time people have flown around the moon since 1972 here are a few tidbits related to the mission circuit mess is selling an artemis 2 themed watch that lets you reprogram the firmware in python circuit blocks or adrenal ide for ages nine and up it has a transparent section to see the internals requires no assembly and starts at 129 dollars nasa released three shots taken of the earth through the window using an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

25:56Each astronaut has a silver iPhone 17 Pro Max, along with access to a GoPro Hero 11 and a Nikon D5. Meanwhile, the mission has gone so well that the biggest news has been the struggle to get the toilet working. Yeah, I've been following that one, which I guess they recycled it again today. As far as I could tell, it's working again. The really interesting thing about the toilet is they don't need it. Previous missions to the moon did not have a toilet on board. You go camping style. They have individual containers for that sort of a thing. And this toilet is something they wanted to test on this mission because they will absolutely need it if you want to go to Mars.

26:40You will not be able to do the camping style management for the months it would take to go there. So they want to figure out how to make this kind of thing work. They have working toilets on the International Space Station, So it's not new, but they're like in a capsule situation. Can we make it work? So to me, it's like if we're going to have problems, that's the best one to have because it's not mission critical. It's a little uncomfortable. I get that. But but, you know, it's it's not going to put their lives in danger. And they can now figure out all the things that caused it not to work and make sure that they fix them for the next one.

27:11We don't think about things like bathrooms. Bathrooms here on Earth are pretty common thing. bathrooms in space that's a whole different ball of wax so in the fact and here's the other thing these are unisex bathrooms both men and women can use the same you know can use the same facilities on the spaceship because everything is you know just think if you would have had to have a separate bathroom for the genders that would be very problematic because of just the weight so the fact that they were able to you know um you know come up with the science to build a single bathroom that both, you know, you know, female and male can use is a is really a technological, you know, wonder.

27:52But we just don't think about it because here on Earth, we got gravity. You know, we have space, you know, we're not into the, you know, into the size of, you know, two SUVs. Yeah. Hundreds of thousands of miles away from Earth. So there's all kind of things you have here on Earth that you just don't have in space. So to me, it's I'm a space nerd. So the fact that they've built a bathroom that they are literally shooting around the moon at thousands of miles an hour and it's working most of the time is kind of cool. I think calling it a bathroom is generous, especially given the size of that capsule.

28:27OpenAI is opening an office in Washington, D.C. in order to lobby the government. and in conjunction with that, issued a set of policy proposals it recommends to the U.S. government called the Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age. Among the proposals are the following, investigating the idea of taxing businesses that replace human workers with automated systems in order to continue to fund programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicaid. Those are funded by taxing the payroll of those workers. If you don't have workers, you're not getting that money. So this is similar to, you know, taxing gas needs a new replacement when you have electric vehicles.

29:07They suggest providing incentives for companies to increase benefits like retirement plans and healthcare, promote portable benefits so you could take them with you when you change your employer, encourage companies to experiment with shorter work weeks, but keep the pay constant. So four day work week, but you make the same money. A public investment fund that would invest in tech companies and then distribute returns to the citizens, similar to what Alaska does with its sovereign wealth fund. Invest in power grid improvements, of course, give everyone access to new models, which is, you know, in open AI's best interest and cooperate with the rest of the world on identifying dangerous systems.

29:42Yeah, good luck with a lot of this. I mean, that's what you do with a policy proposal. You throw everything you would like to happen. You don't expect it all to get accepted. Here's the first one here, investigating the idea of taxing businesses that replace people with AI. This is something, if you remember, I think it was Andrew Yang. He was talking about this back when he was running for president, because if you think about it, it's like we we're building we're building software. We're building things that literally do things that people used to do from a just a tax standpoint. If we if we tax people on their output, but we don't have people outputting things, where do you get that tax benefit from?

30:19So this is not whether you hate taxes or, you know, or love taxes. This is a this is a revenue issue. You know, when you think about it, if you don't have people doing the job, but you still have jobs being done, where do you get the tax revenue from? So that that one is very it is very interesting to me that I think that we will see a lot more people talk about it because you actually have CEOs of these companies saying, yeah, you might want to tax us on this. You know, it's it's, you know, and I think they're doing it because if they can form tax policy before it actually is formed, they can get some benefits out of it.

30:51But still, it's not a common thing for a CEO of a company to say, you know what you should think about government taxing us more for doing this work. There's a little regulatory capture there of like tax us. We can handle it. New competitors might not be able to, but we don't care about them. There's definitely that part as well. Yeah, but I think it is mostly just getting ahead of the issue. This could undermine our industry if we don't come up with a sensible policy. So like you said, let's help form a policy that we like before we get one imposed on us. Well, folks, we want to know what you want to hear us talk about on the show.

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32:48Now let's get to those quick headlines that are just good things to know. Tech Z Explorer tipped us off to this one on our subreddit. Convicted spyware maker Brian Fleming was sentenced in San Diego federal court on Friday to time served and a$5 ,000 fine. So he will not be going to jail. A European Union law granting companies the right to scan their services for child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, expired Friday after legislators failed to agree on the terms to extend it. Everybody wanted to extend it, but they couldn't agree how. Companies may continue the scanning, but if they do, that could risk a violation of the e-privacy directive without this legal exemption.

33:29That's a whole mess. They need to get this figured out. The information sources say OpenAI CFO Sarah Fryer has expressed concerns over plans to take the company public in Q4 and spend up to$600 billion over the next five years to build out infrastructure.

33:47Yeah, keeping an eye on that one. Who benefits from that going to the information is my question. Major League Baseball's automated ball strike system, or ABS, has been in action for the first time this season using Sony's Hawkeye camera system. And so far, the system has upheld the humans more often than not. Some umpires, even after more than a week, still have no calls overturned. Wired is a story on how Intel has expanded its advanced chip packaging business. Chip packaging is where a company takes chips, sometimes from different manufacturers, including foundries like TSMC and Intel itself.

34:22It combines them into a single component that can be integrated into a device. Driven by labor shortages and an aging population, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in March that it wants to build a domestic physical AI sector and capture 30 percent of the global market by 2040. In other words, in Japan, they want robots to take the jobs nobody wants. the financial times reports that russian cryptocurrency network a7 is expanding hiring in nigeria zimbabwe togo and other african countries as it attempts to build an alternative payment system in response to sanctions so if you get sanctioned just build a whole nother system that yeah i mean it ain't easy but they're making progress at it the longer these sanctions have to go on uh netflix has produced a video editing model called void video object and interaction deletion.

35:11It lets you remove an object from a scene in a way that remaining objects act as if they were never there. So an example is something falls in a pool while you're shooting a pool scene. You can remove the thing that fell in the pool. And then this model will also remove all the ripples and everything else that happens. That's actually kind of cool. Yeah. We, in every episode of DTNess, let's have some shared perspectives. Last week, we wondered if the clawed source code leak could have been caused by someone vibe coding part of it and not noticing that the map files of reference in a public version.

35:39Andrew has some thoughts. Yeah, Andrew wrote, the answer is, of course, maybe. But the bigger issue is that they didn't learn from a similar leak in 2025. To deliver software to the world, most all developers have some sort of pipeline to build, test, package, distribute, verify, and deploy their software. Those tests and verification can be anything you want, and you can automatically fail for any reason. It should be a simple test to say no map files in the final product and stop the product from being released. The fact that such a check doesn't seem to be in there makes me worry about their software delivery practices.

36:14Take this from someone who's broken production many times, but never in the same way twice. Andrew from Colorado. This is one of those things where people are people. I have still forgot to press record on a podcast when I have a button and a placard above the button that says press record before you start the podcast. We just get lazy and things that we know we're supposed to do, we just don't do and things get missed. And I wonder if that's what happened here. Yeah. It sounds like maybe that is more likely. And I think what Andrew's saying is the problem isn't that somebody missed it. The problem is this is the thing that they should have had on their list of things to check to make sure somebody didn't miss.

36:53Right. So, so yeah, it's like, you know, probably should put it on the list to check it. And then also just get better at doing the things you're supposed to do because that code should not be put out there in that kind of way. Yeah, and it's still causing problems for Anthropic. Now people are putting out versions that have malware to try to trick people and to like run your own cloud locally. And yeah, it's a mess. Well, thank you, Andrew from Colorado. And folks, we want to know what you're thinking about. So if you've got some insights into a story, please, please, please share it with us at feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com.

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