This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Hector Bones, Tim Ashman, Johnny Hernandez, and our new patrons, Andrew and Edward. Welcome! On this episode of DTNS, the Zelda movie is coming, Grand Theft Auto 6 is also coming, and Epic Games will not be ignored! This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, November 8, 2023. From Studio Seeker, Punker, I'm Sarah Lane. From Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Oh, Scott Johnson, if there was ever a day to have you on the show, today is that day. Today is that day. I mean, I'm looking at the roundup right now going, this is a good day for me to be here. It was as if, as if somebody said, let's just dress Scott Johnson in the best tech stories.  For anybody who's like, what in the heck is going on? Real quick, Windows Central sources say that Microsoft plans to add Windows Copilot to Windows 10 in an update that's coming soon after adding the AI Assistant to Windows 11 back in September. But we've got some quick hits to get through, so let's do it now. Google is asking European regulators to make Apple open up iMessage after attempts to get Apple to adopt RCS. Have not exactly panned out. Google, along with a group of European telcos, sent a letter to the European Commission, or the EC, claiming iMessage serves as an important gateway between business users and their customers and should be regulated as a core service under the EU's new Digital Markets Act. The commission is also looking into whether iMessage should be considered a core service. And Apple has argued in the past that iMessage is designed and marketed for personal use and not popular enough in Europe to force changes. Also basically, Apple saying not a core service. A decision from the commission is expected by February. In Tuesday's show, you guys talked about General Motors' Cruise Autonomous Vehicle and that unit facing some safety issues. Well, today the company announced it's recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of the cars dragged the pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October. Cruise has already taken steps to assure this doesn't happen again, they say. In documents, U.S. Safety Regulators posted on Wednesday that with the updated software, cruise vehicles will remain stationary and should a similar accident occur in the future, they'll hold still. Amazon announced on Wednesday that prime members can now buy one medical membership for $99 per year. That's down from $199. One medical has a series of brick and mortar clinics, health clinics, in only 19 major cities across the U.S., so obviously it's not going to be affecting everybody that is an Amazon Prime customer. But the company has reportedly been ramping up its telehealth offerings that does include services like virtual appointments according to a source speaking to the Washington Post. What's app is rolling out a new privacy feature allowing Android and iOS users to hide their location during phone calls by relaying the connection through WhatsApp's servers. Users location is hidden from other callers by switching from the standard peer-to-peer direct connection between callers using the company's servers to obfuscate IP address metadata. WhatsApp says all calls are end-to-end encrypted and group calls are always relayed through its servers by default. In response to reports on Tuesday that Meta would not allow its generative AI tools to be used on political ads, the company announced Wednesday it will indeed require advertisers to disclose when they run political ads with any media that has been AI generated ahead of the U.S. presidential election in 2024. So we've got about a year to figure this one out. The new policy goes into effect in January. All right, Scott, let's talk about the Legend of Zelda live action. Who, who's in? Okay, so let's back up a little bit. Nintendo announced that in partnership with Sony, it will develop a Legend of Zelda movie. The film will be produced by Super Mario creator Shiguro Miyamoto and Avi Arad who produced movies such as Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse and will be directed by Wes Ball whose movies include the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Yep, the Super Mario Brothers movie, which was the previous film animated, of course, not live action, now has grossed $574.9 million in the United States and Canada and $787 million in other territories for a worldwide total of a whopping $1.36 billion. That is what they call a successful film. It made it the highest grossing film based on video games ever just after one week in release. This is all super interesting because this is a sign that Nintendo wants to take their other properties and move them into film projects. Many of us, myself included, assumed that a Zelda project would stay animated. I don't know why I thought that, I just did. But if they're going to go live... Well, and I don't know why I thought it was live action. I mean, I kind of want it to be, but even if it isn't, you're probably going to have some big stars voicing the main actors. Yeah, for sure. Like, it would be a big production regardless. It would be a highly anticipated thing, live action or animated or not. But I think the part, I don't want to skip over too hard here, is that this is a, and you said it in your first line, this is a partnership with Sony Pictures. Now, that will be interesting to long-time gamers and people paying attention to sort of the console wars of the 90s when Nintendo partnered with Sony to make an add-on device for the Nintendo Entertainment System, excuse me, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or the SNES as some call it. And that SNES was going to have this attachable optical drive called the PlayStation. It would be called a Nintendo PlayStation. And it was designed by Sony. It was all part of an agreement between the two of them. There were only one or two prototypes ever made. As far as I know, only one prototype still exists out there. It was sold for a lot of money recently. Anyway, things broke down. Sony and Nintendo could not play nice. And they broke things off before any of that happened. Sony said, well, we've done all this. Why can't we enter this market? It seems crowded with Sega and Sony or Nintendo kind of dominating things.  And boy, howdy did they get a piece of it. They released the PlayStation with that name later on and became easily Nintendo's biggest competition that they had ever seen and still to this day remain very dominant. I just think that that's a fun bit of irony that they're going to have to work with Sony to produce this film. Normally, I would say, well, gosh, I mean, if Sony is your partner with promotions for a movie like this, like what a great partner. But when you're Nintendo, you don't really need you don't need anybody if you're Nintendo, because you're Nintendo. But the fact that the two are are are are going to make this movie, which by the way, I mean, why was Zelda not a movie like 10 years? I had 20 years ago. I don't know. I mean, the fact that this has just now started to finally come to fruition leads me to believe that people have been arguing about who makes this movie when and how for quite some time. Yeah, for sure. I mean, in Nintendo, at Nintendo, they attempted to do the Mario thing back in the 90s and did. So they made that movie with Bob Hoskins. Yeah. And it was bad. It was terrible. Yeah. Well, I think they I think they felt the sting of that for a long time. And finally, they're kind of getting their their chance. And I mean, the other thing is that the ground wasn't fertile enough.  It did a lot better than what they they anticipated. And so with this with the Sonic movies and with a few other video game properties that have done very well, both in streaming but also on on the big screen, there's now a feeling that these are things, projects that can go ahead because they have legs, they have an audience that's willing to pay money to go sit down in front of the screen and watch it.  A lot of the air has been focused on those kind of properties where the IP has already been locked up either by by Disney by Warner Brothers or some other big player. This allows basically a company like Nintendo who has a very popular franchise to leverage that in a way that it gets people to go to the theaters and investors in movies love that. I think the simple view of it also is this because I agree with everything you said. There's the MCU is an example of this. It took a number of generations to grow up reading comic books before we got we started getting good comic book movies. And even if you start counting the Tim Burton stuff with Batman or something a little earlier or the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, we were finally at a place where not only were the people who wanted to consume it grown up with expendable income, but you had people making the films and producing the films that also grew up with it. And that is happening with games too.  They're now the ones with the power with the creative, you know, the creative wherewithal to get stuff done. And now they can get stuff done and they can make it profitable and make it good. That's the important part of this. There are plenty of the world is littered with bad video game movies. I hope that we're near the end of that and I hope Zelda can can be an example of it. Scott, besides yourself, who would you would like to play Link the most? Oh my gosh, Link the hero Link. I haven't thought very hard about this, but I think there are options. I wouldn't even mind like, okay, Princess Zelda. You get, I forgot her name. Taylor, on it, on your Taylor joy. That's what I'm trying to say. She's your princess. She could be your Zelda. She's your Zelda. And then Link, I don't know, you know what, Tom Holland to be a pretty good Link. No one's going to like this suggestion because they're sick of the Spider-Man. I loved Tom Holland. He'd be a great Link. This is good stuff. All right. We've got our film. It's done. Get that made. Mr. Holland, please, you know, talk to your managers and let's make this happen. Good stuff. This could be Mr. Holland's opus. Sorry, I couldn't help it. Go ahead and continue. Well, we have sort of a game theme going on on the show, but let's talk about the Google versus Epic trial that kicked off in court on Monday with Epic Games presenting evidence as what it says is Google's anti competitive behavior with the Google Play Store. We promised we would talk about it more on today's show. So we're doing that now. Epic Games allege that Google's project hug campaign was part of Google's effort to bribe or block game developers from launching their own app store. They showed the jury, internal emails and documents from Activision's King unit and Riot Games considering launching their own stores. They also brought up internal Google emails they said showed intent by Google, intent keyword here, to discourage game developer Riot Games from setting up its own distribution platform. Well, Lawrence Co, former director of games business development for Google Play, countered that the policies were in line with competitors at Apple's App Store, Samsung's Galaxy Store and the Amazon App Store. The company also emphasized it did not, in any of its agreements, prevent developers from creating apps or alternative app stores, that is to say. And that project hug was about attracting developers to the Play Store itself. Gosh, I mean, can you call it anything besides project hug?  It's too weird.  It's weird. Let's not. Yeah, it's a little bit weird. You're Google, you're big. You don't have, you can come up with a better name. Yeah, we're not, you know, touchy-feely. No, that's not what's going on here. What do you think is going on here, Scott? But, you know, Epic obviously has been fighting with Apple. It's fighting with Google. It's saying we want to be able to have our own alternative app store. Epic has, you know, as part of the recent trial with Google has said, we are not profitable, you know? And so there's a little sort of like snicker-snicker, you know, going on with people who don't think that Epic should run its own app store. But what do you think? Well, they, and I think in particular, the disclosure was the Epic store itself is the thing that is not profitable. There are other divisions, the engine, the actual Unreal Engine that a lot of games are based on, Fortnite, that sort of stuff, making money. But that app store has not done what they had hoped. They had hoped to usurp Steam in a meaningful way, and they had hoped to move it to other platforms. And this is kind of part of that. They would really very much like to have an Epic game store on my iPhone or your Android phone, or wherever they can put it. And I don't necessarily blame them for wanting that. But I don't think they're going to get their way. I think these platform holders do not want someone to be able to come on there and become the dominant, prominent app store when they have done so much over the years to develop their own. And you may say, and I agree with this for the most part, that Apple and Google both have a bit of a stranglehold on that market. They do. They're the platform holders. They're not that different. I don't want to get into the legalities of the differences here, but they're not that different than Microsoft in the 90s trying to force everybody to use the same browser. It's a little bit like that, but on mobile and other devices. Obviously, on PC, they were able to do their store as freely as they want to. But on these other devices, it's a different environment. And at least legally right now, nobody's forcing either Google or Apple to relinquish the kind of app store control that they already have. So I think that they're not going to get what they want out of this. I think mostly this is to make a lot of noise to try to get, I don't know, allies in this war with them to go after these guys. If they had their way, they would even ally with rival steam and say, hey, you guys wouldn't mind having a game store on these platforms, would you? Right now, you just have a store where people can buy stuff, but wouldn't it be nice if they could play there? And I think that's probably going to be tempting for the Samsungs and the Amazons and the steams of the world to want to maybe join in. And then maybe you've got pressure, right? Industry pressure. But right now, it feels like the only people really fighting this hard is Epic. And I just don't think it's going to make enough noise or add enough chains. Yeah, I try to, and this is, I try to equate this to sort of like, well, okay, where would I want content? Do I get content on X? Do I get content on threads? Do I get content on someone's personal blog? All of those things may be true. And I would like them all to be offered to me. I think the argument that Epic is making is, well, you have Google or Apple, and you should have more choice. I do not disagree with that. I do not disagree with that. But if somebody is just kind of on-boarding, I want to play a game, what's the best way to do it? Where do I find on my contacts? It is really hard to just sort of launch like, well, we have our game store over here, which helps our margins a little bit more. So please do that.  That is hard to do these days. You know, we are, we are in a lot of walled gardens. And even those who don't want to play in them have situations like this where, you know, Epic is sort of like, we want to offer you something else, not really working all that well. So here we are. It's hard because iOS and Android have a lock on the dual platform that is essentially the mobile business. There are other very small instances of other OSes, but they don't have the kind of market share of the dominance. So I understand their frustration. I mean, the only real alternative is the Epic phone. And nobody wants that necessarily. Nobody wants a Steam phone. Nobody wants phones branded to the store they happen to like. Remember the Facebook phone? Oh, yeah. They tried. They tried real hard. So did Amazon with their phone and that didn't work well either. And I'm not saying that I guess maybe my overall take is I do wish there was more room and diversity in phone OS, generally speaking, because I think it drives innovation to have more competition. But also at the same time, I feel like it creates consumer confusion. Yes. Yes. And you and I want to be able to get a thing and have it do the thing we need. And we don't want to be told that there are 10 other things that might also do that. And we need to take time out of our day to figure out which one's the best fit. Exactly. It's starting to be too much, you know? So, yeah. Well, guess what, y'all? We're going to talk about games a little more in just a second. But first, just a reminder, we love your feedback. Your feedback makes the show better. Cannot emphasize that enough. And if you have feedback about anything we talk about on the show, you have a variety of ways to get a hold of us. DTNS audience on the socials can plug DTNS show on X. That's formerly Twitter. Mastodon, M-S-T-D-N dot social on Mastodon. Daily Tech News show on TikTok. And DTNS picks P-I-X on Instagram and threads. And always feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. All right, Scott, we saved the best for last here. Rockstar Games. Perhaps you've heard of it. A division of Take-Two Interactive software and the studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series confirmed on Wednesday. It will begin promoting Grand Theft Auto 6 next month, which would apparently include a trailer for the new game. This is according to a blog post by Rockstar's president, Sam Hauser. The promotion of the new game coincides with Rockstar's 25th anniversary. So the timing kind of makes sense, I suppose. But boy, has it been a while. Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold more than 185 million copies and is the second best-selling video game of all time after Minecraft. But it's been a while, right, Scott? Yeah, I mean, 2012, 2013 is the first time most of us saw Hyde New Hair that game. It's funny to remember. Some may not remember this, but the game originally launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, which are, you know, we're fairly long in the tooth at that point. But still, that was the launch platform. And pretty quickly, as others rolled out, as well as PC support and this sort of thing, we got more and more versions of the game. Today, that game prints money. Grand Theft Auto 5 is an insane success story in every possible definition when it comes to the gaming business. There's very few examples like it. And not even Minecraft is even in the same ballpark in terms of what kind of game it is. There's other reasons why Minecraft supersedes it in terms of overall, you know, player base. However, if you want to know one sign of how big a deal this is for the next generation of that game, which in a lot of ways is a platform unto itself, is they made an announcement of an announcement. You know what I'm saying? This morning, I was like, wait, so they're announcing that a trailer will come, but they're not announcing the trailer. It's OK. Yeah. No, hardly anyone gets to do that. Sometimes big movie reveals will be like, hey, this Thursday, the new Spider-Man trailer, whatever. Like we're used to that. In some forms of media. But this is gigantic. That game sold more than some countries can claim is the gross national product. It's an insane success story built upon many years of other games, GTA games and other offshoots and stuff. They've built this studio into what it is today. What I was worried about is, OK, well, you're going to announce an announcement, then you're going to give us an announcement, and then a trailer. My prediction was 24 months or more before we actually see the game in anyone's hands. But I was wrong. They have a graphic that is posted directly from all the official accounts of Rockstar saying 2024. They don't give a date, but they give us a year. And I'm kind of shocked by that and glad that it's not some nebulous number way off in the distance. Could be delayed or whatever. But 2024 looks like it's right. It could be the company, you know, just trying to, I don't know, get people to be up in arms. And maybe if it gets pushed, then I don't know. Everybody is still excited about the game. But yes, I have never played GTA. I know it well because I've talked about it for many years. I know what it is. I know that, you know, ethically, it's not for everybody. But I know it's a big deal to the point where I actually had a friend of mine and I were talking about games, you know, because he's always like, oh, Sarah, you're like, such a gamer at heart. Why don't you try more? And I'm like, I like VR games where I'm like exercising. What about like, but like, what about like GTA five? And he was like, it's pretty old. I mean, go ahead and try it. But like it's not like cool and new. Like games are way better than that now. And that was like two weeks ago. And I feel like I spoke it into existence, even though I have nothing to do with it. The funny thing is the game, yes, it's older, obviously. We're looking at 10 years, 11 years in that game now. And somehow nobody's playing the original campaign anymore. That's not what that game is anymore. Now it's all about GTA online, which is the thing that prints money. People are in there doing all kinds of activities, all kinds of crazy stuff that they run. There's modified stuff happening on PC where people are doing huge, you know, multi event role playing cops versus robbers, basically sort of stuff on street. That's another whole aspect of this thing that a lot of people may not even know about. And from an ethical standpoint, and from a business standpoint, there's a couple of things that we should maybe hold their feet to the fire on. Employees have been complained a lot about burnout and the making of Red Dead Redemption 2, which is another massive release for them in 2018 and a huge success. That game really wore a lot of people out in terms of those who made it. So they took a lot of scrutiny for that. I hope that's going better on that front. They claim it is, but I don't know how transparent they're being. Also, they got hacked a long time ago and some very early alpha footage of Six got released. They claimed that a lot of it was just borked and broken and shouldn't be seen by anybody. It's all in process stuff. It didn't matter the internet ran with it. It was crazy. Two UK teens were actually got convicted for the hack in London at the end of the day. So they're not without their controversies. Certainly the game itself has always been a little controversial. It's a very satirical look at America and cities in America and that sort of thing. Well, apparently GTA 6 is going to be a fictional version of Miami. Yeah. So GTA 3 had a spin out called Grand Theft Auto Vice City, which was set in the 80s and in this fictional Miami called Vice City. Vice City is apparently the place we're returning to and I personally could not be more excited. I cannot wait for this. I mean, I'm excited too. Just because so many other people are excited about this because it's been so long, you know, to the point where people are like, is there ever going to be another GTA? I don't know. Part of the reason they can take their time is because it's such a monster. They know that whatever they do, it'll sell like bananas. You're going to hear stories. It'll be like, no movies ever done this well. The entire film industry is less than GTA 6 sales. Like these are the stories you're going to hear about because that's how much power that that brand has. It's big. Well, Scott, you're going to have to tell me about it. I don't know. Maybe maybe it's the game for me. Maybe it's the game for me. Hard to say. But if I if I do want to play a game, I will need a brain. We all kind of need our brains. That just sends us right into the next story. Researchers at the University of Texas's Southwestern Medical Center developed a device that can isolate blood flow to the brain. Which could keep the brain organ alive and functioning independent from the rest of the body for up to several hours. The device was previously tested using pig brains and could help researchers study the human brain in new ways because pig brains often are used in the first studies that end up becoming human studies without the influence from other organs. In an animal model using anesthesia, the researchers redirected the brain's blood supply through a pump that maintained or adjusted a range of variables like blood pressure, volume, temperature, oxygenation, nutrients. Over five hours, the team found that the brain activity and other measurements had minimal to new changes. Pigs of the future. That's just how it is. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, I read this and I was like, that's crazy. And I mean, I've had like a couple of brain issues of my own in the past where I was like, how does this work? So one of the notes that I thought was interested might kind of get us all to be thinking about this in the right way. The scientists in the study have already used the system to better understand hypoglycema. Glycema, if you're not familiar, low blood sugar. So you can induce hypoglycemia by restricting food intake in humans. But in tests, this is generally done in lab animals, dosing them with insulin. But the body then compensates for this and alters the brain as a result.  That's interesting. That would be great as someone who's got some, in both directions, blood, sugar, alcohol, blood, sugar, glucose issues. I am all for this research. Let's find a solution to my weirdness and anyone else's problem. Stop drinking Scotch at 8 a.m. and you'll be fine, my good sir. Who knows what part of this is habit and some of it's just a mystery, but pigs always had the answer. We just didn't know it. Follow the pigs is my advice. Well, and just being able to study the brain without the brain being, and again, these are early test studies and only for a couple of hours at a time. I think they said five hours total. But for that to be something where you could figure out what fire stuff to the brain, see how the brain reacts without the rest of the body being part of it. That is significant. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. You know who's cool? You, Scott Johnson. You're cool. Yep. I don't know. Yep, you know, put on your cool badge once we're done with the show because it was great, but let folks know where they can keep up with all else that you do. Well, if I seem kind of up today, it's because something really cool happened for the last couple of months. I've had a little secret negotiation going on with Greg Ghostcrawler, street formerly of Riot Games and before that World of Warcraft and Blizzard. And he's starting his own studio, already has started his own studio, called Fantastic Pixel Castle at FantasticPixelCastle.com. They have a brand new game coming out, a big MMO, triple A title called Ghost right now. It's currently just a codename. Anyway, he and I worked out a discussion once about wanting to be more transparent about the development of the product, how they do it, but what feedback do they take and how do they integrate it into the game. Stuff we normally don't get to see. His idea was, why don't we do a podcast? I said, that sounds fantastic. So starting on the 14th of this month and we'll be doing it monthly, at least to start, we're going to have a show called Word on the Street with me and Greg Street over at frogpants.com slash street, S-T-R-E-E-T. You can also find it on their website. And I cannot wait to start digging in. We're going to have artists on, developers on, designers, people with like decades of experience in the industry, just laying it out, telling you how stuff gets made. It's going to be the ultimate how sausage gets made, sort of fest and I'm stoked. So check it out, subscribe as soon as you can, although we're still waiting for some of the directories to get back to us on links. But the RSS feed is there and ready to go. You can find it at frogpants.com slash street. Oh, Scott, this is very exciting. Patrons, I know many of you would be excited about that as well. Stick around for the extended show, Good Day Internet. We'll be talking more about Scott's big announcement, The Street. Plus why Apple says eight gigabytes, totally fine, has nothing to do with Scott. That's just a different story overall, but we'll talk about both. But just a reminder, y'all, you can catch the show live, Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern. That's 2100, rather, because we're on Standard Time UTC. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. And we'll be back tomorrow with Christian Jutra joining us. Talk to you then. Get more at frogpants.com.


There's a lot of talk about mesh networking now and you know I'm a crazy person about networks and I'm talking to Daniel Peck from Luma who has a mesh networking offering here that looks pretty interesting. How you doing? Doing really good. Really good. All right so what, tell us about Luma. So Luma is a whole home Wi-Fi solution. We sell several nodes. We have a three pack, a two pack and a one pack and depending on your home you get the one that's most appropriate. For most single family homes in the US, a three pack covers it very nicely. We recommend one per thousand square feet or about every four. So we're all really fond of going to <IP_ADDRESS> on our web browser. Is that how this works? Unfortunately no. That'll be something you'll have to give up if you really enjoy that. So we went with kind of a mobile first application where everything is controlled via your mobile app with support iOS and Android and everything just happens really seamlessly and simplistically within the app. So you were telling us earlier, we did a little bit of pre-work here, that it's over Bluetooth? Yeah, all the setup is done via Bluetooth Low Energy, all the initial data connection and it's able to do that without even leaving the app. So that's good if you've got a house that has no cellular network or poor cellular network. You don't have your Wi-Fi setup. You kind of need something. The Bluetooth Low Energy is going to get you there. Yeah, Bluetooth Low Energy is going to let you set up those initial devices and if you need access, we also broadcast a Luma Setup AP as well that allows you to go from the initial unset up Luma to fully set it up as well if your phone doesn't support Bluetooth for whatever reason. Okay, cool. So I know some of the mesh network devices don't have Ethernet jacks on the satellite devices. So if you had wired Ethernet, you'd want to plug it in. Do you guys have Ethernet jacks on them? We do. This device, this device has two Ethernet ports. On the hub, one is used to connect to your cable modem. On the nodes, both are accessible for additional devices. Oh, okay. So you can run another, it's basically an Ethernet switch. That's right. That's right. And if you're lucky enough to have Ethernet backhaul all through your house, then it can act in wired backhaul mode as well. Yeah, I don't have that, but I dream about that and I know some people do. We've also got a USB jack on the back so you can hook up some hard drives that kind of thing. So currently, it's really just for a charging unit. We're looking at a few other possibilities of what that can be used for. So you can charge devices through it, you mean? Yeah, you could. It's basically, we're using up one of your wall jacks for AC that might as well give you a USB charger along with it. That might be more useful than a disk drive some days. So you were showing us earlier, maybe we could come in here, Steve. He's got an iPad Pro here. He's got a display up. I'm describing also for the audio people as well. So you can do a lot of the control from this app. Tell us about what you can see here. Yeah, you fully control the app. So here you have a view of the full home. We know where the lumas are in the home and how they're connected to one another. You see the speed test result, the upload, download speed. You can go in and see any security alerts you might be having. We talked a little bit earlier about how security is kind of baked into the product from day one. So from this screen you would see any security alerts for any devices you have. So what kind of security alerts can you see? So if the device is connecting to, say, a malware command and control server, we're able to see that and block it from doing further communication out. That's a really good thing. Yeah. I think it is a pretty good thing. It hopefully helps people have a little bit less heartache. Yeah, there you go. Or at least know that they have heartache, which is half the battle, right? Exactly, exactly. Now what if you've got kids in the home? So if you have kids in the home, we also have some really deep level of content filtering where you can set for your whole network kind of the level of content that's most applicable. You have a lot of small kids in the house or maybe just a kid who's prone to pick up devices all around the house. You can say my home is more of a G-Haul, where it can only be... He's got a slider here that goes GPGPG13R and unrated. Unrestricted. Oh, sorry, sorry. So that's, hey, I'm not interested in content filtering and that's fine. There's some people who don't really have a need for that, but we want to provide the option for people who do. Okay, so what if we set our home to G, but Steve wants to go to... He's a wild man, he's going to go PG13 tonight. What can you do? So users, we can set profiles for each of your users and you can assign devices to them. Well, let's say in this case you got this great little kid Caleb here. So Caleb's got her iPad mini. She's normally set to a G-Rating. Say she's doing a school project and she needs to get access to something that's really kind of a PG content. Well, she can get the block page in the web browser and she'd be able to ask mom or dad, whoever the network admin for your Luma Wi-Fi system is, for an override. And then she'd be able to access that content and it could either be permanent or temporary and say that she could get her school work done or learn something new and then immediately be back. What if mom's at work? Can she do it from work? Of course she can. It's a push notification that goes right to the app, wherever they are in the world. Now quality of service is important of looking at what kind of data you can get through, what kind of devices have higher priority, what do you have in quality of service? Yes, so we have where you can prioritize a given device. You can also set a default device for priority and we integrate with the Amazon Alexa so you can control that via voice. You can set a device that's going to be my default prioritized device, say an Apple TV or maybe your laptop. You can just say to your Alexa, Alexa tell Luma to prioritize my device and then that device will be prioritized for the rest of the time. We also do that prioritization over the Wi-Fi itself, which a lot of people aren't doing. Are you sure that there's fairness in the airtime to make sure that they're getting the best possible Wi-Fi experience on that device? So you're doing it at the device level but not at the level of saying I want voiceover IP to have the highest priority and then I want video streaming next and I want text editing to be last. You're doing it on the device level instead. Right, yeah, that would be interesting to prioritize text editing. I'm going to let that one go to the bottom. Right, I guess there might be a time where you're really worried about pushing a few K of data.  Need to make sure that Atom Editor really works the best it possibly can. I use Atom, I use Atom, there you go. But you don't do prioritization on the type of traffic, you do it on the device itself. That's right, that's right, we do it on the device level. That's an interesting way to do it, so you could say make all my Apple TVs at the top so video streaming looks good and everything else goes down a little bit. Right, right, and that only would come in when there's contention. On a normal network, if you're not pushing more than your uplink is, then quality of service won't kick in at all. It's only when you're trying to pull down or push up more data than your pipe allows you to. Okay, okay, I got it. So, let's see, we haven't actually held one up for the camera here for the video, so let's... You want to do the two pack? Yeah, well, just grab one of those guys here. So, it's a hexagon, it's about an inch thick and maybe, I don't know, four or five inches, four inches across. Now, this stands up on the table, right? It does, it does, it stands up. We have, you know, a pretty good industrial design aesthetic that fits into most homes. And we have several different colors, so we have white for kind of a classic look. We have a really sleek black, a nice gray, and a really vibrant orange that kind of goes along with our branding a little bit, but also really stands out and lets you kind of show it off in your home and brag about your Wi-Fi a little bit. There you go. All right, well, these are pretty cool, are these on the market yet? They are, they are, we launched last June, we're on the shelf in Best Buy. You can also buy online, bestbuy.com, amazon.com, we're also on target.com and several other stores. And what's your price point on these? So the price point currently is $2.99 for the three pack, and I believe we're running a special right now on that as well. And the, tell me what our price points are right now, do you remember? Three pack is $3.99. I'm stuck in the holiday special there. Well, let me also point out that we are talking to the chief architect who is who we wanted to talk to, not the guy in charge of pricing. You are absolutely forgiven that, you got the tech details. That's what we really care about. So $3.99 for a three pack. $3.99 for a three pack, $2.49 for a two pack, and $1.49 for a single. All right, so we should just buy three. Yeah, yeah, most people should just buy three. Make sure your house is really well covered. And if you end up not needing the third, you can give it to a friend. Yeah, there you go. All right, I really appreciate your time in explaining this all to us. This is fantastic. I wish you the best of luck. Sounds good, great. Talking to you as well. Wait, how do people find your product? Getluma.com. Getluma.com. Thank you. Thank you.


Hi, this is project obsidian threat hunting kill chain three. The logs are gone. Who am I? I'm extreme paperclip digital forensics nerd Linux geek infosec engineer lifelong student of everything amateur history buff spice fanatic loads of fun. Here are the things we're going to go over. We're going to go over how to develop a threat hunting hypothesis. Sources we could use for developing a threat hunting hypothesis. Research the methods attackers use to clear the windows event logs. We're going to find data sources we need for a threat hunting hypothesis. And we'll find evidence of an attacker clearing the logs. And we'll answer the how of our hypothesis. And finally, we'll, we'll go over how to document your threat hunting using a simple template. Okay, quick note about note taking pro tip. During and throughout the threat hunting process one should take good notes. These notes will be very useful throughout the engagement several times throughout this exercise, I will be sure to mention that some fact or discovery, we find should be added to the notes. This is generally a good habit to embrace in the world of information security. Okay, so what is threat hunting. Many people have their own interpretations and definitions of this but we could say threat hunting is the proactive practice of discovery in data. And it allows you to discover and uncover not only malicious activity, but new risks detection methods, or even visibility gaps that your organization was previously unaware of. So question. What guides the development of a hypothesis for the purpose of threat hunting. Here are some things to consider and take note of when building a threat hunting hypothesis. The IT environment. What are the operating systems in the environment windows Linux Mac. Does the org have active directory. What data gets logged windows event. What are the vulnerabilities on Zeke also vulnerabilities does the organization perform vulnerability scans. If so, are the vulnerabilities analyzed and remediated. Are there outstanding vulnerabilities that still need to be remediated. The MITRE attack framework offers a wealth of great information that can help build the threat hunting hypothesis. So, take some time to look at the enterprise matrix. And within each of the tactics are techniques that attackers use these techniques can be used to help inspire your threat hunting adventures. Also, what can your users employees coworkers tell you about things they have seen in the environment. As the threat hunter, we would add all of these sources to our notes and continue. Okay, in this scenario, we will consider the question. What happens when an attacker clears the logs in an effort to hide their tracks. So we should start with a very broad hypothesis. Let's focus on that middle section of that question. attacker clears the logs focusing on that we could make a broad hypothesis like attackers will try to cover their tracks. This hypothesis is broad. It only addresses the who and the what, but not the how. For the notes as the threat hunter, you would add your broad hypothesis here to your notes and continue. So how can we develop this further into a specific hypothesis for our hunt. Well, looking at our notes. We see that the MITRE attack framework was listed as one of the things we could use to help build a threat hunting hypothesis. And how would we do that. Well, a quick Google search for MITRE attack attacker covering tracks brings us to the following MITRE attack page. Indicator removal on host technique ID T 1070. Let's follow that link and read what MITRE attack says about this. And remember in our scenario we're looking for information about Windows event logs being cleared. We can clearly see something more relevant to our scenario in the sub technique listed above. It's the T 1070.001 clear windows event logs. So let's take a look at the details of this sub technique. Here we can see the details of the MITRE attack sub technique clear windows event logs. Note the methods listed here windows commands using w e v t util cl commands. Let's see there's also the event fewer GUI and PowerShell. So for our notes as the threat hunter, we would add the above MITRE attack technique, the sub technique. The attack methods listed and any source URLs, we would add this to our notes and continue using the info from the MITRE attack sub technique that we just saw about the specific methods attackers will use to cover their tracks. We can update our threat hunting hypothesis to be more specific. So let's take a quick review of how we got here we started with a broad hypothesis. Then we did some research and found some details from the MITRE attack framework to enhance our broad hypothesis into a specific hypothesis. So now we can make a specific hypothesis, like attackers will try to cover their tracks using one of the following methods. The event viewer GUI windows commands such as w e v t util cl or PowerShell. So for the notes we would as the threat hunter we would add this these specific items, this we would add this specific hypothesis to our notes and continue. Alright, so let's talk about data sources. You can know your data sources when conducting a threat hunt. So, which data sources could you possibly use. And where would we find the data needed for our hypothesis. Let's take a look at the data sources available to us in Splunk. A simple Splunk query. We are about to run basically does is to search the Splunk events event count. And then it's going to split the events by index, and that's the summarize equals F. F is for false. Then it's going to search for any index. That's index equals wildcard. And then we're going to dedupe the results by the field index using dedupe index. And finally we're going to specify the fields we want we're going to say fields index to just show the field index. And looking at the results, which of these indexes would be useful to us. So with the list of sources here, these indexes. We're most likely find what we need within the system on and win event indexes, because these data sources are going to show us what was happening inside a host. So for the notes as a threat hunter, we would add the Splunk indexes system on and win event logs as data sources to our notes, and we would continue. To begin our hunt, we should look for evidence that the Windows event logs were cleared. A simple Google search for Windows event logs cleared gives us a clue, a Microsoft article about Windows security event ID 1102. So let's take a look at this article. Windows security event ID 1102 the audit log was cleared. The article paid close attention to what Microsoft says for security monitoring recommendations. It says, typically, you should not see this event. There is no need to manually clear the security event log in most cases. We recommend monitoring this event and investigating why this action was performed. That's interesting. So for the notes as a threat hunter we would add this information about Windows security event ID 1102, including any source URLs, we would add this to our notes and continue. But question. Which data sources. Should we use going to pause here either. Yeah, what's up. Sorry. I might want to redo this little section right here because I just noticed that discord popped up and probably got into my screen. If you want to back up a slide and yeah, yeah, I can splice it together. Sounds good man sorry about that. Okay. I'm about to start. Just give a three second pause and then start. Okay, so I'm going to say right now, three second pause starting now. Okay. Windows security event ID 1102. The audit log was cleared. In this article, pay close attention to what the Microsoft article says. For security monitoring recommendations. It says, typically, you should not see this event. There is no need to manually clear the security event log in most cases. We recommend monitoring this event and investigating why this action was performed. Interesting. So for the notes as a threat hunter, we should add this information about Windows security event ID 1102, including any source URLs to our notes and continue. Question. Which data source should we use. So looking at our notes, we see that we have when event logs listed, which contains the typical Windows event logs found on a Windows operating system. And this is listed as a data source in Splunk. So let's go search for this event within our Splunk data. In this search, we're going to search the wind event logs index in Splunk for event dot code 1102. And we'll see if we get any results. We do. So we get 26 events here discovered showing proof that the Windows event logs were cleared. So the notes as a threat hunter, we would add this broad Splunk query, including the date time specified for the query, as well as some details about the results to our notes and continue. So, let's alter this Splunk query to make it look more presentable. So what we're going to do is we'll search the wind event logs index for event code event dot code 1102. And we'll use rename to rename the long field when log dot user underscore data subject username as simply user, because that's much nicer, right. We'll arrange the results in the query using table, and we'll specify the fields we want displayed time host name event code when log task user. And then we're going to sort the results by time from oldest at the top to newest at the bottom. That's just my preference, honestly. Okay, wow. Here we can see evidence of the Windows event logs being cleared on several hosts. Also, it's interesting to note that the search results here did not specify. We can also show if the event logs were cleared via the event event viewer GUI Windows command, such as W E V T util CL, or PowerShell, but in any case, we see that the windows windows event logs were cleared. So we would add the notes as a threat hunter, we would add this specific splunk query, including the date time specified for the query, as well as some details about the results to our notes, and we would continue. Okay. So are we done. Did we accomplish what we set out to do. Yes, they're not entirely wrong. We did find a way to detect when the windows event logs were cleared. But what if we wanted to find the source of this activity. What if we wanted to find which command or commands the attacker made of you might have used to clear the logs. What if we wanted to find the answer to how the attackers cleared the windows event logs. Let's explore further to answer those questions. Okay, looking at our notes. We can see in our specific hypothesis that one of the methods attackers used to cover their tracks is by using the W E V T util CL command. We should search for this command in our splunk data. But how do we do that, how would we find a specific windows command that was executed on a host. Google log windows command line and see what it gives us. And one of the first results is a Microsoft article command line process auditing. So let's take a look. Reading the Microsoft article. It mentions audit event ID 4688. So what is this audit event ID 4688. Let's find out. Quick Google search for audit event ID 4688 leads us to an article titled 4688. A new process has been created. So let's take a look. Okay, one of the fields we see in this windows security event ID 4688 is the process command line field. So it appears we can search splunk for the windows security event ID 4688. And we can specify the value. We are looking for in the process command line field. Right. For the notes here, as a threat hunter, we would add this information we have found about windows security event ID 4688. So we're loading any source URLs to our notes and continue. Okay, let's take a look at windows security event ID 4688 in splunk and see what the process command line field is going to show us. So this is just a simple search. We'll just search the win event logs index for event.code 4688. Now bummer. So looking at the results, we don't find any data for the process command line field in windows security event ID 4688. So for the notes as a threat hunter, we would add this specific splunk query, including the date time specified for the query, as well as some details about the results to our notes and continue. We didn't find any command line data in the windows security event ID 4688. Why? Well, according to the Microsoft article previously mentioned about a new process has been created. If you scroll down a bit and read, it says you must enable administrative templates system audit process creation include command line in process creation events. So you need to enable this in group policy to include command line in the process creation events. So now what are we dead in the water. Is there anything else we can do to find what commands the attacker used to clear the logs. Okay, checking our notes. We take a look and recall that we made note of the two data sources sys one and win event logs. So let's go take a look at the sysmon data. Okay question, which sysmon ID could possibly show us the command line details. A quick Google search for sysmon event showing command line leads us to an article about sysmon event ID one process creation. Okay, we see in this article that it lists the fields in sysmon event ID one. And two interesting fields pop up here. Command line and parent command line. So for the notes as a threat hunter we would add this information we discovered about sysmon event ID one, including any source URLs, we would add this to our notes and continue. Yay. Okay all is not lost. We have sysmon event ID one process creation, which shows us the command line, as well as the parent command line. Okay, let's take a look at sysmon event ID one in Splunk. We'll search the system on index for event code one. One important note here, this simple query, this simple Splunk query is only a query to see what the command line data looks like from sysmon event ID one. The actual values that we see in the command line in this specific search here, these results, they don't matter. Understand we just want to verify that we can see command line data. And here's where we get. We can clearly see data for the command line and parent command line fields and sysmon event ID one. Great. Now that we've verified that we can see command line values in sysmon event ID one. Let's search for the specific command. We're going to run a splunk search in the sysmon index, looking for event dot code one. We're going to specify process dot command line contains the command w e v t util cl nothing bummer. Okay. As the threat hunter, we would add this splunk query, including the date time specified for the query, as well as any details about the results to our notes and continue. So, again, are we dead in the water? Is there nothing else we can do to find what commands the attacker used to clear the logs? We're taking our notes. We take a look and recall that we made note in our specific hypothesis that attackers have also been known to use PowerShell. So let's move on to PowerShell. So question. Let's find a way to clear the Windows event logs using PowerShell. A simple Google search for PowerShell clear event logs results in a link to a Microsoft article about a clear event log command let's take a look. PowerShell command let clears all entries from specified event logs on the local or remote computers. So for the notes here as the threat hunter, we would add this information we've discovered about PowerShell command that clear event log, including any source URLs we would add this to our notes and continue. Interesting. So, could an attacker use PowerShell, this PowerShell command that clear event log as a method to clear the logs? Sure. Let's dive into Splunk and hunt for any evidence of this command. Okay, let's search this PowerShell command in Splunk. We're going to search the Sysmon index for event code one. We're going to search for process dot command line containing clear event log. 21 events. Now we have proof that the attacker use the PowerShell command that clear event log as a method to wipe the Windows event logs. This is the how to our hypothesis. So for the notes, as the threat hunter, we would add this specific Splunk query, including date time specified for the query, as well as any details about the results to our notes and continue. Let's make this Splunk query more presentable. We're going to search the Sysmon index for event code one. Again, specify the process dot command line containing clear event log, and we're going to use rename to rename the long process dot command line field as just command. Then we're going to organize the results in a nice table using table, then we'll specify the fields we want. We're going to sort by time with oldest on top to newest on the bottom. Looks great. So for our notes, again, as a threat hunter, we would add this specific Splunk query, including the date time specified for the query, as well as any details about the results to our notes and continue. So how can we document the final results of the hunt? Perhaps you'll see now how important it is to take copious notes throughout the threat hunting process. We can take our notes, we can document the final results of the hunt, and we can use our notes to fill in the details of a threat hunting template. And this process can be repeated using new hypothesis in the future for this threat hunting exercise that we just did. It would make sense to break these results into three separate threat hunting templates. Windows will name it like this Windows event logs cleared via event viewer GUI, which will address the Windows security event ID 112. Windows event logs cleared via Windows command, which will address the Windows command WEVT util CL. And also Windows event logs cleared via PowerShell clear event log, which will address the PowerShell command. To document these threat hunting exercises, we can use this simple threat hunting template. It means a title, date created, our hypothesis, MITRE attack, MITRE sub-technique, simulation details, if any, proposed search query are the limitations and observation notes that we can kind of summarize and expand on. And finally, our hunt findings with any recommendations. And then we'll have a proposed detection title, if any, and a proposed detection query. And what it's going to look like would be something like this. So here, using our notes to guide us, we can create the title, Windows event logs cleared via event GUI. To date, our hypothesis, MITRE tactic, MITRE sub-technique, simulation details, if any, in this case, there's none. Proposed search query and hunter limitations observation notes. Here's where we can summarize from our notes. So for this, I put the proposed search query did find evidence of Windows event logs getting cleared, but the results were broad. The search query was improved to display the relevant data in a readable format. And also put here, it's important to note that the search results did not specifically show if the Windows event logs were cleared via event viewer GUI. So it'd be prudent to test this in a simulation to verify that Windows security event ID 1102 would still be triggered, no matter what method an attacker use, GUI, command, PowerShell. So for the hunt findings for this, I wrote, Windows event 1102 is wonderful for detecting when Windows event logs are cleared. And the query developed below should be made into detection. So here's the proposed detection title. Alert Windows event 1102, the audit log was cleared. And finally here we have the specific proposed detection query. The second one. And using our notes. We create a title Windows event logs cleared via Windows command. WEVT util CL. The date hypothesis. Miter tactic, miter sub technique and note for these sub techniques for these three threat hunting templates. I'm adding some extra info at the end in parentheses. So for this one I put via Windows command. WEVT util CL. There was no simulation details. In my proposed search query. And for hunter limitation observation notes have the proposed search query did not produce any valuable results. However, it would be prudent to run a simulation test using this command and build the detection. And the hunt findings. So the query did not produce results. I believe that I believe the developed query should be made into a detection because attackers could possibly use the command to clear the windows log events. Windows event logs. The proposed detection title for this one is alert Windows command WEVT util CL used to clear windows event logs. And then finally here we have the proposed detection query with my specific splunk query. Okay, third one here. Using our notes to guide us create a title. Windows event logs cleared via PowerShell clear event log. We have the date or hypothesis. Miter tactic, miter sub technique. Again, notice here at the end I put in parentheses I added via PowerShell clear event log. No simulation details. The proposed search query. And for the hunter limitations observation notes. I wrote the proposed search query produced evidence that the PowerShell command let clear event log was used, but the results were broad. The search query was improved to display the relevant data in a readable format. See proposed detection query. Okay, so for hunt findings. Use the PowerShell use of the PowerShell command lit clear event log should be monitored for any suspicious behavior and so the proposed detection query should be made into a detection. Proposed detection title alert PowerShell clear event log executed. And then, of course, my specific splunk search. So, one final thing I'd like to mention here. There are many different ways one could conduct their threat hunting. There's no one way to do it. But this has just been a simple methodical way to approach it. In the end we have our threat hunting results documented in a simple template and shared with our team. And that's it. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And feel free to join in on the conversation with the blue team, the blue team village on discord. There's the discord server right there. Thank you very much.


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Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Kaon Williams and the ATB finals groups have been announced and they've been picked And we've got some very interesting matchups on the way in the round robin stage Some very big matchups between players that have never played before and some players that are in some great form as well Let's go to the groups now and see who is in the green and the red group for Turin. Dada with Djokovic's group Who is he gonna play? He's playing City Pass, Rubelev and Rood. So a nice little group there for Djokovic Never played against Rubelev as we'll see in a second and also has a good record against the other two guys So no back Djokovic fans be excited because his group is very very winnable and then the other group The group of death is the red group. It's Daniel Medvedev, Sasha Zverev, Baratini in her catch and I'll tell you what anybody could get out of that, her catch, Baratini Any of those guys could actually get through to the semi-final stage. So let's start with the world number one He is the top of his group.  So back in 2015 was the last time he actually won this event But here are the records against the players in his group 6-2 against City Pass So very confident there that he should win that match. He's never played against Rubelev Which would be an interesting match up but Rubelev right now is not in very good form and against Rood Who is his first round opponent or his first match of the tournament. He has a 1-0 record against So he'll be liking his chances against everybody in his group. If he does make it to the semi-finals He'll be playing one of these guys Mevedev who has a 6-4 record against and just beat him in the Paris final Against Varev, he's 7-3 with their last match being played at the US Open, a five-set epic Baratini never lost to him 4-0 and he's 3-0 against her catch with their last meeting happening at the Paris indoors So Djokovic if he does get through his group He'll probably want to avoid Mevedev who he could finish second in the group Mevedev and play Djokovic If Djokovic does finish first, but there are a few opponents that he would definitely rather play if he does get to the semi-final stage Second person in Djokovic's group is Siddi Pass who is coming in with a bit of an injury So injury cloud for Siddi Pass best result here was winning this tournament back in 2019 And he has a bad record against Djokovic We just saw that 2-6 has a winning record against Rubelev Which might be the tiebreaker to see who actually finishes behind Djokovic in this group four wins three losses He's won one against Rude, but most of that was a clay court event So he hasn't lost to Rude on a hard court and then against the other group Mevedev He has a 2-6 record against against Vera, but he's actually got a good record 6-3 So if they play in the semi-finals, he'd be liking his chance against Sasha, 2-0 against Baratini and 6-2 against her catch So if Siddi Pass is to get through this group He'll be liking his chances in the semi-finals as long as he avoids Mevedev because the other guys He has a pretty decent record against Having a look at Rubelev now and last year was his debut in this tournament Only got to the round robin stage didn't get through that tournament But you know maybe this year he has some decent records against some players in his group Never played Djokovic as we mentioned has a 50-50 record against Siddi Pass three wins four losses And he has never lost to Rude in the four times that they've played So he can probably beat Rude, don't know what happens with Djokovic But the Siddi Pass match as I said that might be the tiebreaker if he can win that match He might be able to get to the semi-finals, but recent form Rubelev He's been in lots of trouble So let's see if he can regain some form as quickly in this tournament If he does get to the semi-finals He has to play somebody that he has a losing record against because he has a terrible record against everybody in the other group 1-4 against Mevedev, 0-5 against Veraev, 2-3 against Baratini and 0-2 against her catch So if he is to make it to the semi-finals He will probably want to play Baratini, but unfortunately for Rubelev his record does not really favour him against the other group Which he's going to have to inevitably play if he does make the semis And the final player in the green group is Kasper Rude Who's making his debut at this tournament And his record isn't great against these guys, especially on the hardcourts Because he's more of a claycourd guy And that's how he got all his wins and all his titles this year Getting into this tournament through the claycourts seasons And you can see there, 0-1 against Djokovic, 1-1 against SiddiPas and 0-4 against Rubelev So hey look, Rude might be able to win a match, maybe against SiddiPas I doubt he's going to beat Djokovic and Rubelev seems to have the wood over him But maybe against SiddiPas, maybe he can get his first win there And who knows, SiddiPas is a little bit injured coming into this tournament Might give Rude a chance Against the other group, if Rude was to get to the semis His record doesn't much improve, 0-2 against both Mevedev and Veraev 2-2 against Baratini, which is interesting And he's never played hercatch So Rude, you know, unfortunately I think he might be the guy who's just making up the numbers in this tournament As there always seems to be one guy in the ATB finals who just sort of makes up the numbers But he might be able to sneak a win against someone like SiddiPas if Steph is not 100% Let's go to the other group now, this is the red group And the red group spells blood And when I say blood, I mean death Because this is the group of death We have Mevedev, the number 2 in the world He won this tournament last year, he's the defending champion And he has a terrible group He has a lot of players that he's going to have to beat That have got pretty good records against him Veraev, 5-5 is their head-to-head They actually played in Paris a couple of weeks ago So Mevedev will like his chances against Veraev, I guess Because of that win a couple of weeks ago 2-0 against Baratini, so he doesn't mind that But hercatch, that is the danger man for Mevedev They played a couple of matches this year And it's been very tight 5-set match at Wimbledon And a 3-set match leading into the US Open So hercatch is the danger man And Veraev is 100% feeling better Because, let's be honest, Veraev wasn't 100% Against Mevedev 2 weeks ago That could be interesting too So Mevedev, he's got to play his best If he's going to get out of this group alive If he plays the other group in the semi-finals 4-6 against Djokovic 6-2 against City Pass 4-1 against Rublev And 2-0 against Rud So if he avoids Djokovic in the semis Mevedev will be liking his chances of making the final Especially if he plays someone like A City Pass Or Rublev Which is probably the players that we'd expect him to play If he does in fact make that semi Let's get to the second player in the group of death It is Sasha Zverev He won this tournament back in 2018 And we just talked about the Mevedev matchup 5 wins, 5 losses And Zverev will want to turn around that Paris loss A couple of weeks ago He's got a 3-1 record against Baratini Which is pretty good And hercatch only played the one time But he got the wins So Zverev He'll be liking his chances against the other guys Mevedev not so much But against Baratini And against hercatch Definitely be liking his chances If he does make the semi-finals this year He will hopefully avoid Djokovic Because he has a 3-7 record against Nole 3-6 against City Pass Rublev he's got a 5-0 record against So that's a good win if he can get it And 2-0 against Rud So Zverev does have a good draw If he can get through maybe Baratini and hercatch Maybe make the semi-finals And avoid Djokovic He could maybe go on and steal this title Let's talk about Baratini He got to the round-robin stage here 2 years ago And unfortunately didn't play great I think he might have won one match But he didn't do great overall in that tournament Hoping to do a lot better And he's in a better group this time Unfortunately though His record doesn't really speak volumes 0-2 against both Mevedev and Zverev 1-1 against hercatch But look Hasn't played them that much He can still get the wins over those guys Hercatch will be the tough one But he could maybe sneak a win against Mevedev or Zverev Yeah, don't count Baratini out Also, if he does make the semi-finals His record against the other guys in the other group are not great 0-4 against Djokovic 0-2 against Sinti Pass 3-1 against Rublev And 2-2 against Rud So if he does want to play in the semi-finals He probably won't want to play against Rublev If he can help it But look Baratini, I feel like this time around He's going to be a lot more competitive than he was In the first edition of his debut Back in 2019 And the final player in this group of death The red group is Hubey Hercatch And he might be the most dangerous player In the entire competition Because it's his debut So it's his first time playing in these events Nothing to lose He's in great form as well Don't forget to mention that he did make the semi-finals Of Paris Lost to Djokovic Almost beaten Ole last week Against his group though He has a pretty decent record 1-1 against Mevedev He has a losing record against Zverev But they've only played the once And 1-1 against Baratini So Hercatch He could definitely win 2 of those 3 matches And make it to the semi-finals So definitely the dark horse in the event For me And we've had random champions win this at the In the last 4-5 years So who knows? Maybe Hercatch Is the random champion for 2021 If he does win though And get to the semi-finals He's going to have to play one of these guys Djokovic He has a 0-3 record against But it seems like The last couple of matches they've played He has started to get some Especially the match a couple of weeks ago Is starting to get into those Djokovic matches 2-6 against Sinti Pass That's a pretty poor record So he'll want to avoid Steff 2-1 against Rublev And 0-0 against Rudd So look Hercatch for me Dark horse Watch out for him He could win the whole thing He could lose in the first round And not lose all these matches But also I just think he's going to be a very Difficult customer For the players that are in his group And from the semi-finals onwards He's going to be tough If he does make it out of the group No one wants to play Hercatch At this event So there you have it The ATV finals for 2021 And let me know down in the comments below Who do you think is going to win this event? We've got Djokovic He's probably going to be the favourite With Medvedev close behind But I keep pumping up Who be Hercatch Because for good reason He is dangerous He is very dangerous He could beat anybody in his group And we saw last week He can almost beat anybody in the world He nearly beat Djokovic The tiebreaker in the third set We might get another match like that If they cross paths Let me know down in the comments below Who do you think is going to win? I'm going to go with Djokovic to win Just because it's the easy pick But I don't I'm not picking it with any confidence I wouldn't be surprised if Medvedev goes back to back Because Veraov could lift At the last part of the season Hercatch could come out of nowhere Rublev could catch fire for all I know So let me know down in the comments below Who do you think is going to win? So the ATV finals The groups are set And we're ready to go in a couple of days


Alright, so y'all know I don't usually do videos this late But I felt like this needed to be addressed ASAP because this thing is spreading like Wildfire and it's a lot of people that are falling for the bait. I have gotten text messages a lot of DMs Comments on videos. Hey, did you hear about it? Did you hit at Hollywood's retiring so he could pursue a career in video games? And I'm not saying I'm not calling anybody out But I just um I was surprised there's so many people like they went for that they fell for that and The guy that that tweeted about that he was just trolling. That was it. He was just trolling Hollywood Hollywood Brown is not retiring to play video games He's not retiring to do twitch full-time. He's not retiring to be a gamer. He's not Still gonna be in the NFL still gonna be hopefully playing for the Ravens.  I Feel like with Ravens fans. I know like This season the way that this season went The way that this season especially ended it has put a lot of Ravens fans in the state of vulnerability So Ravens they like a lot of Ravens fans are biting at anything that they see I even saw a couple of check marks that fell for it too Y'all are really verified and y'all still falling for stuff like that. But hey That check mark don't save you from getting trolled but I How Like and I know with with the whole Instagram thing It got a lot of Ravens fans thinking a lot of different things when it comes to Hollywood Brown and in his status With the Ravens his status with the team a lot of people got them wondering what's going on with him Why Hollywood why why did John follow? Why did you delete all the rate? Why? So I understand how that has a lot of people just tripping right now and has them Just thinking and coming up with all these different scenarios and whatnot and we'll address some of those later on tomorrow But this scenario right here about him retiring to play video games is Not true It's not It's not true. It was a troll So please And I know for a lot of people it probably caught caught y'all off guard and in the timing of it like it was a perfect troll Because he capitalized on Ravens fans. They're just their anxiousness He capitalized on it perfectly and so many people fell for it But it was just a troll and that's it. It's not real I just had to let y'all know that so y'all can go to sleep a little happier a little less on edge And whatnot But it's it's not real please don't Believe everything that you hear on the internet and I know it's hard especially at times like this when it's like man It's the off-season and it was a it was a pretty good troll because we know Hollywood be on twitch He'd be playing mad and they be playing GTA Call of Duty all that other stuff and He beat me and Madden twice. I got him once but so but he got he up to the one on me Okay, but It's not real It's not real so Just I Mean you there's a couple of different ways that you could verify if something is real when it comes to the Ravens One you could always check with Jeff Zrebek and James and Hensley They they will gladly let you know you could always check the bigger guys the bigger NFL guys like Ian Rapper Adam chef because if that was the case, don't you think? Like but if that was the case, don't you think one of those they would have definitely said something because Hollywood is not just no random player They would have definitely said something and then You would have just had to check a YouTube notification that you would have seen the video about it, too so oh Man, I just I felt I really felt bad for because this thing has some people in shambles That people in shambles like people are going crazy like no. Why is Hollywood doing this? I even saw some people say oh, yeah I'm glad Hollywood doing it, but like most people like no, why is he doing this? Why is he retiring to play video games and I'm reading the DMs and stuff. I'm like what? What why are people falling for this? But let's let's not take advantage of Ravens fans there Just being in the state of just being gullible right now. Ah Ah, I just I just felt bad for so many people man.  Oh, oh wow. That's real.  That's real Like I remember something yesterday that I saw Where somebody put something out about a Kyla Murray they were like, oh, I heard a rumor that at halftime Kyla Murray he goes to he goes into the locker room and sits at his locker and He puts on his headphones and calls his girlfriend halftime Now I looked at it. I'm like wow Kyla Murray did that but then and then and it was even from somebody who had a check mark And I was like, oh, that's why I went to that load that their Twitter profile So I start doing little scrolling up and down and then I found out all they were just trolling so it's It's not always that simple to be able to tell if somebody's trolling or not But in this case you could have looked at the different tweets and replies and stuff and other stuff that he even tweeted out And you could tell that he was just trolling Oh I feel for y'all man that that bit on this and not to say I bit on some stuff before too I have went for the bait as well It's happened to the best of us and it's happened to the worst of us as well because I'm definitely one of the worst of us but Just just be careful out there be careful and um Just try to pay extra attention. It just do a tiny bit of not even research but just do a tiny bit of clicks and Check some stuff and you you'll be able to get a lot of stuff cleared up that way a lot faster. Oh Man, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and just like Hollywood won't be when it comes to being in the NFL I'm out This Think I'm gonna go play some Madden


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