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Sep 7, 2026
Claire AirdHOST
Security firm, Providian, detected in-the-wild exploitation last week.
Claire AirdHOST
Microsoft is releasing a new Windows API that can infer the age of users.
Claire AirdHOST
The Windows Age API will also share the inferred age of users with local apps so they can modify their features based on a user's age category.
Claire AirdHOST
The API will only be available on Windows 11.
SnexGUEST
Like I was just sitting there reading it, like trying to learn what this stuff does.
Steve StonebrakerHOST
Seems like you were using the Windows API, is that right?
SnexGUEST
Let's see, how did I start out? Like, I mean, I started out making like silly games that me and my friends would play.
SnexGUEST
But, you know, with that AO Hell thing and then like there was Fate X and all these other apps, like I wanted to learn how to do that stuff.
Steve StonebrakerHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
Steve StonebrakerHOST
I think it was just like subclassing, right?
SnexGUEST
But you also had to, cause menus had their own special Windows API and you had to figure out how that worked.
SnexGUEST
And it had like seven or eight parameters that, You know, it didn't make sense to my 14 year old mind.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I think I can safely answer no.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nobody, I think, would have expected that because we were thinking flying cars and, you know, moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32 that was designed back in Windows 95 days.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think that one of the reasons it's got the staying powers is just a fundamental layer inside of Windows that so many apps have built on and so much kind of technologies and ecosystems have been built on top of that it's kind of bedrock.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I think that there's been various times in Microsoft's history where we thought we'd reboot the Windows API surface, like WinRT, that actually didn't play out the way that a lot of people expected it to, given still the separation between BitClient and Win32 and the browser, which is HTML and JavaScript.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But I'll tell you from first class kind of related perspective, Sysinternals tools, which were founded in 1996, the first tool I wrote, I had no expectation, would never have imagined, would have bet you a million dollars that the tools still wouldn't be relevant to the year 2026.
Mark RussinovichSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they're actually more relevant than ever.
Ben YukoHOST
Not when 32 that design back in the window 95 days I think one of the reason it got this day, but because it's a fundamental is that window that.
Ben YukoHOST
that so many apps have to build on so many technologies and ecosystems that have to be built on top of this bedrock.
Adam HeimlichHOST
was government oversight, making sure that if you're building an application that needs to connect to windows, that.
Adam HeimlichHOST
The APIs are open to you, right? As long as you follow the rules, you could use the Windows API and have a functioning web application.
Adam HeimlichHOST
I think it's lost on people.
Adam HeimlichHOST
That's how that trial ended.
Dave BittnerHOST
RevStealer stands out less for what it steals than for its extensive efforts to evade detection.
Dave BittnerHOST
It checks for sandboxes and analysis tools, encrypts strings, obscures Windows API calls, and streams stolen information from memory rather than creating a large archive on disk.
Dave BittnerHOST
It also stores a fallback command and control address in a Polygon blockchain smart contract.
Dave BittnerHOST
Researchers say RevStealer avoids persistence, instead aiming to steal as much information as possible in one short burst before defenders can respond.
Calvin Hendryx-ParkerHOST
well and the fact is cross-platform because i'm regularly moving back and forth between linux and mac os and so i really appreciate good cross-platform tools especially ones that are open source so my favorite terminal is kitty kitty runs mac windows linux and so i get the same experience across all three platforms i don't feel like i've missed out on anything hey michael i've lost your audio
Michael KennedyHOST
sorry they um What's interesting is the way that they've done the cross-platform is it's not just like some electrons-like thing, right? It's native for each platform, like Swift and AppleKit and native Win32 and UT6.
Michael KennedyHOST
That's
Calvin Hendryx-ParkerHOST
the first step around heart, doing it right.
speaker_0HOST
Right, okay.
speaker_1HOST
However, to maintain compatibility with modern cross-platform web technologies, Windows APIs will often accept a forward slash as well.
speaker_0HOST
Oh, so Windows is essentially bilingual when it comes to slashes.
speaker_1HOST
Yes, exactly.
Sylvestre LedruGUEST
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Sylvestre LedruGUEST
Windows API.
Sylvestre LedruGUEST
So you need to create
Brodie RobertsonHOST
Sure, whether it's memory safety or timing stuff-
Richard CampbellHOST
Right.
Paul ThurrottHOST
And when you, you know, move a UI from whatever it was before, some kind of Win32, whatever-
Richard CampbellHOST
Mm-hmm
Paul ThurrottHOST
... possibly WPF, but probably just went straight up Win32.
Richard CampbellHOST
Right.
Paul ThurrottHOST
Um, you know, you get benefits of things that, you know, Windows has had for a long time that these things do not support, like automatic light and dark mode support, right? So if the system's in dark mode, that dialogue will be in dark mode.
Richard CampbellHOST
Right.
Paul ThurrottHOST
And when you, you know, move a UI from whatever it was before, some kind of Win 32, whatever-
Richard CampbellHOST
Mm-hmm
Paul ThurrottHOST
... possibly WPF, but probably just went straight up Win 32.
Richard CampbellHOST
Right.
Paul ThurrottHOST
Um, you know, you get benefits of things that, you know, Windows has had for a long time that these things do not support, like automatic light and dark mode support, right? So if the system's in dark mode, that dialogue will be in dark mode.
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