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Video description: This week, an inconvenient truth. We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. With special guest, nuclear engineer Joe Weiss.

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The week in a minute is a compilation of some of the week's best videos.

1.) "An Inconvenient Truth" trailer

2.) "Over the Hedge" trailer

3.) "Just My Luck" trailer

4.) Renaissance Fair of San Diego County

5.) John Smith Smooth

6.) "Alice Is My Middle Name"

7.) "The Promise" clip: "Your Destiny"

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Click here for the Week in a Minute archive.

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Ep. 475: we love the smell of Apples in the morning

It's the day before Thanksgiving and CNET's The 404 Podcast has a lot to be thankful for. As we go around the circle from Wilson, to me, then to our special guests Natali Del Conte of CNET's Loaded and Tim Geisenheimer, we realize we all have something in common: we're all very very thankful to Les Moonves for signing our paychecks twice a month! We're also want to give a big shoutout to all The 404 listeners and chat roomies- you guys put up with our idiocy on a daily basis and keep coming back for more, and we can't thank you enough for the support!

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Rafe and Brian Cooley talk monitor tech and advice with special guest Eric Franklin from CNET Labs.

Ep. 86: DefCon and BlackHat show us that everything can be hacked

We talk with our reporters covering the twin security conferences in Las Vegas this week about the massive Shady RAT hack, and research reports on hacking everything from nuclear plants to laptop batteries to insulin pumps.