Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason's new office; Facebook's misinformation fail; Amazon union; TikTok's scraping "growth hack"; Pinterest calls itself bold & brave; Elon buys stake in Twitter, gets on board; Jack misses the world he destroyed; Moonfall is unbearably bad; Star Trek seems to be moving in the right direction except for that NFT stuff; Somebody Feed Phil returns; Wyze security debacle; Cash App breach; FBI removes malware without asking; DOJ, German dark-web takedowns; Google bans data-harvesting software with government ties; it's Opening Day, Orioles fans!

Show notes at https://gog.show/548

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A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS

IN THE NEWS

America finally gets an Amazon union

Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union'

Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch

TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app

Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform

Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter

Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors

Twitter confirms it will test an edit button

Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web

IndieWeb

Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet

MEDIA CANDY

Moonfall

The entire ‘Next Generation’ cast will appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' season three

The latest ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer promises a return to form

FFS. "Star Trek gets into NFTs"

'Somebody Feed Phil' Season 5 Release Date Announced at Netflix

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The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

I’m done with Wyze

Cash App breach impacted over 8 million users

Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them

DOJ seizes $34 million of crypto from the dark web seller

Germany seizes the world's largest, longest-serving dark web market

Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software

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COVID, maybe; revising crypto guides; Uber not "fit and proper" but in London, adds cabs in NYC; Meta paid consultants to sling dirt at TikTok; BEANS!; VISA wants in on NFT action; Microsoft... engages in sales & business; chaos theory weather control; Gaming Wall St; state of Star Trek; Halo; Moon Knight; WeCrashed; CNN+; Headway for "Real Men"; Apple iPhone rundles; dystopian Darth Dyson; Brandon Sanderson's kickstarter windfall; Klosterman; Laundry Files; Verizon spam texts; FBI disrupts BEC schemes; hackers forge legal requests for data; old computers & the good ol' days when we could get away with things.

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Show notes at https://gog.show/547

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The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

IN THE NEWS

Uber secures 30-month London taxi license

Call for an Uber, Get a Yellow Taxi

Waymo trials fully driverless rides in San Francisco

Meta reportedly paid political consultants to smear TikTok

Teen Girls Are Still Getting TikTok-Related Tics—and Other Disorders

Visa launches NFT program as it considers the digital art a new form of e-commerce

Whistleblower says Microsoft spent millions on bribes abroad

Scientists think they can control the weather using chaos theory

MEDIA CANDY

Gaming Wall St.

Trust No One - The Hunt for the Crypto King

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

Halo

Moon Knight

WeCrashed

CNN+

APPS & DOODADS

Reeder

Headway

Real Men Self-Development Plan by Headway App

Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service

Apple will no longer repair iPhones reported as lost or stolen

GSMA Device Registry

Dyson launches Zone air purifying Bluetooth headphones with visor

Overcast app's big redesign helps it compete with Apple Podcasts

No one asked for a hamburger vending machine, and RoboBurger answered

AT THE LIBRARY

Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish

Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22 Million Kickstarter?

An End to Secrets

Imaginable - How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today by Jane McGonigal

X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charlie Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charlie Stross

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Verizon says ‘bad actors’ are to blame for sketchy spoofed spam texts

FBI disrupts BEC cybercrime gangs targeting victims worldwide

Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed a historic computer museum

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is ‘Stepping Away’ From His Career

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We're back to normal; reflections on nostalgia; Vimeo is sorry; how to commit fraud properly; open-source developer burnout, sabotage; US data collection transparency bill; Bored Apes Yuga Labs ridiculous valuation; Andreessen's crypto obsession; regulating Musk's tweets; de-platforming doesn't always work; which Trek is most Star Trek; Upload; drunk on a plane movie reviews; TV shows keeping Jason sane; Dropbox drops a bomb; Amp; Citizen; iPad annoyances; RIP, it's pronounced JIF.

Show notes at https://gog.show/546

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Vimeo is sorry, and here’s how it’s changing

IN THE NEWS

A former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the company out of more than $10 million

Open-source developers are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects — and it's putting the entire internet at risk

Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus

Bipartisan bill would expand US data collection transparency requirements

‘Bored Apes’ NFT startup Yuga Labs raises at monster $4B valuation

Biggest Bored Ape Whales Move Their APE to Exchanges

Worldcoin to Raise $100M at $3B Token Valuation: Report

US regulators say someone really needs to monitor Elon Musk’s tweets

Demonetizing ‘problematic’ YouTubers isn’t effective, researchers say

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

Upload Season 2

Friday the 13th The Series

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Tournament of Champions 3

The Julia Child Challenge

Guys Grocery Games

Alex vs. America

Tiny Food Fight

Killing Eve the Final Season

Barry

The Boys

The Umbrella Academy

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (revisited)

Legoland: California

APPS & DOODADS

Amp

The saga of Punkin’ Donuts

Citizen may test an on-demand private security service in Chicago

iPadOS now lets any iPad match the new iPad mini volume button orientation feature

Apple iPadAir with M1

Sonos One SL

Twitter for iOS now lets you easily create GIFs using your iPhone camera

Tweetbot

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died

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Jason and Dave play while Brian is on Vacay; Bezos’s balls and a new Kirk; Rivian in trouble in the market and crypto ATM’s in trouble across the pond; Vimeo turns on the sprinklers; Stripe takes on Block for King of Crypto Crown; The care, feeding, and culling of cables; Deepfakes pop up in the war; Grimes and WHO?!; Jason gets the strangest spam; a post-roll stroke update.

Show notes at https://gog.show/545

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JEFF BEZOS WAS REPORTEDLY UPSET THAT HIS SPACESUIT DIDN’T MAKE HIS CROTCH LOOK GOOD

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk for Season 2 of Paramount Plus Series

Buckle up, autonomous vehicles finally get federal safety standards

Rivian shares reach new low after reporting disappointing Q4 earnings

The Dune NFT Project Is Back With an Inscrutable New Scheme

Bored Apes maker Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks NFT collection

IN THE NEWS

Tech CEOs to face faster criminal liability under UK online safety law

Cryptocurrency ATMs illegal right now in UK

Stripe gets friendly with crypto, again

Build your crypto business with Stripe

Amazon is temporarily relocating employees from its downtown Seattle office, following a rise in violent crime

Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

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How to Use Google Drive’s New Search Tools

Grimes Ditching Elon Musk For Chelsea Manning Has The Internet Questioning Reality

Hacked News Channel and Deepfake of Zelenskyy Surrendering Is Causing Chaos Online

Russia bans Instagram, a week after blocking Facebook, Twitter

Russian influencers sob bitter tears as Putin’s Instagram ban goes into effect

Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders

KANYE WEST 24-HOUR INSTAGRAM SUSPENSION... After Attacks On Kim, Pete, Trevor & Others

Physical effects of stroke

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

DNS Ad-Blocker with Pi-Hole in a Raspberry Pi Zero

William Hurt, Oscar-Winning Actor for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies at 71

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The Amanda Palmer Method; Truth Social stumbles; Heardle through the grapevine; wings in the metaverse; Amazon Basics tied to forced labor; Twitter launches Tor service; Limewire is back... with NFTs; Musk is a free speech absolutist; executive order on crypto; Star Trek; After Yang; the Cure & Eddie Izzard; Upload is back; Dekalog & Three Colours; Dropbox drops update for macOS; Clash Royale anniversary; A.G. Riddle; more iOT rants; Samsung hack; RadioShack; Obi-Wan and Star Wars Galatic Starcruiser; Things Dave Likes; disco number twos.

Show notes at https://gog.show/544/

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I quit my dream job in TV to become a TikToker, and it was the best decision I've ever made

Donald Trump is furious about the stumbling launch of his social media app Truth Social, report says

'Heardle' is like 'Wordle' for the musically inclined

IN THE NEWS

Wingstop has filed a trademark to sell chicken wings in the metaverse

Amazon suppliers reportedly have ties to forced labor camps in China

HBO hit with class action lawsuit for allegedly sharing subscriber data with Facebook

Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia

LimeWire is back... as an NFT marketplace

Musk says Starlink won’t block Russian media outlets ‘unless at gunpoint’

Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules

Biden's executive order on cryptocurrencies zeros in on 6 priorities and 'urgency' in exploring the creation of a US digital dollar

Cryptocurrency Is No Fix for Russia’s Sanctions Woes

Coinbase blocks over 25,000 Russian-linked crypto addresses

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

A Small-Scale Sci-Fi Film That Asks the Genre’s Biggest Question

After Yang

BitTorrent is Still the King of Upstream Internet Traffic, But for How Long?

Robert Smith just told us The Cure’s new album title at the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Eddie Izzard - Wunderbar

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill

Upload Season 2

YouTube offers popular podcasts $50K in cash to pivot to video

Common Sense 323 – Gas Up the Cold War

Dekalog

Three Colours trilogy

APPS & DOODADS

Dropbox releases official update for its macOS app with M1 support

Google says the latest Chrome on Mac outperforms Safari

Jason’s Character in Clash Royale

A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World by Derren Brown

AT THE LIBRARY

The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Dave’s iOT update - Kind advice via Twitter from Kyle Correa

Homebridge

HOOBS

Stacey on IoT Podcast

Samsung confirms hackers compromised its systems and stole Galaxy source code

Don’t celebrate RadioShack’s crypto pivot — it’s just a Tai Lopez scheme

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The DAO is just BBS's for the kids; NFT lawsuits; tracking oligarchs; steps are the new eggs; Amazon selling digital ads in stores they aren't closing; Ukraine and Big Tech's responses; Senators unsure if crypto can be used to skirt sanctions; Star Trek Discovery & Picard; MCU consolidation; Super Pumped; Pee-Wee goes dark; Truth Social; Amazon Luna; BookTok; Hindenburg; TweetBot; the End of Everything; Escape from Yokai Land; the Jeep Wave; IoT ranting; hacking Russia.

Show notes at https://gog.show/543

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NFT collector files $6 million lawsuit against OpenSea, LooksRare, and the company behind Bored Apes for not doing more to discourage thefts

Armijo v. Ozone Networks, Inc. d/b/a Opensea

NEWS SERVICE SHAMED INTO CANCELING SALE OF NFT OF DESPERATE MIGRANTS

The teen famous for tracking Elon Musk's jet has a new target: Russian oligarchs

Scientists Finally Did a Study to See If Taking 10,000 Steps a Day Actually Matters. Here's What They Found

Bitcoin’s Inequality Problem Is Putting the Dollar to Shame

IN THE NEWS

Amazon plans to sell digital advertising space inside its physical stores

Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Books, 4-Star, and Pop Up stores for good

BitConnect founder indicted by Justice Department has disappeared

Apple halts sales of all products in Russia

Facebook will demote Russian state media across its entire platform

Meta blocks Russian state media from running ads worldwide

TikTok follows Facebook in blocking RT and Sputnik in the EU

YouTube blocks RT and Sputnik channels across Europe

Reddit hides r/Russia from search and recommendations due to misinformation

Netflix refuses to carry Russian state TV channels

Microsoft is the latest to ban Russian state media from its platforms

Crypto Billionaire, Pussy Riot Join Effort to Give Ukrainians Money

Pornhub cockblocks Russian users

Did Pornhub Block Russian Users?

Crypto exchanges refuse to freeze all Russian accounts as Ukraine requested

Senators want to know if Russia can use cryptocurrencies to skirt sanctions.

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Picard

Marvel's Netflix shows will move to Disney+ in the US on March 16th

Super Pumped

Crypto Critics' Corner by Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin - Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White)

Innovated: Blockchain City

Pee-wee Herman’s “Dark” Reboot: Paul Reubens Is Ready to Stage a Comeback

APPS & DOODADS

Impulse Brain Training

Amazon Luna launches for anyone in the US, adds free games for Prime members and Twitch integration

TikTok has sent the sales of some books skyrocketing. Industry insiders explain how they are riding the wave of the BookTok phenomenon.

iZotope Compatibility with Apple silicon

Hindenburg

Apple patents Magic Keyboard with integrated Mac inside to bring macOS to any display

Tweetbot 7.1 for iOS adds background notifications, refreshed icons, more

AT THE LIBRARY

The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Broken Room by Peter Clines

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

JEEP CULTURE AND THE JEEP WAVE

SEVEN STRATEGIC LESSON FROM THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Russian Electric Vehicle Chargers Hacked, Tell Users ‘PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD’

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Ethernet co-inventor David Boggs dies at 71

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Everyone wants a piece of that sweet crypto-chain; inconsistent search sanitization; Meta has a minor problem with a global community development manager; linguistic fingerprints; AI art; more stolen NFTs, NFT gig economy bubble; bye, Hyperloop; John Oliver & Bill Maher; Mrs. Maisel; the King's Man; Tori Amos; mics, bands, Paste and Tots; Time Is, How Long Ago, we're old; Instagram losing daily time limits; Truth Social waiting lists; the Ninties, Chuck Klosterman; Michael Schur; Kanye's back in Moron of the Week; Snowden & Assange; a broken clock is right twice a day; Ukraine and 80s kids fears; AirTag stalking & a mischief of magpies.

Show notes at https://gog.show/542/

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Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto

Kickstarter says they "won't make changes to Kickstarter without you" after blockchain backlash... but they will continue with blockchain plans

IN THE NEWS

Meta axes a head of global community development after he appears on video in underage sex sting

Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints

APPLE EMPLOYEES ARE UNIONIZING AND THEY’RE USING ANDROID PHONES TO KEEP APPLE FROM SPYING ON THEM

You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials

OpenSea users lose hundreds of NFTs in likely phishing attack

Sotheby’s CryptoPunk Auction Canceled After Seller Withdraws

An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy

VIRGIN HYPERLOOP JUST LAID OFF ALMOST HALF ITS EMPLOYEES

MEDIA CANDY

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4

The King’s Man

Tori Amos releasing ‘Little Earthquakes’ anniversary comic book & vinyl

APPS & DOODADS

BEACN Mic

NOMAD - Rugged Band - Black Hardware

Paste

Setapp

Tot

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Time.Is

How Long Ago

Instagram quietly bumps up the minimum daily time limit

Trump’s social network has launched on iOS

Cameo defends its decision to partner with the 'Tinder Swindler': 'Part of what makes Cameo special is the diversity and variety of personalities'

AT THE LIBRARY

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Snowden was right: Pandemic surveillance is here to stay

AirTag stalking concerns continue; university study underway to measure the problem

iOS 15.4 beta 4 adds anti-stalking alerts to AirTag and other Find My accessories

A mischief of magpies defeated scientists' tracking devices

MORON OF THE WEEK

Kanye West says he’s raked in over $2.2million in Stem Player sales in just 24 hours

The Bunnies Have Left the Mansion: Inside Playboy’s Quest to Reinvent Itself as a Tech Company

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S SISTER POSTS SKIN-CRAWLINGLY HORRIBLE SONG ABOUT CRYPTO

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Mark Lanegan, Grunge Pioneer and Screaming Trees Singer, Dead at 57

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Crypto simulations; Cent CEO points out fundamental problems with Web3; Moviepass wants your eyeballs; Facebook/Meta lawsuits & settlements; Metamates; BlockFi settlement; Akamai acquires Linode; Virgin Galactic now booking, what a deal; NYC raises Uber/Lyft pay; Manifest; Inventing Anna; Deep Space Nine; Paramount+, Paramates; The Boys: Diabolical; emoji URLs; BAT; Ford Maverick 3d printing; Termination Shock, finally; Michael Schur; Ukraine cyberattacks; BlackByte ransomware; Freedumb Convoy; NYPD surveillance; don't pixelate to redact text.

Show notes at https://gog.show/541

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Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator trailer

Marketplace suspends most NFT sales, citing 'rampant' fakes and plagiarism

IN THE NEWS

MoviePass will return this summer

Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices

Meta will pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit

Peter Thiel-backed crypto start-up BlockFi to pay $100 million in settlement with SEC, 32 states

SFPD put rape victims’ DNA into database used to find criminals, DA alleges

Akamai acquires Linode for $900M

Virgin Galactic is looking for 1,000 people to buy its $450,000 spaceflight tickets

NYC to raise minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers

MEDIA CANDY

The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window

Manifest (Season 3)

Inventing Anna

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount+ hits 32.8 million subscribers; will offer Showtime for a fee

Goodbye Viacom and CBS: ViacomCBS Changes Corporate Name to Paramount

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

The Boys Presents: Diabolical - Trailer | Prime Video

APPS & DOODADS

Opera browser now allows emoji-only web addresses

Ford makes it easier to 3D-print accessories for its Maverick pickup

SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 - External Solid State Drive

AT THE LIBRARY

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

Michael Schur, Creator of “The Good Place” — How SNL Trains Writers, His TV University at “The Office,” Lessons from Lorne Michaels, Wisdom from David Foster Wallace, and Exploring Moral Philosophy with “How to Be Perfect” (#565)

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Ukraine faces more cyberattacks amid Russian invasion fears

FBI says BlackByte ransomware group has breached critical US infrastructure

Canada uses Emergencies Act to rein in 'Freedom Convoy' crowdfunds

Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine

The Most Surveilled Cities in the World

3 former Gettr employees say the social media platform laid off its entire security and IT teams, and one said it was run 'like a high school operation': report

Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

PJ O’Rourke, writer and humorist, dies aged 74

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The tide seems to be turning on NFTs, Web3 & crypto; Bored Ape Yacht Club founders doxxed, but I thought the blockchain was anonymous; couple charged with laundering billions in stolen bitcoin, bad rap videos; EU tells Meta to go ahead and leave if that's what it wants; robot dogs on the border; the Tinder Swindler; Reacher; Beforeigners; Manifest; Apple AI music; Adobe dark patterns; Laundry Files; Boba wrap-up; prepper corner; IRS drops facial recognition idea, fast; kidnapped for crypto; bricking radios.

Show notes at https://gog.show/540/

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Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market

Rivian Loses Its Shine as Investors Fret About Production Delays

IN THE NEWS

Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell

The Crypto Backlash Is Booming

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders

‘Doxxing’ of Bored Ape founders exposes Web3’s transparency issues

This Is the Couple Charged With Laundering Billions in Stolen Bitcoin

Alleged crypto launderer Heather Morgan led a second life as the world's worst rapper

The DOJ’s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto

Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

Robot dogs to patrol U.S. border

SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

DARPA JUST FLEW A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER WITH NO PILOT

MEDIA CANDY

The Tinder Swindler

Reacher

Beforeigners Season 1

Manifest Season 1 and into Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Apple acquires startup behind Infinite Music Engine that adapts music to your heartbeat

The Crystal Method: Drive: Nike + Original Run

Apple source code references 'realityOS' for potential VR/AR headsets

How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract.

This is my next main browser: a review of Orion

Orion Browser

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Star Wars: Mark Hamill Didn't Record Luke Skywalker's Dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets May Premiere Date at Disney Plus

The IRS won’t make you verify your identity with facial recognition after all

Kidnapped for crypto: Criminals see flashy crypto owners as easy targets, and it has led to a disturbing string of violent robberies

Twitter parts ways with two-factor provider following claims of secret surveillance

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Direct Donations to Jason’s Hospital Fund

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Meta stock plummets due to reduced growth, generally being Meta; HitPiece "starts a conversation" about blatant theft; we're really, really over "nefts"; Wordle gets bought by the NYT, nothing changes; Tesla's estimated percentage of defect; Joe Rogan, Spotify kerfuffle continues; gaming consolidation; Super Pumped; House of Gucci; Manifest; Janet Jackson; new Wi-Fi standards; Noom is a scam; IRS, facial recognition & ID.me; GDPR consent popups now unlawful; full-frontal Luke.

Show notes at https://gog.show/539

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IN THE NEWS

Shares of Facebook parent Meta plunge 22% on lower profits

Facebook isn’t growing anymore

HitPiece Wants to Make Every Song in the World an NFT. But Artists Aren’t Buying It

Even Ye hates the NFT

The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’

The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster

It’s pronounced “neft”

Wordle, the game everyone's obsessed with, gets bought by the New York Times

People Are Downloading the Next 2,000 Days of Wordle

Tesla recalls 53,822 cars because they won’t stop at stop signs

Teen wants $50,000 to stop tracking Elon Musk’s private jet

Dorsey Says Zuckerberg Should Have Focused on Bitcoin, Not Diem

Joe Rogan apologizes to Spotify over backlash and promises to 'balance things out'

Sony is buying Destiny studio Bungie

Dating app Grindr disappears from Apple's App Store in China (updated)

MEDIA CANDY

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2022) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME

House of Gucci

Janet Jackson

Aziz Ansari Nightclub Comedian

Manifest

APPS & DOODADS

Netflix's 'Continue Watching' queue gets a huge quality of life improvement

This upcoming Wi-Fi standard will give your router motion-sensing superpowers

I found out why metaverse avatars don’t have legs

Why Noom, The Weight-Loss App, Is A Scam

Atomos Shinobi

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers

ID.me

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show – Episode 243

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Direct Donations to Jason’s Hospital Fund

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NFTs, destroyed; FCC & ISP choice; Bitcoin is just a tech stock now; Diem dissolved; Elon's brain implants; autonomous cars & legal responsibility; TikTok's creator fund; Neil Young tells Spotify, Rogan or me, Spotify chooses Rogan; Google's new cookies; META supercomputer; Beforeigners; Ozark; Eternals; Salvation; the Critical Drinker; iPad doodads; Pestle; Twitter's Flock; Aftermath by Levar Burton; Stronger After Stroke; Depeche Mode; Boba Fett sans Boba; VPN questions; Attorney Generals suing Google; Bittner's got a gun.

Show notes at https://gog.show/538

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The Problem With NFTs by Folding Ideas

IN THE NEWS

FCC chair plans to block exclusive deals that limit ISP choice in apartments

Bitcoin Is Just a Crappy Tech Stock Now

Facebook-backed Diem Association may be close to dissolving

Steve Bannon Is Key Player In New Cryptocurrency. What Could Go Wrong?

Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants

Major legal changes needed for driverless car era

Tesla driver faces felony charges in fatal crash involving Autopilot.

Why TikTok stars are criticizing its creator fund

Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum

Google is testing a new replacement for third-party cookies

Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022

Meta's 'free' internet is costing people money in developing countries

MEDIA CANDY

Beforeigners

Ozark

Eternals

Salvation

Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Written By Children - by The Critical Drinker

APPS & DOODADS

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Pestle: Kitchen Companion

Pestle for iOS transforms any recipe into a step-by-step guide with voice control, SharePlay, and more

Twitter's experimental 'Flock' feature will let you share tweets with your closest friends

Anker USB C Hub for MacBook, PowerExpand Direct 7-in-2 USB C Adapter Compatible with Thunderbolt 3 USB C Port, 100W Power Delivery, 4K HDMI, USB C and 2 USB A Data Ports, SD and microSD Card Reader

AT THE LIBRARY

Aftermath by LeVar Burton

Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition: Your Roadmap to Recovery

Stripped: Depeche Mode by Jonathan Miller

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

The Prepared

Can VPNs Be Traced?

Washington DC's AG sues Google for 'deceiving users and invading their privacy'

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Rulers of the NOW

Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell singer dies at 74

Louie Anderson Dies: Comedian & Emmy Winner Was 68

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Government makes usable website; Apple & Google oppose antitrust efforts; sad NFTs; non-smart non-contracts; we don't talk about crypto, no no no; Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard; Instagram closed petfluencers; the Witcher; the Expanse; Encanto; Ray Donovan; Station Eleven; Star Trek news; Stroke Cast; Stay & Moom apps; 12' Ladder; Rode VideoMic; Reddit revamps block to actually block; Aftermath; Humankind: A Hopeful History; Termination Shock; NSO Group's Pegasus; VPNLab; Boba Vette.

Show notes at https://gog.show/537/

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AT&T and Verizon delay 5G rollout at some airports after airlines warn of disruptions

IN THE NEWS

The Government’s New Website for Ordering Free COVID Tests Is Refreshingly Easy to Use

Apple and Google oppose Senate antitrust efforts, claiming they'd hurt consumer security

Which Celebrity Has the Saddest NFT?

The Dune NFT Fiasco Is the Least of Crypto's Legal Worries

UK government announces official crackdown on 'misleading' crypto ads

Spain sets new rules for influencers who promote cryptocurrency

Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

Microsoft Game Pass tops 25 million subscribers

Bring in the clones: Instagrammers are genetically replicating their pets

MEDIA CANDY

The Witcher

The Expanse

Encanto

Why “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Is the Biggest Disney Hit Since “Let It Go”

Ray Donovan the Movie

Station Eleven

Star Trek: Discovery’ Renewed For Season 5; Premiere Dates Announced For ‘Picard’ And ‘Strange New Worlds’

Stroke Cast

APPS & DOODADS

Stay by Cordless Dog

Moom

12' ladder

HYPER Triple 4K Display Dock for MacBook Pro 2016-2021

Rode VideoMic GO II

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Rode Microphones VideoMic NTG On-Camera Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone at Adorama

Oculus Quest 2

Reddit 'revamped' its block feature so blocking actually works

AT THE LIBRARY

Aftermath by LeVar Burton

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman , Erica Moore , Elizabeth Manton

Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Fett's Vette 2021 Music Video (MC Chris)

Israeli police reportedly used Pegasus spyware to conduct domestic surveillance

Europol Shuts Down VPNLab, Cybercriminals' Favourite VPN Service

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Web3, NFTs, cryptocurrencies & other grifts; Uber CEO admits they could afford labor protections; shoddy coding; why Tesla is good & why Tesla is bad; Mozilla backtracks; gamifying the law; The Matrix: Resurrections; Nic Cage's massive talent; Amazon's All or Nothing series; Canon's printer ink chip problem; Magic Leap is back; Wordle clones; voice-adjustable dumbbells; caught by Google Maps; open-source developer borks own files; Russian cyber-activity warning; looking for rational prepper advice; mid-life crisis Boba Fett.

Show notes at https://gog.show/536/

FOLLOW UP

Winnie the Pooh Public Domain

My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike

IN THE NEWS

Uber CEO Admits Company Can Afford Labor Protections for Drivers

LAPD fired two officers who ignored robbers to play 'Pokémon Go'

Shoddy coding has some Honda cars stuck in the year 2002

Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’

DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test

Mozilla pauses crypto donations following criticism over climate impact

Kim Kardashian Sued for Promoting Alleged Cryptocurrency 'Pump and Dump' Scam

The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism

Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens

Here’s the truth about the crypto miner that comes with Norton Antivirus

Jack Dorsey proposes a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers

MEDIA CANDY

The Matrix Resurrections

Nic Cage plays 'Nick Cage' in first look at comedy-thriller The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

All or Nothing: Manchester City

All or Nothing: Juventes

APPS & DOODADS

Magnet App

Magic Leap grants healthcare startups access to its new AR headset ahead of mid-2022 release

It fills me with glee that Canon printers now think Canon’s own toner is fake

Wordle' clones are taking over the App Store

Alexa can change the weight on NordicTrack's adjustable dumbbells

SECURITY HAH!

Italian mafia boss caught after Google Maps sighting in Spain

Open source developer corrupts his own files, impacting millions

Warnings of Russian cyber activity as Moscow continues preparations to invade Ukraine.

Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

'Huge, huge numbers:' insurance group sees death rates up 40 percent over pre-pandemic levels

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Thomas J Indge - Musician - composer | performer | producer

Thomas J Indge - Instagram

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2022, here we go again; the case against crypto; feels like a sea change against crypto & NFTs; the metaverse still doesn't exist; decentralized Web3 is, you guessed it, centralized; DoorDash requires engineers to deliver goods once a month; Uber launching driverless food delivery; everyone's delaying returns to the office, again; Grand Tour; Hannah; Red Notice; Don't Look Up; the Matrix; Salvation; Hawkeye; Free Guy; Jungle Cruise; South Park; Star Trek's feelings; Twetch; Catatouille & the Catellite Dish; the Book of Boba Fett; anything exciting happen over the break?

Show notes at https://gog.show/535

FOLLOW UP

From Bitcoin Obituaries - "Bitcoin is Dead" Declared 400+ Times

The Case Against Crypto by Stephen Diehl

Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs

The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive

In 2021, tech talked up ‘the metaverse.’ One problem: It doesn’t exist.

Fortune Favours the Brave | Crypto.com

web3 is Centralized by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels

IN THE NEWS

San Francisco-based DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food — and they’re furious

Uber will launch driverless food deliveries in California in 2022

Autonomous car developers lobby to defang safety data regulations

Apple joins the ranks of companies delaying their return to office

Comcast won't enforce Northeast data caps until 2023 at the earliest

AT&T and Verizon settle FCC 911 outage investigations

Verizon and AT&T Decline Regulators’ Request to Delay New 5G Services

MEDIA CANDY

The Witcher

Netflix drops a surprise teaser for its 'Witcher' prequel

The Grand Tour Presents... Carnage a Trois

Hannah Season 3

Red Notice

The Matrix Resurrections

Don’t Look Up!

Salvation

Hawkeye

Free Guy

Jungle Cruise

South Park: Post Covid

APPS & DOODADS

Twetch

Halide for iPhone

FiLMic Pro

FiLMiC Creator Bundle

DJI Osmo Pocket 2

Your cat could burn your house down, Korean officials warn after 107 fires sparked by felines

Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats

AT THE LIBRARY

Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923!

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Book of Boba Fett

'The Book of Boba Fett' premiere is an abysmal failure on every level

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

What Happens When You Quit Alcohol?

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Christmas is cancelled; Bezos gets his wings; subscription models; AWS outage; centralized exchanges; Buzzfeed headlines; Twitter Spaces lack moderation; Vegans and NFT'ers; some smart NFT moves; fat finger errors; Facebook exec blames people; click to subscribe, call to cancel; A&M Records; the Expanse; Star Trek: Discovery; FC Bayern; Dan Carlin; thumper spikes; DiePods; drunk purchases; Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser; comprised Twitter accounts; Log4j and software dependencies.

Show notes at https://gog.show/534

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The FAA will give Bezos and Branson its last astronaut wings

Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system

Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob

IN THE NEWS

Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet

Amazon’s Server Outage Took Down a ‘Decentralized’ Crypto Exchange

How Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday

Twitter asks judge to throw out Trump's lawsuit over ban

Twitter reportedly knew Spaces could be misused due to a lack of moderation

Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000

NIKE buys RTFKT, a virtual brand that makes metaverse-ready sneakers

Strengthening digital provenance with OpenSea and Adobe

Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation

Senate bill would facilitate social platforms sharing data with outside researchers

Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.

The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says

MEDIA CANDY

Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records

The Expanse Season 6

The Witcher

FC Bayern - Behind the Legend

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Addendum

Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24

APPS & DOODADS

Victor M9012 Sonic 2 Spike, Yellow

Controversial ‘suicide pod’ that ‘kills peacefully’ gets go-ahead in Switzerland

Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition

AT THE LIBRARY

Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

First Look | "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser" | With Walt Disney Imagineering | Walt Disney World

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Welcome video - Very Star Tours like.

Someone 'briefly compromised' the Indian Prime Minister's Twitter account

Logging library for millions of apps has a serious vulnerability

xkcd: Dependency

Google disrupted a massive botnet that hackers used to steal information and mine cryptocurrency

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78

Michael Nesmith — considerably more than a Monkee — dies at 78

Monkees’ Manager on Michael Nesmith’s Final Months: ‘He Died Knowing They Were Beloved — He Finally Got It’

Anne Rice, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Writer, Dies at 80

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Zuck on a Truck, Taxis & NFTs; Dorsey departs Twitter; Square becomes Block; Logi are SLOBS; AI accountability; debt collectors wants to slide into your DMs; Elon seems to have misplaced all his money, can't help SpaceX; Shang-Chi; Hawkeye; Cruella; Get Back; Listening to Kenny G; Star Trek: Discovery's feelings; Lost in Space; Iron Maiden podcast; True Story; the Power of the Dog; old ears; Lucid; Blinkist; Craft; Bitmart hacked; scaling moderation issues hit Twitter, eBay; to Facebook or not to Facebook, that is the argument.

Show notes at https://gog.show/533/

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Zuck on a Truck

NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again

NFT CryptoPunk owner sold it to himself for $532 million in Ethereum

CryptoPunks NFT Tracker

Long-time Lyft CFO departs to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea

IN THE NEWS

Jack Dorsey Has Stepped Down As Twitter CEO

New Twitter CEO has already begun a 'major reorganization'

Square is changing its name to Block

Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block

OBS Project accuses Streamlabs OBS of stealing name and trademark

The movement to hold AI accountable gains more steam

AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before

Debt collectors can now text, email and DM you on social media

Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

MEDIA CANDY

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Hawkeye

Cruella

Get Back

Listening to Kenny G

Star Trek: Discovery

Christopher Moore on Discovery

Lost in Space

Wheel of Time

Watch First Episode Of IRON MAIDEN Singer BRUCE DICKINSON's 'Psycho Schizo Espresso' Video Podcast

True Story

The Power of the Dog

Laurence Fishburne Was Never Told Why ‘Matrix 4’ Left Him Out: ‘You Have to Ask Lana Wachowski’

Spotify Hired A Psychic To Channel Your Personal Audio Aura

APPS & DOODADS

How Old are Your Ears?

Lucid

Blinkist

Craft

Sun and Moon Seeker

Time Calculator

Chatter Telephone™ with Bluetooth®

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Crypto exchange BitMart loses $196 million to hackers

Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policy

eBay banned some users by mistake

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Geek & Southern

1-800-Contacts

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Happy Thanksgiving; spam season; Jason's pivoting; scooters back in the news; Zillow's AI disaster; Tesla app locked people out of their cars (except for their keys); Zipline; trolling NFT owners; the NFT Bay; Crypto.com Arena; Apple on right to repair; OpenAI GPT-3; the Orville; Star Trek: First Contact; Jagged, Alanis Morissette; Discovery; Foundation; Wheel of Time; Bored Ape Yacht Club; Buy Nothing Project; ear wax; AirPods are out; Super Agent cookie monster; Twitter Blue; smart dimmers.

Show notes at https://gog.show/532/

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Miami votes to end electric scooter pilot program

IN THE NEWS

What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet

Tesla app outage locked some owners out of their cars

Zipline starts first commercial US drone deliveries with Walmart partnership in Arkansas

How to Troll an NFT Owner

“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

Crypto park deal has winner’s curse

Why Apple changed its mind on Right to Repair

Apple will let iPhone users repair their own devices

OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API

MEDIA CANDY

Jagged

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery Is Tearing the Streaming World Apart

‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ ‘Dopesick,’ ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Showrunners on Adapting Source Material for TV

Foundation

Wheel of Time

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Universal Forms Metaverse Band Based on Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs

It’s just a pre-monitezed, not good Gorillaz... 

APPS & DOODADS

The Buy Nothing Project

Yes, you DO need a smart ear wax remover. And the Spade Mini is on sale for under $40

Are AirPods Out? Why Cool Kids Are Wearing Wired Headphones

Super Agent - Automatic cookie consent

Introducing Twitter Blue - Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering

Amazon Basics Single Pole Smart Switch, Works with Alexa, Neutral Wire Required - A Certified for Humans Device

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Timbiebs; Uber, still horrible; Telsla full self-crashing beta; Russians blow up a satellite or two; US government bans some NFTs; science proves NFTs are mostly worthless; Facebook exodus; bitcoin rehab, hodl hodl hodl; Brave browser; sites that track you the most; share a pet, don't plant a tree; Another Life; Foundation; You; Bond; Face to Face & Sting; Jason's Mac Stack; Spotify trolls; Obi-Wan, rollerblading & air fryers in Security; FBI hack; microchip implants; Facebook just won't quit you.

Show notes at https://gog.show/531

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Tim Hortons teams up with Justin Bieber to launch Timbit flavours called 'Timbiebs'

It's time for freshly cracked eggs in Tim Hortons kitchens: Restaurants across Canada now proudly serving 100% Canadian freshly cracked eggs in all breakfast sandwiches

Uber discriminates against passengers with disabilities by charging them wait fees, a Department of Justice lawsuit alleges

Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California

IN THE NEWS

NASA Administrator Statement on Russian ASAT Test

Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud

Russian anti-satellite missile test draws condemnation

The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs

Science proves it: Most NFTs are worthless

Tech recruiters struggled for years to get people to leave Facebook. Now they say there's an exodus building, and the company is having more trouble recruiting, too.

Removing Certain Ad Targeting Options and Expanding Our Ad Controls

Meta’s ban on ‘sensitive’ ad categories doesn’t spell the end for microtargeting on Facebook

Mt. Gox Trustee announces approval of 150,000 BTC Rehabilitation Plan.

Basic Attention Token Up 25% Following Brave's Solana Integration

The 10 Websites That Track You the Most

Share a pet photo, plant a tree? Check before you join a trend, experts say

Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work in 'game changer' remote work law

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville (season 3)

Another Life (Season 2)

You

Three Body Problem TV Show Trailer by Tencent

No Time To Die

No Way out but Through by Face to Face

Sting: Rushing Water

In a new documentary, Alanis Morissette makes multiple allegations of statutory rape. But she won’t attend the movie’s premiere.

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 15.2 Beta 2 Lets Your Family Access Your Data If You Pass Away

Super Thin iPhone 13 Pro Case - Clear

UltraGlass [Full Auto-Application] Designed Only for iPhone 13 Pro Screen Protector Tempered Glass 6.1 inch [Bubble-Free] [0.5° Microgravity Tech] Anti-Scratch [Case Friendly] Full Coverage

ESR Hybrid Case Compatible with iPad Mini 6 (8.3 inch, 2021), Detachable Magnetic Cover, Hybrid Back Shell, Fully Supports Pencil 2, Rebound Series

PopSockets: PopGrip with Swappable Top for Phones & Tablets - Black

Ninja AF101 Air Fryer, 4 Qt, Black/gray

LEVOIT Air Purifier for Home Allergies Pets Hair in Bedroom, H13 True HEPA Filter, 24db Filtration System Cleaner Odor Eliminators, Ozone Free, Remove 99.97% Dust Smoke Mold Pollen, Core 300, White

Spotify finally lets you block other users

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Here's our first look at the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series

Why Rollerblading Died

You Should Know: The First Kidney-Shaped Pool (1939)

Wirecutter - The Best Air Fryer

FBI email servers were hacked to target a security researcher

“Deleted” doesn’t mean deleted, at least not with Facebok

Inside an Online Community of People With Microchip Implants

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Self-driving cars, still 20 years away; Facebook won't use facial recognition, but Meta sure will; Phhhoto; Elon Musk's tax bill and twitter infantilism; delete your tweets; socialized robots; Uber to dispatch... taxis; ABBA; Olivia Rodrigo; the Cranberries & Sinead; Dexter; Four Hours at the Capitol; Star Trek; Stranger Things; Microsoft OneDrive; Alexa following you; USB chargers; Grammarly; Range by David Epstein; I have the best words; bricked Macs; NextDNS; Robinhood hack; 2FA Google; disrupting parking lots.

Show notes at https://gog.show/530

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Tech Can’t Fix the Problem of Cars

IN THE NEWS

An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition

Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.

New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition

A forensic analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter poll on Tesla stock

Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he’s selling stock

Elon Musk, world’s richest edgelord, responds to billionaire tax with another stupid tweet

Twitter is rolling out a feature to make it easier to search a user’s tweets

Researchers are working on giving robots social skills

Apple hires Tesla's director of Autopilot software

Uber considers dispatching yellow taxis in New York City

MEDIA CANDY

ABBA - Voyages

Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

Salvation - Inspired by the Cranberries for Pieta 

Dexter Season 9

Finch

Does the Dog Die?

Four Hours at the Capitol

'Stranger Things' season 4 teaser hints at trouble in California (update: release info)

APPS & DOODADS

Microsoft OneDrive app will stop syncing with Windows 7 and 8 on March 1st, 2022

Alexa now allows you to move music among different devices with your voice

USB C Charger, Anker Nano II 65W GaN II PPS Fast Charger Adapter, Foldable Compact Charger for MacBook Pro/Air, Galaxy S20/S10, Dell XPS 13, Note 20/10+, iPhone 12/Pro/Mini, iPad Pro, Pixel, and More

Grammarly rolls out full set of features to iPhone and iPad users

AT THE LIBRARY

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Merriam-Webster's Everyday Language Reference Set

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Why Rollerblading Died

Apple fixes macOS Monterey flaw that bricked some T2 Macs

NextDNS

Fuck HBO

There may be a steep privacy cost if you park at this Trader Joe’s

Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted But Nobody Lost Any Money

Google wants every account to use 2FA, starts auto-enrolling users

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Slow week in tech news; we get Meta-stasized; Apple getting into the headset game; Wendy's PR team wins; Facebook takes down Nicaraguan troll farm, but verifies a fake Elon Musk; Snap being investigated for securities fraud; Uber offers up Teslas through Hertz deal; creator coins; companies leaving China; don't tweet after death; Star Trek: Prodigy; delays on screen wipes; music gadgets; being negative; get your notch; the Book of Boba Fett; Trojan Source; Facebook's cringe-worthy internal staff video.

Show notes at https://gog.show/529/

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A Reddit user found a 'black hole' on Google maps, and users couldn't figure out what it was

IN THE NEWS

Meta

Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta

Meta working on new smartwatch with built-in camera to compete with Apple Watch

Apple’s first headset will focus on “high-quality” games, reporter claims

Wendy’s Wins

FACEBOOK 'META' CHANGE - Trademark Applicants Will Sell to Zuck ... FOR $20 MILLION!!!

Facebook takes down government-run troll farm in Nicaragua

Facebook verified a Bitcoin scammer pretending to be Elon Musk

SNAP Investigation Alert: Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP is Investigating Securities Fraud Claims on Behalf of Snap Inc. (SNAP) Investors

Uber will offer up to 50,000 Teslas to its drivers through Hertz rental deal

Patreon may let you reward creators with crypto

CNN: Squid Game crypto plunges to $0 after scammers steal millions of dollars from investors.

As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

Digital end-of-life services are a booming business — not everybody says that's a good thing.

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Prodigy

APPS & DOODADS

Oculus Quest VR headsets to eliminate mandatory Facebook account log-in requirement

Tiny Wings+

Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth

Belkin BOOST↑CHARGE PRO 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe - Black

Fender is buying studio gear company PreSonus

Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming

I wish anyone other than Kanye had made the Stem Player

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Now, Even Older Macs Can Have a Notch

Why macOS updates might brick your Mac, and what you can do about it

The Book of Boba Fett | Official Trailer | Disney+

Trojan Source and Why It Matters

MORON OF THE WEEK

Facebook’s internal staff video is worse than anything revealed by whistleblowers

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Pivoteer

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Jason pivots; health care tech perks; Tesla beta pulled back; Blue Origin space station; Facebook's milk money math; Facebook, we got 'em this time!... er, no; Snap shares plunge with Apple privacy; TRUTH Social hacked pre-launch; WeWork goes public; Invasion; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Foundation; Another Life; ID10T, Curious Creatures podcasts; 20 years since the iPod; Ask Delphi; Facebook data scraping; eyeball scanning for crypto; the splinter net; you won't believe what Dave did this time!

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The Pivoteer

What you need to know about egg-freezing, the hot new perk at Google, Apple, and Facebook

Forget Kanye West. He's now officially just Ye

Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs

Elon Musk says 'issues' have forced Tesla to pull its latest full self-driving beta

Lyft report reveals more than 4K sexual assaults, 10 fatal physical assaults during 3-year span

IN THE NEWS

Blue Origin announces plans for a commercial space station

Facebook fined a record £50m by UK competition watchdog

Internal Facebook documents highlight its moderation and misinformation issues

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

Facebook’s oversight board faults its policy on preferential treatment.

Snap shares plunge 25% as Apple privacy changes hit ads business

Trump to launch his own social media platform, calling it TRUTH Social

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network

Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.

A Changed WeWork Goes Public via SPAC

Warmer welcome for WeWork 2 years later on Wall Street

MEDIA CANDY

Invasion

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 2 Easter Eggs and References

Foundation

Another Life Season 2

ID10T Episode #1138 – Danny Elfman

Curious Creatures

APPS & DOODADS

20 years ago today iPod changed the world, here’s what it means to us

The AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

Ask Delphi

YouTube will begin demonetizing 'low-quality' kids videos next month

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

In a fit of frustration I made a thing

Here’s the YouTube video that put me over the top

Facebook sues programmer who allegedly scraped data for 178 million users

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency

You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye

Worldcoin would like you to gaze upon this orb and receive free crypto

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes

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Congrats, Shatner, boo, Bezos & Takei; rideshare bubble bursts; FCC going after spam texts; Square to build a Bitcoin mining system, maybe; Tesla's really bad Beta-based insurance; Canon USA says no ink-y, no scan-y; Amazon creates its own brands by stealing "tribal knowledge" of competitors; Dune; Squid Game; Succession; Here We Are; Mel Brooks; Disney delays; Sinead & Delores; canceling NYT Cooking, CleanMyMac X subscriptions; USB-C & VPNs; ah, the 80s; pogo-power; Cosby sweaters.

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George Takei Roasts “Star Trek” Costar William Shatner After Rocket Trip

For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts

Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused WayMo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’

Your Deep Dive Into Those Waymo Self-Driving Cars In San Francisco That Went Headstrong Up A Dead-End Street Like Floundering Fish Going Upstream

IN THE NEWS

New FCC rules could force wireless carriers to block spam texts

Jack Dorsey says Square is ‘considering’ building a Bitcoin mining system

Tesla debuts new car insurance that uses Texans' real-time driving behavior

No ink, no scan: Canon USA printers hit with class-action suit

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show

MEDIA CANDY

Dune

Squid Game

Succession

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Mel Brooks Is Back With ‘History of the World, Part II’ Series

Disney delays all of Marvel’s 2022 films

Sinead O’Connor and Pillow Queens to feature on album of covers inspired by The Cranberries

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Apple's latest MacBook Pros have MagSafe, SD card slots and camera notches

At last, a middle ground, a place where skateboarders and rollerbladers can all get together.

The 1985 MTV Music Awards really kind of sucked.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

ExpressVPN Knew 'Key Facts' of Executive Who Worked for UAE Spy Unit

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Toxic environments on the Enterprise; FB & IG, down again; Instagram wants teens to "take a break" but not sure how; Nick Clegg's vacant words; Magic Leap is back & raking in the cash; Twitch leak reveals full source code, financial data; you oughta get in twitching; celebrity crypto shilling; GM wants you to subscribe to their cars; Apple Developer Academy; tech startups lie; Foundation renewed Storytime with Seth Rogan; Dave Chappelle; the Expanse; Apple TV 4k; iPhone vs Android privacy; Twitter recommends you not go on Twitter; do you or don't you need a VPN?

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Blue Origin delays William Shatner's spaceflight to October 13th

The renowned programmer who created PHP "hates programming" and said he's "not a real programmer."

IN THE NEWS

Facebook and Instagram are down for the second time this week

Instagram will encourage teens to 'take a break'

Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower

Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation

My First Year at Magic Leap and the Opportunity Ahead

Twitch's source code and streamer payment figures have been leaked following hack

Twitch Data Leak Confirms The 100 Highest-Paid Streamers

Celebrity Crypto Shilling Is a Moral Disaster

GM aims to build Netflix-sized subscription business by 2030

Apple opens Developer Academy in Detroit, creating new opportunities for careers in the iOS app economy

Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition

MEDIA CANDY

‘Foundation’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple

Storytime with Seth Rogen

Dave Chappelle The Closer

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Defends Dave Chappelle Special in Staff Memo: ‘Artistic Freedom’ Is Different for Stand-Up (EXCLUSIVE)

Watch the first trailer for The Expanse season 6, arriving December 10th

Baking Impossible: The great nerdish bake-off for the engineering set

APPS & DOODADS

iPhone apps no better for privacy than Android, Oxford study finds

Apple now requires all apps to make it easy for users to delete their accounts

Twitter will now warn you before you participate in a conversation that could get heated

Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law

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SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

You Probably Don't Need a VPN

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Lindenbaum Prize for short gamebook fiction

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Oh, Facebook; the things we knew we now know we know and they knew too; AI reckoning; long dark 6 hours of Facebook's soul; Trump sues to get back on Twitter; lip service to climate change from Big Tech; raining drones; the Problem with the Problem with Jon Stewart; Foundation; Ted Lasso; Billions; the Many Saints of Newark; Amazon's terrible new robot; Grammarly; KeyCastr; Disney stories; AirTag Zero-Day; high tech sticker QR attacks; Coinbase; ransomware; DeFi asks nicely, but will punch you; a wealth of show titles too vulgar to use.

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Follow Up 

The Great AI Reckoning

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

When I Ran for President, It Messed With My Head

The problem with Amazon’s ‘free college’ benefit

Fireside Chat

IN THE NEWS

Hats off to Twitter

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know

Is Facebook Down?

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview

Facebook Stock Tumbles as Controversies Finally Start to Add Up

Whistleblower's SEC complaint: Facebook knew platform was used to "promote human trafficking and domestic servitude"

Donald Trump sues to get his Twitter account back

Google Maps tracks global warming with new “Fire” layer, Tree Canopy tool

Apple, Amazon and others back groups trying to kill US climate legislation

It’s Raining Drones!

MEDIA CANDY

America’s Untold Stories with Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Ted Lasso Season 2

Foundation

Billions

The Many Saints of Newark Review

APPS & DOODADS

Amazon tells Tesla to hold its beer in contest for stupidest-robot-ever-built

Creators of Amazon’s New Robot Secretly Admitted It’s “Terrible”

A Brief History of Adorable, Vaguely Creepy Robot Dogs

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro’s Macro camera to check patients’ eyes

Grammarly

KeyCastr

Twitter Advanced Search

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Imagineering Story

Xavier Atencio

Apple AirTag Zero-Day Weaponizes Trackers

QR codes could be the next target for cybercriminals — here’s how to protect yourself

Coinbase hackers exploit multi-factor flaw to steal from 6,000 customers

US will bring together 30 countries to tackle ransomware

Bandwidth CEO confirms outages caused by DDoS attack

How China Conquered The Keyboard

MORON OF THE WEEK

DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it

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Deepmind doesn't know how to fix AI; virtual staging; White Claw Surge; crypto unaffected by China news; Instagram for Kids, paused; Samsung's brain; Apple Wallet & vax cards; ravens attacking drones; Shatner in spaaaaccee; Imagineering Story; Sex Ed season 3; the Great Escapists; Foundation; Dune; the Witcher, for kids; Goliath; Nirvana; multiple timers in WatchOS; Cook is a gangster; Tiny Food Fight; iPad Mini; Star Wars: Visions; puppet shows to podcasts; file systems, do we need them; Mini's turn signals; strange blobs on Uranus.

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DeepMind tells Google it has no idea how to make AI less toxic

The Framework Laptop is now shipping!

The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used

IN THE NEWS

Bitcoin, ether, and major altcoins tumble on news that China will completely ban all crypto transactions

Instagram for kids paused after backlash

California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030

Samsung hopes to 'copy and paste' the brain to 3D chip networks

Apple Wallet update will allow digital COVID-19 vaccination card

Bird attacks on drones force Google to suspend home deliveries

William Shatner will boldly go into space with Bezos’s Blue Origin

MEDIA CANDY

The Imagineering Story

Sex Education Season 3

The Great Escapists

They Said Foundation Couldn't Be Filmed, and It Still Hasn't Been

Dune

Sandman First Look

Cowboy Bebop Trailer

Netflix's 'The Witcher' plans include season 3 and a kids' series

Goliath Season 4

Live nirvana concert chronology october 12, 1991 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL

APPS & DOODADS

Apple turns post-lawsuit tables on Epic, will block Fortnite on iOS

Apple TV 4K

Tiny Food Fight

New iPad mini owners report 'jelly scrolling' problems

AT THE LIBRARY

Quit Repeating Yourself: How Today's Leaders Are Using Systems and Processes to Grow Their Business The Right Way by Jaime Jay

Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Dave Bittner: From puppet shows to podcasts.

Only Murders in the Building

Star Wars: Visions

Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work

Lithuanian defence ministry urges people to 'throw away' Chinese phones after discovering censorship tools

Apple ‘Still Investigating’ Unpatched and Public iPhone Vulnerabilities

MORON OF THE WEEK

Congratulations, Mini, You Made The Stupidest Turn Signals Ever

BRIC-A-BRAC

Maps That Show Us A New Perspective

SCIENTISTS INTRIGUED BY STRANGE BLOBS ON URANUS

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Send us your Satoshis; bitcoin, Pizza and a movie; eggs in space; yep, Facebook is still awful; Rivian announces subscriptions; Bytedance limiting kids to 40 minutes a day; Amazon cracks down on review fraud; AI generated influencers; Count Me In; Into the Night; The Card Counter; Old; Kate; Only Murders in the Building; Fuzz; Apple iOS 15; hubs & docks; get poked on Clubhouse; AI 2041; authenticator woes; industrious criminals; AI controlled machine guns.

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How to do value4value and earn Bitcoin from your podcast

Bitcoin Pizza Day 2021: Some interesting facts about this special cryptocurrency day

AMC says it will accept bitcoin as payment for movie tickets by year-end

The once-sedate astronomy world is quarreling over whether 'Oumuamua was an alien craft

IN THE NEWS

The Facebook Files

Rivian announces membership plan with complementary charging and LTE connectivity

TikTok owner ByteDance limits younger users to 40 minutes a day in China

Amazon has banned over 600 Chinese brands as part of review fraud crackdown

Amazon will hold a hardware event on September 28th

Apple mandates frequent COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated employees

Social media influencer/model created from artificial intelligence lands 100 sponsorships

MEDIA CANDY

Clarkson’s Farm Season 1

Count Me In

Into the Night Season 2

The Card Counter

Old

Kate

Only Murders in the Building

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 15 is now available

Neumann TLM 102 bk Studio Set

Clubhouse is developing a new way to invite friends to chat called 'Wave'

AT THE LIBRARY

5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee , Chen Qiufan

AI Superpowers - China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Auth0

Ireland's data regulator opens data privacy probes into TikTok

Researcher discloses iPhone lock screen bypass on iOS 15 launch day

Man who unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones sentenced to 12 years in prison

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

Israel reportedly used a remote-controlled gun to assassinate an Iranian scientist

US officials can't decide if Honor smartphones are a national security threat

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Jason considers the gig economy; more billionaires in spaaace; SEC looks to regulate crypto; Wal-Mart pump and dump; Apple ruled to ease App store rules; robot waiters; Facebook gives misinformation to misinformation researchers; Tesla rolls out self driving BETA; losing history to Flash; Picard Season 3, Matrix: Resurrections trailers; Lower Decks got funny; Behind the Attraction; Clarkson's Farm; mailing lists not missed; Facebook's new smart glasses; Roomba's P.O.O.P.; hiding cables; let's talk cookwares; another social network, Minus the social; always get it in writing; a tale of a fateful ship, the Satoshi.

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Steve Wozniak Shares a Video About His New Space Startup

IN THE NEWS

Biden’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency

Posing as Walmart, scammers send crypto surging 25%

Apple must ease App Store rules, U.S. judge orders

Real-life ‘Jetsons’? Watch robots cheerfully serve food at this Dallas restaurant

Facebook has been giving misinformation researchers incomplete data

Tesla rolls out Full Self Driving 10 beta with more confident decision making

Google gave user data to Hong Kong officials despite moratorium promise

Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash

MEDIA CANDY

Picard Season 3 Trailer

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The Matrix: Resurrections – Official Trailer 1

Behind the Attraction

Disney's remaining 2021 movies will debut in theaters first

Clarkson’s Farm

‘We’re just not used to it’: Clarkson farm shop causes stir in the Cotswolds

Into the Night Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Apple says motorcycle vibrations can damage iPhone cameras

Facebook’s New Camera Glasses Are Dangerously Easy to Use

Watch Mark Zuckerberg announce new Facebook and Ray-Ban smart glasses

FACEBOOK: TAPING OVER CAMERA LED ON OUR GLASSES IS A TOS VIOLATION

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MORON OF THE WEEK

Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.

Pinterest Accused of Not Paying Female ‘Co-Creator’

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

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That missing Cure track; Apple walks back iPhone image scanning, to add Driver's Licenses to Wallet; Moscow subway facial recognition; WhatsApp fined; Facebook apologies for racist AI; Virgin Galactic off-course; ISS is cracked; Gen-Z developing unexplained tics from social media, beans; Enemies of the State; the Protege; Rick James; Dyson love; Ryan Holiday; Mac Mini; geeking out over Lego; decent customer service; O.MG Cable; ProtonMail logs & court orders; Mandy Patinkin, the Dinner Party; Zoom Dysmorphia; beans.

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The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going On With the McFlurry Machines

IN THE NEWS

Apple delays its criticized plan to scan iPhones for child exploitation images

Apple to Add Driver’s Licenses to Apple Wallet

Subway Passengers in Moscow Will Be Able to Pay for the Ride With Their Faces

Whatsapp hit by £225million fine

Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men

Spaceship carrying Richard Branson flew off course, FAA is investigating

The FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s spaceship after flight deviation

The ISS is cracked and facing ‘irreparable’ failures – and they could be about to get much worse

Gen Z Is Developing Unexplained Tics After Going Online, And Doctors Are Concerned

Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

MEDIA CANDY

Enemies of the State

The Protege

BITCHIN’: THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES

Billions

Review: Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez strike gold in 'Only Murders in the Building'

APPS & DOODADS

Dyson Outsize

Your smartphone is not making you dumber — digital tech can enhance our cognitive abilities

Trillion-frames-per-second camera takes photos of light moving

Pharrell- and Grimes-backed music startup Roli files for administration and reboots as Luminary to refocus on beginner musicians

AT THE LIBRARY

Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday

A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World by Derren Brown

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

A Customer Discovered Their $350 Lego Set was Missing Pieces. The Company's Response Was Brilliant

Someone paid more than $300K for a fake Banksy NFT — and the scammer gave it all back

This Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type

O.MG CABLE - C-TO-C DIRECTIONAL

ProtonMail Logs Activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss Court Order

BRIC-A-BRAC

Tearful Mandy Patinkin Shares Emotional ‘Princess Bride’ Story With Grieving Fan

The Dinner Party

Zoom Dysmorphia Is Following People Into the Real World

Gut instinct could see you fall for COVID misinformation

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS DEAD AT 54

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Get your GOG NFTs; Telsa Autopilot crashes...again; the iPhone is a Freshman in high school now; constant cookie warnings ending; Apple "agrees" to legally required App store changes; Instagram wants your birthdate; China slashes gaming time for kids; Clubhouse grasping at straws; The Grand Tour: Lockdown; Absolutely Mental; Icon; police dropping phones; T-Mobile, Microsoft security; Bloomberg cancels Galloway; let's get drunk.

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Coinbase mistakenly told 125,000 users their 2FA settings had changed

Tesla on Autopilot crashes into two parked cars… again…

The Best Carbon Fiber Skateboards in 2021

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

IN THE NEWS

An end to constant cookie warnings? UK plans post-Brexit overhaul of data laws

Apple changes key App Store rules in response to class action lawsuit from developers

Instagram will require users to share their birthday in push for teen safety

China further slashes kids’ gaming time to just three hours a week

Clubhouse adds spatial audio to create more immersive audio chats

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The Grand Tour: Lochdown

They're in this together

Absolutely Mental

The Jump with Shirley Manson

Icon: Music through the lens

Clickbait

Apple is building a classical music streaming app after buying Primephonic

APPS & DOODADS

You're Probably Not Using the Web's Best Browser

Meco

AT THE LIBRARY

Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

Police Use iOS App to Track Suspect After ‘Accidentally’ Dropping a Phone in His Truck

T-Mobile hacker says the carrier's security is 'awful'

Microsoft Azure cloud vulnerability is the ‘worst you can imagine’

Banksy NFT buyer duped in £244k 'hack'

‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies

SEC Charges Eight Firms for Cybersecurity Shortfalls

MORON OF THE WEEK

Bloomberg canceled Prof Scott Galloway's TV show after he joked about his sex life in a video, topless, in a hard hat

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Back to Windows; Mr. White Hat returns the stolen crypto; Elon jokes about Tesla Autopilot failures; California gig worker initiative unconstitutional; Facebook admits misleading COVID info is top performing content; purge your Tweets, people; Netflix gets clickbaity; the Hustler; Grace & Frankie; Gimlet's been a bust for Spotify; Nextdoor, for business; Jobs NFT; Cybersecurity resources; Microsoft Power App data leak; iPhone zero-clock exploit; skateboarding, same as it ever was; NFT dining; forgetting CAPS LOCK sign of intelligence.

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Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist

Elon Musk joked about Tesla autopilot mistakes as the technology faces scrutiny: 'I actually have a T-shirt with a stop sign on it. If you flash the car, it will stop.'

The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else From Teslas

AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused.

IN THE NEWS

Court rules California gig worker initiative is unconstitutional, a setback to Uber and Lyft

Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March

Why Did Facebook Let a Man Livestream His Bomb Threat Near the U.S. Capitol for Hours?

Global Affairs Canada is purging websites, social media amid Taliban takeover

MEDIA CANDY

The Clickbaitification of Netflix

The Hustler

Grace and Frankie

Spotify spent $230 million on Gimlet, but leaked data shows the podcast studio has lagged behind others at the audio giant. Insiders cite unclear strategy and internal tensions.

APPS & DOODADS

Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI

Lumen's metabolism tracking app comes to the Apple Watch

Steve Jobs Inscribed and Signed Apple II Manual

AT THE LIBRARY

A Gift Of Time" by Jerry Merritt

The Cellar by Katherine Lo

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Bad Batch

Here are some beginner Cybersecurity and Information Security resources that are free!

Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

Data leak exposed 38 million records, including COVID-19 vaccination statuses

A Hacker Stole and Then Returned $600 Million

New zero-click iPhone exploit used to deploy NSO spyware

Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

MORON OF THE WEEK

The 1st NFT Restaurant - New York City

BRIC-A-BRAC

Science Confirms That Forgetting Things Is Actually A Sign Of Very High Intelligence

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Back in the (Canadian) saddle; the metaverse has already peaked; tech expat troubles; Facebook is really just truly awful; AI diagnosing dementia; Motorola wants to be Apple; Making the Cut; Suicide Squad; Shazam; the Ms. Pat Show; Pig; White Lotus; Disney nostalgia; bye, Hallo; right to McFlurry; Children of the New World; Stand on Zanzibar; Apple CSAM debate; Amazon wants to read your palms; scamming as a service; Eternal September; creativity is waning.

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Cineplex unveils subscription CineClub, offering free movies, perks and discounts

Niantic CEO John Hanke says the metaverse is a 'dystopian nightmare'

The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let’s Build a Better Reality.

Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas

IN THE NEWS

Facebook is rebuilding its ads to know a lot less about you

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Building for the Future

Scientists trial AI-system which could diagnose dementia in one scan

Motorola wants to be the new Apple. Its first attempt is, oh, take a look

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Making the Cut

The Suicide Squad

The Ms. Pat Show

Pig

Ted Lasso

White Lotus

The Imagineering Story

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup announces he's leaving the band after 4 decades: 'Just fed up of betrayal'

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Why the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining Order

AT THE LIBRARY

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang

Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

The Candle of Crest: A Rhyming Epic Adventure by Demethius Jackson

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The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

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BRIC-A-BRAC

The Day the Good Internet Died

Eternal September

Research Suggests We're All Getting Less Creative and Scientists Think They Know Why

Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds

Why pop music is obsessed with this one note

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

6 essential podcasts for tech heads to tune into

‘The greatest striker’: Gerd Müller, legendary German forward, dies aged 75

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Eric Hunley joins us; Big fines for big tech; Amazon laughs at labor laws; Influencers are falling over each other to get the shot; The Metaverse is a Meta-Dud; Facebook hates research; Apple says it's doing it for the kids; SetApp and new apps; Sennheiser saves the day; Value 4 Value and Lightening to save podcasting.

Show notes at https://gog.show/517

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IN THE NEWS

Highlights from while we were gone...

EU slaps Amazon with record $887M fine over ad targeting practices

France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?

Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

Amazon union drive in Bessemer may get a new election

It’s raining influencers!

Chinese TikTok star Xiao Qiumei dies after falling 160 feet from a crane while recording a livestream video

YouTube star Albert Dyrlund dies after falling 656 feet from a mountain while recording a video

Sophia Cheung death: Hong Kong influencer dies after falling while taking photo at edge of waterfall

Let’s talk about the “metaverse” because it’s gonna be the new buzzword for the next 6 months...

MARK IN THE METAVERSE

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse: What it means for the enterprise

Microsoft, Facebook and everyone else are building the metaverse. Will you want to live there?

Meanwhile in the real world...

Facebook cuts off NYU researcher access, prompting rebuke from lawmakers

Senators press Facebook for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers

APPLE KEEPS SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE-RUN SURVEYS ON PAY EQUITY — AND LABOR LAWYERS SAY IT’S ILLEGAL

The Tim Apple sized Elephant in the room...

Expanded Protections for Children Frequently Asked Questions

Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope

Opinion: Four problems with Apple’s reported approach to scanning for child abuse images

Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse

APPS & DOODADS

Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 650 Open Back Professional Headphone

BBEdit 14

SetApp

Timemator

Ulysses

CleanMyMac X

Fountain Podcast Player

New Podcast Apps

Value 4 Value Podcasts

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Here we COVID again; FAA rules for being an astronaut; YouTuber's blow anti-tax plot; genetic screening promises; FTC approves right-to-repair; Snapchat doing well; Facebook to become a quasi-religious meta-verse, whatever that is; Jack Dorsey wants BitCoin to make him money, oh sorry, bring world peace; space wants to kill you; the Moon slows down a Tesla; sci-fi trailers; Ted Lasso; more privacy-centric social networks; long-duration batteries; behind the attraction; facial recognition is everywhere; everything is tracked.

Show notes at https://gog.show/516

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Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to transform Facebook from a social-media company into 'a metaverse company'

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Jack Dorsey hopes bitcoin can bring about world peace

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonize space. Here are the 6 biggest problems with their plans, from thinning bones to toxic plants on Mars.

The Moon Tricks Tesla's Full Self-Driving Feature Into Thinking It's a Yellow Light

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‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ trailer is a treat for ‘Voyager’ fans

Dexter Revival Reveals First Trailer at Comic-Con 2021

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Ted Lasso Season 2!

APPS & DOODADS

Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City

Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries

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The CyberWire

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Caveat

Recorded Future

Behind the Attraction

From Macy’s to Albertsons, facial recognition is already everywhere

A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn

Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr

QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.

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