About this episode
Moving anxiety; WWW NFT with broken code; Billionaires in sppppaccccee; Facebook warns users about content it serves them; GitHub AI coder; TikTok selling its AI; FTC tells Broadcom to knock it off; crypto pump & dumps; Robinhood's real customers; Star Wars: Rebels; Bosch; the Mole; Hear in LA; Loki; charging gizmos; Western Digital exploit; supply chain cyberattack; Android trash app are trash; Norway demands you tell us if you touched up your photo.
Show notes at https://gog.show/513
SHOW NOTES
FOLLOW UP
Tim Berners-Lee Sells NFT of the Source Code for the World Wide Web for $5.4 Million
The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
IN THE NEWS
Virgin Galactic plans to send Richard Branson to space on July 11th
Wally Funk, Trailblazing Female Pilot, Will Join Jeff Bezos on Spaceflight
Facebook test warns users who may have seen ‘harmful extremist content’
TikTok’s AI is being sold to other companies
GitHub previews new AI tool that makes coding suggestions
FTC charges Broadcom with ‘illegally monopolizing’ the chip industry
FaZe Clan suspends players allegedly involved in crypto pump-and-dump scheme
The Cost of Robinhood’s Success
MEDIA CANDY
Quentin Tarantino Says He Bought L.A.’s Vista Theatre
APPS & DOODADS
Nekmit Dual Port Ultra Thin Flat USB Wall Charger with Smart IC
Finance startup names itself Nonce, a cryptographic term that is also UK term for child rapists
SECURITY HAH!
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Western Digital won’t fix a vulnerability found in older My Cloud OS3 storage devices
Hackers conduct one of the largest supply chain cyberattacks to date
I thought MalwareBytes had a particularly good explainer
A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords
MORON OF THE WEEK
New Norway law mandates social media influencers disclose photo editing
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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