507: DoppelBittner
Grumpy Old Geeks19 Touko 2021

507: DoppelBittner

No free lunches with cryptocurrency; DMV probing Tesla because words matter; Facebook toxic content moderators offered wellness coaches; YouTube Kids problem with autoplay; get ready for in-car ads; Waymo gets confused by construction; WarnerMedia and Discovery merger; Gates McFadden & Sarah Silverman; the Nevers; ProCon; playing with AirTags; NoPhone & NoPhone Air; On This Day In History; the Egg; pinball wizards; DarkSide Ransomware "quits"; buying data; leaky exercise APIs; Venmo is dumb; double-encryption; facial recognition for the people!

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IN THE NEWS

DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims

Crypto exchange Binance faces US money laundering probe

Bitcoin and Dogecoin Are at Elon Musk’s Mercy

Chia: the ‘green’ cryptocurrency bounces on Elon Musk’s Bitcoin U-turn

Facebook moderators facing toxic content told to take up ‘karaoke and painting’, Committee hears

Facebook users bypass misinformation rules with anti-vaccine profile frames

How YouTube Kids keeps kids watching

Get Ready for In-Car Ads

Waymo had to rescue an autonomous van that was confused by safety cones

MEDIA CANDY

Gates McFadden Investigates: Who do you think you are?

The Sarah Silverman Podcast

The Nevers

Laura Donnelly

APPS & DOODADS

ProCon

Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops

Apple AirTag

The NoPhone Original Cell Phone

The NoPhone Air

AT THE LIBRARY

On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell

The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir

Effortless by Greg McKeown

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

The Mandalorian Pinball

Fireball Pinball

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized

The Pentagon is tracking US citizens without a warrant, Senator says

Echelon exposed riders’ account data, thanks to a leaky API

We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone.

Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

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