513: Fury Road
Grumpy Old Geeks7 Heinä 2021

513: Fury Road

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

Star Wars: Rebels

Bosch

The Mole

The Missing Crypto Queen

Hear in LA by Tony Pierce

Loki

Quentin Tarantino Says He Bought L.A.’s Vista Theatre

APPS & DOODADS

Nekmit Dual Port Ultra Thin Flat USB Wall Charger with Smart IC

Multi USB Fast Charging Cable,Arsiperd 4 in 1 3A Charger Cord Connector with Dual Phone/Type C/Micro USB Universal Port Adapter, Compatible with Cell Phones Tablets and More(4FT/2Pack)

Finance startup names itself Nonce, a cryptographic term that is also UK term for child rapists

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

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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