520: You Can Be China
Grumpy Old Geeks1 Syys 2021

520: You Can Be China

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.

Show notes at https://gog.show/520/


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FOLLOW UP

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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