547: Crush Your Goals!
Grumpy Old Geeks1 Huhti 2022

547: Crush Your Goals!

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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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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