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Is MagSafe charging coming to iPads? Is the Biden administration actually cracking down harder on China than the Trump administration did? Is the recent slate of ransomware attacks the new normal or the sign of something bigger brewing? And, in the weekend longreads suggestions, we meet a guy who’s job is to negotiate with ransomware hackers. Sponsors: Cybereason.com Metalab.com Links: Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg) Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge) Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (New York Times) Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers (The New Yorker) Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Motherboard) The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku) Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics (Wall Street Journal) Developer relations (Marco Arment) Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect (The Verge) Subscribe to Spacecasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Jun 202117min

Twitter takes the wrapping off its subscription product, Twitter Blue. Multi-device support hints at a future WhatsApp app for iPads. Stack Overflow is the latest part of the developer ecosystem to sell for big bucks. And taking the temperature of Google’s Ethical AI team. Sponsors: Metalab.com Cybereason.com Links: Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC) Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge) WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors) Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN) Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (Wall Street Journal) Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Jun 202120min

All the headlines from Facebook’s F8 Refresh. Etsy buys a used clothes marketplace. Another ransomware attack shutting down a major player in a vital industry, this time, literally in the meat-space. And you can start trading Dogecoin on Coinbase tomorrow. Sponsors: Cybereason.com Metalab.com Links: Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (Tech Crunch) Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge) Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC) Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (New York Times) U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC) Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (Wall Street Journal) Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk) Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Jun 202115min

Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why. Sponsors: Grammarly.com/techmeme for 20% off Cybereason.com Links: Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge) AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech) AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget) Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo) Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios) Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica) Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Jun 202120min

Introducing our new Clubhouse Room/Twitter Spaces audio collective. Subscribe now: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31 Mai 20213min

The SolarWinds hackers are back, and I’m starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here. Mark Gurman thinks we’ll see redesigned AirPods this year. Have I Been Pwned goes open source. And come for the longreads suggestions as always, but stay for my rant about that insane Citizen app story. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi Promocode: Tech10 Cybereason.com Links: Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times) Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg) Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: 'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice) Own the Internet (Not Boring) A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (New York Times) The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times) Subscribe to the RideHome+ Feed at: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Mai 202122min

An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Cybereason.com Links: Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg) You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge) James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times) Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg) PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt) App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors) Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC) Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge) Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 Mai 202115min

Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding? Sponsors: Masterworks.io promocode RIDE Cybereason.com Links: Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC) Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica) Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle) Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge) USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET) Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch) Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet) Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Mai 202119min