528: Stay Grump Ye
Grumpy Old Geeks27 Okt 2021

528: Stay Grump Ye

Jason pivots; health care tech perks; Tesla beta pulled back; Blue Origin space station; Facebook's milk money math; Facebook, we got 'em this time!... er, no; Snap shares plunge with Apple privacy; TRUTH Social hacked pre-launch; WeWork goes public; Invasion; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Foundation; Another Life; ID10T, Curious Creatures podcasts; 20 years since the iPod; Ask Delphi; Facebook data scraping; eyeball scanning for crypto; the splinter net; you won't believe what Dave did this time!

Show notes at https://gog.show/528


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The Pivoteer

What you need to know about egg-freezing, the hot new perk at Google, Apple, and Facebook

Forget Kanye West. He's now officially just Ye

Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs

Elon Musk says 'issues' have forced Tesla to pull its latest full self-driving beta

Lyft report reveals more than 4K sexual assaults, 10 fatal physical assaults during 3-year span


IN THE NEWS

Blue Origin announces plans for a commercial space station

Facebook fined a record £50m by UK competition watchdog

Internal Facebook documents highlight its moderation and misinformation issues

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

Facebook’s oversight board faults its policy on preferential treatment.

Snap shares plunge 25% as Apple privacy changes hit ads business

Trump to launch his own social media platform, calling it TRUTH Social

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network

Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.

A Changed WeWork Goes Public via SPAC

Warmer welcome for WeWork 2 years later on Wall Street


MEDIA CANDY

Invasion

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 2 Easter Eggs and References

Foundation

Another Life Season 2

ID10T Episode #1138 – Danny Elfman

Curious Creatures


APPS & DOODADS

20 years ago today iPod changed the world, here’s what it means to us

The AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

Ask Delphi

YouTube will begin demonetizing 'low-quality' kids videos next month


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Recorded Future

In a fit of frustration I made a thing

Here’s the YouTube video that put me over the top

Facebook sues programmer who allegedly scraped data for 178 million users

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency

You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye

Worldcoin would like you to gaze upon this orb and receive free crypto

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes


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