565: Jason Blart: Mall Cop
Grumpy Old Geeks13 Aug 2022

565: Jason Blart: Mall Cop

Incompetencies; magnets on a stick; tennis elbow & fitness; go ahead and drink the rain in Spain; CHIPS is a go; Cuban does good & bad; Amazon's solutions without problems; Facebook still can't remove white supremacists; Pew study on teen social media usage; FCC rejects Starlink request for subsidies; the Sandman; NeuroNerds; Joni Mitchell; Surface; Prey; Being Canadian; Twitter content AI is crap; home tools; cocktail smoking; Jason goes to Mall Cop school; Meta releases messages in abortion case; in-app browsers are bad; does Wisdom listen?

Show notes at https://gog.show/565

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IN THE NEWS

President Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor production

Mark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager ‘Ponzi scheme’

Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California

Facebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study says

A fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behind

TikTok’s $4 Billion Advertising Machine Is Messy Behind the Scenes

FCC rejects Starlink request for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies


MEDIA CANDY

The Sandman

The Orville New Horizons

The NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Show

How Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk Festival

Surface on Apple TV+

Westworld

Prey

Being Canadian

Nadiya's Asian Odyssey

New Rule: Fat Acceptance | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)


APPS & DOODADS

Plex

HBO Max finishes rolling out its much-needed app redesign

What we bought: How DeWalt's 20V Max cordless drill became my most versatile home-reno tool

DEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill Combo Kit, 2-Tool (DCK240C2),Yellow/Black Drill Driver/Impact Combo Kit

Craftsman 3-in-1 Corded Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher

MITBAK Cocktail Smoker with Dome Lid and Woodchips | Electric Food and Drink Portable Smoking Gun| Indoor-Outdoor Smoke Infuser Machine | Excellent Gift

GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

BYRNA CA COURSE - SECURITY GUARD AND CHEMICAL AGENT CERTIFICATION

BYRNA SHIELD BULLET RESISTANT BACKPACK BODY ARMOR

Nebraska mother, teenager face charges in teen's abortion after police obtain their Facebook DMs

In-app browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk, developer shows

Active scam making the rounds on Twitter


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Olivia Newton John

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN DEAD AT 73

Darryl Hunt of The Pogues has died aged 72

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