May 16th 2018
This Week in Google 457
Trouble at the Cheese Factory
Facebook Transparency Report
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan
Facebook shuts down 1.3 Billion fake accounts. Google Clips gets better. So does Google One storage. 3500 Russian Facebook election ads can't be wrong! Amazon's Rooney rule. Senate votes for Net Neutrality. China's frightening social credit score system. Analyzing Wi-Fi EasyMesh.
- Leo's Tool: Surface Hub 2
- Jeff's Number: Use miles to visit UA 747 boneyard
- Stacey's Thing: Hubitat
- Mike's Stuff: 16GB Pixelbook and Squid
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Links
- Facebook has disabled almost 1.3 billion fake accounts over the past six months
- Twitter Is Going To Limit The Visibility Of Tweets From People Behaving Badly
- Shady Marketplaces Selling Fake Facebook Profiles Operate In Plain Sight
- Facebook disabled 583 million fake accounts and millions of spam, sex and hate speech posts
- Henry Kissinger discovers 2018
- Facebook Transparency Report
- Frightening China social credit system post
- Sources: about a dozen Google employees resign in protest over the firm's continued involvement in providing image classificatio
- House Democrats Release 3,500 Russia-Linked Facebook Ads
- Google One cloud storage announced - offers twice the capacity of Dropbox Pro for $10/month
- Project Treble is turning out to be more important than we thought
- Google is starting to require that OEMs roll out regular security patches
- President Trump just saved embattled Chinese phone maker ZTE - CNET
- ‘Alexa’ has become a less popular baby name since Amazon launched Echo
- Amazon will adopt a ‘Rooney Rule’ to increase board diversity after its initial opposition sparked employee outrage
- Google faces pushback after demoing its Duplex service, a voice-based assistant programmed to sound as human as possible, which
- Wi-Fi EasyMesh: The good, the bad and the ugly
- Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US
- Comcast charges $90 install fee at homes that already have Comcast installed
- Senate barely passes resolution to restore net neutrality
- Hubitat
- Use miles to visit UA 747 boneyard
- 16 GB Pixelbook with Pen and Squid
- Surface Hub 2