Sep 30th 2018
This Week in Tech 686
Older Than the Mini Jack
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Facebook breach, Elon’s costly tweet, Google turns 20, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- How to tell if your Facebook account is one of the 50 million that were hacked this week
- Why the founder of Instagram left Facebook
- "Funding secured" tweet costs Elon Musk his chairmanship and $40 million
- Google turns 20
- More leaks from Google's upcoming October 9th event
- Amazon gives $1 million to Wikimedia
- FCC fines robo-caller $37.5 million
- Did you register to vote on Snapchat?
- Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has a plan to fix the Internet
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Links
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page will be deleted on Sunday, says hacker
- Facebook's Massive Security Breach: Everything We Know | WIRED
- Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
- SEC settles charges with Tesla's Elon Musk, will remain as CEO but relinquish chairman role
- SEC: Elon Musk wanted Tesla’s stock at $420 to impress girlfriend with pot reference
- NYT: ‘Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down From Company’
- Instagram’s CEO
- A Wise Man Leaves Facebook
- How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump
- "Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?"
- Marking 20(ish) years of Google
- Google's 20th Birthday
- ‘Google Pixel Slate’ is the name of the first Pixel tablet/convertible, aka ‘Nocturne’
- Google Pixel Slate, aka ‘Nocturne’, may support dual-booting Windows 10
- Amazon donates $1M to Wikimedia
- Security experts say Chrome 69’s ‘forced login’ feature violates user privacy
- Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins
- Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws | Reuters
- FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers
- Snapchat is letting users register to vote from its app
- Steve Ballmer's USAFacts unveils Voter Center, an online resource showing what positions Congress members take publicly and comp
- Eric Schmidt says the internet will bifurcate in the next 10-15 years into a Chinese-led internet, with fewer freedoms and more
- Is the podcast bubble bursting?
- One Small Step for the Web… – Tim Berners-Lee – Medium
- Why you should probably wait for the iPhone XR:
- iPhone XS Drop Test