Jul 29th 2018
This Week in Tech 677
To Serve Cat
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Facebook's stock crash, Tesla surfboards, Russia hacks utilities, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Guests:
Jason Calacanis,
Mike Elgan
- Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk.
- Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue.
- Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine.
- Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think.
- Slack eats HipChat. • Spectrum Internet gets kicked out of New York.
- Get a Tesla surfboard to go with your Boring flamethrower.
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Links
- Apple Addresses MacBook Pro Throttling Controversy
- Apple pushing out performance fix for MacBook Pro 2018
- MacBook Pro 15 (2018) - Beware the Core i9
- ‘Planet of the Apps’ star Gary Vaynerchuk attributes show’s failure to Apple’s bad marketing
- Twitter warns fake account purge to keep erasing users, shares drop 19 percent | Reuters
- Twitter reports a million fewer users as a result of ongoing crackdown on bots
- Facebook officially loses $123 billion in value
- Facebook's $100 billion-plus rout is the biggest loss in stock market history
- Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York - The Verge
- Tesla sells a surfboard
- Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software - Bloomberg
- Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say
- The adorable Kuri robot has been canceled
- Google unveils Titan Security Key
- Mike's List of Chrome Extensions — Mike Elgan
- Current issue of Mike's List, Mike Elgan's email newsletter, to show on screen.
- Angel: The Book