Jan 20th 2019
This Week in Tech 702
Millsplain It to Me
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
773 Million Password Megabreach, Tim Cook Wants Privacy, Alexa Board Games, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Apple's Tim Cook Calls for Data Privacy.
- 773M Passwords Pwned - How to Find Out If Yours Was.
- Amazon Tries to Make Alexa Sound "Newsy."
- Google Buys Fossil.
- 74% of Facebook Users are Clueless.
- Facebook's 10 Year Challenge.
- Atari Founder Making Alexa Board Games.
- Stop Using Windows Phone!
- Tokyo Hotel Fires Half its Robots.
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Links
- You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Actually Get It | TIME
- Qualcomm didn't have all the license negotiating power, exec testifies - CNET
- Leaked Emails Reveal New Reason Apple, Qualcomm Parted Ways
- Alexa gets a professional ‘newscaster’ voice for reading the day’s news
- This guy founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese. Now he's making Alexa games - CNET
- Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right? | WIRED
- Most Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew finds | TechCrunch
- Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone or Android as it prepares to kill off Windows phones
- Satya Nadella says Cortana won't challenge Alexa and Google Assistant directly
- An Astonishing 773 Million Records Exposed in Monster Breach | WIRED
- 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old — Krebs on Security
- Sen. Marco Rubio wants to ban states from protecting consumer privacy
- Pwned Passwords
- State Regulators Reach Settlement With Equifax in Connection With Massive Data Breach
- Why SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is Silicon Valley's power broker
- Bird Scooter tried to censor my Boing Boing post with a legal threat that's so stupid, it's a whole new kind of wrong
- To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet - The New York Times
- Native Advertising in the Fake News Era | Research
- AMD Ryzen 3000 chips could have 16 cores, 5GHz turbo frequency
- Intel's Next CEO Could Be One of These 5 People
- The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review
- Netflix thinks ‘Fortnite’ is a bigger threat than HBO
- EA Is Squandering Disney's Priceless 'Star Wars' License
- Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots