May 8th 2022
This Week in Tech 874
Malicious Compliance
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Guests:
Brianna Wu,
Alex Kantrowitz
Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview
- Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.
- Evaluating Elon Musk’s Plan To Fix Twitter.
- Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout.
- Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning.
- Bitcoin drops below $35,000 over the weekend, extending Friday’s losses.
- NFT Sales Are Flatlining.
- NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla.
- Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen.
- Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.
- Vatican Offers, Mysteriously Rescinds Interview About Pope’s Metaverse Plans.
- Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood.
- CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC).
- Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, ‘What’s new’ keynotes, and sessions.
- The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google’s trying to make a flagship.
- Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.
- AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown.
- Salt_Hank on TikTok.
- Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners.
- Intuit to pay $141M settlement over ‘free’ TurboTax ads.
- Frontier lied about Internet speeds and “ripped off customers,” FTC says.
- New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick.
- Apple’s Self Service Repair now available.
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Links
- Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout - WSJ
- Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout
- Evaluating Elon Musk’s Plan To Fix Twitter
- Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning
- NFT Sales Are Flatlining
- Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood
- CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
- Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, ‘What’s new’ keynotes, and sessions
- The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google’s trying to make a flagship
- AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown
- Frontier lied about Internet speeds and “ripped off customers,” FTC says | Ars Technica
- Intuit to pay $141M settlement over ‘free’ TurboTax ads
- New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick
- Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.
- NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla