Apr 17th 2019
This Week in Google 504
Gelato in Perugia With Craig
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jeff Jarvis
Facebook Hell, Julian Assange, Notre Dame
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mathew Ingram
This Week's Stories
- Documents "Confirm" Facebook Used Your Data Against Rivals
- Google I/O Plans: Will Pixel 3a Be There?
- YouTube Falsely Hints Notre Dame Fire was Terrorism
- Defending Assange: Hard but Necessary
- The Open Internet is Under Attack
- YouTube Wants to Reward "Quality Watch Time"
- Congratulations 2019 Pulitzer Winners!
- Facebook's 15 Months of Hell
- Twitter "Prioritizes" Abuse Flags
- Jack Dorsey Floats Controversial Twitter Changes
- Secret Service Mishandle Mar-A-Lago Malware
- Illinois' Anti-Alexa Law Has No Teeth
- Pixel Camera Adds Kiss Detection
- Galaxy Fold Review Units Breaking
- Twitter Deletes Journalists' Tweets about Torrent Story
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Numbers: Mayor Pete speaks Binary, Get naked to protest social media
- Mathew's Thing: Assassin's Creed Unity will be used to rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral
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Links
- Google teases new Pixel announcement for May 7th
- YouTube shows 9/11 link on live videos of unrelated Notre Dame fire - The Verge
- To Answer Critics, YouTube Tries a New Metric: Responsibility - Bloomberg
- Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
- 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook | WIRED
- Jack suggests shifting from people to topics; people revolt
- Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours
- Julian Assange’s Charges Are Centered on Hacking, Not Publishing Classified Information - Motherboard
- US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning
- You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him
- Partnering with Assange was unpleasant. But work like his is crucial.
- It's Time to Stop Using the 'Fire in a Crowded Theater' Quote
- No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick | TechCrunch
- Illinois bill banning eavesdropping by IoT devices defanged by tech lobby | Ars Technica
- Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content | Internet Archive Blogs
- EU countries give final approval to copyright reform aimed at Google and Facebook | VentureBeat
- Google Pixel camera AI now looks for you to smile or kiss
- Google Pay can now automatically import loyalty cards, tickets, and offers from Gmail
- Play Store tests simultaneous downloads, internal app sharing, more
- The Google Home Hub will apparently be rebranded as 'Google Nest Hub'
- Waymo launches robotaxi app on Google Play
- Breaking: Galaxy Fold review units are failing left and right with disastrous display issues
- Starz Apologizes for Taking Down Tweets to Torrentfreak Articles – Variety
- EFF’s Tweet About an Overzealous DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court
- The ‘splinternet’ is already here
- Spy Finder Pro Hidden Camera Detector
- Zucc Smokin Meats
- Sarah Bartlett on Twitter: "Name another graduate journalism school with better swag! @newmarkjschool… "
- Mayor Pete speaks Binary
- Get naked to protest social media
- Assassin's Creed Unity will be used to rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral