Aug 6th 2017
This Week in Tech 626
CEO Barbie
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Hacking vs research, CEO Barbie, politicization of technology, HBO leak, and more
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
WannaCry hero pinched by the feds: should infosec professionals avoid the US? Google's internal anti-diversity viral memo: women can't code? Vic Gundotra: iPhone photos beat Android and DSLR? Did Facebook narrowly avoid creating SkyNet? Who in their right mind would want to be Uber's CEO? Is your drone spying on you?
- Amy Webb's Journalism professor told her that nobody would ever publish camera phone photos
- Rob Reid got his start writing humorous Amazon reviews
- Iain Thompson's phrase of the week: "They over-egged the pudding on that one."
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Links
- WannaCry-killer Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to malware claims
- WannaCry kill-switch hero Marcus Hutchins collared by FBI on way home from DEF CON
- WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI
- Hungarian teen arrested for exposing major security flaw in public transit website
- A Googler's Anti-Diversity Screed Reveals Tech's Rotten Core - The Atlantic
- Google just hired a diversity VP — just as it struggles with a sexist memo from an employee
- Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]
- So, about this Googler’s manifesto.
- Vic Gundotra throws FB shade on his old employer
- No, Facebook’s Chatbots Will Not Take Over the World
- Rogue chatbots deleted in China after questioning Communist Party
- US Army calls for units to discontinue use of DJI equipment
- Uber Can't Find a Woman to Be CEO, So Has Bravely Narrowed Their Search Down to Three Dudes
- Buy the Book - The Signals Are Talking
- After-On
- Piper's Picks TV