Jun 17th 2018
This Week in Tech 671
A Bad Day for the Internet
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Weaponized social media, top trends at E3, end of net neutrality, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Social media is still destroying the world. Top trends at E3. The end of Net Neutrality and the AT&T/ Time Warner Merger are a 1-2 punch against consumers. Automation is taking jobs in China and at Amazon. White house hacked. GDPR is killing email marketing. Theranos founder up on charges.
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Links
- All the biggest announcements and trailers from Sony PlayStation at E3 2018
- Anthem
- Star Citizen
- ‘Fortnite’ E3 tournament was a taste of its esports future
- Feature: Watching the World Cup with PSVR Feels Like a New Frontier for Sports
- Microsoft acquires a whole bunch of game studios
- The court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge is ridiculously bad - The Verge
- Statement By NY Acting A.G. Underwood On Net Neutrality Rollback
- FCC chairman: Our job is to protect a free and open internet
- Mobile industry completes 5G standard by approving standalone 5G spec | VentureBeat
- Comcast bids $65 billion for 21st Century Fox assets
- New York threatens to revoke Charter’s purchase of Time Warner Cable. Charter hit with $2 million fine
- Comcast disabled throttling system, proving data cap is just a money grab | Ars Technica
- Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast
- In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish
- Jeff Bezos Is Already $40 Billion Richer This Year—While the Typical Amazon Worker Has Made Just $12,000
- ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security
- Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
- White House confirms its chief of staff was hacked
- Europe's GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One
- Decades-old PGP bug allowed hackers to spoof just about anyone’s signature | Ars Technica
- Tanzania orders all unregistered bloggers to take down their sites | Reuters
- Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random
- Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later - Bloomberg
- U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani - WSJ
- State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions | MetaTalk