Mar 31st 2019
This Week in Tech 712
Cultured Hill Folk
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Apple’s celebrity event, Gig Economy IPOs, Fake invoicing for profit, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Apple's Celebrity Event
- Apple and Fashion
- Apple Credit Card
- Apple News+
- Airpower is dead
- Lyft IPO
- Gig Economy and IPOs
- Apple's Persistent Butterfly Keyboard Problem
- Hacker Dupes FB and Google Out of $122 Million
- Jeff Bezos and the Saudis
- ASUS Security Flaw
- Vulnerabilities in Supply-Chains
- New Regulations in the EU
- Elizabeth Warren and the Right to Repair
- Facebook and Live
- Huawei's Revenue
- FTC Fines Robocall Companies
- Swatter Gets 20 Years
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Links
- The Apple Card may be the most revolutionary announcement Apple made at its 'Show time' event
- How Apple Card works | TechCrunch
- Related: Apple quietly ends the option of funding Apple Pay Cash balances from credit cards
- Apple News Plus is available now — here’s how to sign up
- Apple says it is "sorry" that a "small number of users" are still experiencing issues with third-generation butterfly keyboards
- Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware
- Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid
- Amazon reportedly working on free Fire TV video news app
- Jeff Bezos’ Investigator Gavin de Becker Finds the Saudis Obtained the Amazon Chief’s Private Data
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that Facebook is exploring ways to restrict who can go “Live” on the platform.
- Facebook wants new rules
- Memo: Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela tells employees not to engage in any public-facing April Fool's Day pranks
- Motherboard: Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
- Man Behind Fatal ‘Swatting’ Gets 20 Years
- EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web
- FTC says it has fined four robocalling companies, responsible for "billions" of US calls, which will also cease operations
- Elizabeth Warren comes out in support of a national right-to-repair law
- Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation
- Lyft IPO: Stock starts trading on public market
- Huawei earnings 2018: Revenue tops $100 billion for first time