Jul 14th 2019
This Week in Tech 727
Artisanal Pickles from Williamsburg
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Palantir, Facebook Fines, Prime Day, and more...
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan,
Caroline Haskins
Top Stories This Week
- Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
- The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
- Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
- Instagram vs bullies
- Prime Day deals and dilemmas
- Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
- Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
- Your car is watching you
- Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
- RIP MacBook
- Mac update kills Zoom hack
- Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
- Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
- Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
- Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
- Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
- Netflix Cuphead Show
- Prime Day phishing scams
- HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
- France's Tech Tax
- Niantic kills its first app
- Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
- Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
- Google is listening to you in Flanders
- Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
- A eulogy for the father of the password
- Chatterbox will teach children robotics
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Links
- Amazon invests $700 million to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce by 2025
- Wirecutter's Best Prime Day Deals for 2019
- Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota plan to strike on Prime Day over labor practices
- Amazon's plan to spend $700M to retrain 100,000 employees by 2025 translates to $1,077 per person per year
- Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke - The Verge
- HOW I REPLACED FACEBOOK WITH "NICEBOOK"
- The ugly side of Facebook’s pivot to privacy is starting to show
- Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict
- 300 Californian Cities Secretly Have Access to Palantir
- Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
- Dozens of Cities Have Secretly Experimented With Predictive Policing Software
- Cheap automatic license plate readers are creeping into neighborhoods.
- The White House social media summit was full of hypocrisy — and comedy
- I believe in free speech, but Minds makes me queasy