Jun 7th 2020
This Week in Tech 774
The Mafia is Zooming
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Big Tech and Racism, Trump and Biden Phished
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?
- Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police
- Can tech improve policing?
- Social and Organizational barriers to change
- Should social networks fact-check Trump?
- James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial
- YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter
- How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives
- Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people
- Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest
- Minneapolis will dismantle their police department
- Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops
- Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent
- Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran
- Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy
- HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices
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Links
- Speaking up on racism
- Amazon drops $2 coronavirus pay rise for warehouse workers as CEO Jeff Bezos' fortune nears $150 billion
- Amazon “Stands in Solidarity” Against Racism While Selling Racist Tech to Police
- NYTimes: Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts
- Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees
- In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression
- In an email to Microsoft employees, Satya Nadella promises more diversity by expanding connections with HBCUs
- Zoom won't add end-to-end encryption to free calls so it can keep aiding police - CNET
- Stamos thread explaining Zoom e2e encryption
- Exim Mail Transfer Agent Actively Exploited by Russian GRU Cyber Actor
- Dust in the Light – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Alexis Ohanian asks to be replaced by a black candidate as he resigns from Reddit’s board
- [Thread] Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board, urges company to fill his seat with a black candidate
- James Bennet Resigns as New York Times Opinion Editor