Jun 14th 2020
This Week in Tech 775
Bacon Buddies
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Zoom's Fail of the Week, Police Face Recognition, Apple at $1.5T
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Zoom bans an American's account at China's request, won't have real end-to-end encryption
- IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop selling face recognition software to the police
- Clearview and Palantir continue to sell face recognition to the police
- Apple is the world's first $1.5 trillion company
- Apple WWDC 2020 coming June 22. Here's what Apple will announce.
- How quickly will Apple transition Macs to ARM?
- Refrigerator DRM is catching up with printer DRM
- ZFS cuts "slave" out of OpenZFS codebase. GitHub ditches "master"
- Michael Seibel replaces Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board
- HBO yanks Gone With the Wind, it becomes the #1 show on Apple TV+
- Four GOP Senators ask FCC to review Section 230
- PS5 hardware and games announced - disc vs digital
- Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
- itch.io Games for Racial Justice and Equality surpasses it's $5 million goal
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Links
- Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $1.5 Trillion in Market Value
- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft all hit record highs as the Nasdaq Composite broke 10,000 for the first time
- Apple Reveals WWDC 2020 Schedule
- Apple was cautious when it shifted to Intel, and an ARM Mac migration will be no different
- Well known Apple leaker Fudge on four stages of Mac transition to ARM
- Zoom plans new blocking features to comply with requests from Chinese government
- Zoom says it deactivated accounts of US-based activists due to China's demands
- Zoom says free users won’t get end-to-end encryption so FBI and police can access calls
- Zoom says free users won’t get end-to-end encryption so FBI and police can access calls
- Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, says Congress "appears ready" to place stronger regulations
- Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law
- IBM to withdraw from the facial recognition market out of profiling fears - CNET
- In letter, four GOP senators ask the FCC to review Section 230
- Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement
- This is the PlayStation 5
- Itch.io’s amazing 1,500-game charity bundle surpasses $5 million goal
- Activists seize control of Seattle neighborhood, declare “autonomous zone.”
- Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it
- ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference'
- Facial Recognition Companies Commit to Police Market After Amazon, Microsoft Exit