Jul 25th 2021
This Week in Tech 833
Herbs of Providence
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
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Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
- Amazon’s New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.
- Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.
- Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day.
- The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair.
- iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction.
- Framework | The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews.
- Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option.
- ‘Call Her Daddy’ Host Alex Cooper Wants to Have the Biggest Podcast in the World.
- Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices.
- Akamai DNS outage knocks many major websites and services offline: PSN, Steam, Fidelity, more.
- A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn.
- BritBox Customers Stunned When Billed 100 Times Their Monthly Fee.
- Twitter shares a first look at the ‘big overhaul’ coming to TweetDeck.
- Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate.
- Tennessee man died from heart attack after ‘Swatting’ over Twitter handle.
- Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X.
- Tesla Full-Self Driving Software Alarms Safety Advocates.
- Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking.
- Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars.
- ROUTERS! ROUTERS!! ROUTERS!!!
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Links
- Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking
- Akamai DNS outage knocks many major websites and services offline: PSN, Steam, Fidelity, more [U]
- Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars
- The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair | WIRED
- iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction | ZDNet
- Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says
- Tesla Full-Self Driving Software Alarms Safety Advocates - Consumer Reports
- Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X - Electrek
- A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn
- Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices | Ars Technica
- Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option
- Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate
- Twitter shares a first look at the ‘big overhaul’ coming to TweetDeck
- Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day
- Framework | The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews
- Amazon’s New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards
- ‘Call Her Daddy’ Host Alex Cooper Wants to Have the Biggest Podcast in the World
- BritBox Customers Stunned When Billed 100 Times Their Monthly Fee (EXCLUSIVE)
- Tennessee man died from heart attack after ‘Swatting’ over Twitter handle
- ROUTERS! ROUTERS!! ROUTERS!!!