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
New episodes every Sunday.
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!!!