Jun 23rd 2019
This Week in Tech 724
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Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Libra, Apple and Best Buy, The New Wilderness, The GE Smart Lightbulb Update, and more!
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This Week's Stories
- Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response
- The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed
- More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"
- Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists
- Google was just caught red-handed
- Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
- Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show
- Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger
- Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China
- The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed
- A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing
- Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers
- Is Google Chrome spying on us?
- Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness
- Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced
- GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart
- A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back
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Links
- Apple says its devices can now be repaired in 1,000+ Best Buy locations across the US, expanding on its current network of ~270
- Apple Contemplates Moving 15 to 30 Percent of Production Capacity Outside of China Over Trade War: Report
- Apple recalls 15in MacBook Pro laptops over battery fire risk | The Guardian
- Genius: We Caught Google 'Red Handed' Stealing Lyrics Data
- Related: Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
- SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't lift a finger | ZDNet
- Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser
- Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens | The Guardian
- Netflix jokes it's cancelling Good Omens, while Amazon 'kills' Stranger Things | CNET
- The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra | WIRED
- Chair of the House Financial Services Committee says Facebook should halt development of Libra until Congress investigates
- Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions - The Verge
- Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
- Philips Hue company announces lights that beam data at 250 Mbps - The Verge
- Once More With Feeling: There Is No Legal Distinction Between A 'Platform' And A 'Publisher' | Techdirt
- UK age-verification system for porn delayed by six months | The Guardian
- GE Lightbulb Update
- Ravelry