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The tide seems to be turning on NFTs, Web3 & crypto; Bored Ape Yacht Club founders doxxed, but I thought the blockchain was anonymous; couple charged with laundering billions in stolen bitcoin, bad rap videos; EU tells Meta to go ahead and leave if that's what it wants; robot dogs on the border; the Tinder Swindler; Reacher; Beforeigners; Manifest; Apple AI music; Adobe dark patterns; Laundry Files; Boba wrap-up; prepper corner; IRS drops facial recognition idea, fast; kidnapped for crypto; bricking radios. Show notes at https://gog.show/540/
FOLLOW UP Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market Rivian Loses Its Shine as Investors Fret About Production Delays
IN THE NEWS Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell The Crypto Backlash Is Booming The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders ‘Doxxing’ of Bored Ape founders exposes Web3’s transparency issues This Is the Couple Charged With Laundering Billions in Stolen Bitcoin Alleged crypto launderer Heather Morgan led a second life as the world's worst rapper The DOJ’s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU Robot dogs to patrol U.S. border SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite DARPA JUST FLEW A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER WITH NO PILOT
MEDIA CANDY The Tinder Swindler Reacher Beforeigners Season 1 Manifest Season 1 and into Season 2
APPS & DOODADS Apple acquires startup behind Infinite Music Engine that adapts music to your heartbeat The Crystal Method: Drive: Nike + Original Run Apple source code references 'realityOS' for potential VR/AR headsets How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract. This is my next main browser: a review of Orion Orion Browser
AT THE LIBRARY Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
SECURITY HAH! The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Star Wars: Mark Hamill Didn't Record Luke Skywalker's Dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets May Premiere Date at Disney Plus The IRS won’t make you verify your identity with facial recognition after all Kidnapped for crypto: Criminals see flashy crypto owners as easy targets, and it has led to a disturbing string of violent robberies Twitter parts ways with two-factor provider following claims of secret surveillance Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems
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