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Jason's new office; Facebook's misinformation fail; Amazon union; TikTok's scraping "growth hack"; Pinterest calls itself bold & brave; Elon buys stake in Twitter, gets on board; Jack misses the world he destroyed; Moonfall is unbearably bad; Star Trek seems to be moving in the right direction except for that NFT stuff; Somebody Feed Phil returns; Wyze security debacle; Cash App breach; FBI removes malware without asking; DOJ, German dark-web takedowns; Google bans data-harvesting software with government ties; it's Opening Day, Orioles fans! Show notes at https://gog.show/548
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FOLLOW UP A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS
IN THE NEWS America finally gets an Amazon union Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union' Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors Twitter confirms it will test an edit button Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web IndieWeb Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet
MEDIA CANDY Moonfall The entire ‘Next Generation’ cast will appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' season three The latest ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer promises a return to form FFS. "Star Trek gets into NFTs" 'Somebody Feed Phil' Season 5 Release Date Announced at Netflix
SECURITY HAH! The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat I’m done with Wyze Cash App breach impacted over 8 million users Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them DOJ seizes $34 million of crypto from the dark web seller Germany seizes the world's largest, longest-serving dark web market Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. |