Breaking: Peter Thiel sells a lot of his Facebook stock and applies to buy Gawker. Why HQ is taking the app world by storm and almost getting its star host fired, plus Uber’s hidden data breach and whether loot boxes should be gambling.
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Uber fires CSO after security breach goes public, Facebook launches Russian propaganda detection tool, Meg Whitman to step down at HP.

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Tom explains the encryption debate, Foxconn’s got worker controversy, an Apple rumor, Net neutrality! It’s like a greatest hits of tech news!
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• News You Should Know
  • (00:50) Meg Whitman…stepping down [as CEO] | Business Insider
  • (01:10) YouTube is back on Amazon’s Echo Show | The Verge
  • (01:30) Skype disappears from mobile app stores in China | The Verge
  • (01:55) iPhone X supplier under fire over student labor | cnet
• More Top Stories
  • (02:15) …FCC chair releases plan to deregulate ISPs | Ars Technica
    • FCC will also order states to scrap plans… | Ars Technica
  • (04:25) Google collects Android users’ locations… | Quartz
  • (06:35) Tencent…first Chinese tech firm valued over $500B | TechCrunch
  • (09:30) Sonos One…can…[use] Alexa to play Spotify music | TechCrunch
  • (12:25) The HoloPlayer One lets you interact with 3D holograms | Circuit Breaker
• Discussion (16:05)
  • Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity… | MIT
  • “Going Dark:…the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy” | U.S. Senate
  • Encryption Working Group Releases Year-End Report | U.S. House of Representatives
  • Mandated encryption backdoors?… | ZD Net
  • The Risks of Mandating Backdoors in Encryption Products | Schneier on Security
  • Keys Under Doormats: Mandating Insecurity | Lawfare Institute
  • #316 Instacast,…Asymmetric Encryption, Hashing Functions | Podfeet
• Messages of the Day
  • (27:30) Daniel – Unexpected cell phone
  • (29:00) Ron Ladd – ATSC 3
• Today’s Contributor
  • Patrick Beja

 

Android collecting cell tower location, Skype disappears in Chinese app stores, US FCC publishes new Net Neutrality proposal.

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Exoskeletons! They don’t require any electricity and they can help your neck. Are they still cool if they can’t fly? Plus A cheap Tesla battery that is also expensive and do we need a new over-the-air TV method?
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Volvo selling cars to Uber, iMac Pro might have always on Siri support, Xiaomi investing heavily in India.

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Everything you need to know about the big games of 2017!
With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

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The games we cover:

* The classics:

Call of Duty WWII

Assassin’s Creed Origins

Fifa 18 (and other sport sims)

Forza Motorsports 7 (and Forza Horizon 3) (XBox)

Gran Turismo Sport (PS4)

* Big IPs from other media:

Star Wars Battlefront II

Middle Earth Shadow of War

Injustice 2

South Park The Fractured But Whole

* Other multi-support:

Destiny 2

Mass Effect Andromeda

Wolfenstein II The New Colossus

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PC / coming to XBox One) (GA GotY finalist)

* PS4 exclusives:

Horizon Zero Dawn (GA GotY finalist)

Uncharted – The Lost Legacy

Neir Automata

Persona 5 (GA GotY finalist)

* Switch exclusives:

Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe) (Wii U / Switch)

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (Wii U / Switch) (GA GotY finalist)

Super Mario Odyssey (GA GotY finalist)

Tesla and Wal-mart get trucking, Apple moves farther from Qualcomm, and if you can’t weaken encryption, what’s a law enforcement official to do?
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Annalee Newitz.

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Facebook launches Creators app, Tesla announces new electric truck, EA suspends Battlefront II in-app purchases.

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A new system to help you decide whether to trust news sources on Facebook and Google and a new system to stop verifying people form Twitter.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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