Whether or not to freak out about the new chip vulnerabilities, or whether to freak out about the Indian citizen database breach OR whether you should freak out about oil-filled artificial muscles for robots and prosthetics.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt and Roger Chang.
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Show Notes
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- News You Should Know
- (01:15) Nintendo’s Switch is the fastest-selling US console ever | engadget
- (01:20) Samsung’s new Exynos chip teases iPhone X features for Galaxy S9 | circuit breaker
- (01:40) Blade Shadow heads to the US to slay your PC | cnet
- (02:15) Mad Catz, maker of gaming peripherals, is back from the dead | cnet
- (02:40) Microsoft unveils preorders for the beautiful $319 Cortana-powered thermostat | the verge
- More Top Stories
- (03:10) “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws | ars technica
- Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers | new york times
- Meltdown and Spectre | graz university
- Today’s CPU vulnerability: what you need to know | google security blog
- Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits | intel
- Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2 | macrumors
- (05:30) Michael O’Neill – Meltdown and Spectre
- (13:55) Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2018: Fix Facebook | cnbc
- (18:20) AT&T will launch real mobile 5G in 12 cities this year | engadget
- (21:10) India probes report on breach of national identity database | reuters
- (23:35) A Clever New Robotic ‘Muscle’ Seriously Lifts, Bro | wired
- (03:10) “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws | ars technica
- Message of the Day
- (26:35) Anonymous – Apple design
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