Dec 17th 2017
This Week in Tech 645
Not a Bright Guy
Net Neutrality ruling, Uber spies, Facebook feelings, better tweet storms, and more.
FCC cancels Net Neutrality and Ajit Pai mocks protesters. Apple's new iMac Pro costs a minimum of $4999 and goes up from there. Disney buys 21st Century Fox, gaining X-Men, Fantastic Four, and A New Hope, along with a 60% share of Hulu. Google cancels Tango as ARCore picks up steam. As public sentiment against it grows, even Facebook admits that Facebook is bad for you. Uber spies on everybody. Tweet storms made easy. Mirai botnet that took down huge swathes of the internet was built by college kids to cheat at Minecraft. Patreon apologizes. Secret Pentagon UFO program revealed.
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Links
- F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules - The New York Times
- The FCC's Ajit Pai now openly mocking net neutrality protesters with new video
- FCC's own chief technology officer warned about net neutrality repeal - POLITICO
- The FCC Is Blocking a Law Enforcement Investigation Into Net Neutrality Comment Fraud
- iMac Pro Available With 8 or 10 Cores This Week, 14 and 18 Core Models Ship Early Next Year
- 2017 iMac Pro Review - Craig A. Hunter
- Apple makes $1,444.76 per second
- Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; Snap and Spotify also expressed interest
- Facebook to Give Countries a Chance to Tax Its Profits From Local Ads
- Apple launches its podcast analytics service into beta
- Apple signs ‘Battlestar Galactica’ developer for new space drama
- Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion
- Disney's Deal With Fox Could Solve Hulu's Ownership Headache
- Why Everybody Should Be Very Afraid of the Disney Death Star
- Google Pixel 2’s AR Stickers launch today w/ ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Stranger Things’ content
- Google’s Project Tango is shutting down because ARCore is already here
- Google Takes a Look Back at 2017 and the Top Search Trends From Around the World
- The Other Tech Bubble
- Here’s the letter alleging Uber spied on individuals for competitive intelligence - Recode
- Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us? | Facebook Newsroom
- Facebook now lets you snooze annoying posts from your friends for 30 days
- Twitter announces official support for tweetstorms with new ‘Threads’ feature
- Twitter’s hilarious new ad addresses one of its biggest problems — that Twitter is too hard to use
- Twitter 'baby poop' video launches spam
- The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme | WIRED
- NASA Confirms Astronauts Will Watch 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' in Space
- We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. - The Patreon Blog
- Amazon to start selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast
- Target is acquiring Instacart competitor Shipt for $550 million to fight back against Amazon
- Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
- Strange tumbling motion of cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' Oumuamua suggests it’s an alien probe with BROKEN engines