Aug 2nd 2020
This Week in Tech 782
Mainframes Not MaryJane
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested
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Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested
- Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok
- Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok
- Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington
- What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?
- Twitter hackers arrested
- Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021
- Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world
- Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!
- Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010
- Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote
- Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund
- Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!
- Emmys will be all-virtual this year
- Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers
- Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks
- Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow
- Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world
- Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions
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Links
- The Big Tech Hearing Proved Congress Isn't Messing Around
- Real-Time Analysis: Tech CEOs Face Congress
- Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data
- Tim Cook would like to remind you that Apple does not dominate any of its markets
- Zuckerberg email proposed buying Instagram because it could be 'very disruptive' to 'vulnerable' Facebook
- TechCongress
- I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.
- Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts | WFLA
- DOJ announces charges against two other suspects in the Twitter hack, including a 19-year-old in UK and a 22-year-old in Orlando
- How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers | ZDNet
- Twitter says a spear phishing attack led to the huge bitcoin scam - The Verge
- Twitter contractors reportedly used internal tools to spy on celebrities, including Beyoncé
- Microsoft to end support for Cortana app on mobile; Harman Kardon speakers in early 2021 | ZDNet
- Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
- Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition - WSJ
- ByteDance and Microsoft offer a deal to allow TikTok to remain in the U.S., per report
- Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Switches Gears in Pursuit of TikTok - WSJ
- Breaking Off TikTok Will Be Hard to Do
- Biden's campaign told staffers to delete TikTok from their personal and work phones citing security and privacy concerns
- Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms
- Election Cyber Surge To Deploy Hacker Army For 2020 Vote—Here’s Why
- Trump administration is crippling international Internet freedom effort by withholding funds, officials say
- Huawei overtakes Samsung as world’s biggest smartphone vendor, says report
- YouTube to end community captions feature and deaf creators aren’t happy
- GSA Auctions
- Fyre Festival Auction
- US Digital Service