This Week in Tech 890

Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

•  Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.
•  Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s.
•  Apple’s ‘Far out’ iPhone event will be held on September 7.
•  SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.
•  Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.
•  Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.
•  LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.
•  How big is your haystack?
•  Ethereum’s Merge: Opportunities and risks.
•  The Crypto World Can’t Wait for Ethereum’s ‘Merge.’
•  Web3 is going just great.
•  A Month on ‘Mars’: Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.
•  Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.
•  10 Million Watched ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere, HBO Says.
•  Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of ‘peak TV.’
•  Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.
•  California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.
• Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.
•  Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.
•  Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.
•  NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.
• Unbound.com offer from Wil: Use code TWIT15

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

• Transcripts: This Week in Tech Episode 890 Transcript

Links

• Twitter whistleblower says platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6 | TechCrunch
• Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s | Techdirt
• Ethereum’s Merge: Opportunities and risks - Protocol
• The Crypto World Can’t Wait for Ethereum’s ‘Merge’ - The New York Times
• SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas - WSJ
• Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket | CNN
• LastPass developer systems hacked to steal source code
• 10 Million Watched ‘House of the Dragon’ Premiere, HBO Says. - The New York Times
• Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of ‘peak TV’ | Financial Times
• Scientists announce first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope
• Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts
• Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code | Ars Technica
• Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all | TechCrunch
• California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars - The New York Times