PTJ 250: “El Kaiser, Did We Forget to Mention This Was Our 250th Episode?”




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Summary: Google took its turn spewing out the fall product lineup this week, with the Pixel 2 phone, Pixelbook laptop, Pixel Pen Stylus — and a whole bunch of Google Home offerings — announced. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s big hack was worse then the company previously announced (why, yes, it is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month). The former Equifax CEO got trolled hard at his Senate hearing and NASA invites space fans to send their names to Mars. Upward!<br> Links to Stories Mentioned on This Week’s Show<br> <br> * <a href="https://techcrunch.com/gallery/heres-everything-google-announced-today/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Here’s everything Google announced today</a> (TechCrunch)<br> * <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-04/facebook-fought-for-years-to-avoid-political-ad-disclosure-rules" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads</a> (Bloomberg)<br> * <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/5/16429220/facebook-media-source-info-button-test-announced" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Facebook tests explaining media sources</a> (The Verge)<br> * <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/04/technology/culture/monopoly-man-equifax/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Monopoly Man photobombs Senate hearing on Equifax</a> (CNN)<br> * <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-breach-three-billion-accounts/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Yahoo’s 2013 Email Hack Actually Compromised Three Billion Accounts</a> (Wired)<br> * <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16418092/sonos-speaker-amazon-alexa-support-voice-assistant" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sonos launches public beta for Alexa voice control</a> (The Verge)<br> * <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_924.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sputnik-1</a> (NASA)<br> * <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mp3/578626main_sputnik-beep.mp3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sputnik beep</a> (NASA audio archive)<br> * <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NASA Audio and Ringtones</a> (NASA)<br> * <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Send Your Name to Mars!</a> (NASA)<br> * <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Mars Exploration Missions</a> (NASA)<br> * <a href="http://nerdist.com/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-rocket-mars-moon-base-muskwatch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Everything We Know About Elon Musk’s Big Freakin’ Rocket</a> (Nerdist)<br> <br> (Hopefully) Helpful Hint<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/10/01/October-National-Cybersecurity-Awareness-Month" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month</a> (US-CERT)<br> * <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/NCSAM%202017%20Themes%20One%20Pager%20-%20508%20compliant.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Department of Homeland Security NCAM Guide</a><br> * <a href="https://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">StaySafeOnline</a><br> <br>