Summary: El Kaiser and J.D. return from Spring Break and head right into the news of the week, which includes Spotify’s initial public offering, an iPad update from Apple, background information on the latest credit-card hack and this year’s collection of April Fools jokes by corporate America. J.D. also takes a look at the revamped version of Mozilla Firefox — and new changes on the way to make it a “mixed reality” browser. Come join us for Episode 268!<br> Links to Stories Discussed in This Week’s Episode<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/02/spotify-value-ipo-music-streaming-public-offering" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Spotify poised to be a $25bn company on eve of IPO</a> (The Guardian)<br> * <a href="https://qz.com/1244021/spotifys-ipo-confirms-it-is-worth-more-than-hp-general-mills-and-southwest/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Spotify’s IPO confirms it’s worth more than Hewlett-Packard and General Mills</a> (Quartz)<br> * <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-said-to-plan-move-from-intel-to-own-mac-chips-from-2020" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel</a> (Bloomberg)<br> * <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/27/technology/apple-education-event-chicago/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Apple spring event 2018: A new iPad and 4 other takeaways</a> (CNN Tech)<br> * <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/espns-streaming-service-espn-to-launch-april-12/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ESPN’s streaming service, ESPN+, to launch April 12</a> (TechCrunch)<br> * <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/over-the-top-only-u-s-households-nearly-tripled-since-2013-impacting-tv-ad-dollars/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Over-the-top-only U.S. households nearly tripled since 2013, impacting TV ad dollars</a> (TechCrunch)<br> * <a href="https://geminiadvisory.io/fin7-syndicate-hacks-saks-fifth-avenue-and-lord-taylor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fin7 Syndicate Hacks Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor Stores</a> (Gemini Advisory)<br> * <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/technology/saks-lord-taylor-credit-cards.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Saks and Lord & Taylor Customers</a> (The New York Times)<br> * <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/saks-fifth-avenue-data-breach,36796.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Group Steals 5 Million Credit Cards From Saks Fifth Avenue</a> (Tom’s Hardware)<br> * <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/panerabread-com-leaks-millions-of-customer-records/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records</a> (KrebsOnSecurity)<br> * <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s future, fake news, and Russian mischief</a> (Vox)<br> * <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/31/custom-audiences-certification/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent</a> (TechCrunch)<br> * <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/google-led-plan-to-upend-wireless-industry-gains-momentum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum</a> (Bloomberg)<br> * <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/caught-between-two-superpowers-the-small-town-cable-guy-1522152000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">In U.S. Brawl With Huawei, Rural Cable Firms Are an Unlikely Loser</a> (The Wall Street Journal)<br> * <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service</a> (Cloudflare ...
