TWiT 724: Paste & Match Style




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li> Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response</li> <li> The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed</li> <li> More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"</li> <li> Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists</li> <li> Google was just caught red-handed</li> <li> Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics</li> <li> Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show</li> <li> Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger</li> <li> Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China</li> <li> The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed</li> <li> A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing</li> <li> Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers</li> <li> Is Google Chrome spying on us?</li> <li> Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness</li> <li> Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced</li> <li> GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart</li> <li> A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/Devindra" target="_blank">Devindra Hardawar</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NateLanxon" target="_blank">Nate Lanxon</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/kateo" target="_blank">Kate O'Neill</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://capterra.com/twit">capterra.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://Atlassian.com/teams/it">Atlassian.com/teams/it</a></li> <li><a href="http://hellofresh.com/twit80">hellofresh.com/twit80 use the code TWIT80</a></li> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code TWiT</a></li> </ul>