TWiT 774: The Mafia is Zooming




This Week in Tech (MP3) show

Summary: <ul> <li> Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?</li> <li> Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police</li> <li> Can tech improve policing?</li> <li> Social and Organizational barriers to change</li> <li> Should social networks fact-check Trump?</li> <li> James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial</li> <li> YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter</li> <li> How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives</li> <li>Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people</li> <li> Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person</li> <li> NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest</li> <li> Minneapolis will dismantle their police department</li> <li> Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops</li> <li> Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent</li> <li> Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran</li> <li> Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy</li> <li> HBO Max will not apply to AT&amp;T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices</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/dylan20" target="_blank">Dylan Tweney</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/wesley83" target="_blank">Wesley Faulkner</a>, and <a href="https://amywebb.io/" target="_blank">Amy Webb</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://mintmobile.com/twit">mintmobile.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://extrahop.com/TWIT">extrahop.com/TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://barracuda.com/twit">barracuda.com/twit</a></li> </ul>