This Week in Tech (Audio)

Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware

• Amazon's New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.
• Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.
• Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day.
• The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair.
• iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction.
• Framework | The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews.
• Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option.
• 'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Wants to Have the Biggest Podcast in the World.
• Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices.
• Akamai DNS outage knocks many major websites and services offline: PSN, Steam, Fidelity, more.
• A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn.
• BritBox Customers Stunned When Billed 100 Times Their Monthly Fee.
• Twitter shares a first look at the 'big overhaul' coming to TweetDeck.
• Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate.
• Tennessee man died from heart attack after 'Swatting' over Twitter handle.
• Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X.
• Tesla Full-Self Driving Software Alarms Safety Advocates.
• Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking.
• Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars.
• ROUTERS! ROUTERS!! ROUTERS!!!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Owen JJ Stone, and Iain Thomson

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Windows 365, Windows on iPad

• Targets of spyware revealed
• Retail stores packed with unchecked Facial Recognition
• So Long, Twitter Fleets
• Twitter for iOS now lets you edit (who can reply to your old) tweets
• Running Windows 3.1 and TRS-80 emulation on an iPad!
• Facebook Has Fired Dozens Over Abusing Access to User Data, New Book Says
• Surgeon General's Warning for Facebook
• Social Warming (book)
• Windows 365 puts PCs in the cloud
• The new Steam Deck for Gaming
• Lots of apps use your personal contacts. Few will tell you what they do with them.
• Tesla FSD beta v9, Not So Great
• Apple Watch and Health exec Kevin Lynch joining the Apple Car team
• Dyson EV
• Anthony Bourdain AI narration
• Val Kilmer comparison
• Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back
• Where Lorem Ipsum Comes From

Host: Jason Snell

Guests: Harry McCracken, Rosemary Orchard, and Andy Ihnatko

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Branson in Space, Amazon, Kaseya Hack

• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• AI voice actors sound more human than ever—and are ready to hire
• Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming His Own Government Violated The Constitution
• Larry Magid: Trump's misguided social media lawsuit (mercurynews.com)
• Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
• Richard Branson and Crew React To Space Flight
• Blue Origin Tweets about "Space" Travel
• FTC Opens Probe of Amazon's MGM Purchase, Signaling a Lengthy Inquiry
• Apple has reportedly requested streaming rights for NFL Sunday Ticket games
• The First Camera Phone and photo by Phillipe Kahn
• Kaseya Failed to Address Security Before Hack, Ex-Employees Say
• Microsoft Teams is bringing back Clippy and all your old favorites
• The Yahoo! Brand Is Still Worth $1.6 Billion to Masayoshi Son
• Microsoft Teams is bringing back Clippy and all your old favorites
• Meet the Switch Pro: $350 "OLED Model" launches on October 8
• Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
• Pokémon GO Catches $5 Billion in Lifetime Revenue in Five Years
• Zuck's flag-waving

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Larry Magid, and Devindra Hardawar

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Amazon and the FTC, REvil ransomware, GitHub Copilot, Pokémon Go

• FTC votes to expand antitrust enforcement powers
• FTC charges computer chip supplier Broadcom with illegal monopolization
• Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism
• The Jeff Bezos Paradox
• Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built?
• Amazon Revises Corporate Values Days Before Bezos Steps Down
• REvil ransomware hits 200 companies in MSP supply-chain attack
• Supermarket chain Coop closes 800 stores following Kaseya ransomware attack
• Russian hackers are trying to brute-force hundreds of networks
• Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords
• Microsoft warns of Windows' PrintNightmare' vulnerability that's being actively exploited
• Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users
• Judge blocks Florida law aimed at punishing social media
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is changing to black in Windows 11
• Stars and Stripes - Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
• Amazon Plans' Rebel Alliance' With Slack, Dropbox to Fight Microsoft
• Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m
• The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
• Meat Grown in Israeli Bioreactors Is Coming to American Diners

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu and Amy Webb

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Windows 11 unveiled - can your PC run it? China bans Bitcoin and other crypto mining, gig app for open-source intel gathering, and more.

• Microsoft makes Windows 11 official, and it's coming this fall.
• Microsoft will let devs keep every penny their Windows app makes — unless it's a game.
• Fret not, you can sideload Android APKs directly onto Windows 11.
• Will your PC run Windows 11? Even Microsoft can't say for sure.
• Windows 11 will integrate Chat from Microsoft Teams in the Taskbar.
• New GitHub app details precisely why your PC cannot upgrade to Windows 11.
• DirectStorage on Windows 11: Next-gen gaming performance, with PC requirements.
• "I'm totally screwed." WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted.
• Tech giants, fearful of proposals to curb them, blitz Washington with lobbying.
• This year's Prime Day broke sales records.
• Apple says allowing sideloading on iPhone would expose users to serious privacy and security risks.
• Google delays Chrome's cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years.
• Sundar Pichai faces internal criticism at Google.
• App taps unwitting users abroad to gather open-source intelligence.
• John McAfee was not suicidal, says widow of antivirus software magnate.
• Real estate mogul Frank McCourt has a $100 million plan to replace Facebook.
• Court rules for high school cheerleader in First Amendment dispute over Snapchat profanity.
• China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans.
• South African brothers vanish, and so does $3.6 billion in Bitcoin.
• UK watchdog bans cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Daniel Rubino, and Denise Howell

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