Ep 495: Gotta Spend Money to Lose Money - Ad Free (Patreon)

Bitcoin goes up, must come down; Facebook privacy payouts; Zuck wants to inflict pain on Apple; Oculus problems; Spotify unrolls Work From Anywhere program; AI can manipulate human behavior; Russia dealing with TikTok politics; Chappelle gets paid; Whedon cancelled twice; the Stand falls on landing; Discovery Plus shows; web sleuths at the Cecil Hotel; Kim's Convenience; iPad Life; Clubhouse facts & privacy; signs of intelligent life with Avi Loeb; supply-chain attacks; Bloomberg doubles down; Axel F; Intel mocks Apple; feedback.

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Hacked Florida water plant used shared passwords and Windows 7 PCs

Parler is back online after Amazon kicked it off the internet

IN THE NEWS

Bitcoin Trades Above $50,000 for First Time

Facebook Investor Probing $5 Billion Privacy Payout Gets a Boost

Zuckerberg reportedly said Facebook needs ‘to inflict pain’ on Apple

After the failure of the Facebook Phone, get ready for a Facebook Watch

Spotify will let employees work from almost anywhere

AI Can Now Learn to Manipulate Human Behavior

TikTok emerges as a political battleground in Navalny-stirred Russia

Minneapolis bans its police department from using facial recognition software

MEDIA CANDY

Chappelle’s Show returns to Netflix now that Dave got paid

Buffy Deserves Better Than Joss Whedon

First Apple TV+ AR app launches with ‘For All Mankind’ backstory through mixed reality

Review: The Stand starts out strong and then whiffs the landing

Undercover Billionaire Season 2

Undercover Billionaire: Comeback City

Crime Scene: the Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Kim’s Convenience

APPS & DOODADS

Notes Plus

Paperlike Screen Protector

Sony MDR7506 Professional Large Diaphragm Headphone

Factually: What will fact-checkers find on Clubhouse?

You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t.

You really shouldn’t record Clubhouse calls

How the Covid-19 pandemic broke Nextdoor

AT THE LIBRARY

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb

Follow Your Different 202 – Harvard’s Top Astronomer Says Aliens Tried to Contact Us | Dr. Avi Loeb, Author, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Replay by Ken Grimwood

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create

New type of supply-chain attack hit Apple, Microsoft and 33 other companies

The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier

Bloomberg resurrects Super Micro spy chip story; NSA still ‘befuddled’ by the claims

Chrome for iOS will soon keep incognito tabs even more secret with Face ID

Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed?

MORON OF THE WEEK

Intel mocks Apple in new campaign highlighting things users can’t do on a M1 Mac

There’s a Crowdfunding Campaign to Send a Flat-Earther to Space

FEEDBACK LOOP

The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowitz

Flying taxis to hit the skies in 2024

AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad

Stolen Tesla totaled in downtown B’ham during high-speed joy ride

“Modern” Red Envelopes – WeChat Hongbao & Demo – 微信红包

Chinese New Year greetings to impress your relatives

Covid maths: All the virus in the world would fit in a soft drink can

Grant Thornton has resigned as auditors to firms owned by operator of Pornhub

Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve

it’s not child pornography, it’s child sexual abuse material

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Mixing console pioneer Rupert Neve dies at 94