Ep 496: "I'm Fired" - Ad Free (Patreon)

It's time to get things started; regulations; still hacking tractors; Google has an ethical AI ethicist problem; UK slaps Uber with the law; Facebook stops news in Australia, restarts it as Australians abandon it; Facebook caught lying about metrics, again; WhatsApp details privacy change policy; Influencers for health; Hot Ones; Twitch & Metallica; Spotify HiFi; Reply All host hiatus; Amazon's Kickstarter; Think Again; CyberWar & the Lost Colony; Clubhouse concerns; Mac M1 malware; Nvidia anti-cryptomining drivers; Elon Musk & Bitcoin; Gwyneth's COVID long game; feedback.

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied.

“Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures

WeWork Co-Founder Adam Neumann, SoftBank, near settlement over payout

IN THE NEWS

Google has fired another AI ethics leader

Google fires top AI ethicist 2 months after co-leader’s ousting, leaving its ethical AI team headless

UK slaps Uber with THE LAW, rules drivers are employees in final verdict

Facebook restricts users in Australia from sharing or viewing news links

Facebook’s Australian news purge blocked fire departments, food banks, its own Facebook page, and much more

Facebook Takes Down All Posts Spreading Misinformation About Fictional Nation Of ‘Australia’

Australia’s PM slams Facebook’s ‘arrogant’ move to ‘unfriend’ the nation, after government pages were inadvertently silenced as part of a purge of news content

Facebook reverses its Australian news ban

Unsealed court document claims Facebook ‘knew for years’ that a metric was inflated and ignored an employee warning to avoid a revenue hit

WhatsApp details what will happen to users who don’t agree to privacy changes

America’s Health Will Soon Be in the Hands of Very Minor Internet Celebrities

Great News, America: Cheese Isn’t Bad for You

MEDIA CANDY

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Hot Ones – First We Feast

Twitch dubbed Metallica’s BlizzCon performance to avoid a copyright claim

Spotify to launch a new high-end subscription, Spotify HiFi

Host of ‘Reply All’ Podcast Takes Leave of Absence After Accusations of Toxic Culture

Mortal Kombat (2021) – Official Red Band Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

Amazon launches a program like Kickstarter that lets people vote on new products to build

Magnet App

AT THE LIBRARY

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant

CyberWar (World War C Book 3) by Matthew Mather

The Lost Colony (The Long Winter Trilogy Book 3) by A.G. Riddle

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

The Muppet Show update.

Here’s why certain Muppet Show episodes are missing from Disney+

A race to reverse-engineer Clubhouse raises security concerns

Clipping Silver Sparrow’s wings: Outing macOS malware before it takes flight

Nvidia announces official “anti-cryptomining” software drivers

MORON OF THE WEEK

Elon Musk Says Bitcoin Prices ‘Seem High’ After Record Week

Entire California School Board Resigns After Chewing Out Parents on Accidental Zoom Broadcast

It took a year, but Gwyneth Paltrow figured out how to exploit the pandemic

FEEDBACK LOOP

Play this killer self-driving car ethics game

Daft Punk, the Grammy-Winning Electronic Music Duo, Announces Its Disbandment After 28 Years

The WarnerMusic lawyers are coming for the police.

Father Ted: Hitler Impressions for the Chinese

Facebook shuts down Instagram accounts advertising illegal St Patricks Day rave

All Alone Together – C19 Playlist

Paddy, Not Patty! (Irish Music and Irish-ish Music for St. Patrick’s Day)

Kim’s Convenience on Gem

Daft Punk Break Up

TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to ‘Prove’ the Snow is Fake

Japanese Version of Monkey

The New Legends Of Monkey | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix Futures

Excel Spreadsheet

What can I expect to change for LastPass Free on March 16, 2021?