Ep 499: Forever Old - Ad Free (Patreon)

Facebook censorship & playbooks; Kalanick, again; Twitter Spaces; Clubhouse upgrades; Bitcoin's problems; Uber, Lyft sharing banned driver data; Amazon gamification expands; NiFTy News; crypto-grifters; the Grammys weren't bad; Pivot; Netflix cracking down on password sharing; iPhone 12 upgrade; HomePod discontinued; FAA drone rules; Cyberweapons Arms Race; deepfakes in suburbia; hacking as a service; anonymized data is bullshit; Zoom Escaper; who wants to be the Technoking?

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Facebook Created An Employee “Playbook” To Respond To Accusations Of Polarization

IN THE NEWS

Travis Kalanick is at war again. The ex-Uber CEO’s kitchen startup is angering local residents, and one neighborhood is at a ‘boiling point.’

Should there be some law against raising three times in one year?

Twitter Spaces to launch publicly next month, may include Spaces-only tweets

Clubhouse tackles privacy issues with its drop-in audio chats

The Onion’s Guide To Clubhouse

Bitcoin’s Greatest Feature Is Also Its Existential Threat

The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine

Uber and Lyft are now sharing data on drivers that have been banned for sexual or physical assault. Other delivery companies will join the program, they said.

Amazon expands gamification program that encourages warehouse employees to work harder

JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace

Crypto Investor MetaKovan Announced as Buyer of $69.3M Beeple NFT

Metapurse to Share Ownership Beeple Collection

Beeple, B20 and the Rise of Digital Art

Announcing B.20 and Metapalooza: The Most Epic NFT Bundle and Event In The Metaverse

B.20 A $2.7MN METAVERSE EXPERIMENT

CryptoVoxels

Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme

NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again

Lochhead on Marketing 103 Digital Products, NFTs, Clubhouse, Oh My with Jason DeFillippo

Hackers Stole Thousands of Dollars Worth of NFTs from Collectors

MEDIA CANDY

Pivot

Netflix is testing a crackdown on password sharing

APPS & DOODADS

Spotify Streaming on my 17-year-old iPod Classic (via Raspberry Pi)

Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini

Adobe delivers native Photoshop for Apple Silicon Macs and a way to enlarge images without losing detail

FAA’s final drone rules start taking effect April 21st

AT THE LIBRARY

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

POWER PLAYERS – Elon Musk is selling his tweet as an NFT and the highest bid is over $1.1 million

Woman allegedly made deepfakes to kick rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad

New Deepfake Spotting Tool Proves 94% Effective – Here’s the Secret of Its Success

A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

‘Anonymized’ Data Is Meaningless Bullshit

Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems…

Alphaville – Forever Young ~Official Video

MORON OF THE WEEK

Elon Musk changes job title to “Technoking of Tesla”

How to binge watch like an expert

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The inventor of the cassette tape has died

Tributes roll in for inventor of cassette tape and his global impact