What the bleep happened?; FB bots; Twitter slipping; recursive pixels; spying TVs; tech takes sides; file-less hacking; surviving our faster future; gaming Tinder; Spotify as a loss-leader; Burger King’s instagram; Ikea’s secret taxonomy; Back in Black.
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Show Notes
INTRO
What The Fuck Just Happened Today?
A New Deep Space Nine Documentary Reveals What Would Have Happened in Season Eight
IN THE NEWS
Twitter says it’s going to start pushing more abusive tweets out of sight
Twitter missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates, and its ad business is slumping
Hashtags in Super Bowl ads slip to 30% in 2017, overtaken by URL use in 39%
New Google Brain research brings the ‘zoom and enhance’ trope to reality
Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
How Google Chromebooks conquered schools
Vizio settles for $2.2 million in FTC suit over snooping on consumers’ viewing habits
How To Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You
AR games like ‘Pokémon Go’ need a permit in Milwaukee
Trump’s freeze on new regulation means that we won’t get drone delivery anytime soon
Consumer Watchdog asks California to take Uber’s self-driving trucks off the road
Eyeing a Self-Driving Future, Ford Drops $1B on an AI Startup
Shopify’s Breitbart Fight Proves It: These Days, Tech Has to Take a Side
Here’s why a Syrian refugee is suing Facebook in Germany
Sewbo is getting closer to disrupting the sweatshop
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class
New York City issues first illegal Airbnb fines
SECURITY HAH!
Five things to watch at RSA Conference 2017
Hard-to-detect fileless attacks target banks, other organizations
Reports: White House Cybersecurity Officer Abruptly Removed From Position
A bill requiring the government to obtain a warrant to search your email just flew through the House
NSA contractor indicted over mammoth theft of classified data
Arby’s probes possible data breach of credit cards
AT THE LIBRARY
The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
The Nightmare Stacks by Charlie Stross
APPS & DOODADS
Man Creates Tinder-Like Dating App Where He’s the Only Guy Available
MEDIA CANDY
Spotify Premium is now included with new digital New York Times subscriptions
Prince’s music will be on Spotify and other services starting Sunday
Introducing the Great Ongoing History Podcast Experiment. It Begins. Finally.
Neil Gaiman’s tribute to Terry Pratchett
You Are Not So Smart Podcast 3 Part series on The Backfire Effect
Want to Make a Lie Seem True? Say It Again. And Again. And Again
MORON OF THE WEEK
KANYE WEST DELETES ALL TRUMP TWEETS I’m Not with Him Anymore
Man’s pacemaker data leads to arson and insurance fraud charges
Boyfriend Gets Caught Out By His Girlfriend On Burger King Instagram Picture
French man wants $48 million from Uber for allegedly breaking up his marriage
BRIC-A-BRAC
The secret taxonomy behind IKEA’s product names, from Billy to Poäng
Faux IKEA ad offers President Trump an affordable ‘Börder Wåll’
Clever Illustrations of Horror Film Baddies as IKEA Instruction Manual Pictographs
Powering Ingestible Electronics With the Fluids in Your Gut
Metropolitan Museum of Art makes more than 375,000 public domain images available as CC0
FEEDBACK LOOP
Trump2Cash lets you invest automatically whenever the president mentions a publicly-traded company
I Know Words, I Have the Best Words
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Hans Rosling, statistician and development champion, dies aged 68
