Legion of bugs mean a billion hackable IoT devices; United Airlines bumped out of NASDAQ by DocuSign; airport security theater; T-Mobile outage not huge DDoS, just incompetence; Germany contact tracing app; Facebook deplatforms anti-racists, thinking they’re racists; Instagram to pull back the curtain, maybe; Quibi is a failure; 6 Feet Apart; Knives Out & Clue; Roland’s 808; Dave Chappelle; IP Man, come to save the day; popcorn Sci-Fi; feedback.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
Facebook Account Copying Trump’s Posts Word-for-Word Gets Flagged for Inciting Violence
US lets companies work with Huawei on 5G standards
Boston Dynamics starts selling its Spot robot — for $74,500
IN THE NEWS
A Legion of Bugs Puts Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk
United Airlines just got kicked out of the NASDAQ 100 by a company that helps you sign PDFs
Airport Surveillance Is About to Reach a Whole New Level of Ridiculousness
T-Mobile outage cuts off users across the US
Android TV may soon recognize your exact voice
Germany’s COVID-19 contact tracing app arrives this week
Why We Should Care That Facebook Accidentally Deplatformed Hundreds of Users
Instagram will review how harassment and verification rules affect Black users
Quibi on Pace to Hit Less Than 30% of Year-One Paid Subscriber Goal (Report)
MEDIA CANDY
[8:46] – Dave Chappelle
AT THE LIBRARY
CyberSpace: A CyberStorm Novel by Matthew Mather
MORON OF THE WEEK
FEEDBACK LOOP
City Enters Phase 4 Of Pretending Coronavirus Over
Microsoft’s robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers
Facebook says it doesn’t need news stories for its business and won’t pay to share them in Australia
