Jun 30th 2019
This Week in Tech 725
Ubers in the Mud
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Jony Ive, Mac Pro Production, Another City Hacked and Microsoft eBooks
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- The iPhone turns 12 today
- Jony Ive is leaving Apple
- Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
- Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
- Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
- Another city just got hacked!
- Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
- Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
- It looks like Huawei is back in business
- White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
- Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
- Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
- A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
- Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
- Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
- Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
- Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
- Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps
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Links
- Why AirPods—and Earbuds Like Them—Are Especially Bad for Your Hearing | One Zero
- Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Steps Down: How It Happened | Bloomberg
- Daring Fireball: Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
- Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China | WSJ
- The iPhone Is a Breakthrough Handheld Computer - Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, The Mossberg Solution
- Gizmodo: Dozens of Drivers Got Stuck After Blindly Following Google Maps Into a Mud Pit | Gizmodo
- The Huawei rollercoaster continues as Google gets a green light to license Android again | PC World
- Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures | The Verge
- Here's why your Microsoft eBooks won't work next month | The Next Web
- Microsoft's Ebook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM | WIRED
- Second Florida city pays giant ransom to ransomware gang in a week | ZDNet
- I was 7 words away from being spear-phished | Robert Heaton
- Huawei Telecom Gear Much More Vulnerable to Hackers Than Rivals' Equipment, Report Says | WSJ
- How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
- The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains | Bloomberg
- FCC lets Verizon lock cell phones to network for 60 days after activation | Ars Technica
- GrubHub is buying up thousands of restaurant web addresses. That means Mom and Pop can’t own their slice of the internet
- Hans Zimmer designed the sound for BMW’s futuristic concept car | The Verge
- Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers | Bloomberg
- How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained | US news | The Guardian