Oct 8th 2023
This Week in Tech 948
Schrödinger's Server
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Leo Laporte
Google's hidden search, Spotify and audiobooks, X removes headlines
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Google's hidden search, Spotify and audiobooks, X removes headlines
- Elon Musk removing headlines from Twitter posts and how that enables fake news
- Concerns about Twitter misinformation affecting the 2024 election
- Apple considered DuckDuckGo for Safari private search before deciding against it
- Microsoft close to acquiring Activision Blizzard pending UK regulatory approval
- Google accused of secret changes to search queries to maximize ad revenue
- Ransomware attack on MGM hotels and casinos
- 23andMe customer data breach due to credential stuffing
- Meta considering charging for Facebook and Instagram access
- Apple TV adds support for VPNs
- Spotify expanding into audiobooks
- Video game Cyberpunk 2077 costing over $400 million to make
- Digital Equipment Corporation's history and legacy
- Brave conducting layoffs despite privacy focus
- CRTC to start regulating online streaming in Canada
- How gasoline is produced from crude oil
- Urban air mobility vehicles for intracity travel
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Links
- Elon Musk’s X Strips Article Headlines on Shared Links
- Elon Musk ‘Cut Off Good Guys, Empowered Bad’: Stanford Cybersecurity Wonk
- MGM Resorts Refused to Pay Ransom in Cyberattack on Casinos - WSJ
- Alexa says the 2020 election was stolen. What does it mean for 2024? - The Washington Post
- Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook - WSJ
- Spotify Gave Subscribers Music and Podcasts. Next: Audiobooks. - The New York Times
- CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework - Canada.ca
- Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices - WSJ
- Pluralistic: Google’s ensh*ttification memos (03 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing • The Register
- Microsoft eyes closing its giant Activision Blizzard deal next week - The Verge
- Brave lays off 9% of its workforce | TechCrunch
- WH: DEC retrospective on Ars Technica - near to my heart
- WH:CD Project Red: Staff at Cyperpunk maker unionizing as cost of game spirals to $400m+, most expensive game ever made