Mon. 07/15 - Don't Naruto-Rush Area 51

Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ...  Show more

I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ...  Show more

Facebook faces a US antitrust suit. Cyberespionage hits the European Medicines Agency, apparently looking for COVID-19 vaccine information. Emissary Panda is out and about. A simple ransomware campaign goes for success through volume. Stolen SQL databases are offered for sale bac ...  Show more

The FCC cracks down on spoofing. Google has a digital COVID card. And companies that make autonomous vehicles in the US must report all major accidents moving forward. All this and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/li ...  Show more

0:00 such a diva 0:05 Sideloading is NOT A JOKE 1:02 Facebook stops facial recognition 2:02 US agencies gotta fix bugs 2:55 Ridge Wallet 3:28 QUICK BITS 3:58 Tesla recall again 4:26 Apple VR/AR headset  5:03 Netflix Games rolls out 5:28 Squid Game crypto ...  Show more