Month: April 2023

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Angry Tech News #57: Replacement Factoid

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Chromebook e-waste, another iphone hack, and three Silicon Valley companies with failing business models

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Lockdown-chromebooks are becoming an e-waste problem
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn
Netflix crackdown on password sharing comes to US
https://mashable.com/article/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown
iphone hack can get you locked out of all Apple services
https://www.techspot.com/news/98386-little-known-iphone-setting-allows-thieves-take-over.html
Reddit to charge for access to user-generated content
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/
StackOverflow to charge for access to user-generated content
https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/

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Angry Tech News #56: Hypothesis Permission

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Robot cops in NYC, Cell towers on the moon, Sideloading IOS apps, and a most unlikely conspiracy theory comes true

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NYC robot cop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/nypd-robocops-hulking-400-lb-robots-will-start-patrolling-new-york-city/
Rumor: ios 17 to allow sideloading
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/17/app-sideloading-support-coming-ios-17/
Another conspiracy theory proven true
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/dead-birds-get-new-life-new-mexico-researchers-develop-taxidermy-bird-drones-2023-04-13/
Cellular network on the moon
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/nokia-set-to-launch-4g-internet-on-the-moon-later-this-year.html

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Angry Tech News #55: Unauthorized Emulator

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Western Digital cloud outage, Microsoft bans emulators, and your Tesla is spying on you

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The economy vs Apple
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/apple-joins-amazon-google-and-microsoft-in-tech-industry-layoffs/
Western Digital vs the Cloud
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/western-digital/ar-AA19Goo3
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/03/western_digital_confirms_security_incident/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/users-fume-after-my-cloud-network-breach-locks-them-out-of-their-data/
Xbox vs Emulators
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/microsoft-crackdown-disables-emulators-downloaded-to-xbox-consoles/
Tesla vs Privacy
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

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Angry Tech News #54: Broken Valve

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Audiobook ads, a massive corporate supply chain attack, Pwn2Own 2023 (as promised), and digital libraries: not even once

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Valve to block support for Win7, Win8 machines
https://www.techspot.com/news/98099-valve-ending-steam-support-windows-7-8-81.html
pwn2own 2023
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-11-tesla-ubuntu-and-macos-hacked-at-pwn2own-2023/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2023/3/23/pwn2own-vancouver-2023-day-two-results
https://www.techworm.net/2023/03/pwn2own-windows-workstation-cracked-on-last-day.html
Audible adds ads to audiobooks
https://www.engadget.com/audible-is-now-testing-ads-in-your-audiobooks-for-some-reason-185337088.html
3CX VOIP client suffers supply chain attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-compromise-3cx-desktop-app-in-a-supply-chain-attack/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/30/theres-a-new-supply-chain-attack-targeting-customers-of-a-phone-system-with-12-million-users/
3ds, WiiU shops closed
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/its-your-last-chance-to-buy-from-nintendos-wii-u-and-3ds-eshops-072838697.html