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Angry Tech News #33: Ponzi Cinema

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date May 4, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:39 — 12.4MB)

Russian theaters do what they must to survive, Google has a bug, Apple hates developers, Browser numbers, New Google AMP features from Brave, and the most disgusting NFT story I’ve ever told

Links

Russian cinemas turn to piracy
https://torrentfreak.com/russian-cinemas-are-showing-pirated-movies-downloaded-from-torrents-220502/

Russia pulls out of ISS
https://www.ibtimes.com/russia-pulls-out-international-space-station-amid-mounting-sanctions-report-3491322

Google store credits are smaller than they appear
https://9to5google.com/2022/05/01/google-store-credit-500/

Apple hates stable niche apps
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=gi6npkmf

Statcounter browser share numbers
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-202103-202204

Anti-AMP features from Brave and DDG
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/21/brave_duckduckgo_google_amp/

Yuga breaks ethereum
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/how-bored-ape-yacht-club-broke-ethereum/

BAYC Instagram hacked
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/k/ar-AAWAJ0j

Tags amp, apple, brave, browsers, duckduckgo, google, nfts, piracy, russia, yuga

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Angry Tech News #32: Absolutist Spark

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date April 27, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:51 — 14.4MB)

The end of the Chevy Spark EV, the end of an era for Netflix, and the end of the world for Twitter!

Links

Musk purchases twitter
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/24/elon-musk-twitter-offer-timeline/

No replacement battery for Chevy Spark EV
https://www.ev-resource.com/blog/gm-kills-support-for-the-spark-ev-no-battery-replacement-available

Netflix drops subscribers. Stock market piles on.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/netflix-plunges-trading-subscriber-loss.html

Tags chevy, elon, netflix, twitter

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Angry Tech News #31: Mute Gatekeeper

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date April 22, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:50 — 16.2MB)

Dumb homes, How a mute button works, Riding the NFT hype wave all the way down, and a deeper analysis on European law than I ever wanted to do!

Links

Mute doesn’t necessarily mean mute
https://news.wisc.edu/youre-muted-or-are-you-videoconferencing-apps-may-listen-even-when-mic-is-off/
https://thenextweb.com/news/muting-your-mic-doesnt-stop-big-tech-recording-your-audio

Dorsey NFT flops
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/w/ar-AAWglx0

Insteon fails its existence-check
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/334350-insteon-kills-servers-without-warning-bricks-smart-home-devices
https://www.wired.com/story/insteon-shutdown/

Digital Markets Act
https://www.msn.com/en-my/money/topstories/t/ar-AAW9LP8
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220315IPR25504/deal-on-digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-competition-and-more-choice-for-users
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0842&from=en
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-regulators-send-extra-antitrust-charge-apple-music-streaming-probe-2022-04-11/
https://www.engadget.com/korea-kcc-app-store-law-google-external-payments-114054384.html

Tags digital-markets-act, insteon, internet-of-things, nfts, teleconferencing

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Angry Tech News #30: Cluster Unthinkable

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date April 13, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:12 — 8.3MB)

AI-generated text is spam, Isle of Wight finds a way to spice up vehicle charging, hacks, hacks, hacks, and hacks!

Links

Reboot Tuesday
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-april-2022-patch-tuesday-two-zero-day-vulnerabilities-tackled/

Google confirms AIs create spam
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-ai-generated-content-is-against-guidelines/444916/

Isle of Wight charging stations suddenly worth watching
https://news.sky.com/story/isle-of-wight-councils-electric-car-charging-points-hacked-to-show-porn-12584211

Hacking story that has almost nothing to do with adult sites
https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-hijack-adult-websites-to-infect-victims-with-malware

Phishing Microsoft accounts using Microsoft’s own certificates
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/phishing-uses-azure-static-web-pages-to-impersonate-microsoft/

Microsoft vs Russian sovereignty
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/04/07/cyberattacks-ukraine-strontium-russia/

US AG admits to computer espionage
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/us-russia-malware-cyberattacks.html

VMWare zero-day
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-critical-vmware-cve-2022-22954-bug-patch-now/

Tags botnets, charging, espionage, google, hacking, microsoft, phishing, vmware

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Angry Tech News #29: Supply Chain Advisor

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date April 5, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:05 — 11.4MB)

Malicious OSS, Netflix conjecture, A win in the right to repair fight, and yet another Chrome zero-day yawn

Links

node-ipc malicious update
https://www.wired.com/story/developer-altered-open-source-software-to-wipe-files-in-russia/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/corrupted-open-source-software-enters-the-russian-battlefield/
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97m3-w2cp-4xx6

Malicious Azure-targeting NPM packages
https://www.zdnet.com/article/malicious-npm-packages-target-azure-developers-to-steal-personal-data/

Netflix offers way to pay more if you share passwords
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/paying-to-share-netflix-outside-your-household

John Deere repair program
https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/john-deere-expands-access-to-self-repair-resources/

Yet another critical Chrome vulnerability
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emergency-google-chrome-update-fixes-zero-day-used-in-attacks/

Tags chrome, john-deere, netflix, npm, supply-chain-attack, vulnerability

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Angry Tech News #28: Prank Driving

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date April 1, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:07 — 9.5MB)

Telegram in Brazil, Mercedes leapfrogs Tesla, Apple forever, and why we can’t have nice holidays anymore

Links

Telegram booted from Brazil
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazil-court-gives-telegram-sunday-deadline-comply-with-order-2022-03-20/

Apple subscription rumors
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/25/apple-is-working-on-a-hardware-subscription-service-for-iphones/

Mercedes self-driving
https://www.popsci.com/technology/drive-pilot-mercedes-benz-test-ride/
https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/levels-of-autonomous-driving-explained

Tags apple, april-fools, brazil, mercedes, self-driving, telegram

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Angry Tech News #27: Inexplicably Microwave

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date March 22, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:51 — 11.6MB)

Duck Duck Go seppuku; Steps toward a new Russian internet; California’s newest grid storage scheme; Ford sells incomplete cars; UK cracks down on BCH ATMs; IoT + auto updates = hilarity; and Linux where it shouldn’t be!

Links

DDG plays with fire
https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russian-disinformation

Search engines
https://qwant.com
https://search.brave.com
https://startpage.com
https://searx.github.io/searx/

Russia creates TLS cert authority
https://www.techradar.com/news/russia-creates-its-own-tls-certificate-authority-to-bypass-sanctions

GM tests bidirectional charging
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085233003/gm-electric-vehicles-home-power

Ford ships incomplete vehicles
https://www.autonews.com/nada/ford-will-ship-and-sell-vehicles-without-chips-controlling-non-safety-critical-features

UK shuts down crypto ATMs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60709209

AEG Microwaves think they’re steam ovens
https://thenextweb.com/news/update-brainwashes-microwaves-thinking-theyre-steam-ovens

Linux on M1 chip
https://www.zdnet.com/article/asahi-linux-for-m1-apple-silicon-gets-its-first-alpha-release/

Tags apple, crypto, duckduckgo, electric-vehicles, ford, gm, iot, linux, russia, search, tls, updates

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Bemrose Review #0: Total Recall (2012)

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date March 20, 2022
2 Comments on Bemrose Review #0: Total Recall (2012)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:15 — 17.4MB)

Today we review the now-ten-year-old remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven classic Total Recall. Spoiler: He liked it as an action movie. I had rant.

Posting here as a sneaky backdoor pilot for a new show concept I’m doing with my brother Tony (aka Bemlet). If you like it, please comment here, or on the fediverse (I’m @SirBemrose on noagendasocial.com) and you might get more. And if you hated it, please comment, as this may be your only chance to kill this thing before it gets off the ground.

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Angry Tech News #26: Transmissible Groupthink

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date March 9, 2022

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:43 — 11.2MB)

Silicon Valley vs Russia, Nvidia and Samsung hacks, Discord goes full Facebook, and my rants go a little bit off the rails!

Links

Western companies jumping on the “Hate Russia” bandwagon
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/5/22962848/paypal-pauses-service-russia-ukraine-invasion
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/russia-blocks-access-to-facebook.html
https://www.investopedia.com/microsoft-oracle-join-tech-exodus-from-russia-5221297
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/visa-mastercard-russia-ukraine-invasion/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/6/22964418/tiktok-suspends-creation-new-video-content-russia-ukraine
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/5/22962822/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-shuts-off-service-russia
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-to-stop-all-product-sales-to-russia
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-suspends-shipments-phones-chips-230648742.html
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/coinbase-blocks-25-000-crypto-wallets-linked-to-russian-users
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10579301/Social-media-platform-Reddit-block-links-coming-Russian-domain-name.html

Russia “fake news” law
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/01/russian-lawmakers-eye-15-year-prison-terms-for-fakes-about-ukraine-invasion-a76687

NVidia hacked
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nvidia-data-breach-exposed-credentials-of-over-71-000-employees/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/

Samsung hacked
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-confirms-hackers-stole-galaxy-devices-source-code/

Discord joins the censorship bunch
https://discord.com/blog/addressing-health-misinformation