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Angry Tech News #81: Subscribe Firstborn

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date January 31, 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:07 — 22.1MB)

Google admits what we all know, Apple faces the music (or at least a few notes), and HP and Ubisoft seek rent

Links

Google admits it collects user data in incognito mode
https://www.engadget.com/google-now-admits-it-could-collect-data-in-chromes-incognito-mode-103807146.html
Apple concedes almost an inch
https://www.engadget.com/apple-updates-us-app-store-guidelines-allowing-developers-to-link-to-third-party-payments-235836357.html
HP: “Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription”
https://www.pcgamer.com/our-long-term-objective-is-to-make-printing-a-subscription-says-hp-ceo-gunning-for-2024s-worst-person-of-the-year-award/
Ubisoft says gamers should just accept not owning their games
https://www.techspot.com/news/101534-ubisoft-wishes-gamers-would-accept-not-owning-their.html

Tags apple, chrome, epic, google, hewlett-packard, incognito, ubisoft

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Angry Tech News #62: Authentic Swordplay

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date June 6, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:36 — 13.4MB)

Windows 11 becomes 1998-compliant, HP bricks thousands of printers, Android app updated into malware, Tesla thumbs nose at 35% of the world, Amazon ends a popular feature, Microsoft euthanizes Cortana, Chrome declares victory against http, and reddit destroys its own app ecosystem.

Links

Windows 11 to support .RAR natively
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/28-years-later-windows-finally-supports-rar-files/
HP released an automatic firmware update, bricks thousands of OfficeJet printers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/hp-breaks-its-own-printers-again-with-firmware-update/
Tesla has canceled all right-hand-drive custom orders
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/tesla-customers-cancel-orders-after-rhd-model-s-model-x-sales-stop
Android screen recorder app update adds malware to phones
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/05/23/android-app-breaking-bad-legitimate-screen-recording-file-exfiltration/
Google to retire padlock icon for https sites
https://blog.chromium.org/2023/05/an-update-on-lock-icon.html
Amazon discontinues Alexa celebrity voices
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742109/amazon-alexa-celebrity-voices-discontinued
Microsoft quietly kills Cortana
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/283998/microsoft-kills-cortana-in-windows
Reddit charges for API; users hate this!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/
https://redd.it/13xh1e7
https://www.pcmag.com/news/developer-says-access-to-reddits-api-would-cost-him-20m-per-year
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/05/reddit_blackout_planned_over_appkilling/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

Tags alexa, chrome, cortana, google, hp, malware, rar, reddit, tesla, windows-11

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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/