Fri. 02/25 – The Ukraine Fallout Continues For Tech

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Ukraine is seeking to raise its own hacker army. New export controls affect tech products. Why mobile subscriptions being a growth industry is more bad news for the App Store status quo. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Links: Social media platforms on the defensive as Russian-based disinformation about Ukraine spreads (Politico) Google Faces Sanctions Dilemma With Pro-Russia YouTube Channels (Bloomberg) Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips (Reuters) Biden hits Russia with tough export curbs, slashing access to global tech (Reuters) Top subscription app revenue grew 41% in 2021 to reach $18.3 billion (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: A moment of clarity (Noapinion Substack) Web3 Developers Have Found a Functioning Metaverse. It’s ‘Minecraft’. (Vice) CAN THE LAW KEEP UP WITH CRYPTO? (The Verge) Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps (NYTimes) Amazon’s sprawling grocery business has become an ‘expensive hobby’ with a cloudy future (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, February 25th, 2022.
0:08.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today Ukraine is seeking to raise its own hacker army.
0:13.0	New export controls affect tech products.
0:16.0	Why mobile subscriptions being a growth industry is more bad news for the
0:19.4	App Store status quo and of course the weekend long rate suggestions. Here's what you
0:23.8	miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.4	So much stuff over the last 24 hours related to the Ukraine situation. Let me just
0:36.9	summarize what I can as best I can. Sources are telling Reuters that Ukraine
0:42.4	is asking for volunteers from its hacker community
0:45.8	to protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops,
0:51.2	Russia-backed falsehoodss and digital tricks related to its invasion of Ukraine
0:56.8	are putting tech giants on the defensive again over the spread of online disinformation,
1:01.6	again quoting Politico.
1:04.6	Russia-backed media reports falsely claiming
1:06.6	that the Ukrainian government is conducting genocide of civilians,
1:10.0	ran unchecked and unchallenged on Twitter
1:12.0	and on Facebook.
1:13.2	Videos from the Russian government, including speeches from Vladimir Putin,
1:16.9	on YouTube, received dollars from Western advertisers.
1:20.5	Unverified Tik-Toc videos of alleged real-time battles were instead historical footage, including
1:25.8	doctored conflict zone images and sounds.
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