Fri. 10/12 - Facebook Reports on its Breach Investigation

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🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Facebook announces the results of their investigation into that data breach, the market downturn is biting some tech companies, has Spotify ruined music, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions. Links: An Update on the Security Issue (Facebook) Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth (TechCrunch) Tencent Music Pauses IPO Amid Market Turmoil (WSJ) FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here's how much each one is on sale (Business Insider) Tesla sets deadline on new orders to get delivery and full tax credit by end of the year (Electrek) Who Needs German Engineering? Tesla Outsells Mercedes-Benz For The First Time—And Has a Plan to Pass BMW Too (Fortune) Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music? (The Guardian) The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions: This Is How Amazon Loses (NewCo Shift) The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic) Alexa, Should We Trust You? (The Atlantic) Fear and loathing in venture capital (Max Niederhofer) The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Brian again. Another quick plug to preorder my book, How the Internet Happened from Netscape to the iPhone, which comes out October 23rd.
0:08.0	I want to tell you real quick why I'm pushing you to pre-order the book now. This was not an easy book to sell.
0:15.0	Publisher after publisher told us that internet and technology books just don't sell
0:20.0	very well and my argument was well that's because you've only ever done individual pieces of the story
0:25.4	you know a book about Amazon or Twitter here a book about Steve Jobs or
0:29.8	Elon Musk there and so my argument was nobody has done the whole thing in one
0:35.0	comprehensive volume until now. All those people, all those companies, don't
0:40.2	you get it the whole story in one shot.
0:42.7	Well, Norton finally did get it and agreed with me, thankfully.
0:46.2	But wouldn't it be great if this were a bestseller,
0:50.8	not only because, I mean, of course, it would be great if any book you write is a best
0:54.9	seller, but also because it would be a sort of smug, I told you so for all those other publishers
1:02.2	who didn't get it.
1:03.4	So if we get some heavy pre-orders now,
1:06.6	maybe we can graze the bottom reaches of the best-seller list that first week
1:11.0	and I can get that sweet sweet I told you so I'll admit it I'm not
1:16.1	above that how the internet happened wherever books are sold. Thanks guys. Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, October 12, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
1:31.0	Today Facebook announced the results of their investigation into that
1:34.7	data breach. The market downturn is biting some tech companies hard, has Spotify ruined
1:41.0	music, and of course the weekend long reads suggestions.
1:46.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
1:51.1	Facebook today announced the results of their investigation into that security issue that they announced back on September 28th.
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