Fri. 12/14 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiry

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Fri. 12/14 - Facebook Faces a GDPR Inquiryhttps://feedpress.me/RideHome - Direct RSS feed starting this weekend, just in caseThe bomb scare email scam that demanded bitcoin, Facebook’s Photo API gave away too many photos, Apple strikes back at Qualcomm, Apple kills its second music-based social network, an Apple analyst sounds alarm bells about iPhone unit sales, Instacart breaks up with Whole Foods, PlanetScale brings mega-scaling technology to the masses, and of course the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Sponsors:MacStadium.com/ridehome Tiny.websiteLinks:Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats worldwide, causing evacuations (The Verge)Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ unposted photos to apps (TechCrunch)Irish regulator to investigate Facebook after new data leak (Financial Times)Apple Says China iPhone Ban Would Force Settlement With Qualcomm (Bloomberg)Apple Music removes ability for artists to post to Connect, posts removed from Artist Pages and For You (9to5Mac)Ming-Chi Kuo cuts first quarter iPhone sales estimates by 20%, says iPhone XR demand is low (9to5Mac)Amazon has officially killed the Whole Foods-Instacart partnership (Recode)They scaled YouTube—now they’ll shared everyone with PlanetScale (TechCrunch)The Betterment Weekend Longreads:EV News Daily (Podcast)Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (New York Times)The State of Technology at the End of 2018 (Stratechery)The rise of the recommendation site (Vox)How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, quick technical note. Brian wanted me to let you know that the podcast is transitioning hosts over the weekend, that's server hosts, not talking hosts.
0:07.6	Now he's tried to set up the feed so you shouldn't have to do anything and hopefully you won't even notice the transition but in the off chance that you
0:14.1	don't get a show in your feet on Monday please try to search and resubscribe to the show in your
0:18.4	podcast app. Again if you get a show on Monday don't't worry. Everything transitions smoothly, but if somehow you don't see a new show on Monday
0:25.8	evening, please try to search and resubscribe.
0:28.3	If for some reason you can't find the show on Monday, the manual feed is
0:31.6	Feed Press.
0:32.4	Me slash Ride Home, and there is a link to that at the very beginning of today's show notes.
0:40.0	Welcome to the tech meme ride home Home for Friday, December 14th, 2018.
0:45.0	I'm Chris Higgins in for Brian McCullough.
0:47.0	Today, the bomb scare email scam that demanded Bitcoin,
0:51.0	Facebook's photo
0:52.6	API gave away too many photos, Apple strikes back at Qualcomm, Apple
0:58.4	kills its second music-based social network, and Apple Analysts alarm bells about iPhone unit sales,
1:04.6	boy that's a lot of Apple news, I promise I'll make it quick.
1:07.0	Instacart breaks up with Whole Foods,
1:09.5	Planet scale brings mega scaling technology to the masses, and of course the weekend long read
1:14.5	suggestion is brought to you by Betterment.
1:17.0	Let's get into all of this.
1:21.0	On Thursday, bomb threats delivered by email briefly caused turmoil around the world, triggering
1:26.0	shutdowns and evacuations of transit stations, hospitals, schools, and businesses.
1:31.9	The emails claimed that the sender would detonate a bomb if the recipient didn't
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