Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, February 17th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Why A Dumb Agent String Bug may break some big name websites soon.

Is Circle about to become the biggest pure play crypto company to hit the public markets?

Spotify buys basically the only remaining pieces in the podcast puzzle missing from their tool belt and the

interesting rays from a company buying up YouTube back catalogs.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Sex in the City is back on the air.

Unbeknownst to me, I'm told a phase shift is happening to bring wide-bottom pantslegs back.

And oh, there seems to be a Y2K like bug stalking the

land so I guess the 90s really are back everybody. Mozilla has warned that

Firefox and Chrome 100 versions may break some websites, including the likes

of HBO Go and Yahoo, due to user agent strings with three digit version numbers, quoting bleeping computer.

A user agent is a string used by a web browser that includes information about the software

such as the browser name, its version number, and the various technologies it uses.

When a person visits a website,

the browser's user agent is sent along with the request for a web page.

This allows the web page to check the visitor's browser version

and modify its response based on the features the browser supports.

In August 2021, Mozilla launched an experiment to see if the three-digit Fire Fox 100 user-agent

string would cause problems with websites.

Google soon followed with their own experiment for Chrome 100.

In both experiments, Mozilla and Google found a small number of websites

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