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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook. Data. Exposure. Another one. Could Intel issues delay a 5G iPhone? Apple cuts the price of the HomePod, Amazon is going to launch Internet satellites, and the trouble with AI ethics boards. Sponsors: Imagekit.io/ride Metalab.co Links: Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers (TechCrunch) Inside Apple’s shaky plan to deliver a 5G iPhone in 2020 [Updated] (FastCompany) MIT suspends ties with China's Huawei and ZTE (CNN Business) Apple drops HomePod price down to $299 (TheVerge) Google launches Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking Bubbles, foldables emulator, and zoomable microphones (VentureBeat) Hundreds of thousands of ‘lost’ MySpace songs have been recovered (TheVerge) Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation (GeekWire) Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart (Vox) THE PROBLEM WITH AI ETHICS (TheVerge) Electric car battery with 600 miles of range? This startup claims to have done it (TheVerge) Subscribe to the ad-free, listener-supported feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, April 4th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, Facebook, Data, exposure, another one.
0:14.0	Could Intel issues delay a 5G iPhone?
0:18.0	Apple cuts the price of the Home Pod.
0:20.0	Amazon is going to launch Internet satellites and the trouble with AI ethics boards.
0:24.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.1	The podcast host Sighs audibly, but then figures, I guess we got to do this again.
0:37.8	Researchers have found more than 540 million records of Facebook user info exposed on an AWS storage server by a third-party
0:47.6	Facebook app.
0:49.3	The security firm Upguard found the data and they notified Facebook and AWS about it in January
0:57.2	apparently however the data was still online and exposed as recently as yesterday
1:02.3	quoting Tech Crunch.
1:04.2	In the researcher's write-up,
1:05.7	Mexico-based digital media company
1:07.4	Cultura Collectiva left more than 540 million records
1:11.6	including comments, likes, reactions, account names, and more stored
1:15.4	on the Amazon S3 storage server without a password, allowing anyone to access the data.
1:21.3	Another backup file on a separate storage server by Defunct
1:24.2	California-based App Maker at the Pool contained even more sensitive data,
1:28.8	including scraped information on more than 22,000 users such as a user's friends list interests
1:35.4	photos group memberships and check-ins. According to Upguard neither company
1:40.4	responded to requests to have the data removed.
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