TNW 303: Developers Unite Against Unity - Smart Car Privacy, MGM Resorts, Google Antitrust
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Game developers using the Unity Engine are crying afoul over Unity's pricing structure. Why are cars the worst product category for user privacy? A cyberattack shut down MGM Resorts for some time. And why the U.S. government is blasting Google for paying $10 billion a year to cut out search rivals.
- Unity has updated its pricing structure, leading many within the gaming & developer community to grow frustrated with the game engine. Kyle Orland of Ars Technica stops by the show to explain what happened.
- Misha Rykov of the Mozilla Foundation joins the show to discuss the Mozilla Foundation's Privacy Not Included guide and why cars are not the best product for a user's security and privacy.
- Jason Howell shares how a cyberattack against MGM Resorts shut down its services for a period of time.
- And Mikah Sargent talks about the U.S. government's anti-trial against Google as the company is taken to trial over its monopolistc grasp on online searching.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Kyle Orland and Misha Rykov
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Jason Howell, and I start today's show talking with Kyle Orland from ours |
| 0:05.2 | Technica. He joins talk about the unity price structure change and how developers are upset. |
| 0:10.4 | And I'm Micah Sargent, and we talk to the Mozilla Foundation's own Misha Rykov about how cars |
| 0:17.6 | are the worst product category they've ever reviewed in terms of privacy and security. |
| 0:23.8 | And yeah, that's some pretty scary stuff. Also, my story of the week about MGM and Caesars, |
| 0:30.3 | you know, the Vegas properties, well, it's around the U.S. and other places. |
| 0:34.8 | Ransomware attacked. They each have a very different strategy for how they deal with it. |
| 0:39.4 | Plus, the U.S. has kicked off its 10-week trial with Google. It is the modern web's look at a company |
| 0:49.2 | that may be trying to take over the internet, at least when it comes to search engines. |
| 0:54.0 | All that and more coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:58.9 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twenth. |
| 1:08.0 | This is Tech News Weekly Episode 303, recorded Thursday, September 14, 2023. |
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