TNW 323: A Sober Review of Apple Vision Pro - Bluesky, Malware Toothbrushes, OnlyFake
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Amanda Silberling from TechCrunch joins us this week! Amanda talks about how Bluesky is now open for the public to register to this decentralized social network. Did three million smart toothbrushes get infected with malware? What is OnlyFake and these neural networks where you can acquire fake IDs? And how does one reviewer of the Apple Vision Pro feel about the device and its future after a week?
- Amanda talks about Bluesky and how it's now open for anyone to sign up.
- Mikah shares how three million smart toothbrushes were NOT used in DDoS attacks as initially reported by several news outlets.
- Joseph Cox of 404 Media joins the show to talk about a dark web service that is generating very sophisticated fake IDs.
- And finally, Brian X. Chen of The New York Times talks about his review of the Apple Vision Pro and how he's not as enthusiastic about this first-generation Apple device as other reviewers.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guests: Joseph Cox and Brian X. Chen
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Micah Sergeant am joined by Amanda Silberling of Tech Crunch, |
| 0:05.7 | and we've got some great stories of the week. Amanda's story is all about Blue Sky, |
| 0:10.4 | the social media network going public. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes, it's available to everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | We talk about the current state of the various social media networks, |
| 0:19.0 | how some of them are competing, how they're not, |
| 0:21.0 | and everything in between. |
| 0:22.7 | Then, I talk about how, turns out, those 3 million malware infected |
| 0:29.0 | toothbrushes that have joined together to form a botnet |
| 0:31.8 | and take down a huge company. It's all |
| 0:35.1 | untrue so we discuss how you can make sure you don't get tricked by poor reporting. |
| 0:44.0 | Then we head into the interview portion of the show |
| 0:47.6 | where Joseph Cox joins us from 404 Media |
| 0:51.4 | to talk about this site that will generate fake IDs that are incredibly |
| 0:59.0 | convincing and can be used for online verification purposes. |
| 1:03.7 | We round things out with, I call it, a sober review |
| 1:07.6 | from Brian X Chen of the New York Times, |
| 1:10.1 | who tells us about his experience |
| 1:11.9 | with the Apple Vision Pro and what he sees as the future of |
| 1:18.1 | this new platform. |
| 1:20.3 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:23.0 | Podcasts you love. |
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