TNW 372: Return of the Pebble Smartwatch - Bookshop.org, WordPress, DeepSeek
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bookshop.org is now offering a Kindle alternative. How hackers are hijacking WordPress sets to put out malware. And how people are freaking out about DeepSeek since it made a huge splash this past week.
- Dan Moren is joining Mikah Sargent this week! Dan talks about how Bookshop.org is now selling e-books, but Dan has concerns about how this could present technological challenges with DRM and app store fees.
- Mikah shares how hackers are hijacking WordPress sites and using them to push out malware for both Windows and Mac machines.
- Mikah also talks about how DeepSeek has made a huge splash in the technology world since this past Sunday and what has happened with the technology community and AI as a whole.
- And Eric Migicovsky, founder of the smartwatch company Pebble, joins Mikah to talk about exciting news with Pebble.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guest: Eric Migicovsky
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Micah Sargent, and I am joined by my pal Dan Morin. |
| 0:04.5 | We kick things off by talking about the sale of indie e-books. |
| 0:09.0 | Then hackers hijacking WordPress sites and what you need to know, why everyone is talking about |
| 0:16.5 | DeepSeek and my interview with Eric Mijikovsky about bringing back the pebble smartwatch. |
| 0:24.7 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:30.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:31.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:34.3 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:38.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 372, with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, January 30th, 2025, return of the Pebble Smartwatch. |
| 0:51.1 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 0:58.8 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined across this vast and ever-changing landscape that is the internet by someone who you might not expect because it is the final Thursday of the month. |
| 1:15.3 | And we don't typically have someone scheduled for this Thursday. But we do today. It's Dan |
| 1:21.9 | Morin. Hello, Dan. Nobody expects me, Micah. I'm the unexpected. |
| 1:28.5 | That's what they call me, the unexpectedable. |
| 1:30.8 | I like it. |
| 1:31.5 | I like it. |
| 1:32.1 | Hello, Unexpectable, Dan. |
| 1:35.9 | Thank you for being here today. |
| 1:37.8 | We've got some stories of the week before we get to an interview at the end of the show that I'm excited about. But I'm very |
| 1:49.3 | excited because you are uniquely qualified for... Oh, boy. You can tell, could you go back in time |
| 1:57.3 | and tell one of my high school teachers about this? I'd love for them to know. I'm uniquely qualified for basically anything. You are uniquely qualified for |
| 2:06.1 | being able to look at how tech and writing comes together. And that is your story of the |
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