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CYBER

Uber's April Fools Glitch

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A terrible April Fool’s day glitch screws over Uber drivers, tenants in California are striking back against landlords, and private banks: do we need them?


Today’s episode of Cyber is a cypher, that infrequent version of the show where we decipher some recent tech news. It’s a potpourri for the panopticon age. A grab bag of tech horrors, a not so gentle reminder that our work is not yet done.


Motherboard reporter Roshan Abraham is here to talk about it all.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

TAM! It's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.3

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:14.7

It's how the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

0:18.7

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.4

Eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:24.5

Hello out there on the internet.

0:26.6

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:29.2

A terrible April Fool's Day glitch screws over Uber drivers.

0:31.9

Tenants in California are striking back against landlords and private banks.

0:36.2

Do we need them?

0:37.6

Today's episode of Cyber is a cipher, that infrequent version of the show, where we decipher

0:42.6

some recent tech news.

0:44.0

It's a popery for the Panopticon age, a grab bag of tech horrors, a not so general reminder

0:48.6

that our work is not yet done.

0:50.5

With me today is Motherboard reporter Rocheon Abraham.

0:53.5

Sir, thank you so much for coming on to the show,

0:56.2

walking us through some of this.

0:57.8

Thanks for having me.

0:58.9

So the tease up at the beginning of the show,

1:02.1

the first thing I wanted to talk about was this April Fool's Day Uber glitch.

1:06.8

So what happened to Uber drivers around April 1st?

1:12.6

So basically a bunch of Uber eats drivers.

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