Wed. 06/10 – Robocallers Face The Music

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Another day, another flaw in Intel chips discovered. More analysis of Apple’s presumed move away from Intel chips for Macs. Is Just Eat Takeaway about to swallow up Grubhub? What happened to Zynn on the Play Store? And an interesting new interactive story startup. Sponsors: Metalab.co Grammarly.com/techmeme Links: Plundering of crypto keys from ultrasecure SGX sends Intel scrambling again (Ars Technica) TSMC on schedule for 3nm Apple 'A16' iPhone and iPad chip in 2022 (Apple Insider) On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month (Daring Fireball) Robocallers face $225M fine from FCC and lawsuits from multiple states (TechCrunch) Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement (The Verge) Just Eat Takeaway.com Nears All-Stock Deal for Grubhub (WSJ) Zynn, the Hot New Video App, Is Full of Stolen Content (Wired) Interactive Storytelling App Whatifi Launches With $10 Million in Funding (The Hollywood Reporter) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme Right Home for Wednesday, June 10th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Another day, another flaw in Intel chips is discovered. More analysis of Apple's presumed move away from Intel
0:16.1	chips for Max. Is Just Eat Takeaway about to swallow up Grub Hub, what happened to
0:21.9	Zinn on the play Store, and an interesting new interactive
0:25.9	story startup.
0:27.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Well I guess we're just going to have stories like this every six months or so until the end of time.
0:37.0	New flaws have been discovered in Intel chips that affect the software guard extension,
0:43.3	the most sensitive region of the company's processors.
0:47.1	One flaw can leak secure enclave data,
0:50.2	and the second allows cross core info leakage.
0:54.0	The good news is that both flaws apparently already have patches that partially at least fix the issues.
1:01.0	Quoting from Ars Technica.
1:04.3	Tuesday's attacks aren't the first to defeat SGX.
1:08.4	In 2018, a different team of researchers broke into the fortified intel region
1:12.4	after building on an attack
1:13.7	known as meltdown which along with a similar attack known as specter ushered in
1:17.6	the flurry of processor exploits. A different team of researchers broke
1:21.6	SGX earlier this year.
1:24.0	Intel mitigated the earlier SGX vulnerability by introducing microcode updates.
1:28.3	However, these mitigations did not last as two new attacks have sent Intel scrambling anew to devise new defenses.
1:35.4	Intel released the new updates on Tuesday and expects them to be available to end users in the coming weeks.
1:40.2	Depending on the computer, the fix will either be installed automatically or will require manual intervention.
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