Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home for Wednesday, August 15th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Twitter takes action on Alex Jones, a new Intel chip vulnerability announced,

Alexa and Cortana play nice together, consolidation in the podcasting space and a rest and vest for the agents.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Seems like we've got two weird tech-related sagas that just keep rolling on day by day.

One is the Elon Musk taking Tesla Private Story, which I'm going to take a break from today.

And the other is the Alex Jones Getting Band Story. Update to Alex Jones.

Twitter has put his account into read-only mode for seven days after Twitter says he violated its user policies.

Apparently when you're in read-only you can read tweets but you can't tweet

them yourself retweet other tweets or even like posts.

If you'll recall Twitter basically stood alone in not taking action against either Jones or his

Info Wars organization after everyone from Facebook to YouTube to Spotify took some editorial action or other.

And this is interesting.

I only see Ryan Mack reporting on this so far,

so it might need more confirmation,

but apparently it wasn't a tweet or any sort of content that got Twitter to take action

on Jones. It was the fact that his account was doing pre-scheduled tweeting using a client-like

tweet deck. Although the Washington Post reports that the offense was

that Jones posted a new show to Twitter's video streaming service Periscope where

he told supporters to quote get their battle rifles ready to combat Antifa and the mainstream media.

Whatever the case, Twitter can't seem to make up its mind about Jones, which is the Twitter we've all come to know, right?

As M.G. Seagler tweeted, this might be the most Twitter thing Twitter has ever done,

indecision as policy, and now, apparently, as product.

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