Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018.

Today Mark Zuckerberg finally speaks out about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Siri will read your hidden messages.

Travis Kalinix got a new gig.

Facebook Messenger's got new features,

YouTube will have an increased ad load, Google gobbled up LITRO,

and everyone wants to work at a tech company.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Late this afternoon, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg finally broke his silence about the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Posting to his own Facebook page Zuckerberg said he wanted to share an update about the situation

quote including the steps we've already taken and our next

steps to address this important issue. Zuckerberg went on to say, quote, we have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't, then

we don't deserve to serve you.

I've been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't

happen again.

The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again

we have already taken years ago.

But we also made mistakes.

There's more to do, and we need to step up and do it.

Zuckerberg then went on to relay a timeline of events related to the recent

controversy including outlining win in 2007. The Facebook platform was first launched to make

apps more social. 2013 when Cambridge University researcher Alexander

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