#AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest

This week brought another special guest to the show in Minds.com co-founder and CEO Bill Ottman.

We commiserated and traded war stories about the vagaries of competing with the Big Tech incumbents, touching on a wide range of topics.

World grinds to a halt as Zoom crashes globally

Facebook testing “virality” circuit breaker

Copywriters brace for "GPT-3 shock” as Microsoft replaces journalists with AI

History is written by the copyright holders.

We talked about the dichotomy between scarcity and abundance and how obsolescence can lead to gluts.

Analogies were made between various aspects of pop culture and content creation (music, writing, blogging) and the financialization of everything and the gig economy.

Microsoft waited two years to fix 0-day it knew was being actively exploited 

Canada’s COVID-19 contact tracing app now available, and why I installed it

Canada Revenue Agency shuts down online services after cyber attack

We expanded more on Jesse’s concept of The Network State and how it looks to supplant the Nation States of yore. We may be in the early innings of a new type of global conflict, being waged with weapons that the majority of the populace (and possibly many in their governments) do not even recognize […]

Private companies installed trackers in apps on your phone and sell the data to the government

Intel hacked, 20GB of corporate data and chip designs dumped on the net

“All your DNA are belong to Blackstone” In 4.7B Ancestry.com deal

It was a pleasure and an honour to welcome Let's Talk Bitcoin's Adam B. Levine to talk about the role of decentralized crypto and blockchain throughout this ongoing systemic crisis.

Tik Tok banned, sold, unsold, unbanned, rebanned or something

Four Hong Kong youths arrested for online postings under new security law

Surprise! Youtube censorship actually expanded reach of California doctors’ video

The definitive database of canceled people

This was supposed to be the Geo-politics of Tik-Tok episode, but we never really got to the geopolitics part. Instead we talked a lot the merits of deleting one's social media accounts and whether, in our super-connected age, it's even tenable to do that.

Amazon met with start-up founders, then ripped off their product ideas

Top Top-4 Tech companies have more economic clout than many countries 

Garmin down hard after ransomware attack