Beards of Tech

Episode 43

19-Mar-2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Ryan Thompson

Agenda

First Half

https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-stephen-hawking-has-died-aged-76-11289119

Stephen Hawking passes away at age 76

Racist advertising not necessarily the problem of the platform, but about the vetting of the ad platform hosted by the site.

50 million facebook profiles breached in order to mass farm political data, allegedly used to build predictive targeting software used in recent elections

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-suspended/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/security-researchers-find-flaws-in-amd-chips-but-raise-eyebrows-with-rushed-disclosure/

Crypto-markets take a hit

https://news.sky.com/story/twitter-to-prohibit-range-of-cryptocurrency-ads-11293387
Ban of crypto ads

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/bitcoin-price-edges-lower-but-later-pares-some-losses-on-sec-probe.html

Uber halts autonomous driving program after fatal accident

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Episode 42

11 March 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs

Agenda

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7mgn/baidu-deep-voice-software-can-clone-anyones-voice-with-just-37-seconds-of-audio

Self Driving Trucks

Uber
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/06/uber-self-driving-trucks-deliveries-arizona/?sr_source=Facebook

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/waymo-moves-beyond-driverless-taxis-with-trucking-program/

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i4o explains - VPNs

04 March 2018 Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ryan Thompson

Agenda

What a VPN is - Virtual Private Network

How VPN works

VPN vs Proxy

Applications of VPN

VPN and Privacy

Relevant Articles

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779919(v=ws.10).aspx

Reputable VPNs

Tunnel bear - https://www.tunnelbear.com/

Privateinternetaccess - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Torguard - https://torguard.net/

Episode 41 - Amazon Google Rap Battle

04 March 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Kyle Fisher, Jeff Budzinski, Ryan Thompson

Agenda

Have I been pwned Matt Follow-up. Password list can be torrented from website and seeded to help with their bandwidth.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17059664/amazon-ring-acquisition-smart-home-security-cloud-cam

Amazon acquires Ring

Amazon will stop selling Nest products from Google

Amazon Counterfeit products

Youtube Stories swaps background of video with AI

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/oregon-moves-toward-state-net-neutrality-law-2/

CEO emailed 23,000 private keys for web certificates

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/drunk-man-accidentally-takes-1600-uber-from-west-virginia-to-new-jersey/

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Episode 40

25 February 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs

Agenda

New Business

MWC 2018 - Barcelona

Galaxy s9 Launch at Noon today.

3 Minute Promo vid published accidentaly  - https://9to5google.com/2018/02/24/samsung-galaxy-s9-plus-leaked-launch-video/

Google Launches ARCore 1.0 to support 100 million phones. New Lens features for android and iOS https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/23/microsoft-releases-new-windows-10-preview-with-more-proactive-windows-update/

Google assitant gets more languages - https://9to5google.com/2018/02/23/google-assistant-2018-multilingual-more-languages-device-commands/

Ajit Pai: Locked and Loaded

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/nra-gives-ajit-pai-courage-award-and-gun-for-saving-the-internet/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insight/apple-moves-to-store-icloud-keys-in-china-raising-human-rights-fears-idUSKCN1G8060

Apple stores iCloud keys in China

https://electrek.co/2018/02/22/tesla-model-3-orders-non-owners/

Tesla finally starts shipping Model 3s to non owners

Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner Tweet

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/22/17040332/snap-stock-price-kylie-jenner-tweet-snapchat-1-billion-market-loss

PSA if the week

https://haveibeenpwned.com

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Episode 39

19 February 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs, Wayne Ryan Thompson

Agenda

New Business

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825

https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/13/skype-bug-grants-system-access-microsoft-too-lazy-to-fix/
https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/19/google-project-zero-microsoft-edge-browser-vulnerability/

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-internet-satellites-sunday-launch/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011246/huawei-phones-safe-us-intelligence-chief-fears

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/14/chromes-ad-blocker-will-go-live-february-15-heres-works/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-sells-as-many-phones-in-a-year-as-apple-does-in-a-week/

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/13/17007996/amd-ryzen-desktop-processors-radeon-vega-graphics-built-in-5-2400g-3-2200g
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/amd-sending-out-free-processors-to-solve-firmware-flashing-catch-22/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/skydios-2499-self-flying-drone-knows-where-you-are-and-where-yo

Episode 39

19 February 2018/ Webcast

Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski, Ervin Lukacs, Wayne Ryan Thompson

Agenda

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-idUSKBN1FW1FI?il=0
  • https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825
  
  

• https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/13/skype-bug-grants-system-access-microsoft-too-lazy-to-fix/
  • https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/19/google-project-zero-microsoft-edge-browser-vulnerability/
  
  

• https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-falcon-9-internet-satellites-sunday-launch/

• https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011246/huawei-phones-safe-us-intelligence-chief-fears

• https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/02/14/chromes-ad-blocker-will-go-live-february-15-heres-works/

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-sells-as-many-phones-in-a-year-as-apple-does-in-a-week/

• https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/13/17007996/amd-ryzen-desktop-processors-radeon-vega-graphics-built-in-5-2400g-3-2200g
  • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/amd-sending-out-free-processors-to-solve-firmware-flashing-catch-22/
  
  

• https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/skydios-2499-self-flying-drone-knows-where-you-are-and-where-youre-going/?ncid=rss

• https://www.apnews.com/a6cd50b37105447991be9a9ce76c2421/Energy-riches-fuel-bitcoin-craze-for-speculation-shy-Iceland

Episode 38

11 February 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Jeff Budzinski

Agenda

Verizon Superbowl LII 5G Stream

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/10/verizon-streamed-super-bowl-lii-in-vr-over-5g/

http://tcrn.ch/2EJQFGC

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16966530/intel-vaunt-smart-glasses-announced-ar-video

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/out-of-nowhere-currency-mining-botnet-infects-5000-android-devices/

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/5/16973286/google-pixel-visual-core-pixel-2-app

http://engt.co/2BUq5re

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ban-complete-china-blocks-foreign-crypto-exchanges-to-counter-financial-risks

http://engt.co/2nNjPgV

      9. Falcon Heavy Launch Successful

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/02/06/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch/310431002/

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Episode 37

28 Jan 2018/ Webcast

Attendees

Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Jeff Budzinski, Ryan Thompson, Kyle Fisher

Agenda

Coincheck hack update

http://engt.co/2Ep1deb

Windows 10 S is dead, Welcome Windows 10 ‘S Mode’
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/151582/exclusive-windows-10-s-dead-long-live-s-mode

http://engt.co/2EiSx8X

https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

http://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-disable-intels-faulty-spectre-patch

http://engt.co/2Epb5Vn

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-to-set-up-a-health-company-for-staff

http://tcrn.ch/2Eph10i

http://tcrn.ch/2BH8SkU

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16954704/amazon-super-bowl-ad-alexa-cardi-b-anthony-hopkins-commerical-gordon-ramsey-rebel-wilson

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Episode 37

28 Jan 2018/ Webcast

Matt Slavin, Ervin Lukacs, Jeff Budzinski, Ryan Thompson, Kyle Fisher

1. Coincheck hack update

• http://engt.co/2Ep1deb

1. Windows 10 S is dead, Welcome Windows 10 ‘S Mode’
   1. https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/151582/exclusive-windows-10-s-dead-long-live-s-mode
   
   

1. https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

1. http://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-releases-emergency-update-to-disable-intels-faulty-spectre-patch