Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Citizenry 2.0, Acoustic Boogaloo

Episode 121

Journalistic Aberration, Black Hat BS, and China tinkering with genes again

Hosts

Ned Bellavance

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52

@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Longer Topics

The intriguing story of the real, magical perfect lens formula that’s going to actually change next to nothing

* Recently, Rafael G. González-Acuña, a doctoral student at Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey, solved a major problem in optics

* The lenses that Gonzalez-Acuna presents, would add significantly to the already complicated manufacturing issues

As usual Black Hat presentations show overblown hacks to grab headlines

Lightning Round

* AutoRecover for Office on Mac is a hate-filled lie of a feature that doesn’t work at all

* Automated, driverless shuttles to operate in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, automated middle fingers still in beta

* FCC mandated frequency changes to over-the-air channels will be happening cross-country through mid-2020

o    The FCC claims that actual channel numbers won’t change, but unsurprisingly, that appears to be a lie

* Baby Shark eaten by Daddy Shark

o    Tube-Shootey Things

* So magazines, remember those?

* Scientists in China continue to bastardize the human genome in new and interesting ways

Music Credits

Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk

Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B