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Corona kills trust; Uber's back; programming errors; Tesla's crypto stock, 5 year olds are in charge; Google's Project Bernanke; Twitch will act on off-platform offenses; Facebook's Hotline; Pinterest creates a Creator Fund; Thiel on Bitcoin; China hits Alibaba with antitrust fine; Coded Bias; Made for Love; Hard; judging people on music taste, with science; Jon Stewart; Turntable.fm is back; the Serpent; the Nevers; working lightsabers; Logitech stops Harmony remote production; AR toys; Saturn's Monsters; Chuck Palahniuk; White Claw; nuclear sabotage at Natanz; LinkedIn, Clubhouse data scrapes; the Dutch are out of cheese. This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on! This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox. Go to ButcherBox.com/gog OR enter promo code gog at checkout. Show notes at https://gog.show/503 FOLLOW UP “I Do Not Trust People in the Same Way and I Don’t Think I Ever Will Again” Uber says March was its biggest month ever IN THE NEWS A Darkly Comical Programming Error Shows the Human Assumptions Behind Code Tesla (TSLA) now has crypto stock token by Binance to buy fractional shares Tesla Owners, Say ‘Open Butthole’ and Get a Little Surprise Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case Twitch Will Act on ‘Serious’ Offenses That Happen Off-Platform Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A; product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live Pinterest announces $500K Creator Fund, ‘Creator Code’ content policy, moderation tools and more Peter Thiel: China Using Bitcoin as a ‘Financial Weapon’ Alibaba hit with $2.8 billion fine in China antitrust case MEDIA CANDY Hotel Transylvania 3 Made for Love Hard Season 2 Science now says you can judge people by their taste in music after all Jon Stewart’s current affairs series coming to Apple TV+ this fall, titled ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ An Interview With the Guy Who Yells “Mortal Kombat” in the Theme for Mortal Kombat Turntable.fm Reminds Me How Much Fun the Web Can Be The Serpent The Nevers The next Star Trek movie is scheduled for 2023 Spotify Has Now Deleted 42 Episodes of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ APPS & DOODADS Disney Has Reportedly Revealed a Working Lightsaber Logitech is done making Harmony remotes Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40 Google’s new AR toy fulfills the childhood dream of digging a hole to the other side of the Earth Doodly FCC Wants You To Test Your Internet Speeds With Its New App SkyWall Patrol Drone Gun Google Photos just let me copy text from a photo into my web browser AT THE LIBRARY Saturn’s Monsters Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson SECURITY HAH! The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Recorded Future White Claw releases 8% seltzer, variety pack with 3 new flavors Welcome to Black Mirror Iran nuclear attack: Mystery surrounds nuclear sabotage at Natanz Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform’s userbase — and have posted it for sale online Scraped personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked online What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak? Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center Dutch supermarkets run out of cheese after ransomware attack Space Jam 2 Hacker Newsletter Sticky Pickles podcast

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