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TSA may expand its facial recognition ID system, Adobe expands creations made with generative AI, and vendors selling stolen data products on darknet markets had more than $140 million in revenue. 

A startup backed by a Tesla investor promises a flying car model, the U.S. federal semiconductor aid asks for more funding, and Amazon will layoff almost 20,000 employees.

We came out of the pandemic with a sense of optimism and momentum. For the first half of 2022, the tech industry was running full out. Then the third quarter hit and everyone came to a screeching halt. One minute we are talking about the great resignation and quiet quitting. And the next minute we are talking about downsizing and staff cuts. To help us make sense of what is happening, we are speaking with Kamales Lardi, Managing Director of Valtech Switzerland and author of “The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation”.

US Army planned to sponsor e-sports and Call of Duty streamers to reach Gen Z, Amazon refuses to comply with federal judge’s order to stop retaliating against unionizing employees and ex-engineer files age discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX.

San Francisco police can now use potentially lethal robots, DoorDash lays off 1250 employees and Missouri Senator accuses Apple of supporting China’s speech suppression policies.

AWS successfully ran a suite of AWS compute and machine learning software on an orbiting satellite, Apple threatens Elon Musk, and Google and Youtube invest in curbing the misinformation issue. 

Facebook’s Meta fined 265 million euros, a new study finds that smartphone addiction is linked with low self esteem and other negative cognitive outcomes, and the FCC bans the sale and imports of certain Chinese technology. 

A recent safety test reveals that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature will hit a child in a stroller, a Twitter breach from last year was much worse than first reported, and half a billion WhatsApp records have been breached and are up for sale.

Our topic today is supply chain attacks.  We've all heard about them.  A threat actor wants to go after a company or many companies or even government organizations.  But these companies are constantly improving their defences so a direct attack may not work - or may be very difficult to pull off.  Microsoft has just released their 2022 Digital Defence Report with a strong warning about the increase in supply chain attacks.  Kevin Magee, Chief Security Officer for Microsoft Canada, joins us for a discussion on the report and his experience with these attacks. 

San Francisco police department considers letting robots use deadly force, FDA approves a $3.5 million worth treatment for hemophilia and Brazil regulator seizes hundreds of iPhones.