German-based Hive App shut down servers for security issues because it reportedly leaked user data like crazy. Instead of patching it on the fly, they shut the service down and left users hanging because it was full of holes, security researchers reported. While it may have become a Twitter proxy the platform has a ways to go with the hive team announcing the shutdown ironically on Twitter.

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Show Notes:

* Where to get free cookies 

* Spyware steals data

* Former CEO weighs on Elon

* A new huge satellite 

* Meta is moving 

* An engineer might retire or die 

* Skiers are accidentally setting off crash technology 

* Battle for Section 230

* Elon Musk’s Neurolink

* Google’s best app of 2022

* No more copper lines for Norway 

* Mozilla acquires Pulse

* Hive shuts down

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