Shiny Podcast

By Shiny Podcast

The continuing adventures of two geeks, friends from birth, neck deep in shiny new and rusty ole with an eye to sky and all feet on the ground.

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January 05, 2018 Episode 13: The Worst Bugs Ever
Google’s Big Middle Finger to Microsoft in WIndows Store
Apple slows iPhones over time to preserve battery life, get a Battery replacement for $29 from Apple.
Alexa is the 2017 home-spying device winner
The Most anticipated games in 2018
Is Amazon building a YouTube rival?
ANOTHER MASSIVE DATA LEAK OMFG!!!
FCC is redefining the definition of “broadband” to be slower
New Rules for android Devs requiring a minimum API level
Meltdown and Spectre: the Worst Bugs ever...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Tip-Git-Disable-x86-PTI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel-ceos-sale-of-stock-just-before-security-bug-reveal-raises-questions/
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-what-you-need-to-know/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-heres-what-intel-apple-microsoft-others-are-doing-about-it/
Intel’s initial Statement:
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/
And Follow up:
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-updates-protect-systems-security-exploits/
AMD:
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
ARM:
https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
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1h 11min
December 17, 2017 Episode 12: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This..."
Pentagon Reveals UFO Program
AMD releasing Open Source Vulkan driver
SEC Statement on Cryptocurrency and ICOs
Star Citizen Makers Sued
Mozilla’s Massive Facepalm Moment
Disney Buys 20th Century Fox… Yes, that includes XMen.
Amazon to start selling Apple TV and Chromecast
Net Neutrality Overturned
BUT State AGs are Fighting Back
OF course the FCC is trying to block Law enforcement’s Investigation
And Netflix Throws down
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1h 24min
December 10, 2017 Episode 11: Live Free or DRM
MacOS root login vulnerability disclosed in public over Twitter
How to Fix it
Apple's Response
India Sets Strongest Net Neutrality Protections in the World
System76 to disable Intel Management Engine
Uber Covered up the breach of 57 million users’ data
Uber: "Shiny things!"
Tesla Unveils their Semi
Bitcoin is CRAZY these days...
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Nvidia's new $3000 GPU
Twitter
Facebook
Email
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1h 21min
November 23, 2017 Episode 10: Winner, Winner, Chicken Skinner
The time has come:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/
And speaking of a light bulb Linux server network:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/the-internet-of-lightbulbs-lunera-turns-lighting-into-ambient-cloud-for-iot/
FUCKING SICK OF THIS
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/16/time-raise-hell-internet-defenders-mobilize-fcc-aims-kill-net-neutrality-within
Very spoilery so we can remove but, ya know, dayum:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/star-trek-discovery-just-went-to-its-darkest-place-yet/
Amazon to run Lord of the Rings prequel TV series:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/amazon-will-run-a-multi-season-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-tv-series/
Original Reddit thread and comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/
Belgium investigates gambling aspect in game:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/star-wars-battlefront-2/battlefront-2-loot-box-gambling-belgium-gaming-commission
And what about the Star Wars IP in general?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2017/11/15/should-disney-and-lucasfilm-be-worried-about-star-wars-battlefront-ii/#2ddc04b36eaa
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1h 4min
November 17, 2017 Episode 9: NERF or Nuthin'
CPU’s are tanking due to anti-piracy DRM tool in Assassin’s Creed Origins:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020085/assassins-creed-origins-is-crippling-gamers-cpus-due-to-anti-piracy-drm-tools
Follow Up from Ubisoft:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/ubisoft-denies-pc-drm-is-slowing-down-assassins-creed-origins/
Hey, we were just talking about this! Lawyering being replaced by AI:
http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/11/01/artificial-intelligence-legal
3rd Party App Developers will have access to and ability to store some facial mapping data:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/02/iphone-x-facial-expressions-app-developers/
How DARE states try to protect their citizens from net neutrality gut:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171031/09320238517/verizon-lobbies-fcc-to-block-states-protecting-broadband-privacy-net-neutrality.shtml
Follow-up: Colorado overwhelmingly rejects Comcast
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-cable-lobby-misinformation-campaign-against-muni-broadband/
Intel Hires AMD’s Raja Koduri, Set to make own discrete GPUs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12017/intel-to-develop-discrete-gpus-hires-raja-koduri-as-chief-architect
Fearing Exploit ridden Intel Management Engine in UEFI, Google and partners replacing it with own smaller, open source NERF
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-NERF-UEFI-Linux
FireFox is great again!
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/
Mozilla's Privacy focused massive review of Holiday Gadgets
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/07/dont-buy-gifts-that-snoop-introducing-mozillas-holiday-buyers-guide/
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56min
November 10, 2017 Episode 8: Humble Bumbles
IGN Buys Humble Bundle Charity Video Game store
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/ign-acquires-pay-what-you-want-game-shop-humble-bundle/
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released
http://releases.ubuntu.com/17.10/
US Bests Japan in world first mech fight
https://www.megabots.com/
Calls for Credit Industry Changes after Equifax breach
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/18/558570686/after-equifax-hack-calls-for-big-changes-in-credit-reporting-industry
Verizon and AT&T selling personal data collected from your phones
https://www.androidauthority.com/verizon-att-selling-information-807684/
Turn Carbon in Rocks! Says Iceland Plant
https://qz.com/1100221/the-worlds-first-negative-emissions-plant-has-opened-in-iceland-turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone/
Supreme Court to Hear ‘US v Microsoft’ over Foreign Server privacy
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy54zb/us-v-microsoft-supreme-court
FCC votes to end rule that requires a local affiliate network
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-fcc-local-tv-radio-control-20171024-story.html
Krack: WORST Wifi Hack in History
https://www.krackattacks.com/
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1h 4min
October 13, 2017 Episode 7: Windows Phone Home
This is kind of a miserable week and please don't ask about episode 5. It doesn't exist and you can't convince us otherwise. Anyways we tackle such subjects as loot boxes, just how much the FCC doesn't care about being as evil as possible, Equifax continued incompetence, the demise of the Windows phone, and more!
OpenCritic to begin flagging games that use loot boxes:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/loot-boxes-in-video-games-will-soon-get-a-review-flag-from-opencritic/
FCC removes ISP price caps
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/fccs-claim-that-one-isp-counts-as-competition-faces-scrutiny-in-court/?mc_cid=fd6e6566fd&mc_eid=ac30b8596a
Equifax website hacked again, redirect to fake flash update
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/equifax-website-hacked-again-this-time-to-redirect-to-fake-flash-update/
Mark Zuckberg’s cartoonishly Douche Baggy response to Puerto Rico’s plight
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/zuckerberg-‘exploited-disaster’-in-puerto-rico-vr-stunt/ar-AAtfJDd?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Tempers flare after Mystery App is Pushed to Windows 10 Users
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-mystery-update-arouses-anger-suspicion-among-windows-10-users/
Driverless Cars will be Allowed in California starting next year and here’s how
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/heres-how-california-plans-to-regulate-driverless-cars/
Device that listens to everything you say and do records everything you say and do
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/pre-release-google-home-mini-goes-rogue-starts-recording-247/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefoxs-new-tool-lets-you-send-self-destructing-1gb-files-from-any-browser/
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1h
October 10, 2017 Episode 6: Boys And Their Toys
Just how much personal data Tinder has on you
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold
No Winning for Game Devs:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/overwatch-director-says-its-scary-to-be-open-with-players/
Nobel Prize For Researchers Who Discover How Cells Tell Time:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/nobel-prize-goes-to-researchers-who-figured-out-how-our-cells-tell-time/
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-surrenders-spotify-kills-groove
https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
Linux at nearly 7% market share!?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/linux-marketshare-6-91-percent-september-2017
Special Guest: Jared Beerman.
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47min
September 29, 2017 Episode 5: Goodbye Number 5
Twitter extends character limit to 280, US foreign policy improved overnight
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html
Firefox QUANTUM BETA DEVELOPER EDITION lands bringing new UI and Speed to Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-beta-developer-edition/
Google turns off YouTube on the Amazon Echo Show
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/27/google-pulls-youtube-amazons-echo-show/
New AtariBox Gaming Console Announced
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2017/09/26/amd-scores-another-custom-chip-design-win-with-the-upcoming-ataribox-game-console/#104aa07318a4
Bill Gates Switched to Android
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41399823
Twin Peaks Fans: Showtime has been mining Crypto currency on your Computer through the Browser
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/showtime-secretly-generated-virtual-coins-on-visiting-pcs/
EU Attempts to bury study demonstrating Gaming Piracy helps sales
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/
Microsoft to release a quantum computing toolkit for writing quantum computing code
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/microsoft-quantum-toolkit/
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2min
September 15, 2017 Episode 4: Equif*** You
Newest iPhone is Bezel-less, button-less, and budget-less
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16291244/new-iphone-x-photos-video-hands-on
This guy added a headphone jack to an iPhone.... seriously....
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
BEHOLD THE NOTCH: Newest iPhone X gets mixed reaction
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16306298/apple-iphone-x-screen-notch
“Comcast can go F*** itself” - Vermont
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170831/13401538125/comcast-sues-vermont-insists-having-to-expand-broadband-violates-first-amendment-rights.shtml
China to ban major Bitcoin exchange, furthering goal to be super un-cool:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/14/china-bitcoin-exchange-suspended-bttc-china/?ncid=rss
Equifax Breach is bananas....b.a.n.a.n.a.s:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-response-turns-dumpster-fire/
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/6znofc/ysk_what_your_options_for_responding_to_equifax/
Special Guest: Davis.
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1h 12min

FAQs about Shiny Podcast:

How many episodes does Shiny Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.