This is news cast 238, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

This week’s security alerts are a couple of stories of whether difficulties erasing and preserving data on flash storage and how to block Facebook apps accessing your contact info if you aren’t ready to just delete it or your account.

In this week’s news, considering whether piracy is the future of television, a novel processor design localizing storage to processor cores to get past the energy/heat wall, memristor based processor solves mazes, and remembering Trumpet Winsock with a call to thank its creator.

Following up this week Pirate Party official recognized in Massachusetts and DoJ investigating MPEG-LA for antitrust.

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