Tech Brew Ride Home

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March 10, 2021Wed. 03/10 – Now The Hackers Are In The Security Cams
Hackers breached the security cameras used by everybody from prisons and hospitals to Tesla factories. Why you will no longer “subscribe” to this podcast, but will “follow” it. Why T-Mobile is signing everyone up to have their usage data tracked by advertisers. And Facebook’s 10 year roadmap for AR and VR.
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Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (Bloomberg)
Apple slashes planned iPhone 12 mini production for 1H (NikkeiAsia)
Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature (The Verge)
TikTok adds new comment controls to discourage bullying (Engadget)
'Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe' (Podnews)
T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers (WSJ)
Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive 'Vesta' home robot — but insiders are worried that it's a niche, gimmicky product that could fail (Insider)
Inside Facebook Reality Labs: The Next Era of Human-Computer Interaction (Tech@Facebook)
Facebook's ready to talk about how its AR glasses will work with neural wristbands (CNET)
Samsung sets March 17 for its second Unpacked event of 2021 (CNET)
19 min
March 09, 2021Tue. 03/09 – An FTC Commissioner To Make Silicon Valley Cower?
Is Joe Biden about to name the architect of the current antitrust movement to a seat on the FTC? Are other bad actors swooping in to take advantage of the SolarWinds hack? Is Microsoft gonna play both sides of the fence with new Surface devices? And why popular YouTubers are suddenly building their own platforms.
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Links:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster (Politico/Playbook)
Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea (NYTimes)
Attacks on SolarWinds Servers Also Linked To Chinese Threat Actor (The Record)
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will reportedly include both AMD and Intel configurations (The Verge)
Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit vulnerability (Engadget)
Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites (BBC News)
LOGITECH’S CIRCLE VIEW DOORBELL IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN APPLE-MADE DOORBELL (The Verge)

The Kottke Ride Home Podcast
19 min
March 08, 2021Mon. 03/08 – Apple AR Contact Lenses As The Apple Rumor Singularity
Ming-Chi Kuo’s grand unified Apple rumor includes AR enabled contact lenses. Is the US about to retaliate in kind for the SolarWinds hack? Mobile World Congress is gonna go ahead and do it live! And in person. Why is Google making Google Pay worse? And do we need a new podcast wager about meaningful quantum computing by 2023?
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Kuo: Apple to Launch Mixed Reality Headset in Mid 2022 and Augmented Reality Glasses by 2025 (MacRumors)
Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China (NYTimes)
Smartphone Lobby Wants Conference for 50,000 People in June (Bloomberg)
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (Ars Technica)
Quantum-Computing Startup IonQ Plans Public Debut in $2 Billion SPAC Merger (WSJ)
Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians" (Axios)
19 min
March 06, 2021 (Bonus) What Are NFTs? With CoinDesk's Brady Dale
I don’t think this one requires any in depth intro. The great Brady Dale of Coindesk, walks us though the whole NFT phenomenon. What are NFTs? How do they work? Why are people so crazed about them at the moment?
37 min
March 05, 2021Fri. 03/05 – Eyes Emoji On Tim Wu Joining The Biden Administration
Tim Wu joined the Biden administration and that sound you hear is a big collective gulp from Silicon Valley. A tweet undo button has been unearthed. Turntable.fm has resurfaced. New data suggests the death of silicon valley has been exaggerated. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House (NYTimes)
Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like (The Verge)
Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two (The Verge)
Survey finds that the reported exodus of tech companies from San Francisco's Bay Area is 'greatly exaggerated' (Insider)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix. (Recode)
Who Really Writes Twitter’s ‘Trending’ Summaries (OneZero)
Blockchain, QR codes and your phone: the race to build vaccine passports (Protocol)
How a tiny startup is reinventing the DVR for the cord-cutter era (Fast Company)
China’s Tencent Becomes an Investment Powerhouse, Using Deals to Expand Its Empire (WSJ)
I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it (Input)
19 min
March 04, 2021Thu. 03/04 – Is Square Buying Tidal A Watershed Moment For The Creator Economy?
Square is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, and either this makes little sense, or it’s a watershed moment in this NFT/creator economy phenomenon that’s suddenly washing over all of us. Apple walks the walk in terms of data portability. But they’re facing serious new anti-trust scrutiny in the UK and Arizona. And our year of Covid, at least measured in internet traffic numbers.
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Links:
Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. (NYTimes)
Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
Apple Probed by U.K. as App Store Payments Scrutiny Mounts (Bloomberg)
Arizona App Store Bill (The Verge)
Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)
17 min
March 03, 2021Wed. 03/03 – Google (Sorta) Pivots To Privacy
Google says it’s getting out of the ad tracking game. Kinda. I’ll explain what’s really going on here. Headline wrapup from Microsoft’s Ignite conference includes AR excitement. Brave is launching a privacy search engine. And why Amazon’s app icon redesign reminded people of Hitler’s mustache.
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Links:
Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies (The Verge)
Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing (WSJ)
Microsoft says China-backed hackers are exploiting Exchange zero-days (TechCrunch)
Recovering from the SolarWinds hack could take 18 months (MIT Technology Review)
Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings (The Verge)
Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech (TechCrunch)
Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows (The Verge)

My podcast NFT!
19 min
March 02, 2021Tue. 03/02 – iPhone 13 To Go Notch-Less?
Is the iPhone about to lose the notch and join the hole-punch universe? Whole bunch of new features for Microsoft Teams, and also a new Microsoft smart-speaker. Instacart has a monster raise. Grimes has a monster NFT sale. Discovery+ is an interesting dark-horse in the streaming wars. Oh. And “fly” drones.
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Links:
Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more (9to5Mac)
All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)
Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)
Microsoft’s new Intelligent Speakers deliver its promised meeting room of the future (The Verge)
Instacart’s valuation doubles to $39 billion (CNBC)
Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. (NYTimes)
Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones (MIT News)

Tonight's Clubhouse Experiment
19 min
March 01, 2021Mon. 03/01 – Instagram Launches Live Rooms For Group Broadcasts
Instagram launches Live Rooms for group broadcasts, which, depending on how you use it is either basically FaceTime for Instagram, or another shot across the Clubhouse bow. Is the micromobility space revving up to roar back to health? Are US-based drone makers about to step into the void left by DJI? And Chris Dixon tries to contextualize NFTs for us.
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Links:
Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators (TechCrunch)
Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery (The Verge)
Lime says it will spend $50 million on a huge e-bike expansion (The Verge)
Skydio valuation raises American hopes in drone war with China (Financial Times)
Klarna Valued at $31 Billion After U.S. Growth Stoked Investors (Bloomberg)
As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings (TechCrunch Extra)
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (Chris Dixon/Andreessen Horowitz)
19 min
February 27, 2021 (Bonus) Techmeme Experience On Clubhouse
Chris Messina and I go deeper on some of the news of the week.
1 hr 11 min