This week Audrey and I chat about recent autonomous vehicle fatalities, consequences of arbitrary file storage in Bitcoin’s blockchain, the OIG’s report on the FBI’s statements about their iPhone hacking capabilities, and more. Enjoy!

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[00:51] Heartifacts - Use the code media-RECOMPILE for 20% off registration[02:03] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers![03:00] Uber settles with family of woman killed by self-driving car | Technology | The Guardian[06:26] Exclusive: Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal | Technology | The Guardian [23:13] Child abuse imagery found within bitcoin's blockchain | Technology | The Guardian[23:40] A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin (pdf)[33:19] Who and What Is Coinhive?[40:14] Android Monero-Mining Malware Can Cause Device Failure[42:11] Microsoft to ban 'offensive language' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services[44:32] Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing - Motherboard[48:43] A Special Inquiry Regarding the Accuracy of FBI Statements Concerning its Capabilities to Exploit an iPhone Seized During the San Bernardino Terror Attack Investigation (pdf)[58:44] ASL Cooking Show - YouTube[1:01:01] How to use Sieve | FastMail

This week Audrey and I chat about Cambridge Analytica, anti-sex trafficking bill SESTA/FOSTA, Google News Initiative and more. Enjoy!

[02:28] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers!

[04:18] ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

[13:56] Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian

[15:13] The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker

[15:37] Paul Ford: Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency - Bloomberg

[24:23] How Controversial Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill Will Screw Over Sex Workers - Rolling Stone

[25:38] Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia

[26:24] Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia

[36:46] Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Media

[38:11] Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira)

[38:48] Floor Remarks: CDA 230 and SESTA – Ron Wyden – Medium

[41:19] Slack picked a weird time to make it easier for bosses to download you

[48:35] yan on Twitter: "fun way to monitor someone's IP address:..."

[50:24] The Google News Initiative: Building a stronger future for news

[59:21] 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech – Humane Tech – Medium

[59:34] Why is your email in my car? | daniel.haxx.se

[1:01:10] Dialects of English: Take The Dialects of American English Survey

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This week Audrey and I chat about YouTube’s announcement to link to Wikipedia, the New Yorker’s profile of Reddit, Spotify and copyright law, and more. Enjoy!

[03:53] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers![06:36] Hire Christie![07:06] YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia - The Verge[12:50] Phoebe Ayers on Twitter: "...It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor..."[14:04] YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times[15:51] kate conger on Twitter: "case in point: in YouTube's statement, they don't take a position on whether the moon landing happened."[19:56] The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News[29:49] Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet | The New Yorker[43:04] Rochelle on Twitter: "Analyzing videos for YouTube this morning. The rules are always changing..."[44:44] A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law made for player pianos - The Verge[49:20] Dear Music Fans... by StartUp from Gimlet Media[51:16] Spooky action at a distance, how an AWS outage ate our load balancer[55:26] Janelle Shane on Twitter: "Does anyone have a picture of sheep in a really unusual place? It's for pranking a neural net."[57:31] Let's Encrypt on Twitter: "Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates and ACMEv2 are available today! More information can be found here: https://t.co/0SdH98Oabn"

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This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon Alexa’s laughing bug, Google helping the military develop AI for drones, the crypto event that dosed its attendees with cannabis, and more. Enjoy!

[01:37] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers![04:31] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler[05:06] Hire Christie![06:39] Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs - The Verge[11:07] Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior – The Recompiler[15:46] The House That Spied on Me [17:02] Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones[28:06] At This Crypto Event, the Attendees Really Were High | WIRED[35:34] The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks[47:36] Safety First PDX [49:58] Something mysterious has been happening to some clocks on the European continent.

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This week Audrey and I chat about Palantir's predictive policing activity in New Orleans, Trustico's mishandling of private keys, the recent DDOS attack on GitHub, ProPublica's guide to authenticating email, and more. Enjoy!

[01:13] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler

[02:03] Subscribe to the Recompiler!

[02:55] Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge

[03:14] Palantír - Wikipedia

[18:37] 23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys | Ars Technica

[23:33] @geofft: "Okay, this Trustico SSL certificate disaster looks _amazing._"

[28:32] A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED

[37:48] Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We… — ProPublica

[43:17] Pixelbuster on Twitter: "MULTI TRACK DRIFTING… "

[44:38] KnitYak

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This week Audrey and I chat about Palantir's predictive policing activity in New Orleans, Trustico's mishandling of private keys, the recent DDOS attack on GitHub, ProPublica's guide to authenticating email, and more. Enjoy!

[01:13] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler

[02:03] Subscribe to the Recompiler!

[02:55] Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge

[03:14] Palantír - Wikipedia

[18:37] 23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys | Ars Technica

[23:33] @geofft: "Okay, this Trustico SSL certificate disaster looks _amazing._"

[28:32] A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED

[37:48] Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We… — ProPublica

[43:17] Pixelbuster on Twitter: "MULTI TRACK DRIFTING… "

[44:38] KnitYak

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This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter latest bot purge, infosec lawsuits, what the EFF says activists should keep in mind when using Slack, the magic of calendars, and more. Enjoy!

[00:49] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler

[01:47] Calagator 10th Anniversary Party

[02:38] Conservative Twitter is freaking out over a reported bot purge - The Verge

[10:23] Twitter Is Trying To Kill "Tweetdecking." Here's What You Should Know.

[17:30] Lawsuits threaten infosec research — just when we need it most | ZDNet

[20:12] This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car — To Prove A Point : All Tech Considered : NPR

[27:46] The Revolution and Slack | Electronic Frontier Foundation

[37:52] Expensify deleted their blog post about MTurk!

[40:56] The next platform you should be thinking about? Calendar apps. | Poynter

[46:14] A decade of events: Portland’s quintessential tech calendar turns 10 – Silicon Florist

[54:30] Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Discovery Tour lets the beauty of Egypt shine - Polygon

[57:08] Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]

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This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter latest bot purge, infosec lawsuits, what the EFF says activists should keep in mind when using Slack, the magic of calendars, and more. Enjoy!

[00:49] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler

[01:47] Calagator 10th Anniversary Party

[02:38] Conservative Twitter is freaking out over a reported bot purge - The Verge

[10:23] Twitter Is Trying To Kill "Tweetdecking." Here's What You Should Know.

[17:30] Lawsuits threaten infosec research — just when we need it most | ZDNet

[20:12] This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car — To Prove A Point : All Tech Considered : NPR

[27:46] The Revolution and Slack | Electronic Frontier Foundation

[37:52] Expensify deleted their blog post about MTurk!

[40:56] The next platform you should be thinking about? Calendar apps. | Poynter

[46:14] A decade of events: Portland’s quintessential tech calendar turns 10 – Silicon Florist

[54:30] Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Discovery Tour lets the beauty of Egypt shine - Polygon

[57:08] Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]

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This week Audrey and I chat about AMP for Email, the legacy of JP Barlow, and the "House the Spied on Me." Enjoy!

[03:55] Try Brave and support recompilermag.com[07:27] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler[08:05] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler[09:02] AMP for email is a terrible idea | TechCrunch[09:23] Episode 25: A certain amount of ambiguity – The Recompiler[11:48] Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail[19:13] Email is your electronic memory | FastMail Blog [26:54] John Perry Barlow gave internet activists only half the mission they need.[32:45] TerraServer RIP | Maps for the Web[40:13] Why a tech journalist like Quinn Norton might think it’s fine to be friends with Weev.[48:17] The House That Spied on Me[56:21] Investigative Reporters and Editors | This Valentine's Day, background your date using public records

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This week Audrey and I chat about AMP for Email, the legacy of JP Barlow, and the "House the Spied on Me." Enjoy!

[03:55] Try Brave and support recompilermag.com[07:27] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler[08:05] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler[09:02] AMP for email is a terrible idea | TechCrunch[09:23] Episode 25: A certain amount of ambiguity – The Recompiler[11:48] Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail[19:13] Email is your electronic memory | FastMail Blog [26:54] John Perry Barlow gave internet activists only half the mission they need.[32:45] TerraServer RIP | Maps for the Web[40:13] Why a tech journalist like Quinn Norton might think it’s fine to be friends with Weev.[48:17] The House That Spied on Me[56:21] Investigative Reporters and Editors | This Valentine's Day, background your date using public records

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