This Week's Stories:

• Hacking the US Military at DEF CON
• Voting machine hacks at DEF CON
• GDPR is a hacker's delight
• Company sues DEF CON because their presentation was booed
• Will the T-Mobile/Sprint merger go through?
• Android Q is not a dessert
• New phone season is here
• Using mice to detect deepfakes
• Navigating our increasingly fakeable world
• Is computational photography more or less "real"?
• Human connection in an online world
• Apple TV+, Disney +, where does it end?
• Apple Card and its various stains
• Don't wash titanium with tap water
• 5G is as carcinogenic as coffee and pickles
• WeWork IPO chicanery
• Pokemon Go trespassing is still a problem
• No, Instagram is not going to steal your photos

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Iain Thomson, and Alex Wilhelm

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• Amazon's paid tweeters program backfires
• Telus email out for the past 4 days
• $3 Million Fortnite winner SWATted
• How Gamergate launched a culture war
• Esports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to college
• Verizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years ago
• iPhone 11 coming September 10 - how private will it be?
• Apple sues Corellium for virtualization service
• Google's challenging past 3 years
• Google forces Nest to leave recording lights on
• iPhone 11 Pro Max?
• Pixel 3a's faux 20x zoom
• Rival search engines drop out of Google's search engine ballot auction
• Amazon's Rekognition face recognition system can't tell the difference between congressmen and criminals
• "NULL" vanity plate garners man $12,000+ in parking violations
• 3 simple ways to defeat face recognition
• Update your Windows 10 system NOW. Seriously.
• New Bluetooth KNOB attack
• Huawei gets a break
• Georgia required to use paper ballots
• FTC willing to break up big tech
• IKEA gets serious about smart tech
• Disney after account sharers
• Don't use Kaspersky anti-virus
• Tesla owner implants her key in her arm
• Apple shuts down 3rd-party WebKit anti-tracking abusers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Denise Howell, and Owen JJ Stone

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This Week's Stories

• Video games don't cause mass shootings, but toxic gamer culture doesn't help
• White House proposes social media censorship
• Apple wants as many people as possible to get the Apple Card
• Are Teslas reliable?
• Chase forgives Canadian customers' debt
• Apple locks out DIY battery repairs
• FedEx splits with Amazon
• Amazon's PillPack fighting with CVS and Walgreens
• Woz wants you off Facebook
• Teenagers work overnight to make Amazon Echo
• Samsung Note 10 kills headphone jack and Bixby button, embraces Microsoft
• FBI, NSA want hackers, even if they used to smoke pot
• Defcon takes on voting machine security
• Elizabeth Warren's plan for rural broadband
• US Navy ditching touchscreen controllers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Ben Johnson, and Sam Abuelsamid

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This Week's Stories

• Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
• Phone season starts this week
• Apple gearing up on R&D
• Amazon takes over
• RIP Amazon Dash button
• Your Assistant is listening
• Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
• Capital One hack
• Apple Bluetooth security hack
• Facial recognition for drunks
• Chinese smile to pay
• Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
• AI customer service hell
• Amazon partnering with police
• Turkey cracks down on Internet
• Instagram from Facebook
• Livestreaming Funerals
• Spotify takes off
• US Govt vs social media addiction
• Locast gets sued
• Ninja moves to Mixer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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• Apple buys Intel's modem business
• House passes anti-robocall bill
• Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September
• As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier
• iPadOS is the Future of Apple
• iPhone 11 is all about the camera
• Note 10 - no headphone jack, no buttons
• How Apple fights factory thefts
• Apple Card coming in August
• Google will buy your face for $5
• Facebook founder wants to break up Facebook
• Google bans repair business search ads
• Big government vs big tech
• Do not install PremierOpinion software from VoiceFive
• Pampers develops "smart" diapers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lisa Schmeiser, and Lexy Savvides

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• Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
• Russian Intelligence Service hacked
• Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
• Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
• Equifax fined $700 million
• TikTok takes over
• Celebrate World Emoji Day
• New MacBook Air have slower SSD
• Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
• Trump threatens Google
• Congressional hearings on Big Tech
• Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
• Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
• Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
• Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
• How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
• Influencers are taking over the world
• Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Iain Thomson

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Top Stories This Week

• Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
• The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
• Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
• Instagram vs bullies
• Prime Day deals and dilemmas
• Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
• Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
• Your car is watching you
• Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
• RIP MacBook
• Mac update kills Zoom hack
• Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
• Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
• Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
• Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
• Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
• Netflix Cuphead Show
• Prime Day phishing scams
• HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
• France's Tech Tax
• Niantic kills its first app
• Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
• Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
• Google is listening to you in Flanders
• Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
• A eulogy for the father of the password
• Chatterbox will teach children robotics

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins

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This Week's Stories

• HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
• Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
• The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
• Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
• Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
• MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
• Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
• Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
• Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
• Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
• Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
• Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
• Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Patrick Beja, and Simone de Rochefort

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This Week's Stories

• The iPhone turns 12 today
• Jony Ive is leaving Apple
• Can AirPods actually harm your ears?
• Apple is going to manufacture Mac Pros in China
• Say goodbye to your Microsoft eBooks
• Another city just got hacked!
• Boeing's $9 an hour solution to a shortage of engineers working on the 737 Max
• Verizon will lock cell phones to networks for up to 60 days
• It looks like Huawei is back in business
• White Hats are helping hotels find vulnerabilities
• Cloudflare was offline for a few hours this week
• Are Huawei phones more vulnerable to hacks than other smartphones?
• A potential hacked was averted with 7 words!
• Why is GrubHub buying up web addresses?
• Want to fit in, in Silicon Valley? You must learn "Bro Talk" then
• Hans Zimmer has composed the sound of BMW's new concept car
• Is Twitter finally getting serious about harmful tweets?
• Some drivers in Colorado find themselves in a muddy field after following Googles Maps

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Dwight Silverman, and Christina Warren

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This Week's Stories

• Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra and Congress' response
• The appalling working conditions of Facebook's moderators exposed
• More conversation on the distinction between a "platform" and a "publisher"
• Ravelry, a site for knitting enthusiasts, has taken a stand against white supremacists
• Google was just caught red-handed
• Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
• Netflix is petitioned to cancel an Amazon show
• Apple is recalling selected MacBook Pro laptops because of a fire danger
• Apple is considering moving up to 30% of production out of China
• The system designed to verify age in the UK for porn has been delayed
• A horror story involving a phone hack, a SIM card and what Google isn't doing
• Apple has approved over 1,000 Best Buy locations as official repair centers
• Is Google Chrome spying on us?
• Facebook, Google, and The New Wilderness
• Philips Hue's new light Trulifi is announced
• GE's smart lightbulb update is maybe not so smart
• A city in Florida pays $600K to a hacker to get its data back

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Nate Lanxon, and Kate O'Neill

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