• Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?
• Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.
• Elon Musk's ups and downs
• The biggest mergers of 2018
• Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news
• Bloomberg's big blunder
• China's social credit system and CRISPR babies
• Those we lost in 2018

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: John C. Dvorak, Owen JJ Stone, and Alex Lindsay

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• Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
• The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
• It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.
• The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
• The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
• The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
• Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
• The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
• YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Harry McCracken, and Michael Nuñez

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• What role did Facebook play in the French riots?
• Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.
• Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails.
• Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at.
• And then there were 5: Google tries to make sense of its Messaging platforms. Meanwhile, Apple's iMessage is the one app that could rule them all.
• Microsoft puts some Chromium in their Edge.
• Canada arrests Huawei's CFO for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran.
• Australia passes a dangerously vague anti-encryption law.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rich DeMuro, Patrick Beja, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day ever
• Marriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 years
• Indian Microsoft scammers busted
• Amazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum blockchain, and more from re:Invent
• When is Amazon rolling out Prime Health?
• UK grabs thousands of Facebook emails from bikini app company
• Google's China woes continue
• Apple at the Supreme Court
• Microsoft tops Apple as world's most valuable company

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nate Lanxon, Devindra Hardawar, and Dwight Silverman

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• US government tells allies not to buy Huawei products
• China to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020
• Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?
• Google News may leave EU over link tax
• Cards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses.
• For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft was the world's most valuable company
• Social media influencers and social media backlash
• Amazon wants to buy Fox sports channels

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Jason Snell, and Adam Fisher

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• Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis.
• Waymo plans a driverless car service.
• Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia.
• Google's "smart city" in Toronto gets some pushback.
• Julian Assange has been charged with... something?
• SpaceX gets approval to launch 7000 internet satellites.
• Japan's cybersecurity chief is 100% unhackable - because he has never touched a computer.
• Alphabet's Verily gives up on glucose-measuring contact lenses.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Larry Magid, and Georgia Dow

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• Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.
• Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day.
• Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class."
• 22% of Americans still trust Facebook.
• Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap.
• Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case.
• DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights.
• China unveils the first AI news anchor.
• Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe.
• With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype.
• FCC has harsh words about robocalls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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• Apple announces new MacBook Air and Mac Mini, then blows them both away with its new iPad Pro.
• Apple will no longer tell us how many iPhones it sells.
• How to kill an iPhone with a balloon.
• Iran unmasks dozens of CIA agents with a Google search.
• Google employees stage walkout over sexual harassment
• Amazon exec mad at Washington Post for leaking new headquarters location.
• Facebook targets ads at "White Genocide Conspiracy Theorists."
• Voter suppression on Twitter, and IRL in Georgia.
• Passcodes are officially protected by the fifth amendment (at least in Florida, and only in some cases).
• Senator proposes a bill that would jail tech CEOs for misusing consumer data.
• FCC says community broadband is an "ominous threat to the first amendment."

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Iain Thomson, and Mike Elgan

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• What's in store for Apple's big event this Tuesday?
• Tim Cook vs the "data industrial complex"
• Amazon's government controversies
• IBM buys Red Hat for $34 billion - the largest software purchase ever.
• Linus Torvalds is back!
• Trump's phone may be hacked by Russia and China.
• The midterms may be hacked as well.
• Apple and Amazon might NOT be hacked by China.
• Microsoft still hasn't released Window 10 update 1809
• The Vatican releases its own version of Pokemon Go with saints instead of Pokemon.
• Elon's big tunnel under LA opens 12/10.
• Pokemon Go will use step info from Apple and Google.
• Right to Repair suit wins.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ed Bott, Jason Hiner, and Rene Ritchie

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• Cognitive hacking with scale and co-ordination.
• Will the newest iPad have 2 connectors?
• Should keynotes for product launches go away?
• Some speculation about what to expect from the upcoming Apple event.
• Morgan on Twitter and his thoughts on Google+.
• Google in the EU and something that isn't getting as much press.
• The discussion continues around Bloomberg's article and Tim Cook's demand for a retraction.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Seth Weintraub, and Greg Ferro

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