This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 780: The Great Firewall of America - Twitter Hack, Tik Tok hysteria, World Emoji Day


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  • Here's how the Twitter hack happened
  • Tik Tok hysteria - xenophobia or common sense?
  • EARN IT and LAED acts want to eliminate encryption
  • Cloudflare outage takes down a huge swath of the internet
  • "Master," "Slave," "Blacklist" terms on the outs at Apple, Linux, and others
  • Trump expands the CIA's cyberwarfare authority
  • Google spends $10 billion on India, half of that in Jio
  • Amazon Dash Cart checks your groceries out for you
  • World Emoji Day celebrates the new Emoji coming in 2020
  • Who is "Kirk," the person behind the Twitter hack? How long have they had access?
  • What should the response to the Twitter hack be?
  • Instagram's Tik Tok clone Reels launches in August
  • As Tik Tok rises, Quibi falls
  • Google should be pushing contactless payments more
  • Hong Kong VPNs leak user data
  • EU Court shuts down EU - US data transfer agreement
  • Grant Imahara dead at 49

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Mike Elgan, and Seth Rosenblatt

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