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Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP

  • Casey Newton on Twitter: "Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees".
  • Twitter CISO flies the coop.
  • Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer.
  • Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands.
  • What is Elon really up to in all of this?
  • Is centralization good for end users?
  • Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say.
  • Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom.
  • Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine's president Zelenskiy.
  • Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows That 20% of Its Assets Are in Shiba Inu (SHIB) Coin.
  • Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.
  • Prosecutors push 15-year sentence for Theranos' CEO Holmes.
  • Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story.
  • PleaseRobMe.com
  • Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google.
  • Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13.
  • Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work.
  • Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans.
  • Two weeks of chaos: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

    • Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: David Spark, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Amy Webb

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