TWiT 874: Malicious Compliance - Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview

Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview

 Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.

 Evaluating Elon Musk's Plan To Fix Twitter.

 Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout.

 Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning.

 Bitcoin drops below $35,000 over the weekend, extending Friday's losses.

 NFT Sales Are Flatlining.

 NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla.

 Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen.

 Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.

 Vatican Offers, Mysteriously Rescinds Interview About Pope's Metaverse Plans.

 Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood.

 CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.

 Global Privacy Control (GPC).

 Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions.

 The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship.

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.

 AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown.

 Salt_Hank on TikTok.

 Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners.

 Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads.

 Frontier lied about Internet speeds and "ripped off customers," FTC says.

 New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick.

 Apple's Self Service Repair now available.

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