TWiT 764: Tech Support in Tights

This Week in Tech (Audio)

• Episode: TWiT 764: Tech Support in Tights
• Website: This Week in Tech (Audio)
• Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/twit.xml
• Duration: 02:17:00
• Published: 2020-03-30 02:27

• Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
• Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
• Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
• Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
• China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
• Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
• US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
• Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
• How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
• Notes from the final CanSec security conference
• Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
• E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
• PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
• GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
• China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
• Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
• Free e-books from the Library of Congress
• Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
• Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott

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