TWiT 780: The Great Firewall of America - Twitter Hack, Tik Tok hysteria, World Emoji Day
This Week in Tech (Audio)
- 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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