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Cordkillers 187 – Embarrassment of Riches (w/ Scott Johnson)
Hulu wins the Emmys, JJ Abrams is back on Star Wars, and what we think of the Apple TV 4K. With special guest Scott Johnson.
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Cordkillers Winter Movie Draft 2017
Brian and Tom are joined by Justin Robert Young, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Brian Ibbott, Mulango Akpo-Esambe, Kristi Kates, Patrick Delahanty, and Padre Robert Ballecer to bid on the 2017 Winter Movie Draft.
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DTNS 3118 – Roaming is Not On the Verizon
An AI to detect Alzheimer’s early, A brief occurence of PS4 and Xbox cross-platform play, and would you rather your websites showed you ads or mined bitcoin with your computer?
Featuring Tom Merrit, Veronica Belmont, and Roger Chang.
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Current Geek 144: Get off my Blaine!
Your info is in trouble! Apple stuff. Lucasfilm is changing seats again. Harrison Ford punched Ryan. And so much more!
DTNS 3117 – The Ryzen tide raises all threads
Patrick gives us the lowdown on what processors to put in our PCs, Google declatres a kind of war on autoplay and Facebook opens a 4th front for AI research in Montreal.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton, and Len Peralta.
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- News You Should Know
- (02:35) Unified autoplay | Chromium Blog
- (06:00) Facebook’s New Lab Bolsters Montreal’s…AI | Fast Company
- (10:05) Google in talks to invest in Lyft | Axios
- Alphabet Considers…Investment of…$1 Billion | Bloomberg
- (12:35) China’s Southeast Asia obsession continues… | Tech In Asia
- (16:15) Amazon waves goodbye to…one-click… | engadget
- Discussion
- (19:10) PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard | PC Perspective
- Messages of the Day
- (30:10) Matt Bertolini – Equifax software patch process
- (31:30) Anonymous – Equifax downsizing
- (32:30) BigJim – Tech In Trade
- (33:30) Rob – Apple two-factor authentication
- (34:25) Matt Stevens – Managing older iOS devices
- Today’s Contributors
- Watch Patrick Norton‘s TekThing on Hak5 and support it on Patreon
- Len Peralta’s “FaceID Not Working“
DTNS 3116 – What You Should Do About Equifax
Liverpool embraces digital currency, YouTube faces backlash on censorship, and what you need to do about Equifax.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.
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- News You Should Know
- (01:20) October 4th is new Pixel day… | Android Police
- LG-Made Google Pixel XL 2 Hits FCC! | Droid-Life
- (02:35) Snapchat adds 3D Bitmoji to its [AR] features | engadget
- (04:20) YouTube Pulls North Korean State TV Videos | WSJ
- Youtube…Bans Award-Winning Animated Short | Cartoon Brew
- (08:05) Face ID will have a quick-disable feature | circuit breaker
- (10:00) The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks | BBC
- (01:20) October 4th is new Pixel day… | Android Police
- Discussion
- (15:15) What to do about Equifax | DTNS Patreon
- …two-month-old bug led to massive…breach | Ars Technica
- Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data! | Krebs on Security
- FTC probes Equifax; top Democrat likens it to Enron | Reuters
- Equifax blames breach on a server flaw… | engadget
- Equifax CEO to testify to Congress… | Reuters
- How to freeze your credit after a data breach | The Verge
- Recovering from Identity Theft | FTC
- Credit Freeze FAQs | FTC
- Cybersecurity Incident & …Consumer Information | Equifax
- Equifax waives credit freeze fees… | engadget
- Report identity theft and get a recovery plan | FTC
- (15:15) What to do about Equifax | DTNS Patreon
- Messages of the Day
- (30:40) Neil – App Store removal from iTunes
- (33:15) Petie – Google Authenticator
- Today’s Contributors
#305 – Major in Martin Studies!
The Martin Studies International Network will help you study Westeros better, Scott Lynch gives hope for the next Locke Lamora book and sadly, we lose a great one in Jerry Pournelle,
DTNS 3115 – Watts Up with Power Grid Security
A burger-flipping robot and the truth behind power grid concerns.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Bob Schultz.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 186 – Rick and Morty (307), Preacher (209-211), Firefly (Jaynestown)
Rick and Morty (307), Preacher (209-211), Firefly (Jaynestown), Winter Movie Draft.
01:01 – Winter Movie Draft. The draft is next week! Here’s the movie list.
06:38 – Rick and Morty (307)
12:14 – Preacher (209-211)
18:13 – Firefly (Jaynestown)
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