As 2020 winds down to its final weeks, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the recent spate of bad news regarding national security, pandemic spread and video-game fails. But as depressing as the news can be, there’s new hope for 2021 — at least when it comes to decent Star Wars movies and shows. Punch up PTJ 347 and join us for the ride!
A huge THANK YOU to BROS for hosting us and all our faithful listeners for riding along with us here in the Q-Zone. We’ll be back in January, so Happy New Year!
• Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning (WIRED)
• Trump Contradicts Pompeo Over Russia’s Role in Hack (The New York Times)
• The Great iPwn: Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit (Citizen Lab)
• Al Jazeera journalists ‘hacked via NSO Group spyware’ (BBC News)
• The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles (The New York Times)
• Google’s Legal Peril Grows in Face of Third Antitrust Suit
(The New York Times)
• U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
(The New York Times)
• Tim Cook tweeted about App Tracking Transparency and it’s easy to see the target (iMore)
• Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• COVID-19 closes nearly 100 Apple Stores during holiday season peak (9to5Mac)
• Cyberpunk 2077 Was Supposed to Be the Biggest Video Game of the Year. What Happened? (The New York Times)
• A Complete Guide to Every Star Wars Show Coming to Disney+ (Esquire)
• ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel’s Futures Now Flow Through Disney Plus (Variety)
