The Pi Day Northeast Blizzard of 2017 may have blown through, but El Kaiser is still powering through a nasty winter cold to get to this week’s tech and science news with J.D. — which features quite a bit of hacker activity, as well as an update on our old friend Boaty McBoatface. Episode 226 here also takes a look at public beta programs you can join to see the latest software first. Interested? Just push play to find out more!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- SXSW Interactive is still the most valuable business weekend of the year (Mashable)
- Microsoft quietly delivers two Windows Update surprises (ZDnet)
- Almost 48 million Twitter accounts are bots (Axios)
- Sonic cyber attack shows security holes in ubiquitous sensors (University of Michigan)
- Now you can navigate in Waze within Spotify; play Spotify music within Waze (9to5Google.com)
- Pandora Premium will change the way you listen to Music (Pandora blog)
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer could get $23 million severance package after Verizon deal closes (Variety)
- U.S. charges Russian FSB officers and their criminal conspirators for hacking Yahoo and millions of email accounts (US Department of Justice)
- Russian agents were behind Yahoo hack, U.S. says (The New York Times)
- Verizon sought $925 million penalty for Yahoo’s lax security (Associated Press)
- Send and request money in your Gmail app on Android (Google blog)
- Introducing the Family Link app: Helping families navigate technology together (Google blog)
- Get started with Family Link (Google)
- PlayStation Now: Stream PS4 games in 2017 (PlayStation blog)
- Facebook and Instagram publicly prohibit surveillance of users following coalition demands (ACLU of Northern California)
- Facebook and Twitter could face fines in Germany over hate speech posts (The New York Times)
- NASA just found an orbiter that’s been missing around the moon for 8 years (The Washington Post)
- Boaty McBoatface prepares for first Antarctic mission (NPR)
