COVID, maybe; revising crypto guides; Uber not "fit and proper" but in London, adds cabs in NYC; Meta paid consultants to sling dirt at TikTok; BEANS!; VISA wants in on NFT action; Microsoft... engages in sales & business; chaos theory weather control; Gaming Wall St; state of Star Trek; Halo; Moon Knight; WeCrashed; CNN+; Headway for "Real Men"; Apple iPhone rundles; dystopian Darth Dyson; Brandon Sanderson's kickstarter windfall; Klosterman; Laundry Files; Verizon spam texts; FBI disrupts BEC schemes; hackers forge legal requests for data; old computers & the good ol' days when we could get away with things.
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IN THE NEWS
Uber secures 30-month London taxi license
Call for an Uber, Get a Yellow Taxi
Waymo trials fully driverless rides in San Francisco
Meta reportedly paid political consultants to smear TikTok
Teen Girls Are Still Getting TikTok-Related Tics—and Other Disorders
Visa launches NFT program as it considers the digital art a new form of e-commerce
Whistleblower says Microsoft spent millions on bribes abroad
Scientists think they can control the weather using chaos theory
MEDIA CANDY
Trust No One - The Hunt for the Crypto King
APPS & DOODADS
Real Men Self-Development Plan by Headway App
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
Apple will no longer repair iPhones reported as lost or stolen
Dyson launches Zone air purifying Bluetooth headphones with visor
Overcast app's big redesign helps it compete with Apple Podcasts
No one asked for a hamburger vending machine, and RoboBurger answered
AT THE LIBRARY
Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish
Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson
How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22 Million Kickstarter?
X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman
Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charlie Stross
Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charlie Stross
SECURITY HAH!
Verizon says ‘bad actors’ are to blame for sketchy spoofed spam texts
FBI disrupts BEC cybercrime gangs targeting victims worldwide
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed a historic computer museum
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is ‘Stepping Away’ From His Career
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