A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, isn't it?
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IN THE NEWS
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NFT collector loses 100 ETH (~$150,000) in a joke gone wrong
MEDIA CANDY
Set Phasers to Stream: Here’s All the ‘Star Trek’ Content on Paramount+
Netflix lost nearly 1 million subscribers last quarter
Netflix is fighting password sharing in Latin America by charging for additional 'homes'
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APPS & DOODADS
Instagram rolling out new map experience to help users discover more places
Dbrand’s ‘Something’ skins make your phone look like a Nothing Phone 1
SECURITY HAH!
US Congress calls for the FTC to regulate how VPN companies operate
Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases
TikTok's global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy
Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations
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