The tide seems to be turning on NFTs, Web3 & crypto; Bored Ape Yacht Club founders doxxed, but I thought the blockchain was anonymous; couple charged with laundering billions in stolen bitcoin, bad rap videos; EU tells Meta to go ahead and leave if that's what it wants; robot dogs on the border; the Tinder Swindler; Reacher; Beforeigners; Manifest; Apple AI music; Adobe dark patterns; Laundry Files; Boba wrap-up; prepper corner; IRS drops facial recognition idea, fast; kidnapped for crypto; bricking radios.
Show notes at https://gog.show/540/
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IN THE NEWS
Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell
The Crypto Backlash Is Booming
The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders
‘Doxxing’ of Bored Ape founders exposes Web3’s transparency issues
This Is the Couple Charged With Laundering Billions in Stolen Bitcoin
Alleged crypto launderer Heather Morgan led a second life as the world's worst rapper
The DOJ’s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto
Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU
Robot dogs to patrol U.S. border
SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm
Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite
DARPA JUST FLEW A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER WITH NO PILOT
MEDIA CANDY
Manifest Season 1 and into Season 2
APPS & DOODADS
Apple acquires startup behind Infinite Music Engine that adapts music to your heartbeat
The Crystal Method: Drive: Nike + Original Run
Apple source code references 'realityOS' for potential VR/AR headsets
How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract.
This is my next main browser: a review of Orion
AT THE LIBRARY
Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross
Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross
SECURITY HAH!
Star Wars: Mark Hamill Didn't Record Luke Skywalker's Dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett
‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets May Premiere Date at Disney Plus
The IRS won’t make you verify your identity with facial recognition after all
Twitter parts ways with two-factor provider following claims of secret surveillance
Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems
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