122 News Flashes

The Computer Exorcist Podcast

Today we continue our new format of blazin' through articles. For each news flash, I give my insightful commentary:

• "New World" is a fake online world people use to escape their depressing lives. It's being overrun by AI bots, so people in third-world countries are finding it harder to make a living on it.
• Tesla is the first foreign automaker in China that didn't have to partner with a local company. In return, China hopes to learn from them, as they did with Apple.
• Rather than make reliable cars, Stellantis is now chasing a pipe dream of milking us for fees while we drive.
• The class action against Zoom for failing to encrypt communications, and then sharing them with vendors and governments.
• Apple and Google's duopoly relies heavily on the App Store scandal. If it weren't for app stores, we could use any brand of anything to go on any mobile website.
• Tesla crashes into a bus - which raises the question - what happens when cars are hit with update attacks that cause them to smash into things?
• Many/most Alexa devices are gifted for Christmas, and then never used again. Amazon might not mind, because people leave them plugged in...
• Every time Google is caught doing something nasty, business soars over at DuckDuckGo.
• MD governor uses an ephemeral messaging app - but how many others do, too?
• iPhones are still locatable when the battery inevitably dies - and even if someone factory wipes it.
• Someone was so fed up with an evil program, they got a job at the company just to fix the problem, then walked out.

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