This Week in Tech (Audio)

Twitter self-DDoS, Flipper, Ethernet 50 years old, SCOTUS cyberstalking 

• Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
• Apple is a $3 trillion company — again.
• The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark.
• Twitch Star xQc Signs $100 Million Deal With Kick, a Rival Platform.
• Flipper hacking device on track to make $80M worth of sales.
• Padre talks all about the Vatican.
• An update on Canada's Bill C-18 and our Search and News products.
• Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view.
• YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views.
• Twitch adds new paid chat feature to rival YouTube's Super Chat.
• David Bohrman Dead: Former CNN Executive Was 69.
• Want to feel old? Ethernet just celebrated its 50th birthday.
• UK regulator may refer Adobe's $20 billion Figma deal to deeper probe.
• Supreme Court Rebuffs Apple in Billion-Dollar Caltech Patent Case.
• The FTC wants to put a ban on fake reviews.
• Supreme Court guts protections for cyberstalking victims.
• Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Millions of Song Lyrics.
• SiriusXM to Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App.
• Pokémon Go Developer Lays Off 230 Employees, Closes LA Studio.
• Goldman Is Looking for a Way Out of Its Partnership With Apple.
• Scoop: TSA to expand facial recognition program to over 400 airports.
• Prigozhin-controlled Russian media group shuts after mutiny.
• UT Mourns Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor and Nobel Prize Recipient John Goodenough.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Iain Thomson, and Brianna Wu

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