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episode 764: Tech Support in Tights
- Fever tracking maps show the spread of coronavirus
- Instacart workers will go on strike on Monday
- Hackers are sending out malicious teddy bears and Best Buy rewards cards
- Snopes has had to scale back fact-checking in the age of coronavirus misinformation
- China and Russia sending waves of coronavirus misinformation and phishing attacks
- Zeynep Tufecki is a light of reason in the fog of coronavirus information
- US Government is using cell phone location data to track coronavirus
- Is Big Tech our coronavirus saviors, or are they taking advantage of the situation?
- How should we cover tech while the world is collapsing?
- Notes from the final CanSec security conference
- Corporate layoffs, bailouts, and cancellations
- E-sports fill the void for car racing aficionados
- PwnToOwn 2020 highlights
- GM is offering unlimited internet in its cars, Yale is offering a free course on happiness, and other happy news
- China wants to re-invent the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
- Help track which coronavirus sites are malicious
- Free e-books from the Library of Congress
- Internet Archive under fire for lending too many e-books
- Elizabeth Warren open-sources all her campaign tech
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Lexy Savvides, and Ed Bott
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