Even without the NBA finals in the mix, it’s been a busy time out in California with a fierce net-neutrality bill passing a hurdle in the state senate and Mary Meeker’s mega-slideshow on Internet trends. El Kaiser and J.D. surf through the week’s tech news before stopping to ponder life without Twitter — if only just for a little while. Punch up Episode 274 and have a listen!
- California Senate defies AT&T, votes for strict net neutrality rules (Ars Technica)
- Microsoft leapfrogs Google’s Alphabet, while becoming the 3rd best tech company to-date (On MSFT)
- Bring the Stadium Experience Home: Oculus Venues Now Available on Oculus Go and Gear VR (Oculus)
- Google Will Try to Tackle Latest iPhones With Pixel Phone Upgrades (Bloomberg)
- Former Snap Employee Questions Company’s Culture and Diversity (Cheddar)
- Mobile Direct Traffic Eclipses Facebook (Chartbeat Blog)
- HIDDEN COBRA – Joanap Backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block Worm (US-CERT)
- International Hacker-For-Hire Who Conspired With and Aided Russian FSB Officers Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison (OPA | Department of Justice)
- Foreign Cyber Actors Target Home And Office Routers And Networked Devices Worldwide (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- FBI Urges Internet Users to Reboot Home Routers (NBC New York)
- Court upholds federal Kaspersky ban, dismisses lawsuits (Fedscoop)
- Facebook to be banned in Papua New Guinea for a month (BBC News)
- Shutting down Facebook in PNG is a reality (Post Courier)
- Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis (Recode)
Downshifting Twitter
- How to Defeat a Twitter Addiction (WikiHow)
- How to deactivate your account (Twitter Help)
- Clean Out a Crowded Twitter Feed With ManageFlitter (Lifehacker)
- “I quit social media for a month — and it was the best choice I’ve ever made” (Business Insider)