El Kaiser and J.D. return from Spring Break and head right into the news of the week, which includes Spotify’s initial public offering, an iPad update from Apple, background information on the latest credit-card hack and this year’s collection of April Fools jokes by corporate America. J.D. also takes a look at the revamped version of Mozilla Firefox — and new changes on the way to make it a “mixed reality” browser. Come join us for Episode 268!
Links to Stories Discussed in This Week’s Episode
- Spotify poised to be a $25bn company on eve of IPO (The Guardian)
- Spotify’s IPO confirms it’s worth more than Hewlett-Packard and General Mills (Quartz)
- Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel (Bloomberg)
- Apple spring event 2018: A new iPad and 4 other takeaways (CNN Tech)
- ESPN’s streaming service, ESPN+, to launch April 12 (TechCrunch)
- Over-the-top-only U.S. households nearly tripled since 2013, impacting TV ad dollars (TechCrunch)
- Fin7 Syndicate Hacks Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor Stores (Gemini Advisory)
- Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Saks and Lord & Taylor Customers (The New York Times)
- Group Steals 5 Million Credit Cards From Saks Fifth Avenue (Tom’s Hardware)
- Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records (KrebsOnSecurity)
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s future, fake news, and Russian mischief (Vox)
- Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent (TechCrunch)
- Google-Led Plan to Upend Wireless Industry Gains Momentum (Bloomberg)
- In U.S. Brawl With Huawei, Rural Cable Firms Are an Unlikely Loser (The Wall Street Journal)
- Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service (Cloudflare blog)
- 2018 April Fools’ Roundup: All the jokes from around the web (Android Police)
- April Fools at ThinkGeek (ThinkGeek)
Firefox Rising
- Mozilla Brings Firefox to Augmented and Virtual Reality (The Mozilla Blog)
- Starting Fresh With Firefox (The New York Times)
- The New Firefox (Mozilla)