It’s almost like we needed the Justice League to come sort things out with all the disruptions erupting all over the technology scene this week. So, you ask, what happened? Yet another ransomware attack spread rapidly worldwide, the European Commission got all up in Google’s business on an antitrust charge, and Walmart had a slapfight with Amazon over the cloud. Meanwhile, Twitter and some of its pals are teaming up to fight the spread of violent extremism, Facebook wants to do TV and Apple’s getting ready to chuck a bunch of old apps off the iOS 11 wagon. But on the bright side, we’ve now had J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series with us for 20 years now. Come hang with El Kaiser and J.D. as they try to make sense of the week here on Episode 240 of Pop Tech Jam!
Links to Stories on This Week’s Episode
- Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (Twitter)
- Zack Snyder steps down from Justice League after daughter’s death, Joss Whedon takes helm (EW.com)
- New cyberattack spreads from Russia to Britain (The New York Times)
- UK Parliament cuts email access after cyberattack (SecurityWeek)
- Antitrust: Commission fines Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service (European Commission)
- The European Commission decision on online shopping: the other side of the story (Google)
- Amazon accuses Walmart of bullying in cloud computing clash (BBC News)
- Uber founder Travis Kalanick resigns as C.E.O. (The New York Times)
- Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital (Axios)
- Facebook is going Hollywood, seeking scripted TV programming (The Wall Street Journal)
- Public iOS 11 beta now available — here’s how to get it (BetaNews)
- Repair is the new green (iFixit)
- Zillow sends cease and desist letter to McMansion Hell, the architectural criticism blog we need right now (Gizmodo)
- Cash ‘lives on’ after 50 years of ATMs (BBC News)
- The man who really invented the cash machine (BBC News)
- Harry Potter: How the boy wizard enchanted the world (BBC News)
Welcome to the 64-Bit World
- The end of the road for some apps (The New York Times)
- Photographers, beware of upcoming macOS transition issues (PetaPixel)