Fresh off the latest Facebook user-abuse apology media tour and visit with the U.S. Congress, Mark Zuckerberg made a slew of announcements at this week’s F8 Developers Conference in California, which El Kaiser and J.D. discuss on this week’s episode — along with other news from the tech realm. Episode 271 also sports a quick look at the big geek movies headed into theaters this summer and an explanation of “malvertising.” Spin up this latest installment of Pop Tech Jam to hear it all!
Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show
- Cambridge Analytica: Facebook data-harvest firm to shut (BBC News)
- Facebook will let users opt out of its browsing history collection (Recode)
- F8 2018: Sharing to Stories, AR Camera Effects, Oculus Go and More Highlights from Day 1 (Facebook Newsroom)
- F8 2018: Open AI Frameworks, New AR/VR Advancements, and Other Highlights from Day 2 (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access to Stalk Women (Motherboard)
- Facebook Agrees to Civil-Rights Audit (New York magazine)
- Instagram Unveils a Bully Filter (The New York Times)
- Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says (BuzzFeed)
- How to get the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (Windows Experience Blog)
- A look at what the Windows 10 April 2018 update brings (Ars Technica)
- Everything You Can Do in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update That You Couldn’t Before (Gizmodo)
- Stay composed: here’s a quick rundown of the new Gmail (Google blog)
- Google Wunderkind Is Building a Secret Social-Gaming Startup (Bloomberg)
- Hulu passes 20 million subscribers, will finally offer offline viewing (TechCrunch)
- Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time (CNBC)
- What the T-Mobile and Sprint merger means for you (The Washington Post)
- California net neutrality bill that AT&T hates is coming to New York, too (Ars Technica)
- Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag; Starts With Food (Bloomberg)
- The 41 Must-See Movies of 2018 (Den of Geek)
Tech Term
- Malvertising (Center for Internet Security)
- Malvertising: Attack of the Ads (AVG)
- Why Malvertising Is Cybercriminals’ Latest Sweet Spot (Wired)
- You Don’t Want the Malware Prize (The New York Times)