Freshly returned from spring break, El Kaiser and JD jump into the week’s headlines — including government attempts to regulate technology platforms and robots rolling through Walmart. JD also has a (Hopefully) Helpful Hint for wrangling the massive photo collection stuffed on your smartphone. Push play to hear it all on Episode 306!
- Julian Assange Charged by U.S. With Conspiracy to Hack a Government Computer (The New York Times)
- WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy (United States Department of Justice)
- The UK’s online laws could be the future of the internet—and that’s got people worried (MIT Technology Review)
- The Online Harms White Paper (GOV.UK)
- Websites to be fined over ‘online harms’ under new proposals (BBC News)
- The Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction (DETOUR) Act (Scribd)
- U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban ‘dark patterns’ tricks (Reuters)
- YouTube Disables Comments on Livestream of Hearing on Hate Speech (Variety)
- #SquadGoals: How Automated Assistants are Helping Us Work Smarter (Walmart Newsroom)
- Walmart to expand in-store tech, including Pickup Towers for online orders and robots (TechCrunch)
- Asking Alexa for news no longer has to stop with the latest headlines (Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa (Bloomberg)
- Facebook’s new Watch Party video-streaming feature is wildly popular with pirates, who use it to run illicit movie marathons (Business Insider India)
- AP to fact-check video, Spanish-language content on Facebook (Associated Press)
- Opera introduces Reborn 3, the first desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker (Opera blog)
- Will Apple Just Kill iTunes Already? (Gizmodo)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- Organizing Your Unwieldy Photo Collection Is Easier Than You Think (The New York Times)
