DTNS 2668 - Headlines Only
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| Headlines Only | |
| Number | 2668 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 18, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 16:56 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
It’s the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the US, so it’s just Tom with a few headlines and a couple of emails today.
Guest
Headlines
- At the DLD Conference in Munich, WhatsAPP CEO Jan Koum announced the app will drop it’s 99-cent annual subscription fee. It plans to test business to consumer communications as a source of revenue. Koum hastened to say the platform will not turn to advertising for revenue. Koum named Bank of America and American Airlines as the kinds of businesses that would test communication tools. WhatsApp is also adding encryption gradually with the goal of having end to end encryption.
- Reuters reports malware similar to that used in an attack on Ukrainian power companies in December was found on a computer in in the IT Network at Kiev’s Boryspil airport. The network includes air traffic control. The malware was detected early and no damage was done. Ukraine's state-run Computer Emergency Response Team issued a warning Monday recommending SysAdmins check log-files and traffic.
- Microsoft announced Friday that after July 17, 2017 it will reduce support for Windows 7 and and 8.1 on Intel’s Skylake processors to only the most critical security patches. For non-Skylake machines full patches will continue for Windows 7 until Jan. 14, 2020 and 8.1 until January 10, 2023. Also INtel’s forthcoming Kaby Lake, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 and AMD’s Bristol Ridge will only be supported on Windows 10. No word yet on whether the policy will apply to servers as well.
- The Wall Street Journal notes Qualcomm and the Chinese province of Guizhou announced a joint-venture semiconductor company at a ceremony in Beijing Sunday. The province will own 55% of the venture with Qualcomm holding the remaining 45%. Qualcomm will also license server chip technology and provide research and development processes to the joint venture.
- Pakistan said Monday it has removed a ban on YouTube after Google launched a localized homepage for the site. The new site allows the government to ask for offending material to be blocked. Pakistan banned access to YouTube in September 2012 over an anti-Islam film.
- CSO has a story of a presentation at Shmoocon Saturday by the CTO of Praesidio, Sean Cassidy. The presentation outlined a Phishing attack against LastPass to mimic the design of authentication dialog boxes in order to capture a master password. The attack would leverage compromised websites or cross-site-scripting. It could even capture and relay two-factor authentication codes which would allow the attacker to make herself the emergency contact or make the attacker’s server a trusted device.
- Submitted by jsnphil
- Ars Technica reports that Apple announced Friday it will shut down its Pandora-like iTunes Radio service January 28th. Apple Music subscribers will continue to be able to create stations with the feature but non-subscribers will only have access to Beats 1.
- Submitted by PhilipShane
Discussion
Pick of the Day
- Hi Tom, Jennie & the rest of the gang. I want to recommend Firefox on Android. It allows a user to install add-ons for gestures, script blocking, and the like, but my favorite feature at the moment is "Open Later". I can queue a bunch of links from Google Now, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Queuing the links puts a notification in the notification shade to indicate how many links are queued. When I'm ready, I can head over to firefox for a binge reading session. I find it really saves time when I don't have to jump between apps to read articles. Have a splendid week!
- Submitted by Amy from snowy and delightful Kansas City
Messages
- Just catching up with last week's shows and was listening to Tom and Patrick wax on about tech in the 80's. I love looking back on those times as I grew up myself in New York during the 70's and 80's and was an active BBS'er. For any other old fogies out there like us, I'd highly recommend checking out Halt and Catch Fire which was just renewed for a 3rd season. The first two take place in Texas's "Silicon Prarie" during the early days of PC's and moves into the online world of BBS's in season 2. It's very technically and technologically astute, I feel like I'm watching Madmen for the PC world. Great performances and writing as well, strong female leads, what's not to like? :)
Thanks as always for a great show! - Sent by Levi Wallach
- Just catching up with last week's shows and was listening to Tom and Patrick wax on about tech in the 80's. I love looking back on those times as I grew up myself in New York during the 70's and 80's and was an active BBS'er. For any other old fogies out there like us, I'd highly recommend checking out Halt and Catch Fire which was just renewed for a 3rd season. The first two take place in Texas's "Silicon Prarie" during the early days of PC's and moves into the online world of BBS's in season 2. It's very technically and technologically astute, I feel like I'm watching Madmen for the PC world. Great performances and writing as well, strong female leads, what's not to like? :)
- Hi Tom, Jennie, and Patrick (headlines only on Monday?),
tl;dr - Neglecting your core audience is a great way to hurt your business.
Just wanted to write in and back up Peter Wells about his comment about how a core audience can make or break a community. Remember the lolcats? I was part of the rise, and subsequent fall, of The Cheezburger Network, formally just I Can Has Cheezburger. Once the company got funding the focus shifted away from the core audience, people who enjoy cute animal pictures or humorous fails, and towards growing new users by constantly chasing whatever was hot for the moment. As Peter mentioned the majority of the content came from a small number of users, and as those users were driven away by neglect the content began to suffer until it had done irreparable harm.
To see what irreparable harm looks like expand this chart out to the beginning of 2010: https://www.quantcast.com/p-75z9nhQwNH4Ek
Thanks, - Sent by Undercover Boss, writing from an undisclosed location
- Hi Tom, Jennie, and Patrick (headlines only on Monday?),
- Data caps are like a gym charging you for lifting more weight or for more reps just because they can. You pay for a gym membership, and that comes with the understanding and expectation that you'll be able to achieve your goals using the equipment that belongs to the gym. But imagine that they say that if you want to increase how much you lift, or that you want to work out a specific area longer that you would have to pay a premium. Ludicrous. It's the same with the networks. There is a small amount of maintenance but nothing that justifies the caps and premiums they claim. It's just a blatant attempt to wring out every last penny from their locked down and optionless customers.
- Sent by Joseph from Greenville, SC
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