FCC Plans For Government Shutdown
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| FCC Plans For Government Shutdown | |
| Number | 713 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 1, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 2:29 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
The FCC plans for continuing government shutdown, Waymo vehicles vandalized in Arizona, and Netflix poaches Activision Blizzard’s CFO.
Headlines
- The Federal Communication Commission announced Monday that it will begin suspending operations as of January 3rd if the US government shutdown is not resolved. "Work required for the protection of life and property", spectrum auctions, and the Office of the Inspector General will remain in operation. Consumer complaint phone lines, consumer protection and competition enforcement, licensing services, radio spectrum management, and equipment authorizations will all be suspended during the shutdown.
- Reuters reports that Activision Blizzard CFO Spencer Neumann has been poached to take on the same role at Netflix. In a regulatory filing Monday, Activision disclosed that Neumann had been placed on paid leave, and that the company intended to fire him "for cause unrelated to the company’s financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures.”
- The New York Times reports that at least 21 attacks against autonomous vehicles have been reported in the two years since Waymo began testing them in Chandler, Arizona. These range from slashed tires and pelting vehicles with rocks, to threatening safety drivers with a pistol or running the cars off the road. Safety drivers have told Chandler Police that Waymo prefers not to pursue prosecution against assailants, and often will not provide video of incidents without a warrant. In a statement, Waymo stated that any incidents represent only a small fraction of the more than 25,000 miles the vehicles drive daily in the area.
- Mozilla confirmed to VentureBeat that it tested placing partner referral snippets at the bottom of the new tab screen with 25% of Firefox users. Mozilla does not call this an ad and it was not paid placement, rather it was "an experiment to provide more value to Firefox users through offers provided by a partner." Mozilla maintains this was an experiment, with no immediate plans to implement further, and that no user data was shared with partners.
- Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch reports that the popular Twinning app from Popsugar stored user photos in an unencrypted Amazon S3 storage bucket. This meant anyone could view and download any photos uploaded to the service. Shortly after publication of the report, PopSugar encrypted the bucket, and acknowledged that permissions were not properly setup initially.
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