Da Da DUH!

Da Da DUH!
Number	2778
Broadcast Date	JUNE 6, 2016
Episode Length	51:05
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Veronica Belmont

Yes we know YOUR accounts or safe, but Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt go over good account protection practices so you can tell your friend. Your friend Mark. Zuckerberg.

Guest

• Veronica Belmont
  • Botwiki
  • Sword and Laser's Patreon

Headlines

• Cortana is coming to the Xbox One this summer

Xbox One will get Cortana integration this summer changing the voice activation from Xbox to the Cortana trigger and bringing more natural language. Microsoft is primarily focused on getting it working with game functionality but it can bring along your history and Cortana notebook from other machines. Other improvements will include simpler game library navigation, universal app support, and integration of PC gaming into social stream. The preview version rolls out this week, final version later this summer.

• Microsoft launches Planner, a project-management tool part of Office 365

Microsoft launched a project management tool called Office 365 Planner today, rolling out to Enterprise, Business Essentials, Premium and Education plans. It lets you set dues dates, use visual dashboards, share files, chat and send email notifications. Planner is meant for teams while Microsoft Project is meant managing a portfolio of different projects some of which might be using Planner to organize themselves. New features coming in the next few months to Planner include external user access and Android, iOS, and Windows apps.

• T-Mobile's next 'Un-carrier' move is to buy your loyalty with free stuff

T-Mobile announced today it will give the primary account holder of each of its post-paid accounts a single share of T-Mobile USA stock. You can also get a free share of stock for each person you refer who signs up with the service, with a maximum of 100 shares per year. Subscribers of five years or more get two shares per referral. T-Mobile also introduced T-Mobile Tuesdays an app with giveaways. Its free text message service will expand to include iMessage, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp and Viber. And customers can get one free hour of WiFi on domestic flights with GoGo service.

Submitted by tglass1976

• Blizzard will soon let you stream all of its games on Facebook Live

Blizzard and Facebook announced a partnership to integrate Facebook Live into all Blizzard games. A Facebook login option is also being added for all Blizzard’s PC titles.The Facebook integration should be in place later this month.

Submitted by princeboot

• TeamViewer confirms number of abused user accounts is “significant”

Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin interviewed TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt Sunday about the continuing number of TeamViewer accounts being compromised. TeamViewer maintains the majority of the accounts are compromised because of other password leaks like the LinkedIn database and the use of weak passwords in general. TeamViewer complains that people saying they had two-factor authentication and still got hacked, have not shared their logs. TeamViewer has no other evidence of a two-factor compromise. Schmidt also apologized for using the phrase “careless use” in TeamViewer’s initial response to the issue.

Submitted by stevei0

• Netflix is making its first original series out of India

Netflix announced its first Indian original series will be Sacred Games based on the 2006 best-selling novel from Vikram Chandra about India’s criminal underworld. It will be shot in India and produced in collaboration with Phantom Films.

Submitted by KAPT_Kipper

• Mark Zuckerberg's lesser-known social accounts get compromised

Attackers gained access to Mark Zuckerberg’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts. The claimed they got the passwords from LinkedIn’s 2012 password breach were used. The attackers claimed they had Instagram access too, but Facebook says Instagram and Facebook accounts were safe. Zuckerberg has not used any of the affected accounts in many years. Allegedly the password used to gain entry was dadada.

Discussion

• 5 Insider Tips to Protect Yourself Online
• 5 tips to protect yourself online from a Google security expert
• Security and your Apple ID
• 50+ Internet Security Tips & Tricks from Top Experts
• KeePass Password Safe

Pick of the Day

• CHERRY

For anyone looking at new keyboards, I highly recommend getting a keyboard that is made with mechanical key switches from the Cherry MX range. For those that are unfamiliar with Cherry MX switches they are mechanical key switches, like those on old school keyboards, but made in Germany with modern engineering and in a variety of styles. They range from the MX Red Silent that has minimal noise and has a low actuation pressure up to the MX Blue that has a satisfying clackity clack to it and a high actuation pressure like the old IBM keyboards. There are also some more specialty MX switches including the MX Black for professionals and the new MX Speed for gamers. While you can buy keyboards from Cherry themselves you can also buy from many different partners to find the combination of switches, features and lighting you desire. I have a Corsair K70 with MX Browns and a Corsair K70 Rapidfire RGB with MX Speeds that I can’t recommend highly enough. Find more info on the various Cherry switches at cherry.de.

Submitted by Nik

Messages

in the buzz letter department, I think it's likely the next one will be V as in VR. If VR takes off, I think we will have vGames, vSports, vTourism, vClasses, vDiagnosis, vSpace exploration, and more. And it may actually be referring to AR as much as VR, since AR isn't getting the buzz that VR is getting, and people will easily conflate the two. (Although I don't consider either to be buzzwords. :) )

Looking forward to hear what you have to say on the analysts call. No questions, as usual, but I always like the sneak peak behind the scenes.

Thanks.

Sent by Alan

Hi Tom and Crew,

I'm a bit behind, but I have comment about the conversation you and Patrick had about buzzwords. One buzzword that I both think and hope will fade away is "Internet-of-things". Even before this term, I had many "things" connected to the internet: desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, gaming console, set-top box, etc. Why is it that we need a new term now that this list might contain lightbulbs, doorbells, or Echo? What sets those devices apart from the things I already had on my network before the new buzzword?

Thanks for the great show,

Sent by Tom from something-something-weather Kansas

Hey Tom,

The discussion in episode 2776 about the conversational web really got me thinking. I'm a web developer now, but in a previous life I worked on IVR applications. (If you don't know what those are, they're the apps you connect to over the phone when you call customer service, for example, and a robot answers.)

Coming from this perspective, the shift to conversation on the web seems pretty natural. The apps I worked on used a standard called VoiceXML that could easily be incorporated into a web application in the same way that accessibility concerns are addressed for screen readers and the like.

One could imagine services like Alexa becoming a sort of conversational browser with which voice-enabled sites could be accessed. It sure would be an improvement over the Alexa Skills model, as having to install a Skill to use something as one-off as a spoken command is pretty silly.

Come to think of it, maybe this could replace or augment the way we access existing IVR apps. "Alexa, pay my mortgage!"

Just a thought.

Sent by Jon in unsurprisingly sunny Southern California

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