Viva La IPO

Viva La IPO
Number	2777
Broadcast Date	JUNE 5, 2016
Episode Length	1:06:53
Hosts	Peter Wells
Guests	Raj Deut, Justin Gibson

It’s time to change your passwords again, Guvera is worth $1.2billion dollarydoos, and how does a geek pack for a week away?

Guest

• Raj Deut
  • Reckoner
• Justin Gibson

Headlines

It's time to change all your passwords - 642 million accounts have been accessed across LinkedIn, Tumblr, Myspace this week - and to celebrate, here's some stories of recent hacks.

• TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how

A young fellow by the name of 'acedtect' on twitter passed along a great piece from Ars Technica, discussing the possible Team Viewer hacks over the week. Team Viewer has stated there service has not been compromised, and any data breaches would be down to people using the same password on multiple sites. Regardless, teamviewer has upped security on the service, you will now be alerted if teamviwer suspects ne'er do wells are accessing your account - such as IP addresses outside your country, etc.

• How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all

Staying with Ars Technica, they have a guest post by security expert Jeremi M. Gosney, who explains in terrifying detail how the LinkedIn password dump will make cracking passwords even easier in the future.

• Federal Reserve Bank was hacked more than 50 times between 2011 and 2015

A U.S. congressional committee has launched an investigation into the Federal Reserve’s cyber security practices after a Reuters report revealed more than 50 cyber breaches at the U.S. central bank between 2011 and 2015.

• Guvera's $1.3 billion IPO watched closely by ATO, SMSF's and creditors

Let's lighten the mood by discussing ridiculously overpriced start up IPOs. The Australian Financial Review has a great article on local tech start up, Guvera, a music streaming service that is valuing itself at $1.2 billion dollars. Guvera is kinda like Spotify, with three key difference - one free account users can download tracks for offline - handy if you have a small data cap, two brands can create playlists - and this is where Guvera plans to make the majority of it's cash.

• Elon Musk's SpaceX Live-Stream is his most surprising success

India successfully launched a scale model of a reusable spacecraft last month, a project that in time could pit the nation against billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the race to make access to space cheaper and easier. The winged vessel – one-fifth of full size – blasted off on a rocket from Sriharikota base on the southeastern coast, the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The spacecraft reached an altitude of 65 kilometres and glided back at supersonic speeds for a splashdown in the Bay of Bengal. The test took about 13 minutes.

• Fit lot of good! Research reveals more than 3,000 fitness apps simply DO NOT work

News.com.au passes along a story that "fitness apps" do nothing in helping the wearer get fit. The study submitted to the European Obesity Summit compared over 3000 apps, and found most were not based on empirical research, and some calorie trackers were 'wildly inaccurate" at counting calories.

• Google's AI team is developing 'big red button' to switch off systems if they pose a threat to humans

The Daily Mail, which must be the ugliest website on the entire internet, reports that Google is working on a big red button to kill all its AI if needed, as an insurance policy for when the robots rise up and turn against us. I'm sure robots will not feel at all threatened by the existence of a kill switch, and not see it as a declaration of war. The Daily Mail is a pretty awful tabloid site, so take this story with a hefty grain of salt.

Discussion

• Digitally Packing
• What apps do you use?

I've got YouTube red now so I'll be loading a few YouTube shows

Grifin skyview clip

Infuse app

SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick

Prepaid or roaming?

Aim for carry on only?

So what do you leave behind? What will you be packing gear wise?

DSLR or just phone?

Tripod or selfie stick (How dare you)

Pick of the Day

• The Avalanches

Submitted by Peter

• Taika Waititi
• What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Submitted by Justin

• Uncharted 4

Submitted by Raj

Links

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Preceded by: "Fadell leaves the Nest"

Viva La IPO

Followed by: "Da Da DUH!"