Google's Open ClusterFuzz
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| Google's Open ClusterFuzz | |
| Number | 3464 |
| Broadcast Date | FEBRUARY 7, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 33:08 |
| Hosts | Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Shannon Morse |
Twitter releases numbers, Facebook explains advertisements, Google Fiber declares a mistake and is location data more nefarious than you think?
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Quick Hits
- Twitter reported a 24 percent rise in total revenue last quarter, driven by video ads. Earnings per share came in at 32 cents beating expectations of 25 cents. Monthly active users dropped on the year from 330 million to 321 million as expected due to continuing purges of fake accounts. That's the last quarter you can know that though, as Twitter will stop reporting monthly active users in favor of daily monetizable users. Twitter forecasts lower Q1 revenue and higher full-year operating costs than expected.
- Starting February 28, Facebook's drop-down which explains why users are seeing a particular advertisement will add which of your details were targeted and whether the brand paying for the ad uploaded your contact info in order to match the ad to you. It will also show when the contact info was uploaded and how the brand obtained it.
- Google Fiber announced they will be ending service in Louisville, KY and will not charge for their final two months of service for subscribers. The announcement blames the departure on a faulty infrastructure decision to place their lines in shallow trenches which have proved unreliable and would require another full reinstallation.
- Motorola announced its Moto G7, G7 Power and G7 Play phones all for less than $300. The most expensive, the G7 at $299 has a 6.2-inch LCD screen with 64 GB of storage, 4 GB of RAM and a 3,000mAh battery. The Moto G7 Power at $249 has the same size screen at slightly lower resolution with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage but with a 5000mAh battery. All three models come with Android 9 Pie and have headphone jacks. All three are available now in Brazil and Mexico, coming to Europe in mid-February and the US in the spring.
Top Stories
- In a blog post Thursday, Amazon VP of global public policy at AWS, Michael Punke, said the company supports for “appropriate” legislation surrounding use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement to ensure civil rights aren't being violated. This follows a similar declaration from Microsoft last month saying it discourages the use of technology to engage in unlawful discrimination and encourage customers to be transparent about its use.
- Google announced it's open-sourcing its bug finding infrastructure, ClusterFuzz, on GitHub. Fuzzing is a term for automated software testing process that inputs invalid, unexpected or random data into a computer program which is monitored to see exceptions like crashes and memory leaks. ClusterFuzz is Google's cloud-based implementation that runs on 25,000 cores that was launched in 2012. Two years ago, the company offered ClusterFuzz as a free service to open source projects.
- TechCrunch reports that many iOS apps use services like Glassbox that record the screen when customers use the apps in order to replay them to observe interactions in order to improve the interface. Mobile expert the App Analyst recently discovered that Air Canada's iOS app wasn't properly masking these recordings, meaning personal info like passport and credit card numbers were being sent in the recordings. TechCrunch requested the App Analyst to look at other apps and found while most properly mask data, none indicated the recordings were being made. Theoretically this is because all this information is already being shared with the company through the app.
- Italy will not ban Huawei and ZTE from helping build the country’s 5G network, the industry ministry said in a statement today. Earlier on Thursday, the Italian newspaper La Stampa cited senior government sources saying Rome was ready to use special powers to terminate contracts with the two Chinese companies.
- The Financial Times reports that earnings reports from AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and Charter all reduced capital expenditures in 2018, the first drop in investment in three years. Net neutrality rules stopped being enforced in June 2018 for the first time in about three years. Sprint spent more than $1 billion more on infrastructure last year but told the Financial Times the increase was not due to the change in rules. Uncertainty over the regulatory landscape may have made the change in rules irrelevant to investment decisions.
Discussion
- Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years
Mailbag
- I recently was enjoying a vice podcast through my favorite podcatcher; Pocketcasts.
I got a few episodes in and then they announced that to listen to the rest I would have to go to spotify. It was free but I had to download the app and it didn't have some of the features that pocketcasts has. Not a big pain but feels like they are moving more in the direction of exclusives and keeping people in their ecosystem.
Keep up the great work! - Sent by Sam a patreon in Oregon
- I recently was enjoying a vice podcast through my favorite podcatcher; Pocketcasts.
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