David Spark's Tales of RSA
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| David Spark's Tales of RSA | |
| Number | 3483 |
| Broadcast Date | MARCH 7, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 31:42 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Justin Robert Young, David Spark |
David Spark from Spark Media Solutions is back with a full roundup from this year’s RSA conference.
Guest
Quick Hits
- The joint health-care venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan will be called Haven. The three companies announced the venture in January 2018 and named Dr. Atul Gawande as CEO last June. Haven will work with existing care providers and focus on helping employees of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan navigate the health care process.
- Microsoft beat its big cloud provider competitors to opening a data center in South Africa. Huawei's is coming later this year and Amazon's is scheduled for 2020. Facilities in Cape Town and Johannesberg offer Azure Services and Office 365 hosting will arrive in Q3 with Dynamics 365 following in Q4. Say goodbye to those high ping times, South African gamers! Also, Ars Technica notes that Microsoft is investing in a fiber network reaching Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and soon Angola.
- Nintendo announced new products in its cardboard Labo line. The Labo VR Kit costs $79.99 with six different VR kits including just plain old VR Goggles, or the goggles with extensions like a blaster, a camera, a bird, an elephant and a foot-operated Wind pedal. A basic kit for $39.99 has just the goggles and blaster with two $20 Expansion sets adding either the Camera & Elephant or Bird & Wind Petal. All the new VR Kits will be available April 12.
Top Stories
- A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
- Zuckerberg outlines plan for 'privacy-focused' Facebook
- Why Zuckerberg’s 'Privacy-Focused' Vision for Facebook Is Not Entirely Pro-Privacy
- Zuckerberg wants messages to auto-expire to make Facebook a ‘living room’
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a post on Facebook Wednesday titled, "A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking." In it, he emphasized Facebook's commitment to becoming a privacy-focused platform around the following principles: Private interactions, end-to-end encryption, reducing permanence, safety, interoperability, and secure data storage. Zuckerberg said, "Over the next few years, we plan to rebuild more of our services around these ideas." The interoperability section notes that Facebook wants to let users opt into the ability to send messages across Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, and expand to include RCS on its Android apps. Messenger can currently do SMS on Android.
- Google is expanding its Duplex AI-based appointment reservation assistant from a limited test in four cities to Pixel 3 owners wanting in 43 US states. It will work with any restaurant that takes reservations but doesn't have an online booking option already. The service will roll out to users on other Android devices as well as iOS, in the coming weeks.
- Huawei filed a complaint in US Federal Court Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of Section 899 of the National Defense Authorization Act. That section bans the use of Huawei and ZTE technology by US government contractors on the basis of national security. Huawei claims there is no evidence that its products pose a security threat. Huawei claims this constitutes a bill of attainder-- an act of legislation that targets a person or group to punish them without trial-- which is specifically forbidden in the US Constitution Article I Sections 9 and 10. Similarly targeted Kaspersky Labs has filed a similar suit without success. No other country has yet banned Huawei equipment.
- - Britain's National Cyber Security Center last reviewed Huawei equipment in July and found low risk "shortcomings" none of which were deemed hostile.
- - Documents released by Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that the US planted surveillance beacons in Cisco routers which have since been banned for use by authorities in China.
- 78-year-old Jeopardy host Alex Trebek posted a video on YouTube Wednesday to announce he had been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer. He said, "I also wanted to prevent you from reading or hearing some overblown or inaccurate reports regarding my health. Therefore, I wanted to be the one to pass along this information."
- Microsoft is open sourcing Windows calculator, AKA calc.exe, with source coce available on GitHub today under the MIT permissive license, including the build system, unit tests, and the product road map for the calculator feature in Windows. Microsoft previously open-sourced the original File Manager to let it run on Windows 10, and recently made 60,000 patents open-source to help protect Linux.
Discussion
Mailbag
- Instead of a Ring video doorbell, I went with a Skybell because it works in a wider range of temperatures (I live in Vermont) and provides a week's worth of saved videos without having to pay a monthly fee. Instead of the Instant Pot, I went with a Zavor, which America's Test Kitchen found to be superior in several ways. ATK found the Instant Pot didn't sear well, and was bad at pressure cooking compared to the competition. And the Zavor has an alert if your top doesn't seal correctly, which is a common problem on the Instant Pot (which will just forever try to get to pressure but fail if the seal isn't good).
It's really important to vote with your dollars and support the company producing the superior product. If we just support the "popular", mediocre product and not the best product, then the companies producing good products aren't going to succeed and we're going to be forever stuck with only mediocre (or bad) options. - Sent by Scott
- Instead of a Ring video doorbell, I went with a Skybell because it works in a wider range of temperatures (I live in Vermont) and provides a week's worth of saved videos without having to pay a monthly fee. Instead of the Instant Pot, I went with a Zavor, which America's Test Kitchen found to be superior in several ways. ATK found the Instant Pot didn't sear well, and was bad at pressure cooking compared to the competition. And the Zavor has an alert if your top doesn't seal correctly, which is a common problem on the Instant Pot (which will just forever try to get to pressure but fail if the seal isn't good).
- Dear Tom, Sarah and Crew,
Thank you so much for all that you do! I just recently became a patron (albeit at the $1 level) and am so proud to be able to say I support independent tech news. I have always told friends, family, and co-workers about the show but now I can say that I am supporting it directly. Keep up the amazing perspective that you bring to the world of tech journalism as well as the Frogpants and Diamond Club communities. I really don't know what I would do without you in my workday.
Cheers and Mahalo from Maui! - Sent by John
- Dear Tom, Sarah and Crew,
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