Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Internet Regulation
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| Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Internet Regulation | |
| Number | 800 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 1, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 5:06 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
Mark Zuckerberg calls for internet regulation, Jeff Bezos’ security consultant claims Saudi Arabia had access to Bezos’ phone, and Cloudflare releases a VPN.
Headlines
- In an Op-Ed for the Daily Beast, security consultant Gavin De Becker “concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone,” as a result of an investigation into how The National Enquirer obtained intimate exchanges between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. de Becker could not prove a direct link between The Enquirer's access to the material and Saudi access to Bezos' phone, but he found that the Enquirer indicated it had knowledge of the exchanges prior to receiving them from the reported source, Michael Sanchez. The Enquirer's parent company AMI denied Saudi Arabia was involved. Findings of the investigation have been passed on to federal officials.
- Mark Zuckerberg published an Op-Ed in the Washington Post calling for Internet regulation across four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In the piece, he suggest creating "third-party bodies to set standards governing the distribution of harmful content" and having companies graded against those standards, privacy regulation in the mold of the EU's GDPR, and support for the Data Transfer Project for standardizing data portability.
- The Wall Street Journal published additional findings about failures of Care.com in vetting caregivers and day care centers. The Journal claims that Care.com deleted 72% of day-care centers, over 46,000 business, previously listed on their site days before the initial report came out, while Care.com states it removed only 45%, but didn't provide a total number. The original report found that Care.com listed hundreds of daycare centers as falsely having state certification, as well as listing care givers with criminal records who then went on to commit crimes against someone they were caring for.
- Facebook announced the "why am I seeing this" feature for the news feed, providing details into how its algorithm sorts non-ad content for the first time. The explanation will also feature shortcuts to See First, Unfollow, News Feed Preferences and Privacy settings to allow for further news feed customization. The feature is rolling out to all users and will be available across Facebook on May 2nd.
- Cloudflare announced an update to their 1.1.1.1 App, which now integrates a VPN called Warp. Warp encrypts all internet traffic from a device to the point it hits Cloudflare's network and uses a Google developed protocol called QUIC which builds on UDP to offer improved reliability, replacing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Cloudflare claims using QUIC and routing traffic over their wide network will noticeably decrease page loads while offering improved security. Warp will be available in an update to the 1.1.1.1 app as of April 1st, with paid plans available for greater access speed.
- Google announced new features for Gmail. Webmail users will now have the option to scheduling emails from the compose window. Gmail's smart compose feature is also coming to all Android users, after an initial launch on Google's Pixel phones, and coming to iOS soon according to G Suite director of product management Jacob Bank. Smart Compose can now also suggest subject lines, adapt to a users writing style, and supports Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
- In an emailed media statement, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering Dan Riccio announced that Apple was cancelling its previously announced AirPower wireless charging mat. Riccio cited failure to achieve “high standards”. AirPower was originally announced in September 2017.
- THX announced it will debut it's large format THX Ultimate Cinema by this summer at the Regency Westwood Village Theatre in LA. The format features a dual-laser 4K Barco projectors and a THX-certified 7.1 immersive sound system. THX pledges to master at least 30 films per year for its system, and the projectors are compatible regular movies via Digital Cinema Package projection.
- Airbnb confirmed it has invested in India's hospitality services and booking aggregator OYO, which sources tell TechCrunch was worth between $150 to $200 million. In a late 2018 funding round, OYO was valued at $5 billion. The companies are exploring having some of OYO's 500,000 rooms across 13,000 hotels and 6,000 homes in eight countries listed on Airbnb.
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told the Financial Times that Fortnight's collaborative building Creative mode has attracted 100 million players since launching in December 2018. Epic Games had previously disclosed in March that Fortnight had over 250 million registered players. Sweeney stated he sees the game and Creative Mode specifically as part of a continuum to transition people from playing games to eventually creating them in Unreal Engine.
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Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Internet Regulation |
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