- Episode 652
- May 27, 2020
Pizzeria owner discovered--and exploited--a flaw in DoorDash's marketing scheme
The owner of a pizza restaurant in the US has discovered the DoorDash delivery app has been selling his food cheaper than he does - while still paying him full price for orders. A pizza for which he charged $24 was being advertised for $16 on DoorDash - and when he secretly ordered it himself, the app paid his restaurant the full $24 while charging him $16. Opportunity knocked, and he answered.
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- Episode 652
- May 27, 2020
Microsoft has fixed a critical vulnerability affecting ALL Windows versions since 1996
Researchers have shown that a vulnerability in a decades-old Microsoft Windows component that controls printing could be abused by malicious actors to gain elevated privileges on the targeted system, and it's been sitting in plain sight in every version of Windows since NT 4.0.
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- Episode 652
- May 27, 2020
Unmanned drones will slash NHS delivery times to a remote Scottish hospital
Remote-control drones will be used to deliver coronavirus testing kits to a remote Scottish hospital – and they're being flown outside of the operators' direct line of sight.
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- Episode 651
- May 20, 2020
Equifax Is Paying The Wrong People Following 2017's Data Breach
Equifax has finally settled following their massive data breach, but as it turns out, and in contrast to what was previously promised, none of the money will be going to the people affected by the breach.
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- Episode 651
- May 20, 2020
Facebook Has Bought GIPHY
Seven years ago, Facebook claimed not to support the 21st century's new favorite communication tool, the animated GIF. Oh, how times have changed: Now, Facebook's newest acquisition is one of the Internet's most popular GIF hosting sites, GIPHY.
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- Episode 651
- May 20, 2020
Is this real life? Microsoft is now the biggest single contributor to open source.
The pigs are flying! Microsoft has certainly changed since the days of branding Linux a cancer. The software giant is now the single largest contributor to open-source projects in the world, beating Facebook, Docker, Google, Apache, and many others.
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- Episode 651
- May 20, 2020
What'd They Think Would Happen? Songwriting AI Uses Reddit, Turns Evil.
A team of Dutch academics who, after an experiment in songwriting using artificial intelligence algorithms, inadvertently created a new musical genre: Eurovision Technofear. To generate the lyrics, they used a separate AI system based on the social-media platform Reddit. It was this that resulted in a rallying cry for a revolution, with a song that crescendos as a robotic voice urges listeners to “kill the government, kill the system."
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- Episode 651
- May 20, 2020
OnePlus Released a Phone That Can Do WHAT?!
OnePlus has apologized, and will remove an accidental “X-ray” functionality from its OnePlus 8 Pro phone which allowed users to see through clothing.
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- Episode 650
- May 13, 2020
Nearby Black Hole Discovered
There's a black hole lurking within 1,000 light years of Earth and people in the southern hemisphere can see stars circling it with the naked eye.
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- Episode 650
- May 13, 2020
Nintendo Source Code Leaked
An anonymous hacker leaked around 2TB worth of source code related to the Nintendo Wii, GameCube, and Nintendo 64 designs. This cache includes Verilog code for the hardware--essentially the coded blueprints for the various chips.
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