562: It’s Fuego Out There

A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, isn't it?

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IN THE NEWS

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Elon Musk discloses that Tesla owns Dogecoin, but how much does it have?

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MEDIA CANDY

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Netflix lost nearly 1 million subscribers last quarter

Netflix is fighting password sharing in Latin America by charging for additional 'homes'

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APPS & DOODADS

Instagram is dead by Om Malik

Instagram rolling out new map experience to help users discover more places

Empire Avenue

Dbrand’s ‘Something’ skins make your phone look like a Nothing Phone 1

TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

US Congress calls for the FTC to regulate how VPN companies operate

Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases

TikTok's global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy

Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations

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