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A new kind of business fraud is on the rise. If your boss calls you, be wary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A crazy new iPhone hack has been revealed. And based on the clues we've got, it looks like a government trying to spy on its citizens. Be careful out there! https://www.wired.com/story/ios-attack-watering-hole-project-zero/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ring has created something like a social network for video surveillance, and police departments are making use of it. This debate is going to get heated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Anthony Levandowski is the self-driving vehicle pioneer accused of stealing Google trade secrets. His arc is, in my mind, very much the story of Silicon Valley's Icarusev. Read more here: https://www.wired.com/story/ex-uber-engineer-levandowski-charged-trade-secret-theft/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Open AI built a tool for language generation, but they decided it was risky so they locked it up. But now two graduate students have come and replicated it. They just took the idea and did the same thing. And, in their success, lies a really interesting lesson about how technology works today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The carriers finally take bold action against Robocalls, spurred on by the states. This is good! But it’s also nuts that it took them this long. Read more here: https://www.wired.com/story/attorneys-general-robocalls-telecoms/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new strategy for combatting online extremism on social media platforms. Would it be better to randomly knock off bad actors, instead of banning large groups en masse—for fear they might regroup? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Alibaba has called off its listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Yes, it’s partly because of the instability. But it’s also just a way to please Beijing. And there’s a deep irony: HK could have had the original listing in 2014 if, like the US, it was OK with dual-class stock systems that centralize power with executives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Facebook is launching a new News Tab, starting a new chapter in the vexed, complicated, messy relationship between the platform and the press. And actually, I think it’s off to a pretty good start. Read more about Facebook's troubled relationship with publishers here: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...

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Google shuts down a service that helps cell carriers find gaps in coverage. It's a pretty interesting example of the new privacy-centered world we live in, and why sometimes that means we lose things that are good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We now have the S1 of WeWork and boy does it raise a lot of red flags: about the finances, about management, about the future. It feels like one of those insane Silicon Valley startups that appears in a bubble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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