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JULY 2019 DTNS UPDATE

Summertiiiiime And the tech news is … well not easy so much as enjoyable. Lots of room to take longer more introspective looks at stories. Not as many “big announcements’ so we can fit in more science tech and trends stories. Hope you’re enjoying it as much as we are.

And of course ...

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Insulin pumps are vulnerable to hacks - ThreatWire Crosspost

by Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a news release on their website detailing warnings about Medtronic insulin pumps. These are small computerized devices that deliver i...

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July 2019 Rewards

Happy July! Thanks so much for being part fo the DTNS crew! Here are all the things you need to know to get your just rewards.

Depending on which tier you're on you can get DTNS or Good Day Internet (at higher tiers you can even get both) in a special RSS feed through Patreon.

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Video - 2019 Q2 Analyst Hangout – DTNS

 Check out what we covered with everyone in out DTNS 2019 Q2 analyst level hang-out.  

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2019 Q2 Analyst Hangout – DTNS

Check out what we covered with everyone in out DTNS 2019 Q2 analyst level hang-out. 

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What You Should Know about RAMBleed - Threatwire Crosspost

By Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

Rowhammer was a 2015 flaw that could repeatedly access rows of cells of memory in DRAM to introduce bit flips...

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DTNS Quarterly Hangout - Thursday June 20th

Come checkout our DTNS quarterly hangout this Thursday June 20th at 3pm Pacific on Twitch. Be part of conversation on how things are going and brainstorm ideas for the show.


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The Surveillance State Always Rings Twice - Threatwire CrossPost


by Shannon Morse, ThreatWire 

Helpful neighborhood watch? Or surveillance state network? Earlier this year, Ring, the Amazon owned company that makes smart doorbells and cameras, posted about their Ne...

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Who's Responsible for Tech's Social Disruptions? - DTNS SPECIAL

Why is our political discourse so divisive? How much of it is technology's fault? and Who needs to step up and fix it? Tom talks with Yaël Eisenstat, a policy adviser at the Center for Humane Technology about all these questi...

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DTNS June 2019 Update

June! Moon! Spoon!  Meetup!  Yes indeed! We are having a goshderened in person meetup in Los Angeles. Come to the Farmer’s Market at 3rd and Fairfax and raise a glass of your favorite beverage to five years of the Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rog...

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Quest Diagnostics Health Data Breach - Threatwire CrossPost

By Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

According to a release published on June 3 by Quest Diagnostics-- a medical tes...

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What is ARM anyway? - Editor's Desk

Tom gives an overview of what ARM is, how it doesn't make chips but is still responsible for the majority of mobile chip design, and some interesting aspects of its history.


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ARM is not a chip maker. A lot of folks don't realize this. Some do. But I thought I would dig...

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Thank YOU!

Happy June! Your membership powers DTNS!!! Here's all the things you need to know to get your just rewards.


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AMD Announces Zen 2 CPUs at Computex - DTH

AMD, Nvidia, and Arm all have big announcements from Computex, Huawei leaves standards bodies, and Microsoft gives more details about xCloud.

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Hacking Plane Navigation - ThreatWire Crosspost

By Shannon Morse, ThreatWire 

All planes, big and small, use radio to land. This is called an instrument landing system or ILS for short. They allow an airplane to precisely approach a runway with real time guid...

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Is The Old Newspaper Front Page The Solution? - Editor's Desk

Tom has a revelation that maybe some of the old newsy ways are best. He generalizes fromt hat question to others as well.

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Card Skimming Javascript - Threatwire Crosspost

by Shannon Morse, Threatwire

More than 100 e-commerce sites have been hosting malicious card skimming Javascript that can steal credit card details whenever a user enters their card info upon checkout, according...

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RFID, Is it Secret? Is It Safe? - DTNS Special

How much should we worry about RFID? Should we get an RFID-blocking wallet? Should we not use it at all?

Jordan Frith is the incoming Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University

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Jabra Elite 65t Ear Buds - Live With It

Sarah reports in on her three months living with the Jabra Elite 65t ear buds. 

Jabra Elite 65t Alexa Enabled True Wireless Earbuds with Charging Case  – Titanium Black 

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What should be the next product Sarah will Live With?

Sarah's going to report on her three months with the Jabra earphones. What should be her next product to live with?

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Right to Repair Killed- Threatwire Crosspost

Chosen by our ThreatWire Patreon patrons this week is a story on Right to Repair legislation… or, the lack thereof. 

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May 2019 DTNS Update

May 2019. I never imagined it like this. I thought I’d be-- well when I was younger, I thought the apocalypse might have come-- but I certainly thought I’d have an office style job of some sort. Maybe at a newspaper or radio station. But instead the future, at least in this respect, is much m...

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Should Creators Trust YouTube? - DTNS Special

Longtime YouTube creator Jason Inman talks about YouTube's latest plea for creator trust.

Jason Inman is the host of Geek History Lesson, a show runner's assis...

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Perks for Patrons!

Happy May Day! Your membership powers DTNS!!! Here's all the things you need to know to get your just rewards.

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Millions of IoT Devices Exposed

by Shannon Morse, Threatwire  

Millions of baby monitors, webcams, security cameras, DVRs, and smart doorbells are vulnerable to P2P flaws that would allow an attacker to eavesdrop, steal credentials, or even remotel...

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WiFi Security Vulnerability 'DragonBlood" - Threatwire Crosspost

By Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

WPA3, which is the newest generation of WiFi Protected Access protocol was released about 15 months ago and at the time, was revered as being very secure against password based att...

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DTNS Special: AI and Machine Learning Explained

We talk about artificial intelligence a lot these days and I see several reactions in the audience. Some people think it's ALL hype. Some people think it's just a fancy word for algorithm. And some people just want to understand what it is.

Here to help us with that is 

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AirBnB Hidden Cameras - Threatwire CrossPost

By Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

AirBnB-- inexpensive world travel or creepy spy cams galore? In the case of a family from New Zealand who was on holiday in Ireland, creepy spy cam. Upon unpacking, one of the family...

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April 2019 DTNS UPDATE

MONTHLY DTNS UPDATE

April showers us with TECH NEWS. Kind of. In any case May will certainly flower with dev conferences. Yesterday we did our first test run of streaming to Twitch. Those who saw us experiment with this last year should know that this is a much better setup...

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The State of Your Right to Repair - Threatwire Crosspost

By Shannon Morse, Threatwire 

Right to Repair advocates for users to have the authority to repair their own technology without being punished by the law, and it just hit the news again in a big way. <...

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