Speaker 0: Lead story from Monday excuse me, Thursday, June
Speaker 0: nineteenth. President Trump has extended the TikTok sale
Speaker 0: deadline in United States by the by another
Speaker 0: ninety days, delaying the enforcement of a law
Speaker 0: mandating its sale or ban due to national
Speaker 0: security concerns. Despite bipartisan criticism, the president cited
Speaker 0: TikTok's role in the twenty twenty four campaign
Speaker 0: success. So ByteDance now has until September seventeenth
Speaker 0: to finalize a deal pending approval from Chinese
Speaker 0: authorities. I wanna welcome you to episode one
Speaker 0: thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. I'm your
Speaker 0: host, Todd Cochran. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the
Speaker 0: show. And, boy, I tell you, the TikTok
Speaker 0: thing has got people seriously divided. Those that
Speaker 0: use it want it. Those that hate it
Speaker 0: want it to go away. And, I just
Speaker 0: don't think it's gonna go away. I I
Speaker 0: really don't. I don't think it's gonna happen
Speaker 0: under this administration. I just, that's the way
Speaker 0: it looks. That's the way it feels. That's
Speaker 0: the way it smells. So, you know, sometimes
Speaker 0: that's the way it goes. And, regardless of
Speaker 0: what the security threats are. And, of course,
Speaker 0: the video app has faced questions over its
Speaker 0: future since the US law was passed. Remember,
Speaker 0: the US law was passed and signed by
Speaker 0: president Biden. Lawmakers, of course, say it continues
Speaker 0: to pose a risk in national security. And,
Speaker 0: of course, president has vowed to save TikTok
Speaker 0: during his presidential campaign. Of course, he signed
Speaker 0: executive order. I think this is the second
Speaker 0: delay or third. And, in a statement, TikTok
Speaker 0: said it was grateful and, keeping the app
Speaker 0: online for its hundred and seventy million US
Speaker 0: users. But they get they made an interesting
Speaker 0: comment. They say we continue to work with
Speaker 0: vice president Vance's office. Now, you know, president
Speaker 0: vice president Vance, I believe he was a
Speaker 0: senator, right, or a representative, one of the
Speaker 0: two. So So he was involved in the
Speaker 0: vote to, to get rid of it, or
Speaker 0: maybe he'd already stepped down by that time.
Speaker 0: But, again, people are not happy about this.
Speaker 0: And, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said
Speaker 0: on Wednesday that a further ninety day extension
Speaker 0: would ensure the deal is closed. Well, we
Speaker 0: will see it. It hasn't gotten closed this
Speaker 0: quick yet. And, of course, we know that,
Speaker 0: the president has a a soft spot for
Speaker 0: TikTok because it it they thought he thinks
Speaker 0: it helped him win the election. So time
Speaker 0: will tell. And, of course, senate select committee
Speaker 0: intel unintelligence vice chairman Mark Warner, Democrat, criticized,
Speaker 0: Trump's decision. And, so we will see we'll
Speaker 0: see where this leads. But, one thing's for
Speaker 0: sure, TikTok TikTok is here for at least
Speaker 0: another ninety days, and you can buy all
Speaker 0: your TikTok gear, and you can get sold
Speaker 0: too, and you can find the real news
Speaker 0: of what's going on in the world. Of
Speaker 0: course, Twitter has been better for seeing what's
Speaker 0: been happening in Iran, ironically. Haven't seen as
Speaker 0: much good fit, coverage on TikTok when you
Speaker 0: search. It's it's some of the same because
Speaker 0: there's limited clips coming out. So I I
Speaker 0: think someone said that, Elon Musk turned on
Speaker 0: the, the stovepipe for Starlink antennas, but I
Speaker 0: might be wrong on that. But, lots to
Speaker 0: share, in this regard. That is for sure.
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Speaker 0: and and going strong. How's everybody doing? Hope
Speaker 0: you're doing well. I'm, I'm, like, literally not
Speaker 0: enough hours in the day this week. And
Speaker 0: I had, employee I take a lot of
Speaker 0: pride in spending, a lot of time doing
Speaker 0: my performance reviews. Even when I was active
Speaker 0: duty in the navy, I spent a lot
Speaker 0: of time. And this week, I probably spent
Speaker 0: twenty hours, I think writing seven performance eight
Speaker 0: performance reviews. I'm really meticulous because I feel
Speaker 0: if someone is going to, put their time,
Speaker 0: their effort into building the company and and
Speaker 0: being a team, it's it's it's for me,
Speaker 0: it's my responsibility to give them honest and
Speaker 0: good feedback. And, so I spent a lot
Speaker 0: of time on it. And, didn't use AI.
Speaker 0: I don't I everything is written, by me
Speaker 0: on performance reviews. That's one thing where you
Speaker 0: can't and AI doesn't know my team members.
Speaker 0: Impossible, to do that. So, definitely, spent some
Speaker 0: time on that, then I had a whole
Speaker 0: bunch of other tasks. I didn't get the
Speaker 0: podcast news and myth recorded today, so I
Speaker 0: may have to do that, tomorrow so we
Speaker 0: can get it out tomorrow. But, anyway, very,
Speaker 0: very busy week, and I I'm very much
Speaker 0: looking forward to, to the weekend here. Lots
Speaker 0: of things going on in in the new
Speaker 0: space and, lots of yeah. And I didn't
Speaker 0: know what to lead with that you know,
Speaker 0: I was considering leading with this, you know,
Speaker 0: SpaceX Starship blowing up on the test stand.
Speaker 0: Oh my goodness. Did you see the video?
Speaker 0: You know, they didn't have to wait to
Speaker 0: go to space this time. They they blew
Speaker 0: it up on the test stand, and it
Speaker 0: blew up in a big, big, big explosion.
Speaker 0: And, it was kinda funny because Elon said,
Speaker 0: ah, just a scratch. I think more than
Speaker 0: a scratch. So they've had major, major issues
Speaker 0: with this, with this version. There is something.
Speaker 0: Now from the far, far away videos I
Speaker 0: saw, it looked like some gas vented. And
Speaker 0: when it did, it went boom. And, so
Speaker 0: we'll see. Now luckily, no one was hurt
Speaker 0: because they have a safety area, safety clear
Speaker 0: area around the site and all personnel safe.
Speaker 0: So now it's just, you know, the construction
Speaker 0: workers are gonna have to come over there
Speaker 0: and rebuild that, and they don't they're not
Speaker 0: gonna launch. You know? They this this next
Speaker 0: launch, that was their ship, the stack. So,
Speaker 0: now they got one out of order. So
Speaker 0: ship number thirty six becomes ship number thirty
Speaker 0: seven, but or it was oh, it's thirty
Speaker 0: three. No. No. No. No. I think it
Speaker 0: was it doesn't matter. But, anyway, it went
Speaker 0: kaboom in a big explosion. And and there
Speaker 0: was people you know, someone on YouTube is
Speaker 0: just about, oh my god. This is a
Speaker 0: bad this is just a major he he
Speaker 0: was like, I I feel like somebody just
Speaker 0: died. And I'm like, it's a spacecraft test
Speaker 0: spacecraft, and they're doing testing, and they're pushing
Speaker 0: the limits. And sometimes when you have lots
Speaker 0: lots and lots of flammable liquid and sometimes
Speaker 0: non liquid gases, things go boom. And when
Speaker 0: they do, you learn from it, and you
Speaker 0: make sure that it doesn't go boom again.
Speaker 0: So, yeah, it's too bad. So, anyway, they'll
Speaker 0: have some time there, but, you know, the
Speaker 0: money the money that just jeez. I don't
Speaker 0: I don't know how much one of those
Speaker 0: cost, but this was fully equipped ready to
Speaker 0: rock and roll. Now we've we've heard about
Speaker 0: security breaches before. And, you know, this headline
Speaker 0: is just how many people are on the
Speaker 0: planet? Someone that's watching. Hey, Felix. Thanks for
Speaker 0: checking in. How many people do we have,
Speaker 0: on the planet? I'm I'm gonna have to
Speaker 0: Google. How many people? How many people are
Speaker 0: in the world? So we're eight billion. Eight
Speaker 0: billion people. Eight point zero six two. That
Speaker 0: was the last number in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 0: Eight point zero six two billion. So how
Speaker 0: many people do you think was in this
Speaker 0: hack? Sixteen billion records. Sixteen billion. And there's
Speaker 0: only eight billion on the planet. So there's
Speaker 0: obviously some dupes. There's definitely some dupes in
Speaker 0: this data. You know, probably probably I'm in
Speaker 0: there a dozen times or or more, you
Speaker 0: know, from different security leaks over the years.
Speaker 0: They found thirty database thirty databases housing sixteen
Speaker 0: billion records. The records are most likely generated
Speaker 0: by info stealers, you think. Records come from
Speaker 0: a wide wide range of providers, Apple, Google,
Speaker 0: and many, many more. So if you don't
Speaker 0: think that your data is not there, billions
Speaker 0: of records of accounts from Google, Apple, VPN
Speaker 0: services, GitHub, Telegram, and more. And of the
Speaker 0: thirty discovered database, just one had been previously
Speaker 0: reported by the media mysterious database with a
Speaker 0: hundred and eighty four million records. It barely
Speaker 0: scratches the top twenty of what the team
Speaker 0: discovered. Most worrying when research claim new massive
Speaker 0: datasets emerge every few weeks signaling how prevalent
Speaker 0: info stealer malware truly is. The Davis were
Speaker 0: available to the wider Internet only briefly. Well,
Speaker 0: she plead me. Even if they were locked
Speaker 0: down, guess what? They're being spread around. Now
Speaker 0: how big did those databases have to be
Speaker 0: to have sixteen billion records in them? Even
Speaker 0: if you have, I can what's what's the
Speaker 0: size of a spreadsheet? Even a CSV file
Speaker 0: with sixteen billion records, that's a number. That
Speaker 0: is really a big number. But yeah. So,
Speaker 0: you know, that's the breach of breach. Everyone's
Speaker 0: been hacked. Everyone knows your info. So, you
Speaker 0: know, there is privacy is long, long, long,
Speaker 0: long, long, long gone. So the question is,
Speaker 0: are banks and other folks gonna be able
Speaker 0: to keep up? You know? Are they gonna
Speaker 0: be able to protect all of us? I
Speaker 0: I don't know. I I had an interesting
Speaker 0: one today. My my bank called me, and,
Speaker 0: I had, made some purchases that on my
Speaker 0: credit card and, you know, basically, my credit
Speaker 0: card had gotten a a little bit out
Speaker 0: of hand. So I I had to make
Speaker 0: a significant payment on it. And, apparently, I
Speaker 0: broke some threshold because the bank called me.
Speaker 0: I thought it was weird. I thought it
Speaker 0: was from a transfer I did last night.
Speaker 0: And, she said to me, do you have
Speaker 0: a payment of x x going to x
Speaker 0: x today? And I'm like, yes. She goes,
Speaker 0: it was bigger than normal. And I said,
Speaker 0: yes. I said, but if you notice, I
Speaker 0: make a payment every month to this credit
Speaker 0: card on the same day. Oh, we see
Speaker 0: that. Why would you have to worry if
Speaker 0: I'm paying the same credit card I've been
Speaker 0: paying for months and the amount was bigger?
Speaker 0: Why would that trigger a phone call? Well,
Speaker 0: we didn't wanna make sure you didn't hit
Speaker 0: the spate, the the I said, well, I
Speaker 0: always pay my credit card's always because I
Speaker 0: pay I put all my gas, groceries, everything
Speaker 0: on my credit cards. My credit card bill's
Speaker 0: always generally above a thousand dollars. So every
Speaker 0: month, I pay at least four figures. I
Speaker 0: never paid five. My god. It's not like
Speaker 0: that. But it you know, eight hundred, nine
Speaker 0: hundred thousand dollars like that. Seven hundred sometimes.
Speaker 0: And, she, but it was, you know, a
Speaker 0: little higher. But, yeah, flagged their systems. I,
Speaker 0: you know, I said thank you for calling.
Speaker 0: But it was it was just kinda shocked
Speaker 0: me. It really, really did. Okay. Here's a
Speaker 0: here's a headline. TV is dead. Well, we've
Speaker 0: all many of us have known that. Long
Speaker 0: live Netflix. Streaming giant reveals first live TV
Speaker 0: plans as cable and broadcast hit new landmark
Speaker 0: low. Netflix signs its first broadcast yes, broadcast
Speaker 0: deal as streaming overtakes TV. Now this is
Speaker 0: a this is a milestone here, ladies and
Speaker 0: gentlemen. None of us have cut the cord
Speaker 0: here that, you know, we're not paying for
Speaker 0: the cable no more. Traditional TV just hit
Speaker 0: a new low for the first time in
Speaker 0: history. Streaming services had a bigger audience than
Speaker 0: broadcast and cable channels combined. We we know
Speaker 0: that. That's according to official US viewership numbers
Speaker 0: from May in a in a poetic twist
Speaker 0: timing. Netflix has announced it's the first ever
Speaker 0: deal, and it's not a US company at
Speaker 0: all, but they've done a tie in with
Speaker 0: French TV giant TF one. The streaming platform
Speaker 0: will host all five of its traditional channels
Speaker 0: along with more than thirty thousand hours on
Speaker 0: demand content from the sun from next year.
Speaker 0: Subscribers in France will be able to watch
Speaker 0: everything from prime time dramas to The Voice,
Speaker 0: plus live sports including the French national football
Speaker 0: team matches. So here we are. They're getting
Speaker 0: their way into Netflix. Now now we have
Speaker 0: to ask a question. So I don't know
Speaker 0: anything about this TV giant, but I'm going
Speaker 0: to assume they are a traditional terrestrial broadcast
Speaker 0: station with a linear basically, live linear TV.
Speaker 0: That to me, I understand that deal, and
Speaker 0: I understand the value to the broadcaster. The
Speaker 0: broadcaster wins because they get access to audience.
Speaker 0: They can run commercials. Don't know how the
Speaker 0: money is gonna work with Netflix, but they've
Speaker 0: got that deal. But let's let's switch that
Speaker 0: around. Let's go to, the the traditional broadcasters
Speaker 0: here in America, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox. And
Speaker 0: I don't even know how many are actually
Speaker 0: broadcasting live anymore. I cannot get access to
Speaker 0: any of those, stations. There's no connectivity here
Speaker 0: for me for that. And either I have
Speaker 0: to use, YouTube TV or IPTV or whatever
Speaker 0: that is to try to find those channels.
Speaker 0: And they're not reaching me. So I'm having
Speaker 0: no impact on their bottom line. I'm not
Speaker 0: seeing the advertisements. Nothing. So it makes sense
Speaker 0: to me with people basically connected the Internet
Speaker 0: and watching on YouTube, Netflix, and other places.
Speaker 0: It makes sense to me that these traditional
Speaker 0: broadcast tie into somebody like Netflix where you
Speaker 0: don't you're just getting a part of your
Speaker 0: normal Netflix subscription, get access to the news
Speaker 0: or whatever it may be, and see advertisements
Speaker 0: from the news, to me, that makes sense.
Speaker 0: Because if I was going to get access
Speaker 0: to it any other way, I'd have to
Speaker 0: watch the commercials. Right? So if I wanna
Speaker 0: see local news, why not have that available
Speaker 0: in I don't want it in their own
Speaker 0: app where you have to pay for it.
Speaker 0: Give it to me traditionally and make your
Speaker 0: way just like everyone else. So that model
Speaker 0: may work for people that are in broadcast
Speaker 0: and whatever comes with that programming. Right? But
Speaker 0: instead, what they've done is they put their
Speaker 0: stuff on Hulu and other places and make
Speaker 0: you pay to access it. But I'm not
Speaker 0: watching it, and I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 0: If I have Netflix and get it, great.
Speaker 0: If Netflix doesn't raise my price and get
Speaker 0: it, so so there is a path forward
Speaker 0: potentially for traditional broadcast deals. Now, YouTube TV
Speaker 0: and other places where they're getting ESPN and
Speaker 0: all these other traditional non broadcast cable only
Speaker 0: connections, I think they're the biggest ones that
Speaker 0: are gonna face trouble because people are watching
Speaker 0: YouTube, people are watching Netflix, People are watching
Speaker 0: Hulu. People are listening to podcast. Or in
Speaker 0: your case, many of you watching the podcast
Speaker 0: on Apple TV or where you may be
Speaker 0: listening to the show. But I'm not getting
Speaker 0: ESPN. I'm not getting the Science Channel. I'm
Speaker 0: not getting all those other packages. HBO. I'm
Speaker 0: not well, yeah. We pay for HBO. So
Speaker 0: I have HBO Max or whatever it's called,
Speaker 0: but I don't have Cinemax. I don't have
Speaker 0: all that all those other stuff. Or maybe
Speaker 0: Cinemax is included with HBO. Cinema Max, whatever
Speaker 0: it's called. But besides that, I'm not getting,
Speaker 0: again, like, ESPN and, you know, some of
Speaker 0: those things that those channels that you you
Speaker 0: like when you have cable TV. But I
Speaker 0: don't want Netflix to make deals with those
Speaker 0: to cause my Netflix bill to come up.
Speaker 0: I'm not going to subscribe to traditional cable
Speaker 0: channels. I I think the whole medium is
Speaker 0: set for complete and utter destruction because it's
Speaker 0: expensive to run all that stuff. Those towers,
Speaker 0: creating content, providing programming, it's you know, let's
Speaker 0: be frank. It's not cheap to do all
Speaker 0: this. But with everyone now having a cell
Speaker 0: phone, you know, or or a camera, you
Speaker 0: know, I've been testing a camera that I've
Speaker 0: absolutely fallen in love with it. You'll get
Speaker 0: to see it soon. And at some point,
Speaker 0: it's gonna replace this camera that's in directly
Speaker 0: in front of me. I've had this camera
Speaker 0: that's directly in front of me now for
Speaker 0: I'll have to look. It's still a good
Speaker 0: camera, but this optics that I'm looking at
Speaker 0: is absolutely fantastic at a great price. Better
Speaker 0: picture than that camera right there. At a
Speaker 0: you know, that camera when I that camera
Speaker 0: that's in front of me when I bought
Speaker 0: it was, I want to say, like, fifteen
Speaker 0: hundred bucks or something like that. But I've
Speaker 0: had it for many years now. But, I
Speaker 0: got a camera sent to me that I'm
Speaker 0: just, I have to send it back, but
Speaker 0: it's absolutely incredible and at a great price.
Speaker 0: NDI capable and a whole bunch of other
Speaker 0: stuff. I it's a, you know, it's not
Speaker 0: a PTZ. It's fixed optics. So, again, with
Speaker 0: the optics that are available today for, you
Speaker 0: know, for small studios like me at an
Speaker 0: incredible price, use your cell phone, use some
Speaker 0: of these great great cameras that are out
Speaker 0: there with great glass, and and you have
Speaker 0: broadcast quality. Maybe not broadcast talent or beauty
Speaker 0: because I, yeah, definitely have a face for
Speaker 0: TV. No. But there's lots of options here
Speaker 0: that are gonna continue to grow. And, so
Speaker 0: I I don't know. I know what's gonna
Speaker 0: happen, with all these broadcast channels. What what
Speaker 0: do you think? What do you think is
Speaker 0: gonna happen to the ESPNs of the world
Speaker 0: and so forth? There you know, there's so
Speaker 0: many sports fans. They're definitely keeping that business
Speaker 0: alive, but there is a a proportion of
Speaker 0: us that are not not sports fans. Maybe
Speaker 0: it's maybe it's not as maybe I'm in
Speaker 0: the minority here potentially, but send me your
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Speaker 0: Department of justice files to seize two hundred
Speaker 0: and twenty five million in crypto from scammers.
Speaker 0: I guess the Israelis took down ninety million
Speaker 0: in crypto. Seems to me like, wow. Seems
Speaker 0: like that was too easy from the from
Speaker 0: the Iranians, but the DOJ wants two hundred
Speaker 0: wants to claim two hundred twenty five point
Speaker 0: three million linked to crypto investment scams. The
Speaker 0: g the DOJ said that trace and target
Speaker 0: accounts are part of a civic sophisticated blockchain
Speaker 0: based money laundering network, dispersing funds taken for
Speaker 0: more than four hundred victims. Two hundred and
Speaker 0: twenty five million for four hundred million. So
Speaker 0: it's something to do with, pig butchering. So
Speaker 0: old people that have had their money taken.
Speaker 0: And, they were they're being charged of of
Speaker 0: laundering fraudulently tamed currency through a vast and
Speaker 0: complex web of transactions and, all kinds of
Speaker 0: crazy stuff that's been going on. So, please,
Speaker 0: again, if they're taking this big money from
Speaker 0: people because of just social engineering, be careful.
Speaker 0: Be careful. Be careful. A major spam email
Speaker 0: warning. AI now generates almost all your junk
Speaker 0: email, and it's you can tell. And And
Speaker 0: I've got the settings set up on high
Speaker 0: on all of our accounts to to filter
Speaker 0: this stuff out and still stuff comes through.
Speaker 0: A report from Barracuda has argued cybercriminals are
Speaker 0: now using AI to change their tac route
Speaker 0: takes tactics to refine them and make them
Speaker 0: more difficult to spot. The study compared emails
Speaker 0: sent before the emergence of ChatGPT and the
Speaker 0: ones after. Well, they definitely their spelling has
Speaker 0: gotten better. But the majority of email currently
Speaker 0: sitting in the average junk spam folders are
Speaker 0: likely been written by a large language model.
Speaker 0: So that I will not doubt. So just
Speaker 0: if you don't know who it's from, don't
Speaker 0: just just delete it. So this is a
Speaker 0: curious case. The United States is requesting a
Speaker 0: month long extension to the deadline for its
Speaker 0: final decision regarding an appeal against a judge
Speaker 0: ruling that attaining tower dumps is con unconstitutional.
Speaker 0: No. That doesn't mean going over to tower
Speaker 0: and doing a dump. It means the tower
Speaker 0: dump refers to a law enforcement attaining records
Speaker 0: from cell towers specifically related to individuals' locations
Speaker 0: and connection times via search warrants. This data
Speaker 0: is typically used to aid investigators into determining
Speaker 0: if someone was in a location that of
Speaker 0: where a crime happened. In this case, the
Speaker 0: US sought such data to see whether suspected
Speaker 0: violent gang members could feasibly connected to a
Speaker 0: stream of homicide, vehicle thefts over a fourteen
Speaker 0: month period. Tower dumps can include information on
Speaker 0: all connections to that tower within windows ranging
Speaker 0: from ten minutes to one hour. Now it's
Speaker 0: it's got to be said. I think by
Speaker 0: this time, unless you're a dumb criminal, unless
Speaker 0: you are an absolute dumb criminal, if you're
Speaker 0: gonna go out and do a crime, leave
Speaker 0: your cell phone at home. Because if you
Speaker 0: got your cell phone first of all, if
Speaker 0: you take your cell phone off, turn it
Speaker 0: into airplane mode, all of a sudden the
Speaker 0: cell phone goes off the air. And a
Speaker 0: robbery happens, you get back and you turn
Speaker 0: it on, and, oh, his cell phone's back
Speaker 0: online. You take your cell phone with you,
Speaker 0: get in the neighborhood and turn the cell
Speaker 0: phone off. Oh, you were there. Or just
Speaker 0: leave your cell phone at home. Because these
Speaker 0: cell phones tell everybody where you've been. If
Speaker 0: you if you haven't been prompted by Google
Speaker 0: Maps to, you know, to the grocery store
Speaker 0: or to, you know, go to work or
Speaker 0: wherever it is, you know, they're tracking everything.
Speaker 0: So, of course, these tower dumps are super
Speaker 0: powerful. But the United States magistrate judge, Anders
Speaker 0: s Harris, denied the feds a four a
Speaker 0: four warrant request to tower to tower dumps
Speaker 0: in February, citing incompatible incompatibility with the Fourth
Speaker 0: Amendment. Now the Fourth Amendment, for those of
Speaker 0: you that don't remember your your history lesson
Speaker 0: here, protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Speaker 0: That's why when someone comes up to you,
Speaker 0: pulls you over, and you're getting a ticket,
Speaker 0: and they ask to search your car, you
Speaker 0: have the right to say no. Now, they
Speaker 0: may detain you for whatever reason and go
Speaker 0: get a search warrant, but you have the
Speaker 0: right to say no. I do not want
Speaker 0: I do not consent to be searched. Now
Speaker 0: if they think you're an imminent threat, that
Speaker 0: doesn't mean you're gonna not get yanked out
Speaker 0: of the vehicle and patted down to make
Speaker 0: sure the police officer feels safe. But still,
Speaker 0: even if that happens, well, if they think
Speaker 0: there's a gun in the car or drugs
Speaker 0: or they can see something, they may have
Speaker 0: a reasonable reason. But you can say I
Speaker 0: don't consent. Citing cast case law, he wrote
Speaker 0: in his ruling, for starters, while the government
Speaker 0: has some idea of who had may have
Speaker 0: been involved in one or more of the
Speaker 0: crimes, that Avidade supporting the warrants application lists
Speaker 0: seven potential suspects. They're going fishing. The government
Speaker 0: has not presented probable cause to believe that
Speaker 0: any particular individual committed any specific crime described.
Speaker 0: So it is basically the the feds were
Speaker 0: asking to allow it to access the entire
Speaker 0: haystack because it may contain a needle and
Speaker 0: sift all through that data. And thus, violating
Speaker 0: everyone's rights that they're looking through all this
Speaker 0: data, determine who is where, when, and for
Speaker 0: how long. So do you think the government
Speaker 0: should be able to do that? Do you
Speaker 0: think they should be allowed to get those
Speaker 0: tower dumps like this? I think they have
Speaker 0: to have a pretty compelling pretty compelling case.
Speaker 0: Speaking about HBO Max, it's not just Prime
Speaker 0: Video. Max shows fifty percent more ads now,
Speaker 0: so you're paying for this shit. Excuse me.
Speaker 0: And And they're stuffing more commercial breaks into
Speaker 0: each show that you're paying for already. So
Speaker 0: quit charging me and just feed me ads.
Speaker 0: I don't wanna pay for something and still
Speaker 0: get served ads. I really don't. Now I
Speaker 0: I don't know if there's multiple levels on
Speaker 0: Max. I think I pay one bill for
Speaker 0: it, thirteen or fourteen dollars or something like
Speaker 0: that. But when HBO Max launched in its
Speaker 0: ad oh, its ad supported plan in twenty
Speaker 0: twenty one, it promised no more than four
Speaker 0: minutes of ads per hour. That's very, very
Speaker 0: quiet now. So now you can expect six
Speaker 0: minute of ads per hour, which is a
Speaker 0: little under fifty percent jump. So and despite
Speaker 0: its original promise not to show ads during
Speaker 0: HBO programming, Max has been breaking up HBO
Speaker 0: shows with commercials as well. An episode The
Speaker 0: Last of Us, for instance, had three ad
Speaker 0: breaks plus a batch of ads before the
Speaker 0: video started. So meanwhile, the change of names
Speaker 0: is going on too. So can't get away
Speaker 0: from it. Now this is, this is something
Speaker 0: if you know, re remember during COVID? I
Speaker 0: mean, it's happened with my employees too. They
Speaker 0: you know, bunch of them moved all over
Speaker 0: the place. So when it was time to
Speaker 0: come back to the office, they were no
Speaker 0: longer in the locations in which they'd been
Speaker 0: hired to work out of. And that just
Speaker 0: kinda happened, and we, you know, we went
Speaker 0: with it, and we got rid of our
Speaker 0: office, and everyone's remote. And for the most
Speaker 0: part, it works. So now Amazon is forcing
Speaker 0: some workers to relocate to its main office
Speaker 0: hubs, be close to their managers. And they've
Speaker 0: been told, you got thirty days to decide.
Speaker 0: And if you don't move now imagine you're
Speaker 0: married and got a family and kids, and
Speaker 0: they tell you you gotta move. You gotta
Speaker 0: sell your house. You gotta move. You'd be
Speaker 0: pretty pissed too. They have thirty days to
Speaker 0: sign followed by a sixty day period to
Speaker 0: relocate or resign. And those that resign those
Speaker 0: that refuse to relocate will not be receiving
Speaker 0: a severance package. Oh, boy. Not a not
Speaker 0: a time to work for Amazon corporate. That
Speaker 0: is for sure. They want people in the
Speaker 0: office. You will be in the office or
Speaker 0: you will not have a job. Now now
Speaker 0: you got hired. Let's say you got hired
Speaker 0: in, you know, for a remote position. That'd
Speaker 0: be highly unfair to say, now you gotta
Speaker 0: move. I'd be looking at my employment contract
Speaker 0: in a big, big way. I'm sure they
Speaker 0: got their bases covered, but it's interesting. Another
Speaker 0: health care provider hit by the data breach,
Speaker 0: just a whopping five million patients affected. So
Speaker 0: American Healthcare Data, Episource, has confirmed suffering a
Speaker 0: cyberattack. So if you've ever worked with them
Speaker 0: or hear of them, your data's out there
Speaker 0: in the wild. Now this, I'm gonna have
Speaker 0: a tendency say I'm going to agree with,
Speaker 0: and I'm sure there's gonna be some of
Speaker 0: you that are going to, completely disagree. Anonymous
Speaker 0: reader quotes a report from The Guardian. Foreign
Speaker 0: students will be required to unlock their social
Speaker 0: media profiles to allow US diplomats to review
Speaker 0: their online activity before receiving educational and exchange
Speaker 0: visa. The state department has announced those who
Speaker 0: failed to do so will be suspected of
Speaker 0: hiding that activity from US officials. The new
Speaker 0: guidance unveiled by the state department on Wednesday
Speaker 0: directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence
Speaker 0: review to look for any indication of hostility
Speaker 0: toward the citizen culture, government institutions, or founding
Speaker 0: principles of the United States. If you wanna
Speaker 0: come here and go to school, in my
Speaker 0: opinion, you should not be an Iranian sympathizer.
Speaker 0: You should you should want to come here
Speaker 0: and enjoy the culture of America. But, of
Speaker 0: course, you get into our colleges and, you
Speaker 0: know, they get exposed to a lot of
Speaker 0: culture. A cable separately attained by political also
Speaker 0: instructs diplomats to flag any advocacy for aid
Speaker 0: or support for foreign terrorists and and other
Speaker 0: threats to US national security and support for
Speaker 0: unlawful anti Semitic harassment violence. The screening for
Speaker 0: anti Semitic activity match similar guidance given a
Speaker 0: US citizenship and immigration services on the Department
Speaker 0: of Homeland Security has been criticized as an
Speaker 0: effort to crack down on opposition. So, again,
Speaker 0: things you can agree or disagree with, but,
Speaker 0: that's what's happening. X has been in a
Speaker 0: major major lawsuit with the music publishers in
Speaker 0: a very, very interesting article on torrent freak
Speaker 0: dot com today. Worth the read. It basically
Speaker 0: says x has been asking for discovery on
Speaker 0: certain individuals in the music industry. They have
Speaker 0: refused to turn this information over. And in
Speaker 0: that case, all of a sudden, there's negotiations
Speaker 0: going on for a settlement. Because, apparently, a
Speaker 0: group called the NMPA, which is basically sending
Speaker 0: takedown notices to people that play music on
Speaker 0: x, there is some indication because they did
Speaker 0: not want to provide information that they're gonna
Speaker 0: go into a settlement. It's It's very coincidental.
Speaker 0: And this goes to show that one was
Speaker 0: trying to feed the other. Basically, one was
Speaker 0: doing actions to try to build a case,
Speaker 0: and they don't want that information, at least
Speaker 0: this is my understanding. May not be the
Speaker 0: case, my opinion. This discovery is important to
Speaker 0: show that NMPA uses takedown notices campaign as
Speaker 0: a tool to inflict maximum pain on x
Speaker 0: and motivate Elon Musk to sign music licensing
Speaker 0: agreements. But they say, oh, no. No. We
Speaker 0: weren't doing that. We're just asking for removals.
Speaker 0: In space news, Firefly is announcing commercial lunar
Speaker 0: imagery services. So if you wanna see what
Speaker 0: the if you have a commercial reason to
Speaker 0: need mapping of the moon, Firefly is going
Speaker 0: to provide that. I'm sure that customer list
Speaker 0: is very long. It will provide imagery using
Speaker 0: instruments placed on its Electra spacecraft. The system
Speaker 0: will use telescopes from the LAUN's Livermore National
Speaker 0: Laboratory with ultraviolet invisible sensors. So, kinda similar
Speaker 0: to the LRO. I don't know how much
Speaker 0: of this has been paid for by the
Speaker 0: US government, but it's interesting it's gonna be
Speaker 0: a commercial service. Now during World War two
Speaker 0: and other conflicts, there's been issues where individuals
Speaker 0: had certain expertise have been automatically brought into
Speaker 0: the military and sworn in at a very
Speaker 0: high rank. It's not unprecedented. It's happened many
Speaker 0: times. They do that for doctors, for nurses,
Speaker 0: you know, they train as doctors, and they
Speaker 0: come in, and they're given they don't go
Speaker 0: through traditional boot camp per se or or
Speaker 0: officer training school. They just come in and
Speaker 0: are given a a rank. The army said
Speaker 0: a press release that four executives, Shaiman Sanker,
Speaker 0: CTO at Palantir Palantir, which is a big
Speaker 0: defense contractor, Andrew Boswich, CTO at Meta, Kevin
Speaker 0: Weil, chief product officer at OpenAI, and Bob
Speaker 0: McGraw, an adviser at Thinking Machine Labs and
Speaker 0: former chief research officer at OpenAI, were being
Speaker 0: commissioned at lieutenant colonel, this part of the
Speaker 0: program called attachment two thou two zero one,
Speaker 0: the army's executive innovation course. The VIN was
Speaker 0: get to skip the usual process of going
Speaker 0: taking a direct commission course at Fort Benning,
Speaker 0: and they won't need to complete the army
Speaker 0: fitness test. Except what they're gonna be done
Speaker 0: is they're gonna be reservists that will be
Speaker 0: called active duty and serve for a period
Speaker 0: of time and giving probably apply to security
Speaker 0: clearance and probably giving advice to the government.
Speaker 0: The role in the Army Reserve is to
Speaker 0: work on targeted projects to help or guide
Speaker 0: rapid and scalable tech solution to complex problems.
Speaker 0: So in other words, they're going to activate
Speaker 0: them as reservist, then they'll be able to
Speaker 0: have direct see, they got this commercial thing
Speaker 0: and they got the it's kind of been
Speaker 0: of a can of worms, but we've been
Speaker 0: doing this a long time. The The new
Speaker 0: reservists will serve about a hundred and twenty
Speaker 0: hours a year, three weeks, so they're not
Speaker 0: gonna get much pay. And we'll have a
Speaker 0: lot of flexibility to work remotely. Interesting. They'll
Speaker 0: work on helping I'm requiring more commercial tech.
Speaker 0: So it's, again, a little bit of a
Speaker 0: conflict of interest. I don't know how that
Speaker 0: is gonna be resolved because there's definitely rules.
Speaker 0: It it's I'd love I would love to
Speaker 0: see the conflict of interest, agreement on that.
Speaker 0: So it's a little bit of an eyebrowzer.
Speaker 0: It I did I say browser? Yeah. EyeRiser,
Speaker 0: I guess. Eye BrowRiser. Krispy Kreme, have you
Speaker 0: shopped there lately? They've confirmed a data breach
Speaker 0: after a ransomware attack. So Krispy Kreme has
Speaker 0: given up your data through a security breach.
Speaker 0: And how many of you are looking forward
Speaker 0: to the foldable iPhone? Well, sometime next year.
Speaker 0: But you better start saving your twenty dollar
Speaker 0: bills, not pennies. Actually, start saving hundred dollar
Speaker 0: bills because apparently, this thing is gonna come
Speaker 0: out at about twenty one hundred bucks. I'm
Speaker 0: sorry. I'll just use an iPad. I I
Speaker 0: don't need a phone that that expensive. If
Speaker 0: you work at Microsoft, Microsoft's gonna cut thousand
Speaker 0: more jobs mainly in sales. AI is being
Speaker 0: blamed, but deeper strategic and financial motives may
Speaker 0: be at play. I I can't, let people
Speaker 0: go right now. There's no way. We're getting
Speaker 0: more done than we ever got done because
Speaker 0: we're using AI as an assistant. Yeah. But
Speaker 0: might be financial. The European Space Agency is
Speaker 0: getting in on the prediction. They say life
Speaker 0: on Mars, humans will live in a huge
Speaker 0: space oasis on the red planet in just
Speaker 0: fifteen years. Well, not if Elon keeps blowing
Speaker 0: up rockets on the, on the test stand.
Speaker 0: Space manufacturing company, Varda, has gotten clearance to
Speaker 0: launch a more unmanned rockets. So, this award
Speaker 0: clears Varda to pursue its goals of launching
Speaker 0: tiny factories into space where they can take
Speaker 0: advantage of low gravity to build things that
Speaker 0: can't be manufactured on Earth. Oh, really? What
Speaker 0: is that? The space building business, cofounded by
Speaker 0: former SpaceX engineer, Will Brewe, in twenty twenty,
Speaker 0: has used Rocket Labs hardware to get in
Speaker 0: orbit. For future chips, it'll use a range
Speaker 0: of platforms including SpaceX. Its next mission is
Speaker 0: only days away. And if it all goes
Speaker 0: well, a three hundred kilogram or or a
Speaker 0: basically six hundred and sixty pound Winnebago spacecraft
Speaker 0: will spend months in space doing what we
Speaker 0: don't know. Oh, they're also going to the
Speaker 0: first oh, they tested a, form of anti
Speaker 0: age drug called ritonavir. I saw something today.
Speaker 0: I was just, going through, and it was
Speaker 0: basically there's a new drug. If you've heard
Speaker 0: of PrEP, it's a drug that is, basically
Speaker 0: a preventative for HIV. And, to my understanding,
Speaker 0: it's a daily dosage. And there's I didn't
Speaker 0: know this, but apparently, there's another thing out
Speaker 0: there that allows you I don't know. There's
Speaker 0: a couple of medicines now, but apparently, this
Speaker 0: new one, is a shot every six months.
Speaker 0: So, very, very interesting in that regard. Anyway,
Speaker 0: just saw this thing about them talking about,
Speaker 0: doing space testing on the anti AIDS drug
Speaker 0: ritonavir, and it remind me of what I
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Speaker 0: this last article today could be the most
Speaker 0: shocking don't go. The most shocking of them
Speaker 0: all. Here's the headline from independent dot co
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Speaker 0: could be soon flung out of orbit and
Speaker 0: into the sun. Oh my god. The Earth
Speaker 0: could be so soon flung out of orbit
Speaker 0: or into the sun, all thanks to a
Speaker 0: passing star. Where is this passing star? In
Speaker 0: a computer simulation, of course. It's really not
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