Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again Amid Ongoing Sale Talks and Security Concerns #1828

authorities. I wanna welcome you to episode one

thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. I'm your host, Todd Cochran. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the show. And, boy, I tell you, the TikTok thing has got people seriously divided. Those that use it want it. Those that hate it want it to go away. And, I just don't think it's gonna go away. I I really don't. I don't think it's gonna happen under this administration. I just, that's the way it looks. That's the way it feels. That's the way it smells. So, you know, sometimes

that's the way it goes. And, regardless of

what the security threats are. And, of course, the video app has faced questions over its future since the US law was passed. Remember, the US law was passed and signed by president Biden. Lawmakers, of course, say it continues to pose a risk in national security. And, of course, president has vowed to save TikTok during his presidential campaign. Of course, he signed executive order. I think this is the second delay or third. And, in a statement, TikTok said it was grateful and, keeping the app

online for its hundred and seventy million US users. But they get they made an interesting comment. They say we continue to work with vice president Vance's office. Now, you know, president vice president Vance, I believe he was a senator, right, or a representative, one of the two. So So he was involved in the vote to, to get rid of it, or maybe he'd already stepped down by that time. But, again, people are not happy about this.

And, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said on Wednesday that a further ninety day extension would ensure the deal is closed. Well, we will see it. It hasn't gotten closed this quick yet. And, of course, we know that, the president has a a soft spot for TikTok because it it they thought he thinks it helped him win the election. So time will tell. And, of course, senate select committee intel unintelligence vice chairman Mark Warner, Democrat, criticized,

Trump's decision. And, so we will see we'll

see where this leads. But, one thing's for sure, TikTok TikTok is here for at least another ninety days, and you can buy all your TikTok gear, and you can get sold too, and you can find the real news of what's going on in the world. Of course, Twitter has been better for seeing what's been happening in Iran, ironically. Haven't seen as much good fit, coverage on TikTok when you search. It's it's some of the same because

there's limited clips coming out. So I I think someone said that, Elon Musk turned on the, the stovepipe for Starlink antennas, but I might be wrong on that. But, lots to share, in this regard. That is for sure. Alright. Hey. Welcome to episode eighteen twenty eight. Of course, I'm your host, Todd Cochran. A shout out to our incredible sponsor. Definitely, we

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and and going strong. How's everybody doing? Hope you're doing well. I'm, I'm, like, literally not enough hours in the day this week. And I had, employee I take a lot of pride in spending, a lot of time doing my performance reviews. Even when I was active duty in the navy, I spent a lot of time. And this week, I probably spent twenty hours, I think writing seven performance eight

performance reviews. I'm really meticulous because I feel if someone is going to, put their time, their effort into building the company and and being a team, it's it's it's for me, it's my responsibility to give them honest and good feedback. And, so I spent a lot of time on it. And, didn't use AI. I don't I everything is written, by me on performance reviews. That's one thing where you can't and AI doesn't know my team members.

Impossible, to do that. So, definitely, spent some time on that, then I had a whole bunch of other tasks. I didn't get the podcast news and myth recorded today, so I may have to do that, tomorrow so we can get it out tomorrow. But, anyway, very,

very busy week, and I I'm very much looking forward to, to the weekend here. Lots of things going on in in the new space and, lots of yeah. And I didn't know what to lead with that you know, I was considering leading with this, you know, SpaceX Starship blowing up on the test stand. Oh my goodness. Did you see the video? You know, they didn't have to wait to go to space this time. They they blew it up on the test stand, and it blew up in a big, big, big explosion.

And, it was kinda funny because Elon said, ah, just a scratch. I think more than a scratch. So they've had major, major issues with this, with this version. There is something. Now from the far, far away videos I saw, it looked like some gas vented. And when it did, it went boom. And, so we'll see. Now luckily, no one was hurt because they have a safety area, safety clear area around the site and all personnel safe.

So now it's just, you know, the construction workers are gonna have to come over there and rebuild that, and they don't they're not gonna launch. You know? They this this next launch, that was their ship, the stack. So, now they got one out of order. So ship number thirty six becomes ship number thirty seven, but or it was oh, it's thirty three. No. No. No. No. I think it was it doesn't matter. But, anyway, it went

kaboom in a big explosion. And and there was people you know, someone on YouTube is just about, oh my god. This is a bad this is just a major he he was like, I I feel like somebody just died. And I'm like, it's a spacecraft test spacecraft, and they're doing testing, and they're pushing the limits. And sometimes when you have lots lots and lots of flammable liquid and sometimes non liquid gases, things go boom. And when they do, you learn from it, and you

make sure that it doesn't go boom again. So, yeah, it's too bad. So, anyway, they'll have some time there, but, you know, the money the money that just jeez. I don't I don't know how much one of those cost, but this was fully equipped ready to rock and roll. Now we've we've heard about security breaches before. And, you know, this headline is just how many people are on the planet? Someone that's watching. Hey, Felix. Thanks for checking in. How many people do we have,

on the planet? I'm I'm gonna have to Google. How many people? How many people are in the world? So we're eight billion. Eight billion people. Eight point zero six two. That was the last number in twenty twenty three. Eight point zero six two billion. So how many people do you think was in this hack? Sixteen billion records. Sixteen billion. And there's only eight billion on the planet. So there's obviously some dupes. There's definitely some dupes in this data. You know, probably probably I'm in

there a dozen times or or more, you know, from different security leaks over the years. They found thirty database thirty databases housing sixteen billion records. The records are most likely generated by info stealers, you think. Records come from a wide wide range of providers, Apple, Google, and many, many more. So if you don't think that your data is not there, billions of records of accounts from Google, Apple, VPN

services, GitHub, Telegram, and more. And of the thirty discovered database, just one had been previously reported by the media mysterious database with a hundred and eighty four million records. It barely scratches the top twenty of what the team discovered. Most worrying when research claim new massive datasets emerge every few weeks signaling how prevalent info stealer malware truly is. The Davis were available to the wider Internet only briefly. Well, she plead me. Even if they were locked

down, guess what? They're being spread around. Now how big did those databases have to be to have sixteen billion records in them? Even if you have, I can what's what's the size of a spreadsheet? Even a CSV file with sixteen billion records, that's a number. That is really a big number. But yeah. So, you know, that's the breach of breach. Everyone's been hacked. Everyone knows your info. So, you know, there is privacy is long, long, long, long, long, long gone. So the question is,

are banks and other folks gonna be able to keep up? You know? Are they gonna be able to protect all of us? I I don't know. I I had an interesting one today. My my bank called me, and, I had, made some purchases that on my credit card and, you know, basically, my credit card had gotten a a little bit out of hand. So I I had to make a significant payment on it. And, apparently, I broke some threshold because the bank called me.

I thought it was weird. I thought it was from a transfer I did last night. And, she said to me, do you have a payment of x x going to x x today? And I'm like, yes. She goes, it was bigger than normal. And I said, yes. I said, but if you notice, I make a payment every month to this credit card on the same day. Oh, we see that. Why would you have to worry if I'm paying the same credit card I've been paying for months and the amount was bigger?

Why would that trigger a phone call? Well, we didn't wanna make sure you didn't hit the spate, the the I said, well, I always pay my credit card's always because I pay I put all my gas, groceries, everything on my credit cards. My credit card bill's always generally above a thousand dollars. So every month, I pay at least four figures. I never paid five. My god. It's not like that. But it you know, eight hundred, nine hundred thousand dollars like that. Seven hundred sometimes.

And, she, but it was, you know, a little higher. But, yeah, flagged their systems. I, you know, I said thank you for calling. But it was it was just kinda shocked me. It really, really did. Okay. Here's a here's a headline. TV is dead. Well, we've all many of us have known that. Long live Netflix. Streaming giant reveals first live TV plans as cable and broadcast hit new landmark low. Netflix signs its first broadcast yes, broadcast

deal as streaming overtakes TV. Now this is a this is a milestone here, ladies and

gentlemen. None of us have cut the cord here that, you know, we're not paying for the cable no more. Traditional TV just hit a new low for the first time in history. Streaming services had a bigger audience than broadcast and cable channels combined. We we know that. That's according to official US viewership numbers from May in a in a poetic twist timing. Netflix has announced it's the first ever deal, and it's not a US company at all, but they've done a tie in with

French TV giant TF one. The streaming platform will host all five of its traditional channels along with more than thirty thousand hours on demand content from the sun from next year. Subscribers in France will be able to watch everything from prime time dramas to The Voice, plus live sports including the French national football team matches. So here we are. They're getting their way into Netflix. Now now we have

to ask a question. So I don't know anything about this TV giant, but I'm going to assume they are a traditional terrestrial broadcast station with a linear basically, live linear TV. That to me, I understand that deal, and I understand the value to the broadcaster. The broadcaster wins because they get access to audience. They can run commercials. Don't know how the money is gonna work with Netflix, but they've got that deal. But let's let's switch that

around. Let's go to, the the traditional broadcasters here in America, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox. And I don't even know how many are actually broadcasting live anymore. I cannot get access to any of those, stations. There's no connectivity here for me for that. And either I have to use, YouTube TV or IPTV or whatever that is to try to find those channels. And they're not reaching me. So I'm having no impact on their bottom line. I'm not

seeing the advertisements. Nothing. So it makes sense to me with people basically connected the Internet and watching on YouTube, Netflix, and other places. It makes sense to me that these traditional broadcast tie into somebody like Netflix where you

don't you're just getting a part of your normal Netflix subscription, get access to the news or whatever it may be, and see advertisements from the news, to me, that makes sense. Because if I was going to get access to it any other way, I'd have to watch the commercials. Right? So if I wanna see local news, why not have that available in I don't want it in their own app where you have to pay for it. Give it to me traditionally and make your

way just like everyone else. So that model may work for people that are in broadcast and whatever comes with that programming. Right? But instead, what they've done is they put their stuff on Hulu and other places and make you pay to access it. But I'm not watching it, and I'm not paying for it. If I have Netflix and get it, great. If Netflix doesn't raise my price and get it, so so there is a path forward

potentially for traditional broadcast deals. Now, YouTube TV and other places where they're getting ESPN and all these other traditional non broadcast cable only connections, I think they're the biggest ones that are gonna face trouble because people are watching YouTube, people are watching Netflix, People are watching Hulu. People are listening to podcast. Or in your case, many of you watching the podcast on Apple TV or where you may be listening to the show. But I'm not getting

ESPN. I'm not getting the Science Channel. I'm not getting all those other packages. HBO. I'm not well, yeah. We pay for HBO. So I have HBO Max or whatever it's called, but I don't have Cinemax. I don't have all that all those other stuff. Or maybe Cinemax is included with HBO. Cinema Max, whatever it's called. But besides that, I'm not getting, again, like, ESPN and, you know, some of those things that those channels that you you

like when you have cable TV. But I don't want Netflix to make deals with those to cause my Netflix bill to come up. I'm not going to subscribe to traditional cable channels. I I think the whole medium is

set for complete and utter destruction because it's expensive to run all that stuff. Those towers, creating content, providing programming, it's you know, let's be frank. It's not cheap to do all this. But with everyone now having a cell phone, you know, or or a camera, you know, I've been testing a camera that I've absolutely fallen in love with it. You'll get to see it soon. And at some point, it's gonna replace this camera that's in directly

in front of me. I've had this camera that's directly in front of me now for I'll have to look. It's still a good camera, but this optics that I'm looking at is absolutely fantastic at a great price. Better picture than that camera right there. At a you know, that camera when I that camera that's in front of me when I bought it was, I want to say, like, fifteen hundred bucks or something like that. But I've

had it for many years now. But, I got a camera sent to me that I'm just, I have to send it back, but it's absolutely incredible and at a great price. NDI capable and a whole bunch of other stuff. I it's a, you know, it's not a PTZ. It's fixed optics. So, again, with the optics that are available today for, you know, for small studios like me at an incredible price, use your cell phone, use some of these great great cameras that are out there with great glass, and and you have

broadcast quality. Maybe not broadcast talent or beauty because I, yeah, definitely have a face for TV. No. But there's lots of options here that are gonna continue to grow. And, so I I don't know. I know what's gonna happen, with all these broadcast channels. What what do you think? What do you think is

gonna happen to the ESPNs of the world and so forth? There you know, there's so many sports fans. They're definitely keeping that business alive, but there is a a proportion of us that are not not sports fans. Maybe it's maybe it's not as maybe I'm in the minority here potentially, but send me your comments. Geek news at g mail dot com. Department of justice files to seize two hundred and twenty five million in crypto from scammers. I guess the Israelis took down ninety million

in crypto. Seems to me like, wow. Seems like that was too easy from the from the Iranians, but the DOJ wants two hundred wants to claim two hundred twenty five point three million linked to crypto investment scams. The g the DOJ said that trace and target accounts are part of a civic sophisticated blockchain based money laundering network, dispersing funds taken for more than four hundred victims. Two hundred and twenty five million for four hundred million. So

it's something to do with, pig butchering. So old people that have had their money taken. And, they were they're being charged of of laundering fraudulently tamed currency through a vast and complex web of transactions and, all kinds of crazy stuff that's been going on. So, please, again, if they're taking this big money from people because of just social engineering, be careful. Be careful. Be careful. A major spam email

warning. AI now generates almost all your junk email, and it's you can tell. And And I've got the settings set up on high on all of our accounts to to filter this stuff out and still stuff comes through. A report from Barracuda has argued cybercriminals are now using AI to change their tac route takes tactics to refine them and make them more difficult to spot. The study compared emails sent before the emergence of ChatGPT and the ones after. Well, they definitely their spelling has

gotten better. But the majority of email currently sitting in the average junk spam folders are likely been written by a large language model. So that I will not doubt. So just if you don't know who it's from, don't just just delete it. So this is a curious case. The United States is requesting a month long extension to the deadline for its final decision regarding an appeal against a judge ruling that attaining tower dumps is con unconstitutional. No. That doesn't mean going over to tower

and doing a dump. It means the tower dump refers to a law enforcement attaining records from cell towers specifically related to individuals' locations and connection times via search warrants. This data is typically used to aid investigators into determining if someone was in a location that of where a crime happened. In this case, the

US sought such data to see whether suspected violent gang members could feasibly connected to a stream of homicide, vehicle thefts over a fourteen month period. Tower dumps can include information on all connections to that tower within windows ranging from ten minutes to one hour. Now it's it's got to be said. I think by this time, unless you're a dumb criminal, unless you are an absolute dumb criminal, if you're gonna go out and do a crime, leave

your cell phone at home. Because if you got your cell phone first of all, if you take your cell phone off, turn it into airplane mode, all of a sudden the cell phone goes off the air. And a robbery happens, you get back and you turn it on, and, oh, his cell phone's back online. You take your cell phone with you, get in the neighborhood and turn the cell phone off. Oh, you were there. Or just leave your cell phone at home. Because these

cell phones tell everybody where you've been. If you if you haven't been prompted by Google Maps to, you know, to the grocery store or to, you know, go to work or wherever it is, you know, they're tracking everything. So, of course, these tower dumps are super powerful. But the United States magistrate judge, Anders s Harris, denied the feds a four a four warrant request to tower to tower dumps in February, citing incompatible incompatibility with the Fourth

Amendment. Now the Fourth Amendment, for those of you that don't remember your your history lesson here, protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. That's why when someone comes up to you, pulls you over, and you're getting a ticket, and they ask to search your car, you have the right to say no. Now, they may detain you for whatever reason and go get a search warrant, but you have the right to say no. I do not want

I do not consent to be searched. Now if they think you're an imminent threat, that doesn't mean you're gonna not get yanked out of the vehicle and patted down to make sure the police officer feels safe. But still,

even if that happens, well, if they think there's a gun in the car or drugs or they can see something, they may have a reasonable reason. But you can say I don't consent. Citing cast case law, he wrote in his ruling, for starters, while the government has some idea of who had may have been involved in one or more of the crimes, that Avidade supporting the warrants application lists

seven potential suspects. They're going fishing. The government has not presented probable cause to believe that any particular individual committed any specific crime described. So it is basically the the feds were asking to allow it to access the entire haystack because it may contain a needle and sift all through that data. And thus, violating everyone's rights that they're looking through all this data, determine who is where, when, and for how long. So do you think the government

should be able to do that? Do you think they should be allowed to get those tower dumps like this? I think they have to have a pretty compelling pretty compelling case. Speaking about HBO Max, it's not just Prime Video. Max shows fifty percent more ads now, so you're paying for this shit. Excuse me. And And they're stuffing more commercial breaks into each show that you're paying for already. So quit charging me and just feed me ads. I don't wanna pay for something and still

get served ads. I really don't. Now I

I don't know if there's multiple levels on Max. I think I pay one bill for it, thirteen or fourteen dollars or something like that. But when HBO Max launched in its ad oh, its ad supported plan in twenty twenty one, it promised no more than four minutes of ads per hour. That's very, very quiet now. So now you can expect six minute of ads per hour, which is a little under fifty percent jump. So and despite its original promise not to show ads during HBO programming, Max has been breaking up HBO

shows with commercials as well. An episode The Last of Us, for instance, had three ad breaks plus a batch of ads before the video started. So meanwhile, the change of names is going on too. So can't get away from it. Now this is, this is something if you know, re remember during COVID? I mean, it's happened with my employees too. They you know, bunch of them moved all over the place. So when it was time to come back to the office, they were no longer in the locations in which they'd been

hired to work out of. And that just kinda happened, and we, you know, we went with it, and we got rid of our office, and everyone's remote. And for the most part, it works. So now Amazon is forcing some workers to relocate to its main office hubs, be close to their managers. And they've been told, you got thirty days to decide. And if you don't move now imagine you're married and got a family and kids, and they tell you you gotta move. You gotta sell your house. You gotta move. You'd be

pretty pissed too. They have thirty days to

sign followed by a sixty day period to relocate or resign. And those that resign those that refuse to relocate will not be receiving a severance package. Oh, boy. Not a not a time to work for Amazon corporate. That is for sure. They want people in the office. You will be in the office or you will not have a job. Now now you got hired. Let's say you got hired in, you know, for a remote position. That'd be highly unfair to say, now you gotta move. I'd be looking at my employment contract

in a big, big way. I'm sure they got their bases covered, but it's interesting. Another health care provider hit by the data breach, just a whopping five million patients affected. So American Healthcare Data, Episource, has confirmed suffering a cyberattack. So if you've ever worked with them or hear of them, your data's out there in the wild. Now this, I'm gonna have a tendency say I'm going to agree with, and I'm sure there's gonna be some of

you that are going to, completely disagree. Anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian. Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange visa. The state department has announced those who failed to do so will be suspected of

hiding that activity from US officials. The new guidance unveiled by the state department on Wednesday directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for any indication of hostility toward the citizen culture, government institutions, or founding principles of the United States. If you wanna come here and go to school, in my opinion, you should not be an Iranian sympathizer. You should you should want to come here and enjoy the culture of America. But, of

course, you get into our colleges and, you know, they get exposed to a lot of culture. A cable separately attained by political also instructs diplomats to flag any advocacy for aid or support for foreign terrorists and and other threats to US national security and support for unlawful anti Semitic harassment violence. The screening for anti Semitic activity match similar guidance given a US citizenship and immigration services on the Department of Homeland Security has been criticized as an

effort to crack down on opposition. So, again, things you can agree or disagree with, but, that's what's happening. X has been in a major major lawsuit with the music publishers in a very, very interesting article on torrent freak dot com today. Worth the read. It basically says x has been asking for discovery on certain individuals in the music industry. They have refused to turn this information over. And in that case, all of a sudden, there's negotiations

going on for a settlement. Because, apparently, a group called the NMPA, which is basically sending takedown notices to people that play music on x, there is some indication because they did not want to provide information that they're gonna

go into a settlement. It's It's very coincidental. And this goes to show that one was trying to feed the other. Basically, one was doing actions to try to build a case, and they don't want that information, at least this is my understanding. May not be the case, my opinion. This discovery is important to show that NMPA uses takedown notices campaign as a tool to inflict maximum pain on x and motivate Elon Musk to sign music licensing agreements. But they say, oh, no. No. We

weren't doing that. We're just asking for removals. In space news, Firefly is announcing commercial lunar imagery services. So if you wanna see what the if you have a commercial reason to need mapping of the moon, Firefly is going to provide that. I'm sure that customer list is very long. It will provide imagery using instruments placed on its Electra spacecraft. The system will use telescopes from the LAUN's Livermore National Laboratory with ultraviolet invisible sensors. So, kinda similar

to the LRO. I don't know how much of this has been paid for by the US government, but it's interesting it's gonna be a commercial service. Now during World War two

and other conflicts, there's been issues where individuals had certain expertise have been automatically brought into the military and sworn in at a very high rank. It's not unprecedented. It's happened many times. They do that for doctors, for nurses, you know, they train as doctors, and they come in, and they're given they don't go through traditional boot camp per se or or officer training school. They just come in and

are given a a rank. The army said a press release that four executives, Shaiman Sanker, CTO at Palantir Palantir, which is a big defense contractor, Andrew Boswich, CTO at Meta, Kevin Weil, chief product officer at OpenAI, and Bob McGraw, an adviser at Thinking Machine Labs and former chief research officer at OpenAI, were being commissioned at lieutenant colonel, this part of the program called attachment two thou two zero one,

the army's executive innovation course. The VIN was get to skip the usual process of going taking a direct commission course at Fort Benning, and they won't need to complete the army fitness test. Except what they're gonna be done is they're gonna be reservists that will be called active duty and serve for a period of time and giving probably apply to security clearance and probably giving advice to the government.

The role in the Army Reserve is to work on targeted projects to help or guide rapid and scalable tech solution to complex problems. So in other words, they're going to activate them as reservist, then they'll be able to have direct see, they got this commercial thing and they got the it's kind of been of a can of worms, but we've been doing this a long time. The The new reservists will serve about a hundred and twenty hours a year, three weeks, so they're not gonna get much pay. And we'll have a

lot of flexibility to work remotely. Interesting. They'll work on helping I'm requiring more commercial tech. So it's, again, a little bit of a conflict of interest. I don't know how that is gonna be resolved because there's definitely rules. It it's I'd love I would love to see the conflict of interest, agreement on that. So it's a little bit of an eyebrowzer. It I did I say browser? Yeah. EyeRiser,

I guess. Eye BrowRiser. Krispy Kreme, have you shopped there lately? They've confirmed a data breach after a ransomware attack. So Krispy Kreme has given up your data through a security breach. And how many of you are looking forward to the foldable iPhone? Well, sometime next year. But you better start saving your twenty dollar bills, not pennies. Actually, start saving hundred dollar bills because apparently, this thing is gonna come out at about twenty one hundred bucks. I'm

sorry. I'll just use an iPad. I I don't need a phone that that expensive. If you work at Microsoft, Microsoft's gonna cut thousand more jobs mainly in sales. AI is being blamed, but deeper strategic and financial motives may be at play. I I can't, let people go right now. There's no way. We're getting more done than we ever got done because we're using AI as an assistant. Yeah. But might be financial. The European Space Agency is

getting in on the prediction. They say life on Mars, humans will live in a huge space oasis on the red planet in just fifteen years. Well, not if Elon keeps blowing up rockets on the, on the test stand. Space manufacturing company, Varda, has gotten clearance to launch a more unmanned rockets. So, this award clears Varda to pursue its goals of launching

tiny factories into space where they can take advantage of low gravity to build things that can't be manufactured on Earth. Oh, really? What is that? The space building business, cofounded by former SpaceX engineer, Will Brewe, in twenty twenty, has used Rocket Labs hardware to get in orbit. For future chips, it'll use a range of platforms including SpaceX. Its next mission is

only days away. And if it all goes well, a three hundred kilogram or or a basically six hundred and sixty pound Winnebago spacecraft will spend months in space doing what we don't know. Oh, they're also going to the first oh, they tested a, form of anti age drug called ritonavir. I saw something today. I was just, going through, and it was basically there's a new drug. If you've heard of PrEP, it's a drug that is, basically a preventative for HIV. And, to my understanding,

it's a daily dosage. And there's I didn't know this, but apparently, there's another thing out there that allows you I don't know. There's a couple of medicines now, but apparently, this new one, is a shot every six months. So, very, very interesting in that regard. Anyway, just saw this thing about them talking about, doing space testing on the anti AIDS drug ritonavir, and it remind me of what I saw. DuckDuckGo browser now protects you from fake crypto exchanges and scareware. So if you use

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