The Transatlantic Cable Podcast #310

The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable begins with discussion around Elon Musk, Twitter X and WeChat – is Elon trying to pivot the social media app into an ‘everything app?’  From there, the team talk about the Home Office in the U.K looking into facial recognition technology for the retail sector.

To wrap up the team discuss two stories, the first around the Lazarus group being implicated in a recent crypto heist and the other around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and a worm virus.  

• WeChat: Why does Elon Musk want X to emulate China's everything-app?
• Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting
• Lazarus hackers linked to $60 million Alphapo cryptocurrency heist
• Hackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware