Episode Details

A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, isn't it?

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