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Lina Khan has not only been confirmed as FTC commissioner, she’s also been named FTC chair. Waymo raises a big new round, which is soops interesting. Spotify joins the audio rooms sweepstakes. A Windows 11 build leaks. And forget Apple Stores, would you visit an actual Apple Health Clinic? Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Cybereason.com Links: Biden Names Lina Khan, a Big-Tech Critic, as F.T.C. Chair (New York Times) Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round (CNBC) GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits (CNBC) Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (Tech Crunch) Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge) Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Automattic acquires the popular iOS and iPad OS journaling app, Day One. Everybody wants a piece of Stripe. Stripe wants to be the “Stripe for Identity” all by itself. With HBO vanquished, now Netflix wants to become Disney faster than Disney can become Netflix. And could I interest you in an NFT of the entire World Wide Web? Sponsors: LinkedIn.com/ride Cybereason.com Links: WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (Tech Crunch) U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data (Reuters) Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (Wall Street Journal) Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more (Tech Crunch) Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location (Geek Wire) Netflix Has a Plan to Sell You Toys, T-Shirts and Concert Tickets (Bloomberg) Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (Financial Ti

Could we get an extreme sports Apple Watch soon? Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all. Bitcoin’s first major overhaul in four years is a go. TikTok has quickly become an advertising Monster. And I try to explain to you why everyone is suddenly so hype on Miami as a tech hub. Sponsors: KiwiCo.com/ride for your first month free Cybereason.com Links: Apple Plans Faster Watch, Future Temperature and Glucose Sensors (Bloomberg) Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge) Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22 (The Verge) Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC) TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg) Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moar… hacking news. McDonalds. Electronic Arts. Le sigh. Apple wants to do away with passwords too. Elon Musk unveils the Model S Plaid. An interesting Apple Car hire. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TheLogic.co/subscribe promo code RIDE for 50% off Cybereason.com Links: McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (Wall Street Journal) Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice) Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet) Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC) Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. (Double Pulsar) When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC) APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge) THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic) Marcus Graham: L

Another payoff to Ransomware hackers. Facebook to launch a smartwatch? Microsoft to launch a dedicated game streaming device? Samsung unveils a tiny, tiny camera sensor. Stripe wants to handle your sales tax headache. And can the creator economy take off in a world of App Stores with 30% rakes? Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Cybereason.com Links: JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack (Wall Street Journal) Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor (The Verge) Microsoft is building its own streaming devices as part of a major Xbox Game Pass expansion (Protocol) Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor (The Verge) Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries (Tech Crunch) The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Biden reverses the TikTok and WeChat bans. Did one single customer cause that Fastly internet outage? Interesting raise for a faster Ethereum. Interesting new browser option. And maybe my favorite honey pot operation of all time. Sponsors: Masterworks.io promocode RIDE Cybereason.com Links: El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC) Biden revokes and replaces Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat (The Verge) Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge) Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block) Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (Tech Crunch) FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs (The Record) Encrypted messaging app used by criminals was actually an FBI honeypot (Input) Learn more about your a

Fastly takes down the internet, highlighting how the internet is still really centralized. The US seized most of the bitcoins those hackers got from the Colonial Pipeline hack, highlighting how Bitcoin is actually eminently traceable. Facebook pokes Apple in the eye on WWDC day, and I give you a wrap-up of the bits a pieces we missed from WWDC yesterday. Sponsors: Kraken.com/techmeme or search "Kraken" in the app store Cybereason.com Links: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Tech Crunch) U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (Wall Street Journal) Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge) EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters) Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge) iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac) Apple adds digital legacy se

All the headlines from WWDC 2021. Bezos in space! France brings the first hammer down on this round of anti-competitive action, this time against Google. And Jane Manchun Wong has the details on the upcoming Twitter Super Followers thingy. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi promocode: tech10 Cybereason.com Links: Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner (TechCrunch) Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices (WSJ) Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is MagSafe charging coming to iPads? Is the Biden administration actually cracking down harder on China than the Trump administration did? Is the recent slate of ransomware attacks the new normal or the sign of something bigger brewing? And, in the weekend longreads suggestions, we meet a guy who’s job is to negotiate with ransomware hackers. Sponsors: Cybereason.com Metalab.com Links: Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg) Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge) Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (New York Times) Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers (The New Yorker) Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Motherboard) The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku) Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and G

Twitter takes the wrapping off its subscription product, Twitter Blue. Multi-device support hints at a future WhatsApp app for iPads. Stack Overflow is the latest part of the developer ecosystem to sell for big bucks. And taking the temperature of Google’s Ethical AI team. Sponsors: Metalab.com Cybereason.com Links: Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC) Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge) WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors) Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN) Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (Wall Street Journal) Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the headlines from Facebook’s F8 Refresh. Etsy buys a used clothes marketplace. Another ransomware attack shutting down a major player in a vital industry, this time, literally in the meat-space. And you can start trading Dogecoin on Coinbase tomorrow. Sponsors: Cybereason.com Metalab.com Links: Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (Tech Crunch) Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge) Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC) Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (New York Times) U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC) Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (Wall Street Journal) Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk) Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why. Sponsors: Grammarly.com/techmeme for 20% off Cybereason.com Links: Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge) AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech) AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget) Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo) Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios) Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica) Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm

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The SolarWinds hackers are back, and I’m starting to fear the escalation of a cyber cold war here. Mark Gurman thinks we’ll see redesigned AirPods this year. Have I Been Pwned goes open source. And come for the longreads suggestions as always, but stay for my rant about that insane Citizen app story. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi Promocode: Tech10 Cybereason.com Links: Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (New York Times) Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg) Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: 'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice) Own the Internet (Not Boring) A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (New York Times) The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times) Subscribe to the RideHome+ Feed at: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An upgraded Nintendo Switch is maybe days away from being announced. Twitter Spaces can now happen on the desktop. The behind the scenes details of the MGM buy. Snowflake has left Silicon Valley for… checks notes… Montana. And Clubhouse makes a high profile hire that shows they’re still full steam ahead. Sponsors: Skiff.org/ride Cybereason.com Links: Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg) You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge) James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (New York Times) Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg) PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt) App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors) Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC) Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached

Amazon buys James Bond. Is Valve working on a Nintendo Switch clone? Google’s new campus in San Jose will make the Googleplex look puny. Tesla is dropping radar. The new standard for USB is beefing up power-wise. And is Microsoft moving on from Windows 10 branding? Sponsors: Masterworks.io promocode RIDE Cybereason.com Links: Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC) Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica) Google's San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle) Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge) USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET) Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch) Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet) Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat) Learn more about your ad

Google finally rolls out its Internet of Everything Else OS, Fuchsia. Arm unveils its first new v9 chips. Poparazzi might be the next big social app, and it debuted number one on the app store. And Noom has raised a hell of a lot of money, but that’s because, its making a ton of money helping people lose weight. Sponsors: Oracle.com/goto/ride Cybereason.com Links: Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google) ARM's first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget) Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (New York Times) Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors) Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (Tech Crunch) Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol) Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg) Learn more abou

After Tim Cook’s testimony, can the judge’s line of questioning give us a hint of how the trial might resolve as arguments close today? Citizen App is considering rent-a-cops as a service. The AI community wants to open source large language models to address recent controversies. And a computer chip that changes its structure to thwart hackers. Sponsors: PorkBun.com/tld/design Cybereason.com Links: Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (Tech Crunch) Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook's feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol) HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac) Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice) The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review) Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cybereason's CISO, Isreal Barak uses the recent Colonial Pipeline incident to give us a deep explainer on how Ransomware and Ransomware as a service works. Sponsors: Cybereason.com NordVPN.com/ride coupon code ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices