Episode 118: It's time for InfraGard hack, Epic fined (again), Sony vs MSFT round xx, FTX dumpster fire, Apple ponders big changes - a podcast by Jay

from 2023-01-07T15:43:42

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This week we covered:

• News
  
  
  
  • FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network‘InfraGard’ Hacked
  
  
  
  • Epic Games, at war with the App Store, fined $520M by FTC for violating children’s privacy
  
  
  
  • Xbox boss: Sony wants to‘grow by making Xbox smaller’
  
  
  
  



• Crypto!
  
  
  
  • FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas
  
  
  
  • SEC charges FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried with'defrauding investors’
  
  
  
  • Celebrities that promoted Bored Ape NFTs are now facing a class action lawsuit
  
  
  
  



• Apple
  
  
  
  • Apple mulls opening browser engine, NFC, and more to third-party apps
  
  
  
  • Report: Apple plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024
  
  
  
  • Apple‘not currently considering’ adopting RCS, despite EU law requiring iMessage interoperability
  
  

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