China BEATS Amazon!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,190 words · ~5 min read
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ah that's good james can we do the show please oh sorry i was just enjoying a
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refreshing drink from the new Linus tech tech tips insulated water bottle with a
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super cool matte black motherboard design now available on the LTT Store
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the latest Windows update was released on april 9th and it promptly started
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breaking systems with anti-virus software installed naturally security
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apps from sofos avast avira and archibit are all affected causing systems to
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freeze or run ridiculously slowly when
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their user attempts to log into Windows 10. now mcafee apps are also messed up
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although they're already kind of freaking annoying when they work properly i can only imagine them acting
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up as badly as the company's founder that
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i don't i would delete it i don't install the the best fix right now seems
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to be booting into safe mode disabling your antivirus then restarting and
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strangely adding your own security apps folder to the list of excluded locations
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to scan also helps apparently which is just
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trippy i feel like i'm in one of the john mcafee's fevered dreams ah that
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doesn't sound like a good time it's great to see tech giants playing nice
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for a change amazon and google have both made one of the other services available
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on their respective platforms with uh the youtube app now on fire tv devices
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and prime video now accessible through chromecast now to be fair the fact that
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they weren't available is a result of a spat between the two tech giants back in
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2017 when amazon.com refused to carry google products so google pulled youtube
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support from the echo show which prompted amazon to pull prime video
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support on chromecast and then google also pulled youtube support from fire tv
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sticks but this is progress people
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holding grudges isn't healthy but since they're still competitors they also
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launched competing services on the same day free ad-supported music playback is
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now available on echo devices by amazon music and google home devices via
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youtube music and you still can't use the youtube app on the echo show the
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drama continues xoxo gossip girl
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facebook stop enough the latest security snafu from
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the social media giant is the news that it did an oopsy and unintentionally
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uploaded 1.5 million users email contacts to the platform uh since may
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2016. this screw-up was related to facebook's request for users to input
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their email passwords in order to log in the email credentials were apparently
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used to harvest users contact lists without their permission which would be
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less concerning if facebook already hadn't demonstrated it it sucks at
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security this week the company also admitted that
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millions of instagram passwords were stored in unencrypted plain text format
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in addition to the 600 million facebook passwords we've already heard about huh
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sounds like a great time to announce that facebook is working on a voice
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assistant to rival google assistant and amazon's alexa
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no no it's not a good time for that facebook it'll probably never be a good
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time ever in the future i don't think you should do that
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at all stop but we can't stop because
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we'll do it live well jazzed up for the quick bits now
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nintendo reportedly plans to release a smaller cheaper version of the switch
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console by the end of the year before releasing a higher end model sometime
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next year maybe the cheaper one won't come with controllers and maybe it'll
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run Android and maybe maybe it's just a phone after an expose by the
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hard-hitting reporters at buzzfeed news okay that's going to take me a while to
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get used to google has taken down six seemingly benign apps made by chinese
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company du group do group which were collecting and sending user data to
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china as well as running background processes that clicked on web ads to
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generate revenue the apps had over 90 million downloads altogether so next
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time you think you need to download an app for something you better not
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play it safe guys ride sharing service car to go saw over
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100 of its vehicles hijacked in chicago and used to commit crimes
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the incident was initially thought to be the result of a software hack but
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cardigo denied this saying it was instead an instance of fraud
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21 people have since been arrested and charged i don't know how 21 people drove
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100 cars let me get to the math here uh we'll wait until the investigation
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concludes either way pretty impressive probably used computers it's like when
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you walk like six dogs at once amazon is bowing out of part of its
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commercial operations in china after apparently failing to compete with local
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companies like alibaba and jd.com chinese customers can still order
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products off of amazon but the online store will no longer be open to
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third-party sellers and that's most of the sellers amazon
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found out the hard way china number one and of all the people to hack in the
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whole world you wouldn't think that the weather channel would be at the top of
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the list but yesterday the network was taken off the air by a ransomware attack
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apparently they sorted things out as the channel came back up after an hour but
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come on the weather channel they're just out here trying to help people avoid
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getting unnecessarily wet no shame have you none none you have none you have no
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shame no shame i'm upset i'm upset i'm
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so upset that i'm going to end this episode now right now i'm sorry if you
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wanted more tech news that'll make the rules come back on monday be some other guy
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here and subscribe in the meantime maybe i can maybe i can cool down over the weekend
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yeah i can get my get my groove back i'll come back in
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full swing yeah coolness cucumber but right now i'm mad
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i'm upset