Today’s show is more than a little off the rails, thanks to talk of the Sean Connery Jeopardy bot, a giant pancake maze visible from space, moochie friends, and air-groping. But there’s news here, too: Facebook adds facial recognition to photo tagging, the Mac App Store is coming, and the dangerous success of the Stuxnet …
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BOL 1371: Zuckerberg: Man of the Year? Well, yeah, actually.
Our response to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being named Time’s Person of the Year? Um, actually, that kind of makes sense. Also, Yahoo makes some deep cuts, but the tech community rallies with job offers and free beer. And Gawker’s password mess proves once again (as if you needed any proof) that you really, really, …
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BOL 1370: The Hamburglar stole your data
On today’s show, McDonald’s has a data breach, although it’s not as bad as the one from the Mesa County, CO, sheriff’s office, which apparently keeps its lists of victims, suspects, and informants in a nice, big, unprotected plain-text database. So, that’s a few informants running for safe houses, then. Also, the Comcast Death Star …
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BOL 1369: If it Biebs, it leads
Twitter’s top trending topics of 2010 sadly didn’t include #mollyontopgear, but it’s kind of a plus that Justin Bieber was only around No. 8. Also today, the 4Chan kids go crazy on Gawker and you know what? Innocent people are being caught in this hacker-gang crossfire, and it’s frankly just not all that funny anymore. …
BOL 1368: Iran is Stux
The Stuxnet worm isn’t going away anytime soon, Julian Assange says No to WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks, and Michael Bay is re-writing the space landing…with Transformers. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data migration. Please …
BOL 1367: Holding on by an aglet
It’s a shoestring-and-gum operation around here, and someone took our gum. But somehow, we’ve got another show for you today, and we’re talking more Wikileaks Web warring (WWW3, perhaps?), Google activating 300,000 phones a day, and Apple’s refusal to let you donate money via iPhone apps (and weirdly robotic response). –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes …
BOL 1366: Won’t someone think of the routers!?
The Wikileaks war is escalating and it’s threatening to go all War Games on us. 4Chan’s forces, the Anonymous group, are DDoS-ing the heck out of sites like PayPayl, MasterCard, and anyone who bows to government pressure. Meanwhile, secret forces of, uh, governments, are DDoS-ing Anonymous right back. And who’s caught in the middle? The …
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BOL 1365: New dinosaur discovery: Tongadactyl
On today’s show, we follow the Google Chrome announcements live, but we’ll have the real wrap-up tomorrow, because wow, did that thing go on and on. In other news today, Julian Assange is arrested but Wikileaks soldiers on. unsurprisingly, the DecorMyEyes guy turns out to be a bona fide sociopath. and whatever you do, do …
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BOL 1364: It’s not funny, it’s art
We’re stealing lines from Love, Actually today, because Natali can quote it by heart when it’s super a propos to a guy very disturbingly embedding a camera in the back of his own head. Ew. But hey, it’s art! Also, Twitter says it’s not suppressing Wikileaks as a trending topic–although it’s a trending topic in …
BOL 1363: Break the touch barrier
On today’s show, we premiere our new Friday segment, Computer Love. We think you’re really going to love it. But also, the Wikileaks aftermath is raising many more serious concerns about free speech issues than we ever expected — it’s a morally ambiguous world we live in. Google’s trying to make nice with rights-holders because …