This week seems a little formulaic on the show. We follow up on the gender diversity stories from last week, eBay is beating Twitter and Google, our blood boils with revelations about the insecurity of the ubiquitous USB flash drives, and new policies and requests coming out of Russia, including registering popular online bloggers. Tor warned us this week of a possible attack in early July aiming to deanonymize users, and then we jump into product announcements. Apple will buy Swell, the podcasting app, Google is rolling out support for Hangouts for businesses, and there is a new player aiming to buy (part of) T-Mobile USA. All that and more this week!
eBay’s gender diversity
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/01/ebay-gender-diversity/?ncid=rss_truncated
BadUSB: USB is no longer safe
http://www.zdnet.com/badusb-big-bad-usb-security-problems-ahead-7000032211/
Russia begins registering bloggers
http://gigaom.com/2014/08/01/the-registration-of-russian-bloggers-has-begun/
Russia asks Apple to submit code review
FISA court owns Verizon stock
UK’s ruling on ‘Right to be Forgotten’
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/30/right-to-be-forgotten-is-wrong
Tor warns of attack to deanonymize users
http://www.securityweek.com/tor-warns-attack-attempting-deanonymize-users
Apple to buy Swell
http://recode.net/2014/07/27/apple-to-buy-radio-app-swell-for-30-million/
Google Hangouts for business
http://recode.net/2014/07/30/google-sends-hangouts-to-work-enhances-chromebox-for-meetings/
Amazon going after Square
Iliad offer $15bill for majority of T-Mobile
6-bit Byte
HP contracts with Gilt for smartwatch
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/01/hps-gilt-exclusive-smartwatch-puts-fashion-first/?ncid=rss
Hilton to replace keys with your smartphone
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/28/5944499/smartphones-will-unlock-doors-at-hilton-hotels
Science News:
Scientists investigate radio bursts from space
http://boingboing.net/2014/07/29/scientists-investigate-radio-w.html#more-321393
the digital hazard 