Episode 28: It's time for chips and more chips, Exchange in a world of hurt, Airlines in a panic, Rich Hackers, McAfee in hot water, No AirTag stalking and wrecking some cars!
The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl
English - March 09, 2021 10:26 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we covered:
News
TSMC will produce 3nm chips this year and Apple has already grabbed them all - feed the Cupertino magic factory!
TSMC was fully booked but now auctioning spare capacity - where did they find the excess capacity?
Kaspersky says hackers made a mint during the COVID pandemic and will take a break - gotta spend the loot somewhere?
SITA confirms that Airline passenger data accessed in hack - OH SITA!
US National Security Council urges review of Exchange servers following attacks - not to be outdone by the Solarwinds hack, here's another one!
John McAfee in US indictment over pump+dump Crypto scheme - is anyone really shocked?
Stalkers won’t be able to track you with AirTags - no creepy stalking via the Find My app!
Google confirms that NEXT21 event will take place in October - place your bets now on the format!
NASA Perservence rover powered by IBM PowerPC CPU - old but still reliable!
Apple Store lists the iMac Pro base model as available while supplies last,’ hinting it’s being discontinued - could a Mx powered version be on the way?
Games
Wreckfest - Demolition Derby for the 21st Century
As always we'd love to hear what you think!