coming up on tech news today Equifax didn’t patch and that’s why we all lose also Facebook sold anti-semitic ad categories to people looking for them Google announced the date for its next pixel event Apple 10 fans have a notch hangover and bitmoji gets all AR and snapchat all that more coming up next on tech news today this is tweet bandwidth for tech news today is provided by cash fly at CA CH e f ly calm [Music] this is tech news today episode 1853 recorded Thursday September 14th 2017 this episode of tech news today is brought to you by rocket mortgage by Quicken Loans home plays a big role in your life and that’s why Quicken Loans created rocket mortgage it lets you apply simply and understand the entire mortgage process fully so you can be confident that you’re getting the right mortgage for you get started at rocket mortgage comm slash TNT welcome to tech news today this is the show where we read the tech news we absorb it into our pours and then we create you throw it against the wall and it’s splatter paints everywhere and then we frame it we sell it for the highest bidder yeah I was trying to think of something that went along with pores so maybe we sweat it out mmm yeah what’s up there we go it’s an analogy everyone could appreciate Equifax finally updated its site to explain how the company was hacked they say criminals took advantage of the Apache struts CVE 2017 5638 vulnerability oh I know that one was fixed back in March but Equifax had not updated its web application so now a hundred and forty three million people’s data is out there because Equifax failed to update between the time of the fix in March and the time they were breached in May Experian another Equifax type company also relies on Apache struts they apparently had updated theirs or so we hope that they had so I think it’s hard to not call this negligence at this point they really should have updated crebbs also said we didn’t talk about this yesterday but Equifax krebs and security marine Krebs said Equifax they are they had the credit report dispute website and the one in Argentina had the very secretive and complicated username as admin and the password was admin so that’s no good and and so the apache thing has been going around since over the weekend an article in court said that this was a nine year old vulnerability that that apache hadn’t fixed but they had this was something they they’d fixed they posted the update ready for anyone to take it but Equifax was like me yeah Equifax obviously just doesn’t care very much about anything yeah cuz it’s floppy it’s infuriating especially when you consider the the level of data and the amount of data that was that that’s now out there in the open as a result of this negligence I mean who’s to hold them accountable and I think that’s what we’re more and more what we’re starting to see and I’m hoping kind of comes out of this is some sort of official form of accountability when you’re talking about you know companies that are trading in this valuable data because I mean you know if if all they end up getting is well dang we messed up anyways whatever and us as customers just kind of have to deal with the fact that our lives are more complicated for years to come as a result of it like it just it feels unfair obviously so hopefully there’s some accountability there but that’s one component right is the vulnerability the other aspect of this is of course the fact that the data was accessible unencrypted ripe for the picking once they got through but it’s kind of like I suppose once you’re inside of those protections that’s just the way it is it’s just there’s a million different ways that it probably could have been protected a whole lot better than it was and not updating for two months beyond that patch is a pretty big no-no you don’t do that if you’re managing this type of data especially but in general you don’t do that Scooter X just posted a piece in the chat room from Crayola from Craig Krebs that was apparently posted recently saying that that the equifax hackers stole two hundred thousand credit card accounts I guess Visa and MasterCard are sending out confidential alerts to financial institutions and the ones that Brian was able to see said that that the hackers initially breached Equifax starting in November of 2016 but Equifax says that they were all stolen at the same time between mid-may so yeah this is news that I’m sure Leo will be reporting more on on the screen savers or tomorrow you will be it’s not Friday I think it’s Friday we’ll probably mention this again mm-hmm the investigation is obviously ongoing I know the sacrifice thread just continues giving and giving and I don’t want to take any more but hey what you do Facebook is feeling the heat to put it lightly first there’s the Russian inquiry that aims to determine to what degree Russian campaigns were able to utilize Facebook’s ad mechanism to stir unrest in the United States ahead of the presidential election last year some of those ads called on citizens to organize in real life on US soil and sources inside Facebook say there were other events that haven’t hit the light of day yet other events like that Facebook won’t reveal those though saying it violates their own internal policies and you know this gets to something that we’ve also been talking about it well speaking of accountability the US Federal Election Commission is considering regulatory changes that would require companies like Facebook like alphabet that are selling ads of this type to disclose in some way who paid for those ads which is something that they’re not required to do right now so those rules might at some point be changing considering all this it’s crazy that Facebook is the one doing this investigation at first like they’re the ones that came up with it I mean Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub this the story says said we know that foreign nationals are placing political ABB’s ads because Facebook has told us it’s like that’s where the commissioners are getting their information from Facebook and it’s good that Facebook is revealing this I wish they would reveal more they I mean they call it you know intellectual property because you know it’s it’s just so different than you know the way a newspaper would work or were they way a television station would work like that the technology is not proprietary their ad buying and selling is not proprietary so yeah it it is it’s a complicated mess you also have this the fact that Facebook’s algorithms allowed for those who were buying ad campaigns to target ad categories of highly offensive anti-semitic topics that you can look up if you really want to know what they are Facebook admits it’s systems can surface content that violates its standards and it actually did remove those categories that ProPublica found and once they reached out to them Facebook did remove those but I mean they existed for you know who knows how long categories were described in the ad console as fields of study in many cases the categories were so small that it wouldn’t allow Pro Publica to buy ads against them at first unless they started adding more and more categories which ultimately just ended up you know I Pro Publica to prove the point ended up adding from all of these different you know crazy offensive categories that just broadened the pool of potential you know recipients of those ads and eventually they were able to buy against them so that’s kind of what that’s all about it’s a lot of fun this is just crazy and this as opposed to the last story wasn’t you know this wasn’t revealed by Facebook whether or not they knew before I want to believe that they didn’t know but ProPublica again Julia Angwin who has done crazy good investigations of Facebook she’s the same reporter who uncovered the that the ads that eventually led to that the the ads that were racist basically they were yeah the housing the housing ads right you could target certain ethnic or demo target away from like they weren’t showing them to I think African Americans Asian Americans and Hispanics or whatever which is against the law so this is just crazy so like if you look at this this photographs this screenshot that they took it really says two thousand two hundred seventy four people fall into the demographic group of Education slash feels of study like you said jew-hater and so yes they say the algorithm created this I’m guessing from headlines and things but it’s I mean some uh it’s just one of those things where you I mean did no one see that except for a ProPublica like that is crazy to me or did they just say like well if someone hates shoes that’s their right to hate Jews I mean you can no one can control who you know hates anything I mean maybe to a certain degree it’s kind of liked a right it’s like they set up a system it’s an algorithmic system it’s meant to be smart enough to infer certain categories based on you know the actions of the people who are buying ads and posting things are posting content for those ads to be paired up with and it all comes down to the people feeding that information you know people fed enough of a certain type of information into Microsoft stay to make teh racist it’s possible apparently to do that with Facebook’s algorithm too but it’s also very possible to have it not do that I mean that was after take aim out there were all these people who’d been working in the chat pod space for years saying it would have been so easy for them to put something into the code that would avoid that and they didn’t and I just feel like it should have been easy for them to put this by no means am I giving facebook a pass on that by saying that it just it seems like they’re operating on the same terms as Microsoft was with Tay and yeah you’re right it’s completely possible to avoid this sort of thing or just to be more aware of it you know Facebook how many employees do you have have some people whose job it is to monitor this stuff and maybe they do but they weren’t looking at this obviously right so I mean it becomes a question that we haven’t really dealt with before like is it okay to to just direct ads at white supremacists like you know what what law is that breaking exactly besides our just you know it’s just aside the fact that it just disgusts us yeah right well yeah and I imagine to a certain degree it’s probably not that good for business I know it looks very bad but I’m in terms of like breaking a law and you know I mean it’s just like they were using it to target like to get people to go to rallies and you have to sell Nazi memorabilia and Confederate flags I don’t awesome the iPhone 10 so last week Google has confirmed October 4th as the date for the pixel 2 in the pixel to excel according to made by google.com slash asked more and a billboard in downtown Boston the next Google made phone will be released or at least teased before you can order the iPhone that doesn’t happen till October 27th according to a promo video the phone will have a better battery more storage and a better camera it will also understand you better update itself it will be faster it will make you look cooler will bring you joy and so the ad was just like you know so many questions that why doesn’t my battery last longer why is my phone so fragile why you know what’s what’s wrong with all the things about my phone and apparently Google’s gonna fix all of them mmm well there I hope too anyways and it’s not just gonna be one phone rumors are pointing to two different phones similar to what we had last year like a pixel to and then a pixel to XL larger device there have been FCC application filings that have hit both from HTC which that’s expected to be the smaller of the phones made by HTC or in cooperation with HTC the larger phone that FCC application hit today that’s LG and so they’ve got a few things going on we’ve talked on this show that HTC might someday become a Google property but it’s still very interesting that they’ve got these two phones in the same family but they’re going with different manufacturers to help them with these two so I’m very curious to see how that plays out well you know because this time around or sorry last year they were very much the same phone but smaller the same phone but larger there was no real differentiation other than size and this seems you know they’re going with two different manufacturers I think the HTC one’s supposed to have the squeezable frame I don’t know if that ends up in the LG one because that’s kind of HTC’s thing I’ll be curious to see well tonight I will be staying up late or going to bed early and then waking up at midnight to order the iPhone 8 Oh which goes on sale tonight tomorrow morning so and I assume that you will also get this and then we’ll switch again in so yeah we could do that I’m down for that pixel you have to get it that’s the one requirement and there are also might actually be other things a Bluetooth assisted assistant enabled headphones we’ve seen some rumors about that there’s also possibly a smaller Google home so there’s gonna be a number of devices at this event likely and actually possibly a ramp up of assistant built into devices because we saw today the Bose QuietComfort 35 to headphones the box has leaked on these and apparently on the box it says Google assistant enabled and has an action button for assistant so this is a direction that they’re probably gonna go I’m expecting that we’ll hear more about this because I don’t even know if these release to the public before the event oh so the first thing you said Bluetooth headphones like some sort of air pod that’s what that’s what I was thinking initially but then I saw this I was like well is this it but it’s not it’s Bose so yeah I think I’m guessing there’s probably gonna be some sort of like an air patil you know ish sort of product Italian I wonder how they’ll improve on the air pods because they’re perfect I don’t know I mean really it’s just any air bluetooth headphone that works with assistant instead of Siri so you know I mean perfect is probably exaggerated so make it look better yeah I know that little drop-down thing okay as long as I’ve seen it now I’m still not used to it still looks weird to me but that’s just me the thrill is gone now that people are beginning to see the notch in the display of the iPhone 10 and what it means for apps and games running on the device those absolutely early days for the notch it hasn’t taken long for people to post examples of the compromises that a notch in the display might bring to the premium device one example shows how the scroll bar on the side of a page plunges into darkness as the user Scrolls down the webpage that scroll bar just disappears entirely and in the hole that’s left there by the knotch and examples of plenty showing how movies TV shows video games look while sporting a dead zone that cuts into UI elements on some games and other on-screen footage and stuff although if you’re taking screenshots with your iPhone 10 if the device actually does the notch and screenshots so it’s full so you get more visual information with a screen shot than you actually see on the screen so there’s that so wouldn’t be cool to have like a game where like there was a secret hidden behind the know hey you should become a developer that’s actually might you’re a developer you don’t have to become one you are suddenly a developer now so I’ve done a little bit of a poll on the Twitter’s what to call the knotch I don’t like the Nagy you know sounds a little bit too much like notch who you know develops minecraft and then went crazy but I love you not I mean I digress so we could call it the ears the chin Steve’s lament or I have better things to do and so far I have better things to do as winning 71% but 15% says ears that’s what serenity last night called it ears which i think is a really a glass-half-full kind of situation cuz it’s like the ears are the fill like screen instead of you know the it’s not [Music] like what you can see not what you can’t see yeah it’s not that we took something out of this place that we gave you a little extra on the side yes exactly no one said chin not a single of the 88 people that voted said chin because it’s up there when you’re holding a portrait yeah I guess you’re right it’s more for like forehead or maybe it’s like bangs yeah someone suggested unibrow but I did not choose that cuz that was my nickname in elementary school I learned something new today to be fair and Burt pointed this out but it’s a good reminder the knotch view for video is optional by default apparently it shows black bars so basically the knotch or whatever you want to call it it goes away which looks normal which looks fine if you DoubleTap you get immersive mode not expands it out but really what you’re getting there like yes you see the notch on the side but you’re also cropping because it’s taking a normal you know ratio and expanding it to fit so information on the top and bottom is also cropping out too so personally I don’t know why I would ever do that but some people like to fill up every single pixel on their screen so maybe that’s it and if you are a bangs or not CH or whatever you want to call that fan you can install the YouTube notch mode extension on desktop and all of your YouTube videos on your computer will now show a side notch so you could like live the future I think that I I’m gonna go on a limb and say the iPhone 10 is gonna be the only one with the knotch they’re gonna figure it out before with iPhone 11 or I throw 9 or whatever is next well I mean that’s the question right like would it have been better for them to not have that there like like I saw a render someone was like I don’t like the look of the new iPhone because of that and so I you know just extended it got rid of the screen there and this is what the iPhone would have looked like if they just had done normal bezel and it still looked pretty slick like it looked actually pretty nice so I get you know people are probably gonna fall on either side of the you know either camp and I bet you anything usually in the in the case is something like this once it actually gets out into people’s hands and they see it in person it becomes less of a thing than you thought it was going to be when you saw it online right you know what I mean like I thought I was worried about the essential with a little camera cutout and mind you compared to this it’s pretty small it’s not as wide of a bar but when I got it in person it really didn’t it really didn’t interfere it didn’t bug me that was yeah so okay yes it will drive Josh nuts that’s what Burke is saying get your act together Burke it’s gonna drive his OCD crazy so we didn’t I wanted to talk about face ID Fudd which is going on a lot you know just people like oh you know we’re gonna it’s gonna open my children we’re gonna be able to open it it’s gonna open anytime you’ve put the phone anywhere near me and so remains to be seen when when people get the phone but in terms of like having a police officer make you do it Craig Fett today gripping phones on gripping the buttons on both sides of the iPhone will automatically turn it off so okay so it’ll disable the face lie yeah thing and then force you to enter in your PIN yeah I don’t know what situation like if a police officer forces you I mean I don’t think Craig federighi said it’s for this but if officer says open your face you absolutely had to give your phone to someone you didn’t want them to have the ability to get inside your phone by unlocking with your face just do that just do that on the sides yeah which I mean didn’t the older iPhones you could tap the home button like five times and it would force a pin the touch ID disabled and then same thing here yeah so because you don’t have a touch ID button to press this is the 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with the small group of users sources also say that the headset is expected to cost between 15 to 15 hundred to two thousand dollars the form factors more like a large pair of glasses than it is like a big honkin headset like we’re used to seeing with oculus and and with vibe so I know Megan you are waiting with bated breath for magic leap and all that it promises and you’re willing to plunk down two thousand dollars for one not quite I think the first time I heard of magically I think I interviewed someone from the MIT Technology lab or something who had seen it one of the many journalists who seen it like journalists we know and trust who’ve seen it and said this is amazing it’s gonna change every and that was when I first started back here like almost three years ago and I mean the world has changed of augmented reality the world has changed and people have actually I mean we’re gonna talk about the amazing things that that snapchat is doing with augmented reality we’re gonna talk about that later in the show there’s so you know I’m not gonna pay two thousand dollars for this I want I just want the mystery solved is it nothing a phrase I know all right much money I mean they’ve raised a crazy amount of money 1.3 billion dollars yeah I mean they’ve raised it from Google and other people that you would trust and it just doesn’t it continues to boggle the mind yeah they’re looking to add another five hundred dollars to that for evaluations I’m sorry five hundred million dollars let’s give them five hundred dollars you know what magically yeah I got it I don’t have $500 of my wallet for a valuation of six billion dollars and yeah like you said we’ve still not even seen a single piece of their technology they put out a couple of promotional videos here and there that purport to show the actual experience and I’m more or less believe it’s to a certain degree but you’re right so much has changed in the last two or three years in augmented reality what was a WOW factor three years ago might not be so powerful anymore by the way some other pieces from this the technology would require the user to wear this portable puck shaped device while using the glasses it would wirelessly transmit the information the processing and that sort of stuff up to the glasses and yeah I’m very very interested what do you think the over-under is on being disappointed after all of this build-up I think that I am already disappointed remember like when their CEO said that the hololens cause cancer like it’s also like there so it’s like they’re not it’s it’s not just the fact we haven’t seen anything there they’re a little bit kooky over there they’re they’re a little too aware of how in the dark everyone is and like they’ve loved it and they are also there in Florida so I mean I hope everything’s okay with them see it’s interesting though because now when you watch this video so this is one of the earlier videos that you saw they were like wow that’s amazing now that the the table crossing in front of the image that is pretty cool but some of this stuff like yeah you could do this with a phone right now with like a arcade or but I guess the the real difference is that this is supposedly relies on light-filled technology similar to Lytro and we know the visible effects of that are actually pretty interesting not to mention in a glasses state that’s what I feel like is is kind of missing from mobile AR right now is the fact that you have to hold your phone out and that gets tiring and I’ve I’ve said repeatedly like if I could just put that into glasses and do this what I’m doing with my hands but with my eyes it would be awesome and that seems to be what magic leap is promising does that right now lens does but it has a very narrow field of view through which to look it’s not like this thing that surrounds you everywhere it’s like you’re looking through this little window in your goggle which is cool but you know in a perfect world it would it would encompass your entire view and I don’t know if magically will do that but I expect it will be better than hololens as far as that’s concerned and you think it’s gonna be better than what I can do right now with my bitmoji oh well we will we will see when we talk about that in a little bit but we’re not talking about bitmoji right now we’re gonna talk about Samsung it doesn’t want to be left in the dust of other companies ramping up their autonomous vehicle efforts so the company launched the 300 million dollar Samsung Automotive initiative fund to put its money behind interesting startups in the market and align itself with them along those lines that invested ninety million dollars into t-t-tech along with Audi Audi and t-t-tech have a relationship already the strategic partnership with TZ Tech will focus on safety technology for Audi’s self-driving car initiatives and specifically its piloting program on the Audi eight at least initially t-t-tech says they plan to use the Samsung investment to just basically improve their technology for the Volkswagen Group and they really focus on functional safety networking real-time systems they say complex software integrations and Samsung just kind of wants its chips to be part of that and wants to be in on it so they’ve they’ve invested a lot of money into it I mean this I this technology is the most interesting to me of all the technologies that we talked about self-driving cars so I I mean it’s real it’s happening it’s something that’s going to save lives it’s something that is going to make you know our current lives easier and so yeah I’m I’m much more excited about this an autonomous driving fund that sounds pretty great and we have we’ve moved real if you think about how fast we’ve moved in self-driving car technology it’s pretty amazing I listen to Kara Swisher had an interview with Chris Urmson who used to run Google self-driving car project he was just talking about the very beginning when they did like the grand the DARPA Grand Challenge and the you know the cars were flipping over everything you know long ago and you know of all like yes yes having my bitmoji danced around on your desk is amazing but this is the kind of technology that I think is really gonna change our lives in a good way yeah eventually Samsung by the way this isn’t like their first outing outing sorry I got a groan from Burke that was an accomplishment in self-driving technology they actually acquired harman last november that was for 8 billion dollars and harmon of course you know that was sort of connected car strategy there in auto there on audio products as well but it’s all kind of coming together for Samsung Samsung likes to be where all this stuff is and they don’t want to be left in the dust so there you go Ken’s don’t the chat room says there’s an insurance issue with self-driving cars there are so many issues there’s ethical issues with self-driving cars there I’m not saying like you know they’re gonna be everywhere anytime soon but starting in the cities I think they’re going to be really helpful for in terms of environmental issues and all that but yeah there’s gonna be a lot of things we have to get through first yep we got some feedback from Wayne about the story yesterday that we talked about with the startup called bodega which was little kiosks in dorm rooms and different places and mostly the story was how it blew up on Twitter because of the appropriation of the name bodega but Wainwright’s I don’t see bodega as much of a threat to the mom-and-pop stores and not really an issue most bodegas make the majority of their profits selling alcohol I don’t see this happening with the vending machine bodegas selling candy chips pop and deodorant won’t cause the mom and pop a Degas to disappear these will work best in cities that don’t have stores or bodegas near enough to businesses to make this desirable and convenient for employees and I did some research to try to figure out if that was accurate that the Degas really do make most of their money off of alcohol and I couldn’t I couldn’t I can’t cannot confirm or deny that that is true but I did think about what part of what we talked about yesterday was you know the only thing degas are competing with Amazon still because there’s a lot of things that we just say like I mean this right now I have to have it or you walk by a store in you’re thinking oh look that looks good and a lot of times that is alcohol or cigarettes or Twinkies or things that you you know when you’re you don’t you you take care of yourself a little bit when you’re shopping on Amazon and you might not order all that stuff you can’t order that stuff from Amazon but you know when when I’m ordering things from future Megan and Future Megan’s family they’re often very healthy as opposed to the things that you know when I walk by a bodega or a corner store or a green grocer or whatever the names that you were town and culture call them it’s not always the healthiest choices and I never knew what a bodega was until this story I just always called it corner stores but then that was my time in San Francisco my time in San Francisco at least the early days in San Francisco filled with corner stores yeah I look basically lived in a corner store not really well I thought I think that it’s really a new worker thing okay it was it was one of those really fascinating times on Twitter when everyone is just like mm-hmm no yeah no I saw it was it was upheaval to the degree yeah Brian Haley writes why are we expecting so much from self-driving cars when they are in their infancy probably because of movies like demolition man iRobot and even going back to the cartoon The Jetsons I think the expectations are too high right now this technology is still in development yes it would be nice to set it and forget it but at this time we need to treat it like a teen driver that just got their license cinch up the seatbelt check your mirrors three times and be ready to grab the wheel when they make a stupid move as you know they will how do you feel about that yes I love self-driving cars that’s kind of what I was saying like there you know there I probably am expecting I think that’s probably directed directly at me who I’m saying come we need a self-driving Berk as well Pete I think that was a previous story so yeah I or self-driving TDI don’t know what we need but yes put on your seatbelt Kevin all right today is William who says loading trucks digging a high-rise basement in downtown LA streaming through Bluetooth and looking over at my phone every now and then when it’s safe this is how I consume all the TWiT Network shows always starts off with TNT nice like I feel like I’m I’m there I’m this guy I need to know William when is it safe to watch well you have that giant crane like please tell me like when taking a breaker right I think when it when the claws opening and dumping and you’ve already got it lined over the thing I mean 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version of you you create it you give it clothes hair whatever you decided size facial hair all those things and then now it can hang out in your real life and you just open up snapchat and try it with the front-facing camera that’s what it works not the selfie camera and I did that with Jason before the show and what is your bitmoji do what my bitmoji well we could I post it on Twitter so you could look at it but I played guitar they drank coffee that’s not my bitmoji but here’s my bitmoji oh my bitmoji is doing yoga you can’t see only I can see it’s playing a little guitar on your hand oh my have sort of moved around with your hands I don’t know actually if it follows that much but um it jumped at the right time I think it’s just kind of hovering there though yeah it could be a coincidence I am it’ll probably improve where they are KITT right maybe yeah um I mean it’s no snapchat hot dog but it’s what is you have a bitmoji yet uh i did i did the bitmoji thing Oh quite a while ago I think um I think actually I haven’t checked in on it in a really long time probably since before they bought him do you get to decide the height every moji I don’t know if you could I don’t remember that as being an issues I don’t I don’t know if you get to like pick it exactly but I think you get to like pick like this like if you’re tall like that I think so I don’t know really I usually overemphasize that if I have the ability to it’s true I make myself tall – yeah because it’s true TNT records live every Monday through Friday 4:00 p.m. Pacific 7:00 p.m. he’s turned 2300 UTC twit twit dot TV slash live you’d be part of the show by emailing us TNT at twitch.tv/esa and T show and find us on Twitter at tech news today TV have you subscribed to our show if you haven’t go to Twitter TV slash TNT subscribe and until someone tells me that there is a law against taking someone’s phone and subscribing to them tell me if there’s a law against that because people don’t always know what they 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