The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Disney blocks Netflix Ads, Iran Hacks Politics, & Other Tech News Oct 4, 2019

Episode Date: October 4, 2019

Disney blocks Netflix Ads, Iran Hacks Politics, & Other Tech News Oct 4, 2019

Hi folks, it's Foss here from thechrisfossshow.com, thechrisfossshow.com. Hey, we're good here with another great thing we're going to be doing, covering the news today on Friday. Holy shit, it's October 4th, 2019. So let's get into it. Let's get into some of the news. Be sure to stay tuned for the second part, the segment, the second episode that we do of Product Hunt, some of the episode that we do of Product Hunt,

some of the top things we liked on Product Hunt that were launched today. So let's talk about tech news and all that sort of good stuff, what's going on in our world. According to Microsoft, an Iran-linked group dubbed Phosphorus attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to 2020 presidential campaign and others between August and September. My biggest question of this is why are they using

Microsoft email accounts? What? Nah, they're probably like Office whatever or some shit. But seriously, get a Gmail account. Nah, I'm kidding. You better have your own private server. I don't know what account these guys tried to hack. but i thought it was funny anyway um so yeah looks like people are trying to hack our elections and they're getting their practice in earlier consider

we're uh over a year away so uh it's gonna be interesting the new you know future of world war is gonna be cyber crime cyber hacks hacks, cyber attacks, um, destroying everyone's elections, shutting down people's nuclear power things and causing them to invert upon themselves. And, uh, it's going to get weird, man. The information age, maybe it was better when we had tanks and soldiers and shit, which we still kind of do. Uh, so watch for that on your radar.

Uh, make sure you're registered to vote and all that good stuff and keep your copies of everything in case, in case your voter database gets white on election day. Jesus Christ, it's getting weird. Uh, next up, the report hackers are exploiting a Android zero day vulnerability, giving them control of about 18 phone models, including four Pixel models via a malicious app. This is according to Dan Goodwin at Ars Technica. It looks like it's including devices from four Pixel models, Samsung, Motorola, and others. They're doing this Android Zero Day vulnerability. So, wow, man.

Like I said, like we mentioned earlier it's war uh so try and survive it as best you can watch for weird sort of stuff be careful what you click on uh you know two-factor identification your accounts i really i really advise you do the two-factor identification of accounts i really like the app offy too for that as well so you haven't got a chance to do that you really should do that because holy crap i mean just the the amount of passwords that i've had that have been hacked or just uh yeah i remember when i first used to go into uh it's it's the website's called pwned me or pwned now and i had a list of all the stuff that you were hat your password was hacked on and it used to be just like one account. I was like, okay, well, we got it down to one.

And then there was like two or three, and then like four. And I'm like, okay, well, this is still not freaking me out. It's okay. You know, I did change my passwords, but now it's like a whole fucking library list. It's getting bigger than the Library of Congress at this point of all the websites have been hacked, which is why you always hear me say on the podcast, these people need to go to jail. Anyway, let's move on. This is interesting.

The war of Waldorf Gardens has moved from Facebook, Google+, and Twitter to streaming services for movies. The Wall Street Journal, according to them, the sources, Disney is banning Netflix ad on its networks. It had initially issued a blanket ban on ads from any streamers, but reverse course for all but Netflix. So the war is on between Netflix and Disney. Battle. Who will get the video streaming? Netflix has been hurt by so many different streaming services that are still entering the market. I think there's a couple more that are still due to enter.

Certainly Disney is smart by making their own streaming service because, I mean, it's Disney. I mean, you can't really beat that brand name, especially when it comes to people's kids. I mean, that audience is such a captive audience. Mommy, I want to watch another Disney video for the fucking 1,000th time. Hey, man, have fun with parenting. That sounds like fun i skipped it um so this is kind of interesting entertainment giants who said to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to promote new streaming services uh evidently disney's got enough money too where they're like we don't need your advertising over here so there you go um pretty interesting in the wars of streaming

services it's just going to be battle royale there's so many of them to choose from i don't So there you go. Pretty interesting in the wars of streaming services. It's just going to be battle royale. There's so many of them to choose from. I don't even know which one's the right one anymore. Like YouTube's got their streaming services, Disney, Netflix, Hulu, of course. Does anybody still watch Hulu? Hulu got so cheap because I guess everyone left it or something. I don't know.

You could get it really cheaply with your Spotify thing. So there's that. Next up in the news, Wall Street Journal sources have held discussions with Google about acquiring TikTok like short Facebook app Firework. I guess Firework is a competitor to TikTok, and they've been holding discussions to try and buy them, which is probably a death knell. Anytime Google wants to buy you, that probably means that they're going to kill you in the end because everything Google touches,

except for search and maybe, I don't know, maybe a few other things. Seems to die. Like when Google buys it, that's when you're like, hmm, that's over. Google Plus, Google, geez, can I count? I can't even remember all the things that are dead from Google. I mean, the graveyard is just amazing. But hey, what are you going to do, man? That's Google. So there you have it. TikTok, it looks looks i imagine somebody

hasn't bought tiktok but i think the chinese like it so they're not going to let anybody buy it uh next up according to reuters uh sources are softbank is struggling to raise money for vision fund 2 is likely to be far smaller than the 108 billion dollars it said it had lined up i wonder if that's an effect of the fallout from WeWork. If you remember WeWork, SoftBank was a major investor in them. And the WeWork whole IPO has pretty much collapsed. And they've said, we're going to go back to the drawing board with our little company here and try and fix our basics, which is probably something you should do before you show up for an IPO.

Certainly the result of failing of Uber's stock price, we've talked about this in prior episodes, check back for those, have been basically, they just haven't panned it out. A lot of things have been going to market and just not panning out, and people are just sick of it in the investor market and the IPO market, and they're just like, we're not going to play your game anymore. We're not going to buy your crap. Bye-bye.

See you. Have a nice day. According to the Financial Times, U.S. and U.K. signed the first bilateral data access agreement enabled by the Cloud Act to speed up court-approved data exchanges for criminal investigations. This is kind of interesting. They're sharing data from both the U.K. and the U.S.

And I haven't read the CLOUD Act. I guess I'm going to have to get into that. But it's kind of interesting to watch this. You know, you're watching for the Edward Snowden side of stuff. Are they able to access records with subpoenas? Or is it a free and open sort of like hey oh you want some information go ahead and here's our information and certainly uh you know while i'm all for criminals uh with your you know people being investigated the fbi the nsa etc for obvious reasons uh hopefully um

you know uh just anybody that willy-nilly't get their stuff. So I'm all for that as well. Uh, what else is up in the news? This is interesting. If you remember, Facebook had come up with the Libra association. It was kind of association of people that would be associated with its, uh, uh, cryptocurrency quote unquote cryptocurrency. because it wasn't really a cryptocurrency anyway PayPal is withdrawing from the association kind of interesting thing they were one of its founding members in the group and they made the decision decision they don't want to move forward with those folks so this is gonna be kind of interesting on the way it plays out is libra going to fall apart is really libra going to come to um you know marketplace or is did did you know facebook just took such a beating from lenders and a lot of the conservative media i'm not being political that's just how it went down uh and

so we'll see what happens with Facebook cryptocurrency, crypto purchasing. Certainly with Facebook controlling so much of a huge thing, if they did come up with their own sort of way of paying for stuff on Facebook using Libra, or as I like to call it, Facebook bucks. There's that, man. So have fun with it. According to Mac rumors, Apple confirms confirms has acquired iKinema. It's a UK space startup developing motion capture animation tech used in games in VR. Uh, Apple, uh, may have recently acquired them.

Uh, of course they're developing in their VR thing. Uh, they're of course a huge in AR as well. And there's all sorts of people talking like we're good from Robert Scoble about how, you know, they're have, don't she have some sort of VR product hardware to come to market with. They certainly are behind the times and Oculus, uh, it seems to be ruling the day these days. So there you go. Uh, fun is fun. Uh, let's see, what else do we have?

Uh, according to tech crunch tokyo based ai medical service or al medical service i'm not sure that's an irna i believe it's ai ai medical service is the name of the company which develops ai based software to help detect gastric cancer raises 42.9 million series b bringing its total raise to 57 million. This sounds really cool. It's in Tokyo, and it's supposed to detect gastric cancer. Yeah, man. Anything that can help us live longer, healthier, and look out for cancer. It's really interesting.

We're living longer as human beings. Therefore, we're seeing cancer more because we're living longer. And now we're fighting cancer so that we can live longer so we'll see even more cancer okay I get it I think I'm not sure it's crazy I hate cancer I hate anybody gets cancer like I just want to give a big hug and hope it's going to be okay after losing my dog to cancer so there you go um fun is fun this is kind of interesting chat we'll talk about this now let's not take this from a political stand let's take this from a technology slant like if what

a lot of times i look at this um when it brushes against politics like this but i look at it from the aspect of what would i do if i was running twitter what would i do if i was running facebook and what would i do if i was running some of the other social platforms that are out there youtube etc uh according to judd legum of popular information facebook tacitly allows lies in political ads because it considers them to be expressions of opinion and will not send them to fact checkers for review um there's a real quandary of of of who decides what the truth is because then who's watching the guy who decided you know who's watching the watcher basically and uh with power it corrupts of of course, and everything else. So how do you decide, like, there's been some networks

that aren't running certain political ads because they claim that they are just bull-faced lies. So when do we reach a point in a society where we're like, look, we don't want to be lied to? And, of course, sadly, as a society, we should be smart enough to be able to figure out when and how we're being lied to. We should be smart enough to be able to figure out when and how we're being lied to. We should be smart enough to be like, well, you know, oh, that guy's lying to me.

But clearly, politicians, you know, have this sort of deal they've had with us for a million years that they know that we expect them to lie to us and we know that they expect him to lie to us. Unfortunately, we're a little surprised when one of them, I won't name which one, actually turns out to be the horror monster that he promised he would be. People are like, I didn't really think he'd deport people. What did you think he was going to do? He said he was going to do it, and he's crazy. So I don't know what, whatever, man. So there's that.

But, you know, there's this quandary of how do we decide what is truth, is not i mean i've seen a lot more people going to snopes which is good uh that seems to be have become a thing where people are checking into snopes and uh double checking their their data and uh you know i see a lot of people that are self-policing where they're going, hey, that thing you post on Facebook, it wasn't really. I see people criticizing people for posting old news. Okay, man, that's old news. That news is not current. Why are you posting it?

So I'm seeing a lot more self-policing, uh, the community sort of policing, if you will. And, uh, it's kind of interesting how that's going to work out in the future. Do we have to self-police each other? Do we have to yell at each other and go, Hey, quit being stupid. That's not the way this works and all that good stuff. So fun is fun and, uh, yada, yada, yada. Anyway.

Um, that's my take and what I think on it. That's the news. Well, we'll move into our next episode. Be sure to click on that one as well. And we're going to talk about some of the really cool things we saw today on Product Hunt. Yay. All right, guys. See you on the next flip.