The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Saudia Arabia Twitter Spying & Tech Buying, HoloLens 2 & Other Tech News Nov 7, 2019

Episode Date: November 7, 2019

Saudia Arabia Twitter Spying & Tech Buying, HoloLens 2 & Other Tech News Nov 7, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Be sure to check in, watch the coverage we're going to have. This week we've got a lot of SEMA stuff that's going on on our channels. You can see that as well, the SEMA Auto Show there in Las Vegas for 2019. Also you can see some of the upcoming coverage. We're starting to roll out from Fab Tech 2019 and we're going to have a lot of great interviews for those folks uh it's a kind of an interesting um show because it's kind of more manufacturing based and when people think of

manufacturing we talked about this on a prior show they kind of think of like the old industrial type manufacturing but now today's things are robots and uh 3d printers and you know all sorts of really interesting stuff that's going on. That whole world, of course, is being disrupted and brought into the technological space. So there's some pretty cool interviews we've had so far on the Fabtech folks, and you'll be seeing more as we roll this out next week. I think the 11th is when Fabtech show starts in Chicago, Illinois. And so be sure to watch for both. We profile a lot of cool people on the channels as well.

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So, yeah, it's going to be talking about stocks. If you're an investor, you're looking for growth opportunities, we'll be talking about different stock options that are out there, different stocks, different opportunities in the business market. I guess it's rumored now that Mexico is going to go legal marijuana, which I think they should because, man, it would probably wipe out a lot of cartels down there. That place needs to go drug free like some countries have and and just wipe out their their criminal drug cartels um I don't know those guys will probably figure something else to do um

anyway uh yeah so that's what uh that's what's going down with that we've had a new podcast thing and hopefully you go check that out and support it we certainly appreciate you guys tell people about the show if you have people that want to be on the show i they can always contact the show um so there you go so let's get into today's tech news holy crap there's some explosive mind-blowing stuff going on stuff that i didn't even think would happen uh it has come out now that two ex-Twitter employers were spying, spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on the kingdom's critics. One allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015. They got one of the guys here who's local.

The other guy has run probably to Saudi Arabia, and he's gone out of the country. But today, the uh, department of justice charged two of these employees, uh, was spying and, uh, yeah, Washington post has been covering this. And, um, this is pretty wild, man. I mean, we have enough privacy concerns where hackers and stuff steal our info, but now I got to worry about spies infiltrating Twitter and Facebook. What is that Chris Voss saying about Saudi Arabia today? Wow, man. That's kind of freaky. And I'd hate to be Jack right now because Jack's, you know, I mean, how do you deal with this?

How do you deal with, you know, these people infiltrating your thing? I mean, are you going to have to do a spy background check for anybody you hire? Evidently, one of the employees was a Saudi Arabia citizen or co-citizen or bi-citizen, however you say that. And they just got paid off to spy on stuff. And evidently, it would be interesting to see what comes out of this if Uh, if it was one of the things that, uh, uh, led to Khashoggi's, uh, murder. And, uh, you know, here's the thing. These guys can be watching you and know what you're doing. And they're, they're watching you right through Twitter.

And like, you could be like, well, I have my Twitter feed or my Facebook feed privatized so that only my friends can see it. Well, guess what? Oh my God. The Twitter people can see right over your shoulder or they can see your timeline. Crazy. So let me ask you this. Let me throw a curve ball at you. What would stop the government from having an employee that would do it? That alone, or what would stop the NSA from sitting down with Twitter and go, we want a backdoor feed. AT&T had a special room, if you remember, that Edward Snowden blew the whistle on. They had a special room where all of their systems went into one room

and the NSA agents could come in and out of that room and just suck all the data off of this thing and take it for whatever purpose they wanted to take it and do. So what's interesting is according to the complaint, he was working at the direction of Mohammed, they call him, what is it, M-O-B or M-A-B? They call him Osama. Here, let me bring this up. He's the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

So they call him MBS. That's it. And they pretty much, he was working for them. Can you imagine if this would have gone on during Obama's reign? I'm kind of wondering, is this something that got green-lighted or encouraged by our politics? These guys just felt like they could just come in and pull this crap. This is huge. this is a huge problem um and now you have to sit and ask yourself what else do they have spies and do they have spies

on facebook do they have spies in uh different text messaging companies uh what else have they infiltrated and it's not just about the saudis keep in mind this this is spying. This is evil spying stuff. And yeah, man, I think it affects all of us, our national security, and definitely it's going to affect our technology and things like Twitter and everything else. Basically, one guy was paid at least $300,000 for his efforts and given a huge blot watch worth about 20 grand. And he resigned from Twitter and moved to Seattle. And let's see, another guy got at least a $100,000 payment. This guy's payment says media strategy work.

And I don't know how these guys do all this shit. Anytime I'm going to send $5 on a wire or something, you know what I mean? I've got to fill out like a fucking form. Um, so there you go. Pretty interesting. Looks like, uh, Twitter employees being charged. And now you have to wonder if there's more in what these tech companies are going to do to protect people about a crazy stuff. More of this back, uh, and sort of court filings. According to Reuters, there's a court filing demanding subpoenas on documents. And what it does is it has revealed that California has been probing Facebook's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and others for about 18 months. So whatever is going on, California has been working to investigate Facebook's disclosure of user data

to Cambridge Analytica and other partners. This is, once again, from Reuters. So this is kind of interesting what's going on here and what they're doing. It looks like they're still following up on the things of the 2016 election and hopefully they're following up on, you know, trying to get a clamp down on all this crap that we're getting exposed to as users where, you know, we're just meeting the grinder for anybody who wants to invade our privacy. I'm really getting tired of this. I really think there should be prison time for people to allow this to happen.

I don't care if there's intent or not. To me, sloppiness is intent. If I kill somebody with my vehicle I don't intend to, that's still manslaughter. There should be like a manslaughter charge for my data, my privacy. So like if, you know, Facebook, and there should be a payout too. There should be damages. It shouldn't just go to attorneys. Like I should get a check. Like, oh, we invaded should be a payout, too. There should be damages. It shouldn't just go to attorneys. Like, I should get a check.

Like, we invaded your privacy. Here's your check. Yeah, we owe you money. We don't get to make money this year because we fucked up, because we didn't work hard enough to take care of this because no one gives a shit right now. So anyway, I wonder if they hope to do this. This is kind of interesting as well.

Reuters is reporting that Facebook executives discussed a plan in 2012 to cut off user access data for developers seen as future rivals while pushing a user privacy narrative. So they knew that they should have been cutting this shit off back in 2012, but there's no rules, no laws. They just do whatever they want. And you and I are just the victims for it. So I hope this stuff stops. According to the Wall Street Journal, sources say Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy

and plans to share more information with employees soon. So this should be kind of interesting. Are they going to go the way that Twitter cutting all ads? I doubt that, but maybe they're going to come up with a policy much better than Facebook because they're certainly seeing Facebook go through the grinder right now. Maybe they're going to come out with some better policies on political ad making and create some standards to it. I mean, we certainly can't get politicians to come up with the rules to take and get those guys under control. They just seem to be, you know, who watches the watchers. So I think it's up to commercial, private commercial, to take control of this sort of stuff. We need to rein in these politicians anyway.

I mean, if you really want to throw a Molotov cocktail into government, first thing you can probably do is cut off their stupid, idiotic, crazy commercials, man. Let's just make commercials based upon who is a good person. Anyway, let's move on. The Verge is reporting Google says it's open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset. So it looks like it's going to live on. So there's that.

This is also interesting from The Verge. Microsoft is allowing shipping of its 3500 HoloLens 2 to pre-order customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Alaska, and the UK. So this is going to be kind of interesting. It'll be new gesture controls with a bigger field of view. And the HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today So this is going to be kind of interesting. It'll be new gesture controls with a bigger field of view. And the HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.

$3,500. I wonder if they take a check. Up again in the MIT Technology Review. Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center where dozens of engineers and analysts track state-sponsored hacking groups. 70 plus with names and many more without. So sounds like, wow, it sounds like there's a crazy sort of Microsoft threat intelligence center that they have. And all these guys that are going after state-sponsored hacking, that makes me feel a little bit safer. And they're tracking stuff from Russian Olympic cyber attacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware.

How do those guys get North Korean? They're North fucking, whatever, man. Jesus Christ. They're just, they're living in this own world, but somehow they're good at computers. So this is kind of interesting how these tech giants are monitoring nation-sponsored hackers anywhere on the earth. This is the new World War III. It's technically going on right now when you really think about it. All this fighting over information technology, it's not going to get easier.

There will come a day where we don't fight with boots on the ground at all. We pretty much fight with technology and stuff. Maybe we'll have lasers. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Zzzz. Actually, laser goes zzzz, zzzz, zzzz. Clearly, I don't work in the sound effects department. Keep your day job, Chris. According to the New York Times,

an investigation into I'm Schmacked, S-H-M-A-C-K-E-D, which exploited thousands of students by inducing them to provide viral videos of college parties to earn Instagram fame. They're taking and doing an investigation into those. That could be bad, viral videos of college parties. That's one way to end fraternities in America, especially in today's day and age. According to CNBC, the alphabet rumor, this is a source evidently, well, source rumor, whatever you want to call it.

Alphabet is probing execs, including the chief legal officer, David Drummond, over inappropriate relationships and hiring an outside law firm to take and overlook it. There you go. We just saw the CEO of McDonald's get in trouble recently and had to step down because of internal relationships. Just don't do it, people. It's bad. It never ends well, especially in today's world. Let's see. According to an outlet called The Correspondent. Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more people who would have bought anyway. It's kind of an interesting story. Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom,

one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into Google offices, talked about this sort of thing. And so basically what they're saying is like, look, if Trump, the targets, you know, D targets people, um, with his message, those are people that probably want the message anyway. And he knows that he just, he's going to find you and amplify it. And most other things are, I mean, that's why you see in Facebook, you know, targeted marketing. It's kind of weird though. After I buy some, I see marketing going, Hey, do you want to buy that again? And you're just like, really? Um, so there's that, but, uh, you know, I mean, what are you going to do? I mean, certainly, um, uh, is it effective then,

I guess is the big question at that point. And people have to ask themselves that. So there you go for that sort of news. Uh to ZDNet, AMD unveils two new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in 24-core and 32-core versions. It's built using 7NM Zen 2 architecture. It's going to be available on November 19th for $1399 and $199, $2000 for a processor. That baby better be fast. What else do we have up here? Speaking of Saudi Arabia, according to Wall Street Journal, sources say Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund

invested $400 million in Travis Kalanick. If you remember him, he's the old CEO who got kicked out of Uber. He built Uber. He has something called Cloud Kitchens, one word, in January, valuing the ghost kitchen operator about $5 billion. This is kind of interesting. I mean, if they're not in our back door with hidden spying employees, they're giving us money.

So what's that? According to Reuters, Uber, in a filing, says it will likely need to change its autonomous driving software or sign a deal with waymo after an expert found uber still uses waymo technology this is the one they've been in a huge lawsuit with there was an employee i believe who left uber and went to waymo or vice versa and uh so they're gonna have to do something to figure that all out, I guess, and make sure they don't get sued even more and all that sort of good stuff. And, yeah, what are you going to do? Fun is fun.

What else is up in the news? According to Bloomberg, Photoshop for iPad has met with lackluster reception and review rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars. We covered this a few days ago on the Chris Foss Show podcast, prompting an Adobe exec to defend this first version. So that's kind of interesting. I guess that's not going over well. I did take a look at the pricing on it.

It's interesting. They want like $9.99 a month, and you don't really get much with it. In fact, I looked at the whole package you used to get for $9.99 a month with adobe wow it's really cut back and doesn't really give you much value i mean at least in my opinion i don't know $9.99 a month is that worth getting lightroom and photoshop at once i don't even use my lightroom room like i used to uh but there's that i don't know it's still cheaper to do it than buy the software outright uh and sometimes for me it's easier just to go in for when I have work to do and use it and then cancel a subscription.

So there you go. A lot of slings going. A lot of arrows being slung at Netflix right now. In a wide-ranging interview, Reed Hastings netflix's spending on content will grow and he defends cutting an episode of hassan min haj uh min haj's show in saudi arabia i guess they cut an episode because it was critical of the kingdom and so there you go a lot of saudi arabia today what's going on with that uh fun is fun uh according to coindesk square says it processed 148 million in quarter three bitcoin sales up 244 percent year over year for profit of 2 million flat qoq and debuts a new

feature structure for our fee structure for cash app Bitcoin transactions. Cash App is supposed to be really popular, but God, I still see people using, oh, what is it, Waymo? Not Waymo. I forget. So there's that. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. One last thing I'll throw in here, I've seen it.

If the Sprint merger goes through, T-Mobile says it will offer free 5G to first responders for a decade and free broadband to 10 million households with children. So that's kind of an interesting deal. It's going to be a T-Mobile and Sprint merger with $226.5 billion merger and a bid to revamp the wireless industry. Should be interesting. them some uh whatever so anyway uh be sure to check that out thanks for tuning in we certainly appreciate you guys watch for our coverage this week on sema

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