Tech Link Weekly 002

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Host(s): Craighton Miller

Microsoft gets a new CEO, more internet throttling, evolving trojan, and more.

Guest(s): None

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Running time: 38:29

Links

• AT&T Patents Concept to Detect & Charge More For Certain Traffic
• Verizon Accused of Throttling Netflix and AWS
• After 13 years of existence, Windows XP is still resisting its death sentence.
• Don’t panic, but that public Wi-Fi comes from inside your house: Comcast swaps out customer’s malfunctioning broadband modem and Wi-Fi router with all-new model, but he didn’t know the new device also works as a public Wi-Fi hotspot. Comcast fessed up a bit later in an email to the customer
• Satya Nadella selected as new Microsoft CEO
• Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected
• California bill proposes mandatory kill-switch on phones and tablets in 2015
• New trojan discovered hidden in PNG images – undetectable by browsers and anti-virus software
• New Google Chrome feature warns users when browser has been hijacked: Pop-up window automatically activated when suspicious activity is detected.
• Devs: We’ll bury Candy Crush King under HEAPS of candy apps
• FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper”, just as disgraceful as “Candy” and “Saga”??
• Humans Now Account for Less Than 40% of Web Traffic