Weekly Tech Rant: Episode 118

Episode 118: It’s time for InfraGard hack, Epic fined (again), Sony vs MSFT round xx, FTX dumpster fire, Apple ponders big changes

Welcome back to the WTR as Karl and Jay discuss the latest tech news, gadgets, games, & films!

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This week we covered:

• News
  • FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
  • Epic Games, at war with the App Store, fined $520M by FTC for violating children’s privacy
  • Xbox boss: Sony wants to ‘grow by making Xbox smaller’
• Crypto!
  • FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas
  • SEC charges FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried with ‘defrauding investors’
  • Celebrities that promoted Bored Ape NFTs are now facing a class action lawsuit
• Apple
  • Apple mulls opening browser engine, NFC, and more to third-party apps
  • Report: Apple plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024
  • Apple ‘not currently considering’ adopting RCS, despite EU law requiring iMessage interoperability
  • Gurman: Apple cancels plans for high-end ‘M2 Extreme’ chip, but new Mac Pro will retain expandability options for RAM and storage

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