Tom interviews Stacey Higginbotham of staceyoniot.com about Matter, the forthcoming cross-compatibility standard coming to a smart home near you.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Stacey Higginbotham.

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Google added options to Search, Maps, Travel, and Nest Thermostats. Twitch confirms a data breach with the site’s entire source code, commit history, an unreleased competitor for Steam from Amazon Game Studios and details of creator payouts being accessed. And Restofworld.org has a story about the effect India’s banning of TikTok in June 2020 has had on creators.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos

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Twitch’s source code leaked on 4chan, Canon launches a EOS VR system to simplify VR production, and Google will auto-enroll an additional 150 million users to two-step verification.

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Tom explains the reasons Facebook and its associated services went offline for 6 hours on 4 Oct 2021.

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This episode is excerpted from Daily Tech News Show 4125, aired 5 Oct 2021.

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We give an explainer on what caused Facebook and associated properties like Instagram to go offline for six hours and we do a follow-up on all that Facebook testimony.

Starring Tom Merritt, Nate Lanxon, Roger Chang, Amos, Joe

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Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Congress, Yubico launches a biometric-enabled YubiKey, and Unity Metacast partners with UFC for realtime motion-tracking cameras.

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