• Is TikTok Spying On You For China?
  • Is the US trying to steal TikTok?
  • Trump issues orders banning TikTok and WeChat from operating in 45 days if they are not sold by Chinese parent companies
• Facebook, TikTok, and you (and your kids)
  • Bark
  • Project VIC: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping to identify and rescue children from sexual exploitation, globally. Donations help save kids!
  • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
    • KidSmartz
• Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator
• Encryption != privacy(?): Operation (노스 스타) North Star A Job Offer That’s Too Good to be True?
• NSA warns of security threats from mobile device data
• Why end-to-end encryption laws matter to all of us

We Give Thanks

• Andrea Hall for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Andrea Hall.

• Dave wears makeup
  • See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition
• Concepts
• This War of Mine
• The Great Courses at Gunnar's library!
• Viewer mail: John Scott writes on LinkedIn “The Chinese tried to do the same thing via Red Flag Linux (https://lnkd.in/ev_aKQd) - it didn't work. I would bet this won't either, just way too much embedded IP in Android. + the Chinese way will be to blatantly rip off parts of the Android code base, meaning that down stream companies could be sued for IP violation by Google and others. Gunnar Hellekson David Egts might have some thoughts…”
• Follow up from D&G 165… BrainEx: Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
  • See also: Part-revived pig brains raise slew of ethical quandaries
• 'It just really ethically scares me': Caution urged as scientists look to create human-monkey chimeras
• Palate cleanser: This Robot Fish Powers Itself With Fake Blood

Cutting Room Floor

• Police warn against using gun-shaped cellphone cases after traffic stop encounter; cases are banned in Chicago
• Honestly, a Video Game That Strands You On a Boring Six-Hour Flight Is Just What I Need Right Now

We Give Thanks

• John Scott
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Stochastic terrorism: Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability
• Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces
  • Which Face Is Real?
  • GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News
  • Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text
• Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
• NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing
  • Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
• Development of "whole body model automatic generation AI" which generates whole body image of non-existent person
• China has unveiled its 'first female AI news anchor'
• Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
• Want to Look Dominant? Tilt Your Head Down, Study Says
• 'Netflix Hangouts' Chrome extension helps skivers binge shows at work

Cutting Room Floor

• Highway patrol pulls over hearse in Las Vegas high-occupancy vehicle lane. Is the body an occupant?
• Unnecessary Inventions

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Powering IT’s future while preserving the present: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta
• Red Hat Continues Drive for More Secure Enterprise IT, Re-Certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux for FIPS 140-2
• At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
• The Lawfare Podcast
• State Govts. Warned of Malware-Laden CD Sent Via Snail Mail from China
• Change-of-address scam moved UPS corporate headquarters to tiny Rogers Park apartment, feds say
• Pushing The Envelope: How American Airlines Can Become The Amazon Of The Sky And The Next Uber

Cutting Room Floor

• 30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies
• 30 Album Covers Featuring Those Frightening Clowns
• A Flickr Pool Dedicated to Control Panels

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• iOS 12 Preview tracking of activity: good!
• Google My Activity
• China will start using car surveillance system in July, says WSJ
  • Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned
• Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday
• Jaywalkers under surveillance in Shenzhen soon to be punished via text messages
  • The panopticon meets the Broken Windows Theory?
• Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class
  • See tweet with images here
  • See also: FacePause Chrome Extension Pauses a YouTube Video When You Look Away
• ‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
• Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 1: Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs
• Almost-related, almost palate cleanser 2: Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
  • See also:
    • The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
    • Johnny Got His Gun
    • One by Metallica

Cutting Room Floor

• It’s Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!