Episode 104: It's time for breaches galore, big tech woes, fines and Nvidia 40 series and Ryzen 7000 updates, Game Pass friends and family leaks - a podcast by Jay

This week we covered: 

A bad few weeks for big tech! 

• Google fails to overturn EU Android antitrust ruling but reduces its fine by 5 percent 


• Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea 


• Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case 


• Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard will face ‘in-depth’ UK investigation 


• ARM sues Qualcomm, alleging its subsidiary breached a licensing agreement 


• The SEC revealed today that it charged VMWare with fraud . . . then settled for next to nothing 


• Meta axes internal team responsible for asking ‘are we the baddies?’ 


• NVIDIA reveals new US government rule restricting export of AI chips to China and Russia 

Breaches Everywhere 

• LastPass Suffers Data Breach, Source Code Stolen 


• Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers


• Optus (Austrialian Telco) Breached 

• Ryzen 7000 Series Launch AMD makes Ryzen 7000 official: Launching September 27, starting at $299 


• AMD Announces B650E Chipset for Ryzen 7000: PCIe 5.0 For Mainstream 


• Xbox Game Pass ‘Friends & Family’ leak suggests you can share with friends 

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