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Sony has launched cloud streaming on the PlayStation portal in beta, letting PlayStation plus premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games. Quoting the Verge, you'll need to be a PlayStation plus premium subscriber to take advantage of it. Sony says that to stream at 720p, you'll need a minimum 7Mbps connection, while 1080p quality will require a minimum 13Mbps connection. Some PlayStation plus features won't be available to start with cloud streaming to the PlayStation portal, including game Trials, party voice chat, game invites for select games 3D audio and in Game Commerce, and you won't be able to stream any PS4 games or PS3 games Child accounts won't also be able to use cloud streaming on the portal.

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More signs that Crypto is ascendant President Elect Trump has nominated Howard Lutnick, CEO of Kenner Fitzgerald, to serve as his Commerce Secretary. The crypto angle here is that Cantor Fitzgerald has been a Custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, quoting CoinDesk. He will lead our tariff and trade agenda with additional direct responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, trump said in a statement. Lutnick's firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, is a stalwart in finance, known particularly for its influential role in the bond market that includes serving as a primary dealer, an exclusive group of firms allowed to trade directly with the Federal Reserve. It has also dabbled in crypto since 2021. It has helped Tether manage the giant stockpile of US treasuries that back its USDT stablecoin. Cantor Fitzgerald also recently announced a bitcoin financing business aimed at providing leverage to bitcoin investors with $2 billion of initial funding. I am a fan of crypto, but let me be very specific. Bitcoin, just bitcoin. These other coins, they are just not a thing, he told CNBC in a podcast last year, adding I a big fan of this stablecoin called Tether. Lutnick has argued bitcoin should be treated as a commodity, meaning it would face less regulation than say, stocks or bonds, and is superior to other cryptocurrencies given its lack of central authority and censorship resistant properties. This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Incogni is a service that helps protect your personal data from data brokers who collect, aggregate and sell it. Incogni reaches out to data data brokers on your behalf and request your personal data removal with the Family and Friends plan. You can also add up to four members to your subscription so that everyone can benefit from Incogni's services. 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Go to miro.com to find out how. That's M I R O.com update on BlueSky, which says it now has more than 20 million users after hitting 15 million users just on November 13th. And the app has been number one in the US App Store since November 13th, per app figures quoting TechCrunch. What's more, new data indicates the app's rapid growth is seeing it close the gap with another prominent ex rival, Instagram Threads across metrics like daily active users and website visits. BlueSky's user base is still much smaller than Threads, which recently reported north of 275 million monthly active users. However, if BlueSky's current rate of growth holds up, it could catch up with threads in time. Market intelligence firm SimilarWeb believes its data indicates that Threads had five times more daily active users than BlueSky ahead of the US elections. But on November 15, a peak day of activity for BlueSky, Thread's lead over BlueSky had been reduced to just 1.5x. In the US daily active users include the mobile apps on iOS and Android, not website visitors. Instagram head Adam Mosseri denied SimilarWeb's data is accurate, but Meta does not share daos. The firm's data also indicates that bluesky overtook threads in daily website visits in both the US and the uk, which signals strong interest from potential new users. Globally, daily website visits on Bluesky haven't yet surpassed Threads, but it's come very close. As of mid no. November, the Musk owned app X remains dominant, though with a US daily active user count that's more than 10 times larger than Bluesky at present.

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Finally today, you know how various governments around the world are worried about app tracking and specifically TikTok tracking people. The first bans announced are always oh, government officials and military personnel can't have TikTok on their personal devices because the Chinese government has made similar bans for their government workers, but in their case banning western apps. This is probably why Wired did an investigation using US Data broker Data Stream and found they could easily track the movements of U.S. military and intelligence workers in Germany. Quoting Wired, A joint investigation by Wired, BaeSreicher, Rundfunk and Netspolitik.org reveal that U.S. companies legally collecting digital advertising data are also providing the world a cheap and reliable way to track the movements of American military and intelligence personnel overseas, from their homes and their children's schools to hardened aircraft shelters within an airbase where US nuclear weapons are believed to be stored. A collaborative analysis of billions of location coordinates obtained from a US data broker provides extraordinary insight into the daily routines of US service members. The findings also provide a vivid example of the significant risks the unregulated sale of mobile location data poses to the integrity of the US military and the safety of its service members and their families overseas. We track hundreds of thousands of signals from devices inside sensitive US installations in Germany. That includes scores of devices within suspected NSA monitoring or signals analysis facilities, more than 1,000 devices at a sprawling US compound where Ukrainian troops were being trained in 2023, and nearly 2,000 others at an Air Force base that has crucially supported American drone operations. A device likely tied to an NSA or intelligence employee broadcast coordinates from inside a windowless building with a metal exterior known as the tin can, which is reportedly used for NSA surveillance, according to agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Another device transmitted signals from within a restricted weapons testing facility, revealing its zigzagging movements across a high security zone used for tank maneuvers and live munitions drills. We traced these devices from barracks to work buildings, Italian restaurants, Aldi grocery stores and bars. As many as four devices that regularly pinged from Ramstein Air Base were later tracked to nearby brothels off base, including a multi story facility called Sex World. Experts caution that foreign governments could use this data to identify individuals with access to sensitive areas. Terrorists or criminals could decipher when U.S. nuclear weapons are least guarded or Spies and other nefarious actors could leverage embarrassing information for blackmail. The unregulated data broker industry poses a clear threat to national security, says ron Wyden, a US senator from Oregon with more than 20 years overseeing intelligence work. It is outrageous that American data brokers are selling location data collected from thousands of brave members of the armed forces who serve in harm harm's way around the world.

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To give you an example of what they're talking about, let me quote from the opening graphs of the story. Nearly every weekday morning a Device leaves a two story home near Weisbaden, Germany and makes a 15 minute commute along a major autobahn. By around 7am it arrives at Lucius D. Clay Kazner, the U.S. army's European headquarters and a key hub for U.S. intelligence operations. The device stops near a restaurant before heading to an office near the base that belongs to a major government contractor responsible for for outfitting and securing some of the nation's most sensitive facilities. For roughly two months in 2023, this device followed a predictable routine stops at the contractor's office, visits to a discrete hangar on base, and lunchtime trips to the base's dining facility. Twice in November of last year, it made a 30 minute drive to the Dagger complex, a former intelligence and NSA signals processing facility. On weekends the device could be traced to restaurants and shops in Wiesbaden. The individual carrying this device likely isn't a spy or high ranking intelligence official. Instead, experts believe they're a who works on critical systems H vac computing infrastructure or possibly securing the newly built Consolidated Intelligence Center, a state of the art facility suspected to be used by the National Security Agency. Whoever they are, the device they're carrying with them everywhere is putting US national security at risk. An internal Pentagon presentation obtained by the reporting collective claims that not only is the domestic data collection likely capable of revealing military secrets, it is essentially unavoidable at the personal level level, service members lives being simply too intertwined with the technology permitting it. This conclusion closely mirrors the observations of Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. supreme Court, who in landmark privacy cases within the past decade described cell phones as being a, quote, pervasive and insistent part of daily life and that owning one was indispensable to participation in modern society.

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Let me come back to the concern for potential blackmail for a second. Things like, you know, a foreign agent being like, do you want your spous to know you went to a place called Sex World? If not, start working with me. But also on a basic level, location data can piece a lot of secrets together on their own, Quoting one last time when it comes to jeopardizing national security, even data on low level personnel can pose a risk, says Vivek Chilukuri at cnas. Low level targets can lead to high level compromises, Chilukuri says. Even if someone isn't senior in an organization, they may have access to highly sensitive infrastructure. A system is only as secure as its weakest link. He points out that if adversaries can target someone with access to a crucial server or database, they could exploit that vulnerability to cause serious damage. It just takes one USB stick plugged into the right device to compromise an organization, he said. It's not just individual service members who are at risk. Entire security protocols and operational routines can be exposed through location data at Buchel Air base, where the US is believed to have stored an estimated 10 to 15 B61 nuclear weapons. The data reveals the daily activity patterns of device devices on the base, including when personnel are most active and, more concerningly, potentially, when the base is least populated. Everyone head over to the RAD History feed because this week's episode is about the Challenger disaster. My guest is the great Farhad Manjar. It's very interesting. It was something that I remember, but I didn't know all the details of. Check that out. Talk to you tomorrow.