Workable Tech (audio)

Recorded Sunday, February 18, 2018 This week we celebrate Kerry's birthday by discussing Spectre and Meltdown, the Chrome ad blocker, the possible future of cryptomining, and the GPU shortage. And we wonder who's watching us in California... Women of NASA Lego Set Picture of Margaret Hamilton on which the Lego minifigure is based Story 1: Another Day, Another Spectre/Meltdown Exploit New Security Exploit Found for Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability (ITPro Today) Meltdown-Spectre: Now the class action suits against Intel are starting to mount up (ZDNet) Story 2: Chrome Says Goodbye to Annoying Ads Good news: Chrome debuts automatic blocking of annoying ads (Ars Technica) Story 3: Now That You're Blocking Ads, Sites Want to Borrow Your CPU Cycles Salon website asks readers to mine cryptocurrency (The Telegraph) Story 4: Are Cryptominers Ruining Computing for Everyone? How cryptocurrency mining is hurting astronomers (The Verge) Cryptocurrency boom, a problem for gamers, is a bonanza for GPU makers (Ars Tec