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Twitter censors New York Post! Section 230 breakdown, GPU password cracking - Compulang #005

Today I'm joined once again by Troy to discuss censorship by big tech like Twitter and Facebook and the section 230 protections that everyone is talking about. Also, how does the new NVIDIA 3000-series graphics card line affect consumer security?

Twitter, Facebook censor NY Post: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-materials-policy-to-justify-censorship-of-ny-post-hunter-biden-article/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54568785

Section 230: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/section-230-the-internet-law-politicians-love-to-hate-explained/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230#Platform_neutrality

Nvidia password cracking graphics card

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-is-very-good-at-cracking-passwords-and-thats-bad-news

Apple iPhone 12 and 12 Pro released: https://www.apple.com/iphone-12-pro/

Notably no longer coming with EarPods or a power adapter (power cable still included)

Hum into Google to find a song: https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-now-hum-into-google-search-and-it-will-find-the-song/

Nim 1.40 released: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/16/version-140-released.html

Dropbox converts to 100% remote work: https://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-letting-all-employees-work-from-home-permanently-2020-10

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