Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 310

Is Elon trying to turn Twitter into WeChat, Home Office in UK under fire for facial recognition creep and much more!

Is Elon trying to turn Twitter into WeChat, Home Office in UK under fire for facial recognition creep and much more!

The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable begins with discussion around Elon Musk, Twitter X and WeChat – is Elon trying to pivot the social media app into an ‘everything app?’  From there, the team talk about the Home Office in the U.K looking into facial recognition technology for the retail sector.

To wrap up the team discuss two stories, the first around the Lazarus group being implicated in a recent crypto heist and the other around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and a worm virus.

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