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This Week in Tech 626: CEO Barbie

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WannaCry hero pinched by the feds: should infosec professionals avoid the US?. Google’s internal anti-diversity viral memo: women can’t code? Vic Gundotra: iPhone photos beat Android and DSLR? Did Facebook narrowly avoid creating SkyNet? Who in their right mind would want to be Uber’s CEO? Is your drone spying on you?

–Amy Webb’s Journalism professor told her that nobody would ever publish camera phone photos
–Rob Reid got his start writing humorous Amazon reviews
–Iain Thompson’s phrase of the week: “They over-egged the pudding on that one.”

This Week in Tech 615: Biz Sized Hole

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All the highlights from Google I/O. Tim Cook has a blood sugar tracking watch. Facebook’s guidelines for content moderation. Biz Stone is going back to Twitter. What happened with WannaCry. Minecraft devs don’t want you to poison your birds. The FCC is going ahead with their plan to end Net Neutrality whether you like it or not. The internet is broken, and one of the men responsible is trying to fix it.

Jeff Jarvis went to Google I/O, and all he got was this t-shirt.
Mark Millian secretly hates the way Leo pronounces “Bloomberg Business Week”
Nathan Olivarez-Giles has mad street cred.

Fix for WannaCry

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Megan Morrone talks to Iain Thomson about a possible fix for those infected with the Wannacry ransomware. Researchers have found a fix to unlock affected computers. The tool called wannakiwi allows you to avoid paying the bitcoin ransom, but only if you’re running Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 2003 AND if you haven’t rebooted your PC since the attack. The key is not magic, its math that works by finding all the prime numbers that are stored in the ransomware’s code. A different tool called WannaKey was released yesterday but only worked on Windows XP and required a second app.

This Week in Tech 614: $46 at the Piggly Wiggly

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The WannaCry ransomware attack is far from over. Amazon introduces the Echo Show – will the touchscreen voice assistant/videophone flop? Microsoft announces their own voice assistant, the Cortana Speaker. The US plans to ban laptops on flights from Europe. Comcast and Charter agree not to compete on wireless. Russian hackers pwned by French presidential campaign

–Christina Warren needs friends in Seattle.
–Father Robert Ballecer just got back from Malta.
–Roberto Baldwin got hung up on by AT&T customer service.
–Alex Wilhelm’s name will not set off your Amazon Voice Assistant.