Tonight on CEP! The fascinating insightful Kenley C. Vogt joins us to talk tech ethics, computer history, and his career as a network engineer:

• How TV repair guys would deliberately fry tubes just to confirm their claim that you needed a new one.
• How TV salespeople would deliberately lower the focus on a TV, just to sell you a pricier model.
• How two 1952 IBM computers played checkers against each other... and learned from their mistakes.
• Self-healing networks, a 1986 AT&T StarLAN running at 1 Megabit!, and an early 90s Nortel network running at 100!
• His experience designing cutting-edge networks for IBM, Steven Spielberg, Kodak, Hawkeye, and a Russian embassy
• Business and computer history: How we got to where we are now.

Stay tuned for next week's episode where Kenley discusses his book, "The Adventures of AI and the Little Learners", available at KenleyCVogt.com

Today we continue our new format of blazin' through articles. For each news flash, I give my insightful commentary:

• "New World" is a fake online world people use to escape their depressing lives. It's being overrun by AI bots, so people in third-world countries are finding it harder to make a living on it.
• Tesla is the first foreign automaker in China that didn't have to partner with a local company. In return, China hopes to learn from them, as they did with Apple.
• Rather than make reliable cars, Stellantis is now chasing a pipe dream of milking us for fees while we drive.
• The class action against Zoom for failing to encrypt communications, and then sharing them with vendors and governments.
• Apple and Google's duopoly relies heavily on the App Store scandal. If it weren't for app stores, we could use any brand of anything to go on any mobile website.
• Tesla crashes into a bus - which raises the question - what happens when cars are hit with update attacks that cause them to smash into things?
• Many/most Alexa devices are gifted for Christmas, and then never used again. Amazon might not mind, because people leave them plugged in...
• Every time Google is caught doing something nasty, business soars over at DuckDuckGo.
• MD governor uses an ephemeral messaging app - but how many others do, too?
• iPhones are still locatable when the battery inevitably dies - and even if someone factory wipes it.
• Someone was so fed up with an evil program, they got a job at the company just to fix the problem, then walked out.

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Tonight on CEP, we torment more scammers!

• First one was a "card accident" scammer. i told him my arms fell off, and when he asked for details, i told him I couldn't remember.
• Next one was a guy claiming to be Geek Squad, then later on claims to be PayPal, then later on Norton.
• Then we have a Medicare scammer trying to sign me up for food cards. I ask him what kind of food I can buy with the card, tell him all my favorite foods, and then I start ordering food and ask if he'll deliver it to me!
• ...and finally, the moment you've all been waiting for...

My buddy Karl Mailchimp has returned to debut his new character: Tony Penisa.

Tony is a friendly baseball fanatic from New Jersey. He calls a scammer in response to an Apple Pay email. He gives him the beans and it's one of the most epic Torment-a-Scammer adventures we've ever had... "Oh that's a half a W, it's a V! My bad!"

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