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good morning on Thursday December 15th it's time for episode 155 the last of the season yeah and we've got the dream team in the house for the 359 podcast Roger Cheng Ben Fox Rubin and Alfred and good morning guys and bv g morning Naranjo Skeldon right there well I mean what what what last of the year losing you laughs of the year we're just screwing up already I already screwed shut ending the year like we started it yeah pretty much no no it was far more awkward all we started this is getting awkward already yeah I'm you're extremely tense let's move it along let's move it along all right you know I really wanted to end the year with a recap show but we've got so many headlines that yeah and this is it this is our last show we've gotta jump into it we can't ignore when I had a waste your time is it with a recap is it too late to update the tech turkey with the new yahoo I did no rival it's a little outdated actually we'll have to be updated i guess but yeah we're talking about yahoo disclosing yesterday they even bigger hack than the preface this size twice size 1 billion 1 billion users so that's yeah 1 billion youth exactly the obvious question is did yahoo even have a billion users that oh yes what i just asked come on okay well now I know yeah be they had to have been hacked right so I did anyways but that basically means like everyone right if you're a yahoo user from i think it was 2013 you mean yeah you were probably hacked so your information is out there the ether and next we'll be talking about uber uber launched its self-driving car service shortly after the DMV came out said no please shut these all down you're not getting permits you didn't get permission which is as we find the sort of standard playbook for uber right going in going in it's better to seek forgiveness the national permission sure lastly we'll be talking about Trump meeting with a huge with all the the CEOs of the biggest tech companies in the US the hugest the hugest which by the way alfred was there alfred was there an awesome great also give a little color from the scene so I try going up there they said I wasn't a tech exact really said my company's you have the spectacles on though now that's why anyway so we're gonna talk about this that's without further ado let's get it going give any questions leave in the comments section and is your last chance of the year so send us comments great questions and whatever yes send some insults compliments no no car I'm just roast right Brian I'll read them all for you I don't want any compliments roast me all right now that we're all the way off track let's get back on track actually get the show done come on giggles all right and here we go we'll be back to answer questions and 32 welcome to 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day all the other crap you want to throw in I'm Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin I'm out for doing so Yahoo the company disclose another hack this time revealing that had lost the account information of more than 1 billion people that's twice a number of the previous hack which was at the time the biggest attack ever uh so Yahoo you manage outdo yourself it's just what what is this company anymore other than like just like one long horrible scandal yeah right and the real question is is this going to be the thing that finally gets verizon to give up on them I mean yeah there are reports there's chatter now that verizon is second guessing it's a pending acquisition as far as we're the last statement that they provided was there they were still on track they were waiting for the full investigation to complete itself and make the decision on what that does that was related to what the 500 million house it's all related it was do different yeah that was related to the original investigation so bad it's like they look for one hack and they just keep finding things that are even worse yeah you imagine if you give them more time they're like actually 2 billion yeah I mean that's how it started there was the the news last during the summer that about 200 and 250 million users wrapped and they found out that was a hoax but while investigating that then they find a half million half billion yep and then investigating that one was what you may find this one so it's like what's gonna have on digging oh there's more skeletons there man the other question is is that a Verizon actually does go through with this how are they gonna justify keeping Yahoo CEO on because they'd only the plane was yeah yeah this is just like pretty incompetent I'm being nice looking pretty if I'm verizon I'm backing away from this immediately because why would I want to be associated with a brand that now is synonymous with giving away your information constant hat right verizon is supposed to not be known for its reputation for security and they could hear that all way by taking yahoo in so next up ubers taking out the DMV turns out the company's self-driving car program in San Francisco which seen at first reported on Tuesday let live without proper permission lubra argues that because it has safety drivers in each one of their cars the technology is limited that they aren't fully autonomous and don't need those special permits so do you buy that argument I agree with uber on their technicality here the the the issue is you know you can't have self-driving cars but their whole thing's what we have somebody in the car right there's a self in there but I mean the DMV is always more than itself this is the point right the the dmv's argument is basically you know we're restricting that technology in any cars period you know it doesn't matter somebody's even driving that car that car shouldn't be allowed on the road the thing is is this isn't a surprise ruber like the DMV talked them a month ago about this super basically just said I'm oh no that's what they do yep they basically push it forward and then try to figure out the regulatory environment after they've already come out with it so my expectation is like how is the DMV going to get these things off the road anyway like do they have an enforced I'll take it they'll take it he'll take over to court yeah so are there gonna like get all the car it is important to note goober launched its initial service in SF without permission and God God read through the same kind of hurdles and ultimately services out there woohoo so lastly Trump met with the leaders of some of the biggest US tech companies yesterday in New York and what could have been an awkward roundtable he did take shots at Apple Google during the election was actually pretty conciliatory now fer you were actually on the scene tell us what was like at Trump Tower so I was in the first floor ER waiting for all the tech execs to come in none of them really wanted to talk to me or anybody for that matter um but they yeah they had a greeter from Trump Towers there to talk to them you know all these people trying to take photos who they of people that they thought were celebrities and turned out to be these tech titans that they didn't recognize but they also use the website but they left they were pretty happy there were a lot of waves you know they're smiling but they might just be putting on appearances you know me basil said this was a productive day yeah the comments so far been pretty positive she's pretty surprising things of you seem to be pretty positive over most of the Trump meetings but you know the rubber is really going to hit the road after january twentieth yeah and he gets you know in office so we'll see how these tacky executives actually respond alright we've run over that way from overtime again sorry we pologize will try to do better next year no problem more about these stories check us out seen it Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin I'm Alfred Aang thanks for listening was it a question I did for a guy forgot who I am great way to end the yeah check your snapchat that'll remind you you know I just realized I probably should have mentioned on podcasts that we're gonna be on break yes so let's go over that now yeah that we're still live on YouTube yeah we'll put it in the tribunes can we have a note something in the park how does that work we put it in the deck okay and put in the narrow notes yes just a reminder to our viewers we will be gone for the rest of the year right actually not starting up at the beginning year we're all packing up most of those are packing up to CES well actually our first show will be at CES on Thursday Wednesday well wednesday now thursday so thursday are you sure I'm positive we'll figure it out Tuesday 10 a lessening well Ben and I will be busy with press conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday got it Thursday is the first day of the show and is the first day of our return of the podcast yeah yeah it'll probably be a slightly different format yes we'll be in elevation Thursday the fourth no fifth this just turned into a planning meeting yeah yeah really boring it definitely will is the best we will be broadcasting from the booth see my balloon at CES right by south hall entrance so stay tuned to cnet.com for all the love cover gonna be super awkward and relatedness first question in the chat from ace v do you all honestly think you know what you're talking about you seem like glorified idiots who are correct thank you alright first inside oh yeah it's the last podcast of the year keeping way to kick off and very glorified actually to answer that question obviously we have no idea what we're talking about that's why we're awake if there is nothing on this computer this is all a prop just to make it look like I'm actually doing something and we're getting paid by Apple yeah oh come on come on keep trolling them the best questions in the chat are why is yahoo even still is the question great question people still is it that it's got a massive user base it's um mostly for fancy school ugh oh uh yahoo finance yahoo sports i mean those are still big properties people still use yo my wife still yahoo mail user I told it allows I'm here stop CN please please email me at the dude man dude @ yahoo.com that's how I it's my old handle from high school it's a really don't know what do you think I just made that up I like Matthews comment who is the chief security officer of Yahoo and has that person's head rolled well actually it's an issue story because then the cheese security officer left before all these hacks happen oh my god so maybe I know like that I think he knew something that's all I so eight billion somewhere the nope nope not a mr. robot is secretly working for Yahoo so the issue too is is that like Verizon plans on buying this company at least at the moment for four point eight billion dollars yeah let's say that deal falls through yeah how much is Yahoo worth like the they may be worth much at all like they were there was an expectation that like we can point probably taken some connection just by ourselves you buy it ourselves that is livingsocial I mean no lady socials been purchased I know I know it might still have a selling point of you with all those there's nothing seriously there's this how many users they got really I this is from a personal perspective I think they got really fortunate that Verizon decided to step up and pick them up yeah and you know they're they're definitely doing this content play if Verizon were two exit who's gonna pick up the slack I turns into a complicated question someone would eventually the price will go down enough that someone would pick it up will not be like even if its private equity yeah yeah exactly yeah uh so we're moving on to to over in the in the chat imagine i always get this wrong imagine soggy this says it's crazy if there's a person in it then it shouldn't be a problem with the regulations I you agree or desire agreed i don't i think that technicality that you know the danby's going on is a little bit absurd but i do think that they should you know comply with the laws of delay yeah it just seems like this is a really simple thing it was like I think it was like a hundred and fifty dollar permit something like really this is like a little technicality that uber should have just fall through on but they just thumb they're not like it's not like they were really running through a huge amount of red tape to get this permit they got it pretty easily it seems to me like they're just thumbing their nose Authority is what a great way to get back tires on them sometimes though like they completely exited austin texas over like the regulation stuff right the regular regulation stuff is still an issue all over the world cities around the world they almost got booted out of New York because of it right so that's just their MO silvina sharing the sentiment you had yesterday as far as uber pushing a technology said as bad as everyone says uber can be they are pushing the technology I feel that is a good thing yeah absolutely one of things they mentioned in their statement was that you know they sort of cast the kind of war that all these regulations the DMV stepping in really would curtail innovation I don't know we go that far but you know it's it's a fair point uber is definitely pushing the envelope and you have to a pawn for that definitely remind everyone when CES takes place uh let's see that's a great question it's basically the first week of first full week of January right we fly out on the second you don't have to give us the entire schedule artist our flight schedule is Jesus but press day is Tuesday there are two press aides this year which is double the normal year don't give them the whole schedule Oh Tuesday and Wednesday of the press days Thursday was when it officially kicks off it actually oddly runs right into Sunday losing the awkward for all of us because I'm gonna be on a plane on Sunday mmm who out there still has a yahoo account I do I mean in the chat oh dang it heads down I got an email from yahoo like this morning saying that they were hacked but I don't remember ever making a yahoo account so that's bad so even if I were act when it's like Oh change your password I don't know what account you're talking about just delete that email that's that's WikiLeaks right that's a Russian trying to get your email i think is a number of people who still use yahoo for some of their other site like letter right yeah yeah also I my tumblr got from my yahoo account i mean i use it as like my burner account like anytime I'm signing up for stuff like I think it's spam folder they use my yahoo account yeah but I don't actually engage in the email on it so no no and I don't I don't I don't sign up for anything sensitive there's no sensitive information that goes to yahoo anymore news so if I already changed my password after that first hack was a now it didn't matter actually your information was already lost know if it had been hacked because it was from a couple years back so you change information now actually the better policy is to change all of your passwords because what it's most likely that password you were using for Yahoo that got hacked the same password you use for other counts yeah that's maybe that's all these celebrities are an act like they're exactly so that's all that's all they really want they didn't want your yahoo Casper do you wanna take it like yeah they associate to other county building sites best to have different base for exactly or use a password manager that's probably the best bet could be yeah I think it's a but just change your password I guess is not good advice in this sinner no no you've got a fortune you've got to change your passengers Romero has words make them all different Crow wants to know if there's anything wrong with still using msn or hotmail I don't think there's been a nine risking hotmail they've already know is uncle I think notes dad I soft Microsoft email is now dead its outlook they like discontinued to turn it down load right but it's still technically mean if you were a hotmail user your account yours I mean I still have a hot date as well but how many emails do you have a lot why he wants all those coupons yeah Africa dog all right I want to call it a year oh my gosh I mean I'm suddenly filled with nostalgia I see I'd should we spend a hell veron should we sing boys to men or something no well cuz we'll get sued okay don't say happy birthday just changed the lyrics I thought I overthrow is open trademark now my grands gonna wrong guy anyways let's let's wrap it up it has been a great year it's been a fantastic project of glad we start oh oh my god I get all this yet we're getting all mushy alright you barely coughed today I don't actually got you you got the intro right for once that was great I can't wait for that to happen CES be like yeah yeah live live audience right I can do it for u of you by the way yes you can do it in myself at those no no no no no I've been the intra mess it up and get a mess it up on purpose anyways look let's stop rambling I think people care let us roaming that much more importantly thank you to all of you for hanging out with us see you again soon it's been really great we made some new friends we've had some adventures and you've got me try not to return ugly or tube which we will never try again no we didn't 360 360 video all right to edit alright thanks so much again is enough yeah again look at these are hurt or hurting our podcast is available on iTunes TuneIn stitcher SoundCloud feedburner and google play music and of course you can check us out on cnet com or of course have a happy new year happy new year comedian 2017 yep later take care everybody