Tech News Weekly

Jan 30th 2025

Tech News Weekly 372

Return of the Pebble Smartwatch

Bookshop.org, WordPress, DeepSeek

Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Guests: Eric Migicovsky
Category: News

Bookshop.org is now offering a Kindle alternative. How hackers are hijacking WordPress sets to put out malware. And how people are freaking out about DeepSeek since it made a huge splash this past week.

  • Dan Moren is joining Mikah Sargent this week! Dan talks about how Bookshop.org is now selling e-books, but Dan has concerns about how this could present technological challenges with DRM and app store fees.
  • Mikah shares how hackers are hijacking WordPress sites and using them to push out malware for both Windows and Mac machines.
  • Mikah also talks about how DeepSeek has made a huge splash in the technology world since this past Sunday and what has happened with the technology community and AI as a whole.
  • And Eric Migicovsky, founder of the smartwatch company Pebble, joins Mikah to talk about exciting news with Pebble.

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