There are a lot of candy dishes were full this morning, you know, you'd think that even Listening to this right now. We're like, what would which neighborhood was that again? Where where's the free candy that's still in there? How do I don't worry? It has now been in the sun way too long You know, what's interesting is I've noticed a you know a shift in a lot of the candy and it's I Remember Halloween being the one time a year where you would get all the really interesting candies. You would get like the little Pixie sticks, you know sugar in a straw You get like the weird taffies the water or salt water taffies now. It's just all like the little fun-sized Candy bars Mars bars Snickers Twix Reese's on size How how? Offensive fun size meaning a third of the size. I'm glad there's no baby Ruth in her bucket Hey, that's one candy. I can live without baby. I love baby Ruth, which is odd because I love paydays I don't like baby Ruth. Baby Ruth is great. We always got a toothbrush in our bag when I was a kid No, no in our bag in the bag The bag that you would take around from door to door. I know but like who was the guy giving your gal no idea I Was aggressive never really paid attention to what they were giving us it was always we were looking at them so We get back home and we'd be like wait, which one of them was the toothbrush hold on Do you go to one with the toothbrush the other gives you a little See like what the heck? No, as if you got an apple because it would like it would really Need the fruit ones are always kind of like oh, thanks for the little tangerine My parents and probably for a good reason there was always the because the people Hiding razor blades in candy was going around and so it was always like okay when you come back with your loot We're gonna go through everything Razor blades in your chocolate and then you can eat it weirdly my chocolate always sort of like disappeared Sort of like well, you know, we had to be safe I take this one for razor blades I mean have any of those actually ever not been a prank or just kind of an urban legend Sort of meaningless have any of them ever been just like I mean Like have they have that has it actually been like a Have there been any It was always framed around, you know We want to keep you safe and then I was like where's all my candy and they were like no We had to throw it all away razor blades the only one I can think of Yeah, is the is the needle some jerk was putting needles and strawberries Even then like it didn't it not that it's good But it the the number of people it affected and the number of times it happened is very low My my parents would go check all the candy and I'm like, you know Personally every single person whose house I went to tonight You know them like it's that small of a town, I don't know one of them might have flipped and Yeah, they might be you know putting opiates and my kids candy Mrs. Knight Oh, you take care of the cafeteria and teach catechism, but you might be putting opiates in my Yeah, and we won't have it Funny how that became the thing this year in a world of increasingly legal Weed and stuff like that the the the panic this year was People are going to be giving weed Candies Because you know because people love to give away something that costs money Yeah, number one at least it's more feasible than the razor blades in my opinion at the very least like there is Look like regular candy, but I mean not at these prices Janice You know, I heard is they're gonna be given away that that candy that has alcohol in it. Oh cordials I About flasks for Halloween trick-or-treat. All right. Yeah Start us off in 30 seconds you got it You know it Preparing Bring yourselves online 15 seconds And I will begin the thank yous. It's patreon day. Thank you to everybody's supports on patreon You guys rock. All right. Here we go five four three two one Thanks to everyone who supports daily tech news show directly to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the daily tech news for Thursday November 1st all Saints Day 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Matt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane from Oakland, California I'm Justin Robert young and I am Roger Chang producer and Halloween dad Halloween dad I was exhausted, but the The houses were very well decorated. Nice. Nice. Sounds like a overall a healthy As far as a workout goes and enjoyable Halloween All right, let's get right into the tech news with a few tech things you should know Security researcher Jose Rodriguez discovered a bug in iOS 12.1 Which of course was just released on Tuesday that exploits group paid time calls allowing anyone to access an iPhone's contact information Without needing a passcode so Rodriguez found this by selecting the FaceTime icon adding a person selecting the plus icon and then scrolling through contacts using 3d touch to provide contact information like email addresses and Phone numbers now a hacker would need physical access to a phone to exploit this which limits the exploits power Obviously, but contact information from the victims network could play into phishing schemes and the like Yeah, Twitter is testing a home screen button on iOS that lets users switch from an algorithmic timeline To the former reverse chronological feed that only shows people they follow This option existed within Twitter's iOS settings But the test makes toggling between top tweets view and latest tweets view much easier Finally doing something we want Microsoft's Twitch competitor mixer has some updates calling it season two of the software Releasing over the coming week skills for audience members to interact with game streams Sparks patronage that works as currency within mixer mixer embers a new virtual currency that audience members can purchase with actual Currency and progression starting next year mixer will gamify the audience portion of streaming Trying to get fans to use skills earned props from other audience members and just generally participate more Let's talk a little bit more about a rumored acquisition Mmm sources tell Financial Times that Apple has held talks with iHeart media to take a stake in the US radio company But that the potential deal is still in the preliminary stages and maybe a multi-million dollar marketing partnership rather than a direct investment iHeart media filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in March Tom Let me ask you this let's play a little game of where did this story come from? Yeah Yeah, well, it's certainly not Apple Apple doesn't benefit nor Apple doesn't leak usually unlike a lot of companies and Or on purpose leak I should say I mean they leak like a sieve in other ways But but they don't do the we want you to know necessarily a lot iHeart radio on the other hand going through chapter 11 bankruptcy Gets a lot of benefit out of the idea that Apple might sink some money in any way in it Look iHeart media is a very interesting Play for them in that what Apple wants with Apple music is connections It's why Jimmy I've been was such a perfect person to launch that service iHeart media has a tremendous if you don't know what iHeart media is they have partnerships with all the major radio broadcasters yes all five of them and They they wield tremendous influence for their concerts and stuff like that They are the digital face for radio, which of course means it's kind of crippled and not really as good as it could be but If Apple takes it over or Apple makes a deal with them They get what they want which is access to major artists and more of an ability to get exclusive content. I kind of Intrigued by the idea of Apple acquiring iHeart media and then suddenly all these iHeart radio stations Become Apple radio stations, right? I mean that sounds very Apple like I could imagine Apple music powering radio stations It's why they started beats one because they love that idea of personality driven radio beats one suddenly could be carried in Small parts on a bunch of different radio stations around the country That that's a question because do they want beat does beats one want to grow out of the exclusivity of Apple music or do they want to keep that there? What about their exclusive? shows I mean Making news One takes over radio stations. So let me be clear I was I was thinking of these these sort of situations where you have a beats one radio hour on the current iHeart radio partners and That just pushes people to the full beats one product. Okay, so so you have like Zane low who is there? Yeah, the number one guy who does Interviews with every major artist and so when he sits down with Drake Now all of a sudden right you get it on ninety two point three as well as the app. Yeah So yeah, the reaches is quite greater. I think that's actually a really good idea. I Think it's intriguing I also think it's probably gonna be as fruitful of a rumor as the one where Apple was thinking of buying Time Warner media Which they explored and didn't do I have a feeling they'll explore this and go yep, that's a dying Company, no, we would rather not but we're sure we'll market I would fully expect a marketing partnership to come out of this I think a marketing partnership The other thing that iHeart media does and this might be more of an acu hire of You guys have the connections that can have us spread into traditional radio if that's the way that we want to go Because there are kind of a lot like hulu where before hulu started making a name for themselves with their original content their biggest point of Value or as it continues to be is that they had financial and creative relationships with the networks that supply the hit shows And unlike Warner, uh, this is a much cheaper acquisition. So apple, you know has still has a pile of cash sitting around as far as I could tell Well, here's some news that came directly from the company itself sonos announced It's delay in support for google assistant until 2019 on the sonos one After saying last october that was 2017 that google assistant would be supported by 2018 And a blog post sonos says it needs more time to get the experience right It's making progress and we'll try to lock down a date in early 2019 This this strikes close to home I know because you you have the sonos and you use amazon voice services on it But I know you've been intrigued by the idea of using google assistant That was the whole idea of this is that it was not platform agnostic Or it was platform agnostic. Yeah Yeah, so yeah, I mean, I don't know it's it's it's I I kind of I don't know a few months ago. I was like, I guess that whole google assistant thing is just not happening It's nice to hear sonos saying listen. We're not meeting the expectation. We need more time We're going to don't worry about it We're trying to be as transparent as possible appreciate that still sort of a bummer for somebody who Spent more money on a speaker that was that was um, you know, it was it wasn't an amazon or a google product It was something else that was but that's their brand, right? And so they would rather their gamble is let's not release something that's bad You're paying more in an increasingly commoditized market when amazon is literally putting out a microwave with some of this functionality You expect something more better sound Better recognition Right platform. So they want to get it right. I think this is good for their brand But also sonos is the kind of company that waited probably about a year too long to get into some of this voice assistant kind of stuff So, uh, we will we will we will see exactly how long it takes for them to get it right I suspect too and this may be entirely off base But I suspect google is a harder partner to work with than amazon amazon voice services seems to make it into pretty much anything it wants to be in Google this is not the only company that's saying Yeah, we want to bring google assistant and it'll happen, but it's not yet I think google has a lot more restrictions on what you can do with the data because that's where google makes all of its money amazon just wants to direct someone into their retail channel Otherwise they could they can be flexible google wants to own all the data The of the of the person who does this so they can sell them advertising And uh sonos may be a little uncomfortable with the aspects of of that part of the situation. I don't know Tell you what that would be a really really really good story Free lead to all the freelance Listening right now that I think like that that element of the voice wars is fascinating because to me It could dictate whether or not google assistant no matter how good of a product It is if it's ever going to be able to catch up to the scale of amazon Alexa And I've seen some articles around that topic so I wouldn't be surprised if someone's digging into that to update it right now flicker Man, it feels like doing buzz out loud again. I'm talking about flicker Flickr announced it will no longer require users to sign in with the yahoo account credentials starting in january Those with free accounts. However, we'll also no longer get a terabyte of free storage Instead being limited to one thousand photos Pro users on the other hand who only could get a terabyte of storage, but they got other perks now for their 50 dollars a year Get unlimited storage flicker became a part of verizon back in 2017 when verizon bought yahoo Remember yahoo owned flicker But smug mug bought flicker from Verizon or rather from oath the combination of yahoo and aol back in april So this is kind of the first big revision of flickers and smug mug took it over I have been a flicker user since well before yahoo bought flicker And I've paid for flicker pro Even though I don't really use it anymore and I don't really know anybody else who's who's using it But it has worked really well as a photo repository with with um, you know, full The full file sizes, right the one terabyte of storage For for free even though I was paying was really advantageous And I actually recommended it to people all the time like I don't know just get a yahoo account And I mean it's a really good photo storage So the fact that they're dialing back on that does not surprise me the fact that you don't need a yahoo login anymore is great Because I you know I had a yahoo account but that was literally the only reason that I used it was to sign in to flicker and I Don't know. I mean if you pay $50 a year for unlimited storage That's that I mean we're we're used to the subscription models now That is if it's truly unlimited and you take a lot of photos and they take up a lot of space That might be a good deal to you. I just don't know how many people who didn't already exist in the flicker ecosystem In in you know the last gosh, I don't know 10 years 12 years Would be swayed to do this with all the other options that they have with cloud storage Well, one of the things bug bug said in their press release around this is they're trying to Divert people from using them as storage for photos and Community aspect well, okay, but I mean you're offering people like crazy storage So That's what you're using to draw them in before it was a free terabyte right And so people would just dump their photos because they're like I don't even have a terabyte of photos Now they're saying look if you pay you'll get unlimited because we want people who actually want to put their money down Not just use of this as free storage well, but Okay, I mean, okay Community tweets who's talking to you on flicker anymore. Well, that's what they want to start back up again They want to make it It's back in pog form I think it's a very tall order Um when you're asking somebody to plunk down $50 a year I don't know if in are as we Mythologize our history as every generation does if there will be a story of a more beloved yet abused brand Then flicker flicker to this day like why we're even still covering it is kind of amazing considering Or it's bounced around from its It's got a huge amount of active users, too I mean mind like instagram, but oh hundred million people use it I know it is it is culture. It is a cultural touchstone. Uh, it is it is amazing Uh, how much it has retained while it is very obviously just bounce ping-ponged around the internet owner to owner What's apps vice president chris daniel said wednesday that the company will start putting advertising in its status feature sometime next year What's apps status feature lets users share ephemeral text photos videos and gifts The advertisement would be reportedly powered by facebook's native advertising system What's app has more than 1.5 billion users and has never been ad supported before I'm shocked shocked That what's up a free app with all of those billions of users Would start to introduce advertising Yeah, and this is why the founders left, uh, they remember what's app you used to have to pay for it Yep paid 99 cents or something right? Uh, it was not much Uh, but it was it was it was the ethos was we aren't ad supported that ethos finally has changed with the departure of the founders And the pressure of facebook in a way that isn't sticking advertising in your messages It's their sort of snapchat like feature. Um, but yeah sarah i'm with you i'm i'm not shocked They were purchased by an advertising company Makes money because they sell advertising and and look you can sell The the oh, but we're a company that's you know, we really want to just Understand communication and we want to safeguard these companies to grow as they will and that lasted about as long as I mean, I think i'm shocked that we say I like it, but i'm not surprised at all No, no, no. I'm surprised that they held out this long. You know What's up has been gigantic for a very very long time on the other hand adds in the status Not the worst thing they could do right Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's a feature of what's up. I don't currently use I use what's up with certain friends usually that uh, don't live in the united states Um, because the usage, um in certain markets is is big and I want to talk to those folks Um, but now yeah, the the the whole sort of activity status part of it is I mean, it's very facebook. Okay. You got that in instagram now You have that on facebook already and have for a while. What's up? I'm not a big surprise They're all facebook properties. All right moving on to google now Google will require users to enable javascript when logging in Google uses javascript to run a risk assessment and says 0.1 of its users run with javascript turned off This will disproportionately impact bots which run through headline browsers with javascript turned off for performance reasons Google will also use data from play protect to list harmful apps in the security checkup section and prompt them to uninstall them The company will also notify you whenever you share any data from your google account Not just gmail or contacts the account in general And google will begin walking people through securing their account if potentially unauthorized activity is detected So going going in reverse order from the most recent one that you mentioned I love this idea that if you've been hacked, uh, they're going to walk you through security like do you have financial data? Do you have you know, what about this third party app? Let's walk you through all this stuff They're adding more things to the security checkup section to help you say like hey This app is listed as harmful. Are you sure you want this? Maybe you should These third party services have access. Did you realize that we're not just talking about gmail anymore? We're talking about any access. This is all good till you get to the javascript part And I know i'm probably being unreasonable because 0.1 of users have javascript turned off But i'm still in the mindset that turning javascript off is a good security practice to protect yourself from getting hacked and the idea that you have to have javascript on to run a security check just Rubs me the wrong way even though rationally I know that that is not necessarily a bad thing and that javascript is is no longer as much of a security hole As it used to be there's just something I can't get over there Well, I mean There's very much seems like the the engineer solution to this problem, right? Like these bots are Headless and they and they turn off javascript so they you can run more of them, right? Yeah, and so this is going to keep bots out until the bots start running and browse It is it is just a very interesting kind of solution to that to say like all right Well, what's the one thing that these all all these things have in common javas the javascript's turned off All right. Well, you gotta have javascript turned on although that's not the only reason the javascript Running on is because they do other checks. They do other behavioral checks as well and I get that I understand that Uh, and if you're running something like no script, you can authorize google and say okay Google can run javascript, but nobody else can and still be pretty secure And if you don't trust google to run javascript, well, then you shouldn't be using google anyway, right? Right. Yeah It's just I don't know. There's just uh That's the I guess I'm just getting old and inflexible But part of me just bristles at using javascript as a security function the kids these days Freedom house issued its annual internet freedom report. We've talked about this in the past 17 of the 65 countries listed in the report have adopted laws restricting online media By the way, estonia topped the list for internet freedom If you want the most internet freedom go to t2 t2's country estonia The u.s Saw a one-point decline in its freedom ranking attributed mostly to the repeal of the open internet guidelines the net neutrality rules As well as the renewal of surveillance authorization Which is the first time that the surveillance authorization could have been changed since the snowden revelations And it was essentially just passed as is with no changes roughly 18 countries increased state surveillance out there 32 countries employed commentators bots and trolls to manipulate opinion And there's good news our media Use social media and communication apps to help its peaceful revolution earlier this year And ethiopia's new prime minister released bloggers from prison and pledged to ease restrictions on online communications. So You know some good news a lot of bad news and and generally Uh, you see in this report freedom house pushing the idea that fear Of fake news and bots and trolls is being used in a lot of countries to justify repressive restrictions on communication Uh including this one We talk a lot about internet access and depending on where you are Yeah, like what are the speeds that you can get?  And and I wonder we you know might have read something like this It's not unlike someone saying well, these are some really good schools in the area Where you might want to buy a home or you might want to move to freedom you might want to move Exactly. Yeah, the internet access is quite good here. It has a walk score of 90% Um, and I I wonder how I mean obviously we all care about this But how much will this turn into something that Is actually a very important factor for the average Uh, I don't know single family pressure. Does it put on governments for change? I think that's That too. Yeah To apply pressure to governments to to push for a more open internet versus i think that the nature of this And what we're seeing here is that the more people are aware of the internet The more people have the internet as part of their daily lives The more we will see restriction And whether or not that restriction is good will be up to the government and the solutions for which that they offer but to me this is The the moments that we are having right now culturally Be it about politics or sports or culture or anything else This is because we have more and more people that now understand the internet to be a part of their daily lives More so than we could have ever imagined when we were But when when tom when you were started that this franchise though so many years ago, right? Like this is a totally new world because we've crossed the threshold We've hit a tipping point and when that happens that means that government there is government viability in Making it better and now whether or not the cure is worse than the disease is up to your political philosophy And and specifically each thing that is put out there, but uh to me I read this and I see The more we know about it the more we want to mitigate it and the more we want to control it Well, and the more affected has on people the more people want to control what effect it has on people Yes, right. I mean even for good Another thing that I thought was interesting in this report was india and shrillanka came under criticism for turning off internet connectivity and and and blocking apps during riots And during conflicts because they said they wanted to control the conflicts and stop the mal malicious actors From communicating and freedom house says maybe that isn't the best way Maybe you also you do more harm than good when you do that and that's up for debate. That's an interesting conversation Folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com gives you everything you need to know in brief Time for a brand new segment. I invented an hour ago called quick question I invented this segment when gigamat asked on twitter Can dtns detail this during today's show even just a few minutes? I'm a techie and confused as to what this means He is referring to Recode and vox Announcing that they're partnering up now. I was trying to just answer his twitter a question And ended up taking a lot of notes So i'm just going to answer his question here in front of everyone Recode was bought by vox in 2015 So it is confusing that they're partnering when vox already owns recode But recode has essentially been partnered with the verge which is also owned by vox in fact sharing staff Uh and sharing writers and sharing posts in some cases with recode taking a more business slash opinion slant Kara swisher the founder a co-founder with walt mosburger of recode Announced the partnership saying recode will shift its editorial approach to focus writers on pointed Narratives rather than simply topics or specific companies. So there's an editorial shift as part of this Essentially recode will still be called recode, but it's going to become a section of vox.com Uh, so it's kind of shifting away from the verge and joining vox You can see an example of this sort of thing with ionine They made a big deal about the fact that ionine was merging into gawker If you go to an ionine story, it still looks like you're on ionine But it's essentially a subsection of gawker now Recode will still be a separate business, but it will have a unified newsroom It'll be part of the vox newsroom the partnership with vox is meant to broaden the appeal They intend to invest in more writers more resources more editorial reach with a more ambitious editorial vision And they expect a relaunch of recode.net on vox.com early next year Dan Pomer is leaving as the editor also did Kara swisher is Writing a column for the new york times She started writing that earlier this year and the wall street journal reported that the media holding group was on pace to miss Its revenue target this year by roughly 15 percent. So those are the facts, justin. Yeah, what's your take on this? Advertising you have an advertising division that has to sell advertising and it's way easier When vox.com can go to advertisers and say, how would you like all these page views as opposed to saying? Hi, we're the vox media group We have this site and this site and this site and this site and then g e can say, okay But we want this and this but not this and this. This is the exact same thing that gawker went through It's a lot easier for them to say. Oh no io 9 is not our weird little science fiction site These are just the science fiction stories that are on gawker.com Same thing with valley wag if you are not a big enough Brand that advertisers want to advertise with you no matter what Then it's easier if the ad salespeople can sell it as part of this hole that bolsters their page views and their clicks Versus a sub brand that is harder for the people that are selling You know jelly donuts or chairs or whatever to buy ads on I mean when I worked at tech crunch Even though I was in the video division I worked closely with a lot of the writers and page views were king Um as they still are and you know if somebody if if if spotify announces their earnings report And you get more clicks on your article than riko does on theirs than you want And so I think that the folks at riko have never really Uh focused too much on that more of a Here's our take that is informed and thoughtful and because we're a bunch of professionals And that's why riko is one of the outlets that I enjoy most However, when you get into a situation where it's like, okay, well if we do the fact stuff We're never winning And we can't be independent doing what we're doing now and Again with advertiser money To be to to to be put into play That's not that we will we will be seen as a loser Unless we become part of again. I know voxmeade is it's a little bit complicated But tom spelled it out a little bit earlier that um to be part of the verge as a kind of like We're the grown-ups Here's where you you get a little bit of a deeper dive on a lot of the stuff makes perfect sense um You know who knows what the financial situation is for for riko'd but it seems to me that it it keeps everybody who Works at riko'd who does what they do very well happier in the long run Yeah, it moves riko'd away from being a tech site and into being the tech lifestyle aspect of vox Uh box.com which is a more general news site. Yeah Sorry, go ahead. I I I just was gonna say I see keras. Wish her gone from riko'd within two years I wouldn't be shocked Although she will be more of an important part of that site even then she is now as if it moves toward opinion people But they need to grow In fact, she might even still do a column for them, but just no longer be running it No, no, I would I would buy that look she's not running it. Anyway, they're looking for a new editor She hasn't run it as an editor in a while. Sure if if you're looking at it as a reader as a fan of riko'd Yes, this will change the content to more of a not an everyday Read necessarily in terms of finding out your one-stop shop to find out what's going on in tech You're going to get more opinion kind of stuff But in general I read this and all I see is this was the advertising department complaining to the higher ups and them Getting their way because guess who pays everybody's salaries the person who's trying to sell triskets Or to sell nabisco that triskets are there are going to be sold if you advertise on riko'd Hey, everybody if you want to participate in our sub reddit. Well, I have good news for you We have one. Please go to daily tech news show reddit.com. You can submit stories and vote on others We're also on facebook if facebook is more of your bag or maybe both reddit and facebook Not gonna hate you facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Uh real quickly. Let's check the mailbag Let's do it. The first email came from kv who says uh, he is from surprisingly warm, virginia I enjoyed your discussion about where modern phone design is going with increased green area and notches and workarounds around that whole thing Just to provide another perspective. I think wasn't mentioned in the discussion When did bezels become so heated? Kv says to me if one doesn't notice the notch Why is a neat or uniform bezel considered an eyesore? See samsung s9 or the pixel 2 xl the notch feels like an ugly compromise for a very minimal gain Use more as a marketing bragging rights about screen to body ratio wet, which is which is Oh dear What's the matter? Uh, i'm sorry. This email just went away Which is then amplified in the tech press. 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We'll see you then This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com Diamond club hopes you have enjoyed this bro All right and and how And how so are you guys are you guys both going to patreon tomorrow? We are is that the reason for the uh That is it. So is veronica belmont who I have to go talk to right now. I'll be right back.  All right She just needs tom right now. I'm immediately just Sorry, uh, uh roger. Well, what do we like for a title here? Uh, so we have recode like a vox Get it.  That's like a fox in the head house Yeah, that I don't like as much That was I mean this is a this is a quick question part of the show I think probably the All right, then what about flicker still flickering? Still flickering without the What's advertising? Get what you know, what's that what's advertising is one word? What's advert what's ads Might be make more sense What's that? So, yeah, if it's spelled the same way right with the capital a a yeah d Hi veronica Hello, the gang's all here Cool I feel like I haven't seen any of you in forever. Hello, you have it.  I'm still I'm still gonna be running the show Yeah Fine So wait, are you are you totally bailing on blizzcon or are you doing a day of blizzcon tom? I won't be able to go to blizzcon because patreon's exactly the same two days I bailed on patreon. So yeah, this year mom gets me When are they gonna move that that's that's inappropriate. Yeah, I I thought last year would be the the only Year that it was exactly the same blizzcon used to move around too So I don't know they'll probably both move and then it'll be at the same day again Oh, gee It'll be like when you're trying to get out of the elevator and you need one you go one way and then you go The other way and I'll tell my hair to buy blizzcon a comb, but yeah, that'll be it wait no about watch and then You know that that story is harder and harder to understand because part of it relies on the fact that well You can't have a watch without a watch chain and I always forget I always think wristwatch I'm like, but then why couldn't he wear the watch? Oh, right because he sold the chain But do you really need the chain? Like yeah, you don't really these days I always try to make that metaphor and nobody gets it. I feel like the literacy of oh, Henry in this country is Drastically gone down. Uh, so do you want to do the what's ad? What's what's what's ads? It's got to be three ads. Yeah. Yeah Like what's With the capital a ds. So yeah, yeah, just What's up? Yeah, yeah capital a right. Yeah, but then lowercase ds So it looks like app. So basically you take what's app, but instead of the pp you put ds good That's how you know, it's a really good joke when you have to describe it See it. It's gonna work great. It works. It's gonna be great. What's ad is it? It is ads? Plural wh ats ad s right Oh w capital a yeah intercapped That's the term space Fun, so this new um dog Place next to me, which is sort of like a pet store slash training center, whatever also has um rooms in the back for private parties I don't even know what I would do with that like am I gonna have like a private dog party in the back of the k9 blue color center Maybe See ray loves it. Yeah, I love the idea Go Ray's great fashion so she might do like a fashion show or something. Oh totally Yeah, this um this uh, I've been trying to you know, figure out where otis is kind of you know, just sort of his His uh, his local, uh independent story is I think this might be the one Big master said tom's board of just grabbing objects out of nowhere now. He does it with former co-hosts Yeah Look, it's Veronica. Hi I should have worked it naturally into the conversation to be like, well, what's Veronica doing these days and then how to Then that Speaking of uh, where is Veronica She came and went Oh, yeah, she's playing with the dogs in the other room now. Oh, I see She'd be busy for hours. Here's Man who else now I feel Geez I felt so burnt out because I did I did three cons in three weeks And I was traveling before and I got at this live show and then I got traveled afterwards So I'm like, all right, I'm taking one week I got one week where I'm not gonna go do a con and of course everybody's going to like 14 different cons This week, you mean this weekend. Yeah, yeah because of blizzcon and everything. Well, I I'm glad I'm sorry. I'm not gonna see you This weekend, but I'm glad you're available tomorrow to host the show. I'm happy to do it Me too. Yeah, thanks for doing that. It'll be very fun And I get to I get to work with Darren, which is good. And of course spend more although I haven't been on a DT as with Darren in forever. You've been on the last two. He's been on That's because I can yell at him personally Uh That happens with Joe. We need to have a show with John Strickland and Jonathan Strickland and Darren kitchen With me because those are the two that they always end up being on when I'm not on somehow Um, I'll say you might be able to figure it out with Darren We could we actually almost figured it out one day. We were chatting and That just life gets in the way. He's another one. He's always all over the place like I was I was trying to See if I could uh, coax him out for A happy hour last week and he's like, oh, I'm in Indiana. I met his fiance. Um, she's fantastic. She is. No, she's great No, we uh, we're actually all going to Imagine if you're like, I don't really like her. Not a fan. Not a fan. She's not she's not that great I guess I wouldn't just not brought it up. Yeah I'm gonna say Yeah, jury's out. Yeah, you know, kind of a Kind of a bee Say about someone and by the way, I think Darren's fiance is fantastic Well, it's not good. Let that get lost. But if you were to say like I met I met their fiance And then kind of just like let that one drop. What are you doing? Yeah Oh good stuff So tom I bought a dresser last night. I just made it happen. Yes, I did Um, and I too late with my with my link I actually I actually I put my order in before you sent mine. However, it's not Unlike yours yours really nice as well. Um It all sort of depended on um certain dimensions, but And that we're good. What's weird is so the place that I got it from which is, you know, it's a big furniture place Was like I got an email within 15 minutes of placing the order saying your items are ready to be shipped Where do we send them? You know, so you have to kind of like go through the second step So I was like cool. Maybe I'll get my dresser like tomorrow. No The first available appointment was november 16th. Oh, yeah, that's my mom's birthday Where I'm like, well, happy birthday mrs. Merritt But early birthday, but I'm like, well, why did you say my items are ready to ship? They're obviously not Or you're not ready to ship them That's like more than two weeks from today. That's not ready Oh, wait a minute um, did we uh Hmm, it's apple earnings Well, were there apple earnings? Yeah, apple beats on q4 earnings Thanks to price hike stock still falls 4% in after hours trading apple was today But they didn't announce before the show and there wasn't anything really huge. Yeah. I think it's a gigantic Uh, we just covered apple a lot ad nauseam We covered apple so much. We should have made a pie Hey This is probably something that we should have for tomorrow though, right? Oh, yeah If there's something worth talking about it should go on daily tech headlines tomorrow The headline that i'm reading now is that apple uh issued guidance that holiday sales might disappoint Eh, that's Okay, I mean if we put it in it wouldn't be a quick hit. Yeah, it wouldn't be a big thing Yeah But I don't know. I don't know if that if that matches the tom the tom threshold of I'm also editing the show so Oh, uh Reuters, this is the Reuters headline right now apple warns that holiday sales may disappoint amid weakness in emerging markets That might be worth a quick hit. I guess just because it's one of those things that I do think that is interesting in that if apple stock takes a dive after You know, uh the q4 earnings announcement in however many months Then it's like, okay. Well, this is something that they did say they are expecting Also, samsung announced slow a slow holiday quarter as well theirs was attributed to slow silicon sales though because you you don't sell as much Many parts during the holiday quarter because everybody buys them to build the stuff They're going to sell during the holiday quarter So but you could you could make a top story discussion out of that Say given that samsung also said this is you know our is it really That or are we seeing are we seeing more a more slowing of the time? Are we in general figuring out because then it's just an apple story. It's more of like is this a trend or not Are we all blind men trying to describe the elephant known as slowing sales? Yeah, well the verge has an interesting article on in that vein saying that um Uh, there was a 29 q4 iphone revenue increase year over year However sales were pretty much flat suggesting that Apple just charging more for things means that people will pay more and the company benefits I've been the story for the last few quarters for apple is their their unit sales are not sure. Yeah It's the apple pencil too better more expensive Everything everything that they have is better but more expensive. It's like a second spouse Hmm I'll take your word on that roger Spouses too much work. Oh my god. What a hassle. I don't know how you guys all deal with that Honestly, I just want to feed my dog I gotta feed three mouths. Oh wait four including mine. Yeah At the end of the night roger's like good a second. I didn't even eat dinner Okay, that's right. I had another one come out. What did roger feed all those mouths audio folks stick around There's more to come video folks. Have a good one. See you tomorrow


All right, so today I wanna talk about what it's like to actually be a lucid dreamer. This is like a day in the life sort of thing. I'm not gonna go through my actual day with a vlogging camera, because that might be a bit weird. But I'm just gonna talk about my daily routine and like how it actually feels to be a lucid dreamer. Because a lot of people are wondering this, a lot of people just have no idea, you know, what actually, what it's like when they achieve success in lucid dreaming and actually are able to have lucid dreams reliably. So firstly, as a sort of a summary to this, lucid dream does feel incredible, like to be able to be a lucid dreamer and have these experiences on a regular basis.  Now, I have said before that you can't control every aspect of it, but that doesn't really matter. You know, these experiences are so profound that you don't really need to control every aspect of it. You're happy to just be in the dream and experiencing it in the way that you are. Another thing, it's almost never the way you expect it to be. So if you've never had a lucid dream and you're sort of thinking about it, you're trying to learn how you don't really know what to expect. When you do finally have your first lucid dream, it's not gonna be how you expect, right? It's gonna be completely different. It's hard to imagine something that you've never experienced. And no matter how many articles you've read or, you know, these videos you've watched, it's never gonna prepare you for what actually it feels like. Sure, I can describe it to you and I can tell you how it feels and what you might want to expect, but the actual experience that you personally will have is very subjective. It will be completely different to my first lucid dream and to everyone else's first lucid dream. So that you can't really predict or, you know, expect what's gonna happen. You just have to do it and then see how it feels. Now, the problem is, right, one of the most common problems that really annoys me and I'm sure it annoys a lot of people as well is that the more you read about it, okay, the more stories you read. Now, I'm not saying don't read stories. By all means, read stories and articles about lucid dreams. But the more of them that you read and internalize, the more likely it is that you're gonna then expect your lucid dreams to be like that story you read and then subconsciously you're gonna change it. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If every story you read, or even if you read one story that says, when I lucid dreamt, there was like a high-pitched, treaking noise and there was a demon chasing me or something, it's gonna make it that much more likely that you will then lucid dream about that. And, you know, that's something that wouldn't have happened unless you've read that story. This is why I'm very glad that in my first lucid dream, I had it before I even knew what it was. You know, it was an accident. I was a kid, you know. I don't know if you've heard my story. It's on my website on the About page. But, you know, I was a kid. I didn't really know what lucid dreaming was at all. I had this experience randomly, like sort of by accident. And then I started to research about lucid dreaming about what it was and how to do it properly, you know, with an intention of doing it. But, you know, I'm very glad that I didn't have these expectations of it before having that first experience because it's so much more exciting. You know, when you have something like that and you experience it just completely out of the blue without knowing what it was, without expecting it, without, you know, planning it or trying to experience it, it's just that much more profound.  And I'll always remember my first lucid dream. So, we're gonna talk about my daily routine as a lucid dreamer. Now, I should provide a disclosure here. This is not what I do every single day. Like some days, if I'm not feeling well, if I'm busy, if I'm excited about doing something else, I'll skip a day or two. But most days, this is the morning routine and I follow if I want to lucid dream. So, before opening my eyes, the first thing I do is I'll wake up, keep my eyes closed and think about the dreams that I've just had. If I can remember any, I'll try and focus on the memory of them, solidify the details and create a story in my head that I can articulate when I write them down. That way, when you open your eyes, you're not gonna instantly forget all the details. That really does happen a lot.  You're gonna pretty quickly forget the dreams you've just had because they're detached from what you're experiencing now and what your senses are experiencing now. So, it really is important that you, if you want to remember your dreams better, this is a really simple way. You know, just keep your eyes closed until you've got the details in your head and then when you open your eyes, you should be able to articulate the dream, write it down, at least write the notes or the key concepts down and then go on with your day from there. So, the next step is I'll obviously slowly open my eyes and then write my dreams down. It's pretty self-explanatory, I'll just write them in the dream journal, highlight the important bits, put the date and tick whether I was lucid or not. Now, once I've done that, the next thing I'll do is I'll do a reality check. Now, the reason I do a reality check first thing in the morning is because I always try and avoid false awakening loops or false awakenings in general. They're not a pleasant experience, they're not really conducive to lucid dreams unless you do a reality check. You know, first thing in the morning every morning. Because think about it, a false awakening is where you dream about waking up, you dream about going through your routine and then you're snapped back into the bed. But imagine if your routine in the morning was to do a reality check, then every time you have a false awakening, you'll do a reality check in the false awakening dream and it would make you lucid and then that way you'd instantly avoid the false awakening loop, you'd avoid the lucid nightmare or the normal nightmare and you'd just have a lucid dream. And then from that point you could decide to either wake up or to just enjoy the lucid dream and then wake up. It puts the power back in your hands. So then once I've done that, I've written my dreams down, I've woken up, I've done a reality check. I'll just go over to the chair in the corner of my room and I'll meditate. And you know, I'll meditate from anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on how much time I have or how much time I feel like I need to meditate for. And again, this just builds the self-awareness habit. This builds the practices of lucid dreaming into my routine and into my habits so that I'm able to more easily randomly lucid dream. I almost never use wake back to bed and wild techniques anymore. I just use these sort of softer methods and techniques where I won't need to do something specific. I'll just sort of build the habits of awareness, writing dreams down, meditating. And eventually, and over time, you naturally lucid dream. It happens spontaneously because your awareness is that much higher than if you didn't do these things. So that's it, that's the morning routine. You know, I don't do this every single morning, but that is pretty much how it goes. I should, again, disclosure here, you don't need to do that routine in order to lucid dream. And as I've said, I don't do it every single morning. But if, you know, for example, if I really want to do some dream work or if I want to, specifically, I want to lucid dream a lot sort of now. You know, maybe I want to try something out. Maybe I want to do an experiment, do some research. Then I will do this morning routine every day. But if I don't, you know, if I'm just sort of happy doing a casual lucid dream every few days or, you know, even once or twice a week, then I won't do the lucid dream morning routine. But yeah, as a beginner, I would suggest that you do follow something like this just because it makes it more likely. And as it's a new habit for beginners, you know, you need all the help you can get, whether that be through reading articles, trying different techniques, having a routine, you know, coaching, whatever it is, whatever you feel is going to help you. Even supplements to some degree, although I wouldn't recommend supplements for beginners. Not for most beginners anyway. It helps to have a morning routine. But you don't need to do this in order to lucid dream. You can very easily do it without this morning routine. So that leads me on to the last part of this, which is the struggles of being a lucid dreamer. Because it's not all sunshine and rainbows. There are some difficult parts of this. There are some aspects of this that might make you not want to do it. You know, not want to become a lucid dreamer or not want to learn how to do this stuff. And the first one of these is just that if you do, if you practice certain techniques, right, meaning the wake back to bed, the wild, and a couple of others as well, but mainly those two, you're gonna feel tired in the morning. And not only that, but if you, so you've got these techniques which make you interrupt your sleep, like the wake back to bed, the wild. They involve cutting your sleep short, waking up earlier than you would have done, and therefore feeling fatigued the next day. So that's obviously a problem that can make you feel tired if you need to perform at work or school or whatever. Then you've also got the other side of it, which is the dream chaining side. Now I love dream chaining. Dream chaining is where you wake up, you set your alarm to go up every 10 or 20 minutes and you just, you just ride a chain of lucid dreams, or that's the idea anyway, for several hours. By doing this, you'll end up sleeping until about 10 or 11. It's really something that I would advise you to do on weekends just because it does involve sleeping in. But yeah, if you are a lucid dreamer, you do want to do those things more often. You want to do that, right? So then the thought of having to go to work or school at nine a.m. or whatever becomes less and less appealing.  And that might make you feel tired or perform worse at school or university or work or whatever. Then the last part is what your friends will say. Friends and colleagues will always have something to say about lucid dreaming, it's not a boring topic. If you said to someone I can control my dreams and pretty much do whatever I want, they're not gonna say, oh, yeah, it's pretty boring. Lucid dreaming is fairly interesting, right? And as a concept, if you told that to someone who hadn't heard about it, most times they would either have something to say that's positive or something to say that's negative. It's quite polarizing. It's very rare that people would just say, oh, that's boring or I don't care. They're either gonna say, that's really interesting. Tell me more, tell me how to do it. And they'll start asking you questions. Or they'll go the other way and they'll say, that's ridiculous, it's unproven, it's fake. You can't do that, that's ridiculous. And it's up to you to then decide how you react to that. Do you try and prove it to them as if you're trying to prove something to yourself? You know it's real, you've experienced it yourself, but do you try and prove it to the people that are saying that? Or do you just let them find out for themselves? Or do you just say nothing?  But in general, if someone doesn't like the idea of lucid dreaming, you can't really convince them otherwise. Until they've actually had one themselves, they'll either not think it's real or not want to try. So you've gotta be aware that your friends will have something to say. You will always have to explain what it is and how it works.  So there's that aspect of it as well. But all in all, I wouldn't give it up for the world. Lucid dreaming is an amazing part of my life. It's encouraged me and motivated me to do all sorts of amazing things like the traveling and all sorts of stuff. So go ahead to subscribe, leave a comment and I'll see you next time.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, find the sum of the interior angles of a polygon of 13 sides. Before moving on to the solution, let's see what is the sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon of n sides. This is equal to 2n minus 4 right angles. This is the key idea that we use for this question. Let's proceed with the solution now. We are given a polygon of 13 sides. So the number of sides of the polygon is equal to 13. That is, we have n is equal to 13. Now from the key idea we have that the sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon of n sides is equal to 2n minus 4 right angles. Thus we can say sum of the interior angles of a polygon of 13 sides is equal to 2 into 13. That is in place of n, we put 13 minus 4 right angles. Or you can say this is equal to 26 minus 4 into 90 degree since one right angle is equal to 90 degree. This is equal to 22 into 90 degrees which comes out to be equal to 1980 degrees. Thus sum of the interior angles of a polygon of 13 sides is 1980 degrees. So 1980 degrees is our final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution of this question.


We're very, very lucky today to have this young woman here beside me. Mora is a professor of international security in Dublin City University, and she is a coordinator of something called Voxpaul, an EU funded project on violent online political extremism. And we were saying to her downstairs that of all days for her to be here after what has happened over the last three days with regard to the internet and what is being laboured as cybercrime. We are lucky that today we have her here and you may want to ask some. In my view, there are some quite simple questions I have to ask about these things because I don't understand them terribly well, you know, how they get in to do the things they do. But she has participated in main research on terrorism and the internet, academic and media discourses on cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremism online and violent online radicalism. She is really a major expert in this area and she's fascinating to listen to, I have to say in the short time that we had some time to talk downstairs. And what she's going to talk to us today about is the online strategy that's being used, the Islamic online strategy and the way it can grow and maybe contract and then come out again in a different form. So I know that the audience here looking around at it are all people who have a big interest in this and they will challenge you, I'd say, with some of their questions, but I know you'll be able to answer them. So yeah, like Nora said, I'm responsible for a project that's EU funded about violent online political extremism. Very often I guess people say terrorism and the internet. And that's what I'm going to talk about today, in fact. What I'm going to talk about is the so-called Islamic States online strategy. And in particular, I guess what I want to talk about first is, OK, what's what's the problem, if you like? So what's their purpose in terms of what they're doing online? And then I'll talk about I'm going to call them I.S. I'm going to call them Islamic State.  I'm going to say I.S. We can talk in the Q&A if anybody has questions or their own perspective on that. But yeah, so secondly, what I want to do is talk about so-called Islamic States. I.S. is online activity in particular at the kind of the height of their powers, if you like, in around 2014, 2015. And then I'll go on and I'll talk about what precisely they're up to now and what the state of play is right now as regards their online activity. And if I have some time, I also want to dig in a little bit into what's going on in terms of disruption of that online activity and say a few words about future trends. So in terms of what the problem is, well, we've done some work. Colleagues and I in Voxpal have done some work. We used both open source data on the one hand and some closed source data on the other hand, both of which analyses show that the internet, relatively unsurprisingly I think you'll agree, is playing a role in contemporary violent extremism and terrorism. And it's been playing an increasing role. So the more the internet becomes embedded in our everyday lives, the more the internet plays a role in just about everything that we do, including in the activities of violent extremists and terrorists. I think that's worth remembering, I think, in this regard, is that it's not just about what people term radicalisation. So I am going to focus today on radicalisation issues, but that's not the only function of the internet and social media in contemporary extremism and terrorism. So, for example, in our work, one of the things that we tried to do in our open source analysis was to disaggregate the various activities that people who were convicted of terrorism, what they had actually done online. And yes, some of them, the internet played a role in their radicalisation to greater or lesser extents, but for many of them they did other things online. For example, they did attack preparation online. They learned about different types of attacks online. They did sort of recon, if you like, online prior to attacks. So things that you might have had to do in a real-world setting previously, they just switched and used the internet for these purposes. But like I said, what I want to talk about today is Islamic State and really their sort of radicalisation content or their radicalisation activity on the internet. So this is this idea, the problem for policy makers and others, law enforcement, et cetera, is that many people believe that if you are exposed to a very large amount of violent extremist or terrorism content on the internet, and also if you begin to network around it and that kind of thing, that it is possible for people who do that, not everybody certainly, but for a small numbers of people who become really immersed in that scene to become violently radicalised as a result of that content consumption and that online networking around that content. And so for me, I guess I think that Islamic State, oh yes, certainly think that it's worth inputting fairly significant resources in terms of people and time and money into the production of this content, into encouraging its circulation, et cetera, and I guess the question would be, okay, why would they have done that? Well, they've probably done that because they have the feeling that it has good outcomes for them. In other words, that it is influencing to some people in ways that have worked to their advantage. And I think we can probably see that in terms of a couple of different things, number one, encouraging people from Europe and elsewhere in the Western world and indeed further a field to travel and to engage in the conflict in Iraq and Syria on their part for others to carry out attacks in their home countries or in third countries if they weren't in a position to travel. So the second thing that I wanted to talk about, like I said, is okay, so what precisely were they doing online in their heyday? And their online heyday I guess is around 2014, 2015. In June of 2014, they announced the establishment or in their terms, the re-establishment of their so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria. And that's when they begin to term themselves IS Islamic State. And at that time, like I say, they clearly had thought pretty long and hard about how they were going to use the internet in this endeavor. And what they began to do, like I say, 2014, at a high point in 2015, they were putting out a really high volume of content. So in mid 2015, it's been estimated that they were putting out somewhere between 800 and 1100 items of content a month. It was actually largely for people who are familiar with this, the photo montages. So that's the bulk of what they were putting out. But they would also produce a relatively large number of videos, monthly, also audio and also a whole variety of text content. So it was very high volume and it was diverse in terms of the types of content that was being produced and being disseminated. Also important is that it was being produced in multiple languages and it still is right up to the present time. The largest part of it is in Arabic language, but there's a whole multiplicity of other languages that are being used and that content is being produced in. So they produce official content in multiple languages and also you get fan communities online who translate a lot of this content into other more obscure languages. But their magazines, for example, that they produce and the one they're working on right now is called Rumiya, which is Rome in Arabic. It's been produced monthly since the end of 2016 and that's put out there not just in Arabic but in English, in Turkish, in Russian, in a host of other languages too. So it's high volume in 2014, 2015. It was very high volume. It was multiple languages and it was disseminated very widely by them across many different platforms. So they were never, despite what we might have, the idea that we might have obtained from media and whatnot, they were never just on Twitter or on Facebook or just reliant on the major social media platforms. They've always had a reliance and a multiplicity of different platforms. So, yes, the major platforms, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et cetera, but also a whole host of more obscure platforms. In particular, an important note for quite some time has been an upload, a content upload platform called Just Paste It. The Internet Archive is another preferred platform of theirs and really a whole host of other online spaces have been used by them. In media very often, their content has been described as slick. That's the most commonly used term to describe the content that's been produced by IS. And that's really because of its very professional appearance. A lot of it has really quite professional production values associated with it. And, in particular, some of the videos are quite impressive as these things go, if you like. I guess ones that are worth commenting upon, well, there's numerous videos in 2015 that contained aerial drone footage. There's also, if people are familiar with the Al-Qasasbe video, so that's the video where the Jordanian fighter pilot, who was called Al-Qasasbe, is burned to death. That video is 22 minutes long. It's interesting to watch. You can watch to about 18 minutes without seeing the burning. But the interesting thing about that is the really professional appearance of the graphics in that video and the story that they're seeking to tell through the video and the animated graphics, et cetera. Another interesting one to look at is the John Cantley series of videos. John Cantley is a British journalist who was kidnapped by Islamic State, is being held by them, as far as we know, right up to the present time. And he did a series of videos, I guess, for them in inverted commas, in which he appears to be reporting from Mosul, from Raqqa, from various places that were held by Islamic State at the time when the videos were made. And the interesting thing about those is he is using what you might call a sort of a BBC accent. He's speaking in his BBC accent and reporting precisely as if he was reporting for a major Western outlet, but on the part of IS. And that's probably an opportune time to say something that's quite important. So a lot of the content that's been produced by IS over time and including in their heyday in 2014-2015 is footage from the conflict, is footage related to terrorism, et cetera. However, a not inconsiderable amount of that content has no sort of violence component whatsoever. In fact, quite a lot of their content, even up to the present time, but certainly in 2014-2015, was focused on framing their activity as the building of a state, so as a state building project. Their so-called caliphate, so portraying their so-called caliphate as a utopian state for Muslims that Muslims from all around the world should travel to and where they would find a place that was welcoming, et cetera. And they put an awful lot of effort into portraying that in their online content. The other thing to say about a lot of the content in 2014-2015 was that it was clear from a lot of it that the people who were producing it were quite in tune with online youth cultures. So actually a lot of the footage used in videos or in sort of memes or what have you that were produced and circulated are drawn from major Western movies, Hollywood movies, for example, also from computer games. So in particular Call of Duty is something that was drawn on quite a lot. There's a lot of cat pictures, so we know that ultimately the internet is about cats, and they did a lot of cat pictures. So you would see these young fellas with guns or grenades or what have you and a kitten, and there's some well-known ones with bunny rabbits and little fawns and this kind of thing also. There's a lot of selfies that were produced and circulated by them. So very in tune with what was going on with young people, what was going on online, so kind of an online youth culture. Again, it's relatively unsurprising because what we're talking about of course is a bunch of young people who are in touch with online youth culture. And then I have to say that very important in 2014-2015, from a radicalization perspective I think, was that people who engaged online with IS, it was possible at that time for you relatively easily to be in touch with fighters on the ground in Iraq and Syria, actual members of IS. And for example, young people in the UK and in other European countries certainly had the opportunity to be in touch with, for example, some of the UK fighters, French youth with French fighters, some of the Dutch with Dutch fighters, et cetera. And I don't think that that can should be underestimated in terms again of that kind of influencing activity and what have you. So basically, excuse me, so basically what you had as a result of all of what I've just described is that in 2014-2015, they really did have a strong, vibrant online community, in particular on Twitter but also on other major social media platforms like Facebook and elsewhere. So all told what they had, what they provided for people who were interested, individual users who had an interest, was this quite immersive online experience? You could spend all your time if you wished at that point interacting with and around IS content, et cetera. So what was the purpose, I guess, of all of this or what were the outcomes? Well, like I said, really what a lot of this content did, so this very high volume that they spread very widely in multiple languages, et cetera, what did it do? Well, it glamourized the Syria conflict, certainly, especially I would say suicide attacks or the fight more generally. It also, like I said, a lot of that content was exalting the virtues of the Islamic State, indeed portraying it as a utopia for Muslims, especially those in the West and elsewhere. They did two things, I guess, in particular. They said, if you are in a position to travel to Syria to their so-called caliphate, well then it was absolutely your duty to do so. That was the first thing that they said, and this is the so-called foreign fighter phenomenon. We know that various people from various Western countries, in particular some European countries, took up this call and travelled to Syria and to Iraq to join IS. But they said, if you can't do that, well then carry out an attack on our behalf in your home country or in some third country, and we also know that this appears to have had an impact also. And they did provide online practical instructions on how to carry out both those activities. So there was quite a lot of instruction online in 2014, 2015 about how precisely you could travel to Syria to go to Turkey, how to cross the border, what to bring with you, et cetera, et cetera. And then there is also online, right up to the present time, instructions. So if you can't travel and you want to carry out an attack in your home or a third country, well then here are some ideas about what kinds of an attack you should carry out, what the targets could be, et cetera. So basically I would say that there are two things that were really, really important here. None of this could really happen or it certainly could not have the level of successfulness that it's had in terms of an online violence strategy, if you like, without the conflict context. So there is a horrendous conflict ongoing in Syria and Iraq, and that's absolutely crucial obviously to this, as is the setting up of the so-called caliphate. So they had something to sell, it was something very specific, it has tangibility, it's real. And that was their state or their caliphate. But the technology context is, I think, important because once upon a time in the absence of social media, you could certainly try and sell your caliphate or what have you, but I don't think you would have the same level of successfulness. So really what they did was, they provided for people who were interested this immersive online experience where like I already mentioned in 2014, 2015, maybe even after, it was possible for people to be drawn into this online world, this online IS world, and to become even major players in that world through your online activity, and some of those people then decided that they would actually take real world actions of different varieties as I've described. That was then, this is now. So things are somewhat different at the present time and there is a real world aspect to the difference and there is an online aspect to the difference. So number one in terms of the real world, IS are under pressure in the physical world at the present time. There's conflict raging, it's a very hot conflict right now in Iraq and in Syria. They need more people to fight because they are under significant pressure in those territories. They have also lost an enormous amount of territory that was once held by them. What that means is that they have much fewer safe spaces if you like in which to do their media activity and their online content production and what have you. But also, their social media operators and producers, particularly people high up within the media portions of the organization have been directly targeted. The most prominent person who was killed was a guy called Alad Nani who was killed at the very end of August in 2016, but other people have clearly been targeted before and after and it was because of their involvement in precisely in this media activity. Their cyber infrastructures were also targeted, so in addition to actually targeted assassinations, if you like, there was also targeting of their critical infrastructures in various hacking activity and whatnot. So what you do get is a fairly significant decline in output, it begins around July, August 2016 and Charlie Winter has surmised that by the end of 2017 they were down in any given month about 36%. So in February 2017 they produced approximately 570 items of content, but you'll recall in approximately June of 2015 they were up at around, let's call it, up 900 items or thereabouts. So that's the real world kicking in in terms of the supply side issues, right? The actual production of the content, but there's also disruption taking place online also. So Twitter in particular have really engaged at a very high level in terms of disrupting IS on their platform. So at one time it was perfectly possible to go on to Twitter and very easily and very quickly find very large amounts of IS fan accounts and IS propaganda and what have you. That's really no longer the case. What you're seeing here is findings from an analysis that shows that approximately 80% of IS related Twitter accounts are taken down within 100 days. Now that may sound long, but actually an awful lot of them are taken down an awful lot faster than that. And in fact many, many really explicitly IS accounts. So for example, those that are tweeting links to official IS propaganda will be taken down generally in minutes, hours or days, not weeks or months at the present time. And this has really seriously impacted the community that I talked about. So what you'll see there on the bottom of the screen is how many, what's the average number of followers at the present time for an IS Twitter account? 14. And here's to give you an idea. What's the average number of followers for other jihadi accounts? So we were doing a comparison in this research between IS fan accounts and other jihadi accounts. So for example, those belonging to the Taliban or al-Shabaab or Haithari or al-Sham who are al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. And you'll see that they're averaging a much higher number of followers even though they're under a small amount of disruption also. So like I said, what this basically means is that the community is gone, the community is all but gone from Twitter. And in particular the IS community is all but gone from Twitter. And an interesting way I think to illustrate this if you like is to show that, okay, on the left-hand side of your screen there what we're seeing is some typical screen names from 2014, 2015 and some typical avatar images, profile pictures that were used at that time. And for anybody who knew this scene, the IS online scene, this was a way to really easily and really quickly identify ideological fellow travellers online. These are really, really obvious signals to people who might have shared your views or what have you or to researchers obviously looking for data and whatnot. So the avatar images are of prominent people from within the Islamic State. So the one with the yellow background there for example is al-Baghdadi, the so-called Calaf. The third one over is al-Adnani, the media guy that I've been talking about. You see in the middle bottom there is the so-called IS flag, the black and white logo. And then the flag being held by green birds and green birds are often a symbol of martyrdoms associated with suicide attackers and that kind of thing. And then you see on the right of the screen what things look like right now. And basically what you have is these screen names that are meaningless. And these are generally screen names, a lot of them are sort of throwaway accounts that are just being used to throw URLs and links out there and leave them up for as long as possible, but generally only a really short time because Twitter delete these accounts really very fast. And then the avatar images again are the so-called Twitter egg or other very innocuous images. And you can't really maintain a community in the face of this level of disruption because you do need some way to signal to other people where you stand, et cetera. So the community is pretty much gone from Twitter at the present time. So where is the community now? Because it's not gone from the internet. This is an important thing to point out. So basically right now they're on Telegram. Probably nobody in the room, maybe some people here, but probably nobody in the room is familiar with Telegram. And so this is, yeah. This is an interesting one. So yeah, so Facebook I guess is about 2 billion users. Telegram has considerably less users. Having said that, they are growing all the time. It has considerably less users too than Twitter. It's growing and it's growing at quite a significant rate, but nonetheless it doesn't have the kind of, I guess brand awareness even that some of these other major social media outlets have. What it does have however is end-to-end encryption. And this is a thing that's very much focused upon in analyses, in media, et cetera. Also law enforcement agencies are quite concerned with this issue. And we can talk about this later, the role of direct messaging and so encrypted messaging, et cetera, in for example contemporary terrorist attacks in particular lone actor attacks. But one-on-one contacts don't work generally or wholly well for radicalization purposes. If you want to get your content out there really widely in order to influence or seek to influences as many people as possible, one-to-one contacts don't work. What you need is many-to-many or one-to-many contacts. And it is possible to do this on Telegram, but not as well as it was possible to do so on, for example, at Twitter, which is a much more public platform. Having said that, there are 5,000 member groups that is possible to join on Telegram. And it is very powerful in terms of you being able to upload very large files onto the platform itself, so into their cloud. When I said that Twitter was disrupting accounts, deleting accounts from their platform, it didn't only disrupt the Twitter sphere, as it were, it disrupted things much more widely because people generally link from Twitter to other online spaces because of the nature of Twitter. You only have 140 characters. So there will be a lot of linking from Twitter. And when Twitter deletes accounts, they're thereby deleting all the links to the other platforms. And the other platforms are often times content upload sites. They're not social media spaces per se. So you disrupt, if you see large parts of the network, when Twitter disrupts the accounts on Telegram, it's possible to upload all your content into their cloud. So unless Telegram deletes the actual groups and channels, the content stays there for the duration. Telegram are doing some disruption, so some deletion of accounts, but nothing to the extent of what Twitter and some of the other major social media platforms have been doing. Just in terms of finishing up, I guess, it's difficult to say where things are going here. And it's difficult to say for two reasons. Number one, things are very fast changing in the physical world around violent jihadism and the activities of IS in particular. But also the internet is a very, very fast changing realm. And so when you put those two things together, it's really a high level of difficulty to get it right, if you like, about what the future holds. I guess what I would say is two things. Number one is this. I do think that we will see a continuing role for these messaging applications, and that's for two reasons. Number one, they're increasingly used by all of us in the real world, thereby they will also be increasingly used by jihadis and other varieties of violent extremists. But also number two, we can see that they are being used for one-on-one contacts between, for example, IS operators, if you like, who are in Iraq and Syria and are using them to be in contact with people that they have on the ground in attacks, who are about to carry out attacks in various European countries and elsewhere. And then secondly, in terms of future trends, I've thought for some time that a live stream is a possibility. I think that live streaming, well, it's definitely the case, it's a fact that live streaming really took off in 2016. The use of Periscope, which is Twitter's live streaming capacity, and in particular, Facebook Live are things that really saw a massive increase. And in particular, are including in, if you like, various kind of violence events that took place, including large-scale violence events like the coup in Turkey, for example, and also small-scale violence events, so various sort of hate attacks and also, unfortunately, people committing suicide and this kind of thing. So all of those things have been live streamed in 2016 and 2017. There is some likelihood, I think, that some violent extremist or terrorist attack is likely to be live streamed at some point. And again, it just goes back to my point about, you know, violent extremists and terrorists, a lot of them are young people, they've grown up with the internet, they use the internet in similar ways to how other people use the internet, but in this particular violent extremism and terrorism context, we see a shift to social media on the part of IS and others because social media came to be the place to be, the place where or how you would do the internet. We see a shift to messaging apps for the same reason. So these are structural factors, if you like. And so for that reason, I think live streaming, if it continues to take off and to build in the way that it has, is likely to be used. We can talk about that maybe in some more detail in the Q&A if people are interested in that. But those are the, I guess, the kind of things that we're talking about now. So if I was finishing up right now, I guess what I would say is this, that IS had their high point to date in terms of their online activity, probably in 2014, at 2015. They are under pressure now in the real world and in an online setting. With regard to online in particular, they're being disrupted by the major social media companies to a very considerable extent. They also have let, they're producing less content, so there's less content in circulation. If you're somebody who believes that accessing this content, consuming this content and networking around this content can be influencing and can cause young people in particular to become violently radicalized, well then the downturn in terms of production and the disruption by the social media companies is a positive thing. But they haven't given up. They know that their online activity had impacts in terms of their real world settings. And so while their community is gone from Twitter and from some other major social media platforms, what they are doing right now is sort of casting round for other lower level, more obscure online spaces and beginning to use those. So and there's always the possibility that they can sort of erupt online in some specific setting, like around some specific attack or what have you with a live stream or something similar. I'll leave it there.


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