As the big tech firms respond to the latest Wikileaks Revelations well be getting the inside track on all the biggest tech stories of the week with our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. Theres a report in the times in london that fewer people are taking time off sick from work because they frightened for their jobs. We want to know whether you have hauled yourself in as sick as a dog for fear of the sack. Just use bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in detroit in the usa where in a few hours time volkswagen is due to plead guilty to charges of fraud and Obstruction Ofjustice by cheating diesel emissions tests. The formal plea will draw a line under the us side of the scandal following a plea bargain reached in january. But its far from over. Vw has admitted 11 million vehicles worldwide had software installed to beat Regulators Checks on emissions. In some cases they were up to a0 times higher than the us legal limit. So far thats led to around 20 billion in settle
This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right . So that was the mechanism. Each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. A different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. That was how they started out. But then in 1961, ibm changed all of that. Ibm invented a whole new kind of elect
american apps first and deal with tiktok. we came to an agreement on our couch, we can do both and maybe start with tiktok, i m down with that. let s not pretend our government wasn ts censuring and doing information or disinformation campaign during covid and so forth. it is interesting, ban tiktok, what about our will: you can do both. you can acknowledge and you and i give credit to aoc for acknowledging data collection at large, especially by facebook and google. also saying, which aoc negligented to do, tiktok spying device. one takes leadership seriously and has plan for war fare influencing our youths, calculated racial division for the united states of america,
pentagon have a schedule meeting, i expect this will be the top of the agenda for reporters there. clearly the americans believed it was some sort of spying device, although they downplayed its significance in terms of. it s not much of his secret device if you can see from the ground, but they downplayed its effectiveness and risk to aircraft etc, and they chose not to pop it, not to shoot it down, because they were worried that it might full and people on the ground in montana. we will see what the official response is, but i suspect this may be a decent way out for both sides, because it in some way reduces the embarrassment to the americans of allowing a spy blue to drift over
their official phones and contractors as well as a president obama sits on the ground with tiktok influencers trying to get them to vote democrat and senator warner and people like governor noem are saying get rid of tiktok, it is a spying device for the chinese communist party. steve: but it is brilliant because if you watch the content it is sometimes hilarious and it s very addictive. that is the problem. it s great content. steve: with content you would think with instagram someone out there would come up and try to mirror it just so we can get rid of it because we would rather not have. ainsley: they will come and give it time it will happen. brian: in the meantime do you take it off now? that s where trump was heading. you decide it s done, it s not in our natural interest to allows that. ainsley: i haven t downloaded it. steve: more on social media and throw the fox and meantime a fox weather alert you have to hear about we are hearing about