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Today we’re sharing an episode of The Hustle Daily Show — a daily dose of irreverent, offbeat, and informative takes on business & tech news.
In this episode, they take a look at how getting stuff for “free” affects consumer behavior.
Why do we care so much when a crummy t-shirt gets shot out of a cannon at a sporting event? It's all about the power of "free," a price point that makes us feel high and act so irrationally that we forget that even free stuff comes with a cost.
And to really get at the heart of the story here, Hustle writers Zachary Crockett and Mark Dent focus on 3 wildly different areas: free grocery store samples, free shipping, and free online content.
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In America the trains never seem to run on time. On February 3, a train crashed in East Palestine, Ohio releasing toxic chemicals into the air. Almost a month later, another train owned by the same company also derailed in Ohio. That’s not all. Trains in Charlotte are running slower than they should. NYC can’t fit trains into its new station. The list goes on and on.
What the hell is going on with mass transit in America?
If you’re a long time Cyber listener, you might already know some of the answers to this question. That’s thanks to returning champion, Motherboard senior writer Aaron Gordon.
Stories discussed in this episode:
East Palestine Derailment ‘Foreseeable and Preventable,’ Ohio Attorney General Lawsuit Alleges
24 Hours of News Shows America's Transportation Hellscape
The Worst Transit Project in the U.S. Is Officially Dead
Boston's Subway Was Running at Half Speed Because It Lost Paperwork
‘We Had All the Issues That Town Has:’ East Palestine Is Not the First or Last Derailment Disaster
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Collapse. It’s the word on everybody’s lips. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature are no more. The banks, folks, they’ve collapsed. But don’t worry, these aren’t your typical banks. SVB and Signature were not the kinds of places working class folks were holding checking accounts. These were massive institutions that propped up America’s ailing tech sector. If you’ve been hustled by an NFT startup in the past year, there’s a good chance it had deposits at SVB.
But now they’re gone and, after some panic, it looks like America’s blessed institutions are working as intended. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is gonna clean all this up. But should they?
On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard Managing Editor Jordan Pearson sits down to answer the question.
Stories discussed in this episode:
How Silicon Valley's Bank Imploded
Are Failing Banks About to Destroy the Economy?
OK, WTF Is Up With the Government Bailing Out the Tech Industry?
WSJ Wonders: Did Silicon Valley Bank Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?
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It’s Cipher time, baby. It’s that infrequent style of Cyber we do where we decipher Motherboard’s tech coverage in a potpourri for the panopticon age. 
On today’s episode we’ve got a little bit of everything. A popular hiking app reveals that, once again, we just can’t trust private companies with our data. But what about our passwords? Surely a company that bills itself as a secure way to remember all those logins is secure right? Nope! Also, Twitter ditches Tor and, just for fun, another wonderful story about cheating in online video games.
Motherboard’s own Joseph Cox is here to walk us through all of it.
Stories discussed in this episode:
AllTrails Data Exposes Precise Movements of Former Top Biden Official
Twitter’s Most Important Anti-Censorship Tool Is Currently Dead
‘Escape From Tarkov’ Roiled By Severe Cheating Accusations
LastPass Shouldn't Be Trusted With Your Passwords
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On February 4, 2023, an F-22 fighter jet committed the first air to air kill in the weapons history. It was an alleged Chinese spy balloon near Myrtle Beach. In the days that followed the F-22 would score another kill, this time against a mysterious floating object above the Yukon.
But this second object hadn’t come from China. Hobbyists, in fact, think it might be one of their balloons. Across the world there is a small but dedicated group of people who love launching tiny balloons into the sky.
It’s been a weird month for the community. What with the fighter jets patrolling the sky and constant reports of UFOs. On this week’s Cyber, Motherboard reporter Becky Ferreria stops by to talk about the amateur balloonists who lived through the great balloon panic of 2023.
Stories discussed in this episode:
'Unfortunate and Amusing': Balloon Enthusiasts Undeterred by U.S. Air Force Shootdowns
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YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are awash in people reacting to horrifying videos. 2 girls 1 cup, Tubgirl, Goatse, and websites like Ogrish.com shaped the modern internet. Appropriating and sharing these horrifying images and videos was a big part of what people did during the early days of the web.
But why? And how do these shocking viral sensations translate onto the modern and sanitized web? This week on Cyber, Blake Hester stops by to walk us through it all.
Stories discussed in this episode:
How Shock Sites Shaped the Internet
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