Chris and Ian discuss Hacks, Web 3, Meta and Halo

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Shownotes * Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK * Six million Sky routers had serious security flaw * Facebook and Instagram encryption plans delayed by Meta until 2023 * Apple files lawsuit against NSO Group over Pegasus spyware * Recently uncovered software flaw ‘most critical vulnerability of the last decade’ * Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law * UK competition watchdog orders Meta to sell Giphy * Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action * Beginning next year, Apple will send you parts and tools to fix your iPhone and Mac at home * Jack steps down from Twitter CEO role * Square is changing its name to Block * Kickstarter plans to move its crowdfunding platform to the blockchain * Microsoft Xbox boss Phil Spencer tells staff he’s ‘deeply troubled’ by Activision Blizzard * Meta releases social VR space Horizon Worlds * Xbox’s 20th Anniversary museum is a metaverse full of achievements and mistakes