307: I Hate Smishing

A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organized crime ring and the other vulnerable everyday infrastructure. Then we move on to a recent blog post by one of iRobot's founders, in which he expresses extreme wariness about the safety of humans interacting with humanoid robots. Lastly, with only a week and change to go until Windows 10 EOL, we look at Valve's ending support for the 32-bit Steam client (and the end of 32-bit Windows in general) and some predictions for how things might go when the deadline comes... assuming Microsoft doesn't blink at the last minute. ‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say | WIRED That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this - Ars Technica Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - Ars Technica Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades - Ars Technica Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod…