Podcast 305

• News Item: Online privacy bill easily passed by U.S. House panel
• News Item: Microsoft will start banning players from all private Minecraft servers
• News Item: Microsoft prepares to forget about Windows 8.1 with end of support notifications
• News Item: Intel Delays Groundbreaking Ceremony for Ohio Plant Amid Uncertainty Over Chips Legislation
• News Item: The Open Secret of Google Search
• News Item: Meta and Microsoft team up to create metaverse standards; Apple, Google sit out
• News Item: The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade
• News Item: As China shuts out the world, internet access from abroad gets harder too