Sloan says she did not know about the Boston bombing because she was on her Bloomberg terminal. Bloomberg News ran bright red headlines about the bombing that went across all terminal functions to alert all users.
Neal Sampat is contacted by a mysterious source who asks for his encryption key. The decrypted message asks Neal to set up a much higher level of encryption; one that could potentially be used to thwart government surveillance of the Internet. Later Neal cites the need of an "air gapped computer" to read a flash drive on. Will McAvoy then hands Neal his credit card and tells him to "go buy an air gapped computer." The air gap actually only applies to networking (or lack thereof), not an actual computer. The term refers to putting a literal gap between a computer and a data network, and is the most straightforward way to protect any computer or other digital device from network eavesdropping or attack. There are secure networking schemes that are considered to be "air-gapped" in the logical, not literal sense. However since Neal's source is using a dead drop to deliver the data, no networking is necessary in this case. The inference was that Neal needed some special decryption technology, but in reality any computer would do.
Sloane tells Reese: "You went to Wharton, Reese. Wake the fuck up!" However, in Season 2, Leona, Reese's mother, tells Reese's date (a Rockette) that Reese has an MBA from Harvard.
-- Edit/Criticism: This demonstrates a possible inconsistency in the plot but not a necessary one. Though Wharton is known for its MBA program, the school offers a bachelor's degree Reese may have acquired before earning his MBA at Harvard. Wharton offers a variety of concentrations within this undergraduate curriculum, the majority of which focus on business, or business adjacent, fields. So the plot allows for potential conditions under which Sloan's reference to Wharton retains both relevance and accuracy in this given context.
Characters keep mispronouncing Watertown "Waterton."