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Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms.

Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage
Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact
Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas
Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power
Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks
OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community
AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems
Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers
White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals
AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race
Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup
Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions
Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply
OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device
Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses
Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue
UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court
License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism
U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens
Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs
Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit
NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon

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From foldable phones that out-price laptops to AI models that escape their digital cages, this episode dives into the wild next phase of tech innovation and its unexpected risks. See how the giants are scrambling to keep up as hardware, software, and even outer space are up for grabs.

Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple's Q3 2026 earnings call
Apple's Profit Is Up 27%, but Expectations for Current Quarter Disappoint
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
Apple struggles to keep pace with AI 'bug' hunters
"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History
Amazon's trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show
For the First Time, Zoox Can Charge People for Rides in Its Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Teaming Up in Washington
AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices
NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers
Inside the Luxury Robotaxi Uber, Lucid and Nuro Are Testing

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti and Mike Elgan

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Leo and this week's panel pay tribute to tech journalist John C. Dvorak, then dive into how AI, relentless hardware shortages, and shifting media habits are reshaping the tech world faster than anyone predicted. The crew discusses how an OpenAI model exploited its own network to cheat on cybersecurity benchmarks, flipping the script on what AI agents are capable of and what might be next for digital security.

John C. Dvorak has died
OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
China's Top AI Event Delivers Message to the U.S.: We're Coming for You
Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search
The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store
A.I. 'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding Apple's App Store
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
Government Lawyers Say Trump Admin Can Use TikTok Again Because 'Owned' No Longer Means 'Owned'
Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in a win for US states
The AI industry has already spent $65 million ahead of the midterm elections with no signs of slowing down.
Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launches as Samsung's 'most advanced' foldable, starts at $2,099
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Kill the Cookie Banner!

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What happens when China drops open-weight AI models that rival Silicon Valley's best? This episode unpacks how a new wave of international AI releases is shaking up business, policy, and the future of innovation.

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Claude on X: "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to"
China's Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America's Lead
Alibaba's Qwen Unveils Preview of Flagship AI Model
Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe
The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
Meta Is Flooding the Market With Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms.
Federal employees can download TikTok on government devices, DOJ says
Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
MLB cracks down on using AI via dugout iPads to help shape in-game decisions
White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says
New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers

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Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, sparking a heated debate about AI, hardware ambitions, and Silicon Valley's shifting alliances. Leo, Wesley, Lou, and Patrick tackle what Apple's legal gambit could mean for OpenAI's IPO and the future of AI development.

Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Blockbuster Case
Apple's OpenAI lawsuit highlights broader tensions
Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
Claude Fable 5 promotional access
Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial
Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash
Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment
Meta Ordered by E.U. to Alter 'Addictive Design' of Instagram and Facebook
The backlash against Sony ditching PlayStation discs is not slowing down
Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups
Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns
Waymo says some of its robotaxis ran out of power during San Francisco's July 4 gridlock and had to be towed
Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again
Copy That Floppy! - Copy That Floppy!

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Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Louis Maresca, and Patrick Beja

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A landmark Supreme Court decision shakes up digital privacy, setting new limits on police surveillance and potentially redefining personal data rights in the age of AI and location tracking. Plus, Chinese AI models are rapidly gaining ground while American companies battle lawsuits, regulatory crackdowns, and soaring chip shortages. The global race for AI dominance is wide open!

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC
The World Cup added $1 billion in security systems. What happens after the games end?
U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive
Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages
Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock
Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones
BYD Sells the Most Battery Electric Cars Again
NASA mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory has launched
NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
Spotify deletes streams of chart-topping song after suspicious Kalshi bets
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

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Tech giants and chipmakers are facing off as AI-fueled memory shortages trigger sweeping price hikes on everything from Macs to game consoles. Hear why global supply chain standoffs, long-term contracts, and old-school market forces are quietly reshaping your daily technology.

Apple and Microsoft hike prices on devices amid global memory shortages
Surge in AI data centers drives RAM and storage crisis
Intel's comeback: Core Ultra chips compete with AMD in handheld gaming
Microsoft's pivot to ARM, Qualcomm-NVIDIA alliance, and x86 rivalry
AI fear and backlash; organic concern amplified by international actors
White House abruptly pulls Anthropic's Fable model, sparking industry uproar
US government U-turns on AI regulation, restricts top models to select partners
Tension over AI innovation vs. regulatory "rug pull" and global competition
Smart home chaos: Matter 1.6 standard, Samsung and Level Lock shake-up
Debate over local vs. cloud smart home control and API access fees
Ring and Flock cameras ignite privacy and surveillance state concerns
Social media bans for under-16s fail in Australia, UK, and Norway plan similar rules
BBC Radio 4 long wave broadcast ends after a century
Meta gets caught tracking employees for AI; PlayStation deletes owned movies
US regulators propose removing brake pedals from Robotaxis
Ford's automated systems flop, company rehiring engineers
Farewell to tech journalist and GigaOm founder Om Malik

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AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.

Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed
The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer
Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices
The AI IPO boom is different
Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire
Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

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Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Doc Rock

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The US government abruptly forced Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI model offline after fears it was simply too powerful to be safe. Hear the real story behind the sudden shutdown that rocked the tech world—and what it reveals about the uneasy alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley.

Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model release sparks cybersecurity and jailbreak concerns
White House pressures Anthropic to withdraw Fable amid security fears
Debate over government intervention, model regulation, and Anthropic's IPO timing
SpaceX IPO rockets to record-breaking $1.77 trillion valuation
Apple unveils revamped Siri and Apple Intelligence at WWDC
Apple's new child safety and parental controls in iOS
OpenAI and Anthropic plot IPOs, face economic realities of AI industry
Supply chain attacks hit Arch Linux packages, security risks highlighted
Spotify battles surge of fake podcasts promoting illegal drugs
German court rules Google AI overviews legally liable for inaccuracies
FCC pursues crackdown on anonymous burner phones, raising privacy alarms
North Korean hackers' massive infiltration of US tech sector exposed
iFixit teardown reveals Trump Phone is just a rebadged HTC U24 Pro
Smartphone and internet access linked to declining US birth rates
Skydance-Paramount merger approved as Warner Bros seeks next mega deal
Roku seeks buyer, raising questions about future streaming platforms

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An astronomical amount of money is being poured into AI and data centers as tech giants fight for dominance, but is this fueling the next big tech bubble or just the price of staying in the game? Get the panel's opinions on wild IPO valuations, global power grabs, Build 2026, NVIDIA GTC Taipei, and even successful YouTuber movies!

SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price
Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O'Leary data center plan
When AI builds itself
NVIDIA announces RTX Spark as 'the most efficient PC chip ever built'
Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2026: iOS 27, New Siri and AI
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"
Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers
Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar
YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world

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Guests: Joey de Villa, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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As AI-generated clip content upends trust and creativity, this week's panel members join forces to unravel whether we're facing a cultural disaster or just the next leap forward (and what anyone online needs to watch out for next). Is the world ready for AI-generated video slop flooding the internet, legal headaches over deepfakes, and million-dollar tech maneuvering?

Sora 2 is here
We need to stop the slop of OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes AI video apps before it's too late
Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
One in five Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
YouTube Bends the Knee
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'
How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down
ByteDance to Maintain Control Of TikTok's U.S. Advertising, E-Commerce
German government must reject chat control
Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Swiss voters back electronic identity cards in close vote
Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry
Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships

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With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.

Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).
Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ever pay off?.
Jensen Huang: "We're already seeing trillion-dollar AI investments".
How Anthropic and OpenAI are developing AI 'co-workers'.
OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs.
Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop.
Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership.
Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over allegations it misled Prime users.
Is GenZ unemployable?
Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs.
AI startup friend bets on foes with $1M NYC subway campaign.
Peter Thiel wants everyone to think more about the Antichrist.
Apple builds a ChatGPT-like App to help test the revamped Siri.

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Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Windows 10 EOL coming soon
Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
Ig Winners

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iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote
Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
What to expect from Meta Connect
SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package
Gen Z protests in Nepal, sparked by a social media ban, have killed nearly 2 dozen and injured hundreds. Here's what to know
Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they're coming for your time and money
Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age
Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case
Geek News Central Mourns the Loss of Todd Cochrane

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Google walks away from another monopoly ruling with barely a scratch, while tech giants gather at the White House to praise a president who holds their futures in the balance. Inside, our panel questions whether "playing the game on the field" is killing tech innovation and U.S. privacy for good.

Google avoids harshest penalties in landmark search monopoly ruling
Google fined $3.5 billion by EU over ad-tech business
Probe finds Houston police using surveillance tool like a search engine
iPhone 17 specifications leak, 'Air' model rumors, and what to expect at Apple's Awe Dropping' event
Instagram coming to iPad after 15 years
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright claims
Apple accused of training AI models on pirated books
Trump hosts tech CEOs at first event in newly renovated Rose Garden
Postal traffic to the US down over 80% amid tariffs, UN says
Satellite companies like SpaceX ignore astronomers' calls to save the night sky
Microsoft says Azure service affected by damaged Red Sea cables
Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook poke after 21 years
Fake celebrity chatbots send risqué messages to teens on top AI app
First brain-wide map of decision-making charted in mice
NVIDIA's sale-and-leaseback chip schemes raise questions about AI bubble
Tesla changes meaning of 'full self-driving' and gives up on autonomy promise
Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million
Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement in major legal battle

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Cloudflare's latest moves to police who can access the internet and governments' push for age verification set off alarms for the future of the open web, as panelists debate the hidden costs of centralization and regulation.

Microsoft fires four workers for on-site protests over company's ties to Israel
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water
Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue
FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification law
UK's Online Safety Act censors the internet — a preview of US proposal
Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen user
Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its service
UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously though
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback
FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The web does not need gatekeepers
Intel warns a US equity stake could trigger "adverse reactions"
US firms are racing through a $1 trillion buyback spree in record time
Microsoft reveals two in-house AI models
Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
A rule exempting small packages from tariffs is ending today
Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops
Germany fines economist Thomas Vierhaus €16,100 for sarcastic X posts
Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers' identities
South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms

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You should buy a faster CPU
The Trump-Intel deal is official
Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban
Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief
Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft
Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years
Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri
Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law
4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
Sports streaming enters a bold new era
Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling
T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'
Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome
Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet
New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series
German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers
Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision
More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

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Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform
Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower
Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays
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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake
Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale
PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X
Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

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A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.
Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'
AI Capex is Eating the Economy
Will data centers crash the economy?
What content strategy looks like in the age of AI
Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout
Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

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SCOTUS Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May
SCOTUS granting cert to Cox v. Sony
Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright case
Kadrey v. Meta AI copyright case
Microsoft layoffs hit 9,000 employees in new wave of cuts
Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban
Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams
Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's Starlink Adds $750 Congestion Charge
Mystery recall of iPhone engineers may be Chinese interference in Apple's plans

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The panel discusses the current gaming environment
More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad
Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions
Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI
Android phones could soon warn you of "Stingrays" snooping on your communications
Tesla Ordered to Stop 'Deceptive Practices' on Cars' Self-Driving Capabilities in France or Face Thousands in Fines
Trump's 'big beautiful bill' could mean slower Wi-Fi for you
Future of States' AI Laws Hinges on Senate Rules for Tax Bill
The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It's So Much Worse

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Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans' top news source
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time
The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer's Notebook Are a Failure of Congress
40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet
Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
WhatsApp's rollout of ads will change the app forever
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg

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Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow
Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete
Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization
IBM aims to build the world's first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe
Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent
YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024
God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro
Army reserve tech executives meta palantir
Nintendo Switch 2 Is Fastest-Selling Game Console of All Time - Slashdot
An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
Anker recalls 1.1 million power banks due to fire hazard risk
Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns
Bald eagle live cam update: Babies are leaving nest. What's next?

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Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back
Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data
The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots - Slashdot
Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules
Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design - Slashdot
Ending USB-C® Port Confusion
Walmart to Expand Wing Drone Deliveries to 100 Stores
Nintendo Switch 2 Has Record-Breaking Launch, Selling Over 3 Million Units - Slashdot
Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You're Not Copyrightable After All
California county accused of using drones to spy on residents

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YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
Trump makes a last-minute backtrack on his pick to lead NASA
Xbox co-founder J Allard is working on 'breakthrough' devices at Amazon
GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot
Using technology may sharpen aging brains, not harm them
We Bought a 'Peeing' Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It Was Even Weirder Than Expected
Humanoid Robots for $3000, Hugging Face

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In this jam-packed episode celebrating Towel Day, the TWiT crew dives into Apple's terrible week with Trump's tariff threats, Google and Microsoft's latest AI advances, the death of CAPTCHAs, and some wild new tech including laser-powered smart homes and sock-picking robot vacuums.

Trump's Phone Tariff Ultimatum - President threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones and Samsung devices unless manufacturing moves to the US, putting Apple in an impossible position between economics and politics
The Sock-Stealing Robot Revolution - Jennifer tests a $2,600 Roborock vacuum with an arm that picks up socks and occasionally tries to grab cats
Microsoft's AI Science Breakthrough - Microsoft Build showcases agentic AI platform that helped create new coolant liquids by analyzing scientific journals and generating novel molecular compounds
Windows Goes Agentic - Microsoft announces MCP protocol integration into Windows, raising both excitement about AI capabilities and concerns about data security
Gaming Industry Consolidation - FTC finally drops its challenge to Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition after three years of failed legal battles
Meta's Monopoly Defense Strategy - Company argues that Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were beneficial rather than anti-competitive, as antitrust trial concludes
Google's Hyper-Realistic AI Videos - Veo 3 generates convincing fake videos that blur the line between reality and AI creation, raising concerns about misinformation
Revenge Porn Legislation Concerns - New "Take It Down" Act passes with bipartisan support but raises censorship worries about its 48-hour removal requirements
Smart Glasses Make a Comeback - Google announces Android XR partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, signaling the return of consumer AR eyewear
The $6.5 Billion AI Hardware Gamble - OpenAI's record-breaking acquisition of Jony Ive's design firm sparks debate about whether AI needs dedicated hardware devices
Amazon's Smart Speaker Surveillance - Investigation reveals how much personal data Echo devices collect and store, highlighting the privacy costs of convenient AI assistants
The Death of CAPTCHAs - AI now solves visual puzzles better than humans, making traditional bot-detection methods obsolete and forcing a rethink of online security
America Abandons the Penny - The US will stop minting pennies due to production costs exceeding face value, ending a century-old currency tradition
Air Traffic Control Crisis Exposed - Newark Airport's radar failures reveal America's dangerously outdated aviation infrastructure held together by 1990s technology and hope
Fortnite's App Store Victory - Epic Games successfully returns to iOS after Apple quickly capitulates under legal pressure, ending years of bitter disputes
Brain-Computer Interface Competition - Valve's Gabe Newell announces Neuralink competitor, expanding the race to connect human brains directly to computers
Infrared Contact Lenses Enable Night Vision - Researchers develop contacts that let wearers see heat signatures even with eyes closed, promising superhuman vision capabilities
23andMe's Genetic Data Gold Rush - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals acquires the DNA testing company for $256 million, raising questions about genetic privacy and
Stolen

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GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation
Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust
Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI
How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away
25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince
Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad
Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI
Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores
Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store
Nextcloud accuses Google of "Big Tech gatekeeping" over Android app permissions
Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era
Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table
Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair
They're just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

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Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals
Proposed Amicus Brief – #1300, Att. #1 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC (D.D.C., 1:20-cv-03010) – CourtListener.com
Eddy Cue Causes a Stir for Google
DOJ pushes for Google to sell its advertising platforms
Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission
What Stacey has been doing
Attorney General Bailey Files Groundbreaking Rule to End Big Tech's Censorship Monopoly and Protect Online Free Speech
DOGE bro Kyle Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk
Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - Slashdot
How AI Demand Is Draining Local Water Supplies
Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and other big names are mostly off the hook from the FTX fallout
FTC Bans Hidden Fees For Live Events and Short-Term Rentals - Slashdot
The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule
20 years to give away virtually all my wealth | Bill Gates
Mexico is suing Google over 'Gulf of America' name change for US users
Switzerland To Hold Referendum on Introducing Electronic ID

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Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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Apple launched the iPod 23 years ago, and changed the world
Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops
How the 2024 US presidential election will determine tech's future
Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Tim Cook and other tech leaders congratulate Trump on election win
AI didn't sway the election, but it deepened the partisan divide
YouTube dominated Election Day as viewers guzzled 84 million hours of presidential news
The other election night winner: Perplexity
Dogecoin and other memecoins surge as Trump wins presidential election
Detroit to Accept Crypto for Tax Payments in Bid to Spur Tech Innovation, Fuel Economic Growth
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
OpenAI acquired Chat.com
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
Roblox is banning kids from 'social hangout' spaces
Reddit Passes Snap
Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue

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The panel discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections to the tech industry
Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
Why do we keep changing our clocks?
ChatGPT Search
Online political ads--we're almost done!
Elon Musk Wants You to Think This Election's Being Stolen
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine
Digital ad market booms for Big Tech

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Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing

Foreign Election Interference
North Korean hackers and bitcoin
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
Delta actually sues Crowdstrike
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user's mouse cursor
Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro
Kroger and Walmart Deny 'Surge Pricing' After Adopting Digital Price Tags
Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead
Musk steers X disputes to conservative Texas courts in service terms update

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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling 'is dangerous'
Canceling subscriptions is about to get easier
The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist
Wyden: CALEA Hack Proves Dangers Of Government-Mandated Backdoors
Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
X Will Soon Let Users See Tweets From People Who Block Them
People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4 mln cars after fatal crash
French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites
Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
Amazon debuts next-gen family of Kindle devices: First color model, fastest and lightest Paperwhite ever
Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
Netflix third-quarter subscribers barely beat estimates as ad-tier members jump 35%

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Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot
The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
How to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or Pixel
US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case
Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs
More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
A Whole Bunch Of States File Garbage Grandstanding Lawsuits Against TikTok With The Main
Complaint Being 'Kids Like It'
Two Scientists Share Physics Nobel for Machine Learning
Three Scientists Get Chemistry Nobel for Research Into Proteins
This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again
How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
A closer look at Nintendo's adorable Alarmo alarm clock
Samsung is turning your Galaxy phone into a smart door key

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On this 1000th episode of TWiT, Leo has his old pals Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, and David Prager on the show to reminisce about the TechTV days, discuss the future of AI, and get caught up on each other's lives.

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CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

Sam Altman's AI Manifesto
News from Meta Connect
Gavin Newsom vetoes sweeping AI safety bill, siding with Silicon Valley
The Panel discusses CoPilot
The Panel debates AGI
James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm
SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against 'League of Legends'
Rabbit says only 5,000 people use the R1 daily
Orion: True AR Glasses Have Arrived
AI smackdown: How a new FTC ruling just protected the free press
DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
Firefox Review Checker - Ensure review authenticity in your online shopping
New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations
The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms
NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
Some Mad Genius Put ChatGPT on a TI-84 Graphing Calculator
23andMe troubles, company recently settled data insecurity suit for $30 mil

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Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down

Discussion of the iPhone 16
Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
Bluesky tops 10 million users
Newsom signs California bill to limit 'addictive' social media feeds for kids
The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley
Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI
Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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iPhone Event, $700 PS5, AI in AU

Of course: Everything Apple announced at the iPhone 16 event
VR vs AR
Taylor Swift endorses Harris/Walz, mentions AI imagery pushed her to be public
No, Kamala Harris wasn't wearing earing headphones, and those things barely even exist
PS5 Pro is real and crazy expensive at $700
Meta admits to scraping every Australian's account to train its AI, with no opt out
Australia's PM wants to ban social media for kids, potentially those between 14-16
What is AI best at now? Improving products you already own
Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully complete the first private spacewalk
'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Flappy Bird vs Flappy Bird creator
Microsoft wants to remove low-level access
Mark Zuckerberg is done apologizing
Prius sets 93MPG Coast-Coast Record
Italian Retro Video Game Pirates!
Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a lot of fun!
Hot Ones coming to Netflix?

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Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator
Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs
Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder's arrest
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
FBI busts musician's elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
PwC tells employees it will use location data to police 'back-to-office' rule
Apple's planned chatbot should have no 'personality'
The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly.
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

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AnandTech Shuts Down, Brazil Bans X, Alexa Revamp

Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App
Telegram founder Pavel Durov transferred from police custody to court after arrest in France
Brazil judge orders suspension of Elon Musk's X
Elon Musk, Tesla (TSLA) Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin 'Pyramid Scheme'
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
Oprah, Sam Altman, and MKBHD walk into a TV show about AI and it's not a joke
Court orders a new hearing for Adnan Syed in 'Serial' case. Here's what to know
Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI
China's AI Engineers Are Secretly Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips
'Seeking Mavis Beacon' Review: A Search for a Black Luminary

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Pavel Durov Arrested, Hacking Bikes, Apple Event Rumors

Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
Elon Musk to the Rescue
Tesla purging old blog posts claiming all cars have level 5 automated driving hardware
National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security
Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster -
Olympics talk
Black Myth: Wukong Makes Gaming History in Launch Day Frenzy
Bicycles Can Be Hacked Now
American Radio Relay League confirms $1 million ransom payment
When Is Apple Announcing the iPhone 16? Apple Planning Event on Sept. 10, 2024
Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case

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Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers
Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
The English Premier League Will Ditch Its Hated VAR Offside Tech for a Fleet of iPhones
Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL: Satellite SOS, Android 14, $999 start price
Google Team Pixel "reviews" controversy
DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win - Bloomberg
Dell announces second massive set of layoffs to employees
The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here
News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it
Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You
Apple (AAPL) Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics
Pelosi Statement in Opposition to California Senate Bill 1047
NVIDIA, OpenAI face YouTube creator lawsuits for using online videos
xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink's mobile plan
Consumers spent $3.8B on mobile entertainment apps in Q1
Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo
Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11

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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies after 2 years with lung cancer
Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers
Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney'
Brands should avoid this popular term. It's turning off customers
US court blocks Biden administration net neutrality rules
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
Judge tosses challenge to Louisiana's age verification law aimed at porn websites
CNET to Be Sold to Ziff Davis in Sign of Possible Media Deals to Come
Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors
Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta's ban: study
Microsoft's AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann's Mayonnaise

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Existential thoughts about Apple services revenue.
Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors.
Intel plans to lay off 15% of workforce -- at least 15,000 people.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cuts stake in Apple by nearly 50%.
Amazon paid almost $1 billion for Twitch in 2014. It's still losing money.
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled.
Artist and musician sue SEC over its NFT regulatory jurisdiction.
Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act.
Ding dong KOSA's dead (for now).
A senate bill would radically improve voting machine security.
Jailed cybercriminals returned to Russia in historic prisoner swap.
US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules.
Posing as 'Alicia,' this man scammed hundreds online. He was also a victim.
Broadcasters fly in TikTokers and YouTubers to generate Olympic buzz.
Disney, Fox and Warner Sports streamer Venu to launch at $42.99/ Month.
Don Lemon sues Elon Musk over canceled X deal.
Meta talks With Judi Dench, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key for AI voice projects.
Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney.'

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CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft's Antitrust Problems
Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
An AI-built vegan cheese went viral. Here's what happened next
AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Russia Throttles YouTube Access in Latest Attack on US Social Media (GOOGL)
Video game performers to strike over AI concerns
EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is 'free'
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
X's new data-sharing experience will train Grok with your Twitter data by default — Here's how to disable it
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions

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Biden drops out of the race via tweet
"CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
Judge dismisses much of SEC suit against SolarWinds over cybersecurity disclosures
FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone
Hundreds more Californians get housing with Apple's help
Microsoft's new AI system 'SpreadsheetLLM' unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity
Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America

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Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market
Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans
Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics
My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better
Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?
Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

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Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea
Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports
Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
Perplexity's grand theft AI
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure
NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
The White House will host a conference for social media creators
Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch
Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

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Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests

Murthy Decision Should Not Foreclose Cases Against Actual First Amendment Violations
What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks
Mark Cuban's public email was hacked after receiving call from a fake Google rep
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
Microsoft's bundling of Office and Teams breaks antitrust law, EU says
EU Competition Commissioner says Apple's decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behavior
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC is finally the best clamshell laptop on the market after 8 years of iterations
Tested: Don't buy a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for PC gaming
Signal 65 Snapdragon battery testing
The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
Wherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All
Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll

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AT&T Landlines, US Bans Kaspersky and DJI

Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
I just ordered the cheapest Surface Pro option - why I (probably) won't regret it
Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterf*ck
Surgeon General: Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning
The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
LAUSD approves cellphone ban as Newsom calls for statewide action
EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
Apple Won't Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns
AT&T can't hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules
Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
What Game of Thrones did to the media
Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing
This Old House' Pays Tribute to Creator Russell Morash

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Ukranian Bot Farms, LA Public Health Dept. Phished

MS Recall and Apple AI
Congress grills Microsoft boss Brad Smith after 'cascade' of security errors
Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
Exclusive: MediaTek designs Arm-based chip for Microsoft's AI laptops
Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law
Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
Successful phishing attack at LA County Department of Public Health exposes PID of 200k + people
Bot Farm that attacked Ukrainian phones is shut down
Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Talking about Mark Zuckerberg
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next
Games that the panel members are playing
Lynn Conway, a true pioneer, passes away at 86

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How to Kill a Smart Device: Spotify Car Thing Post Mortem
Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in
NVIDIA Drive Thor with 2,000 TOPS to be implemented by Li Auto
Oral-B Sold a $230 Alexa Toothbrush—and Then Pulled the Plug
Adobe's new terms of service unacceptably gives them access to all of your projects, for free
Adobe has clarified controversial shrinkwrap license terms, but the damage may have already been done
Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims
I watched NVIDIA's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold
TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
Intel CEO Takes Aim at NVIDIA in Fight for AI Chip Dominance
This is Lunar Lake — Intel's utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads
Gurman's Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

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Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
Who's having kids?
The panel discusses Ticketmaster
T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge
Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
Inside the scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold
TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban
How a Self-Published Book, 'The Shadow Work Journal,' Became a Best Seller
Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.
The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent
Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora
North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation
Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified
Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

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Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show
China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Rabbit Holed
Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs
A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision
Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
Kabosu, Shiba Inu dog who inspired 'Doge' meme, dies at 18
Bitcoin pizza day
C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

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OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign

GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude
OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
OpenAI Superalignment team is gone
2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds
Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
Vermont's data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists
How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal
Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it
Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91

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Guests: Ben Parr, Dan Patterson, and Iain Thomson

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Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
Apple Closes in on Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
Google is getting even worse for independent sites
Musk Plans More Layoffs as Two Senior Tesla Executives Depart
At Tesla, a Wild Week That Defined the Company's Future
TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
Telegram vs. Signal
Sony reverses unpopular Helldivers 2 decision after blistering player reaction
Apple apologizes for 'Crush' iPad Pro ad that sparked controversy

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In this episode of This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte is joined by Georgia Dow, Shoshana Weissmann, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, tackling a wide range of thought-provoking topics, from the ethical implications of AI in sensitive fields to the challenges of creating and consuming content in an increasingly commercialized digital landscape.

The panel grapples with the potential risks and benefits of AI-powered therapists and priests, stressing the need for human empathy and discernment in these emotionally charged roles.
They confront the harsh realities of the internet's "heat death," as the relentless pursuit of profits and engagement leads to a glut of low-quality content and erodes user trust.
The group reflects on the double-edged sword of democratized media, celebrating the value of supporting emerging voices while acknowledging the importance of professional standards.
As Twitter faces existential challenges, the panel surveys the social media horizon, evaluating alternative platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky, and weighing the implications of Jack Dorsey's departure from the Bluesky board.
Elon Musk's reckless tweets about taking Tesla private have come back to haunt him, with the Supreme Court upholding an SEC settlement requiring his Tesla-related posts to be vetted by a lawyer.
The FCC has cracked down on major telecom companies for the illegal sale of location data, while legislators push for reforms to prevent the government from exploiting privacy loopholes.
Congress continues its misguided crusade to protect children online, with ill-conceived age verification mandates and privacy-eroding measures that threaten the very foundations of digital security. The panel offers an impassioned critique of these shortsighted efforts.
The once-beloved video game Helldivers 2 serves as a cautionary tale of platform overreach, as a heavy-handed PlayStation Network login requirement sparks a massive player revolt and torpedoes the game's reputation.
Apple's quarterly results are analyzed, and all eyes are on Apple's upcoming event, where new iPads and an enhanced Apple Pencil are expected to take center stage. But the real buzz surrounds the rumored M4 chip and its tantalizing AI capabilities, hinting at a potential game-changer for the iconic brand.
The group geeks out over Disney+'s radical revival of X-Men '97 and Amazon's ambitious Fallout adaptation, complete with an immersive easter egg phone experience
The freewheeling discussion also touches on Shoshana's ingenious Alexa hacks for Sabbath TV viewing, a UK council's apostrophe apocalypse, the looming cicada invasion, and Fr. Robert's role as a guardian angel for the Vatican's feral felines.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Shoshana Weissmann, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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TikTok Ban, Intel's Struggles, Google's Ensh*ttification

'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
The panel taks about AI
With YouTube Booming, Podcast Creators Get Camera-Ready
A new California bill would restrict line-skipping service 'Clear' at airports in the name of equity
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'
Oracle is moving its world HQ to Nashville
Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
U.S. chipmaker Intel was once dominant, now struggles to stay relevant
Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion

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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
TikTok 'ban' passes in the House again
Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration
Surveillance Law Section 702 Keeps Us Safe
Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2024
Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High After Lull
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal
Tesla asks shareholders to approve Elon Musk's nixed $56 billion pay plan
Cool or creepy? Microsoft's VASA-1 is a new AI model that turns photos into 'talking faces'
GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading advisories
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.

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AI Music with Suno and Udio
Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI
How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
Google and the CJPA
Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated 'nutrition labels' for most broadband plans
SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 | Peter Higgs
BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries

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House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill
Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
MrBeast calls for slowing down video editing styles
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts

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Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken

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Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

20 years of Gmail
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project
Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024
Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI

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Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver
Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

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Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu

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The Panel discusses video Formats and aspect ratios
House of Reps pass bill that could ban TikTok
TechDirt: TikTok ban would be unconstitutional and doesn't actually help with threats
TikTok estimated to be worth $100B, or $40B if it doesn't include the algorithm
US wants to ban TikTok for the sins of every social media company
What social media is the panel using?
Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say
Musk dumps Don Lemon after sitting through one interviuew
"Gurman: CarPlay is now all Apple has left, should they charge for the more advanced version? + Apple planning for the biggest AirPods push yet with new low-end, mid-range models"
Microsoft is hosting its Surface/AI event next week, what do we think about Microsoft's current PC and AI ambitions?
FCC raises broadband minimums to 100Mbps/20Mbps, up from 25Mbps/3Mbps
Pornhub says adios to Texas
Profile of the UberCheats dev, who created an app to see how the Uber algorithm was screwing over workers
What media is the panel watching?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Alex Lindsay, Glenn Fleishman, and Scott Stein

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TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion

Why Trump now opposes banning TikTok
Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
OpenAI announces new members to the board of directors
OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk's Lawsuit
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls
AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave
The Panel discusses Bluesky and general social media
FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor
Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives
Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
"Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

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Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
Frame glasses
Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest'
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget
South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs
Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4
Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects
Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze
Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles
Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois

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How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off
Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know
AT&T restores service after hours of outage
AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown
Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business
Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages
Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data
SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends
FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade
3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.

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Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law
Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
2 Twitter books are coming out
Bluesky opens up to the public
The Reply Guy Constitution
Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown
FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand
Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form

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Elon Musk Biography, Google Anti-trust, Clubhouse

Clubhouse is BACK
Book Review: 'Elon Musk' by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk biographer moves to 'clarify' details about Ukraine and Starlink after backlash
Senate votes to approve Anna Gomez as 5th FCC Commissioner
Margrethe Vestager is Stepping Aside to Bid on a New Job
Meta May Allow Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe to Pay to Avoid Ads
In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google
FTC Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Set for Later This Month After Meeting Fails to Resolve Impasse
UK backs down from nonsensical law after threats from Apple, WhatsApp
NFTs, Once Hyped as the Next Big Thing, Now Face 'Worst Moment'
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue The Anti Defamation League
Elon Musk's X is suing California over its online moderation reporting bill
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reflects on Google's 25th birthday
YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate's videos, court says
I Tried It: Working Aboard an Amtrak Train
PowerPoint co-creator Dennis Austin is dead at 76

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Thousands stuck in mud at Burning Man festival
Australia and Texas overturn laws requiring age verification for adult websites
Right to repair advocates score victory in California with Apple now supporting it
NFT sales and prices plummeting showing the downfall of the once-hyped digital assets
Twitter to lift ban on political ads ahead of 2024 election
Social media companies failing to curb Russian propaganda says EU report
Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors' social media accounts blocked by judge
Congress working on protecting minors on social media but raises privacy concerns
Barbie film leaks online ahead of official release showing persistence of piracy
NFL, NBA, UFC want faster DMCA takedowns to combat live streaming of games
Gannett admits AI-written local sports stories were "hilariously terrible"
Department of Defense launches website for tracking UFOs/UAPs
Georgia election interference trial for Trump to be livestreamed on YouTube
Google killing Pixel Pass after just 22 months despite promise of ongoing new phones
Microsoft retiring WordPad after 28 years
Cruise self-driving cars causing problems by blocking emergency vehicles in San Francisco

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Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
Exclusive: Tesla wins as Texas requires state-backed charging stations to include its plug
Mike Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Other Silicon Valley Titans Said to Be Behind Mysterious Land Deals
We're Winning': Apple Formally Endorses Right to Repair Legislation After Spending Millions Fighting It
A Young Congressman Is Sounding Alarms About Election Security. We Should Listen to Him.
Government Contractors Keep Getting Hacked. A GOP Congresswoman Is Proposing a Solution.
Brianna talks all about Baldur's Gate
Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval
The Reactions To Call Of Duty's Nicki Minaj Operator Are Priceless
Enter the Gungeon
AOC will stream on Twitch again this weekend
Fifth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn't Need Warrants To Search Phones At The Border
Whats on the horizon for the guests in the coming months?

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This episode of TWiT explores the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on creative industries like writing, the monopolistic practices of Big Tech, and the concepts of open-washing and chokepoint capitalism.

Cory Doctorow discusses his upcoming appearance in a Futurama episode inspired by his book Chokepoint Capitalism
The downsides of Twitter under Elon Musk as an example of chokepoint capitalism unwinding
Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive's copyright disputes over digitized books in its Emergency Library
Canada's law requiring Big Tech to pay news publishers, and Meta's ban on news sharing in response
The CFPB cracking down on predatory data brokers
Google's "topics" proposal for interest-based ads on Chrome and privacy concerns
The threats AI poses to creative professions like writing, and the implications of copyright
The misleading hype around AI and job loss statistics from companies like IBM
The importance of interoperability for technology platforms and digital rights
How copyright law views AI-generated art and content
The issues around copyrighted content being used to train AI systems by companies like OpenAI
The concept of "open washing" and whether companies like OpenAI really embody openness
The America COMPETES Act, proposed antitrust legislation targeting Big Tech's ad market power
The role of users and tool creators in establishing boundaries on things like advertising
Rebecca Giblin's experience publishing out-of-print Australian books as the non-profit publisher Untapped
The podcast IP Provocations and its discussions relating to AI and intellectual property

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

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Black Hat, DEFCON, AI Bill of Rights, BlueJeans, Zoom AI disclosure, Snoopers' Charter

Oppenheimer and IMAX.
AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype.
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.
The Feds showed up in force at Black Hat.
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide .
America's original hacking supergroup creates a free framework to improve app security.
Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters' data.
AI 'red teams' race to find bias and harms in chatbots like ChatGPT.
New 'Downfall' Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips.
An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy to Bypass.
Maui Wildfire Relief Fund.
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy.
CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes.
Zoom AI tools trained using some customer data, updated terms say.
From $40 billion to 'going concern' — WeWork warns of possible bankruptcy.
I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires).
BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor, is shutting down.
Curiosity Rover Finds 'Striking' Evidence of Habitable Seasons on Mars.
Norway fines Meta 1M crowns per day over behavioural ads feud.
E.U. slaps Meta with record $1.3 billion fine for data privacy violations.
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers.
Rhoda Karpatkin, Who Led Consumer Reports for Decades, Dies at 93.
MrBeast Facing $100 Million Lawsuit After Dissing Own Burgers.
Travis Kalanick expands 'dark kitchens' venture across Latin America.
Crypto's Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.

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AI in Hollywood, Alphabet antitrust lawsuit, Amazon earnings, Exorcist VR

An Internet Veteran's Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology.
'Barbie' joins $1 billion club, breaks another record for female directors.
Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans.
Hollywood's Pain Is YouTube's Advertising Gain.
Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishers.
Amazon (AMZN) Q2 earnings report 2023.
Alphabet's Google (GOOGL) to Face Slimmed-Down Antitrust Lawsuit Over Search.
Brave Search Breaks Free Of Bing With Standalone Image Index.
Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine.
Apple Services Salvage a Blah Quarter.
Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short.
NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to weeks of silence.
Fortnite's adding a museum about the Holocaust.
Exclusive: Inside Meta's Horizon Worlds reboot.
The Exorcist: Legion VR on Oculus Quest 2.
Post Malone Buys Lord Of The Rings Card Worth Over $2 Million.
Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit over use of immortal cell line.
U.S. ban on popular lightbulb goes into effect Aug. 1.
Is that a TV in your pocket? Rokid is making a TV dongle for its AR glasses.

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Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+

Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.'
Is anyone still using Threads?
With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms.
Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech.
Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense.
Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb.
The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'.
Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time.
NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform.
Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison.
Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints.
Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you.
YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates.
Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4.
FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon.
How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate.

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Twitter to X, FedNow, Meta's LLaMA 2, riding in a Waymo, Kevin Mitnick

Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to 'all the birds'.
Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day.
Fed launches long-awaited instant payments service, modernizing system.
Microsoft-Activision $69B Deal Poised to Close Later Than Planned.
Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023).
Spain antitrust watchdog fines Amazon, Apple $218 million.
Apple can delay App Store changes to file Supreme Court plea.
Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama.
Self driving in SF with Alex.
G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics.
The Biden administration announces its new smart home cybersecurity label.
Massachusetts Prepares To Ban The Collection And Abuse Of Cell Phone Location Data.
Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption, requires online companies to report drug activity.
The Screen Savers - Kevin Mitnick Is Free.

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Microsoft Activision victory, Amazon Prime Day, writer's strike, Taylor Swift

FTC loses appeals court bid to temporarily block Microsoft-Activision deal.
Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard.
Amazon Prime Day Drives Online Sales Up 6.1%, Lags Estimate.
Here's what shoppers bought on Amazon Prime Day 2023.
Amazon sues EU in first US challenge to Digital Services Act.
Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow is still negative amid 50% drop in ad revenue.
Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies "Recklessly" Shared Taxpayers' Data.
Can AI solve the problems with social media?
Kathy Baxter: Here's what could go wrong if we don't take AI safety seriously.
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training.
Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights 'for the rest of eternity'.
Fran Drescher Slams Bob Iger's 'Repugnant' and 'Tone Deaf' Strike Comments: If I Were Disney, 'I Would Lock Him Behind Doors'.
Oppenheimer actors walk out of UK premiere as Hollywood stars join writer strike.
How is TikTok doing right now?
That dangerous TikTok trend on the Today Show? It was fake.
First Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities.
Taylor Swift's Re-Recorded 'Speak Now' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With 2023's Biggest Week.

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Threads by Meta, TweetDeck returns, Causal AI, thumbs-up emoji lawsuit

What to know about Threads.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads.
Elon Musk Is Making Mark Zuckerberg Seem Cool Again.
The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long?
Why We Don't Recommend Ring Cameras.
Your School's Next Security Guard May Be an AI-Enabled Robot.
Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones.
Gizmodo used AI to write a Star Wars story. It was filled with errors.
The next artificial intelligence frontier: Causal AI.
A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled.
Bay Area tech company Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe.
Farmer owes $82,000 in a contract dispute over the use of a 'thumbs-up' emoji, judge says.
Here's the deal with the giant sphere causing a buzz in Las Vegas.
Pokémon Sleep gameplay and pre-registration for Android revealed.

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Twitter self-DDoS, Flipper, Ethernet 50 years old, SCOTUS cyberstalking

Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
Apple is a $3 trillion company — again.
The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark.
Twitch Star xQc Signs $100 Million Deal With Kick, a Rival Platform.
Flipper hacking device on track to make $80M worth of sales.
Padre talks all about the Vatican.
An update on Canada's Bill C-18 and our Search and News products.
Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view.
YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views.
Twitch adds new paid chat feature to rival YouTube's Super Chat.
David Bohrman Dead: Former CNN Executive Was 69.
Want to feel old? Ethernet just celebrated its 50th birthday.
UK regulator may refer Adobe's $20 billion Figma deal to deeper probe.
Supreme Court Rebuffs Apple in Billion-Dollar Caltech Patent Case.
The FTC wants to put a ban on fake reviews.
Supreme Court guts protections for cyberstalking victims.
Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Millions of Song Lyrics.
SiriusXM to Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App.
Pokémon Go Developer Lays Off 230 Employees, Closes LA Studio.
Goldman Is Looking for a Way Out of Its Partnership With Apple.
Scoop: TSA to expand facial recognition program to over 400 airports.
Prigozhin-controlled Russian media group shuts after mutiny.
UT Mourns Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor and Nobel Prize Recipient John Goodenough.

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Amazon vs Walmart, Prime dark patterns, Canadian link tax, Zuck Musk cage match

A new book reveals how Amazon used 'shady' strategies at its bookstores to drive up Prime subscriptions.
Trader Oooh's.
FTC Sues Amazon Over 'Manipulative' Tactics Used to Enroll Millions in Prime.
Deceptive Patterns: Hall of Shame.
Sony's PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft's Activision deal wasn't about Xbox exclusives.
Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and 'Buy with Prime' sites.
TikTok prepares 'Project S' plan to break into online shopping.
The Curious Case of Chris Evans's Sweater in "Knives Out".
NFL finalizes new 11-year media rights deal, Amazon gets exclusive Thursday Night rights.
Gannett sues Google over its alleged ad tech monopoly.
As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada.
Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets by Jason Del Rey.
Disney Adds Facial Recognition to Parks.
Tom Morello, Zack de la Rocha Boycott Venues Using Face-scanning Tech.
Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison.
Google's YouTube Is Testing an Online-Games Offering.
Meta Will Launch Twitter Competitor In Mid-July: Report.
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg's fight started before Meta's Twitter rival.
"Stunning"—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature.

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Reddit CEO, Diablo 4, Esports struggle, "Hey Disney!", Twitter eviction

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent.
Twitter stiffs Google.
Will Elon Lose Control of Twitter?
Reddit Aims for IPO in Second Half as Market's Gears Quietly Turn.
One of Reddit's largest communities is protesting changes to the platform by posting only photos of John Oliver 'looking sexy'.
Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the ax in favor of "focus".
TIKTOK'S ENSHITTIFICATION.
WHIPPED.
'The Flash' Disappoints With $55 Million Debut, Pixar's 'Elemental' Flops With $29.5 Million in Battle of Box Office Lightweights.
Google's Ads Violate Antitrust Laws, E.U. Says.
The streamer who spent $1M on an esports team says esports is a terrible business: 'Everyone is losing a lot of money'
Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour 'without any warning'.
Whoopi Goldberg is Still Upset About Diablo 4, Calls for Blizzard's Response.
Baldur's Gate 3.
Apple's Secret Weapon to Getting PC Games on Mac.
FCC chair to investigate exactly how much everyone hates data caps.
Meta Lowers Age Requirement for Quest VR Headsets to Allow Preteens.
How many Star Wars movies are there? In order of chronology, release date and 'machete.'
Amazon's 'Hey Disney!' voice assistant is now available.
Meta scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't destroy jobs forever.
Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard.
RowdySkeleton.com
FTC reportedly seeks an injunction to stop Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal.

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Apple Vision Pro, Reddit API fallout, Tesla Autopilot casualties, UFOs

What are the guests driving?
Apple's Vision Pro Isn't the Future.
Reddit's users and moderators are revolting against its CEO.
Lemmy.world
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot.
Nicole and Sam ride around Austin in a Cruise Robotaxi. \
Cruise faces backlash after self-driving car appears to block crews responding to SF's Mission District shooting.
Mercedes first to sell vehicles in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving.
FORD EV CUSTOMERS TO GAIN ACCESS TO 12,000 TESLA SUPERCHARGERS; COMPANY TO ADD NORTH AMERICAN CHARGING STANDARD PORT IN FUTURE EVS.
I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly, I feel duped.
Does the U.S. Government Want You to Believe in U.F.O.s?
US sues Coinbase as crypto crackdown widens.
A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed.

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WWDC preview, AI scientist statement, virtual kidnapping

Microsoft Build 2023 - Panos Panay Keynote.
Why AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out.
AI Makes Mistakes But Could It Destroy Us?
A Chatbot Was Designed to Help Prevent Eating Disorders. Then It Gave Dieting Tips.
Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More.
Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $499.99.
Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor.
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro.
Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?
Deceptive.design: What are deceptive patterns?
How I Nearly Fell for a Frightening 'Virtual Kidnapping' Scam.
Quick Guide to Virtual Kidnapping.
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working.
Amazon to pay more than $30 million to settle FTC privacy complaints over Alexa and Ring.
Intel to add AI engine to all 14th-gen Meteor Lake SoCs.
Amazon is discontinuing Alexa's celebrity voices, even if you paid for them.
Will There Be Any Successors to 'Succession'?

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AI Spoof, Twitter and DeSantis

Twitter Cut Key Software Before DeSantis Audio Glitch
Elon Musk's Neuralink says has FDA approval for study of brain implants in humans
Here's What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already
The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
'Verified' Twitter accounts share fake image of 'explosion' near Pentagon, causing confusion
An A.I.-Generated Spoof Rattles the Markets
Politicians cheating (AI)
Top 5 announcements from Microsoft Build 2023
Google or Bing for Search Results
Why Google Search Is Getting Bad According to Marissa Mayer
Stop being ridiculous: Microsoft is NOT building its own processor for Surface
This ridiculous shoe PC went from a 10-week mod project to a $6,000 custom Cooler Master gaming PC you can actually buy
Social Media is a 'Profound Risk' to Youth, Surgeon General Warns
The Pessimists Archive

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TikTok Montana ban, Instagram's Twitter clone, Tears of the Kingdom, and more.

Everything we know about Instagram's Twitter clone, due this summer.
How Apple's headset could be a $3,000 flop—and a success.
Pixel Fold.
TikTok Users Sue Montana, Calling State Ban Unconstitutional.
Dear Section 230 Critics: When Senators Hawley And Cruz Are Your Biggest Allies, It's Time To Rethink.
Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in just three days.
Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case.
Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place.
Google reaches $39.9 million privacy settlement with Washington state.
The government can't seize your data — but it can buy it.
Apple created its new voice feature for—and with—people with ALS.
CNET staff are unionizing, citing editorial independence and use of AI tools.
AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit.
Have we oversold the potential of AI?
Bard vs ChatGPT.
OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections.
NASA picks Blue Origin to make a second human-crewed lunar lander.
D&D streaming TV channel on the way, will include cartoons, actual play.
Cord-Cutting Q1 2023: Pay-TV Ops Lose 2.3M Subs, Worst Quarter to Date.
The triumph—yes, triumph—of BlackBerry.

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AI ethics, Google IO, Absci, Replika, AM radio in cars, Spotify rejects AI songs

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb.
Google IO saw the introduction of many of the company's AI efforts.
A Charge of Bots — The Tech World As We Know It Is About To Be Rewritten.
BS Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber.
ChatGPT Plugins And Web Browsing Beta Rollout For Plus Users.
What about "The Singularity"?
Google is changing up Search. What does that mean for news publishers?
What is the best-case scenario of where AI is headed in 5-10 years?
Absci: Biologics Drug Discovery.
Why Linda Yaccarino was picked as Twitter CEO by Elon Musk.
Review: 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom' is video game bliss.
An influencer's AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute.
Replika: The AI companion who cares.
Has Meta given up on the Metaverse?
Checking in on some of the latest shows on Apple+ and HBO.
End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars.
Groundbreaking Pilot of New Friendly™ Mosquitoes Demonstrates 96% Suppression of Dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti in Urban Communities in Brazil.
Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams.

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AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV

AI is already writing books, websites, and online recipes.
AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms.
Google Adding AI Chatbot, More Video to Stay On Top of Search.
Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images.
I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.
Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing.
DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs.
Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak.
Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks With Fail.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says writers' strike will be ended by 'love for the business and the love for working.'
Pluto co-founder is building an ad-supported TV.
Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against Kochava, a Location Data Broker.
Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in.
Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy.
The Morning After: Google officially reveals its first foldable phone: The Pixel Fold.
'The Godfather of AI' Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead.
Tim Cook Just Was Asked About AI. His 3-Word Response Was the Best I've Heard Yet.
Inside Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a fitness success.
Solidigm Synergy 2.0 SSD Software with benchmarks.

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Bluesky, the end of Twitter, Flipper Zero, Supreme Court and AI

Bluesky buzz: Why the social media platform is being called the next Twitter.
Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk shouldn't have bought Twitter after all.
More on moderation and security challenges of social media.
What would Alex do if we were to start from scratch with social media?
Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.
Alex talks about the WiFi Pineapple.
Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks.
Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks.
There Is No A.I.
OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands.
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but...
AI For Everyone Course.
US Supreme Court rejects computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions.
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media.
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk.
The web's most important decision.

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Musk risk intensifies, UK emergency alert, Google AI panic, Parrots on Zoom

Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness.
In 24 Hours, Elon Musk Reignited His Reputation for Risk.
Twitter Blue nets 28 signups so far since legacy checkmark purge.
There Is No A.I.
How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition.
Emergency alert test fails to sound on some phones.
School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste.
Can Parrots Talk Over Video Chat? Experiment Shows How They Adapt and Connect.
Here's How You Can Get In On Facebook's $725 Million Class Action Settlement.
Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor.
Tesla wins lawsuit over Autopilot Model S crash.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai's 2022 Compensation Valued at $226 Million.
Google's AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain.
Alphabet's Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI.
Google's rush to win in AI led to ethical lapses, employees say.
YouTube TV is testing significant picture quality improvements.
Netflix's DVD Business: Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Division.
Imgur will ban explicit images on its platform this month.
When Apple Comes Calling, 'It's the Kiss of Death'

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Substack Notes, AI guardrails, WWDC, Meta morale, HBO Max, X Corp

Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter.
Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn't Realize He's Just Become The Nazi Bar.
Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT.
European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force.
China Mandates Security Reviews for AI Services Like ChatGPT.
AI is already taking video game illustrators' jobs in China.
Twitter Isn't a Company Anymore.
Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI.
Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC.
The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market.
Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta.
Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok.
Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban.
Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.
HBO Max to Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date, and Pricing Revealed.
The End of Computer Magazines in America.

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Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe.
A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI.
Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data.
What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news.
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT.
Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral.
At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free.
What did Twitter's 'open source' algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.
Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'.
Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu.
New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook.
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'.
Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive.
Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race.
Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts.
Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures.
E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out.
Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M).
Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite.

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Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's

Best of April Fool's Pranks
GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs
The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
3 things everyone's getting wrong about AI
Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9
At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
Apple Releases iOS 16.4 With New Emoji, Safari Web Push Notifications, Beta Changes, Voice Isolation for Calls and More
Apple Pay Later is finally launching
E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out
Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity
The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
T2 - Twitter Alternative

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Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell
Red Team Blues
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94
Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and their impact on humanity
How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security
A TikTok ban would upend Hollywood
Introducing Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool
At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles - The New York Times
Part of Twitter Source Code Leaked
The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush
A 90-Year-Old Tortoise Named Mr. Pickles Is a New Dad of Three

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GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports

OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.
Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive.
Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments.
TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers.
The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists.
Why are the Olympic Esports Series games so strange? We asked the IOC.
Meta's place in the social media landscape.
The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse.
The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash.
Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.
Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime.
FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages.
Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update.
GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers.
Google is working on AI for ultrasound diagnosis and cancer therapy.

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Silicon Valley Bank collapse, FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, Apple headset

Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank.
Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.
FDIC to Silicon Valley Bank workers. We'll give you a 50% raise or double-time OT, but you'll lose your job in 45 days.
U.S. officials weigh protecting all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.
Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers.
Meta to end Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 becomes law.
Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC.
Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook Ordered Headset Launch Despite Designers Warning It Wasn't Ready.
Daylight savings time change 2023 starts Sunday with "spring forward".
Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle
The privacy loophole in your doorbell.
YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.
Apple Music Classical app launching March 28.
Chat with Jason Calacanis (post credits)

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AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry

Bing Chat has a secret 'Celebrity' mode to impersonate celebrities.
@emollick: Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.
CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
Father Robert defines the Singularity.
LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach.
Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say.
Amazon Illegally Fired NYC Union Organizer, Labor Board Says.
50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World.
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer.
Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, software liability reform.
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state.
U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices.

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Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance.
Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption.
Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.
It's Time to Tear Up Big Tech's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card.
Section 230 Won't Protect ChatGPT.
Twitter lays off another 50 employees as cost cutting continues under Elon Musk: report.
FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.
Sumi.news.
Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.
Calckey: A greatly enhanced fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, and more!
Mammoth is a new free Mastodon client for iOS and macOS.
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers.
SF's new startup hotspot seen as the road to AI riches.
Sometimes Open Systems Beat Those Who Try To Lock Them Up: Spotify's Podcast Colonization Flops.
YouTube tests adding podcasts to 'Create' button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics.
Spanish court authorises extradition of Briton who allegedly hacked Biden, Obama.
Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs.
Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users to Aid Piracy Lawsuit.
Apple Watch ban: Biden will make decision next week.
OG sealed iPhone breaks record selling for almost 2x that of a recent auction.

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AI explosion, what ails Google, Section 230, Susan Wojcicki, Twitter SMS 2FA

Parallels Desktop for Mac: The Solution for Running Windows 11 on Apple M-series Macs.
Microsoft will limit Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird.
From Bing to Sydney.
Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing.
There's an AI for that.
Is AI a commodity?
Amateur balloonist group from Illinois says small balloon last reported over Alaska 'missing in action'.
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake.
Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication.
Meta verification, only $12 a month!
The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn... by Praveen Seshadri.
First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.
Microsoft February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 exploited zero-days, 77 flaws.
OPWNAI : Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT.
Biden and Republican senators join forces in attack on Big Tech at Supreme Court.
Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge.
Sam Bankman-Fried's Prosecutors Raise New Concerns Over Internet Use.
BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI.
Data brokers are now selling your mental health status.

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Microsoft AI Search, CPU Decline, Google Bard

US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China
U.S. adds six Chinese entities tied to balloon program to export blacklist
Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing-Google employees are apparently very unhappy with Bard and Sundar Pichai
Google's AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo
Dan O'Dowd Funding Superbowl Ad Opposing Tesla Full Self Driving
PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years
The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video
iOS Access For All book
'Disrespectful to the Craft:' Actors Say They're Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
A Google Co-Founder Is Building a Massive 400-Foot Airship for Humanitarian Missions

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Netflix password sharing, big tech earnings, Twitter API, Jony Ive

Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers.
Safer Internet Day USA.
Netflix Reveals How Password Sharing Crackdown Will Be Enforced.
Alphabet Q4 Earnings Miss Estimates, YouTube Ad Revenue Down 8%.
Facebook's VR Division Lost $13.72 Billion In 2022.
Apple Sales Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants.
Apple Decides to Drop Role of Industrial Design Chief in Post-Jony Ive Era.
Jony Ive, designer of the iPhone and iPod, just designed a 'clown nose' for a British charity.
Tesla increases Model Y, cuts Model 3 prices in the U.S.
Twitter Is Killing Off The Fun Bots.
Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.
Amazon (AMZN) earnings Q4 2022.
Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple's App Store and Google Play.
ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.
Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.
CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say.
Paradigm shifts of yesteryear, today and tomorrow.
Hogwarts Legacy releases this week for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S - but April for PS4 and XBO and June for Switch.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Prepping 'Tomb Raider' TV Series for Amazon.

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AI everywhere, Hive hacked, Microsoft earnings, To Leslie, @ElonJet

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023).
Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine.
If ChatGPT doesn't get a better grasp of facts, nothing else matters.
Move over ChatGPT, Microsoft's new AI tool is helping developers code faster.
ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware.
OPWNAI: Cybercriminals starting to use ChatGPT.
MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT.
AI-powered "robot" lawyer won't argue in court after jail threats.
More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
Meta's AI chief Yann LeCun calls ChatGPT "not particularly innovative".
Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers.
US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew.
Microsoft Revenue Up 2 Percent, but Profit Drops 12 Percent.
GitHub: 100 million developers and counting.
To Leslie' and the word-of-mouth campaign that got Andrea Riseborough an Oscar nomination.
The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn.
Why Taylor Swift Is Using Facial Recognition at Concerts.
James Dolan gives fiery interview defending facial recognition tech at MSG.
AI makes Ariana Grande sing a Billie Eilish song.

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Twitter API fallout, Section 230, TikTok ban, tech layoffs, AmazonSmile RIP

Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients.
Twitterrific: End of an Era.
In Memory of Tweetbot.
Extremely Hardcore.
Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options.
Google has been sued and is involved in a lawsuit over YouTube algorithms.
Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230.
R Street Institute signs onto amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google.
Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech.
India blocks YouTube videos and Twitter posts on BBC Modi documentary.
As states ban TikTok on government devices, evidence of harm is thin.
TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral.
How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation.
Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.
Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees.
Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens.
Apple Postpones AR/VR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset (AAPL).
How Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches.
Comixology hit hard by Amazon's massive layoffs.
Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine.
CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy.
The Lisa: Apple's Most Influential Failure.
T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers.
AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces.
Former Exec explains why on Reddit.

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CES 2023 Recap, ChatGPT and Plagiarism, Twitter API, 2016 Election and Twitter

CES 2023 Recap
A government watchdog spent $15,000 to crack a federal agency's passwords in minutes
Twitter is blocking third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific
CNET Is Experimenting With an AI Assist. Here's Why
A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?
Acer 516 Gaming Chromebook
Neeva Ad-free Search Engine
NFL Playoffs 2023: Fox Sports Details 1080p/HDR Production Efforts
Apple rumored to be prepping bid for English Premier League football streaming rights
YouTube is testing a hub of free, cable-style channels | Engadget
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Lost $1.2 Billion in Just Nine Months in Newest Division - Bloomberg
iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
YouTube may fix controversial policy to demonetize videos with swearing | Engadget
New Study: No, Of Course Russian Twitter Trolls Didn't Impact The 2016 Election | Techdirt

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CES 2023, Lastpass hack, Meta's EU fine, FCC's robocall fine, Tesla autopilot

Adorable Rice Balls Reimagine Japan's Cutest Bird as Anime-Style Delinquents.
Yo-Kai To Debut Desktop Ramen Robot For Space-Constrained Retail Formats at CES 2023.
Stacey sets the stage for CES 2022.
CES 2023 kicks off with more than 112,000 attendees.
There was a lot of pee on the CES 2023 show floor.
The tech that went too far at CES 2023.
Surprise: Samsung is making SmartThings hardware again!
M-Pwr By Masonite.
Podcast: CES has more Matter and many voices.
Nanoleaf's latest smart lights boast Matter support and learning automation.
GE Profile Smart Stand Mixer.
Lastpass: Hackers stole customer vault data in cloud storage breach.
Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker.
European regulators ruled Meta can't use its contracts with users to justify sending them ads based on their online activity, a blow to the digital advertising industry.
FCC proposes record $300 million fine against auto warranty robocall campaign.
Ana de Armas Fans Can Sue Over Deceptive Movie Trailer, Court Rules.
Tesla on autopilot leads police on chase before driver finally wakes up.
The importance of communite for creators.
About the founder of Sound Blaster

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Highlights from throughout the year

Remember SECOND LIFE? Its Founder is Back For The METAVERSE!
Neil Young's Spotify Ultimatum.
Fidonet vs. the Internet.
Apple Studio Display Doesn't Cut It.
How To Remove Personally Identifiable Info From Google Search.
Apple Supports FIDO Passkey.
Google's LAMDA AI "Sentient"?
Attorney's iPhone Seized in January 6th Investigation.
Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks.
Why Did Cable Lose Broadband Market Share?
LastPass hack.
How Do You Really Feel About the Dynamic Island?

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Highlights from throughout the year

Remember SECOND LIFE? Its Founder is Back For The METAVERSE!
Neil Young's Spotify Ultimatum.
Fidonet vs. the Internet.
Apple Studio Display Doesn't Cut It.
How To Remove Personally Identifiable Info From Google Search.
Apple Supports FIDO Passkey.
Google's LAMDA AI "Sentient"?
Attorney's iPhone Seized in January 6th Investigation.
Audiophiles Fall For MoFi's Digital Tricks.
Why Did Cable Lose Broadband Market Share?
LastPass hack.
How Do You Really Feel About the Dynamic Island?

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2022 year in review, Crypto, Artificial Intelligence, Ukraine, Elon Musk

Spotify Boycott
War in Ukraine
Crypto crash & FTX
Acquisitions
Twitter and Elon Musk
The Metaverse
Apple
Tech worker revolt
Hacking
Government
Passkeys
Streaming Wars
AI Revolution
In Memoriam

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2022 year in review, Crypto, Artificial Intelligence, Ukraine, Elon Musk

Spotify Boycott
War in Ukraine
Crypto crash & FTX
Acquisitions
Twitter and Elon Musk
The Metaverse
Apple
Tech worker revolt
Hacking
Government
Passkeys
Streaming Wars
AI Revolution
In Memoriam

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Alex Barredo: @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.
Impulsive and Unjustified: CNN Slams Twitter for Suspending Journalists – Including Its Own Donie O'Sullivan.
Elon Musk Launches a Manhunt After Alarming Incident.
Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home.
Elon Musk, Management Guru?
Senate votes to ban TikTok use on government devices.
What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe?
TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas.
FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises.
Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards.
Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise.
Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL.
Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta.
Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access.
Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets.
ConnectSafely giving out $1K grants to schools & nonprofits.

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Microsoft's Activision deal, Esports fading, Twitter Files, Apple car delays

Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft's Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge.
TikTok National-Security Deal Faces More Delays as Worry Grows Over Risks.
The Hype Around Esports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up.
Musk calls to prosecute Fauci, drawing swift backlash.
Twitter HQ is putting office supplies up for sale in a big auction.
Musk's 'Twitter Files' offer a glimpse of the raw, complicated and thankless task of moderation.
Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud.
11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles.
Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Under Federal Investigation for Animal Abuse.
China Scraps Most Covid Testing, Quarantine Requirements in Policy Pivot.
Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026.
Apple's Anti-Union Tactics in Atlanta Were Illegal, US Officials Say (AAPL).
Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups.
NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon.
San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots.
End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line.
We're All Capable of Going 'Goblin Mode'.

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Musk and Ye, chatting with ChatGPT, SF killer robots, Apple China protests

Elon Musk explains why Ye was suspended from Twitter.
EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation.
Twitter reinstates account of Daily Stormer's infamous neo-Nazi creator.
Elon Musk's Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
Which VR headset does Georgia prefer?
China pledges to slowly exit 'zero covid'.
Apple to Lose 6 Million iPhone Pros From Tumult at China Plant.
Inside the Covid revolt at the Zhengzhou 'iPhone City' plant.
Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China.
Elon Musk Says 'Misunderstanding' With Apple Is Resolved.
Apple limited a crucial AirDrop function in China just weeks before protests.
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon.
@hankgreen: Someone suggested that I ask MidJourney to show me a cat but to keep adding "A"s until it wasn't a cat anymore. Here is "cat."
Who Is the Woman Haunting A.I.-Generated Art?
ChatGPT.
@JoannaStern: HOLY #@*%!!!! The robots can indeed replace me. And they have a better handle on dash and comma usage.
Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day.
Leo plays around with ChatGPT.
Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT.
SF police killer robots could be approved. Here's what that means.
U.S. Army Planned to Pay Streamers Millions to Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty.
Feds likely to challenge Microsoft's $69 billion Activision takeover.
Happy birthday and farewell, SMS! It's time for RCS.
U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter.
Smash World Tour organizers blame Nintendo for championship shutdown.
Report: ID.me Lied About Pretty Much Everything While Providing Identification Services To The Government.
Physicists Create 'the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
Pantone's 2023 color of the year is 'Viva Magenta'

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Apple chaos in China, Robocall crackdown, NFT nightclubs, Black Friday slump

The Top Tech and Tools You Need for Taking Digital Notes.
Ford Mustang Mach-E loses its Consumer Reports recommendation.
Musk will restore Twitter accounts banned for harassment, misinformation.
Twitter new user signups at an 'all-time high,' says Elon Musk.
Protests Erupting Across China.
Mass resignations of iPhone workers; report of 30% production hit
China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country.
Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out.
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China.
FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls.
New York Imposes 2-Year Moratorium on New Proof-of-Work Mining After Gov. Hochul Signs Bill.
El Salvador's $300 Million Bitcoin 'Revolution' Is Failing Miserably.
Miami nightclub owners are struggling with slumping sales after losing top-spending crypto clientele in wake of FTX implosion and crypto downfall, report says.
Restaurant and private members lounge to be built controversially in San Francisco's 'public' Salesforce Park.
Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year.
Callisto - Lockheed Martin.
Black Friday Lured Shoppers Back, in Early Test for Holiday Spending.
The Best Cyber Monday Deals 2022: Laptops, Robot Vacuums, AirPods, More.
French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case.

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Elon Musk restores Donald Trump's Twitter account.
Twitter Locks Its Office and Suspends Badge Access.
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud.
Nigerian Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Launder Tens of Millions of Dollars from Online Scams.
How Much Trouble Is FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried In?
Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps.
Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential.
Tom Brady and Larry David among those accused of defrauding investors in FTX collapse.
H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder.
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3: 'Web3 is not the web at all'
Leo talks about the road map for The Tech Guy.
The long-awaited US broadband internet maps are here — for you to challenge.
Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in.
NASA's Modern Moon Program Is Finally off the Ground.
Greg Bear (1951-2022).
Fred Brooks Has Died.

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Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP

Casey Newton on Twitter: "Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees".
Twitter CISO flies the coop.
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer.
Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands.
What is Elon really up to in all of this?
Is centralization good for end users?
Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say.
Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom.
Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine's president Zelenskiy.
Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows That 20% of Its Assets Are in Shiba Inu (SHIB) Coin.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.
Prosecutors push 15-year sentence for Theranos' CEO Holmes.
Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story.
PleaseRobMe.com
Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google.
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13.
Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work.
Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans.
Two weeks of chaos: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: David Spark, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Amy Webb

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Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok

Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted.
-2000 Lines Of Code.
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back.
What are the redeeming qualities of Twitter?
@elonmusk: Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended.
It's hard out here for a billionaire.
League of Legends World Championship Finals.
Quiz show!
Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin's account for impersonating Elon Musk.
Is Twitter good for brands?
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.
Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they 'overhired for the world we're in'
Finally, is this the end for the fax machine?
Interview: FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok.
Github Universe.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Brianna Wu, and Christina Warren

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Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok

Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted.
-2000 Lines Of Code.
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back.
What are the redeeming qualities of Twitter?
@elonmusk: Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended.
It's hard out here for a billionaire.
League of Legends World Championship Finals.
Quiz show!
Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin's account for impersonating Elon Musk.
Is Twitter good for brands?
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.
Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they 'overhired for the world we're in'
Finally, is this the end for the fax machine?
Interview: FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok.
Github Universe.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Brianna Wu, and Christina Warren

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Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok

Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted.
-2000 Lines Of Code.
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back.
What are the redeeming qualities of Twitter?
@elonmusk: Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended.
It's hard out here for a billionaire.
League of Legends World Championship Finals.
Quiz show!
Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin's account for impersonating Elon Musk.
Is Twitter good for brands?
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.
Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they 'overhired for the world we're in'
Finally, is this the end for the fax machine?
Interview: FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok.
Github Universe.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Brianna Wu, and Christina Warren

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It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090

Welcome to hell, Elon.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Paperback by Brent Schlender.
FeedLand is a place to share and discover feeds. We use Twitter to identify each user.
Apple was a bright spot.
Apple's cash mountain is back where it was in 2010.
iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively, delighting Woz.
Apple halts gambling ads in App Store.
KGO replaced by 'rapid-fire sports smack' gambling station.
Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border.
Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal Interviews Craig Federighi About Apple's Upcoming Child Safety Features.
Greg Joswiak confirms iPhone's future move to USB-C.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way.
Adobe to Acquire Figma.
Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter.
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.
OpenWallet Foundation.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090

Welcome to hell, Elon.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Paperback by Brent Schlender.
FeedLand is a place to share and discover feeds. We use Twitter to identify each user.
Apple was a bright spot.
Apple's cash mountain is back where it was in 2010.
iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively, delighting Woz.
Apple halts gambling ads in App Store.
KGO replaced by 'rapid-fire sports smack' gambling station.
Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border.
Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal Interviews Craig Federighi About Apple's Upcoming Child Safety Features.
Greg Joswiak confirms iPhone's future move to USB-C.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way.
Adobe to Acquire Figma.
Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter.
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.
OpenWallet Foundation.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090

Welcome to hell, Elon.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Paperback by Brent Schlender.
FeedLand is a place to share and discover feeds. We use Twitter to identify each user.
Apple was a bright spot.
Apple's cash mountain is back where it was in 2010.
iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively, delighting Woz.
Apple halts gambling ads in App Store.
KGO replaced by 'rapid-fire sports smack' gambling station.
Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border.
Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal Interviews Craig Federighi About Apple's Upcoming Child Safety Features.
Greg Joswiak confirms iPhone's future move to USB-C.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way.
Adobe to Acquire Figma.
Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter.
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.
OpenWallet Foundation.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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Twitter & Musk to close buyout, Apple's new iPads, artist burns art for NFTs, AI chatbot for dead loved ones, and more.

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American Airlines is trying to stop a popular iPhone app Sequence Decoder that's become a 'must have' for its flight attendants.
Twitter and Elon Musk make progress on a buyout, and Musk plans to cut 75% of its workforce.
The dark side of a super app like WeChat in China.
Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source.
Jack Dorsey-founded Bluesky is building a protocol for decentralized social networks.
Damien Hirst is burning thousands of his paintings for an NFT project.
Adware clicker apps in Google Play have been downloaded over 20 million times.
Apple's macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be released on October 24.
Apple announced a new iPad and M2-powered iPad Pro, but the iPad lineup now seems like a mess.
Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K with an A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ for $129.
More ads are coming to Apple's App Store starting next week.
Apple's head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving three years after the departure of Jony Ive.
NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations.
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots.
Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter in the US.
Kanye West is buying the 'free speech platform' Parler.
Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog CMA.
Are we ready for an AI chatbot that lets us speak to our dead loved ones?
Red Bull co-founder and Red Bull Formula One owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Harry McCracken, and Louis Maresca

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Future of Microsoft Office, Legs in VR, NVIDIA RTX 4090, Project Starline

Peach Only SMA 11:04 Brianna Wu.
Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
Microsoft (MSFT) US Army HoloLens Goggles Gave Soldiers Nausea, Headaches.
Is this a technology that anybody really wants?
@warren_craddock: I've worked on a number of high-profile failures. They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw.
Lenovo's new Glasses T1 are the coolest PC accessory I've seen that just makes sense.
Google's Project Starline is the real deal.
Meta's Virtual Reality Legs Video Was A Lie, Used Some Mocap.
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere.
Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator.
Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI.
Synthetic Media Startup D-ID Launches Image-to-Video Platform.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban.
GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty.
Vault by CNN shutdown results in "rug pull" accusations from NFT buyers.
Mac shipments shoot up a whopping 40%.
When Is Apple Launching the M2 iPad Pro and M2 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro?
Musk Will Have Absolute Control Over Twitter, Documents Show.
Elon Musk is now selling perfume that smells like burning hair.
Elon Musk tweets on Starlink: 'We'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free'.
Netflix Basic with Ads streaming launches in November.
Alex Jones Says Brianna Wu Defamed Him in a Tweet.

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Pixel Watch, banning AirTags, Musk's Twitter buy, Instagram ads

Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899.
WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach.
Does Google have a chance against Samsung and Apple?
Google Pixel Watch Announced.
Google Kills Stadia; Why Stadia Was a Bad Product; Microsoft, Activision, and Antitrust.
Larry Page's electric air taxi startup is winding down.
Lufthansa Has NOT Banned AirTags (But If It Ever Does, Travelers Won't Comply)
Zelenskyy, Musk in Twitter showdown over Ukraine 'peace' plan.
The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th.
Elon Musk says he'll use Twitter to build an 'everything app' called X. Believe him.
How Twitter employees are reacting to today's Elon Musk news.
Chris Anderson on Twitter: "Amidst all the sneering, I'd like to offer a prediction for how the @elonmusk acquisition of Twitter will play out."
Bake Off contestant horrifies viewers with avocado peeling method during controversial Mexican Week episode.
Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline.
Yes, even Signal is doing stories now.
The Right Stuff dating app.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
FCC Finally Gets Around To Cracking Down On Annoying Robotexts.
Google settles Arizona location data suit for $85 million.
Meta warns 1 million Facebook users who installed password-stealing apps.
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website visitors.
Area Man Is Arrested for Parody. The Onion Files a Supreme Court Brief.
Boston Dynamics pledges not to arm robots.
Israel sets up AI-controlled machine gun in occupied Hebron.
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security.
$570 million worth of Binance's BNB token stolen in another major crypto hack.
Critical Akamai bug could have let hackers poison millions of major brands' websites.
Business Envy podcast.
White House turns to TikTok stars to take Biden's message to a younger audience.

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Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event

Stadia is issuing refunds - How to get yours.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer.
Adobe can't Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab.
Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend's UFC Show?
Texts show roll call of tech figures tried to help Elon Musk in Twitter deal.
The True Genius of Tech Leaders.
"Buying Our Way In" was Palantir's (PLTR stock) Secret Plan to Get into the NHS.
Elon Musk unveils Optimus
Is general AI right around the corner?
Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.
James Bridle's "Ways of Being"
In Delaware's Kathaleen McCormick, Elon Musk Finds A Judge Who Means Business.
Klobuchar, Cruz strike deal to advance journalism antitrust bill.
Inside Podcasters' Explosive Audience Growth.
The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed.
Amazon hardware event 2022.

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Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images

Leo talks about his new Apple Watch Ultra.
How Fitbit helped me lose 15 pounds.
YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds.
Adobe's Aquisition of Figma is a Land Grab.
Slack's Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window.
TwistedWave, an Audio Editor.
Word Jazz by Fred Katz and Ken Nordine.
Ken Nordine - Levis Ad.
Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison.
California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The FDA may have unintentionally made 'Nyquil Chicken' go viral on TikTok.
Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges.
'A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,' Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators.
The AI Unbundling.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system.
No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.
Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.
Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers.
How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.
Enterprise Connect: Facing the Tough Issues on Hybrid Work: How Communications Technology Will Support New Ways of Working.

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Ethereum merge, GPU demand shifts, Adobe's Figma deal, GTA 6 hack

Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake.
No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge.
GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA's revenue—but it's cutting ties with Nvidia anyway.
Farthest Frontier on Steam.
Nvidia is about to make a big announcement during a difficult time.
Some iPhone 14 Pro customers are getting their preorders delayed by Apple.
The iPhone 14 Index: How much of a yearly salary you need to spend to afford an iPhone 14 around the world.
Adobe (ADBE) Agrees to Buy Figma in $20 Billion Software Deal.
The career rise, fall, and return of Adam Neumann, the controversial WeWork cofounder who is back with another real-estate startup.
iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US.
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business.
Floppy Disks Are Still Used for 1,900 Government Procedures In Japan. They Must Go, Its Digital Minister Says.
Apple adds souped-up period and ovulation tracking to Apple Watch Series 8.
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120.
Massive GTA 6 gameplay video leak depicts male and female playable characters.
Google loses appeal over illegal Android app bundling, EU reduces fine to €4.1 billion.
Fifth Circuit rules in favor of Texas law on social media regulation.
Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?

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Apple iPhone 14, Dynamic Island, Intel Optane, ETH merge, Atari 2600

News of Queen Elizabeth II's death broke on Twitter before the BBC.
The Steve Jobs Archive.
The Church of Apple Is a Religion Because We Made It One.
Tim Cook would rather have you buy an iPhone than use RCS.
Underestimating Apple's bold moves.
Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.
Apple picks Globalstar for emergency satellite service on iPhone 14.
iPhone 14 is eSIM-only in the US: Here's what you need to know.
iPhone 14 Pro: An in-depth look at how Dynamic Island works with apps, animations, more.
The Apple Watch Ultra looks like the ultra-rugged smartwatch we've been waiting for.
Passkeys in iOS 16.
Google announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch.
Twitter Whistle-Blower Never Flagged Spam, Company Tells Judge.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Requests a New Trial.
US Treasury to Recommend Issuing Digital Dollar if in National Interest.
Google Is Counting Down to Ethereum Merge with 'Easter Egg' on Search Engine.
3D XPoint™ Breakthrough Non-Volatile Memory - Intel.
The Atari 2600 at 45: The Console That Brought Arcade Games Home.
Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year.
Instagram fined $400 million over children's data.
Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products.
Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida.
New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities.

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Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Checking in on House of the Dragon.
Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California.
'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'.
Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare.
He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?
@negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!
Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator.
Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project.
Trint AI transcription.
Trint vs Otter.
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting.
Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs.
Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event.
Fitness bike usage down 23%.
Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman.
Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction.
Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion.
Jessamyn West - @jessamyn
USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth.
Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman.
T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable.
Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage.
The Animal Translators.

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Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.
Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's.
Apple's 'Far out' iPhone event will be held on September 7.
SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.
Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.
Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.
LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.
How big is your haystack?
Ethereum's Merge: Opportunities and risks.
The Crypto World Can't Wait for Ethereum's 'Merge.'
Web3 is going just great.
A Month on 'Mars': Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.
Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.
10 Million Watched 'House of the Dragon' Premiere, HBO Says.
Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of 'peak TV.'
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.
Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.
Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.
NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.

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Game of Thrones' v. 'Lord of the Rings': The Biggest Battle in Fantasy TV History Is Here.
How About We Just Don't Watch the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel?
HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, From Streaming.
Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags.
U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says.
Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' Coverage to Be Tracked by Nielsen.
Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign.
Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?
Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter.
A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack.
Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash.
HBO Achieves New Heights of Corporate Synergy With Bizarre 'House of the Dragon' Tie-Ins.
Ring's new TV show is a brilliant but ominous viral marketing ploy.
Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy.
Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone.
Now selfie drones can fly inside Apple stores.
The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China.
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools.

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FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

AngledDesigners on Etsy.
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.
The FTC has kicked off its massive push to regulate the data economy.
Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests.
Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors.
Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.
Sunset of the social network.
Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever.
Apple is in talks to acquire streaming rights for Big Ten athletics, report says.
Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods.
Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked.
California DMV accuses Tesla of deceptive practices in marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving options.
The Creators of 'King's Quest' Are Back With a New Game.
Netflix's slow start in gaming.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.

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Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.
French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

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CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022.
Intel Kills Optane Memory Business Entirely.
Apple's $83B quarter by the numbers.
FY22 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft.
Amazon (AMZN) Q2 2022 earnings.
Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
Collect and Trade NFL Highlights As NFTs.
Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money.
Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals.
FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal.
Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed.
Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
Twitter v. Elon Musk trial date set to start October 17th.
FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history.
Tim Hortons offers free coffee to settle mobile app class action lawsuits.
Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours.
Details from FBI Raid of U.S. Private Vaults Being Kept from Public.
Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
HBO Max will begin streaming 'Game of Thrones' in 4K HDR next month.
Ultiworld on Twitter: "Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) with the MASSIVE sky for @PrideofNY at the World Ultimate Club Championships"
NASA on Twitter: "We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible."

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Amazon Buys One Medical, Google Glass AR, Netflix Ad-Supported

Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay
Snap shares plunge 25% on disappointing second-quarter results and plans to slow hiring
House panel advances landmark federal data privacy bill
Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now
Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B
OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
"DALL·E Now Available in Beta"
BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
Gated is the new email program that makes people pay for access to your inbox
Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers, Vows Rebound
Netflix Aims to Launch Cheaper, Ad-Supported Plan in Early 2023
Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
Steve Jobs' prototype for the original Apple computer is being auctioned off, and bidding has already hit $230,000
'Doom' co-creator John Romero is making a new first-person shooter
Discord voice chat is coming to Xbox
A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta

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James Webb pics, Ev Williams steps down, MacBook Air M2 review

First James Webb Space Telescope pics give us our deepest look into space yet.
Musk Seeks to Block 'Warp Speed' Twitter Trial Over $44 Billion Deal.
What would a post-Twitter world look like?
Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium.
Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google, according to Google's own data.
Kids and teens now spend more time watching TikTok than YouTube, new data shows.
TikTok to roll out content filters and maturity ratings in pledge to make app safer.
The Uber whistleblower: I'm exposing a system that sold people a lie.
Uber Faces Lawsuit by Women for Sexual Assault Claims.
MacBook Air M2 is here, and it's spectacular.
macOS Ventura preview: Stage Manager is the star of the show.
Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader.
Hands-On with Tilt Five Production AR Glasses!
Magic Leap 2 will go on sale in the US on September 30th.
Hands-On with Mojo Augmented Reality Contact Lens!
FCC proposes new US broadband standard of 100Mbps down/20Mbps up.

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Musk bails on Twitter, Europe's big data laws, China's big data hack

Elon Musk tries to walk away from the Twitter deal.
Twitter will sue Elon Musk for calling off his $44 billion takeover.
Elon's out, and his bid to buy Twitter was likely a joke.
When Elon Musk dreams, his employees have nightmares.
Report: Tesla Factory Workers Are in Danger Because Elon Musk Hates the Color Yellow.
How Elon's bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock.
Europe's Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Biden order fortifies data privacy ahead of state-by-state legal battle over abortion.
Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police.
What the Heck Is a 'Super App' and Why Are Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel, and Jack Dorsey Interested?
Web3 projects have lost more than $2 billion to hacks this year.
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire".
Starlink on your yacht, so hot.
Apple's Mac Studio shows the power of its M1 chips, but isn't priced for mere mortals.
The fate of Apple and Sunday Ticket to be determined by fall, says NFL commissioner.
Apple's New Lockdown Mode for iPhone Fights Hacking, Spyware.
Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.
NASA will unveil the James Webb Space Telescope's 1st science photos this week. Here's how to watch.
The machine behind the 'God particle' is on the hunt for dark matter.

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Don't Buy Entry Level M2 Macbook Pro, Google To Delete Abortion Clinic Visits

GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit
Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online
Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
Google will start auto-deleting abortion clinic visits from user location history
Elon Musk Takes Unusually Long Twitter Break
Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months
Dollars for Docs
Department of Justice seized iPhones from two attorneys involved in January 6 probe
Bitcoin Crash Continues
Instagram tests ditching video posts in favor of Reels
TikTok says it's putting new limits on Chinese workers' access to U.S. user data
FTC commissioner's solo TikTok memo that was misreported around the world
Mike's recent Computerworld piece on the inevitability of the "splinternet"
Judge Luttig: Here's why I spoke so slowly at Jan. 6 hearing
Apple's Entry-Level M2 MacBook Pro Turns Into a Celeron Under Heavy Load
Steve Jobs Receives Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Roe vs. Wade, Amazon robots, Twitter Notes, Nothing Phone (1)

U.S. tech industry frets about handing data to states prosecuting abortion.
Meta Clamps Down on Internal Discussion of Roe v. Wade's Overturning.
Google tells workers they can relocate 'without justification' following the Supreme Court decision.
Big Tech is silent on data privacy in post-Roe America.
For people seeking abortions, digital privacy is suddenly critical.
We Need to Take Back Our Privacy.
Amazon's Latest Trick: Pipe In a Dead Person's Voice Through Alexa's Speakers.
No, Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise aren't dating: A TikTok video with impersonator confuses fans.
Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot.
A leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire.
Elon Tells Twitter He Needs Moar Data, Twitter Gives It to Him.
Elon Musk says he's worried about keeping Tesla out of bankruptcy.
Elon Musk says Tesla's AI humanoid robot 'Optimus' that can walk at 5mph and deadlift 150lbs will be ready in THREE MONTHS.
@Twitter: Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter.
Prime Day 2022 Will Start July 12—Here's What to Expect.
Google News returns to Spain and unveils redesign promoting local news and fact checks.
The underbelly of tech journalism.
Nothing Lives Up to Its Name, Hypes Up Nothing.
For All Mankind' prop fused an Apple Newton MessagePad 120 and an iPhone 12.

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Crypto bust, Musk talks to Twitter, China gets TikTok data, ADAS crash data

Bitcoin's Cascading Losses Accelerate in Record-Breaking Rout.
El Salvador's bitcoin-backing president asks for patience as crypto sinks.
Jake Paul Is 'Broke' After Putting All Of His Money In Cryptocurrency.
Dogecoin Pumps 8% After Elon Musk Says He's Still Buying.
Elon Musk sued for $258 billion over an alleged Dogecoin pyramid scheme.
Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow 'Pretty Outrageous' Tweets.
SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home.
Senators call for US to adopt common charger.
Microsoft to retire the Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge.
Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway.
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China.
Oracle finally won TikTok's US data storage business.
Larry Ellison's Lanai Isn't for You—or the People Who Live There.
NHTSA releases first batch of ADAS crash data.
Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready?
What's up with San Francisco?
Carbon Fiber Wheels Could Be Next Boost For EV Range.
What are the broad everyday impacts of AI?
Paris' pick: Magic Ring (Magic Mifare 1k + T5577).
Former Amazon engineer convicted in 2019 Capital One data breach.
Apple Workers at Maryland Store Vote to Unionize, a First in the U.S.
A leaked Amazon memo says the company may run out of available labor by 2024.
White House rolls out task force to curb online abuse.
Pluralistic: 15 Jun 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow.
Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar.
Diablo Immortal's Microtransactions Have Made It $24 Million In Two Weeks.
Nothing reveals Phone 1 design a month early.

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Apple WWDC, Sentient Google Chatbot AI, Bill C-11, Bored Ape Returns

Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022
Apple Announces Resident Evil Village and No Man's Sky for M2 Devices
Glasses or no glasses, this year's WWDC is all about AR
Apple Embraces the Ever-Expanding Dashboard Touchscreen
Apple's Passkey Replaces Passwords With iPhone and Mac Authentication
Apple's set to make big bucks off its new lending service
Who the hell asked Apple for widgets on their lock screen?
IOS, iPadOS, WatchOS are now one big platform
Apple will make USB-C gadgets ask for your permission to pass data in macOS 13
USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU 'by autumn 2024'
The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company's AI Has Come to Life
Apple's Giving Up Ground In Its App Store Fight With Dutch Regulators and Tinder
The Bill C-11 And What It Could Mean For Content Creators
In Reversal, Twitter Plans To Comply With Musk's Demands For Data
Friendlyjordies: John Barilaro to be paid $715,000 by Google Over YouTube Videos
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Venture TBD Unveils Proposal For Decentralized Web Platform
Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home
Jake Paul Slams President Biden, Lists Priority Issues Including Crypto
Nothing Will Reveal Its First Phone on July 12th

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Sheryl Sandberg steps down, WWDC preview, Texas social media law, right to repair

Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta
What to Expect at WWDC 2022: iOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and Possibly New Macs
Apple Plans to Make the iPad More Like a Laptop and Less Like a Phone
Apple's AR/VR Headset Will Dominate WWDC—Even Though It Won't Be There
What's Coming at Apple (AAPL) WWDC? IPad Upgrades That Make It More Like Laptop
Supreme Court Halts Texas Social Media 'Censorship' Law
Twitter Clears US Antitrust Review on $44 Billion Musk Deal
New York state passes first-ever 'right to repair' law for electronics
Ontario becomes first province to have a right to disconnect law
A Bunch of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Were Stolen (Again)
US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading
PC Mag 40 yr anniversary - Bill Gates on the Next 40 Years in Technology
Dave Smith Dead: Prophet-5 and MIDI Pioneer Dies at 72
In Memoriam - John Foster

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Seth Green's NFT stolen, DuckDuckGo and Microsoft, Apple Union battle

Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape And Star Of His New NFT Show.
Best Crypto Wallets by Nicholas De Leon.
A California bill could allow parents to sue social-media companies for up to $25,000 if their children become addicted to the platforms.
Court upholds the block on Florida's social media 'censorship' law.
Senator Klobuchar Fixed None Of The Problems With Her Antitrust Bill; But Made Sure To Carve Out ACTUAL Monopolists Like Telcos And Finance Companies.
DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement.
These Period Tracker Apps Say They Put Privacy First. Here's What We Found.
Apple VP kindly reminds retail workers that they can say no to unions.
We Tried Apple's Self Repair Program. You Shouldn't. (Probably).
Apple Shows AR/VR Headset to Board in Sign of Progress on Key Project.
Microsoft is making a native Arm version of Visual Studio 2022 and a mini PC.
Elon Musk Called Out for Using Stolen Cartoon to Illustrate Twitter Takeover.
Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk and Twitter over chaotic deal.
After 17 years, Peter Thiel has officially left Meta's board.
DC attorney general sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Twitter to pay $150 mln to settle with U.S. over privacy, security violations.
Want to make it in the music industry? You better go viral on TikTok.
Elizabeth Holmes pleaded with a judge to overturn her Theranos convictions, citing 'insufficient evidence'.
End of an era as New York removes last public payphone.
Analog City: NYC B.C. (Before Computers).

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NY goes after Twitch, Musk's real plan, Apple's DeepMind defection

Elon Musk says Twitter deal can't happen until bot account dispute is resolved.
Twitter asks shareholders to support Musk's purchase.
NY Launches Ridiculous, Blatantly Unconstitutional 'Investigations' Into Twitch, Discord; Deflecting Blame From NY's Own Failings.
@kendraschaefer: My goodness. China's cyberspace watchdog, the CAC, just published a long (and unprecedented) set of draft regulations for recommendation algorithms.
Why is the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial so visible on social media?
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell.
Dianetics and scientology technical dictionary by L. Ron Hubbard.
Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple's ever done.
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel.
Apple Shows Headset to Board in Sign It's Reached Advanced Stage.
VeeCon: Exclusive Conference Around Web 3 and Culture.
Fears grow for smaller nations after ransomware attack on Costa Rica escalates.
Ransomware gang Conti 'shuts down' in midst of Costa Rica attack.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor.
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman.
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand.
Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science by Harry R. Lewis.
Pinball Map

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Elon Musk Says His $44 Billion Twitter Deal Is 'On Hold'.
Two Twitter Leaders Are Leaving Company Following Musk Deal.
Texas HB 20: Tech asks SCOTUS to stop Texas social media law.
Just How Incredibly F'd Up Is Texas' Social Media Content Moderation Law?
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for 'burning the 3am oil' – here's what that really looks like.
Jeff Bezos Hits Back at Joe Biden in Twitter Spat Over Inflation.
Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7.
The Pixel Tablet is coming in 2023.
It's not a phone, it's an alliance.
Google Glass's successor teased at I/O.
Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449.
More than $200 billion erased from the entire crypto market in a day as the sell-off intensifies.
Yellen Renews Call for Stablecoin Regulation After TerraUSD Stumble.
'The Guilt Is Unbearable': UST-Luna Investors Discuss the 99.99% Crypto Crash.
Take Control of Cryptocurrency by Glenn Fleishman.
Caitlin's podcast: Crypto's big crash.
Coinbase chief says 'no risk of bankruptcy' after regulatory filing sparks alarm.
Man seeks to excavate a landfill that allegedly has half a billion dollars worth of bitcoin.
UK's Royal Mail aims to open up to 50 drone routes for rural deliveries.
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell.
The iPod is dead.
A Visual History of the Apple iPod.
Netflix Tells Employees Ads May Come by the End of 2022.
Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials.
Disney Plus added almost 8 million new subscribers as Netflix struggles.
Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe.
Here's What the Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way Looks Like.
TikTok to surpass YouTube in the US.
TIkTok introduces first ad product with rev share for creators.
House where Facebook was created lists for $5.3M.

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Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview

Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.
Evaluating Elon Musk's Plan To Fix Twitter.
Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout.
Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning.
Bitcoin drops below $35,000 over the weekend, extending Friday's losses.
NFT Sales Are Flatlining.
NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla.
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.
Vatican Offers, Mysteriously Rescinds Interview About Pope's Metaverse Plans.
Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.
Global Privacy Control (GPC).
Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions.
The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship.
Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.
AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown.
Salt_Hank on TikTok.
Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners.
Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads.
Frontier lied about Internet speeds and "ripped off customers," FTC says.
New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick.
Apple's Self Service Repair now available.

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Musk buys Twitter, Ethereum stumbles, broadcasting to aliens

Twitter Has a New Owner. Here's What He Should Do.
Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation.
Jack Dorsey is tweeting through it.
Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to end the 2018 settlement with SEC.
Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum.
Web3 is Going Great - Molly White.
The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties.
Labor Department Criticizes Fidelity's Plan to Put Bitcoin on 401(k) Menu.
Doctorow Femur by Cory Doctorow.
You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results.
New options for removing your personally identifiable information from Search.
Spotify Boosts Subscribers Despite Russia Ban, Joe Rogan Drama.
Data From Fake Legal Requests Used to Sexually Extort Minors.
These scientists want to tell aliens where Earth is — not everyone is happy.
Netflix's Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It.
Alphabet Q1: YouTube Ad Revenue Growth Slows Dramatically.
Apple shares dip after the company warns of a possible $8 billion hit from supply constraints.
Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy.
Fort Worth, TX the first city in the U.S. to mine bitcoin.
TikTok was the top app by worldwide downloads in Q1 2022.
Meta Platforms' 'Metaverse' Division Loses $3B in 1Q.
Microsoft Earnings: Cloud Growth Propels Higher Sales, Earnings.
Hollywood's Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly.
From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: A collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends.

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Netflix declines, CNN+ folds, Pixel Watch rumors, Moonbirds NFT, salty chopsticks

Netflix Q1 net subscribers unexpectedly decline, revenue misses expectations.
Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Sells Entire Netflix Stake, Taking $400 Million Loss.
Netflix Says 100 Million+ Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords.
CNN+ streaming service pulls a Quibi and will shut down a month after launch.
Rupert's Age, Apple/NFL, and the Bomb of the Pandemic.
Puzzle over Elon Musk Twitter plan after cryptic 'moving on' tweet.
Elon Musk, Baloney King.
House Republicans demand Twitter's board preserve all records about Musk's bid to buy the company.
Apple warns developers it will pull apps without recent updates from the App Store.
Google files a trademark application for 'Pixel Watch'
Google's Rumored Smartwatch Should Take a Page From Its Pixel Phones.
Google Pixel Watch: Exclusive leaked images seem to show Google's first smartwatch.
Google's AI-Powered 'Inclusive Warnings' Feature Is Very Broken.
Uber lifts mask mandate for drivers and riders.
Shanghai Reports Record Daily Covid Deaths in Current Outbreak.
What is the Moonbirds NFT collection, and why did it surge so quickly?
HBO Max backs 'Minecraft' movie with 'Aquaman' star Jason Momoa.
"Oreology" investigates the mystery of why Oreo creme filling usually sticks to one side.
Watching TV from behind the wheel of a self-driving car is allowed under UK law.
A Tesla vehicle using 'Smart Summon' appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet.
Americans are drowning in spam.
The lickable-TV guy created electric chopsticks to make food taste saltier.

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Elon Musk, Bill Gates' Metaverse, Zuckerberg security detail

Fast track.
Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter (TWTR) Stake.
Elon Musk Wants to Buy Out Twitter (TWTR) in Final $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid.
Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover.
Fox News says it didn't authorize Truth Social account.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.
Researchers find new malware variant after stopping attack on Ukrainian energy provider.
Ukraine Soldier Tears Down Russian Drone, Finds DSLR Camera, Bottle Cap.
California proposed ban on new gas-fueled cars by 2035.
Muting your mic reportedly doesn't stop big tech from recording your audio.
AI software from Uniphore, Sybill and Zoom detects customer emotions.
TikTok launches its own AR development platform, Effect House.
Mark Zuckerberg's Augmented Reality.
What a 1994 Bill Gates keynote tells us about the metaverse.
Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service.
Big Tech Is Pouring $925 Million Into Carbon Removal.
Intel sets 2040 net zero goal for carbon emissions.
Houston Astros' stadium will be the first in MLB to use Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' tech.
Mark Zuckerberg Security Costs $26.8 Million for Meta.
Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy.

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Elon Musk's Twitter stake, Unreal Engine 5, WWDC predictions

Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter.
Twitter Should Make Musk CEO.
@TwitterComms: now that everyone is asking... yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year!
Elon Musk asks court to scrap SEC agreement over his tweets, claiming he was 'forced' to enter into it.
SEC Probes Trading by Elon Musk and Brother in Wake of Tesla CEO's Sales.
Mike raises a glass to 17 years of TWiT.
Podcast listeners are likely to be more curious and less neurotic.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference returns in its all-online format.
Windows powers the future of hybrid work.
The 'Great Return' to the office is happening — now what?
How Argan Oil Is Made and Is So Expensive.
Gastronomad: THE MOROCCO EXPERIENCE.
Please don't use this new Windows 11 feature.
NVIDIA Broadcast App: AI-Powered Voice and Video.
Updated MacBook Air could launch at WWDC 2022.
Apple M1 Ultra vs M1 Max: Head-to-head shootout with photo and video editing apps.
Intercepted audio reveals Russians yelling at each other after getting pinned down in Ukraine.
As Russia Plots Its Next Move, an AI Listens to the Chatter.
Microsoft takes down APT28 domains used in attacks against Ukraine.
Apple defies the Russian government and restores opposition voting app.
Unreal Engine 5 is finally ready to power a new generation of games.
Apple Sets the Date for Another Virtual WWDC—Here's What to Expect.
Inside Apple's 'Bionic Virtual Meeting Room'.
Magic Leap: Enterprise augmented reality (AR) platform.
How Amazon plans to fix its massive returns problem.
The only thing we should be talking about is the climate crisis.
r/Place and the battle of pixels.
Alphabet's Wing is bringing drone delivery to Texas this week.
Windows 3.1 is officially 30 years old.
MLB to allow pitchers and catchers to use anti-sign-stealing technology during regular season, sources say.
Amtrak Is Streaming an Empty Railroad on Twitch to Beef With Freight Rail Companies.
Chatterbox Smart Speaker.

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Wyze camera flaw, E3 is over again, Dorsey apologizes for centralized web

Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera for three years and said nothing.
Lapsus$: Two UK teenagers charged with hacking for gang.
Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA.
E3 2022 - Digital and Physical - Has Officially Been Canceled.
Sony merges PS Now and PS Plus to create a three-tier subscription service.
There Are Only 2 Million Units Of Bitcoin Left To Mine -- Why Does It Matter?
Ubiquiti seeks $425 million in damages against industry blogger Brian Krebs.
Apple Is First Streamer to Win the Best Picture Oscar for 'CODA'.
Tim Cook's Oscar Moment Didn't Come Cheap.
The guest's current WFH status.
At GitHub You Don't Need No Stinkin' Office, But There Is A Nice One If You Do.
Apple is at its best when it doesn't know best.
32" M8 UHD/4K Smart Monitor with Streaming TV and SlimFit Camera.
Above Avalon: Apple Is in a League of Its Own.
Intel Core i3-12100 and i5-12400 review: Fast, affordable, and hard to criticize.
Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet.
Facebook paid a Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok.
Waymo says fully driverless rides are coming to San Francisco.
Elon Musk on Twitter: There will come a time in the future where people will be surprised that we let practically anyone drive a 2 ton death machine anywhere they want.
Dyson's bizarre new headphones have a built-in air purifier.

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Kaspersky on Security Risk List, Lapsus$ hackers caught, EU's messaging law

The Threat of Russian Cyberattacks Looms Large
Kaspersky Named First Russian Company on Security Risk List.
F.B.I.'s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware.
Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal.
Authentication firm Okta's shares slide after hack warning.
SCRAM by Chris Crawford.
EU Provisionally Agrees on Law That Would Force Apple to Allow Alternative App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability.
Elon Musk Likens NHTSA To The "Fun Police" After Boombox Recall.
Elon Musk Says He's Thinking About Creating a Social Media Platform.
Roku Rolls Out OS 11 Update with Personalized Photo Screensaver and More.
Daring Fireball: Apple TV App on Android TV and Google TV No Longer Lets Users Buy or Rent Movies.
iFixit teardown offers a detailed look inside the Mac Studio and Studio Display.
Nvidia describes Arm-based Grace CPU 'Superchip'.
Nvidia takes the wraps off Hopper, its latest GPU architecture.
Nvidia wants to speed up data transfer by connecting data center GPUs to SSDs.
DirectStorage shows minor load-speed improvements in real-world PC demo.
YouTube is taking on over-the-air TV with nearly 4,000 free episodes of TV.
Honda's Asimo robot to retire after 20-year career wowing public.
Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died.
John Roach, Pioneer of the Personal Computer, Is Dead at 83.

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Mac Studio review, Netflix password sharing, Amazon Project Iliad

Jason's Mac Studio review: Something new.
Mac Studio FULL Teardown - M1 Ultra chip REVEALED!
Jason's Apple Studio Display Review: A welcome return.
The Samsung Odyssey Ark is its largest curved monitor yet — and you can turn it on its side.
Jason's M1 iPad Air review: A familiar face.
OS Updates arrive with Universal Control, Mask Unlock.
Zelensky video deepfake.
Facebook removes 'deepfake' of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
Brazil's Supreme Court suspends Telegram, a key Bolsonaro platform.
Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform.
Vimeo is sorry, and here's how it's changing.
The internet forgot about Clubhouse. Anti-war Russians didn't.
Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine.
Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM.
CNN confirms streaming service CNN+ to launch this spring.
Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers to Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Test to Address Unauthorized Password Sharing.
Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were 'not intended to be published externally'.
Germany Warns Kaspersky Could Be Used to 'Attack' During Ukraine Invasion.
SpaceX sent Starlink internet terminals to Ukraine. They could paint a 'giant target' on users' backs, experts say.
McLaren F1 car sports 'Chrome wheels' and Android logo.
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters.
Amazon's 'Project Iliad' Made It Harder to Cancel Prime: Leaked Data.
AccountKiller.com
Bored Apes NFT project gets official 'ApeCoin' token.
Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram.
California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids.
Permanent Daylight Saving Time bill could stall in the House.
"Better than our most optimistic prediction" – first images from James Webb exceed all expectations.
CD sales just rose for the first time in almost two decades.

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M1 Ultra, Mac Studio, DuckDuckGo's neutrality, TikTok's Oracle deal

Apple unveils the M1 Ultra, its most powerful chip yet.
Apple announces new $1599 27-inch 5K Apple Studio Display, featuring Center Stage webcam.
Apple's Peek Performance Event Delivers to the Pros and the Mainstream.
Apple's Mac Studio is a new desktop for creative professionals.
Apple releasing iOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, and other updates next week.
Russian Cyberattacks are Possible. Be Prepared But Not Panicked.
Responding to reports that the Russian government is considering designating Meta as an extremist organization for its policies in support of speech...
Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders.
DuckDuckGo ends neutrality, will down-rank sites "associated with Russian disinformation"
TikTok nears Oracle deal in bid to allay U.S. data concerns-sources.
The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine.\
The Power Of Knowing You Belong: A Conversation With YouTube Stars Justine And Jenna Ezarik.
CNN+ will start streaming on March 29th.
Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine.
Amazon's Clubhouse competitor is here, turning hosts into DJs.
Salt_Hank on TikTok.
Will Magid, musician.
Biden Signs Executive Order Bullish on Crypto, Digital U.S. Dollar.
Moderna Will Develop mRNA Vaccines for 15 of the World's Worst Diseases.
Ford to ship and sell incomplete vehicles with missing chips.
Facebook's Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry.
Twitter is looking for younger users. It's turning to the tech world's teen savant to help find them.
Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed.
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years.
LimeWire Is Making a Comeback, But Not As You Know It.
Coronal Mass Ejection Reaches Earth On Sunday Night.

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ICANN in Russia, Nuclear vs Solar power, Elden Ring, Audiblegate, Chunky Palmtop

Setting the stage for Russia vs Ukraine.
ICANN won't revoke Russian Internet domains, says effect would be "devastating".
Google blocks RT, Sputnik from the Play app store in Europe.
Kevin Rothrock on Twitter: "Police officers in Moscow today are stopping people, demanding to see their phones, READING THEIR MESSAGES, and refusing to release them if they refuse."
Telegram Harm Reduction for Users in Russia and Ukraine.
Mastercard, Visa suspend operations in Russia after the invasion.
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith.
The state of E-sports in 2022.
E-sports vs Chess.
World Chess Boxing Championship.
Europe's Sleeping Giant Awakens.
Apple 'Peek Performance' event invite is an AR portal.
Chonky Palmtop.
The age of Fidonet versus the age of the Internet.
Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter for 4 secret novels raises $15M in first day.
Audiblegate.
The History of the Standard Oil Company.
Framework laptop.
The Dawn of Everything.

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Russian/Ukraine War, Steam Deck

Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia
How Google Maps is tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian leader calls on Apple to block Russian users from the App Store
Fedorov Reaches out to Musk and Tech Giants for Aid During Russian Invasion
What does the Ukraine invasion mean for the US-Russian partnership in space?
Are You Good at Elden Ring?
Samsung shipped '100 million' phones with flawed encryption
Webb Telescope reaches a major milestone: All its light is in one place
Steam Deck Review: IT'S NOT READY
Apple will give Siri a less gendered voice option in iOS 15.4
GlaDOS Voice Generator
Old Man of the Lake
Gaming Recs for Lisa Schmeiser

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Android Privacy Sandbox, Truth Social, Cyber Warfare, NUDGE Act

The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb.
The Privacy Sandbox on Android.
Meta's Horizon metaverse already has 10x more users since 2022 began.
Microsoft claims HoloLens is 'doing great' after reports version 3 was canceled.
Meta's Clegg Promoted as Zuckerberg Steps Back From Policy.
New algorithm bill could force Facebook to change how the news feed works.
QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning.
Trump's social network will reportedly launch on Monday.
Melania Trump's Auction of Hat Hit by Plunge in Cryptocurrency.
Meet the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' rapper accused of laundering billions of dollars in crypto.
OpenSea Investigating 'Exploit Rumors' as Users Complain of Missing NFTs.
Spotify Buys Podcast Analytics Firms Podsights and Chartable.
Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On.
You'll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro.
Crypto apps soar in popularity after the Super Bowl splurge.
What might cyberwarfare look like?
US officials prep big banks and utilities for potential Russian cyberattacks as the Ukraine crisis deepens.
New York Amazon Workers to Vote on Union in March.
Mapping Playboy's Digital Reinvention, Where NFTs Are the Magazine and the Metaverse Is the Mansion.
YouTube's Content ID System Flags, Demonetizes Video Of Cat Purring.

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Galaxy S22 Ultra, Mainstreaming of crypto, Meta in France, James Webb Telescope

The Mainstreaming of Crypto.
Rapper Razzlekhan Is Accused Of $4.5 Billion Crypto Laundering Scheme.
The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a Note successor with a built-in stylus.
Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra should have been a Chromebook.
Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if - Meta can not process Europeans' data on US servers.
France says Google Analytics breaches GDPR when it sends data to US.
Age verification to access social media: UK govt threat.
IRS abandons ID.me facial recognition plans.
Fake Windows 11 upgrade installers infect you with RedLine malware.
Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial.
40 Starlink satellites succumb to geomagnetic storm.
Teenager who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says he might stop in exchange for a new Tesla.
Chip shortages, sure, but it's a good time to be a silicon wafer maker.
The Guardian: Rising popularity of VR headsets sparks 31% rise in insurance claims.
In Oscar Nominations, Streaming Hits A Ceiling Despite Apple Breakthrough And 'The Power Of The Dog' Leading Field.

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Meta earnings flop, Amazon Prime price hike, NFT celebrity complex

Meta Erases $251 Billion in Value, Biggest Wipeout in History.
Facebook blames Apple after a historically bad quarter, saying iPhone privacy changes will cost it $10 billion.
Meta lost $10 billion on AR and VR in 2021.
Zuckerberg Tells Staff to Focus on Video Products as Meta's Stock Plunges.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian wasn't shocked by Meta's 26% plunge, saying Facebook's ad model 'doesn't cut the mustard' anymore.
The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It's More Dangerous Than Ever.
Google parent company Alphabet broke $200 billion in annual revenue for the first time.
Google's Pixel phones had their best quarter ever.
Amazon confronts pandemic costs and raises the price of Prime.
Here's The Boat That Won't Bring Jeff Bezos's Hair, Or Wife Back.
Joe Rogan Apologizes for 'Shameful' Past Use of Racial Slur.
Why is Joe Rogan So Popular?
What is the current state of COVID and WFH?
GoFundMe removes the donation page for the Canadian trucker protest.
Silicon Valley loves mafias and you should, too.
Wordle Is Joining The New York Times Games.
Apple blasted over a paltry 3% fee reduction for external payments in the Netherlands.
Tesla recall: 'Full Self-Driving' software runs stop signs.
Mapping the celebrity NFT complex.
We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club's Pseudonymous Founders.
Report: Stadia deprioritized as white-label 'Google Stream' aims for Bungie, Capcom deals.
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet.
BlackBerry to sell patents related to mobile devices, messaging for $600 million.
House OKs bill to boost US chip fabrication and R&D.
Car companies stand to make billions by charging you monthly fees for add-on features like heated seats.

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Nvidia done with ARM, Spotify controversy, Google kills FLoC, FBI, and Pegasus

Spotify Takes Down Neil Young's Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum.
Spotify loses $4 billion in market value after the Neil Young controversy.
Joni Mitchell demands Spotify remove her music over deadly 'lies'.
Apple Music claims it's 'home of Neil Young' after Spotify loses legendary songwriter.
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics.
Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid.
The PC is back again. But for how long?
Apple Revenue Pops 11% To $123.9 Billion Despite Supply Chain Concerns.
Dell's new XPS laptop messes with the familiar—and that's the point.
Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month.
The ambitious Android tablet option Google tossed away.
The Battle for the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon.
Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be the world's fastest by end of 2022.
Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th.
A robot bartender that serves up cocktails in 90 seconds will be on duty at the Winter Olympics as organizers seek to keep a lid on COVID-19.
ARK Invest's Big Ideas 2022: The 14 transformative technologies to watch this year.
Appeals Court Won't Block Enforcement of California Net Neutrality Law.
Breyer's Supreme Court replacement will face a hefty cyber docket.
Here's what Apple might announce at a spring event this March.

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Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal, 5G improvements, Intel's Ohio factory

Microsoft set to purchase Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal.
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout, demand CEO step down.
Bobby Kotick Reportedly Turned Up Late and Left Early from a Meeting Meant to Reassure Employees.
Bobby Kotick interview: Why Activision Blizzard did the deal with Microsoft.
The movie segment!
Airline CEOs make a U-turn, now say 5G isn't a big problem for altimeters.
AT&T, Verizon 5G is about to get much faster in more places - if you have the right phone.
AT&T begins a 5G C-band rollout in a limited number of metro areas.
Intel Reveals Plans for Massive Factory in Ohio.
The Intel Split.
Google starts rolling out the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro's delayed December update.
IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes.
Senate committee votes to advance major tech antitrust bill.
Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department Seek to Strengthen Enforcement Against Illegal Mergers.
MEPs adopt Digital Services Act with significant last-minute changes.
Twitter Blue on Twitter: "You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now rolling out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS"
Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Ensnares Spotify in Covid Misinformation Debate.
Bitcoin drops to a six-month low as investors dump speculative assets.
Fed releases long-awaited study on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position yet on creating one.
Faster cable internet speeds are coming, even if you don't really need them.
The World's First Wi-Fi 7 Demo Reached Speeds 2.4 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi 6.
Twitter shakes up its security team.
TikTok's marketing chief ousted after 'going rogue' with bizarre campaigns.
US athletes are told to use burner phones at Beijing Winter Olympics.
Netflix Q4 2021: Gains 8.2 Million Subscribers, Stock Down on Forecast.
Felony charges are 1st in a fatal crash involving Autopilot.
We Met in Virtual Reality' finds love in the metaverse.

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E3 goes virtual, microdosing in the metaverse.

CES through the years.
Oversized future USPS delivery truck on display at CES in Las Vegas.
BMW debuts its new color-changing paint technology at CES: E Ink.
Massage Robot at CES 2022.
This super realistic "humanoid robot" stole the show at CES 2022.
Using Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel at CES 2022: Hardly groundbreaking.
Elon Musk says Spacex will catch Starship booster with giant "robot chopsticks"
Halo.car
@richontech: No joke. This SUV is being driven remotely from this gaming-style rig, complete with a steering wheel, pedals and a giant monitor with live camera feeds from the vehicle.
E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.
Why Apple's iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble.
After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful.
The long-awaited January update for Google's Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro is now live.
@stroughtonsmith: Apple really needs to throw out its crowdsourced machine-learned autocorrect system entirely.
Second Life Founder Returns to Take On the Metaverse.
Meta's Oculus was the US's most-downloaded app on Christmas.
Is microdosing legal?
Canalys: Worldwide PC shipments soared in 2021 to 341 million units.

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The future of finance, Web3, NASA Webb Telescope, synthetic biology, CES 2022

Amy introduces the Futurist episode.
The Future Today Institute's 14th Annual Tech Trends Report.
Moxie Marlinspike - My first impressions of web3.
Jack Dorsey says VCs really own Web3 (and Web3 boosters are pretty mad about it).
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to - Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs.
The rise of the alt-coins.
Oh look, it's a Tesla traffic jam in Las Vegas' Boring Company tunnel.
NASA's Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds.
CES attendance down more than 75%, organizers say.
LG Display brought a reclining curved OLED throne to CES this year.
Change your car's colour with an app: BMW unveils color-changing car.
CES 2022: The humanoid robot, Ameca, revealed at CES show.
Abbott tells CES it's getting into consumer biowearables.
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb.

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Leo Laporte takes us through the past year in tech. 2021 highlights include:

Comparisons between the roaring '20s and the NEW roaring '20s
GameStop, meme stocks, and the revenge of the retail trader
CryptoPunks, NFTs, and the Blockchain.
Nicholas almost unboxes his NBA NFT
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13.
Jeff Bezos' Legacy as CEO of Amazon
How Amy Webb Beat Her Insomnia
Rick Roll gets 1 billion views
IBM PC Turns 40 Years Old
"New Data Says More Communities Built Their Own Broadband Because of COVID.
U.S. Broadband Wireless Speeds Climb to Pathetic 14th Place Globally. "
China's central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows harsh crackdown.
iPod is 20 years old

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Biggest stories of the year including Meta, mRNA, Log4j, NFTs, Ransomware

COVID-19's impact on tech.
Elon Musk in 2021.
The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.
GM's heated seats and steering wheels are the latest casualties of the chip shortage.
Baby Driver: Philadelphia woman gives birth in the front seat of Tesla on autopilot.
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines.
Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage.
The Harvard Job Offer No One at Harvard Ever Heard Of.
Microsoft's very bad year for security: A timeline.
Log4j: The 'most serious' security breach ever is unfolding right now.
REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward.
Billionaires in space.
FAA: No more commercial astronaut wings, too many launching.
Fact check: Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket launch didn't emit carbon.
Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon's C.E.O., handing the reins to Andy Jassy.
In a surprise tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he's stepping down.
Square is changing its name to Block.
The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg's Escape Hatch.
A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived.
Lina Khan's Battle to Rein in Big Tech.
Top trend of 2021: The Metaverse.
2021 ends with a question: Are NFTs here to stay?
Android 12: Everything you need to know about Google's new big update to the popular OS!
Colonial Pipeline: How a major oil pipeline got held for ransom.
Sinclair Confirms Ransomware Attack That Disrupted TV Stations.
A comprehensive breakdown of the Epic v. Apple Ruling.
Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled.
Ever Given container ship leaves Suez Canal 106 days after getting stuck.
VW rebrand turns out to be April Fool's joke.
Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV.
Don't be fooled — Amazon's Astro isn't a home robot, it's a camera on wheels.
I swallowed one of my AirPods.
Woman swallows AirPods accidentally; claims device recorded audio from her stomach.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Mikah Sargent, and Jason Howell

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Log4j vulnerability, YouTube and Disney make up, Tardigrades, Anti-5G necklace

Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks.
The Next Wave of Log4J Attacks Will Be Brutal.
The Numbers Behind Log4j Vulnerability CVE-2021-44228.
YouTube TV Reaches Deal To Bring Back Disney-Owned Channels Including ESPN, Disney Channel, & ABC.
Oh Doctah's thoughts on the Great Resignation.
Reddit Announces Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement Related to Proposed Public Offering.
BuzzFeed Suffers Wave of SPAC Investor Withdrawals Before Going Public.
Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021.
EV tax credits: Manchin a no on Build Back Better bill, putting $12,500 incentive in doubt.
Record-Breaking Eight Mobile Games Surpass $1 Billion in Global Player Spending During 2021.
Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app development on iPad.
Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start Into a Subscription Service.
Dog helps his human move tires and figures out how to carry four tires in one bite.
TikTok says it's removing 'alarmist warnings' about school violence.
I'm getting this PAGASA message on my AOD and lockscreen.
Meta says nearly 50,000 journalists and activists were targeted by sophisticated spying operations on Facebook and Instagram.
Melania Trump emerges to launch new NFT platform meant to 'inspire' — and earn cash.
RadioShack Announces Ambitious New Cryptocurrency Exchange: RadioShack Defi.
Homeland Security launches 'Hack DHS' bug bounty program.
Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online.
Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive.
Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Jeff Jarvis, and Tim Stevens

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Worst 0-day in a decade, Amazon outage, Assange extradition, Birds Aren't Real

Six dead, no hope of more survivors after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse.
Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package.
An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries.
Amazon Outage Disrupts Lives, Surprising People About Their Cloud Dependency.
Instagram's CEO faces senators accusing his company of harming some young users.
Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022.
The US wins appeal over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder
Inside Tim Cook's Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities.
Apple's Empty Threat? Silence Over iPhone Ad Workarounds Sows Confusion.
All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan.
Mercedes-Benz gets the world's first approval for an automated driving system.
A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars.
Tesla Cybertruck with updated design spotted on test track.
'No easy solution' for Tesla Cybertruck's comically large windshield wiper, Elon Musk says.
Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain.
I want to go back!' Michael Strahan can't get enough of space after Blue Origin launch.
TCL stops selling Google TV lineup over software & performance issues, updates coming soon.
Amazon is shutting down the web ranking site Alexa.com.
Grand Theft Auto video game ban proposed by Illinois State Rep. Marcus Evans.
Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance.
Jessica Rosenworcel was confirmed by Senate to lead the FCC.
New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions: "It's definitely a life-changer".
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
Ex-Apple Engineer Cher Scarlett No Longer Withdrawing U.S. Labor Agency Complaint Against Apple.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Alex Kantrowitz, and Carolina Milanesi

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Jack leaves Twitter, what is Web3, Bitcoin crashes again, Cyber Monday

China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon.
Jack is leaving Twitter and we have ~thoughts~
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?
Jack Dorsey's Square changes corporate name to Block.
Twitter's new CEO announces major reorganization of the social networking company.
Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent.
Far-right is using Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers.
Self-Important Asshole Making Big Show About Leaving Twitter.
Is web3 BS?
Bukele steps up El Salvador's bet on sliding bitcoin; buys another 150 coins.
Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend.
Black Friday data adds to evidence e-commerce growth is slowing.
The Chip Shortage Has Made a Star of This Little-Known Component.
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy.
FTC Challenges Nvidia's Deal for Arm Holdings.
Move Over, GE. The Tech Conglomerates Are the New Leaders of Industry.
U.K. regulators order Facebook-owner Meta to sell Giphy.
Russia threatens criminal charges against a NASA astronaut.
NASA delays ISS spacewalk over debris worries.
The Mars Rover video and sound. It's so eerie and yet so interesting / thought-provoking.
Meta has chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud provider.
Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11's controversial default browser changes.
New rule will allow debt collectors to track you down on social media.
Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85.

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