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February 01, 2023TWiG 701: Bring Me a Leaf Blower - ChatGPT and Bing, Samsung Unpacked 2023, Clear Calling demo, Artifact
AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch 'TV Show' Is Peak Absurdity.

ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.

Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.

Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years.

History of AI by Shaan Ray.

MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.

AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse.

OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future.

Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers.

Is AI-written content replacing cheap old content farms?

Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy VR Startup Within Unlimited in Loss for Khan's FTC.

The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn.

How is it legal to track private planes like Elon Musk's?

US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew.

Twitter co-founder says Elon Musk 'doesn't seem like' the right person to own company.

Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2023.

Live test of Clear Calling.

Google's Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week's layoffs.

Intel just took the worst beating in earnings in over a decade.

Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3 now available for Pixel phones.

Latest Pixel Buds A-series 3.519.0 firmware update breaks Bluetooth pairing.

YouTube TV losing MLB Network starting today.

Google hosting in-person Cloud Next '23 this August.

Chrome for Android rolling out fingerprint unlock for Incognito tabs.

PSA: Gmail's new package tracking interface is now live if you know where to look.

New leaked specs suggest 'Pixel Tablet Pro' might not be a thing after all.

Acer's newest Chromebooks are built to be classroom-ready.

Google says Lens and Maps Live View are 'prelude to [its] long-term vision' for AR.

Google Fi says hackers accessed customers' information.

Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback.

Spotify axes podcast head Dawn Ostroff in cutbacks.
Picks:
Stacey - The Sorcerer of Pyongyang: A Novel.

Jeff - Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won't connect smart appliances.

Jeff - I'm on Team dog.

Ant - You People.

Ant - I'm Very Angry, So I'm Campaigning.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 37 min
January 25, 2023TWiG 700: Impecunious Mods - Google job cuts, ChatGPT malware, To Leslie, AmazonSmile to close
Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.

Interview with Richard Hay.

Google Slashes Jobs at Incubator Area 120 as Part of Cuts.

Meta to Reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts.

AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces.

Mastodon founder has a message for Elon Musk.

Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients.

Elon Musk Explores Raising Up to $3 Billion to Help Pay Off Twitter Debt.

Ivory: The Magnificent Mastodon App.

We tried to run a social media site and it was awful.

DOJ sues Google over its dominance in online advertising market.

Justice Department calls for breakup of Google in new antitrust lawsuit.

More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft.

ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor.

@divergencearran: Earlier this evening @kevinrose was phished into signing a malicious signature that allowed the hacker to transfer a large number of high-value tokens.

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware.

T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers.

PCs past fans: active cooling chip.

HBO's 'The Last of Us' Infects Your Google Search With Creepy Fungus.

To Leslie' and the word-of-mouth campaign that got Andrea Riseborough an Oscar nomination.

Virginia man sues Chick-fil-A in SF court over sharing data with Facebook.

The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off.

Google Clock 7.4 update tests buttons for ending alarms.

Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2.1 rolling out with Bluetooth and 5G fixes for Pixel.

Google Meet making it easier to share files during calls.

Waze now supports Android Auto's 'Coolwalk' dashboard; will users actually start getting it now?
Picks:
Stacey - Jabra 85H.

Stacey - The AirPods Pro 2nd gen as smart hearables puts a smile on my face.

Jeff - The library that Jeff wants.

Ant - StellaPro Reflex-S On Sale.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Richard Hay

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3 hr 6 min
January 18, 2023TWiG 699: Blame it on the Tesla - Google to SCOTUS, Google Images
Twitter Auction Complete

Twitter is blocking third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific

Sawyer Merritt on Twitter: "Boston Dynamics shows of their robots latest skills

Tesla staged 2016 self-driving demo, says senior Autopilot engineer

Twitter admits it's breaking third-party apps, cites 'long-standing API rules'

Google Images Was Created Because Of Jennifer Lopez

Leo's wake-up call

Dozens of media companies set 2023 content deals with Twitter

Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to end ban on bare breasts

New Study: No, Of Course Russian Twitter Trolls Didn't Impact The 2016 Election | Techdirt

Saunas and cold shock

Google's brief to SCOTUS on 230

Nick Cave says imitation ChatGPT song is 'a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human'

Point-by-point rebuttal of that litigation

Reid Hoffman makes a podcast with ChatGPT

Nest cofounder's next thing: mail your dessicated food waste to him for chickenfeed

Google Changelog

YouTube is testing a hub of free, cable-style channels | Engadget

Your Google Stadia controller won't be a paperweight after the service shuts down | Engadget

Google plans AirTag clone, will track devices with 3 billion Android phones

Google Translate now supports 33 new languages offline

Fitbit step and heart rate data is appearing in Google Fit

ChromeOS 109 rolling out with a tweak to how Android apps launch

Google's bringing new features to older versions of Android

Android Auto redesign rolling out draggable seek bar in music apps

Google Discover rolls out three-column UI ahead of Pixel Tablet

Android 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices five months after launch

We like this compost bin

Govee Smart Kettle

State Dept phases out Times Roman in favor of 14 pt Calibri

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura

Marshawn Lynch Shows Kevin Hart Beast Mode In The Cold Tubs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 43 min
January 11, 2023TWiG 698: Hands Off My Pound Cake! - ChatGPT Microsoft investment, Tesla crashes, FAA outage, Afroman raid
Stadia player count hinted at by Destiny 2 figures.

The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony.

KSK Key Signing Ceremony (16 Jun 10).

Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT.

OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot.

Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT.

neeva.ai

Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers.

Ryan Reynolds used ChatGPT to make a Mint Mobile ad, and the results were 'mildly terrifying'.

NYC education department blocks ChatGPT on school devices, networks.

Microsoft VALL-E voice models.

Apple does AI-read audiobooks.

Russia to replace crew capsule at space station after coolant leak.

Gigabit-ready internet connections are now mandatory in new homes in England.

Flights Resume Across U.S. After FAA Outage: Live Updates.

FAA giving airlines another year to fix altimeters that can't handle 5G signals.

Chipotle is adding the TikTok-famous quesadilla hack to its official menu.

These dogs ride a bus like humans 'and now the internet is in love'.

Georgia Tech paper arguing TikTok is no security danger.

Footage of Tesla in self-driving mode stopping on Bay Bridge (!), causing pileup.

Tesla on autopilot leads police on chase before driver finally wakes up.

Afroman Got Raided by Cops, So He Put Them in His Music Video.

rsync.net Warrant Canary.

Amazon and Disney team up to launch an entirely new, Alexa-enabled experience for fans called Hey Disney!

Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info.

Google Pixel phones add 5G support in India.

Google Messages rolls out group chat end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in beta.

Google Maps for Wear OS adds phoneless navigation on LTE watches.

Google's new high-definition maps are arriving first on Volvo and Polestar electric vehicles.

Google's new split-screen look for Android Auto is rolling out to everyone.

Google Meet rolling out in-call emoji reactions.

Google Docs adds a feature we thought it already had: non-printing characters.

California Governor Teases Support for Digital IDs: 'We're Going to Do It Like No Other State'.

John Deere vows to open up its tractor tech, but right-to-repair backers have doubts.
Picks:
Stacey - Tramontina Induction Cooking System.

Jeff - Finnish Parliament rejects EU copyright legislation as a violation of rights to education, science.

Jeff - After Months Of Protest, Google Search Quality Raters Finally Get A Raise.

Ant - Kevin Hart Guesses Cheap vs. Expensive Wines.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 43 min
January 04, 2023TWiG 697: Don't Track Me, Bro - CES 2022, Meta EU mega-fine, facial recognition arrest, Shift Happens
This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It.

The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality.

Bird Buddy's new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species.

Roku Is Now Making Its Own TVs.

Sony breaks from tradition and won't announce new TVs at CES 2023.

This Virtual Twitch Streamer is Controlled Entirely By AI.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest.

YouTube TV lands Sunday Ticket with deal between Google, NFL.

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.

Shift Happens.

Typewriter art.

Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust's Newly Opened Volumes.

False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition.

Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker.

Ana de Armas Fans' Lawsuit Puts Studios at Risk Over Deceptive Trailers.

ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists.

Google and Meta's Advertising Dominance Fades as TikTok, Streamers Emerge.

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200 Billion.

Twitter's San Francisco HQ reportedly a hub of stinky smells.

Mastodon 9 million: growth continues in fits and starts (but not all millions are the same).

Eugen turns down VC investment; vows to stay nonprofit.

friendica – A Decentralized Social Network.
Picks:
Jeff - Golden Gate gets $400 million for earthquake retrofit.

Leo - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann.

Ant - Coach Prime on Amazon.

Glenn - Robert Garcia plans swearing in on part on a Superman comic.

Jeff - George Santos humor.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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3 hr 11 min
December 28, 2022TWiG 696: The Best of 2022 - Some of the most memorable moments from throughout the year
How Has Google FAILED at Messaging So Badly?

MORAL PANIC!!!

Hair and makeup.

FLoC Is OUT, Topics Takes Its Place.

Some Dude Hacked North Korea.

Mazda Infotainment Systems Bricked By Radio Station.

Facebookers Now Called Metamates.

A Painful Looking Keyboard.

Stacey's Pick: Firewalla Purple.

Unsolicited Dik-Diks.

Jeff's Roboburger Adventure.

Jeff Jarvis being sold on eBay.

Insteon Shut Down Suddenly.

T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet is Enticing.

iRobot OS breaks Stacey.

Snapchat's Googly Eyes Make Everything Creepy.

Why Google AI Isn't Sentient.

Higginbot has spoken.

Jeff gets personal with Stacey and Ant.

Moral Panic bumper gets an upgrade.

Leo goes French.

Wrong Number Text Scam Revealed!

Alex Stamos Describes How He Got Into Security.

Host: Leo Laporte

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2 hr 46 min
December 21, 2022TWiG 695: The Airing of Grievances - Point-E, Public Domain day 2023, IoT and consent, John Carmack
Life Expectancy by occupation for people with a wikipedia page.

How Influencers Hype Crypto, Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties.

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models.

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

'Magic Avatar' App Lensa Generated Nudes From My Childhood Photos.

MSG's Facial Recognition at Radio City Gets Girl Scout Mom Kicked Out.

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

We should talk about consent in IoT.

Lionel Messi's World Cup celebration is now the most-liked post on Instagram.

Looking ahead to CES 2023.

Public Domain Day 2023.

Tom Lehrer Songs – Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer.

John Fetterman's TikTok Whisperer.

Police provide first official details of Elon Musk's alleged stalker incident.

Alex Barredo: "@joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.

Elon Musk now says he'll step down as Twitter CEO.

Who is John J. Ray III, FTX's new chief executive?

Ex-Google Contractor Settles Lawsuit Over Religious Sect.

Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta.

Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access.

Bear scratching Festivus pole.
Picks:
Stacey - Therabody Smart Goggles

Jeff - What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America

Ant - Sony Alpha Holiday Deals

Ant - Spyder Checkr Photo on Sale

Leo - Medieval chaperon, Medieval woolen chaperone, Medieval hood, Medieval hat, 14th century hood, 15th century hat, Medieval headwear, Chaperon

Leo - movetodon.org

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 26 min
December 14, 2022TWiG 694: The Fifty Shades of Stacey - Manu Cornet talks Twitter and art, Microsoft's Activision deal, Goblin Mode
"I thought I'd been hacked. It turned out I'd been fired": tales of a Twitter engineer.

Elon Musk booed by crowd after Dave Chappelle brings him on stage at comedy gig.

How Manu feels about the Twitter debacle.

Did Manu ever get any heat for doing his comics while working at Google and Twitter?

Does Manu still like Twitter?

How did Manu feel about Elon when everything first started months ago?

What was the cartoon that Manu gave to Elon?

Twitter suspends account that tracked Musk's private jet, despite billionaire's 'free speech' pledge.

twittoons.com

What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe?

More about how Manu coded at Twitter.

How does Manu draw his comics?

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas.

@cfarivar: BREAKING: A federal judge in SF has just ruled against Twitter, mandating that severance packages to fired employees must include mention of an ongoing lawsuit, Cornet v. Twitter.

The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)

Leo looks a the Goomics book.

Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft's Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge.

FTC Seeks to Block Microsoft Corp.'s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc.

We're All Capable of Going 'Goblin Mode'

How To Listen to and Understand Great Music.

Students Rebel Against Heat-Sensing Crotch Monitor Surveillance Devices.
Picks:
Stacey: DIRIGERA: Hub for smart products.

Manu: How many elements are in a modern smartphone?

Stacey: The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table.

Ant: Have I Been Trained? (AI)

Ant: Shout Out To Miss Sheila Johnson.

Leo: Google's Blob Opera is back with Guitar Hero-inspired rhythm-based music game.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Manu Cornet

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2 hr 38 min
December 07, 2022TWiG 693: The Best Part is the Grease - ChatGPT demo, Twitter HQ bedrooms, Neuralink animal abuse, TikTok best of the year, ChromeOS 108
The founder of Craigslist on giving away his money, whether billionaires should exist, and why so many of our plutocrats lose their mind.

S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at Twitter HQ, as Elon Musk criticizes Mayor Breed.

Sam Altman: "ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!"

Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day - by Zvi Mowshowitz.

I asked GPTchat to write about folding T-shirts in the style of Malcolm Gladwell.

AI Homework.

Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge.

Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Under Federal Investigation for Animal Abuse.

Google shuts down Duplex on the Web, its attempt to bring AI smarts to retail sites and more.

Google Faces Pressure in Hong Kong Over Search Results for National Anthem.

Open Source Hospital Price Transparency.

The Supreme Court battle for Section 230 has begun.

Online safety bill returns to parliament after five-month delay.

"Org charts" comic by Manu Cornet.

A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'.

"I thought I'd been hacked. It turned out I'd been fired": tales of a Twitter engineer.

Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups.

TikTok Is Sued by State of Indiana, Accused of Targeting Young Teens With Adult Content.

TikTok Shares the Top Clips, Creators and Trends in the App for 2022.

Corn Kid Is Doing Just Fine.

Microsoft Eyes 'Super App' to Break Apple and Google's Hold on Mobile Search.

NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon.

Pantone's 2023 color of the year is 'Viva Magenta'.

Leo plays with ChatGPT.

Google Search brings continuous scrolling to desktop.

Google will show you suggested keywords right under the search bar.

Chrome '@' shortcuts search tabs, bookmarks, and history right from the address bar.

ChromeOS 108: Files app Trash can, touchscreen keyboard redesign, more.

Google Photos will get worse at estimating your photo locations.

Google Messages starts rolling out group end-to-end encryption.

December Pixel Feature Drop has Clear Calling, a free VPN, and new Recorder tools for Google's latest phones.
Picks:
Stacey - Best binoculars 2022: Top picks for stargazing, wildlife and more.

Stacey - Ember Mug²

Stacey - Letter Napkin (Set of 4).

Stacey - Nori Press, Compact Iron & Steamer for Clothes.

Jeff - We all use phones on the toilet. Just don't sit more than 10 minutes.

Jeff - 52 things I learned in 2022.

Ant - First Look at KRK GoAux Studio Monitors.

Ant - The Woman King.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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2 hr 59 min
November 30, 2022TWiG 692: Alex Stamos - Is TikTok a threat, Twitter's Chinese porn spam, 2024 election disinformation
Introducing Alex Stamos.

Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests.

How did Alex get into security?

Alex's Joe Sullivan story.

How COVID impacted teens and social interaction.

The mechanics of Apple's CSAM scanning.

How do we integrate security into basic education curriculum?

How does Alex feel about the Fediverse?

Advice for hosts of Mastodon instances.

How is Google doing security-wise and for its users?

What does Alex hear about Facebook these days?

Will there be trouble on Twitter in the 2024 election?

Who is responsible for keeping people protected from disinformation?

Should TikTok be shut down?

South Dakota bans TikTok from government-owned devices.

Stanford Internet Observatory.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Alex Stamos

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2 hr 13 min

About Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots.

The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds.

On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.

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