Off The Hook

Alex is back in the country, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, The_Gibson joins the panel to discuss the fediverse, Twitter restricts access to logged in users only, how the fediverse differs from Twitter, Threads might disrupt the fediverse, Google might scrape everything you post online to train it's AI, a preview of a privacy project by The_Gibson and Cult of the Dead Cow.

Alex is in London, Emmanuel and Kyle are in the Yukon, Greg Newby joins the panel, communicating via Starlink, radio telephones, Greg ran in the Denali135, communications systems for the middle of nowhere, Alex attended the Chelsea Arts Club Ball, visiting Canadian radio stations, Canadian wildfires are still a problem, Facebook to block news content in Canada, smartphone emergency call issues, Fort Worth systems hacked over state's laws against gender affirming care.

Skype problems, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, the Reddit blackout, volt4ire joins the panel, an update on the ChatGPT lawyer story, EU takes first steps toward AI regulation, Hollywood writers' concerns over AI, Amazon Fire kids tablet used to stalk security pro, listener mail.

Emmanuel visited Virgil Griffith in prison, the Maker Faire is coming to Coney Island, broadcast signal intrusion in Russia, misinformation on Twitter, device searches at borders, Gmail sender verification hacked, questionable political donations, poor internal security at Amazon's Ring, Canadian smoke.

An experiment during Overtime, IRS to test free online filing system, distracted by chat, iPhones will be able to impersonate your voice using AI, Facebook glitches, Google to delete inactive accounts, ChatGPT can't tell if something was written by ChatGPT, Eurovision.

Alex is in Pittsburgh, the logic behind area code assignment, the Long Island Telephone Museum, MTA will continue to post on Twitter after all, three companies fined for generating fake public comments to influence the FCC's net neutrality decision, Google will integrate AI into search, Eurovision security concerns.

2600 is 40 years old, Missouri trans snitch form taken offline, Pornhub blocks users in Utah, MTA will no longer post on Twitter, Indiana zoo website hacked, Google replacing passwords with passkeys.

Skype problems, listener mail, upgrades are unavoidable, the Skype problems have been resolved, the problem with the federal judiciary.

The leaked Ukraine war documents, tracing the timeline of the leak, document alterations, debating the motivations of the source of the leak, the government investigation, more wayward documents, the surprising history of 2600 Magazine according to Google Bard, NPR labeled as "state affiliated media" on Twitter.

Cory Doctorow joins the panel to discuss his new book "Red Team Blues", the Amazon/Audible monopoly, Amazon's ad practices, an excerpt from "Red Team Blues", a preview of the next two books in the series, advice for new writers.