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- Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #171 (07/16/2026)Tech
- Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections
- New York enacts first US ban on data center construction - Engadget
- Meta removes feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts - 9to5Mac
- Lawsuit claims Meta’s layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans - Ars Technica
- Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory - Ars Technica
Gaming- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced studio Ubisoft Barcelona goes on three-day strike in protest of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
- “We mean business“ - Bethesda union members to march in protest of sweeping Xbox job cuts | Eurogamer.net
- Microsoft accused of unfair labor practices by US and Canadian video game unions - Engadget
- Users flock to Xbox Player Voice portal to ask for an end to cycle of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
- Sony faces an anti-trust complaint in Mexico over ending PlayStation physical media | Eurogamer.net
- It looks like iFixit won’t be getting any more Steam Deck LCD spare parts | GamingOnLinux
- Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia - Engadget
Deals/Sales/Free Games- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for July – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Rise of the Ronin, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite and more
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2 hr 31 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #170 (07/09/2026)Tech
- ’Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
- FTC reaches settlement that brings right-to-repair to John Deere farm equipment - Engadget
- ’Siri AI’ Lawsuit Update: Apple to Pay Owners of These iPhone Models - MacRumors
- PSA: Flip these two Instagram toggles now to stop people using your face
Gaming- Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima “really sad” about Sony ending physical disc production, and says lack of media ownership has “frightening” possibilities | Eurogamer.net
- Resetting XBOX
- Xbox Layoffs Included 37-Year Veteran Who Designed One Of Xbox’s Best Features Ever - GameSpot
- James Bond and Hitman developer confirms layoffs and studio closure, but its fantasy RPG lives on
- As layoffs continue to ravage the games industry, a union across North America establishes a fund to help those impacted by it | Eurogamer.net
- Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Taskforce The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)
- Workers at MindsEye studio protesting controversial fan event this weekend after multiple rounds of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
- Layoffs Hit GameSpot Again
- Nintendo has detailed rollout plans for Switch 2 product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries, and Switch 1 consoles are being discontinued | Eurogamer.net
- Must-have Steam dating app will help you decide what to play next
Deals/Sales/Free Games- Epic Games Store’s new free PC games revealed
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3 hr 4 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #169 (05/21/2026)Tech
- iPhone 17 Pro Will Make Sports History This Weekend
- Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac
- Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry - Engadget
- X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark - Engadget
- Meta has reportedly laid off 8,000 employees - Engadget
- LinkedIn doesn’t want your AI slop anymore - Engadget
- AI companies and data brokers even resort to fake forms to keep selling our data
- ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
- Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
- Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats
- After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban
- Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
- The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
- Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech - Engadget
- Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down - Fast Company
- Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz - Ars Technica
- NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security flaws for May 2026 | GamingOnLinux
- Discord now has end-to-end encryption on all calls - Engadget
- Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit for not refunding its customers after ‘unlawful’ tariffs - Engadget
Gaming- Sony hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly profiting from tariff-related price hikes - Engadget
- The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware | GamingOnLinux
- Sony announces price increase for new PlayStation Plus subscribers “due to ongoing market conditions” | Eurogamer.net
- It’s not just PS Plus Essential getting a price hike: Premium and Extra tiers are now more expensive too | Eurogamer.net
- PlayStation just announced a new State of Play, and it’ll be over an hour long | Eurogamer.net
- Xbox hires analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer in another leadership revamp
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2 hr 38 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #168 (05/14/2026)Tech
- ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
- Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired - Ars Technica
- DOJ extracts $30m settlement from PayPal over minority-owned business program - Engadget
- Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools
- Meta employees are protesting the company’s mouse tracking program - Engadget
- Tech companies lobbied away stricter rules on gas-powered data centers - Engadget
- A massive AI data center transforms rural Utah into a national flashpoint : Peoples Dispatch
- Americans really don’t want AI data centers close to their homes - Engadget
- University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is ‘Unlawfully Discriminatory’ to Data Centers
- Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers - Ars Technica
- Microsoft’s massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off ‘half the country’ to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure
- Amidst Xbox boycotts and media pressure, Microsoft reportedly restructures Israeli office after internal investigation into ethical violations | Eurogamer.net
Gaming- eBay rejects GameStop’s offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’ - Engadget
- Nintendo announces Switch 2 price increase, consoles will soon be $500 in the US
- Ahead of Switch 2 price increase, Nintendo’s switching up the game bundles
- Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb | GamingOnLinux
- Double Fine Is Unionizing
- Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia’s $55 Billion Buyout - GameSpot
- Slay The Spire 2 Gets More Bad Reviews Than First Game
Hardware/Software Updates- iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more - Ars Technica
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3 hr 21 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #167 (05/07/2026)Tech
- Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users ‘but it’s not face recognition’
- Google Chrome takes up 4GB of storage on your computer for AI, if you have space
- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon - Engadget
- Google’s Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionize - Engadget
- Building for the future (Cloudflare layoffs)
- Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in ‘AI-native’ restructuring - Engadget
- Maryland Lawmakers Press Apple Over Decision to Close Unionized Store - MacRumors
- Apple Faces Dozens of Lawsuits Over AirTag Stalking After Class Action Denied - MacRumors
- Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races - Ars Technica
- DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts | WIRED
- ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
- Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack | TechCrunch
Gaming- Full Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leaks online on 30th April | Eurogamer.net
- ESA Says Bill Pushing For Offline Versions Of Live-Service Games Would Hurt Developers - GameSpot
- GameStop is reportedly preparing an offer to buy eBay - Engadget
- GameStop CEO Selling GameStop Stuff On Ebay To Fund Buyout Of Ebay - GameSpot
- Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million - Engadget
- MindsEye Dev Reportedly Laid Off 170 Of 250 Employees - GameSpot
- Xbox is ditching Microsoft’s Copilot AI - Engadget
- Streamers And Voice Actors Refuse To Work With Popular New Gacha Game Over Gen AI Concerns
- Google just bought a stake in the maker of Eve Online to train its AI models - Engadget
Hardware/Software Updates- Android 16 May update rolling out: Pixel display, slow wireless charging fixes
- Pixel 10’s May 2026 update prevents you from installing older Android versions
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3 hr 15 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #166 (04/23/2026)Tech
- Judge says White House can’t ‘strong-arm’ Apple into blocking ICE trackers
- Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
- This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
- Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees
- Meta is downsizing by about 10 percent
- Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Taking Over - MacRumors
- Mastodon was hit by a ‘major’ DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service
- Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded | GamingOnLinux
- France’s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week
Gaming- Sony will require age checks in the UK and Ireland to access PlayStation communication features
- Former PlayStation Exec Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was Fired After Top Boss Asked Him To Do “Ridiculous Things” - GameSpot
- The Studio Behind Last Year’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Remasters Hit With More Mass Layoffs As It Tries To Adapt To The Video Game Industry’s New Normal
- Save Money By Turning Your Xbox Expansion Card Into An SSD For Your PC - GameSpot
- Nintendo Sued By Fans Who Want Tariff Refunds
Hardware/Software Updates- Apple Releases iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 With Bug Fixes - MacRumors
- iOS 26.4.2 Patches Flaw That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages - MacRumors
- New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And It Doesn’t Even Mention Stability
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0
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3 hr 5 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #165 (04/16/2026)Tech
- Bluesky is having some issues in one of its ‘reginos’
- YouTube Premium’s US pricing is going up
- Video shows how to steal $10,000 from locked iPhone in controlled setting - 9to5Mac
- French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux
- A man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house
- Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly shooting at Sam Altman’s house
- NAACP sues xAI over data center pollution
- Apple Threatened to Pull Grok From App Store Over Sexualized Images - MacRumors
- Bubble watch: Fashion brand Allbirds pivots hard to become AI services company - Ars Technica
- Snap is laying off 16 percent of its workforce, blames AI
- IBM settles its DEI lawsuit with the DOJ for $17 million
- Trump admin hounds Reddit to reveal identity of user who criticized ICE - Ars Technica
- FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why - Ars Technica
- US operating system age verification bill “Parents Decide Act” gets published | GamingOnLinux
Gaming- Call of Duty movie arrives on June 30, 2028
- Federal Aviation Administration targets gamers in this bespoke and not at all cringeworthy recruitment ad | Eurogamer.net
- NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement - Ars Technica
- Ubisoft Settles With Developers Who Were Laid Off After Unionizing
- GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games hacked once again but insists only a “limited amount of non-material company information” was compromised
- Graveyard Keeper earns over $250K after free giveaway
- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for April: The Crew Motorfest, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, Football Manager 26 Console, Warriors: Abyss and more
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3 hr 7 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #164 (04/02/2026)Tech
- Apple Says No iPhone in Lockdown Mode Has Ever Been Hacked - MacRumors
- Iran threatens imminent attacks on US tech companies in the Middle East
- Don’t Like Your Gmail Email Address? You Can Finally Change It - MacRumors
- Iran’s hackers are on the offensive against the US and Israel
- OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Ars Technica
- Tech giant Oracle makes ‘significant’ job cuts
- Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J. D. Vance | TechCrunch
- Artemis II crew is just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues
Gaming- New Price Changes for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player
- PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April: Lords of the Fallen, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream
- Indie Pass is a forthcoming subscription service exclusively for indie games
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney apologises and seemingly rectifies life insurance situation of laid off worker with terminal brain cancer | Eurogamer.net
- MindsEye boss addresses “worst launch in history“ as he says studio will share “evidence of sabotage” in-game
- France’s leading consumer association has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over The Crew’s online shutdown | Eurogamer.net
- Nvidia Is Attempting To Solve One Of PC Gaming’s Biggest Problems: Shader Compilation - GameSpot
- Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time | GamingOnLinux
Hardware/Software Updates- Apple to Issue Rare iOS 18 Software Update for DarkSword Exploit - MacRumors
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3 hr 27 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #163 (03/19/2026)Tech
- Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company - Ars Technica
- This is Android’s new ‘advanced flow’ for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period [Gallery]
- The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
- Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its staff in upcoming layoffs
- Meta will move away from human content moderators in favor of more AI
- Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal
- Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
- The FBI confirms it’s buying Americans’ location data
- Apple’s First Lightning iPhone is Now Obsolete - MacRumors
- Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild | WIRED
- DoorDash will start paying gig workers for creating content to train AI models
- Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement
- Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
Gaming- NVIDIA claims DLSS 5 will deliver ‘photoreal’ image quality with AI this fall
- Nvidia CEO says the gamers rejecting the company’s controversial AI are ‘completely wrong’
- Arc Raiders CEO says studio has “re-recorded” AI lines: “A real professional actor is better than AI; that’s just how it is” | Eurogamer.net
- Fighting Game Pro Detained By ICE Has Been Released On Bond - GameSpot
- Saudi Arabia now owns just over 10% of Capcom, as another national investment company scoops up more shares in the Resident Evil and Street Fighter publisher | Eurogamer.net
- Warner Bros. Montréal devs report layoffs | Eurogamer.net
- Tomb Raider studio hit with fourth round of layoffs in 12 months, but remake and Catalyst development continues | Eurogamer.net
- Ubisoft Just Ceased Game Development At The Studio That Created Rainbow Six - Report - GameSpot
- In an industry beset by layoffs and crunch, Japanese publisher Atlus is raising salaries and working to reduce fixed overtime | Eurogamer.net
- Judge delivers bombshell order for Krafton to reinstate fired Subnautica 2 devs and CEO, putting $250m bonus package back on the table | Eurogamer.net
- Turns out all your Pokémon Go data will be used to train robots
Hardware/Software Updates- The Nintendo Switch 2 just got a huge update that brings a surprise upgrade to loads of your old Switch games (with a few exceptions) | Eurogamer.net
- New PS5 Update Is Out Now, Actually Does A Lot For Once - GameSpot
Deals- Steam’s spring sale starts this week, with discounts on some of the biggest indies and AAA games
Post highlights- Ones To Watch: Steam Next Fest February 2026 Edition
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3 hr 26 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #162 (03/12/2026)Tech
- OpenAI’s head of robotics resigns following deal with the Department of Defense
- Teamsters urge DOJ to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. merger
- Google to Provide Pentagon with Gemini-powered AI agents
- After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
- Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac
- YouTube will alert civic leaders and reporters to deepfakes that involve their likeness
- Bluesky’s CEO is stepping down after nearly 5 years
- Viral ‘Quittr’ Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Gaming- Sony hit with $2.67 billion lawsuit over alleged monopoly in digital games sales
- Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
- Master Chief actor calls out White House’s use of Halo footage in “disgusting and juvenile war porn” propaganda | Eurogamer.net
- Gang Of Dragon Studio Reportedly Has Funding Pulled By NetEase - GameSpot
- EA Cuts Staff At Battlefield 6 Dev After Game’s Massive Initial Success - GameSpot
- Mega Man Voice Actor Won’t Return For Sequel Because Capcom Won’t Go Union
- Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb joins Commodore to help build its community
- Former Overwatch Lead claims he was given a horrid ultimatum: meet revenue goals or 1,000 developers would lose jobs | Eurogamer.net
- Fortnite is making its original Save the World mode free-to-play as Epic readjusts prices and tries to deal with dwindling engagement | Eurogamer.net
Hardware/Software Updates- Apple Releases New Versions of iOS for Older iPhones - MacRumors
Deals- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for March: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, EA Sports Madden NFL 26, Persona 5 Royal, Blasphemous 2 and more
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