Tech Talk Y'all

By Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker

Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech new... more

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Tech Talk Y'all episodes:

April 20, 2023Captcha Vulnerabilities, Lunar Laws, and Why Oral Exams Should Come Back
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In this episode:
Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity
Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA
Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award
Why universities should return to oral exams in the AI and ChatGPT era
Actually, Charging Your Phone in a Public USB Port Is Fine!
Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
New macOS malware steals sensitive info, including a user's entire Keychain database
How to set up Apple's new savings account on an iPhone
Ad Break
They’re Over Being Real
Instagram takes on Linktree and others with support for up to 5 'links in bio
Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business
Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Meta encryption ‘blindfolds’ authorities to child abuse, crime agencies claim
Weird and Wacky:
AB InBev’s Beck’s makes ‘futuristic’ beer using artificial intelligence
FBI arrests guardsman who applied for job on RentAHitman.com
Tech Rec:
Adam - Temp Mail
Sanjay - FlorisBoard

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39min
April 15, 2023NPR Leaves Twitter and Farmers Can Fix Their Tractors
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In this episode:
Twitter’s new feature will show ‘half ads’ to Blue subscribers

NPR to Suspend Twitter Use After ‘Government-Funded’ Label

Uber's CEO became an undercover boss in a used Tesla and was surprised by how rude some riders can be

Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion
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This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting

Don’t use public phone charging stations: FBI
PortaPow USB data blocker

Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill

New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s book instead of Bible
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - International Dark Sky Week

Adam - RedKetchup
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28min
April 07, 2023The first AI lawsuit, how not to lead sensitive data to AI, and the sonar glasses we all need
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In this episode:
Principal Sends $100,000 of School Funds to Fake Elon Musk, Claims She Was 'Groomed'
ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim
Levi’s use of AI models to increase diversity incites backlash
Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism
Microsoft adds Bing AI chat to SwiftKey keyboard for Android
Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT
AD BREAK
Netflix appears to be working to bring games to TV with the iPhone as a controller
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
Researchers built sonar glasses that track facial movements for silent communication
Hackers Can Remotely Open Smart Garage Doors Across the World
Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death
A scam so clever, that YouTube jumps in to warn all of its users
Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”
Weird and Wacky:
Texas dad says glitch in ‘Find My iPhone’ app directs angry strangers at his home
Tech Rec:
Adam - Human Values Test
Sanjay - Google Flights

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40min
March 31, 2023Amazon’s massive (surprise) network, Twitter’s feed debacle, and AI’s dominance
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In this episode:
Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic
Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks
Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed
Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
Judge Rules Against Internet Archive on Controlled Digital Lending | Authors Alliance
TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10
Ad Break
Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence
Levi's Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones
The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality
IFTTT now has AI-powered automations for paying subscribers
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
Here's why Apple released a new iPhone app for classical music only
Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan
4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year
Weird and Wacky:
Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
Wikipedia’s new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Bitwarden
Adam - PromptPal
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41min
March 24, 2023Bing, Bard, and the AI in between
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In this episode:
Bing AI Chat versus Google Bard: A first look
Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US
Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread
UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
Duolingo is working on a music app
Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI
Adddddd Time
Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion) | Insid...
Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous

Weird and Wacky:
Elon Musk Sets Poop Emoji as an Autoreply to Twitter’s Press Email
Tech Rec:
Adam - VistaSocial
Sanjay - New York Times Daily Mini Crossword Puzzle
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35min
March 17, 2023Dumping on the internet
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In this episode:
Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th
Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Meta winds down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook
Microsoft Teams will let you transform into a 3D avatar in May
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a grain of salt
It Sure Seems Like Amazon Is Making a New Web Browser
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Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile
UK data center startup offers to heat Britain's swimming pools with waste heat
DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine
Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits
Ember is in the baby bottle business now
TSA Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Unnecessary Pat-Downs
Weird and Wacky:
Should we automate the CEO?
Researchers think alien civilizations might be creating black holes to store quantum data
Meet the Man Spending 100 Days Underwater for Science
Match Group’s CEO says he spent $50K in three months on Clash of Clans
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Dumb Password Rules
Adam - Future Tools
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36min
March 10, 2023Let’s keep Skynet busy creating art
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In this episode:
OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more
Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece
'Most disturbing website on Internet' can find every single picture that exists of you
Using A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss
Ad Break
Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks
US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
Amazon is shutting down eight cashierless Go stores
New ‘Dashboard’ Allows Travelers to See Which Airlines Seat Families Together
U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations
The privacy loophole in your doorbell
Weird and Wacky:
Why some travelers fly across the world without leaving the airport
Tech Rec:
Adam - StoryBrand BrandScript
Sanjay - TabFS

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45min
March 03, 2023Your phone premise is bunk
Intro
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In this episode:
Robot window washers are here to clean our skyscrapers
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
Chinese startup Realme launches $649 smartphone it says can be fully charged in just over 9 minutes
UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas For Directly Regulating The Internet, Service Providers
U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations
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From backyard trick shots to a $100m theme park - The Hustle
LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022
Space community considers launching Moon timezone
OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps
Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things'
Weird and Wacky:
Teacher Charged After Crypto Mining Operation Discovered in School Crawl Space
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Time Buddy - Clock & Converter
Adam - Recipe Calculator
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38min
February 24, 2023Twitter, where to go to find out what Elon is doing
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In this episode:
Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes
The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here
Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication
Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month
Instagram's co-founders' personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan
BREAK
City of Atlanta embraces AI to improve customer service
More than 200 books in Amazon's bookstore have ChatGPT listed as an author or coauthor
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers
Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket — Spotify
Snoop Dogg Brings Death Row Music Catalog to TikTok
Conner Price
New Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computers a Huge Step Closer
Your Google docs are about to look a little bit different
Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch
GM Patents Self-Cleaning Touch Screen That Erases Fingerprints
Weird and Wacky:
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App!
Airless Basketball Prototype
This iPhone just sold for a record-breaking $63,000 at auction
Tech Rec:
Adam - McCheapest
Sanjay - Every Noise

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45min
February 15, 2023More twitter = more Elon
In this episode:
Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue
IRS builds out task force to explore running its own free e-file system
Spotify's latest feature lets users exclude playlists from impacting recommendations
Tesla's biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD
AD BREAK
Tesla will open some of its charging stations to other electric cars
Elon Musk wanted more Elon Musk on Twitter so Twitter is now all Elon Musk
AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.
Dutch host first summit on 'responsible' use of AI in the military
I'm Hating It: McDonald's AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks
Tech Rec:
Sanjay - Artifact
Adam - Color wheel - color theory and calculator | Canva Colors

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