This Week in Google (Audio)

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It's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversa... more

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July 24, 2024TWiG 778: Wet and Winded - Prime Day Injuries, Broken Goo.gl Links, Brat
Craig Newmark and pancakes

After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome

Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds

Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage

Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts

Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS

NYT vs OpenAI

Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025

Deadpool and Wolverine are Google's first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]

Google's Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo

X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason

CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?

An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The 'Hotdoggers' Are OK.

The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk's X

Mark Zuckerberg says he's "more comfortable" with new appearance after AI interview

Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses

"Ignore all previous instructions"

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.

Stolen Buttons

Succession comes to life

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 51min
July 17, 2024TWiG 777: Victim of Affluence - AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach

AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC

This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down

EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'

Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks

FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers

Google in talks to buy Wiz

Google switches to selective indexing

Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)

Taboola to sell ads for Apple

The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok

Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app

OpenAI's AGI progress chart

Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge

Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more

YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing

Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results

Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen

OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say

Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud

Drone conquers Everest

The Planets Today

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 53min
July 10, 2024TWiG 776: The Geese of God - Fusion Dealys, Esports World Cup, NGL Ban
'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral

ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care

Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu

Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays

Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA

Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users

2024 Zero-Click Search Study: For every 1,000 EU Google Searches, only 374 clicks go to the Open Web. In the US, it's 360.

FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children

Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon

A new Illinois law will force influencer parents to compensate their children for appearing in social media content

THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

Cutting Board Designer

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Molly White

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2h 22min
July 03, 2024TWiG 775: Chocolate Creme Filled Donuts for the Soul - SCOTUS Decisions, Meta's Oversight Board, llama.ttf
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections

In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News

Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas

What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more

Threads turns 1

Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.

Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board

The White House will host a conference for social media creators

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

llama.ttf

Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76

Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web

Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened

Perplexity's grand theft AI

Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI

Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Tim Wu Is Out Of Control

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature

Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch

This week's news on human cells

110 new languages are coming to Google Translate

Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen

the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram

Calculus Advice Poem

The Material

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2h 46min
June 26, 2024TWiG 774: My AI Fiancé - Jeff Testifies in CA, RIAA vs. Suno and UDIO
Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August

Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act

This Week in Tunnels

Toys r us AI video

Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

Autobiography app

OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem

AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers

Record Labels Sue Suno & Udio for Training AI Models on Their Songs

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

The rise—and fall—of the software developer

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

Google Will Let You Personalize Gemini After Your Favorite YouTuber

Google Cast is coming to more hotel room TVs later this year

Google shutting down 'Stack: PDF Scanner' in September

A Captcha for Mikah's Therapist

Scientists create smiling robot face from living human skin cells

German face wurst

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 38min
June 19, 2024TWiG 773: Mouse Jigglers and Keyboard Strokers - Social Media Warning Labels, US Sues Adobe
The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled

Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court

US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say

Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads

Jeff on Perplexity Discover

Luma extends memes

Gutenberg animated by Dream Machine

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Paper: "ChatGPT is bullshit"

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development

McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test

US bank Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards

BeReal acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo

Netflix to Open Massive Entertainment, Dining and Shopping Complexes in Two Cities in 2025

Sounds of the Forest - Soundmap

Hamburger Dad

Reuters annual news report

ChatGPT of the Reuters report

Original YouTube deal memo & pitch deck

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 15min
June 12, 2024TWiG 772: Mystery Bucket of Gummies - Apple AI, Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse, Cottage Cheese
Apple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool

Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Hallucination is Inevitable

Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call

Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial

New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

Judge rather than jury will render verdict in upcoming antitrust trial

Joey Chestnut is out of 2024 Nathan's hot dog eating contest in beef over vegan franks

There's an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK

No, a Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn

Elon Musk's Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX

Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse Movie-Theater Chain

Ren Faire on HBO - all 3 parts out now!

"The most difficult recipe" damnit

TikTok cottage cheese search

NotebookLM goes global with Slides support and better ways to fact-check

12 useful features Google just announced for Pixel phones, watches, and tablets

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 45min
June 05, 2024TWiG 771: Sucked to LA - Ultrasonic Coffee, Microsoft Recall, Perplexity Pages
'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban

Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike

Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone

The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes

That time Rupert Murdoch almost married a woman from Petaluma

The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka

Finally! Someone has figured out how to make money in the media biz

The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant

a16z: no human will ever again have to make a call.

India's election wasn't the deepfake doomsday many feared

MS Recall

Perplexity will research and write reports

Visiting local chickens

Bragging: Gutenberg review

Paris' tabs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2h 55min
May 29, 2024TWiG 770: Giggle Pants and Chortle Skorts - Google AI Answers, ICQ, Private Jet Tracking
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic

UN statement on risks from generative AI

We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years

Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase

Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook

Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget

Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results

YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users

How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon

BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy, Its New Activist Investor

Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack

HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm

TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass

Parents Dance Like It's the '80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House

Meta's white, male advisory group

My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO

Canva meets Hamilton

Top 50 podcasts

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 32min
May 22, 2024TWiG 769: Keeping Up With the Kevorkians - ScarJo vs. OpenAI, Google Classic
Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her

It's Time to Believe the AI Hype

Steven Levy's Extremely Stupid AI Piece

Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments

Congress Shouldn't End the Internet's Sunrise With a Section 230 "Sunset" Repeal

Buy This Legislation or We'll Kill the Internet

Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn

2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds

Microsoft unveils 'Copilot + PC' initiative in new bid to revitalize Windows with AI

jacking Wendy's ai

Google is bringing back classic search, with no AI – and I couldn't be happier about that

Does One Line Fix Google?

Google's AI Overviews are getting ads soon

Google rolls out immersive, AI-powered Shopping Ads

Google's new 'Add to Chromebook' badge makes web apps easier to find and install

After beating Sonos case, Google brings back group speaker controls

Magic Editor for older Pixel phones starts rolling out

Google Pay will show your card benefits, Autofill with PIN/face unlock over security code

YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign

New: OpenAI, Wall Street Journal Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal

Truecaller partners with Microsoft to let its AI respond to calls in your own voice

C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

Let Bions Be Bygones

United flight because of passengers stuck laptop

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ed Zitron

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2h 54min

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