February 26, 2023

This Week in Tech 916: Fetch Happens

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2 hours 53 minutes

Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance.

Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption.

Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.

It's Time to Tear Up Big Tech's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card.

Section 230 Won't Protect ChatGPT.

Twitter lays off another 50 employees as cost cutting continues under Elon Musk: report.

FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.

Sumi.news.

Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.

Calckey: A greatly enhanced fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, and more!

Mammoth is a new free Mastodon client for iOS and macOS.

Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers.

SF's new startup hotspot seen as the road to AI riches.

Sometimes Open Systems Beat Those Who Try To Lock Them Up: Spotify's Podcast Colonization Flops.

YouTube tests adding podcasts to 'Create' button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics.

Spanish court authorises extradition of Briton who allegedly hacked Biden, Obama.

Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs.

Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users to Aid Piracy Lawsuit.

Apple Watch ban: Biden will make decision next week.

OG sealed iPhone breaks record selling for almost 2x that of a recent auction.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Masnick, Alex Lindsay, and Owen Thomas

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February 26, 2023

This Week in Tech 916: Fetch Happens

Listen Later

2 hours 53 minutes

Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance.

Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption.

Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.

It's Time to Tear Up Big Tech's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card.

Section 230 Won't Protect ChatGPT.

Twitter lays off another 50 employees as cost cutting continues under Elon Musk: report.

FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.

Sumi.news.

Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.

Calckey: A greatly enhanced fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, and more!

Mammoth is a new free Mastodon client for iOS and macOS.

Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers.

SF's new startup hotspot seen as the road to AI riches.

Sometimes Open Systems Beat Those Who Try To Lock Them Up: Spotify's Podcast Colonization Flops.

YouTube tests adding podcasts to 'Create' button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics.

Spanish court authorises extradition of Briton who allegedly hacked Biden, Obama.

Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs.

Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users to Aid Piracy Lawsuit.

Apple Watch ban: Biden will make decision next week.

OG sealed iPhone breaks record selling for almost 2x that of a recent auction.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Masnick, Alex Lindsay, and Owen Thomas

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

noom.com/twit

wwt.com/twit

www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT

GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

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