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July 21, 2024TWiT 989: Executive Laundry Folding Disorder - Crowdstrike, Prime Day, Stremaing the Olympics
Biden drops out of the race via tweet

"CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say

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

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

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV

Judge dismisses much of SEC suit against SolarWinds over cybersecurity disclosures

FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone

Hundreds more Californians get housing with Apple's help

Microsoft's new AI system 'SpreadsheetLLM' unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity

Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Ashley Esqueda, and Anthony Ha

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2h 32min
July 14, 2024TWiT 988: Flaming Corn Maze - AT&T Breach, Galaxy Z Fold6, Olympic Disinfo
Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays

FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children

AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach

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

After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad

AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market

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

U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans

Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics

My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better

Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?

Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos

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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Denise Howell, and Harry McCracken

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2h 29min
July 07, 2024TWiT 987: Often Plagiarized, Never Equalled - Sapce Junk, Threads Hits 175M Users, AIndependence
Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea

Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports

Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack

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

Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click

Perplexity's grand theft AI

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure

NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk

The White House will host a conference for social media creators

Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch

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

Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Allyn Malventano, and Larry Magid

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2h 30min
June 30, 2024TWiT 986: Our Dope GPS! - Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests
Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests
Murthy Decision Should Not Foreclose Cases Against Actual First Amendment Violations

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

Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks

Mark Cuban's public email was hacked after receiving call from a fake Google rep

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

Microsoft's bundling of Office and Teams breaks antitrust law, EU says

EU Competition Commissioner says Apple's decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behavior

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

Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC is finally the best clamshell laptop on the market after 8 years of iterations

Tested: Don't buy a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for PC gaming

Signal 65 Snapdragon battery testing

The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

Wherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All

Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Ryan Shrout, and Doc Rock

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2h 27min
June 23, 2024TWiT 985: TikTok With Wings - AT&T Landlines, US Bans Kaspersky and DJI
AT&T Landlines, US Bans Kaspersky and DJI
Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help

I just ordered the cheapest Surface Pro option - why I (probably) won't regret it

Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties

The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterf*ck

Surgeon General: Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning

The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels

LAUSD approves cellphone ban as Newsom calls for statewide action

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions

Apple Won't Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns

AT&T can't hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules

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

What Game of Thrones did to the media

Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing

This Old House' Pays Tribute to Creator Russell Morash

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amanda Silberling, Louise Matsakis, and Ed Bott

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2h 45min
June 16, 2024TWiT 984: Fifty-three Clicks - Bot Farms in Ukraine, LA Public Health Dept. Phished
Ukranian Bot Farms, LA Public Health Dept. Phished
MS Recall and Apple AI

Congress grills Microsoft boss Brad Smith after 'cascade' of security errors

Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack

Exclusive: MediaTek designs Arm-based chip for Microsoft's AI laptops

Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law

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

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

Successful phishing attack at LA County Department of Public Health exposes PID of 200k + people

Bot Farm that attacked Ukrainian phones is shut down

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

Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Talking about Mark Zuckerberg

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled

T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next

Games that the panel members are playing

Lynn Conway, a true pioneer, passes away at 86

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Devindra Hardawar, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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2h 47min
June 09, 2024TWiT 983: Digital Snackwells - NVIDIA's Thor, Adobe's TOS, Insta's Unskippable Ads
How to Kill a Smart Device: Spotify Car Thing Post Mortem

Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in

NVIDIA Drive Thor with 2,000 TOPS to be implemented by Li Auto

Oral-B Sold a $230 Alexa Toothbrush—and Then Pulled the Plug

Adobe's new terms of service unacceptably gives them access to all of your projects, for free

Adobe has clarified controversial shrinkwrap license terms, but the damage may have already been done

Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims

I watched NVIDIA's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible

Intel CEO Takes Aim at NVIDIA in Fight for AI Chip Dominance

This is Lunar Lake — Intel's utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks

Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads

Gurman's Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report

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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Stacey Higginbotham, and Brian McCullough

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2h 28min
June 02, 2024TWiT 982: International Trash - Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee
Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee
Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases

VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web

Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages

Who's having kids?

The panel discusses Ticketmaster

T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge

Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.

Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack

'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

Inside the scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold

TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban

How a Self-Published Book, 'The Shadow Work Journal,' Became a Best Seller

Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.

The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent

Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora

North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation

Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified

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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Nicholas De Leon, and Emily Dreibelbis

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2h 31min
May 26, 2024TWiT 981: Grab Your Rabbit - Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation
Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation
OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show

China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'

Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in

Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

Rabbit Holed

Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs

A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand

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

Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

Kabosu, Shiba Inu dog who inspired 'Doge' meme, dies at 18

Bitcoin pizza day

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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Wesley Faulkner, and Alex Wilhelm

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2h 59min
May 19, 2024TWiT 980: Hed Dek Lede and Nut Graf - OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign
OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign
GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)

It's Time to Believe the AI Hype

The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude

OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT

OpenAI Superalignment team is gone

2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds

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

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

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

Vermont's data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists

How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal

Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it

Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Dan Patterson, and Iain Thomson

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2h 34min

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