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April 21, 2024TWiT 976: Serial Churners - Netflix Earnings, Cybertruck Recall, FISA
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

TikTok 'ban' passes in the House again

Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration

Surveillance Law Section 702 Keeps Us Safe

Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2024

Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright

Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High After Lull

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

Tesla asks shareholders to approve Elon Musk's nixed $56 billion pay plan

Cool or creepy? Microsoft's VASA-1 is a new AI model that turns photos into 'talking faces'

GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading advisories

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric

Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Howell, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 28 min
April 14, 2024TWiT 975: You Don't Want to Make Gandhi Mad - AI Music, Broadband Nutrition Labels
AI Music with Suno and Udio

Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win

Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI

How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105

AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing

Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk

Google and the CJPA

Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated 'nutrition labels' for most broadband plans

SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 | Peter Higgs

BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Larry Magid, and Owen Thomas

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2 hr 39 min
April 07, 2024TWiT 974: Get at the Young Youngs - Tesla Robotaxi, Marissa Mayer's Sunshine
House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill

Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine

Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop

Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech

X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for

President Biden is now posting into the fediverse

Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News

MrBeast calls for slowing down video editing styles

A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?

Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers

App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit

SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line

Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken

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2 hr 41 min
March 31, 2024TWiT 973: The Inverted Goldilocks Zone - Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor
Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor
20 years of Gmail

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections

EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law

Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week

Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project

Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024

Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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3 hr 10 min
March 24, 2024TWiT 972: Judicial Whimsy - US vs. Apple, The ELVIS Act
U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction

Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point

Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI

In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent

Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver

Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu

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2 hr 49 min
March 17, 2024TWiT 971: The Element of Chaos - SpaceX Spy Satellites, New Apple Carplay
The Panel discusses video Formats and aspect ratios

House of Reps pass bill that could ban TikTok

TechDirt: TikTok ban would be unconstitutional and doesn't actually help with threats

TikTok estimated to be worth $100B, or $40B if it doesn't include the algorithm

US wants to ban TikTok for the sins of every social media company

What social media is the panel using?

Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

Musk dumps Don Lemon after sitting through one interviuew

"Gurman: CarPlay is now all Apple has left, should they charge for the more advanced version? + Apple planning for the biggest AirPods push yet with new low-end, mid-range models"

Microsoft is hosting its Surface/AI event next week, what do we think about Microsoft's current PC and AI ambitions?

FCC raises broadband minimums to 100Mbps/20Mbps, up from 25Mbps/3Mbps

Pornhub says adios to Texas

Profile of the UberCheats dev, who created an app to see how the Uber algorithm was screwing over workers

What media is the panel watching?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Alex Lindsay, Glenn Fleishman, and Scott Stein

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3 hr 6 min
March 10, 2024TWiT 970: Where Does Jazz Come From? - TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion
TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion
Why Trump now opposes banning TikTok

Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs

OpenAI announces new members to the board of directors

OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk's Lawsuit

Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI

Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls

AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave

The Panel discusses Bluesky and general social media

FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor

Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives

Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming

MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical

"Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Roberto Baldwin, Mike Masnick, and Louise Matsakis

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2 hr 25 min
March 03, 2024TWiT 969: Chasing Shadows in the Digital Abyss - Doomed Apple Car, Chinese EVs, MWC Roundup
Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla

Frame glasses

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat

Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft

Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest'

Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget

South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit

TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs

Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4

Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects

Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future

Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze

Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles

Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Anthony Ha and Sam Abuelsamid

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2 hr 50 min
February 25, 2024TWiT 968: Don't Tell the Moon - NVIDIA Dominates, Gemini Taken Down
How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off

Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know

AT&T restores service after hours of outage

AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage

Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown

Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business

Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business

Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users

Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT

KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages

Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data

SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends

FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade

3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz

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2 hr 30 min
February 18, 2024TWiT 967: I'll Be Your Shabbos Goy - KOSA, French Public Scrolling Ban
Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro

Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law

Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public

2 Twitter books are coming out

Bluesky opens up to the public

The Reply Guy Constitution

Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate

Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results

Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional

Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown

FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown

Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand

Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amanda Silberling, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Shoshana Weissmann

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2 hr 28 min

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