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February 11, 2024TWiT 966: He's Got a Huge Corpus - Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans
Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans
The panel discusses the Apple Vision Pro

Transcribe Glass

X rival Bluesky launches to public with option to pick your algorithm

Tech layoff tracker - layoffs.fyi

A general discussion on AI

Zuckerberg's Plan for AI Hinges on Your Facebook and Instagram Data

The panel looks back at the proto-internet

Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules

David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93

The passing of John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Nicholas De Leon

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2 hr 22 min
February 04, 2024TWiT 965: Baby's First Layoff - Apple Vision Pro, Google Retires Cache links
The panel gives their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro

Online safety hearing gets skeptical response from kids, advocates

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'

Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs

There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube

Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip

Google Search officially retires cache link

The panel discusses the recent spat of tech industry layoffs

Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks

Amazon Content Spending 2023 Rose 14% to $18.9B for TV, Film and Music

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner

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2 hr 9 min
January 28, 2024TWiT 964: No One Talks to the Faucet Anymore - AI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes
AI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes
160-180k Apple Vision Pros sold

Ben Parr's 110+ Page Slide report I came out with on AI investing trends + predictions in 2023/2024

George Carlin AI Lawsuit: Estate Sues Creators Over Comedy Special

Nightshade, the tool that 'poisons' data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles

Taylor Swift explicit AI finally blocked on X after days

Tim Sweeney on Europe's new Digital Markets Act

iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find

N.S.A. Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

Pokemon-like game has gone viral, 5m+ downloads in a week, lots of questions on copyright

Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over

Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Ben Parr, and Allyn Malventano

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2 hr 36 min
January 21, 2024TWiT 963: Low-Key Clippy - Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack
Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack
The panel talks about the Apple Vision pro

The Apple Google Duopoly

Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement

Javier Milei Special Address WITH AI

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in "uncomfortable" ways

Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs

Origins and definition of "Ensh*ttification"

Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely

The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams

Microsoft 'senior leadership' emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers

Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data

Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay

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2 hr 48 min
January 14, 2024TWiT 962: CES Recap - Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery
Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery
The panel discusses what they saw at CES

Padre shows off some toys from CES

Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'

Mercedes-Benz's best-in-class voice assistant is getting an AI boost

AI-Generated 'George Carlin' Comedy Blasted by Comedian's Daughter

SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024

Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams

Microsoft's new battery is a test of AI-infused scientific discovery

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, David Pierce, and Daniel Rubino

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2 hr 46 min
January 07, 2024TWiT 961: A Nation of Nerds - CES Preview, NYT vs. OpenAI
CES preview

The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

Microsoft's keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership

A physical keyboard for your iPhone

RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Christina Warren, and Devindra Hardawar

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2 hr 30 min
December 31, 2023TWiT 960: Best of 2023 - This Week in Tech's Best Moments in 2023
Looking back at some of This Week in Tech's best moments from 2023:
Rating Google's AI Music Tool MusicLM

What is Plaguing Google?

Xerox Alto: 50 Year Later

Lessons Learned By the SVB Collapse

Is Copyright Good For Authors?

What's Your (Microsoft) Copilot?

Goodbye, Computer Magazines

UK Emergency Alert Test

A Look At WiFi Pineapple and Flipper Zero

Ten Years Since Snowden's Revelations Were Revealed

The Seven Deadly Sins and Tech

Blind: Anonymous Workplace Gossip

Earthquake!

Why Apple Ended Its CSAM-Scanning Tool

Meta's Uncanny New AI Avatars

MIke Elgan's Meta Ray-Ban Smartglasses

Host: Leo Laporte

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2 hr 47 min
December 24, 2023TWiT 959: The Old Farts Gather - A Retrospective Journey through 2023 and Beyond
In this festive end-of-year episode, Leo gathers some of the veteran hosts of the TWiT network, dubbed "old farts," to reflect on the major tech stories and trends of 2023 while looking ahead to 2024. They debate AI and tech's impact on society, discuss the ups and downs of companies like Twitter, Apple, and SpaceX, reminisce about the early days of computing and the Internet, and more, all with good humor and insight gained from decades in tech.
Topics Discussed:
The explosion of AI in 2023, from chatbots like ChatGPT to powerful new AI demonstrations. Debate on whether we're nearing AGI (artificial general intelligence) and the societal impacts.

The rise and struggles of companies like Facebook/Meta, Netflix, Twitter, Alibaba. Patterns of tech success, failure, and Corey Doctorow's concept of "ensh*tification."

Elon Musk: The good (SpaceX, Starlink), bad (Twitter), and unpredictable. Is he still an innovator or has wealth and power corrupted him?

Open source, Linux, and big tech's relationship to open ecosystems. Concerns about commercialization diluting open ideals.

Looking back on early tech days. How the history of tech contextualizes what's happening today. Nostalgia and optimism for the early Internet days.

The revival of space exploration, privatized today by SpaceX and others. What can we expect as we (hopefully) return to the Moon in 2024?

Chaos, unpredictability, and the feeling of societal flux as we head into 2024. An uncertain but interesting future awaits.
Memorable Quotes:
"AI is only dangerous to humans if you give it physical agency in the real world. Combine AI with a robotic dog, and now you got something." - Leo

"When are you getting your stupid thing that you wear that has the laser on your hand?" - Jeff to Leo

"It's time to hand it over. We're effing up the world. We've done it for centuries. It's time to hand it over." - Jeff on tech leadership

"So has anybody played with the Apple ones that have the weird eyeballs?" - Doc on Apple's augmented reality efforts

"Chaos is a weird thing. You could have your faucet dripping slowly and almost all of the drips go down and land and that's it, but somehow about a yard off to the one side is a drip" - Steve on increasing chaos

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jeff Jarvis, Doc Searls, Steve Gibson, and Rod Pyle

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2 hr 18 min
December 17, 2023TWiT 958: Never Look a Gift Mouse in the Horse - AI Math, Zuck's Lair, E3's Demise
AI Math, Zuck's Lair, E3's Demise
The panel talks about pinball machines

Mark Zuckerberg's underground lair

Cox admits to invading your privacy

Google Maps gets an update to stop authorities from accessing location history data

Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data

Epic Games wins it's lawsuit, Google ruled as an illegal monopoly

Beeper Mini is back, but for how long?

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

Tesla recalls 2 million cars

FCC denies Starlink of $885M subsidy

Netflix finally releases viewership data

E3 is over

How do you wordle?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Nate Lanxon, and David Spark

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2 hr 37 min
December 10, 2023TWiT 957: Put It In a Red Envelope - EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok
EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok
Financial Difficulties and Layoffs at Twit

AI's Potential and Misleading Demonstrations

Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Self-Driving Vehicles

Debate on AI Augmentation and Regulation

Beeper's Impersonation of Apple's Server'

Privacy Risks and Public Benefits

Technology Misuse, Cameo Scandal, Criticism

AI, Grock, and Free Money Impact

The Potential of AI in Advertising

Memories of 1000 Van Ness Theater

Discussion on Podcasts and Potluck Etiquette

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Owen Thomas, and Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 30 min

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