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December 18, 2022TWiT 906: A Bad Year for Billionaires - Twitter Trust and Safety Council firing, TikTok ban, FTX SBF arrested
Alex Barredo: @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.

Impulsive and Unjustified: CNN Slams Twitter for Suspending Journalists – Including Its Own Donie O'Sullivan.

Elon Musk Launches a Manhunt After Alarming Incident.

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home.

Elon Musk, Management Guru?

Senate votes to ban TikTok use on government devices.

What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe?

TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas.

FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises.

Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards.

Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise.

Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL.

Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta.

Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access.

Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets.

ConnectSafely giving out $1K grants to schools & nonprofits.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Mike Elgan, and Larry Magid

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2 hr 40 min
December 11, 2022TWiT 905: The Last Helicopter - Microsoft's Activision deal, Esports fading, Twitter Files, Apple car delays
Microsoft's Activision deal, Esports fading, Twitter Files, Apple car delays
Lina Khan, Aiming to Block Microsoft's Activision Deal, Faces a Challenge.

TikTok National-Security Deal Faces More Delays as Worry Grows Over Risks.

The Hype Around Esports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up.

Musk calls to prosecute Fauci, drawing swift backlash.

Twitter HQ is putting office supplies up for sale in a big auction.

Musk's 'Twitter Files' offer a glimpse of the raw, complicated and thankless task of moderation.

Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud.

11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles.

Elon Musk's Neuralink Is Under Federal Investigation for Animal Abuse.

China Scraps Most Covid Testing, Quarantine Requirements in Policy Pivot.

Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Until 2026.

Apple's Anti-Union Tactics in Atlanta Were Illegal, US Officials Say (AAPL).

Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups.

NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon.

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots.

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line.

We're All Capable of Going 'Goblin Mode'.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Connie Guglielmo, Iain Thomson, and Alex Wilhelm

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2 hr 34 min
December 04, 2022TWiT 904: Bon Bons and Football - Musk and Ye, chatting with ChatGPT, SF killer robots, Apple China protests
Musk and Ye, chatting with ChatGPT, SF killer robots, Apple China protests
Elon Musk explains why Ye was suspended from Twitter.

EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation.

Twitter reinstates account of Daily Stormer's infamous neo-Nazi creator.

Elon Musk's Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.

Which VR headset does Georgia prefer?

China pledges to slowly exit 'zero covid'.

Apple to Lose 6 Million iPhone Pros From Tumult at China Plant.

Inside the Covid revolt at the Zhengzhou 'iPhone City' plant.

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China.

Elon Musk Says 'Misunderstanding' With Apple Is Resolved.

Apple limited a crucial AirDrop function in China just weeks before protests.

Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon.

@hankgreen: Someone suggested that I ask MidJourney to show me a cat but to keep adding "A"s until it wasn't a cat anymore. Here is "cat."

Who Is the Woman Haunting A.I.-Generated Art?

ChatGPT.

@JoannaStern: HOLY #@*%!!!! The robots can indeed replace me. And they have a better handle on dash and comma usage.

Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day.

Leo plays around with ChatGPT.

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT.

SF police killer robots could be approved. Here's what that means.

U.S. Army Planned to Pay Streamers Millions to Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty.

Feds likely to challenge Microsoft's $69 billion Activision takeover.

Happy birthday and farewell, SMS! It's time for RCS.

U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter.

Smash World Tour organizers blame Nintendo for championship shutdown.

Report: ID.me Lied About Pretty Much Everything While Providing Identification Services To The Government.

Physicists Create 'the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'

Pantone's 2023 color of the year is 'Viva Magenta'

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Owen JJ Stone, and Rene Ritchie

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2 hr 47 min
November 27, 2022TWiT 903: Opt In For Fun - Apple chaos in China, Robocall crackdown, NFT nightclubs, Black Friday slump
Apple chaos in China, Robocall crackdown, NFT nightclubs, Black Friday slump
The Top Tech and Tools You Need for Taking Digital Notes.

Ford Mustang Mach-E loses its Consumer Reports recommendation.

Musk will restore Twitter accounts banned for harassment, misinformation.

Twitter new user signups at an 'all-time high,' says Elon Musk.

Protests Erupting Across China.

Mass resignations of iPhone workers; report of 30% production hit

China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country.

Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out.

Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China.

FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls.

New York Imposes 2-Year Moratorium on New Proof-of-Work Mining After Gov. Hochul Signs Bill.

El Salvador's $300 Million Bitcoin 'Revolution' Is Failing Miserably.

Miami nightclub owners are struggling with slumping sales after losing top-spending crypto clientele in wake of FTX implosion and crypto downfall, report says.

Restaurant and private members lounge to be built controversially in San Francisco's 'public' Salesforce Park.

Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year.

Callisto - Lockheed Martin.

Black Friday Lured Shoppers Back, in Early Test for Holiday Spending.

The Best Cyber Monday Deals 2022: Laptops, Robot Vacuums, AirPods, More.

French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Jill Duffy, and Owen Thomas

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2 hr 28 min
November 20, 2022TWiT 902: May Contain Nuts - Evernote bought, Trump on Twitter, Holmes sentencing, FTX mess, Artemis launch
Elon Musk restores Donald Trump's Twitter account.

Twitter Locks Its Office and Suspends Badge Access.

I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud.

Nigerian Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Launder Tens of Millions of Dollars from Online Scams.

How Much Trouble Is FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried In?

Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps.

Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential.

Tom Brady and Larry David among those accused of defrauding investors in FTX collapse.

H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder.

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3: 'Web3 is not the web at all'

Leo talks about the road map for The Tech Guy.

The long-awaited US broadband internet maps are here — for you to challenge.

Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in.

NASA's Modern Moon Program Is Finally off the Ground.

Greg Bear (1951-2022).

Fred Brooks Has Died.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Phil Libin, Dwight Silverman, and Glenn Fleishman

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2 hr 50 min
November 13, 2022TWiT 901: Weaponized FOMO - Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP
Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP
Casey Newton on Twitter: "Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees".

Twitter CISO flies the coop.

Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer.

Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands.

What is Elon really up to in all of this?

Is centralization good for end users?

Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say.

Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom.

Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine's president Zelenskiy.

Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows That 20% of Its Assets Are in Shiba Inu (SHIB) Coin.

Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.

Prosecutors push 15-year sentence for Theranos' CEO Holmes.

Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story.

PleaseRobMe.com

Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google.

Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13.

Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work.

Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans.

Two weeks of chaos: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: David Spark, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Amy Webb

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2 hr 50 min
November 06, 2022TWiT 900: The Pies Have It - Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok
Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted.

-2000 Lines Of Code.

Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back.

What are the redeeming qualities of Twitter?

@elonmusk: Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended.

It's hard out here for a billionaire.

League of Legends World Championship Finals.

Quiz show!

Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin's account for impersonating Elon Musk.

Is Twitter good for brands?

Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.

Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they 'overhired for the world we're in'

Finally, is this the end for the fax machine?

Interview: FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok.

Github Universe.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Brianna Wu, and Christina Warren

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3 hr 8 min
October 30, 2022TWiT 899: It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090
It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090
Welcome to hell, Elon.

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Paperback by Brent Schlender.

FeedLand is a place to share and discover feeds. We use Twitter to identify each user.

Apple was a bright spot.

Apple's cash mountain is back where it was in 2010.

iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively, delighting Woz.

Apple halts gambling ads in App Store.

KGO replaced by 'rapid-fire sports smack' gambling station.

Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border.

Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal Interviews Craig Federighi About Apple's Upcoming Child Safety Features.

Greg Joswiak confirms iPhone's future move to USB-C.

NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.

Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way.

Adobe to Acquire Figma.

Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter.

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.

OpenWallet Foundation.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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2 hr 48 min
October 23, 2022TWiT 898: The Alphabetical Show - Twitter & Musk, new iPads, burning art for NFTs, AI chat with the dead
Twitter & Musk to close buyout, Apple's new iPads, artist burns art for NFTs, AI chatbot for dead loved ones, and more.
Semafor.com - A new global news platform for breaking stories and analysis.

American Airlines is trying to stop a popular iPhone app Sequence Decoder that's become a 'must have' for its flight attendants.

Twitter and Elon Musk make progress on a buyout, and Musk plans to cut 75% of its workforce.

The dark side of a super app like WeChat in China.

Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source.

Jack Dorsey-founded Bluesky is building a protocol for decentralized social networks.

Damien Hirst is burning thousands of his paintings for an NFT project.

Adware clicker apps in Google Play have been downloaded over 20 million times.

Apple's macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be released on October 24.

Apple announced a new iPad and M2-powered iPad Pro, but the iPad lineup now seems like a mess.

Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K with an A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ for $129.

More ads are coming to Apple's App Store starting next week.

Apple's head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving three years after the departure of Jony Ive.

NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations.

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots.

Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter in the US.

Kanye West is buying the 'free speech platform' Parler.

Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog CMA.

Are we ready for an AI chatbot that lets us speak to our dead loved ones?

Red Bull co-founder and Red Bull Formula One owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Harry McCracken, and Louis Maresca

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2 hr 7 min
October 16, 2022TWiT 897: Headphones For Your Eyes - Future of Microsoft Office, Legs in VR, NVIDIA RTX 4090, Project Starline
Future of Microsoft Office, Legs in VR, NVIDIA RTX 4090, Project Starline
Peach Only SMA 11:04 Brianna Wu.

Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

Microsoft (MSFT) US Army HoloLens Goggles Gave Soldiers Nausea, Headaches.

Is this a technology that anybody really wants?

@warren_craddock: I've worked on a number of high-profile failures. They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw.

Lenovo's new Glasses T1 are the coolest PC accessory I've seen that just makes sense.

Google's Project Starline is the real deal.

Meta's Virtual Reality Legs Video Was A Lie, Used Some Mocap.

Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere.

Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator.

Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI.

Synthetic Media Startup D-ID Launches Image-to-Video Platform.

NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.

American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban.

GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty.

Vault by CNN shutdown results in "rug pull" accusations from NFT buyers.

Mac shipments shoot up a whopping 40%.

When Is Apple Launching the M2 iPad Pro and M2 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro?

Musk Will Have Absolute Control Over Twitter, Documents Show.

Elon Musk is now selling perfume that smells like burning hair.

Elon Musk tweets on Starlink: 'We'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free'.

Netflix Basic with Ads streaming launches in November.

Alex Jones Says Brianna Wu Defamed Him in a Tweet.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Daniel Rubino, and Sam Abuelsamid

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2 hr 53 min

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