Twitter's TOR Onion service, Google buying Mandiant, Endurance discovery 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham 
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TWiG 654: Did We Do The Ad? - Twitter's TOR Onion service, Google buying Mandiant, Endurance discovery

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Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation. 
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TWiG 768: Google A/I - Google I/O 2024

 
'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed 
The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! 
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry 
Google is getting even worse for independent sites 
Heat Death of the Internet 
What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. 
They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast 
Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos 
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 
TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban 
Meet Pixel 8a 
YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users 
Google is changing how you set up 2FA 
Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut 
Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? 
Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page 
I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. 
Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X 
(God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News 
The Forgotten War on Beepers 
AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible 
geospy.ai 
MacWhisper 
Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 
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TWiG 767: Never Hug an Elmo - BuzzFeed, AdVon, 65-Foot Hot Dog

 
Google is building a fart button into Android 
The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all 
Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength 
Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia 
Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico 
Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint 
Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok 
A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington. 
FCC fines AT&T;, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data 
The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power. 
Supreme Court Rejects Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Appeal in SEC Win 
Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion 
Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 
Musk Wins China's Backing for Tesla's Driver-Assistance Service 
Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk's Flaws 
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team 
Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction 
Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License 
Remember that Sora balloon video? 
From Baby Talk to Baby A.I. 
Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old 
Is history repeating itself? I have concerns. 
The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 
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TWiG 766: Area Man Buys Onion - Alphabet Hits 2 Trillion, DJI Ban, FCC Fines

 
'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill 
TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google 
How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge 
The Chilling of TikTok 
FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching 
Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage 
Paris' nuts 
Rabbit R1 
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More wearable AI: IYO One 
The Man Who Killed Google Search 
Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality' 
The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy 
Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints 
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web' 
Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam 
Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room' 
This fun little web game: Equinox.Space 
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No one buys books 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 
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TWiG 765: Inflatable Nuts - TikTok Ban, Rabbit R1, Equinox.space

 
Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music 
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric 
Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed." 
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Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles. 
Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act 
Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption 
Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA 
Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced 
Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months 
Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens 
Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding 
Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul 
'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint 
Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers? 
Prophet Song 
Strands, the superior NYT game 
Cow magnets 
Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream 
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 
Guest: Stacey Higginbotham 
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TWiG 654: Did We Do The Ad? - Twitter's TOR Onion service, Google buying Mandiant, Endurance discovery

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