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TWiT 659: A Game of Hold My Beer

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TikTok 'ban' passes in the House again 
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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. 
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TWiT 976: Serial Churners - Netflix Earnings, Cybertruck Recall, FISA

 
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 
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TWiT 975: You Don't Want to Make Gandhi Mad - AI Music, Broadband Nutrition Labels

 
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 
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TWiT 974: Get at the Young Youngs - Tesla Robotaxi, Marissa Mayer's Sunshine

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 
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TWiT 973: The Inverted Goldilocks Zone - Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

 
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  
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TWiT 659: A Game of Hold My Beer

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