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Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win 
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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 972: Judicial Whimsy - US vs. Apple, The ELVIS Act

 
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? 
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TWiT 753: I Got Waylaid in Switzerland

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