This Week in Tech (Audio)

The panel discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections to the tech industry Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab Why do we keep changing our clocks? ChatGPT Search Online political ads--we're almost done! Elon Musk Wants You to Think This Election's Being Stolen Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine Digital ad market booms for Big Tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Nicholas De Leon, and Amy Webb

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Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing

Foreign Election Interference
North Korean hackers and bitcoin
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
Delta actually sues Crowdstrike
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user's mouse cursor
Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro
Kroger and Walmart Deny 'Surge Pricing' After Adopting Digital Price Tags
Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead
Musk steers X disputes to conservative Texas courts in service terms update

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Stamos and Owen Thomas

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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling 'is dangerous' Canceling subscriptions is about to get easier The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist Wyden: CALEA Hack Proves Dangers Of Government-Mandated Backdoors Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts X Will Soon Let Users See Tweets From People Who Block Them People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4 mln cars after fatal crash French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks Amazon debuts next-gen family of Kindle devices: First color model, fastest and lightest Paperwhite ever Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors Netflix third-quarter subscribers barely beat estimates as ad-tier members jump 35%

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Cory Doctorow, and Jason Hiner

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Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise How to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or Pixel US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them A Whole Bunch Of States File Garbage Grandstanding Lawsuits Against TikTok With The Main
Complaint Being 'Kids Like It' Two Scientists Share Physics Nobel for Machine Learning Three Scientists Get Chemistry Nobel for Research Into Proteins This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain A closer look at Nintendo's adorable Alarmo alarm clock Samsung is turning your Galaxy phone into a smart door key

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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On this 1000th episode of TWiT, Leo has his old pals Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, and David Prager on the show to reminisce about the TechTV days, discuss the future of AI, and get caught up on each other's lives.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Roger Chang

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CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

Sam Altman's AI Manifesto News from Meta Connect Gavin Newsom vetoes sweeping AI safety bill, siding with Silicon Valley The Panel discusses CoPilot The Panel debates AGI James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against 'League of Legends' Rabbit says only 5,000 people use the R1 daily Orion: True AR Glasses Have Arrived AI smackdown: How a new FTC ruling just protected the free press DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says Firefox Review Checker - Ensure review authenticity in your online shopping New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules Some Mad Genius Put ChatGPT on a TI-84 Graphing Calculator 23andMe troubles, company recently settled data insecurity suit for $30 mil

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Parmy Olson, Daniel Rubino, and Henry Laporte

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Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down

Discussion of the iPhone 16 Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil Bluesky tops 10 million users Newsom signs California bill to limit 'addictive' social media feeds for kids The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Alex Lindsay, and Rob Pegoraro

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iPhone Event, $700 PS5, AI in AU

Of course: Everything Apple announced at the iPhone 16 event VR vs AR Taylor Swift endorses Harris/Walz, mentions AI imagery pushed her to be public No, Kamala Harris wasn't wearing earing headphones, and those things barely even exist PS5 Pro is real and crazy expensive at $700 Meta admits to scraping every Australian's account to train its AI, with no opt out Australia's PM wants to ban social media for kids, potentially those between 14-16 What is AI best at now? Improving products you already own Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully complete the first private spacewalk 'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine Flappy Bird vs Flappy Bird creator Microsoft wants to remove low-level access Mark Zuckerberg is done apologizing Prius sets 93MPG Coast-Coast Record Italian Retro Video Game Pirates! Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a lot of fun! Hot Ones coming to Netflix?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Anthony Ha

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Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder's arrest The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending FBI busts musician's elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist PwC tells employees it will use location data to police "back-to-office" rule Apple's planned chatbot should have no "personality" The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly. Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Host: Iain Thomson

Guests: Mike Elgan and Emily Forlini

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