'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
magCulture
No one buys books
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Apr 24
2 hr 36 min
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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Apr 17
2 hr 54 min
Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
Talking about the old internet
Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act
Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom
First look at federal privacy bill
Instagram Generated Almost 30% of Meta's Revenue in Early 2022
Elon Musk's 'self-inflicted wounds' and other highlights from a newly released deposition
5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24
Fitbit app rolling out redesigned Sleep stats
Google's Nest Secure is shut down — and you've got options besides ADT
Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free
The wonderful world of Taskmaster
Also! A report from the teens at PS 47
Mario meets Pareto
Suno music
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Apr 10
3 hr 4 min
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024
Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television
YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50%
Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
20 years of Gmail
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
Google is Bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and Circle to Search to More Devices
Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners
Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going 'AI-First,' Yum's New Tech Chief Says
Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast
Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details
Very good by Katie Harbath: Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes
Hume, an "empathic" voice-to-voice AI chatbot
Harvard Releases the Caselaw Access Project
Ant: I streamed with Logitech's Mevo Core camera and it nearly beat out my $3,600 Canon
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Apr 3
2 hr 13 min
Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
AI news that's fit to print
How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting
Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access
Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
Collective AI' expected to resemble Star Trek's Borg — only nicer (hopefully)
Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff
Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google
Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
Intercept sues OpenAI not on copyright but on DMCA
Google Chat rolling out voice messages for Workspace
Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some
Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
ELON MUSK FOUGHT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE — WHILE PROFITING OFF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
[Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL
Shine by Sunshine on the App Store
Good by David Kaye on the risks of internet regulation
Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts
Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists' Voices From AI Impersonation
Apple's Journal app
The fish doorbell
'Beyond our wildest dreams': How the Forward removed its paywall – and generated 37% more revenue
New Google NY office has foot-washing station
Sign o' the Times: Brooklyn apartment building to include podcast studio
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Mar 27
2 hr 36 min
Matt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf'
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering
Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain'
Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini
Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event
OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year
OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam
The Check Up with Google Health
Big changes at Inflection AI & Microsoft
From the mind that brought you 'Livvy Just Rizzed Up Baby Gronk,' an important update
Festival crowd boos San Francisco techies over 'AI is a culture' video
The End of Evangelion in theaters
Landline Users Remain Proudly 'Old-Fashioned' in the Digital Age
Minders App
Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Mar 20
2 hr 40 min
Told You So: Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation
TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale
ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed interest in buying TikTok, floated the idea of partnering w/ Sam Altman and others
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
Karl Bode breaks it down at TechDirt
Ed's podcast episode about Musk's Uncharitable Charity
Elon boots a Don Lemon show after a tough interview
Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social
New Google Messages Feature Lets You Turn Blue Chat Bubbles Green (or Orange, or Purple)
Google's updated sign-in page appears to be rolling out widely
The Disruptors
AP launches e-commerce site with Taboola
Last pressrun at the LA Times
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ed Zitron
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Mar 13
2 hr 12 min
OpenAI and Elon Musk
Something Like Fire
Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance
Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
Life House CEO Departs After The Information's Report on Company
South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
Here Come the AI Worms
Open letter: A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation
Microsoft engineer who raised concerns about Copilot image creator pens letter to the FTC
Pixel phones just got next-gen call screening
Complying with the Digital Markets Act
GOOGLE PREPARES TO LAUNCH NEW APP STORE CALLED "APP MALL" FOR CHROMEOS
Google is starting to squash more spam and AI in search results
Google Maps is testing a feature that shows you where to enter a building
Google Business Profile websites are now redirected to Google Maps
Pixel feature drop: New productivity tools and advanced health features
6 updates to Waze to help you get around safely and conveniently
Satellite SOS showing up on some Pixel phones
classvsoftware/under-new-management: Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners.
Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site
Paying with VisionPro
When students use generative AI, it's "cheating." When teachers use it, it's efficiency....
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Mar 6
2 hr 19 min
Gemini and Google's Culture
Klarna says its OpenAI virtual assistant does the work of 700 humans
OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI
Kids left disappointed by Willy Wonka theme park grift
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sued over a plane crash that killed two pilots last year
MWC 2024: Motorola's Rollable Concept phone laughs at your silly foldable
Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as a way to 'simplify everyday wellness'
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn't
New bitcoin spot ETF trading volume sets daily record, besting launch day
Supreme Court Arguments on Social Media Laws Are Scrutinized
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption
Third Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.
AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
Jensen Huang, CEO of #Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
Doomsters write another letter
Wear OS is revamping notifications to improve battery life
Google brings Gemini to Messages and adds AI text summaries for Android Auto
Chrome's new AI feature can help you write on the web
Meta Wants Llama 3 to Handle Contentious Questions as Google Grapples With Gemini Backlash
Google Maps is finally making glanceable directions widely available
Some Kind of Heaven
Mom's first VR
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Feb 28
2 hr 42 min
Introducing Molly White
Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
End of an era: The phone book goes the way of the fax machine as it drops through doors for the very last time after almost 150 years
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
Nielsen crowns YouTube #1 Streamer in America 12 months straight!
Untranslatable foreign words
Molly on Sam Bankman-Fried
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups
Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
New Google sign in
Waze new features
'Rat Dck' Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal
TikTokker vs her breakdancing bitcoin dad
Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces - Leo's Pick
chocolate 3-d printer
'I love to twirl the cord': the young people pushing for a landline renaissance
wiki edit wars
ChatGPT goes temporarily "insane" with unexpected outputs, spooking users
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Molly White
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Feb 21
2 hr 43 min