This Week in Tech (Audio)

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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken

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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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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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 Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu

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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?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Alex Lindsay, Glenn Fleishman, and Scott Stein

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TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion

Why Trump now opposes banning TikTok Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs OpenAI announces new members to the board of directors OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk's Lawsuit Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave The Panel discusses Bluesky and general social media FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical "Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Roberto Baldwin, Mike Masnick, and Louise Matsakis

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Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla Frame glasses Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest' Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4 Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Anthony Ha and Sam Abuelsamid

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How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know AT&T restores service after hours of outage AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz

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Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public 2 Twitter books are coming out Bluesky opens up to the public The Reply Guy Constitution Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amanda Silberling, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Shoshana Weissmann

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Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans

The panel discusses the Apple Vision Pro Transcribe Glass X rival Bluesky launches to public with option to pick your algorithm Tech layoff tracker - layoffs.fyi A general discussion on AI Zuckerberg's Plan for AI Hinges on Your Facebook and Instagram Data The panel looks back at the proto-internet Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93 The passing of John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Nicholas De Leon

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