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Craig Newmark and pancakes After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS NYT vs OpenAI Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025 Deadpool and Wolverine are...
Published 07/25/24
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down EU accuses Elon Musk's...
Published 07/18/24
Published 07/18/24
'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034 AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA...
Published 07/11/24
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more...
Published 07/04/24
Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act This Week in Tunnels Toys r us AI video Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp Autobiography app OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers Record Labels Sue Suno & Udio for Training AI Models on Their Songs...
Published 06/27/24
The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads Jeff on Perplexity Discover Luma extends memes Gutenberg...
Published 06/20/24
Apple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman Hallucination is Inevitable Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids Judge rather than jury will render verdict in upcoming antitrust trial Joey Chestnut is out of 2024 Nathan's hot dog eating contest in beef over vegan...
Published 06/13/24
'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good? Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes That time Rupert Murdoch almost married a woman from Petaluma The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka Finally! Someone has figured out how to make money in...
Published 06/06/24
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic UN statement on risks from generative AI We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase Google...
Published 05/30/24
Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her It's Time to Believe the AI Hype Steven Levy's Extremely Stupid AI Piece Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments Congress Shouldn't End the Internet's Sunrise With a Section 230 "Sunset" Repeal Buy This Legislation or We'll Kill the Internet Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,'...
Published 05/23/24
Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation. Gemini Search with Gemini Agents Deepmind Gemini Flash Project Astra Imajen 3 Veo Trillium Search Ask with Video Gemini for Workspace Virtual Teammate Gemini App Android Google AI Studio Gemma SynthID LearnLM Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club...
Published 05/14/24
'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium...
Published 05/09/24
Google is building a fart button into Android The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except...
Published 05/02/24
'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 brilliant.xyz More wearable AI: IYO One The Man Who Killed Google Search Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating...
Published 04/25/24
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." limitless ai brilliant.xyz 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...
Published 04/18/24
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...
Published 04/11/24
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...
Published 04/04/24
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...
Published 03/28/24
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...
Published 03/21/24
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...
Published 03/14/24
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...
Published 03/07/24
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...
Published 02/29/24
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...
Published 02/22/24
Leo opens his copy of "Shift Happens" Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form The rise of obituary spam Biden administration taps Gina Raimondo to direct new AI Safety Institute University of Pennsylvania announces first AI undergrad degree When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever "Societal misalignments" could...
Published 02/15/24