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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
'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.
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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis
Guest: Alex Kantrowitz
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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."
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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...
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