TWiG 665: Apes of Wrath - Missing Bored Apes, DuckDuckGo and MS trackers, Veecon, digital driver license
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TWiT TV
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Tech News
Technology
Publication Date |
May 26, 2022
Episode Duration |
02:32:20
  • 21 killed in Texas elementary school shooting.
  • Beto O'Rourke disrupts news conference on shooting.
  • The Problem With The Otherwise Very Good And Very Important Eleventh Circuit Decision On The Florida Social Media Law.
  • And Now The Copia Institute Tells The US Supreme Court There's A Big Problem With Texas's Social Media Law.
  • Inside VeeCon: 4 Days of NFT Fanaticism at U.S. Bank Stadium.
  • Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape And Star Of His New NFT Show.
  • Just after Texas shooting, California Senate passes Texas-style bill targeting assault weapons, ghost guns.
  • California Assembly Unanimously Passes Blatantly Unconstitutional Bill To Allow Parents To Sue Websites Because Their Kids Are Depressed.
  • Snap Sends Shiver Through Ad Stocks.
  • Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It's a Good Time for Them.
  • Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter's board of directors.
  • Twitter shareholders vote to boot Silver Lake co-CEO Durban, a long-time Musk backer, from board.
  • Twitter jumps after Musk increases commitment in takeover bid to $33.5 billion, in talks for other funding.
  • Anna Lapwood ends up playing organ for Bonobo at Royal Albert Hall.
  • Ukrainian soldiers sing a tribute to their drones.
  • Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air.
  • DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement.
  • DOJ Announces It Won't Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers.
  • Electrify America will be 100 percent solar-powered by 2023.
  • OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu.
  • @horsewizrd: (content warning: endless screaming) ok the AI refuses to give me a normal cat but when I ask for "a centaur except the man part is a jumbo shrimp.
  • @Thinkwert: Not as good as the viral tweet, I'm afraid. A centaur except the man part is a jumbo shrimp.
  • "Tough to forge" digital driver's license is... easy to forge.
  • Sources: Pixel Watch boosts Exynos 9110 with co-processor, most RAM Wear OS has ever seen.
  • FB Is Paying Residents of Illinois $397 Each in Lawsuit Settlement.
  • Kellyanne Conway: 'My husband George abandoned me for Twitter'.
  • 'This can't be real': Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a 'war zone'.
  • Introduction of MS Excel in 92.
  • Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted!

Picks:

  • Cathy - @HueyLewisNews: Huey also stopped by the Andy Warhol Museum while he was in Pittsburgh
  • Cathy - @CathyGellis: I had a party yesterday to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. Here was the cake...
  • Kevin - Obsolete Macs to run old software
  • Kevin - I don't care about your crypto boy
  • Jeff - Students create an edible tape to hold that messy burrito together

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Cathy Gellis and Kevin Marks

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