• Panic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT.
• Samsung can't dump Google for Bing as the default search engine on its phones.
• Why Samsung Doesn't Want You to Use Google Apps.
• AI could cause a mass-extinction of languages — and ways of thinking.
• AI science search engines are exploding in number — are they any good?
• 'Overemployed' Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs.
• Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals.
• Google's Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say.
• '60 Minutes' Made a Shockingly Wrong Claim About a Google AI.
• Google to launch its first foldable phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' in June.
• Sources: Pixel Tablet will have 8GB of RAM, four colors, and this included dock.
• Report: Pixel 7a will cost $499, Pixel 6a will continue at a reduced price.
• Nilay Patel's devastating interview with Chris Best.
• Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet.
• Bluesky's CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter.
• Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still 'tooting'?
• NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'.
• AI makes up a duet with Drake & The Weeknd (nobody to complain about taking it down but publishers want to block AI).
• Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems.
• Amazon releases photo dataset to program robots to replace crappy pick-and-pack Amazon jobs.
• Bainbridge ferry: "Abandon ship!".
• It's now 'Google Fi Wireless' with redesigned app, icon, and more smartwatches.
• You can now redeem Play Points for Google shirts, socks, water bottles, and more.
• Nest Thermostat gets Matter support today, including Apple Home compatibility.
• Google Chat rolling out Material You web redesign.
• This College Football Program Mined Fanatics Consumer Data to Fuel a $1 Million Boost in Ticket Sales.
• Will smart medicine drive privacy legislation? It should.

Picks:

• Stacey - Era 300: The Stereo Speaker With Dolby Atmos.
• Jeff - Americans mostly believe the news they hear on podcasts.
• Jeff - Last two computer magazines are dead.
• Ant - LumaTouch Adds Multicam Support.
• Ant - Shout Out To Mr. Terrell.
• Jason - Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls by Lisa Damour Ph.D.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Google is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices.
• Google ending Works with Nest & Dropcam support, Nest Secure owners getting free ADT system.
• The Fitbit-to-Google account migration will start this summer.
• Google Home's latest update provides more control over your smart appliances.
• Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.
• Discover more than 800 free TV channels with Google TV.
• The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation.
• The importance of disclosure in generative AI.
• 'We have to move fast': US looks to establish rules for artificial intelligence.
• Create AI by describing it.
• Use AI to create short-form video.
• Get Your Kids to Love Reading with Choose-Your-Own Adventures, powered by GPT-4!
• Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter.
• Instagram Founders' News App Artifact Adds 'Reputation Scores' and Comments.
• Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban.
• TikTok sister app Lemon8 surges in U.S.
• Samsung to cut chip production as profits plunge by 96%.
• PC market faces another inflection point.
• Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta.
• Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm.
• Google rolling out Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel phones.
• Pixel 7 April update fixes Bluetooth unpairing, and improves Macro Focus.
• Google is working on 'Find My Device' feature even when the phone is turned off.
• Google Will Require Android Developers to Make It Easier to Delete Your Account Data.
• Android devices can now automatically archive little-used apps.
• Google releases 'Cross-Device Services' on Play Store, which will power Chromebook app streaming.
• Google prohibits personal loan apps from accessing user photos and contacts.

Picks:

• Stacey - Homey Hub.
• Jeff - Why are news outlets putting their podcasts on YouTube?
• Ant - I'm Jealous of #Hardhead.
• Jason - A deck of cards.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Google closing some micro kitchens
• Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures
• Google Drive Imposes 5 Million Item Cap, Even if You Have Storage Space Left
• Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive
• Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They'll regulate it anyway
• Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data
• Three things everyone's getting wrong about AI
• Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral
• AI guys are the new crypto guys
• Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
• Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on
• Ding Dong. Live Audio is dying. Remember Clubhouse?
• After disrupting businesses, Google Drive's secret file cap is dead for now.
• Google launches ads transparency center.
• Google Search gets new travel features, including a 'price guarantee' tool for flights.
• Google Pixel Tablet arrives at FCC, revealing UWB connectivity
• YouTube channel pages add a dedicated 'Podcasts' tab
• The Google Now Launcher is fully shutting down 10 years later
• Google is trying to make sure apps let you delete your account

Picks:

• Ant's Picks: Pull UP
• Ant's Pick: Have a Laugh
• Jeff's Pick: Companies young people hope to work at
• Jeff's Pick: Tech layoff numbers
• Glenn's Pick: AirTag combination lock carabiner: Raptic Link& Lock
• Mikah's Pick: Nite Ize Keyrack, Carabiner Key Chain

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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• Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing 'Risks to Society'
• Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and their impact on humanity
• The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
• #TikTokBan videos have 1.7b views on TikTok
• Random stupid moment from Tiktok hearing
• Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
• The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
• Norwegian company says TikTok data center is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition
• Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94
• Utah governor signs laws requiring parents' consent for minors to use social media.
• William Wulf obit
• Original Intel business model and NSF Net History
• Maryland court reinstates murder conviction of 'Serial' subject Adnan Syed
• The Pope and the puffer coat
• Amazon delivery driver goes viral for dropping off package during a police standoff in North Carolina.
• Rupert Murdoch's next wife is from Petaluma
• Glenn's Pick: Everything But the Bagel Potato Chips
• Jeff's Pick: Kevin's review of the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook
• Jeff's Pick: My Ontario TVO debate
• Ant's Pick: Put These At Your Desk
• Ant's Pick: Get 'Em Bonica
• Follow The Laporte's Vacation Photos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Glenn Fleishman

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• A TikTok corner just for Stacey (h/t @cbryancan@twit.social)
• DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review
• Archive Team to Backup DPReview
• Stacey's AI Tweet
• The Age of AI has begun Bill Gates
• Leo Gets BARD
• Google Bard Sign-up
• Looking at New Midjourney
• ChatGPT Radio!
• Adobe Intro's Generative AI into Creative Cloud - Firefly
• Follow The Laportes on Vacation - Polarsteps
• Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
• (2021) Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book war
• Google finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chipsets
• Google Workspace ambush and fix
• Support for Google Workspace #nocost
• Reid Hoffman wrote a book with GPT-4
• Stochastic Parrots Day video
• Bellingcat founder Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral.
• CEO on TikTok in DC
• Lawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear.
• Blackberry, the trailer
• Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming
• Google Kills Jacquard
• Stacey's Pick - Tapo TP-Link Matter Plug
• Leo's Pick - LoFi Air Traffic Control
• Jeff's Pick - The Vesuvius Challenge
• Ant's Pick - 50% Off an Annual Subscription to Particle Illusion by Boris FX (use code PIPLUGIN50)

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.
• Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run.
• T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal.
• OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again).
• Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more.
• Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features.
• Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.
• Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly.
• The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Stochastic Parrots Day.
• Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.
• Carrot Weather gets a snarky ChatGPT update.
• Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action.
• Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why.
• TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech.
• Meta is working on a decentralized social app.
• Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment.
• Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT.
• Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition.
• YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games in preview for March Madness.
• Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free.
• Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes.
• March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 is now rolling out.
• Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help.
• Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.
• A Look Inside Elon Musk's $50,000 Prefab Tiny House.
• The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold or risk a nationwide ban.

Picks:

• Stacey - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Hardcover by Jenny Odell.
• Jeff - Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today, and I'm Going to Write About It.
• Jeff - Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis.
• Jeff - Here's Everything That Happened at the #BlackTwitterSummit.
• Jeff - The Color Printer.
• Mike - ChatPDF.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mike Elgan

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• Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
• FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names.
• Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher.
• YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.
• Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle.
• 'Slavery was wrong' and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore.
• Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10.
• Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.
• How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply.
• The privacy loophole in your doorbell.
• Rest of World receives a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers.
• Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit, which is a big mistake.
• Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor to register with the state.
• Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, and software liability reform.
• A New 'M*A*S*H' Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J.
• 20% of YCombinator classes are built on machine learning.
• ChatGPT enters slack; the machine plays office politics.
• Prepare for the Textpocalypse by Matthew Kirschenbaum.
• Farewell to a tech brand of which I'll always be proud. Vox Media is "retiring the Recode branding" today.
• CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
• March 2023 Pixel Feature Drop changelog leaks out.
• Google rolling out Android 14 Developer Preview 2.
• Blurry subway photos may offer our latest Pixel Fold leak.
• Here's everything new in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 [Gallery].
• Google begins rolling out its new look for Docs and other Workspace apps.
• Google One brings VPN to $1.99/month plan, adding dark web info monitoring.
• Pixel Buds Pro spatial audio with head tracking update rolling out.
• Android 15's dessert is apparently 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.
• Google launches the new Google Trends portal.
• Google Chrome is making it easier to delete autofill data.

Picks:

• Stacey - COVID
• Leo - Opal C1
• Leo - Camo
• Jeff - The New Gatekeepers by Benedict Evans.
• Ant - Peak Design TRAVEL BACKPACK 45L.
• Ant - FINALLY coming to "TV". Silo series based on books by Hugh Howey.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.
• U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
• Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.
• All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.
• YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.
• Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.
• OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.
• Planning for AGI and beyond.
• You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
• Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.
• Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.
• Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.
• YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.
• In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.
• Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.
• Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.
• Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.
• Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.
• Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.
• Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.
• Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.
• Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.
• Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.
• Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.
• Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.
• Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.
• Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.

Picks:

• Jason - Artifact for Android.
• Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.
• Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.
• Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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• Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.
• Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral Arguments.
• Cathy's Amicus brief.
• Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit Claiming Twitter Aided Terrorists.
• What happened to the K9YO pico balloon? Shot down by an F-22 Raptor.
• The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn...
• Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight.
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.
• NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops.
• Mark Zuckerberg - Good morning and new product...
• Inside Meta's Push to Solve the Noisy Office.
• Google Reassessing Timeline for Massive San Jose Campus.
• German government banned from operating Facebook page.
• Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions.
• Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles.
• Subway planning EV charging oasis. Now if it were Taco Bell...
• Google Messages is finally just calling it 'RCS'.
• Google's long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March.
• ChromeOS 110 rolling out: Super Resolution Audio, Select-to-speak, channels labels, more.
• Acer Chromebook 516 GE.
• Google Weather gets an accidental dark theme via the Android System Webview update.
• Google Chrome rolls out Memory and Energy Saver modes.

Picks:

• Cathy - Montalbano.
• Jeff - AI.com now takes you to ChatGpt.
• Jeff - Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it.
• Ant - Borix FX Particle Illusion Updated.
• Ant - Hagibis USB-C Hub with Hard Drive Enclosure.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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• Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.
• Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.
• Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in Alphabet shares.
• Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.
• What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
• How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine.
• writeGPT - OpenAI's GPT prompt assistant.
• From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
• This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he's not happy about it.
• Google Launches Privacy Sandbox for Android Beta Test.
• Google Drive adding stylus and finger PDF annotation on Android.
• YouTube TV subscribers will get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, access launches September 10.
• Google Fiber rolling out $125/month 5 Gig service in 4 cities.

Picks:

• Stacey - Radio Garden.
• Mike - Wikenigma.
• Mike - StealthGPT.
• Ant - Centralized vs Decentralized on FLOSS Weekly.
• Ant - Tiktok Since Mr. Jarvis is Off This Week.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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