Musk risk intensifies, UK emergency alert, Google AI panic, Parrots on Zoom

• Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness.
• In 24 Hours, Elon Musk Reignited His Reputation for Risk.
• Twitter Blue nets 28 signups so far since legacy checkmark purge.
• There Is No A.I.
• How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition.
• Emergency alert test fails to sound on some phones.
• School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste.
• Can Parrots Talk Over Video Chat? Experiment Shows How They Adapt and Connect.
• Here's How You Can Get In On Facebook's $725 Million Class Action Settlement.
• Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor.
• Tesla wins lawsuit over Autopilot Model S crash.
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai's 2022 Compensation Valued at $226 Million.
• Google's AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain.
• Alphabet's Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI.
• Google's rush to win in AI led to ethical lapses, employees say.
• YouTube TV is testing significant picture quality improvements.
• Netflix's DVD Business: Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Division.
• Imgur will ban explicit images on its platform this month.
• When Apple Comes Calling, 'It's the Kiss of Death'

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nate Lanxon, Mike Elgan, and Paris Martineau

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Substack Notes, AI guardrails, WWDC, Meta morale, HBO Max, X Corp

• Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter.
• Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn't Realize He's Just Become The Nazi Bar.
• Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT.
• European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force.
• China Mandates Security Reviews for AI Services Like ChatGPT.
• AI is already taking video game illustrators' jobs in China.
• Twitter Isn't a Company Anymore.
• Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI.
• Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC.
• The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market.
• Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta.
• Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok.
• Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban.
• Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.
• HBO Max to Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date, and Pricing Revealed.
• The End of Computer Magazines in America.

Host: Jason Howell

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Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite

• Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe.
• A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI.
• Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data.
• What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news.
• Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT.
• Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral.
• At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free.
• What did Twitter's 'open source' algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.
• Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'.
• Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu.
• New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook.
• Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'.
• Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive.
• Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race.
• Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts.
• Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures.
• E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out.
• Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M).
• Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite.

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Anthony Ha, and Doc Rock

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Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's

• Best of April Fool's Pranks
• GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs
• The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
• 3 things everyone's getting wrong about AI
• Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9
• At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
• Apple Releases iOS 16.4 With New Emoji, Safari Web Push Notifications, Beta Changes, Voice Isolation for Calls and More
• Apple Pay Later is finally launching
• E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out
• Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity
• The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else
• T2 - Twitter Alternative

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Christina Warren

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• Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell
• Red Team Blues
• The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
• Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
• Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94
• Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
• Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and their impact on humanity
• How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security
• A TikTok ban would upend Hollywood
• Introducing Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool
• At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles - The New York Times
• Part of Twitter Source Code Leaked
• The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
• Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
• The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
• Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush
• A 90-Year-Old Tortoise Named Mr. Pickles Is a New Dad of Three

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports

• OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.
• Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive.
• Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments.
• TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers.
• The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists.
• Why are the Olympic Esports Series games so strange? We asked the IOC.
• Meta's place in the social media landscape.
• The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse.
• The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash.
• Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.
• Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime.
• FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages.
• Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update.
• GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers.
• Google is working on AI for ultrasound diagnosis and cancer therapy.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Steven Levy

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Silicon Valley Bank collapse, FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, Apple headset

• Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank.
• Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.
• FDIC to Silicon Valley Bank workers. We'll give you a 50% raise or double-time OT, but you'll lose your job in 45 days.
• U.S. officials weigh protecting all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.
• Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers.
• Meta to end Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 becomes law.
• Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC.
• Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook Ordered Headset Launch Despite Designers Warning It Wasn't Ready.
• Daylight savings time change 2023 starts Sunday with "spring forward".
• Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle
• The privacy loophole in your doorbell.
• YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.
• Apple Music Classical app launching March 28.
• Chat with Jason Calacanis (post credits)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Reed Albergotti, Glenn Fleishman, and Jason Calacanis

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AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry

• Bing Chat has a secret 'Celebrity' mode to impersonate celebrities.
• @emollick: Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.
• CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
• Father Robert defines the Singularity.
• LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach.
• Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say.
• Amazon Illegally Fired NYC Union Organizer, Labor Board Says.
• 50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World.
• Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer.
• Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, software liability reform.
• Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state.
• U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
• White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren

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Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

• U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance.
• Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption.
• Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.
• It's Time to Tear Up Big Tech's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card.
• Section 230 Won't Protect ChatGPT.
• Twitter lays off another 50 employees as cost cutting continues under Elon Musk: report.
• FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.
• Sumi.news.
• Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.
• Calckey: A greatly enhanced fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, and more!
• Mammoth is a new free Mastodon client for iOS and macOS.
• Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers.
• SF's new startup hotspot seen as the road to AI riches.
• Sometimes Open Systems Beat Those Who Try To Lock Them Up: Spotify's Podcast Colonization Flops.
• YouTube tests adding podcasts to 'Create' button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics.
• Spanish court authorises extradition of Briton who allegedly hacked Biden, Obama.
• Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs.
• Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users to Aid Piracy Lawsuit.
• Apple Watch ban: Biden will make decision next week.
• OG sealed iPhone breaks record selling for almost 2x that of a recent auction.

Host: Leo Laporte

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AI explosion, what ails Google, Section 230, Susan Wojcicki, Twitter SMS 2FA

• Parallels Desktop for Mac: The Solution for Running Windows 11 on Apple M-series Macs.
• Microsoft will limit Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird.
• From Bing to Sydney.
• Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.
• Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing.
• There's an AI for that.
• Is AI a commodity?
• Amateur balloonist group from Illinois says small balloon last reported over Alaska 'missing in action'.
• White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake.
• Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication.
• Meta verification, only $12 a month!
• The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn... by Praveen Seshadri.
• First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4.
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.
• Microsoft February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 exploited zero-days, 77 flaws.
• OPWNAI : Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT.
• Biden and Republican senators join forces in attack on Big Tech at Supreme Court.
• Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge.
• Sam Bankman-Fried's Prosecutors Raise New Concerns Over Internet Use.
• BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI.
• Data brokers are now selling your mental health status.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Owen JJ Stone, and Ben Parr

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