This Week in Google 741: The Whole Muffin

• Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
• Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
• Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
• Reflecting on 18 years at Google
• Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
• AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
• Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
• Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
• Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
• Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
• A new low in manels
• Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
• OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
• Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
• Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
• Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
• Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
• Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
• Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
• Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
• Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files

Picks of the week

• (Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run
• (Paris) Pentiment
• (Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
• (Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
• (Ant) City Nerd on YouTube
• (Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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• Adobe Flash Player Updater is (still) desperately trying to update
• Veracrypt password security
• Firefox moves to 120 with a bunch of very nice new features
• Do-Not-Track is back on track
• "ownCloud" -or- "PwnCloud" ?
• CrushFTP Critical Vulnerability
• Bypassing fingerprint authentication
• ApacheMQ
• TransUnion & Experian both hacked

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-950-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Ant Pruitt

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• From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week
• OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
• Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster
• Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'
• Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
• DeepMind releases new music model
• Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
• Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI
• Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand
• Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
• Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins
• Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone
• Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window
• Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta
• Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
• What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means
• MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute
• Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting

Picks:

• Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars
• Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl
• Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study
• Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15
• Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD
• Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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• OpenAI debuts GPTs allowing companies to further optimize GPT-4 for specific domains.
• Article 45, an EU regulation, will roll back web security by 12 years by banning website fingerprinting used for fraud detection.
• GM halts production on its Cruise driverless van over safety concerns after recent crashes.
• The SAG strike continues as negotiations with AMPTP stall. AMPTP proposed using AI to replace actors.
• AI academics voice concerns about AI CEOs like Sam Altman having too much unilateral control over powerful technologies like GPT-4.
• Meta allegedly tried to buy the domain name threads.com from a company called Threads and kicked them off Facebook when they refused to sell.
• Google petitions regulators to force Apple to open up iMessage to improve Android interoperability and reduce lock-in.
• Mark Zuckerberg leans into WhatsApp's strengths like groups, communities, and encryption to differentiate it from iMessage and Signal.
• Attendees at a Bored Ape NFT event suffer "severe eye burns" after lazers engraved NFT images directly onto their retinas.
• TikTok announces it is shutting down its $2 billion creator fund amidst advertiser pullback and recession worries.
• Camps teaching kids how to become YouTube and social media stars are proliferating.
• YouTube is testing new generative AI features like video captioning, a comments summarizer, and conversational assistance to enhance the platform.
• Google Keep will replace the functionality of Assistant Notes and the Assistant Shopping List as Google consolidates its services.
• Waze adds a new feature to warn drivers about accident-prone roads and intersections to improve safety.
• Google Chrome can now display how much memory each open tab is using, helping diagnose slowdowns.
• Google brings its conversational AI-powered Search to over 120 more countries and territories, expanding access globally.
• Picks: GifCities, Vintage Byte Magazine Library, YouTube's ad blocking crackdown faces privacy laws, TriCounty For Foster Kids, Ya EARNED It

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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• DMV suspends Cruise's robo-taxi permit in San Francisco after pedestrian accident
• Debate over regulating approval process for autonomous vehicles between NHTSA and NTSB
• Analysis of Google's disappointing Q3 financial results and advertising revenue drop
• Impact of dating apps like Tinder on relationships and matchmaking
• The demise of Twitter rival Pebble aka T2
• Online interactions and social media - federation, verification, addiction
• Lawsuits and moral panic surrounding Meta and Instagram's impact
• AI wearable technology like Humane AI pin's features and risks
• Google Chrome's dominance
• Ethics of AI - risks of automation, data poisoning, copyright
• Role of AI in society, regulating development, technology concerns
• Picks include - corn mazes, Dimension 20, Jezebel up for sale, Pixel 8 Pro camera review

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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• Elon Musk says charging $1 a year to Twitter users could reduce bots
• VC Mark Andreessen loses it in controversial tech manifesto
• Meta Quest 3 brings back glassholes to the wild
• Amazon launches satellites to compete with SpaceX Starlink
• Peter Norvig and Blaise Aguera y Arcas claim AGI is already here
• 51% of teens spend 4+ hours daily on social media
• YouTube getting AI-powered ads targeting pop culture moments
• Mass tech layoffs in 2022 - reasonable correction or problematic?
• Google Wallet adds support for digital IDs and ticket scanning
• Adobe focuses on AI over Figma acquisition amid antitrust scrutiny
• Picks: Trust & Safety Tycoon game, beautiful coffee videos, laptop advice

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Paris Martineau

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Adobe announces a whole host of new AI features and upgrades at its MAX conference. We review the Pixel 8 Pro and discuss its new Ultra HDR capabilities. OpenAI plans to announce new developer features at its November conference and we demonstrate the new ChatGPT voice features.

• Ant Pruitt stops by Tech News Weekly to give us a rundown of what Adobe announced at its annual Adobe MAX conference.
• Jason Howell has the Pixel 8 Pro in hand, so he takes some time to give us his thoughts on the new phone and show off some of the new photo features and camera functionality.
• Mishaal Rahman explains the new Ultra HDR format in Android 14.
• Mikah Sargent talks about OpenAI's upcoming developer conference and demonstrates ChatGPT's new voice interactivity.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Ant Pruitt and Mishaal Rahman

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• Google's "enshittification" memos
• A Note From WIRED Leadership
• Moonlighting comes to Hulu... starring Jeff Jarvis!
• Elon Musk's X Strips Article Headlines on Shared Links
• Did Elon Musk Endorse Biden, Come Out as Transgender and Die of Suicide?
• Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X's Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation
• Sure, There's Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship
• Alexa says the 2020 election was stolen. What does it mean for 2024?
• The Journalist and the Fallen Billionaire
• The fraud was in the code
• Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal
• Google is already bringing back the software features it removed because of Sonos' lawsuit
• Right-to-repair is now the law in California
• Meta Is Paying Creators Millions for AI Chatbots
• Google Will Drop Claim That YouTube TV Is '$600 Less Than Cable' After Charter Complaint to Advertising Board
• Zuzalu: From a hacker house to a hacker resort
• I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here's What I Discovered
• Google rolls out Pixel Buds Pro 5.9 update with Conversation Detection
• Google Meet brings 1080p streaming to group calls
• Google Accounts will prompt users at login to set up passkey
• Google bringing Flood Hub forecasts to the US
• Google Fi 'upgrade' takes $400 off Pixel 8 Pro with no trade-in
• Adobe MAX: Adobe Unveils the Future of Creativity and AI at Adobe MAX 2023
  
  Picks:
• Cathy - Restoration of Notre Dame
• Jeff - Video of Unsupervised
• Ant - ADOBE MAX 2023: WHY AI WILL NOT TAKE JOBS FROM CREATORS
• Ant - How to Read a Defense | A Guide to the Basics of Football Coverage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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• Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices
• Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy?
• Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights
• Movies released on TikTok by studios
• High production costs of Masterclass
• Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web
• Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks
• Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices
• Supreme Court case involving copyright of legal search tools
• Paywalls and closed platforms replacing the open web
• Pushback against heroic tech biographies and access journalism
• Impacts of inexpensive screens and cameras everywhere
• Testing social media subscription models
• Using AI to create realistic fake photos and videos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Paris Martineau

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• Google's 25th birthday
• Google killing off Google Podcasts
• Next week's Pixel hardware event
• Meta's VR/AR announcements and new Ray-Ban smartglasses with cameras
• Antitrust lawsuits against Google and Amazon
• AI voice cloning for automatic translation by YouTube, Spotify
• WGA writer's strike in Hollywood ending with AI concessions
• Meta adding AI bots everywhere
• Books scanned to train AI models in searchable database
• The viability of foldable laptop screens
• Premium $500/month Tinder subscriptions
• Picks: SummaryCat, GrapeGPT, Blackmagic Cinema camera 6K, Starter Villain book, Korg MS-20 Mini synth

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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