This Week in Tech (Video)

TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion

• Why Trump now opposes banning TikTok
• Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
• OpenAI announces new members to the board of directors
• OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk's Lawsuit
• Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
• Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls
• AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave
• The Panel discusses Bluesky and general social media
• FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor
• Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives
• Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
• MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
• "Disgraceful": Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Roberto Baldwin, Mike Masnick, and Louise Matsakis

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• Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
• Frame glasses
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
• Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
• Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest'
• Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget
• South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
• TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs
• Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4
• Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects
• Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
• Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze
• Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles
• Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Anthony Ha and Sam Abuelsamid

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• How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off
• Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know
• AT&T restores service after hours of outage
• AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
• Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown
• Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
• Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business
• Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users
• Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
• KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages
• Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data
• SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends
• FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade
• 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz

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• Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
• Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law
• Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
• 2 Twitter books are coming out
• Bluesky opens up to the public
• The Reply Guy Constitution
• Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
• Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
• Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
• Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
• Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown
• FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
• Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand
• Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amanda Silberling, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Shoshana Weissmann

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Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans

• The panel discusses the Apple Vision Pro
• Transcribe Glass
• X rival Bluesky launches to public with option to pick your algorithm
• Tech layoff tracker - layoffs.fyi
• A general discussion on AI
• Zuckerberg's Plan for AI Hinges on Your Facebook and Instagram Data
• The panel looks back at the proto-internet
• Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules
• David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93
• The passing of John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Nicholas De Leon

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• The panel gives their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro
• Online safety hearing gets skeptical response from kids, advocates
• Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
• Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs
• There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube
• Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
• Google Search officially retires cache link
• The panel discusses the recent spat of tech industry layoffs
• Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
• Amazon Content Spending 2023 Rose 14% to $18.9B for TV, Film and Music

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner

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AI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes

• 160-180k Apple Vision Pros sold
• Ben Parr's 110+ Page Slide report I came out with on AI investing trends + predictions in 2023/2024
• George Carlin AI Lawsuit: Estate Sues Creators Over Comedy Special
• Nightshade, the tool that 'poisons' data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
• Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
• Taylor Swift explicit AI finally blocked on X after days
• Tim Sweeney on Europe's new Digital Markets Act
• iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find
• N.S.A. Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
• Pokemon-like game has gone viral, 5m+ downloads in a week, lots of questions on copyright
• Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
• Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Ben Parr, and Allyn Malventano

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Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack

• The panel talks about the Apple Vision pro
• The Apple Google Duopoly
• Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
• Javier Milei Special Address WITH AI
• Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in "uncomfortable" ways
• Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs
• Origins and definition of "Ensh*ttification"
• Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely
• The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
• Microsoft 'senior leadership' emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers
• Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
• Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay

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Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery

• The panel discusses what they saw at CES
• Padre shows off some toys from CES
• Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'
• Mercedes-Benz's best-in-class voice assistant is getting an AI boost
• AI-Generated 'George Carlin' Comedy Blasted by Comedian's Daughter
• SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024
• Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams
• Microsoft's new battery is a test of AI-infused scientific discovery

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Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, David Pierce, and Daniel Rubino

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• CES preview
• The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI
• A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.
• Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
• Microsoft's keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership
• A physical keyboard for your iPhone
• RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth

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Guests: Amy Webb, Christina Warren, and Devindra Hardawar

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