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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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The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special that mimics Carlin’s distinctive delivery and material. [Ed. note: not actually AI, still lawsuit.]

Prefer your AI more Freudo-Marxist? Here’s a never-ending, AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. You’re welcome.

Google’s Bard surpassed GPT-4 to claim the second spot on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard.

Agile development is faltering at big companies, and a recent report cites developer burnout as a factor. But maybe the problem lies in companies’ (mis)understanding of agile.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Emil Laine, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How can I include all of the C++ Standard Library at once?.

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

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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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We are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen.

Frances is a specialist in algorithmic product management. She worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp before joining Facebook — first as a Product Manager on Civic Misinformation, and then on the Counter-Espionage team. But what she saw at Facebook was that the company consistently and knowingly prioritized profits over public safety. So Frances made the courageous decision to blow the whistle — which resulted in the biggest disclosure in the history of Facebook, and in the history of social media.

In this special interview, co-hosts Tristan and Aza go behind the headlines with Frances herself. We go deeper into the problems she exposed, discuss potential solutions, and explore her motivations — along with why she fundamentally believes change is possible. We also announce an exciting campaign being launched by the Center for Humane Technology — to use this window of opportunity to make Facebook safer.