This Week in Tech (Audio)

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

Guests: Mike Masnick, Alex Lindsay, and Owen Thomas

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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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Microsoft AI Search, CPU Decline, Google Bard

• US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China
• U.S. adds six Chinese entities tied to balloon program to export blacklist
• Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing-Google employees are apparently very unhappy with Bard and Sundar Pichai
• Google's AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo
• Dan O'Dowd Funding Superbowl Ad Opposing Tesla Full Self Driving
• PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years
• The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video
• iOS Access For All book
• 'Disrespectful to the Craft:' Actors Say They're Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI
• ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
• A Google Co-Founder Is Building a Massive 400-Foot Airship for Humanitarian Missions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Sam Abuelsamid, and Shelly Brisbin

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Netflix password sharing, big tech earnings, Twitter API, Jony Ive

• Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers.
• Safer Internet Day USA.
• Netflix Reveals How Password Sharing Crackdown Will Be Enforced.
• Alphabet Q4 Earnings Miss Estimates, YouTube Ad Revenue Down 8%.
• Facebook's VR Division Lost $13.72 Billion In 2022.
• Apple Sales Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants.
• Apple Decides to Drop Role of Industrial Design Chief in Post-Jony Ive Era.
• Jony Ive, designer of the iPhone and iPod, just designed a 'clown nose' for a British charity.
• Tesla increases Model Y, cuts Model 3 prices in the U.S.
• Twitter Is Killing Off The Fun Bots.
• Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.
• Amazon (AMZN) earnings Q4 2022.
• Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple's App Store and Google Play.
• ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.
• Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.
• CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say.
• Paradigm shifts of yesteryear, today and tomorrow.
•  Hogwarts Legacy releases this week for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S - but April for PS4 and XBO and June for Switch.
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge Prepping 'Tomb Raider' TV Series for Amazon.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wil Harris, Denise Howell, and Larry Magid

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AI everywhere, Hive hacked, Microsoft earnings, To Leslie, @ElonJet

• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023).
• Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine.
• If ChatGPT doesn't get a better grasp of facts, nothing else matters.
• Move over ChatGPT, Microsoft's new AI tool is helping developers code faster.
• ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware.
• OPWNAI: Cybercriminals starting to use ChatGPT.
• MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.
• Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT.
• AI-powered "robot" lawyer won't argue in court after jail threats.
• More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
• Meta's AI chief Yann LeCun calls ChatGPT "not particularly innovative".
• Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers.
• US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew.
• Microsoft Revenue Up 2 Percent, but Profit Drops 12 Percent.
• GitHub: 100 million developers and counting.
• To Leslie' and the word-of-mouth campaign that got Andrea Riseborough an Oscar nomination.
• The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn.
• Why Taylor Swift Is Using Facial Recognition at Concerts.
• James Dolan gives fiery interview defending facial recognition tech at MSG.
• AI makes Ariana Grande sing a Billie Eilish song.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harry McCracken, Tim Stevens, and Christina Warren

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