Tech 2U Tuesdays

Today's podcast will cover Microsoft's unveiling of their new Surface laptops equipped with a powerful processor which allows Windows 11's new "Recall" AI feature that records ALL user activity. There are some great uses for this new feature and an equal amount of privacy and security concerns. Additionally, we'll touch on Bing's recent outage, which seemingly impacted no one, since no one seems to use it. Finally, we’ll go over Google’s new AI Assistant which is already integrated into most Google searches and how badly it performs: including users to put glue in pizzas and eat at least one rock every day.

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Today's podcast will explore GPT-4o in more depth: its amazing ability to appear human in while talking to it, and revolutionizing learning new languages, tutoring for students, and a list of other industries which could be wiped out because of AI. We also go over some quick updates about Google’s AI tools and how some of those can be used free right now. Finally, Apple’s new iPhone operating system, iOS 17.5 has a bug that resurrects deleted images; yes, completed nudes, even years old, might reappear in your photo library.  

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First, we dive into the rising threat of an iPhone spyware attack which can record audio using your microphones, track your location and save everything you type. Dell had a data breach affecting nearly 50 million customers which poses a unique risk of physical mail scams (literal snail mail scams, which are highly effective). We’ll also explore the "Tunnelvision" VPN vulnerability that can view the private tunnel of VPN traffic, the service intended to keep your information private! Finally, I show and describe a demonstration of using just your voice to design and 3d print things, this one is straight out of the Jetsons.

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In this episode we explore AI in grocery stores: Sam's Club's new automated checkout process and AI age verification in German stores that sell alcohol (spoiler: they scan your face). We also go over the disturbing rise of the "Grandparents Scam" exploiting voice cloning technology and the especially vulnerable elderly population and some tips on protecting yourself and your family. Finally, “World Password Day” was May 2nd so I remind you of some good practices and ideas to make your password management easier.

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In today's podcast episode, we dive into the return of Net Neutrality, the challenges Meta faces with NSFW "AI Girlfriend" ads, and a disturbing case of AI voice imitation leading to an arrest in Baltimore. We also explore the revolutionary uses of AI with CRISPR technology and the alarming rise of US Post Office phishing sites that rival the traffic of the official site.

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This week we discuss a new home security system which can identify people and shoot paint balls at them! We also demonstrate Microsoft’s new VASA-1 AI system which can take a single picture of a person’s face and make a convincing video of them speaking (Imagine what someone could do with a person’s Facebook profile image and a short sound byte of their voice). We also show Boston Dynamics newest humanoid robot which is wildly impressive. Finally, we go over a phishing scam targeting users of LastPass and what to look out for.

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This week we go over some EV news including a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla for a driver killed while using “Autopilot,” and show you a new $10,000 Chinese made car that might be sold in the US. We also have a follow up on the AT&T data breach, what they are and aren’t telling their customers and how to get free credit monitoring if you were impacted by this breach. Finally, we go over more massive data breaches involving TV manufacturers.

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Scary tech news:

• AT&T’s data breach of over 70 million customers, how it can impact you, and what you can do to help protect yourself.
• Google issued another critical security update for Chrome. I go over this update and why it’s so important to keep this and other software updated.

AI topics:

• I show a video of a “parkour” robot that uses AI to learn how to find people trapped in collapsed buildings.
• Open AI has a new voice cloning tool that’s “too good to release to the public.”
• The White house laid out AI Guidelines, we go through some of the main points and how they could impact us.

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This week I go over some demonstrations of AI generated music that we made using  www.suno.ai. We made 4 completely unique songs that we demo on the show.  I also go over the pending EU regulations against Alphabet, Meta and Apple. Finally, I go over a recently revealed big allowing hackers access to over 3 Million hotel rooms using card access keys and a bug that allowed a hacker to take full control of a Tesla in 30 seconds.

- Ian

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We discuss the impending Tik Tok ban and why it’s happening. The EU has yet another consumer protection pact and this time it’s protecting people from AI: things like scanning your face in public without your knowledge.  The FTC is cracking down on fake antivirus programs, we’ll go over what they are and how to avoid them.  And of course we can’t go more than one week without another massive data breach: Roku, as popular TV maker has had over 15,000 accounts breached, likely as a result of the “Mother of all breaches” we just saw last month.

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