This Week in Tech (Audio)

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT kolide.com/twit noom.com/twit shopify.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: eightsleep.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit Miro.com/podcast kolide.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/Twit bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/twit decisions.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: noom.com/twit wwt.com/twit www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit shopify.com/twit Miro.com/podcast

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit ZipRecruiter.com/Twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast expressvpn.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: wwt.com/twit GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT bitwarden.com/twit

Twitter API fallout, Section 230, TikTok ban, tech layoffs, AmazonSmile RIP Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients. Twitterrific: End of an Era. In Memory of Tweetbot. Extremely Hardcore. Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options. Google has been sued and is involved in a lawsuit over YouTube algorithms. Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230. R Street Institute signs onto amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google. Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech. India blocks YouTube videos and Twitter posts on BBC Modi documentary. As states ban TikTok on government devices, evidence of harm is thin. TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral. How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation. Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs. Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees. Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens. Apple Postpones AR/VR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset (AAPL). How Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches. Comixology hit hard by Amazon's massive layoffs. Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine. CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy. The Lisa: Apple's Most Influential Failure. T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers. AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces. Former Exec explains why on Reddit. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Patrick Beja, Brianna Wu, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: shopify.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit