• In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
• In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News
• Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media
• Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas
• What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
• Threads turns 1
• Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.
• Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board
• The White House will host a conference for social media creators
• Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
• llama.ttf
• Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened
• Perplexity's grand theft AI
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
• Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI
• Tim Wu Is Out Of Control
• Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature
• Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
• This week's news on human cells
• 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate
• Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen
• the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram
• Calculus Advice Poem
• The Material

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• Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August
• Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act
• This Week in Tunnels
• Toys r us AI video
• Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
• Autobiography app
• OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem
• AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers
• Record Labels Sue Suno & Udio for Training AI Models on Their Songs
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
• The rise—and fall—of the software developer
• Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
• Google Will Let You Personalize Gemini After Your Favorite YouTuber
• Google Cast is coming to more hotel room TVs later this year
• Google shutting down 'Stack: PDF Scanner' in September
• A Captcha for Mikah's Therapist
• Scientists create smiling robot face from living human skin cells
• German face wurst

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
• The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
• Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
• Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court
• US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
• Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
• Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads
• Jeff on Perplexity Discover
• Luma extends memes
• Gutenberg animated by Dream Machine
• Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence Inc.
• Paper: "ChatGPT is bullshit"
• How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
• McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
• US bank Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards
• BeReal acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo
• Netflix to Open Massive Entertainment, Dining and Shopping Complexes in Two Cities in 2025
• Sounds of the Forest - Soundmap
• Hamburger Dad
• Reuters annual news report
• ChatGPT of the Reuters report
• Original YouTube deal memo & pitch deck

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