• Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
• TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules
• Chick-Fil-A Hatches Plans For Streaming Service
• Also: New York's Largest Hospital System Is Setting Its Sights on the Entertainment Business
• RE Fast Co new town story" The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
• How activists derailed Big Tech billionaire's dream city in California
• Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case
• Google Keep rolling out AI-powered 'Help me create a list' on Android
• Pixel 9 demo
• Google Wallet now works for California driver's licenses
• Google TV has added a few more new free channels
• Google Chat adds support for IFTTT integrations
• Google finally lets you record phone call audio in the US, but only on the Pixel 9
• Google Pixel 9 launches 'Adaptive Touch,' improves screen sensitivity while wet, etc
• 'Megalopolis' Cuts Ties With Marketing Consultant Behind Trailer Debacle; Fabricated Critic Quotes Were Generated By AI
• OpenAI Shows 'Strawberry' AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop 'Orion'
• Printful for hats
• wyze birdfeeder
• The Unbearable Slowness of Being

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Epic judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store monopoly
• Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
• OpenAI signs multi-year content partnership with Condé Nast
• Deal in california
• xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
• Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel
• The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews
• Palantir's Alex Karp Talks About War, AI and America's Future
• Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit (And How Can It)?
• Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
• 2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster
• Google went public 20 years ago—what your $1000 investment would be worth today
• Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming's capital city
• More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November's election. The campaigns have been wary.
• Russia's AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says
• Gmail can turn 'rough notes' into a full draft with Gemini 'Polish'
• Google's Stunning New Android AI Feature Instantly Locks Phone Thieves Out
• I tried Google's Pixel Screenshots and it's everything I'd want an AI feature to be
• Early hands-on with Google Pixel 9's AI Call Notes reveals disappointing restrictions
• Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in popular Android apps
• Trap
• Where have all the Burners gone? Shops catering to Burning Man brace for slow season
• Inside the opulent world of six-figure kids birthday parties in Silicon Valley
• TikTok Parrot is 'attention hog' and smart as human toddler, owners say
• Paris 'n' pals need this

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• What Google rivals want after DOJ's antitrust trial win
• DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win
• Gemini Live is the best AI feature I've seen so far from Google
• 9 things to know about Pixel 9 cameras
• Jeff thread against incumbent media
• Google's Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot
• Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
• Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers
• An incredible life and career
• AI is a bad word to consumers
• Weekend Welcomes Two New Reporters: Josh Koehn and Paris Martineau
• Schmidt blames remote work for company's struggles
• 'Ultimate wife guy' or 'yikes'? Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife
• How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America's podcast boom
• Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo
• MSCHF: Our Cow Angus
• WCBS is no more
• Cable TV biz crumbles

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• Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers
• Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
• Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
• Don Lemon Sues Elon Musk Over Canceled X Deal - The New York Times
• Disney, Fox and Warner Sports Streamer Venu to Launch at $42.99/ Month
• Why I'm Joining The Bluesky Board To Support A Vision Of A More Open, Decentralized Internet
• Bloomberg's Risky, Embargo-Breaking Evan Gershkovich Scoop
• Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta's ban: study
• thecanadianpressnews.ca
• Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney'
• X officially kills its San Francisco HQ, will relocate to South Bay
• Google is set to supercharge Google Home with Gemini intelligence
• 'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
• AI dentist performs first procedure on human patient
• Without Zuckerberg money, limited private funding available for elections
• Neil Gorsuch Highlights Aaron Swartz As An Example Of Overreach In Criminal Law
• Amazon Pushes Fast Delivery Into Rural Areas in Challenge to Post Office
• tulip.computer

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• Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.
• Craig Newmark stops by
• Galaxy fold unboxing
• We know almost everything about the Google Pixel 9 series already
• A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money
• Friend in a box
• US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules
• The gymnastics world braces for an AI future
• NASA will shut down NASA TV on cable to focus on NASA+
• W3C Slams Google U-turn on Third-Party Cookie Removal
• Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act
• Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L
• Follow Ant's ZDNET stuff
• Scots brat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Craig Newmark

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• Craig Newmark and pancakes
• After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
• Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
• Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage
• Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
• Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
• NYT vs OpenAI
• Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025
• Deadpool and Wolverine are Google's first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]
• Google's Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo
• X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
• CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?
• An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The 'Hotdoggers' Are OK.
• The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk's X
• Mark Zuckerberg says he's "more comfortable" with new appearance after AI interview
• Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses
• "Ignore all previous instructions"
• The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
• Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
• Stolen Buttons
• Succession comes to life

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• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach
• AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC
• This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down
• EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'
• Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
• FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations
• Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
• Google in talks to buy Wiz
• Google switches to selective indexing
• Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)
• Taboola to sell ads for Apple
• The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok
• Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
• OpenAI's AGI progress chart
• Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge
• Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more
• YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing
• Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
• Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen
• OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say
• Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat
• Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
• Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud
• Drone conquers Everest
• The Planets Today

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• 'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
• Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral
• ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034
• AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care
• Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices
• Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu
• Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
• Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA
• Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users
• 2024 Zero-Click Search Study: For every 1,000 EU Google Searches, only 374 clicks go to the Open Web. In the US, it's 360.
• FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
• Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon
• A new Illinois law will force influencer parents to compensate their children for appearing in social media content
• THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD
• Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
• Cutting Board Designer

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

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