• Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
• FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
• EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
• After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
• AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans
• Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics
• My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better
• Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?
• Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
• FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

Host: Leo Laporte

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• Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea
• Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports
• Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
• Perplexity's grand theft AI
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure
• NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
• The White House will host a conference for social media creators
• Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

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Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests

• Murthy Decision Should Not Foreclose Cases Against Actual First Amendment Violations
• What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
• Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks
• Mark Cuban's public email was hacked after receiving call from a fake Google rep
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Microsoft's bundling of Office and Teams breaks antitrust law, EU says
• EU Competition Commissioner says Apple's decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behavior
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC is finally the best clamshell laptop on the market after 8 years of iterations
• Tested: Don't buy a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for PC gaming
• Signal 65 Snapdragon battery testing
• The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
• Wherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All
• Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll

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AT&T Landlines, US Bans Kaspersky and DJI

• Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
• I just ordered the cheapest Surface Pro option - why I (probably) won't regret it
• Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
• The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterf*ck
• Surgeon General: Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning
• The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
• LAUSD approves cellphone ban as Newsom calls for statewide action
• EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
• US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
• Apple Won't Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns
• AT&T can't hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules
• Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
• What Game of Thrones did to the media
• Elon Musk Tweeted a Thing
• This Old House' Pays Tribute to Creator Russell Morash

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Ukranian Bot Farms, LA Public Health Dept. Phished

• MS Recall and Apple AI
• Congress grills Microsoft boss Brad Smith after 'cascade' of security errors
• Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
• Exclusive: MediaTek designs Arm-based chip for Microsoft's AI laptops
• Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law
• Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
• Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
• Successful phishing attack at LA County Department of Public Health exposes PID of 200k + people
• Bot Farm that attacked Ukrainian phones is shut down
• Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
• Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
• Talking about Mark Zuckerberg
• The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
• T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next
• Games that the panel members are playing
• Lynn Conway, a true pioneer, passes away at 86

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• How to Kill a Smart Device: Spotify Car Thing Post Mortem
• Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
• Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in
• NVIDIA Drive Thor with 2,000 TOPS to be implemented by Li Auto
• Oral-B Sold a $230 Alexa Toothbrush—and Then Pulled the Plug
• Adobe's new terms of service unacceptably gives them access to all of your projects, for free
• Adobe has clarified controversial shrinkwrap license terms, but the damage may have already been done
• Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims
• I watched NVIDIA's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold
• TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
• Intel CEO Takes Aim at NVIDIA in Fight for AI Chip Dominance
• This is Lunar Lake — Intel's utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks
• Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads
• Gurman's Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report
• New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

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Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

• Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
• VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
• Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
• Who's having kids?
• The panel discusses Ticketmaster
• T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge
• Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
• Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
• 'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
• Inside the scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold
• TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban
• How a Self-Published Book, 'The Shadow Work Journal,' Became a Best Seller
• Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.
• The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent
• Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora
• North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation
• Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified
• Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

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Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

• OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show
• China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'
• Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
• Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
• Rabbit Holed
• Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs
• A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision
• Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
• Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
• Kabosu, Shiba Inu dog who inspired 'Doge' meme, dies at 18
• Bitcoin pizza day
• C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

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