Episodes

  • This Week in Google 779: White Friend in a Box
    Aug 1 2024
    • 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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    2 hrs and 30 mins
  • This Week in Google 744: Giant Red Ties
    Nov 30 2023
    • Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
    • Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
    • Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
    • Reflecting on 18 years at Google
    • Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
    • AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
    • Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
    • Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
    • Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
    • Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
    • A new low in manels
    • Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
    • OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
    • Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
    • Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
    • Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
    • Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
    • Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
    • Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
    • Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
    • Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files

    Picks of the week

    • (Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run
    • (Paris) Pentiment
    • (Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
    • (Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
    • (Ant) City Nerd on YouTube
    • (Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar

    Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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    2 hrs and 21 mins
  • Security Now 950: Leo Turns 67
    Nov 29 2023
    • Adobe Flash Player Updater is (still) desperately trying to update
    • Veracrypt password security
    • Firefox moves to 120 with a bunch of very nice new features
    • Do-Not-Track is back on track
    • "ownCloud" -or- "PwnCloud" ?
    • CrushFTP Critical Vulnerability
    • Bypassing fingerprint authentication
    • ApacheMQ
    • TransUnion & Experian both hacked

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-950-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Ant Pruitt

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    For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • This Week in Google 743: Competitive Pantomime
    Nov 23 2023
    • From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week
    • OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
    • Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
    • Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster
    • Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'
    • Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
    • DeepMind releases new music model
    • Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
    • Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI
    • Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand
    • Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
    • Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins
    • Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone
    • Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window
    • Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta
    • Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
    • What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means
    • MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute
    • Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting

    Picks:

    • Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars
    • Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl
    • Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study
    • Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15
    • Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD
    • Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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    2 hrs and 59 mins
  • This Week in Google 741: The Whole Muffin
    Nov 9 2023
    • OpenAI debuts GPTs allowing companies to further optimize GPT-4 for specific domains.
    • Article 45, an EU regulation, will roll back web security by 12 years by banning website fingerprinting used for fraud detection.
    • GM halts production on its Cruise driverless van over safety concerns after recent crashes.
    • The SAG strike continues as negotiations with AMPTP stall. AMPTP proposed using AI to replace actors.
    • AI academics voice concerns about AI CEOs like Sam Altman having too much unilateral control over powerful technologies like GPT-4.
    • Meta allegedly tried to buy the domain name threads.com from a company called Threads and kicked them off Facebook when they refused to sell.
    • Google petitions regulators to force Apple to open up iMessage to improve Android interoperability and reduce lock-in.
    • Mark Zuckerberg leans into WhatsApp's strengths like groups, communities, and encryption to differentiate it from iMessage and Signal.
    • Attendees at a Bored Ape NFT event suffer "severe eye burns" after lazers engraved NFT images directly onto their retinas.
    • TikTok announces it is shutting down its $2 billion creator fund amidst advertiser pullback and recession worries.
    • Camps teaching kids how to become YouTube and social media stars are proliferating.
    • YouTube is testing new generative AI features like video captioning, a comments summarizer, and conversational assistance to enhance the platform.
    • Google Keep will replace the functionality of Assistant Notes and the Assistant Shopping List as Google consolidates its services.
    • Waze adds a new feature to warn drivers about accident-prone roads and intersections to improve safety.
    • Google Chrome can now display how much memory each open tab is using, helping diagnose slowdowns.
    • Google brings its conversational AI-powered Search to over 120 more countries and territories, expanding access globally.
    • Picks: GifCities, Vintage Byte Magazine Library, YouTube's ad blocking crackdown faces privacy laws, TriCounty For Foster Kids, Ya EARNED It

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • This Week in Google 739: Panic in the Cul-de-sac
    Oct 26 2023
    • DMV suspends Cruise's robo-taxi permit in San Francisco after pedestrian accident
    • Debate over regulating approval process for autonomous vehicles between NHTSA and NTSB
    • Analysis of Google's disappointing Q3 financial results and advertising revenue drop
    • Impact of dating apps like Tinder on relationships and matchmaking
    • The demise of Twitter rival Pebble aka T2
    • Online interactions and social media - federation, verification, addiction
    • Lawsuits and moral panic surrounding Meta and Instagram's impact
    • AI wearable technology like Humane AI pin's features and risks
    • Google Chrome's dominance
    • Ethics of AI - risks of automation, data poisoning, copyright
    • Role of AI in society, regulating development, technology concerns
    • Picks include - corn mazes, Dimension 20, Jezebel up for sale, Pixel 8 Pro camera review

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • This Week in Google 738: The Deorbiting Professor
    Oct 19 2023
    • Elon Musk says charging $1 a year to Twitter users could reduce bots
    • VC Mark Andreessen loses it in controversial tech manifesto
    • Meta Quest 3 brings back glassholes to the wild
    • Amazon launches satellites to compete with SpaceX Starlink
    • Peter Norvig and Blaise Aguera y Arcas claim AGI is already here
    • 51% of teens spend 4+ hours daily on social media
    • YouTube getting AI-powered ads targeting pop culture moments
    • Mass tech layoffs in 2022 - reasonable correction or problematic?
    • Google Wallet adds support for digital IDs and ticket scanning
    • Adobe focuses on AI over Figma acquisition amid antitrust scrutiny
    • Picks: Trust & Safety Tycoon game, beautiful coffee videos, laptop advice

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

    Guest: Paris Martineau

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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • Tech News Weekly 307: Pixel 8 Pro Review
    Oct 12 2023

    Adobe announces a whole host of new AI features and upgrades at its MAX conference. We review the Pixel 8 Pro and discuss its new Ultra HDR capabilities. OpenAI plans to announce new developer features at its November conference and we demonstrate the new ChatGPT voice features.

    • Ant Pruitt stops by Tech News Weekly to give us a rundown of what Adobe announced at its annual Adobe MAX conference.
    • Jason Howell has the Pixel 8 Pro in hand, so he takes some time to give us his thoughts on the new phone and show off some of the new photo features and camera functionality.
    • Mishaal Rahman explains the new Ultra HDR format in Android 14.
    • Mikah Sargent talks about OpenAI's upcoming developer conference and demonstrates ChatGPT's new voice interactivity.

    Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

    Guests: Ant Pruitt and Mishaal Rahman

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    1 hr and 23 mins