TWiG 779: White Friend in a Box - Galaxy Fold, AI Aided Gymnastics, Top 10 Podcasts

<ul> <li>Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.</li> <li>Craig Newmark stops by</li> <li>Galaxy fold unboxing</li> <li>We know almost everything about the Google Pixel 9 series already</li> <li>A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money</li> <li>Friend in a box</li> <li>US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules</li> <li>The gymnastics world braces for an AI future</li> <li>NASA will shut down NASA TV on cable to focus on NASA+</li> <li>W3C Slams Google U-turn on Third-Party Cookie Removal</li> <li>Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act</li> <li>Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L</li> <li>Follow Ant's ZDNET stuff</li> <li>Scots brat</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a></p> <strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/" target="_blank">Craig Newmark</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://betterhelp.com/TWIG" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">betterhelp.com/TWIG</a></li> <li><a href="https://cachefly.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">cachefly.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:29:45

TWiG 778: Wet and Winded - Prime Day Injuries, Broken Goo.gl Links, Brat

<ul> <li>Craig Newmark and pancakes</li> <li>After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome</li> <li>Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds</li> <li>Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage</li> <li>Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts</li> <li>Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS</li> <li>NYT vs OpenAI</li> <li>Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025</li> <li>Deadpool and Wolverine are Google's first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]</li> <li>Google's Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo</li> <li>X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason</li> <li>CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?</li> <li>An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The 'Hotdoggers' Are OK.</li> <li>The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk's X</li> <li>Mark Zuckerberg says he's "more comfortable" with new appearance after AI interview</li> <li>Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses</li> <li>"Ignore all previous instructions"</li> <li>The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B</li> <li>Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.</li> <li>Stolen Buttons</li> <li>Succession comes to life</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://betterhelp.com/TWIG" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">betterhelp.com/TWIG</a></li> <li><a href="http://bitwarden.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">bitwarden.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:50:23

TWiG 777: Victim of Affluence - AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms

<ul> <li>AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach</li> <li>AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign</li> <li>Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks</li> <li>Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable</li> <li>Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC</li> <li>This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down</li> <li>EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'</li> <li>Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks</li> <li>FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations</li> <li>Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers</li> <li>Google in talks to buy Wiz</li> <li>Google switches to selective indexing</li> <li>Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft</li> <li>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)</li> <li>Taboola to sell ads for Apple</li> <li>The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok</li> <li>Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app</li> <li>OpenAI's AGI progress chart</li> <li>Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge</li> <li>Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more</li> <li>YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing</li> <li>Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results</li> <li>Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen</li> <li>OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say</li> <li>Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat</li> <li>Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI</li> <li>Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud</li> <li>Drone conquers Everest</li> <li>The Planets Today</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsor:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://1password.com/twig" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">1password.com/twig</a></li> </ul></p>

02:52:35

TWiG 776: The Geese of God - Fusion Dealys, Esports World Cup, NGL Ban

<ul> <li>'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town</li> <li>Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral</li> <li>ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034</li> <li>AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care</li> <li>Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices</li> <li>Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu</li> <li>Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays</li> <li>Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA</li> <li>Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users</li> <li>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.</li> <li>FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children</li> <li>Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon</li> <li>A new Illinois law will force influencer parents to compensate their children for appearing in social media content</li> <li>THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD</li> <li>Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM</li> <li>Cutting Board Designer</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> <strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://www.mollywhite.net/" target="_blank">Molly White</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://fastmail.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">fastmail.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://e-e.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">e-e.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:21:48

TWiG 775: Chocolate Creme Filled Donuts for the Soul - SCOTUS Decisions, Meta's Oversight Board, llama.ttf

<ul> <li>In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections</li> <li>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</li> <li>Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media</li> <li>Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas</li> <li>What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more</li> <li>Threads turns 1</li> <li>Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.</li> <li>Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board</li> <li>The White House will host a conference for social media creators</li> <li>Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers</li> <li>llama.ttf</li> <li>Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76</li> <li>Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web</li> <li>Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened</li> <li>Perplexity's grand theft AI</li> <li>Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges</li> <li>MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI</li> <li>Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI</li> <li>Tim Wu Is Out Of Control</li> <li>Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature</li> <li>Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch</li> <li>This week's news on human cells</li> <li>110 new languages are coming to Google Translate</li> <li>Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen</li> <li>the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram</li> <li>Calculus Advice Poem</li> <li>The Material</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> <strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@cathygellis/" target="_blank">Cathy Gellis</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p>

02:45:01

TWiG 774: My AI Fiancé - Jeff Testifies in CA, RIAA vs. Suno and UDIO

<ul> <li>Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August</li> <li>Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act</li> <li>This Week in Tunnels</li> <li>Toys r us AI video</li> <li>Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp</li> <li>Autobiography app</li> <li>OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem</li> <li>AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers</li> <li>Record Labels Sue Suno & Udio for Training AI Models on Their Songs</li> <li>I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again</li> <li>The rise—and fall—of the software developer</li> <li>Google is killing infinite scroll on search results</li> <li>Google Will Let You Personalize Gemini After Your Favorite YouTuber</li> <li>Google Cast is coming to more hotel room TVs later this year</li> <li>Google shutting down 'Stack: PDF Scanner' in September</li> <li>A Captcha for Mikah's Therapist</li> <li>Scientists create smiling robot face from living human skin cells</li> <li>German face wurst</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent">Mikah Sargent</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="https://kolide.com/twig" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">kolide.com/twig</a></li> <li><a href="http://bitwarden.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">bitwarden.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://cachefly.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">cachefly.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:37:55

TWiG 773: Mouse Jigglers and Keyboard Strokers - Social Media Warning Lables, US Sues Adobe

<ul> <li>The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels</li> <li>The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled</li> <li>Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly</li> <li>Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court</li> <li>US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel</li> <li>Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say</li> <li>Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads</li> <li>Jeff on Perplexity Discover</li> <li>Luma extends memes</li> <li>Gutenberg animated by Dream Machine</li> <li>Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence Inc.</li> <li>Paper: "ChatGPT is bullshit"</li> <li>How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development</li> <li>McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test</li> <li>US bank Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards</li> <li>BeReal acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo</li> <li>Netflix to Open Massive Entertainment, Dining and Shopping Complexes in Two Cities in 2025</li> <li>Sounds of the Forest - Soundmap</li> <li>Hamburger Dad</li> <li>Reuters annual news report</li> <li>ChatGPT of the Reuters report</li> <li>Original YouTube deal memo & pitch deck</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://eufy.com" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">eufy.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://1password.com/twig" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">1password.com/twig</a></li> </ul></p>

02:14:42

TWiG 772: Mystery Bucket of Gummies - Apple AI, Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse, Cottage Cheese

<ul> <li>Apple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool</li> <li>Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman</li> <li>Hallucination is Inevitable</li> <li>Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call</li> <li>Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial</li> <li>New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids</li> <li>Judge rather than jury will render verdict in upcoming antitrust trial</li> <li>Joey Chestnut is out of 2024 Nathan's hot dog eating contest in beef over vegan franks</li> <li>There's an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK</li> <li>No, a Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn</li> <li>Elon Musk's Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX</li> <li>Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse Movie-Theater Chain</li> <li>Ren Faire on HBO - all 3 parts out now!</li> <li>"The most difficult recipe" damnit</li> <li>TikTok cottage cheese search</li> <li>NotebookLM goes global with Slides support and better ways to fact-check</li> <li>12 useful features Google just announced for Pixel phones, watches, and tablets</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://Melissa.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">Melissa.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://fastmail.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">fastmail.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:44:02

TWiG 771: Sucked to LA - Ultrasonic Coffee, Microsoft Recall, Perplexity Pages

<ul> <li>'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?</li> <li>Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban</li> <li>Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike</li> <li>Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone</li> <li>The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes</li> <li>That time Rupert Murdoch almost married a woman from Petaluma</li> <li>The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka</li> <li>Finally! Someone has figured out how to make money in the media biz</li> <li>The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant</li> <li>a16z: no human will ever again have to make a call.</li> <li>India's election wasn't the deepfake doomsday many feared</li> <li>MS Recall</li> <li>Perplexity will research and write reports</li> <li>Visiting local chickens</li> <li>Bragging: Gutenberg review</li> <li>Paris' tabs</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> <strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@cathygellis/" target="_blank">Cathy Gellis</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://joindeleteme.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="https://kolide.com/twig" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">kolide.com/twig</a></li> </ul></p>

02:54:43

TWiG 770: Giggle Pants and Chortle Skorts - Google AI Answers, ICQ, Private Jet Tracking

<ul> <li>Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search</li> <li>Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter</li> <li>OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic</li> <li>UN statement on risks from generative AI</li> <li>We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years</li> <li>Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet</li> <li>Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase</li> <li>Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook</li> <li>Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget</li> <li>Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results</li> <li>YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users</li> <li>How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon</li> <li>BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy, Its New Activist Investor</li> <li>Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack</li> <li>HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm</li> <li>TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass</li> <li>Parents Dance Like It's the '80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House</li> <li>Meta's white, male advisory group</li> <li>My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO</li> <li>Canva meets Hamilton</li> <li>Top 50 podcasts</li></ul> <strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a></p> Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://bitwarden.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">bitwarden.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://YahooFinance.com" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">YahooFinance.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://cachefly.com/twit" rel="sponsored" target="_blank">cachefly.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>

02:31:33