Dec 25th 2022
This Week in Tech 907
The Old Guys Look Back
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
2022 year in review, Crypto, Artificial Intelligence, Ukraine, Elon Musk
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2022 year in review, Crypto, Artificial Intelligence, Ukraine, Elon Musk
- Spotify Boycott
- War in Ukraine
- Crypto crash & FTX
- Acquisitions
- Twitter and Elon Musk
- The Metaverse
- Apple
- Tech worker revolt
- Hacking
- Government
- Passkeys
- Streaming Wars
- AI Revolution
- In Memoriam
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Links
- Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Ensnares Spotify in Covid Misinformation Debate
- Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum
- How Google Maps is tracking the Russian invasion of Ukraine - The Washington Post
- Russia Will Restrict Access to Facebook, State Media Reports
- Russia blocks Twitter as Ukraine invasion escalates
- Hacker collective Anonymous declares 'cyber war' against Russia, disables state news website
- Russia, Ukraine cyberwar hasn’t unfolded as expected - The Washington Post
- EA is scrubbing Russian soccer teams from its FIFA and hockey games - Protocol
- The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine
- Fortnite raised $144 million for Ukraine relief - The Verge
- NFT Sales Are Flatlining
- Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home
- Seth Green's Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Calls Crypto 'Transformative' in Wide-Ranging Speech
- Lagarde Says Crypto Is ‘Worth Nothing’ and Should Be Regulated
- Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'
- Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake
- Tom Brady and Larry David among those accused of defrauding investors in FTX collapsehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftx-tom-brady-
- Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy
- Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum
- Microsoft set to purchase Activision Blizzard in $68.7 billion deal | Ars Technica
- Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion | Ars Technica
- AppLovin offers to buy Unity Software for $17.5 billion in all-stock deal
- Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter - Protocol
- Elon’s Out. Musk lost interest in pretending to buy Twitter.
- Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter - The New York Times
- Twitter is Going Great!
- Meta Erases $251 Billion in Value, Biggest Wipeout in History
- Microsoft (MSFT) US Army HoloLens Goggles Gave Soldiers Nausea, Headaches - Bloomberg
- Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for ‘intense period’
- Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap
- Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble
- Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE
- NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations
- Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups
- Apple will allow 3rd Party App Stores (leak)
- Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
- Amazon Is Bombarding Workers With Union-Busting Messages
- Elon Musk said working from home during the pandemic 'tricked' people into thinking they don't need to work hard. He's dead wron
- Apple store workers at Grand Central Terminal start collecting signatures to form a union
- Russia takes down REvil hacking group at U.S. request - FSB
- Lapsus$ Extortion Group Claims Okta Hack, Microsoft Source Code Leak
- Apple, Meta Gave User Data to Hackers With Forged Legal Requests (AAPL, FB)
- Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack
- Congressional pressure mounts to pass $52b CHIPS Act
- The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China
- A big bet to kill the password for good | Ars Technica
- Apple Is First Streamer to Win Best Picture Oscar for ‘CODA’
- CNN+ streaming service pulls a Quibi, will shut down a month after launch | TechCrunch
- Netflix Says 100 Million+ Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords - Variety
- From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: A collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends : NPR
- U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter | Techdirt
- OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too
- ChatGPT Could Be AI’s iPhone Moment
- The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
- The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
- ICANN won’t revoke Russian Internet domains, says effect would be “devastating”