This Week in Tech

Jun 4th 2023

This Week in Tech 930

Can You Smell What Tim is Cooking?

Hosted by Leo Laporte

WWDC preview, AI scientist statement, virtual kidnapping

Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Category: News

WWDC preview, AI scientist statement, virtual kidnapping

  •  Microsoft Build 2023 - Panos Panay Keynote. 
  •  Why AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out. 
  •  AI Makes Mistakes But Could It Destroy Us? 
  •  A Chatbot Was Designed to Help Prevent Eating Disorders. Then It Gave Dieting Tips. 
  •  Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More. 
  •  Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $499.99. 
  •  Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor. 
  •  Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro. 
  •  Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem? 
  •  Deceptive.design: What are deceptive patterns? 
  •  How I Nearly Fell for a Frightening ‘Virtual Kidnapping’ Scam. 
  •  Quick Guide to Virtual Kidnapping. 
  •  A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working. 
  •  Amazon to pay more than $30 million to settle FTC privacy complaints over Alexa and Ring. 
  •  Intel to add AI engine to all 14th-gen Meteor Lake SoCs. 
  •  Amazon is discontinuing Alexa's celebrity voices, even if you paid for them. 
  •  Will There Be Any Successors to ‘Succession’? 

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