Oct 1st 2023
This Week in Tech 947
Speaking of the Roman Empire
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Bye red envelope, Zuckerberg avatar, Microsoft certificate apocalypse
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
- The end of Netflix's DVD mailing service
- Meta's new AI avatars and the uncanny valley
- Microsoft's massive certificate breach
- FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon
- X CEO Linda Yaccarino not having Twitter on her phone
- AI regulation and safety concerns
- Differences between books and magazine fact-checking
- Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography and fact checking
- Twitter ruled biggest source of disinformation by EU
- Supreme Court to review Florida and Texas social media laws
- Apple's compliance with China's app store rules
- New Raspberry Pi 5 features
- Jimmy Carter turns 99 years old
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Links
- Netflix DVD closing marks the end of something even bigger.
- WGA, Hollywood studios reach a tentative deal to end writers' strike - Los Angeles Times
- The NSFW chatbot app hooking Gen Z on AI boyfriends
- OpenAI, Jony Ive in talks to raise $1 billion from SoftBank for AI device venture, Financial Times reports | Reuters
- Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data - The Verge
- Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic | TechCrunch
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images - The Verge
- FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly - WSJ
- X CEO shows her iPhone’s Home Screen with her favorite apps – and X isn’t there
- How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson - The Verge
- Twitter/X is biggest source of social media disinformation, EU warns
- The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here - The Verge
- Apple (AAPL) Asks US Supreme Court to Reverse App Store Ruling Won by Epic Games - Bloomberg
- China lists mobile app stores that comply with new rule, but Apple missing | Reuters