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TWiT 904: Bon Bons and Football – Musk and Ye, chatting with ChatGPT, SF killer robots, Apple China protests

Musk and Ye, chatting with ChatGPT, SF killer robots, Apple China protests

  • Elon Musk explains why Ye was suspended from Twitter.
  • EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation.
  • Twitter reinstates account of Daily Stormer’s infamous neo-Nazi creator.
  • Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America.
  • Which VR headset does Georgia prefer?
  • China pledges to slowly exit ‘zero covid’.
  • Apple to Lose 6 Million iPhone Pros From Tumult at China Plant.
  • Inside the Covid revolt at the Zhengzhou ‘iPhone City’ plant.
  • Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China.
  • Elon Musk Says ‘Misunderstanding’ With Apple Is Resolved.
  • Apple limited a crucial AirDrop function in China just weeks before protests.
  • Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon.
  • @hankgreen: Someone suggested that I ask MidJourney to show me a cat but to keep adding “A”s until it wasn’t a cat anymore. Here is “cat.”
  • Who Is the Woman Haunting A.I.-Generated Art?
  • ChatGPT.
  • @JoannaStern: HOLY #@*%!!!! The robots can indeed replace me. And they have a better handle on dash and comma usage.
  • Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day.
  • Leo plays around with ChatGPT.
  • Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT.
  • SF police killer robots could be approved. Here’s what that means.
  • U.S. Army Planned to Pay Streamers Millions to Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty.
  • Feds likely to challenge Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision takeover.
  • Happy birthday and farewell, SMS! It’s time for RCS.
  • U.S Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter.
  • Smash World Tour organizers blame Nintendo for championship shutdown.
  • Report: ID.me Lied About Pretty Much Everything While Providing Identification Services To The Government.
  • Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’
  • Pantone’s 2023 color of the year is ‘Viva Magenta’

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TWiT 1011: The Year in Review – A Look at the Top Stories of 2024 This Week in Tech (Audio)

What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1 Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming Bluesky emerges The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No. New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts) Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years In Memoriam Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit
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  2. TWiT 1010: The Densest State in the US – TikTok Ban, Drones Over Jersey, GM Quits Robotaxis
  3. TWiT 1009: Andy Giveth & Bill Taketh Away – Trump's Tech Titans, Crypto Boom, TikTok's US Ban, Intel CEO Exits
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