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Hallucinating with AI Apr 24, 2023

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What is an AI hallucination? What causes a chatbot to go off script and invent stuff? And is AI's tendency to rewrite history a bug or a feature?

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TechStuff Classic: The Problem With Ads Part Two Apr 21, 2023

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Jonathan and Ben continue their conversation about online ads. Is it wrong to use ad blockers? Or is it wrong to block people who block ads?

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Tech News: SpaceX's Starship Gets Off the Ground, Then Explodes Apr 20, 2023

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The test launch of SpaceX's Starship was a success despite the fact that the launch vehicle later exploded high above the Gulf of Mexico. There are more battles happening around the subject of artificial intelligence. And if you used Facebook between 2007 and 2022, you can file a claim to get a share in a massive class action lawsuit.

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The Rebirth of Vinyl Apr 20, 2023

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Vinyl sales were on the decline from the 1980s to the mid 2000s, but since 2006 sales have been on the rise. What's the history of vinyl, and what makes this format special?

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Tech News: The AI Headlines Keep On Coming Apr 18, 2023

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Is Elon Musk working on a kinder, gentler AI? Could Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI take a huge chunk out of Google? And how do artists protect themselves against deepfakes?

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What Are Zero Day Attacks? Apr 17, 2023

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Over the weekend, Google rolled out a patch to Google Chrome. It addresses a zero-day vulnerability. But what are zero-day vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks? We learn about the definition and history of this powerful type of hacker attack.

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TechStuff Classic: The Problem with Ads Part One Apr 14, 2023

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Online advertising has been a bit of a problem for a long time. Join Jonathan and Ben as they talk about ads, ad blockers and malware.

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Tech News: China Tells AI to Tow the Party Line Apr 14, 2023

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China's Cyberspace Administration recommends regulations that would prevent AI from upsetting the country's political apple cart. Plus, why did Elon Musk buy 10,000 GPUs? And Meta employees are having a real morale issue for lots of reasons.

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TechStuff Tidbits: CPU Basics Apr 12, 2023

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What does a CPU do? What is clock speed? What does it mean to overclock a CPU? And are FLOPS a good thing?

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Tech News: All a Twitter about Tech News Apr 11, 2023

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We've got stories about top secret US documents showing up on Discord servers and how Meta's verification system is putting people in danger, but to be honest a LOT of this episode ends up being about the chaos going on over at Twitter.

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