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TWiT 903: Opt In For Fun - Apple chaos in China, Robocall crackdown, NFT nightclubs, Black Friday slump Nov 27, 2022

Apple chaos in China, Robocall crackdown, NFT nightclubs, Black Friday slump

The Top Tech and Tools You Need for Taking Digital Notes.
Ford Mustang Mach-E loses its Consumer Reports recommendation.
Musk will restore Twitter accounts banned for harassment, misinformation.
Twitter new user signups at an 'all-time high,' says Elon Musk.
Protests Erupting Across China.
Mass resignations of iPhone workers; report of 30% production hit
China Covid: Protests continue in major cities across the country.
Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out.
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China.
FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls.
New York Imposes 2-Year Moratorium on New Proof-of-Work Mining After Gov. Hochul Signs Bill.
El Salvador's $300 Million Bitcoin 'Revolution' Is Failing Miserably.
Miami nightclub owners are struggling with slumping sales after losing top-spending crypto clientele in wake of FTX implosion and crypto downfall, report says.
Restaurant and private members lounge to be built controversially in San Francisco's 'public' Salesforce Park.
Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year.
Callisto - Lockheed Martin.
Black Friday Lured Shoppers Back, in Early Test for Holiday Spending.
The Best Cyber Monday Deals 2022: Laptops, Robot Vacuums, AirPods, More.
French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Jill Duffy, and Owen Thomas

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TWiT 902: May Contain Nuts - Evernote bought, Trump on Twitter, Holmes sentencing, FTX mess, Artemis launch Nov 20, 2022

Elon Musk restores Donald Trump's Twitter account.
Twitter Locks Its Office and Suspends Badge Access.
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud.
Nigerian Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Launder Tens of Millions of Dollars from Online Scams.
How Much Trouble Is FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried In?
Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps.
Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential.
Tom Brady and Larry David among those accused of defrauding investors in FTX collapse.
H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder.
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3: 'Web3 is not the web at all'
Leo talks about the road map for The Tech Guy.
The long-awaited US broadband internet maps are here — for you to challenge.
Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in.
NASA's Modern Moon Program Is Finally off the Ground.
Greg Bear (1951-2022).
Fred Brooks Has Died.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Phil Libin, Dwight Silverman, and Glenn Fleishman

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TWiT 901: Weaponized FOMO - Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP Nov 13, 2022

Twitter brand chaos, Meta job cuts, FTX fiasco, Apple sued, Kevin Conroy RIP

Casey Newton on Twitter: "Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees".
Twitter CISO flies the coop.
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer.
Twitter Users Create Havoc by Impersonating Brands.
What is Elon really up to in all of this?
Is centralization good for end users?
Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say.
Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom.
Sean Penn loans his Oscar to Ukraine's president Zelenskiy.
Crypto.com Preliminary Audit Shows That 20% of Its Assets Are in Shiba Inu (SHIB) Coin.
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire Faces US Probe Into Client Funds, Lending.
Prosecutors push 15-year sentence for Theranos' CEO Holmes.
Apple Sued for Allegedly Deceiving Users With Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story.
PleaseRobMe.com
Apple Loses Web Search Technology Chief to Google.
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Nov. 12 and Nov. 13.
Sadly, the Easiest Types of Cyberattacks Still Work.
Kevin Conroy's Best Batman Moments, as Chosen by Fans.
Two weeks of chaos: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: David Spark, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Amy Webb

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TWiT 900: The Pies Have It - Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok Nov 06, 2022

Rocket takeover, Musk Lays Off Twitter, League of Legends Finals, FCC vs. TikTok

Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted.
-2000 Lines Of Code.
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back.
What are the redeeming qualities of Twitter?
@elonmusk: Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended.
It's hard out here for a billionaire.
League of Legends World Championship Finals.
Quiz show!
Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin's account for impersonating Elon Musk.
Is Twitter good for brands?
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week.
Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, CEO says they 'overhired for the world we're in'
Finally, is this the end for the fax machine?
Interview: FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok.
Github Universe.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Brianna Wu, and Christina Warren

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TWiT 899: It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090 Oct 30, 2022

It's Only Fleas - Musk takes over Twitter, Apple's cash mountain, gambling ads, NVIDIA RTX 4090

Welcome to hell, Elon.
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Paperback by Brent Schlender.
FeedLand is a place to share and discover feeds. We use Twitter to identify each user.
Apple was a bright spot.
Apple's cash mountain is back where it was in 2010.
iPhone now supports 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively, delighting Woz.
Apple halts gambling ads in App Store.
KGO replaced by 'rapid-fire sports smack' gambling station.
Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border.
Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal Interviews Craig Federighi About Apple's Upcoming Child Safety Features.
Greg Joswiak confirms iPhone's future move to USB-C.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way.
Adobe to Acquire Figma.
Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter.
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.
OpenWallet Foundation.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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TWiT 898: The Alphabetical Show - Twitter & Musk, new iPads, burning art for NFTs, AI chat with the dead Oct 23, 2022

Twitter & Musk to close buyout, Apple's new iPads, artist burns art for NFTs, AI chatbot for dead loved ones, and more.

Semafor.com - A new global news platform for breaking stories and analysis.
American Airlines is trying to stop a popular iPhone app Sequence Decoder that's become a 'must have' for its flight attendants.
Twitter and Elon Musk make progress on a buyout, and Musk plans to cut 75% of its workforce.
The dark side of a super app like WeChat in China.
Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source.
Jack Dorsey-founded Bluesky is building a protocol for decentralized social networks.
Damien Hirst is burning thousands of his paintings for an NFT project.
Adware clicker apps in Google Play have been downloaded over 20 million times.
Apple's macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 will be released on October 24.
Apple announced a new iPad and M2-powered iPad Pro, but the iPad lineup now seems like a mess.
Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K with an A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ for $129.
More ads are coming to Apple's App Store starting next week.
Apple's head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving three years after the departure of Jony Ive.
NFL and Apple are at odds in Sunday Ticket negotiations.
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots.
Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter in the US.
Kanye West is buying the 'free speech platform' Parler.
Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust watchdog CMA.
Are we ready for an AI chatbot that lets us speak to our dead loved ones?
Red Bull co-founder and Red Bull Formula One owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies at 78.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Harry McCracken, and Louis Maresca

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TWiT 897: Headphones For Your Eyes - Future of Microsoft Office, Legs in VR, NVIDIA RTX 4090, Project Starline Oct 16, 2022

Future of Microsoft Office, Legs in VR, NVIDIA RTX 4090, Project Starline

Peach Only SMA 11:04 Brianna Wu.
Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
Microsoft (MSFT) US Army HoloLens Goggles Gave Soldiers Nausea, Headaches.
Is this a technology that anybody really wants?
@warren_craddock: I've worked on a number of high-profile failures. They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw.
Lenovo's new Glasses T1 are the coolest PC accessory I've seen that just makes sense.
Google's Project Starline is the real deal.
Meta's Virtual Reality Legs Video Was A Lie, Used Some Mocap.
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere.
Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator.
Steve Jobs AI features in spooky 'interview' with Joe Rogan AI.
Synthetic Media Startup D-ID Launches Image-to-Video Platform.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 review: Unholy power.
American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban.
GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty.
Vault by CNN shutdown results in "rug pull" accusations from NFT buyers.
Mac shipments shoot up a whopping 40%.
When Is Apple Launching the M2 iPad Pro and M2 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro?
Musk Will Have Absolute Control Over Twitter, Documents Show.
Elon Musk is now selling perfume that smells like burning hair.
Elon Musk tweets on Starlink: 'We'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free'.
Netflix Basic with Ads streaming launches in November.
Alex Jones Says Brianna Wu Defamed Him in a Tweet.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Daniel Rubino, and Sam Abuelsamid

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TWiT 896: The Whole Internet Burrito - Pixel Watch, banning AirTags, Musk's Twitter buy, Instagram ads Oct 09, 2022

Pixel Watch, banning AirTags, Musk's Twitter buy, Instagram ads

Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899.
WHOOP | Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach.
Does Google have a chance against Samsung and Apple?
Google Pixel Watch Announced.
Google Kills Stadia; Why Stadia Was a Bad Product; Microsoft, Activision, and Antitrust.
Larry Page's electric air taxi startup is winding down.
Lufthansa Has NOT Banned AirTags (But If It Ever Does, Travelers Won't Comply)
Zelenskyy, Musk in Twitter showdown over Ukraine 'peace' plan.
The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th.
Elon Musk says he'll use Twitter to build an 'everything app' called X. Believe him.
How Twitter employees are reacting to today's Elon Musk news.
Chris Anderson on Twitter: "Amidst all the sneering, I'd like to offer a prediction for how the @elonmusk acquisition of Twitter will play out."
Bake Off contestant horrifies viewers with avocado peeling method during controversial Mexican Week episode.
Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline.
Yes, even Signal is doing stories now.
The Right Stuff dating app.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
FCC Finally Gets Around To Cracking Down On Annoying Robotexts.
Google settles Arizona location data suit for $85 million.
Meta warns 1 million Facebook users who installed password-stealing apps.
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website visitors.
Area Man Is Arrested for Parody. The Onion Files a Supreme Court Brief.
Boston Dynamics pledges not to arm robots.
Israel sets up AI-controlled machine gun in occupied Hebron.
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security.
$570 million worth of Binance's BNB token stolen in another major crypto hack.
Critical Akamai bug could have let hackers poison millions of major brands' websites.
Business Envy podcast.
White House turns to TikTok stars to take Biden's message to a younger audience.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Huyen Tue Dao, Iain Thomson, and Ben Parr

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TWiT 895: Eastern Blocks - Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event Oct 02, 2022

Stadia is done, Zuck's UFC appearance, General AI, OG App, Amazon event

Stadia is issuing refunds - How to get yours.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with nearly 6,000 hours on Stadia begs Rockstar for character transfer.
Adobe can't Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab.
Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Fighting at This Weekend's UFC Show?
Texts show roll call of tech figures tried to help Elon Musk in Twitter deal.
The True Genius of Tech Leaders.
"Buying Our Way In" was Palantir's (PLTR stock) Secret Plan to Get into the NHS.
Elon Musk unveils Optimus
Is general AI right around the corner?
Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient.
James Bridle's "Ways of Being"
In Delaware's Kathaleen McCormick, Elon Musk Finds A Judge Who Means Business.
Klobuchar, Cruz strike deal to advance journalism antitrust bill.
Inside Podcasters' Explosive Audience Growth.
The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed.
Amazon hardware event 2022.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Cory Doctorow

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TWiT 894: Juking the Stats - Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images Sep 25, 2022

Apple Watch Ultra, YouTube dislike button, Serial podcast, AI and Getty Images

Leo talks about his new Apple Watch Ultra.
How Fitbit helped me lose 15 pounds.
YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds.
Adobe's Aquisition of Figma is a Land Grab.
Slack's Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window.
TwistedWave, an Audio Editor.
Word Jazz by Fred Katz and Ken Nordine.
Ken Nordine - Levis Ad.
Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison.
California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The FDA may have unintentionally made 'Nyquil Chicken' go viral on TikTok.
Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges.
'A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,' Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators.
The AI Unbundling.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system.
No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.
Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.
Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers.
How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.
Enterprise Connect: Facing the Tough Issues on Hybrid Work: How Communications Technology Will Support New Ways of Working.