• The panel discusses the Apple Vision Pro
• Transcribe Glass
• X rival Bluesky launches to public with option to pick your algorithm
• Tech layoff tracker - layoffs.fyi
• A general discussion on AI
• Zuckerberg's Plan for AI Hinges on Your Facebook and Instagram Data
• The panel looks back at the proto-internet
• Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules
• David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93
• The passing of John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Nicholas De Leon

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner

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• 160-180k Apple Vision Pros sold
• Ben Parr's 110+ Page Slide report I came out with on AI investing trends + predictions in 2023/2024
• George Carlin AI Lawsuit: Estate Sues Creators Over Comedy Special
• Nightshade, the tool that 'poisons' data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
• Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
• Taylor Swift explicit AI finally blocked on X after days
• Tim Sweeney on Europe's new Digital Markets Act
• iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find
• N.S.A. Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
• Pokemon-like game has gone viral, 5m+ downloads in a week, lots of questions on copyright
• Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
• Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Ben Parr, and Allyn Malventano

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• The panel talks about the Apple Vision pro
• The Apple Google Duopoly
• Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
• Javier Milei Special Address WITH AI
• Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in "uncomfortable" ways
• Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs
• Origins and definition of "Ensh*ttification"
• Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely
• The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
• Microsoft 'senior leadership' emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers
• Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
• Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay

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• The panel discusses what they saw at CES
• Padre shows off some toys from CES
• Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'
• Mercedes-Benz's best-in-class voice assistant is getting an AI boost
• AI-Generated 'George Carlin' Comedy Blasted by Comedian's Daughter
• SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024
• Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams
• Microsoft's new battery is a test of AI-infused scientific discovery

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, David Pierce, and Daniel Rubino

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Christina Warren, and Devindra Hardawar

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• Rating Google's AI Music Tool MusicLM
• What is Plaguing Google?
• Xerox Alto: 50 Year Later
• Lessons Learned By the SVB Collapse
• Is Copyright Good For Authors?
• What's Your (Microsoft) Copilot?
• Goodbye, Computer Magazines
• UK Emergency Alert Test
• A Look At WiFi Pineapple and Flipper Zero
• Ten Years Since Snowden's Revelations Were Revealed
• The Seven Deadly Sins and Tech
• Blind: Anonymous Workplace Gossip
• Earthquake!
• Why Apple Ended Its CSAM-Scanning Tool
• Meta's Uncanny New AI Avatars
• MIke Elgan's Meta Ray-Ban Smartglasses

Host: Leo Laporte

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• The explosion of AI in 2023, from chatbots like ChatGPT to powerful new AI demonstrations. Debate on whether we're nearing AGI (artificial general intelligence) and the societal impacts.
• The rise and struggles of companies like Facebook/Meta, Netflix, Twitter, Alibaba. Patterns of tech success, failure, and Corey Doctorow's concept of "ensh*tification."
• Elon Musk: The good (SpaceX, Starlink), bad (Twitter), and unpredictable. Is he still an innovator or has wealth and power corrupted him?
• Open source, Linux, and big tech's relationship to open ecosystems. Concerns about commercialization diluting open ideals.
• Looking back on early tech days. How the history of tech contextualizes what's happening today. Nostalgia and optimism for the early Internet days.
• The revival of space exploration, privatized today by SpaceX and others. What can we expect as we (hopefully) return to the Moon in 2024?
• Chaos, unpredictability, and the feeling of societal flux as we head into 2024. An uncertain but interesting future awaits.

Memorable Quotes:

• "AI is only dangerous to humans if you give it physical agency in the real world. Combine AI with a robotic dog, and now you got something." - Leo
• "When are you getting your stupid thing that you wear that has the laser on your hand?" - Jeff to Leo
• "It's time to hand it over. We're effing up the world. We've done it for centuries. It's time to hand it over." - Jeff on tech leadership
• "So has anybody played with the Apple ones that have the weird eyeballs?" - Doc on Apple's augmented reality efforts
• "Chaos is a weird thing. You could have your faucet dripping slowly and almost all of the drips go down and land and that's it, but somehow about a yard off to the one side is a drip" - Steve on increasing chaos

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jeff Jarvis, Doc Searls, Steve Gibson, and Rod Pyle

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• The panel talks about pinball machines
• Mark Zuckerberg's underground lair
• Cox admits to invading your privacy
• Google Maps gets an update to stop authorities from accessing location history data
• Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
• Epic Games wins it's lawsuit, Google ruled as an illegal monopoly
• Beeper Mini is back, but for how long?
• Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
• Tesla recalls 2 million cars
• FCC denies Starlink of $885M subsidy
• Netflix finally releases viewership data
• E3 is over
• How do you wordle?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Nate Lanxon, and David Spark

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• Financial Difficulties and Layoffs at Twit
• AI's Potential and Misleading Demonstrations
• Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Self-Driving Vehicles
• Debate on AI Augmentation and Regulation
• Beeper's Impersonation of Apple's Server'
• Privacy Risks and Public Benefits
• Technology Misuse, Cameo Scandal, Criticism
• AI, Grock, and Free Money Impact
• The Potential of AI in Advertising
• Memories of 1000 Van Ness Theater
• Discussion on Podcasts and Potluck Etiquette

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Owen Thomas, and Glenn Fleishman

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