This Week in Tech (Video)

AnandTech Shuts Down, Brazil Bans X, Alexa Revamp

• Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
• Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App
• Telegram founder Pavel Durov transferred from police custody to court after arrest in France
• Brazil judge orders suspension of Elon Musk's X
• Elon Musk, Tesla (TSLA) Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin 'Pyramid Scheme'
• End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
• Oprah, Sam Altman, and MKBHD walk into a TV show about AI and it's not a joke
• Court orders a new hearing for Adnan Syed in 'Serial' case. Here's what to know
• Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI
• China's AI Engineers Are Secretly Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips
• 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' Review: A Search for a Black Luminary

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Louis Maresca, and Wesley Faulkner

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Pavel Durov Arrested, Hacking Bikes, Apple Event Rumors

• Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
• Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
• Elon Musk to the Rescue
• Tesla purging old blog posts claiming all cars have level 5 automated driving hardware
• National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security
• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster -
• Olympics talk
• Black Myth: Wukong Makes Gaming History in Launch Day Frenzy
• Bicycles Can Be Hacked Now
• American Radio Relay League confirms $1 million ransom payment
• When Is Apple Announcing the iPhone 16? Apple Planning Event on Sept. 10, 2024
• Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Sam Abuelsamid, and Reed Albergotti

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• Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers
• Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach
• The English Premier League Will Ditch Its Hated VAR Offside Tech for a Fleet of iPhones
• Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL: Satellite SOS, Android 14, $999 start price
• Google Team Pixel "reviews" controversy
• DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win - Bloomberg
• Dell announces second massive set of layoffs to employees
• The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here
• News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it
• Your Air Conditioner Is Lying to You
• Apple (AAPL) Pushes Ahead with Tabletop Home Device in Shift to Robotics
• Pelosi Statement in Opposition to California Senate Bill 1047
• NVIDIA, OpenAI face YouTube creator lawsuits for using online videos
• xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
• AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink's mobile plan
• Consumers spent $3.8B on mobile entertainment apps in Q1
• Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo
• Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas Deleon, Dan Patterson, and Brian McCullough

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• Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies after 2 years with lung cancer
• Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers
• Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
• Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney'
• Brands should avoid this popular term. It's turning off customers
• US court blocks Biden administration net neutrality rules
• The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It
• Judge tosses challenge to Louisiana's age verification law aimed at porn websites
• CNET to Be Sold to Ziff Davis in Sign of Possible Media Deals to Come
• Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors
• Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta's ban: study
• Microsoft's AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
• 'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
• Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
• Scientists Say Secret to Fusion May Lie in Hellmann's Mayonnaise

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Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Shoshana Weissmann, and Andrew Chow

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• Existential thoughts about Apple services revenue.
• Intel announces two extra years of warranty amid chip crashing and instability issues — longer warranty applies to 13th- and 14th-Gen Core processors.
• Intel plans to lay off 15% of workforce -- at least 15,000 people.
• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cuts stake in Apple by nearly 50%.
• Amazon paid almost $1 billion for Twitch in 2014. It's still losing money.
• Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled.
• Artist and musician sue SEC over its NFT regulatory jurisdiction.
• Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act.
• Ding dong KOSA's dead (for now).
• A senate bill would radically improve voting machine security.
• Jailed cybercriminals returned to Russia in historic prisoner swap.
• US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules.
• Posing as 'Alicia,' this man scammed hundreds online. He was also a victim.
• Broadcasters fly in TikTokers and YouTubers to generate Olympic buzz.
• Disney, Fox and Warner Sports streamer Venu to launch at $42.99/ Month.
• Don Lemon sues Elon Musk over canceled X deal.
• Meta talks With Judi Dench, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key for AI voice projects.
• Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney.'

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Howell, Alex Lindsay, and Jason Snell

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• CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft's Antitrust Problems
• Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
• An AI-built vegan cheese went viral. Here's what happened next
• AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
• Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
• Russia Throttles YouTube Access in Latest Attack on US Social Media (GOOGL)
• Video game performers to strike over AI concerns
• EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is "free"
• OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
• X's new data-sharing experience will train Grok with your Twitter data by default — Here's how to disable it
• Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Owen Thomas, and Parris Lilly

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• Biden drops out of the race via tweet
• "CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
• Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
• Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
• The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
• Judge dismisses much of SEC suit against SolarWinds over cybersecurity disclosures
• FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone
• Hundreds more Californians get housing with Apple's help
• Microsoft's new AI system 'SpreadsheetLLM' unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity
• Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America

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Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Ashley Esqueda, and Anthony Ha

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• Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
• FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
• EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
• After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
• AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans
• Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics
• My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better
• Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?
• Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
• FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

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• Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea
• Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports
• Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
• Perplexity's grand theft AI
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure
• NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
• The White House will host a conference for social media creators
• Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

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Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests

• Murthy Decision Should Not Foreclose Cases Against Actual First Amendment Violations
• What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
• Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks
• Mark Cuban's public email was hacked after receiving call from a fake Google rep
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Microsoft's bundling of Office and Teams breaks antitrust law, EU says
• EU Competition Commissioner says Apple's decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behavior
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC is finally the best clamshell laptop on the market after 8 years of iterations
• Tested: Don't buy a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for PC gaming
• Signal 65 Snapdragon battery testing
• The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
• Wherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All
• Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll

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Guests: Cathy Gellis, Ryan Shrout, and Doc Rock

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