Geek News Central Podcast (Video‪)‬ Todd Cochrane

Twitter’s source code was leaked on GitHub, potentially exposing the platform’s vulnerabilities and trade secrets. The code was removed after Twitter filed a DMCA request. The company suspects a former employee may be responsible for the leak and has submitted a court filing in California to identify the perpetrator and any other GitHub users who may have downloaded the data. This incident comes amid turbulent times for Twitter since its acquisition by Elon Musk last year, with cost-cutting measures impacting the platform’s reliability. The leak precedes Twitter’s plan to open source its tweet recommendation code on March 31st. This is not surprising, considering how some employees felt about the takeover. Honestly, I am surprised that more source code has not found its way onto the web.

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* That email is not from the IRS

* Water trapped in tiny glass beads on the Moon

* Android app from China executed 0-Day exploit on Android devices

* Blue Origin’s launch failure

* FTC bans scammy companies

* The Tik Tok ban is a betrayal of the open internet

* Publishers beat the Internet Archive

* Disney’s start with first rounds of layoffs

* Crypto does “not bring anything useful for society.”

* Zoom partners with OpenAI

* Binance was charged with violating laws

* Apple releases iOS 16.4

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Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and namesake of Metcalfe’s law, has been awarded the prestigious Turing Award for his groundbreaking work in the 1970s. Metcalfe and the late David Boggs developed the first Ethernet at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to connect Alto personal computers and laser printers. The technology quickly became the foundation of modern data communication and is still widely used today. With an estimated 7 billion Ethernet ports worldwide, Metcalfe’s contributions have impacted global communication infrastructure. The Turing Award comes with a $1 million prize, financially supported by Google. It’s nice to see these icons get awards for their work that has significantly impacted mankind—a well-deserving award.

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* –TikTok CEO testifies before Congress

* –How and where to buy refurbished tech online

* –An air taxi route at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

* –Stop hackers from taking over your Android

* –Who invented the laptop?

* –Ingenuity’s helicopter’s 48th flight

* –Adobe and its Figma deal

* –Watch likely Chinese rocket burn up over Texas

* –Relativity Space had a successful fail

* –Ford will lose $3 billion

* –These US cities are leading EV adoption

* –America needs immigration reform

* –Journalists targeted bu USB drives that explo...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed concerns over the potential risks posed by language models, such as their use in disinformation campaigns or cyber-attacks. In an interview with ABCNews, he urged caution and acknowledged that people should be glad that OpenAI is aware of these dangers. However, the company has faced criticism for withholding technical details about its GPT-4 model. Critics question why the technology is available for purchase if it’s as dangerous as claimed. Altman noted that other creators might not implement the safety measures OpenAI has in place. The real challenge that Altman did not discuss was that law preventing abuse would take years the making.

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* –Kamado Joe’s new ceramic grill

* –The history of the iPhone

* –Scientists grow antlers on mice

* –BBC advises staff to delete TikTok

* –Ikea adds stock-counting drones

* –Mars rovers could explore like Hansel and Greta

* –A new glittering star cluster image

* –Where to see solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024

* –A Google Pixel bug lets you “uncrop” screenshots

* –Samsung’s expanded OLED TV lineup

* –Netflix plans to release 40 more games

* –The FTC’s pursuit of Amazon

* –Amazon will layoff another 9,000 employees

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The Hackneys, a couple with developmental disabilities, wonder whether an AI tool used by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services to predict children’s risk of harm led to removing their 8-month-old daughter from their home. The Hackneys’ daughter had been hospitalized for dehydration, and child welfare officials took custody of her, accusing a couple of neglect. Over a year later, their daughter remains in foster care, and the Hackneys struggle to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital could be considered neglectful. If AI resulted in children being taken from parents, we have much to worry about.

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* –Why mobile games are bad for you

* –Your holographic face on a Tron action figure

* –NASA begins building its first robotic Moon rover

* –New Horizon Pluto probe

* –Microsoft announces Copilot

* –Ex-Wells Fargo executive pleads guilty

* –Peter Thiel said he had $50 million in an account with SVB

* –Firefox has a new feature

* –Selling TikTok won’t satisfy US security concerns

* –YouTube TV raises its prices

* –FCC makes its first rule to block scam robotexts

* –Dual Tesla lawsuits

* –FCC proposal for smartphones to link to satellites 

* –Toshiba plans board meetin...

So you have to wonder, after the federal government did a complete bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, will all banks in the future get this royal treatment, or will those of us that bank with banks that do not have venture capitalist money in them be thrown to the curb? How did this bank get special treatment? While I am happy for those that got their money back, when does this happen to non-politically connected institutions?

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* –Meta threatens to restrict news in Canada

* –Lowe’s is testing robots

* –How to clean bloatware off your PC

* –A 1,000-pound meteorite found in Texas

* –Starlink prices are increasing

* –AI will allow anyone to be a programmer

* –YouTube mulls “1080p Premium” option

* –LastPass

* –iMessage to Windows 11

* –Non-certified USB-C accessories on iPhone

* –Chuck. E Cheese is still using floppy disks

* –Artemis 2

* –Relativity Space is preparing to launch the first 3D-printed rocket

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Can you indeed be Anonymous Online? Well, a California court will decide if an anonymous Reddit poster will be outed on who they actually are based on an ongoing discovery phase of litigation that does not involve Reddit. Kudos to Reddit for battling for their user’s rights to remain anonymous.

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* –Meta shouldn’t open the metaverse to teens

* –Google and Canada 

* –Six websites and apps that will reward you

* –NASA and SpaceX

* –Neuralink trials denied

* –SBF tries to revise bail conditions 

* –CNET is doing layoffs 

* –Waymo hit by a second round of layoffs

* –Tesla’s Investor Day

* –Dashlane

* –The Xerox Alto

* –Google workers in Japan joined a labor union

* –Movies Anywhere

* –FTC moves to ban BetterHelp

* –Ford’s new AI

* Ford will restart F-150 Lighting production