This Week in Google (Video‪)‬ TWiT Tech Podcasts: Video

Craig Newmark and pancakes
After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
NYT vs OpenAI
Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025
Deadpool and Wolverine are Google's first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]
Google's Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo
X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?
An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The 'Hotdoggers' Are OK.
The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk's X
Mark Zuckerberg says he's "more comfortable" with new appearance after AI interview
Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses
"Ignore all previous instructions"
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
Stolen Buttons
Succession comes to life
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach
AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign
Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC
This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down
EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'
Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations
Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
Google in talks to buy Wiz
Google switches to selective indexing
Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)
Taboola to sell ads for Apple
The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok
Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
OpenAI's AGI progress chart
Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge
Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more
YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing
Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen
OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say
Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud
Drone conquers Everest
The Planets Today
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral
ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034
AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care
Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices
Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu
Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA
Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users
2024 Zero-Click Search Study: For every 1,000 EU Google Searches, only 374 clicks go to the Open Web. In the US, it's 360.
FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon
A new Illinois law will force influencer parents to compensate their children for appearing in social media content
THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD
Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
Cutting Board Designer
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Molly White

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In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News
Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media
Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas
What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
Threads turns 1
Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.
Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board
The White House will host a conference for social media creators
Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
llama.ttf
Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened
Perplexity's grand theft AI
Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI
Tim Wu Is Out Of Control
Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature
Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
This week's news on human cells
110 new languages are coming to Google Translate
Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen
the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram
Calculus Advice Poem
The Material
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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Google announces surprise Pixel 9 hardware event in August
Jeff Jarvis testimony on the California Journalism Preservation Act
This Week in Tunnels
Toys r us AI video
Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
Autobiography app
OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem
AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers
Record Labels Sue Suno & Udio for Training AI Models on Their Songs
I Will F*****g Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
The rise—and fall—of the software developer
Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
Google Will Let You Personalize Gemini After Your Favorite YouTuber
Google Cast is coming to more hotel room TVs later this year
Google shutting down 'Stack: PDF Scanner' in September
A Captcha for Mikah's Therapist
Scientists create smiling robot face from living human skin cells
German face wurst
Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court
US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads
Jeff on Perplexity Discover
Luma extends memes
Gutenberg animated by Dream Machine
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy announce Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Paper: "ChatGPT is b******t"
How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
US bank Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards
BeReal acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo
Netflix to Open Massive Entertainment, Dining and Shopping Complexes in Two Cities in 2025
Sounds of the Forest - Soundmap
Hamburger Dad
Reuters annual news report
ChatGPT of the Reuters report
Original YouTube deal memo & pitch deck
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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