Total Ant (Audio)

• Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.
• Craig Newmark stops by
• Galaxy fold unboxing
• We know almost everything about the Google Pixel 9 series already
• A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money
• Friend in a box
• US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules
• The gymnastics world braces for an AI future
• NASA will shut down NASA TV on cable to f...

• Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
• Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
• Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
• Reflecting on 18 years at Google
• Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
• AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
• Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
• Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
• Adobe's ...

• Adobe Flash Player Updater is (still) desperately trying to update
• Veracrypt password security
• Firefox moves to 120 with a bunch of very nice new features
• Do-Not-Track is back on track
• "ownCloud" -or- "PwnCloud" ?
• CrushFTP Critical Vulnerability
• Bypassing fingerprint authentication
• ApacheMQ
• TransUnion & Experian both hacked

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-950-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Ant Pru...

• From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week
• OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
• Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster
...

• OpenAI debuts GPTs allowing companies to further optimize GPT-4 for specific domains.
• Article 45, an EU regulation, will roll back web security by 12 years by banning website fingerprinting used for fraud detection.
• GM halts production on its Cruise driverless van over safety concerns after recent crashes.
• The SAG strike continues as negotiations with AMPTP stall. AMPTP proposed using AI to replace actors.
• AI academics vo...

• DMV suspends Cruise's robo-taxi permit in San Francisco after pedestrian accident
• Debate over regulating approval process for autonomous vehicles between NHTSA and NTSB
• Analysis of Google's disappointing Q3 financial results and advertising revenue drop
• Impact of dating apps like Tinder on relationships and matchmaking
• The demise of Twitter rival Pebble aka T2
• Online interactions and social media - federation, verificati...

• Elon Musk says charging $1 a year to Twitter users could reduce bots
• VC Mark Andreessen loses it in controversial tech manifesto
• Meta Quest 3 brings back glassholes to the wild
• Amazon launches satellites to compete with SpaceX Starlink
• Peter Norvig and Blaise Aguera y Arcas claim AGI is already here
• 51% of teens spend 4+ hours daily on social media
• YouTube getting AI-powered ads targeting pop culture moments
• Mass tech ...

Adobe announces a whole host of new AI features and upgrades at its MAX conference. We review the Pixel 8 Pro and discuss its new Ultra HDR capabilities. OpenAI plans to announce new developer features at its November conference and we demonstrate the new ChatGPT voice features.

• Ant Pruitt stops by Tech News Weekly to give us a rundown of what Adobe announced at its annual Adobe MAX conference.
• Jason Howell has ...

• Google's "enshittification" memos
• A Note From WIRED Leadership
• Moonlighting comes to Hulu... starring Jeff Jarvis!
• Elon Musk's X Strips Article Headlines on Shared Links
• Did Elon Musk Endorse Biden, Come Out as Transgender and Die of Suicide?
• Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X's Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation
• Sure, There's Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship
• Alexa say...

• Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices
• Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy?
• Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights
• Movies released on TikTok by studios
• High production costs of Masterclass
• Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web
• Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks
• Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices
• Supreme Court case involving copyright of ...

• Google's 25th birthday
• Google killing off Google Podcasts
• Next week's Pixel hardware event
• Meta's VR/AR announcements and new Ray-Ban smartglasses with cameras
• Antitrust lawsuits against Google and Amazon
• AI voice cloning for automatic translation by YouTube, Spotify
• WGA writer's strike in Hollywood ending with AI concessions
• Meta adding AI bots everywhere
• Books scanned to train AI models in searchable database
• The v...

• Apple has quietly removed support for Postscript in macOS Ventura over security concerns with the outdated interpreter language.
• China has formally accused the NSA of hacking and maintaining access to Huawei servers since 2009, based on documents from Edward Snowden.
• A misconfigured Azure Shared Access Signature token resulted in 38TB of sensitive internal Microsoft data being exposed, including employee backups with passwo...

• The group discusses the DOJ's antitrust case against Google's search dominance.
• The hosts debate whether AI will help or harm the fight against online disinformation.
• Leo and Joan discuss the challenges of internet safety and regulation in the UK.
• Google news includes: Chromebook lifespan extended to 10 years, Android 14 QPR beta, Google Calendar appointment booking, Nest speaker groups limited, and Google Domains transfer...

• Google pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions
• Trademark Genericide And One Big Way The DOJ Admits That Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is Utter Garbage
• YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate's videos, court says
• Google's cookie-replacing Privacy Sandbox reaches major milestone
• Google teaser previews Pixel Watch 2 and both Pixel 8 phones
• NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube is a...

• Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill
• When Tech Says "No"
• Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans
• The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals
• Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia
• Jeff Jarvis Moving on From CUNY
• Judge strikes down porn age-verification law in Texas : NPR
• The Department of Defense Launches the All-domain Anomaly Res...

• Google announces Pixel 8 launch event for October 4th
• Samsung buys popular meal planning app Whisk and rebrands it as Samsung Food
• Google discontinues Pixel Pass subscription bundle after just one year
• Chrome OS 116 adding auto correct and local file search
• Google Chat adding voice messages and interoperability with Slack and Teams
• Elon Musk makes controversial appearance at Valorant esports tournament
• Tesla planning LA...

• Heritage Minister says Meta news block endangers lives as Canadians flee wildfires
• Canadian Media Orgs Said That Meta Linking To News Was Anticompetitive; Now They Say NOT Linking To News Is Anticompetitive
• The Bill C-18 Regulation Fake-Out: Setting the Record Straight on When Bill C-18 Takes Effect and the Regulation Making Process
• Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
• How is Spotify doing with its podcast business?
• Spotify will let ...

We still love us some space conspiracies! This week, Tariq and I discuss more of our favorites--from the "the Earth is flat!" to the deadly Planet X (or "Planet 9," as self-avowed Pluto-Killer Mike Brown calls it--though he may end up with naming rights), we'll look at, discuss, and debunk more of the wackiest conspiracies ever... because, "the truth is out there--or maybe, just maybe, it's in our heads, after all. Be incredulous!

• Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more
• Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time
• Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising
• Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices
• Google using AI to generate key points in web pages
• Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results
• YouTube crackin...