This Week in Tech (Audio)

NY goes after Twitch, Musk's real plan, Apple's DeepMind defection

• Elon Musk says Twitter deal can't happen until bot account dispute is resolved.
•  Twitter asks shareholders to support Musk's purchase.
•  NY Launches Ridiculous, Blatantly Unconstitutional 'Investigations' Into Twitch, Discord; Deflecting Blame From NY's Own Failings.
•  @kendraschaefer: My goodness. China's cyberspace watchdog, the CAC, just published a long (and unprecedented) set of draft regulations for recommendation algorithms.
•  Why is the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial so visible on social media?
•  The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.
•  Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell.
•  Dianetics and scientology technical dictionary by L. Ron Hubbard.
•  Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple's ever done.
•  The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel.
•  Apple Shows Headset to Board in Sign It's Reached Advanced Stage.
•  VeeCon: Exclusive Conference Around Web 3 and Culture.
•  Fears grow for smaller nations after ransomware attack on Costa Rica escalates.
•  Ransomware gang Conti 'shuts down' in midst of Costa Rica attack.
•  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
•  Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor.
•  The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman.
•  Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand.
• Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science by Harry R. Lewis.
•  Pinball Map

Host: Leo Laporte

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•  Elon Musk Says His $44 Billion Twitter Deal Is 'On Hold'.
•  Two Twitter Leaders Are Leaving Company Following Musk Deal.
•  Texas HB 20: Tech asks SCOTUS to stop Texas social media law.
•  Just How Incredibly F'd Up Is Texas' Social Media Content Moderation Law?
•  Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for 'burning the 3am oil' – here's what that really looks like.
•  Jeff Bezos Hits Back at Joe Biden in Twitter Spat Over Inflation.
•  Google previews the Pixel Watch, coming this fall with Pixel 7.
•  The Pixel Tablet is coming in 2023.
•  It's not a phone, it's an alliance.
•  Google Glass's successor teased at I/O.
•  Google announces Pixel 6a powered by Tensor processor for $449.
•  More than $200 billion erased from the entire crypto market in a day as the sell-off intensifies.
•  Yellen Renews Call for Stablecoin Regulation After TerraUSD Stumble.
•  'The Guilt Is Unbearable': UST-Luna Investors Discuss the 99.99% Crypto Crash.
•  Take Control of Cryptocurrency by Glenn Fleishman.
•  Caitlin's podcast: Crypto's big crash.
•  Coinbase chief says 'no risk of bankruptcy' after regulatory filing sparks alarm.
•  Man seeks to excavate a landfill that allegedly has half a billion dollars worth of bitcoin.
•  UK's Royal Mail aims to open up to 50 drone routes for rural deliveries.
•  How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell.
•  The iPod is dead.
•  A Visual History of the Apple iPod.
•  Netflix Tells Employees Ads May Come by the End of 2022.
•  Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials.
•  Disney Plus added almost 8 million new subscribers as Netflix struggles.
•  Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe.
•  Here's What the Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way Looks Like.
•  TikTok to surpass YouTube in the US.
•  TIkTok introduces first ad product with rev share for creators.
•  House where Facebook was created lists for $5.3M.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Glenn Fleishman, and Caitlin McGarry

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Tech stocks are crumbling, NFTs losing steam, SafeGraph, Google IO preview

•  Elon Musk raises $7 billion in new funding for Twitter buyout.
•  Evaluating Elon Musk's Plan To Fix Twitter.
•  Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout.
•  Why Tech Stocks Are Crashing and Burning.
•  Bitcoin drops below $35,000 over the weekend, extending Friday's losses.
•  NFT Sales Are Flatlining.
•  NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla.
•  Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen.
•  Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.
•  Vatican Offers, Mysteriously Rescinds Interview About Pope's Metaverse Plans.
•  Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood.
•  CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.
•  Global Privacy Control (GPC).
•  Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and sessions.
•  The latest Pixel Watch spec rumors show Google's trying to make a flagship.
• Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy.
•  AMD sales jump 71%, shrugging off concerns about PC slowdown.
•  Salt_Hank on TikTok.
•  Nvidia pays $5.5 million for allegedly hiding how many gaming GPUs were sold to crypto miners.
•  Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads.
•  Frontier lied about Internet speeds and "ripped off customers," FTC says.
•  New York City sues Activision, targeting CEO Bobby Kotick.
•  Apple's Self Service Repair now available.

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Musk buys Twitter, Ethereum stumbles, broadcasting to aliens

• Twitter Has a New Owner. Here's What He Should Do.
•  Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation.
•  Jack Dorsey is tweeting through it.
•  Judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to end the 2018 settlement with SEC.
•  Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum.
•  Web3 is Going Great - Molly White.
•  The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties.
•  Labor Department Criticizes Fidelity's Plan to Put Bitcoin on 401(k) Menu.
•  Doctorow Femur by Cory Doctorow.
•  You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results.
•  New options for removing your personally identifiable information from Search.
•  Spotify Boosts Subscribers Despite Russia Ban, Joe Rogan Drama.
•  Data From Fake Legal Requests Used to Sexually Extort Minors.
•  These scientists want to tell aliens where Earth is — not everyone is happy.
•  Netflix's Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It.
•  Alphabet Q1: YouTube Ad Revenue Growth Slows Dramatically.
•  Apple shares dip after the company warns of a possible $8 billion hit from supply constraints.
•  Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy.
•  Fort Worth, TX the first city in the U.S. to mine bitcoin.
•  TikTok was the top app by worldwide downloads in Q1 2022.
•  Meta Platforms' 'Metaverse' Division Loses $3B in 1Q.
•  Microsoft Earnings: Cloud Growth Propels Higher Sales, Earnings.
•  Hollywood's Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly.
•  From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: A collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Tim Stevens, and Owen Thomas

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Netflix declines, CNN+ folds, Pixel Watch rumors, Moonbirds NFT, salty chopsticks

• Netflix Q1 net subscribers unexpectedly decline, revenue misses expectations.
• Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Sells Entire Netflix Stake, Taking $400 Million Loss.
• Netflix Says 100 Million+ Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords.
• CNN+ streaming service pulls a Quibi and will shut down a month after launch.
• Rupert's Age, Apple/NFL, and the Bomb of the Pandemic.
• Puzzle over Elon Musk Twitter plan after cryptic 'moving on' tweet.
• Elon Musk, Baloney King.
• House Republicans demand Twitter's board preserve all records about Musk's bid to buy the company.
• Apple warns developers it will pull apps without recent updates from the App Store.
• Google files a trademark application for 'Pixel Watch'
• Google's Rumored Smartwatch Should Take a Page From Its Pixel Phones.
• Google Pixel Watch: Exclusive leaked images seem to show Google's first smartwatch.
• Google's AI-Powered 'Inclusive Warnings' Feature Is Very Broken.
• Uber lifts mask mandate for drivers and riders.
• Shanghai Reports Record Daily Covid Deaths in Current Outbreak.
• What is the Moonbirds NFT collection, and why did it surge so quickly?
• HBO Max backs 'Minecraft' movie with 'Aquaman' star Jason Momoa.
• "Oreology" investigates the mystery of why Oreo creme filling usually sticks to one side.
• Watching TV from behind the wheel of a self-driving car is allowed under UK law.
• A Tesla vehicle using 'Smart Summon' appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet.
• Americans are drowning in spam.
• The lickable-TV guy created electric chopsticks to make food taste saltier.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Nate Lanxon, and Lisa Eadicicco

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