This Week in Tech (Audio)

AI Music with Suno and Udio Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105 AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk Google and the CJPA Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated 'nutrition labels' for most broadband plans SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections for artists in deal with major record labels Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 | Peter Higgs BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Denise Howell, Larry Magid, and Owen Thomas Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit ziprecruiter.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit NetSuite.com/TWIT wix.com/studio

House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for President Biden is now posting into the fediverse Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News MrBeast calls for slowing down video editing styles A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC's Attention. Do His Claims Add Up? Price of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line Apple (AAPL) Explores Home Robots After Abandoning Car Efforts Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Mikah Sargent, Lisa Schmeiser, and Harry McCracken Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit robinhood.com/boost zscaler.com/zerotrustAI mylio.com/TWIT25

Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor 20 years of Gmail Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024 Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI wix.com/studio Download StepDog www.stamps.com promo code TWIT eufy.com NetSuite.com/TWIT

U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cathy Gellis, Rob Pegoraro, and Brianna Wu Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI ecamm.com/twit or use Promo Code TWIT canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT hims.com/twit rocketmoney.com/twit kolide.com/twit

The Panel discusses video Formats and aspect ratios House of Reps pass bill that could ban TikTok TechDirt: TikTok ban would be unconstitutional and doesn't actually help with threats TikTok estimated to be worth $100B, or $40B if it doesn't include the algorithm US wants to ban TikTok for the sins of every social media company What social media is the panel using? Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say Musk dumps Don Lemon after sitting through one interviuew "Gurman: CarPlay is now all Apple has left, should they charge for the more advanced version? + Apple planning for the biggest AirPods push yet with new low-end, mid-range models" Microsoft is hosting its Surface/AI event next week, what do we think about Microsoft's current PC and AI ambitions? FCC raises broadband minimums to 100Mbps/20Mbps, up from 25Mbps/3Mbps Pornhub says adios to Texas Profile of the UberCheats dev, who created an app to see how the Uber algorithm was screwing over workers What media is the panel watching? Host: Devindra Hardawar Guests: Alex Lindsay, Glenn Fleishman, and Scott Stein Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NetSuite.com/TWIT panoptica.app ziprecruiter.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit