Tech Talk Y'all

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Apr 21, 2023 • 38min

Captcha Vulnerabilities, Lunar Laws, and Why Oral Exams Should Come Back

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award Why universities should return to oral exams in the AI and ChatGPT era Actually, Charging Your Phone in a Public USB Port Is Fine! Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it New macOS malware steals sensitive info, including a user's entire Keychain database How to set up Apple's new savings account on an iPhone Ad Break They’re Over Being Real Instagram takes on Linktree and others with support for up to 5 'links in bio Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically Meta encryption ‘blindfolds’ authorities to child abuse, crime agencies claim Weird and Wacky:  AB InBev’s Beck’s makes ‘futuristic’ beer using artificial intelligence FBI arrests guardsman who applied for job on RentAHitman.com Tech Rec: Adam - Temp Mail Sanjay - FlorisBoard  Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Apr 15, 2023 • 27min

NPR Leaves Twitter and Farmers Can Fix Their Tractors

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise.Media! In this episode:  Twitter’s new feature will show ‘half ads’ to Blue subscribers NPR to Suspend Twitter Use After ‘Government-Funded’ Label Uber's CEO became an undercover boss in a used Tesla and was surprised by how rude some riders can be Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion AD BREAK This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting Don’t use public phone charging stations: FBI PortaPow USB data blocker Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s book instead of Bible Tech Rec: Sanjay - International Dark Sky Week  Adam - RedKetchup Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Apr 7, 2023 • 39min

The first AI lawsuit, how not to lead sensitive data to AI, and the sonar glasses we all need

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Principal Sends $100,000 of School Funds to Fake Elon Musk, Claims She Was 'Groomed' ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim Levi’s use of AI models to increase diversity incites backlash Universities express doubt over tool to detect AI-powered plagiarism Microsoft adds Bing AI chat to SwiftKey keyboard for Android Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT   AD BREAK Netflix appears to be working to bring games to TV with the iPhone as a controller How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India Researchers built sonar glasses that track facial movements for silent communication Hackers Can Remotely Open Smart Garage Doors Across the World Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death A scam so clever, that YouTube jumps in to warn all of its users Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” Weird and Wacky:  Texas dad says glitch in ‘Find My iPhone’ app directs angry strangers at his home Tech Rec: Adam - Human Values Test Sanjay - Google Flights  Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Mar 31, 2023 • 40min

Amazon’s massive (surprise) network, Twitter’s feed debacle, and AI’s dominance

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions Judge Rules Against Internet Archive on Controlled Digital Lending | Authors Alliance  TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10 Ad Break Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence Levi's Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality IFTTT now has AI-powered automations for paying subscribers Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Here's why Apple released a new iPhone app for classical music only Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan 4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year Weird and Wacky:  Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball Wikipedia’s new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced Tech Rec: Sanjay - Bitwarden Adam - PromptPal Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Mar 24, 2023 • 35min

Bing, Bard, and the AI in between

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Bing AI Chat versus Google Bard: A first look Meta's paid verification program goes live in the US Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon Duolingo is working on a music app Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI Adddddd Time Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion) | Insid... Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous Weird and Wacky:  Elon Musk Sets Poop Emoji as an Autoreply to Twitter’s Press Email Tech Rec: Adam - VistaSocial Sanjay - New York Times Daily Mini Crossword Puzzle  Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Mar 18, 2023 • 36min

Dumping on the internet

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone Meta winds down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook Microsoft Teams will let you transform into a 3D avatar in May Researchers shrink camera to the size of a grain of salt It Sure Seems Like Amazon Is Making a New Web Browser Ad Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile UK data center startup offers to heat Britain's swimming pools with waste heat DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits Ember is in the baby bottle business now TSA Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Unnecessary Pat-Downs Weird and Wacky:  Should we automate the CEO? Researchers think alien civilizations might be creating black holes to store quantum data Meet the Man Spending 100 Days Underwater for Science Match Group’s CEO says he spent $50K in three months on Clash of Clans Tech Rec: Sanjay - Dumb Password Rules  Adam - Future Tools  Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Mar 10, 2023 • 45min

Let’s keep Skynet busy creating art

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps Grammarly adding ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece 'Most disturbing website on Internet' can find every single picture that exists of you Using A.I. to Detect Breast Cancer That Doctors Miss Ad Break Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off Amazon is shutting down eight cashierless Go stores New ‘Dashboard’ Allows Travelers to See Which Airlines Seat Families Together U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations The privacy loophole in your doorbell Weird and Wacky:  Why some travelers fly across the world without leaving the airport Tech Rec: Adam - StoryBrand BrandScript Sanjay - TabFS  Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Mar 3, 2023 • 38min

Your phone premise is bunk

Intro  Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Robot window washers are here to clean our skyscrapers Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone Chinese startup Realme launches $649 smartphone it says can be fully charged in just over 9 minutes UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas For Directly Regulating The Internet, Service Providers U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs and thousands of charging stations Break From backyard trick shots to a $100m theme park - The Hustle LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022 Space community considers launching Moon timezone OpenAI will let developers build ChatGPT into their apps Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things' Weird and Wacky:  Teacher Charged After Crypto Mining Operation Discovered in School Crawl Space Tech Rec: Sanjay - Time Buddy - Clock & Converter Adam - Recipe Calculator Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Feb 24, 2023 • 44min

Twitter, where to go to find out what Elon is doing

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode:  Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month Instagram's co-founders' personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan BREAK City of Atlanta embraces AI to improve customer service More than 200 books in Amazon's bookstore have ChatGPT listed as an author or coauthor Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket — Spotify Snoop Dogg Brings Death Row Music Catalog to TikTok Conner Price New Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computers a Huge Step Closer Your Google docs are about to look a little bit different Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch GM Patents Self-Cleaning Touch Screen That Erases Fingerprints Weird and Wacky:  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! Airless Basketball Prototype This iPhone just sold for a record-breaking $63,000 at auction Tech Rec: Adam - McCheapest  Sanjay - Every Noise Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message
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Feb 16, 2023 • 29min

More twitter = more Elon

In this episode:  Microsoft Cuts Jobs in HoloLens, Surface, Xbox as Layoffs Continue IRS builds out task force to explore running its own free e-file system Spotify's latest feature lets users exclude playlists from impacting recommendations Tesla's biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD AD BREAK Tesla will open some of its charging stations to other electric cars Elon Musk wanted more Elon Musk on Twitter so Twitter is now all Elon Musk AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work. Dutch host first summit on 'responsible' use of AI in the military I'm Hating It: McDonald's AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks Tech Rec: Sanjay - Artifact Adam - Color wheel - color theory and calculator | Canva Colors Tech Talk Y’all is a production of Edgewise.Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message

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