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Linus Media Group
A thrice-weekly news show about tech + gaming culture
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Nov 16, 2023 • 10min
Nothing Chats, Microsoft Ignite 2023, FBI vs teen hackers + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 good morning!
0:07 Nothing Chats - iMessage on Android!
1:34 Microsoft Ignite '23 - more Copilots
3:24 FBI vs teen hackers
5:09 War Thunder
5:41 QUICK BITS
5:47 Meta wants age gates on app stores
6:29 DOJ investigating fake plane parts
7:16 Google sues DMCA fraudsters
8:01 AI faces perceived as more real than real
8:38 Rivian bricks its own trucks
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/8mzli
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Nov 14, 2023 • 9min
iPhone Sideloading, 8GB M3 tests, Intel APO + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 always ready
0:13 Apple preps to add iOS sideloading
1:41 M3 Macbook Pro 8GB is bad
3:02 Why can't Intel APO work on old chips?
4:11 GCore Cloud
4:48 QUICK BITS INTRO
4:54 Nvidia announces H200
5:31 lots of melted RTX 4090s still
6:09 Australian ports re-open after cyberattack
6:37 SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs hardware bad
7:07 Cybertruckers can't sell within first year
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/Crxfz
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Nov 11, 2023 • 9min
Humane AI Pin, OpenAI gets DDoSed, Healthcare by Amazon, + More!
Timestamps:
0:00 THI0:08S IS NOT A DRILL
0:08 Humane AI pin launch
2:04 OpenAI claims it was DDoS'd
3:14 Amazon now offers healthcare
4:17 DeleteMe
5:10 QUICK BITS INTRO
5:15 Judge dismisses car privacy suit
5:47 Omegle is dead
6:21 Google's "Project Hug"
6:58 Snapdragon Satellite is dead
7:32 NASA launches streaming service
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/P21va
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Nov 9, 2023 • 11min
Google adblock plans, FTC gets a win, MyQ garage door openers + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 tumnus
0:14 Google's adblock plans and AI stans
2:10 FTC gets a win in case vs data broker
3:36 MyQ garage door opener scandal
4:59 Grammarly
5:51 QUICK BITS INTRO
6:06 M3 Macs with outdated macOS
6:52 RTX 40 Supers to launch at CES?
7:38 Waze gets crash history alerts
8:18 Nanowire networks form 'artificial brain'
8:53 Apply for 5,000 jobs with AI
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/MCD9n
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Nov 7, 2023 • 11min
Elon’s Grok chatbot, OpenAI DevDay, Epic v. Google begins + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 you think riley took compsci?
0:09 Elon Musk's xAI announces Grok chatbot
2:01 OpenAI announces "GPTs" at DevDay
3:42 Epic Games v. Google antitrust trial begins
5:05 Paperlike cleaning kit
5:44 QUICK BITS
6:01 Intel "1st Gen Core" CPUs leak
6:57 MediaTek Dimensity 9300 uses all big cores
7:47 Xbox and Inworld partner for AI NPCs
8:34 Western Digital splits flash, HDD business
9:12 Bored Apes gets eye damage at Apefest
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/492lq
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Nov 4, 2023 • 10min
Google Sponsored Ad Block Con, AMD’s Zen 4c Cores, Apple M3 Benchmarks, + More!
Timestamps:
0:00 Riley tries to ad lib
0:11 YouTube's ad-block-block succeeding,
1:43 AMD's Zen 4c cores in budget laptop APUs
3:00 Early Apple M3 benchmarks impress
4:34 GL.iNet
5:10 QUICK BITS INTRO
5:22 Intel GPU Driver give MASSIVE uplifts
6:14 Digital Foundry investigates purported Switch 2 processor
7:20 Max subs getting ripped off
7:57 SBF found guilty, name puns galore
8:33 Lenovo's tablet-focused "fashion"
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/xFvRY
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Nov 2, 2023 • 8min
Apple M3 Macs, AI-generated polls, Social Media hearing + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 pencils down!
0:05 Apple M3 Pro, Max have ray tracing + more
1:50 Microsoft's AI-generated news polls
2:56 Supreme Court hearing on social media
4:02 The Ridge Wallet
4:34 QUICK BITS
4:42 YouTube blocking ad blockers harder
5:17 EU blocks Meta from targeted advertising
5:51 Google readies devs for RISC-V, .ing domains
6:29 Windows CE loses support, 3.3GB install
6:67 'Mega Beast' electric school bus
News Sources: https://lmg.gg/HU3qw
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Oct 31, 2023 • 9min
RTX 4080 Super, Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks, Instagram subscription + more!
Timestamps:
0:00 Apple is insulting us
0:14 RTX 4080 Super leaks
1:40 Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks
3:06 EU gets Facebook, Instagram subscriptions
4:12 Volcanica Coffee
4:47 QUICK BITS INTRO
4:55 ChatGPT chats with PDFs
5:35 iFixit provides official Surface parts
6:04 Executive Order on AI Safety
6:45 Google promises to fix Android 14 storage bug
7:17 Google turns earbuds into heart rate monitors
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Oct 28, 2023 • 8min
Google’s Apple payments, Alan Wake 2 GPU issues, WD + Kioxia merger + more!
Discussion on Google's payments to Apple as the default search engine, Alan Wake 2's GPU issues, and the blocked WD-Kioxia merger. Also, updates on iOS 17.1 release, Snapdragon X OEMs, Google's image sourcing, Ford's delivery drones, and Flipper Zero's Bluetooth alerts.

Oct 26, 2023 • 10min
Arm Desktop CPUs, RTX 40 Super series, 41 states sue Meta + more!
The podcast features guests who work on Snapdragon X Elite mobile processors, designing Arm CPUs for desktops, upcoming RTX 40 Super series GPUs, and the legal action against Meta. They discuss ARM-based processors, potential competition with Apple, challenges on Windows, rumors of new NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, social media addiction lawsuit against Meta, regulations for social media companies, Reddit's threat to block web crawlers, Apple backing right to repair bill, Okta's hacking incident, driverless taxi suspension, and an open-source tool for AI trickery.