Tech News: Give Me Liberty And Give Me Tech

Who’s afraid of China’s open-source AI models? Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) breaks down the secret battle between Silicon Valley and Chinese AI labs, why Anthropic was surveilling China-based users, and whether "adversarial distillation" is a national security threat or jus ...  Show more

Did you love TechStuff’s last episode, 'The Tech That Helps You Live Forever', and want to hear more from Mangesh Hattikudur? Check out Episode 5 of the podcast Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever. In this season of Skyline Drive, Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss ...  Show more

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The FTC warns one country’s “online safety” may be another’s “censorship.” A new bipartisan bill aims to reduce barriers to federal cyber jobs. MURKY PANDA targets government, technology, academia, legal, and professional services in North America. MITRE updates their hardware we ...  Show more

Europe’s big new regulatory regime for big tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get their data. A ‘faraday fabric’ that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves. An intere ...  Show more

0:00 Think of your future 0:08 Intel GPU leaks 1:02 DuckDuckGo Desktop browser 1:57 Google Drive restricts sharing 2:45 Build Redux 3:18 QUICK BITS 3:23 Third AWS outage this month 3:51 Detect at-home tests 4:28 LG DualUp monitor 5:01 Honor Magic V folda ...  Show more