Fri. 7/20 - New Tesla is a "Rainbow-Farting S...

Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. SpaceX bought spectrum to take on carriers, and Apple lined up a second October event. AI researcher Mikita Bal ...  Show more

Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5, Google unveiled a universal Gemini agent, and Microsoft opened Surface Laptop Ultra preorders. A theo ...  Show more

The US Commerce Department announces a clampdown on TikTok and WeChat, to begin Sunday. An overview of the Grayfly and Blackfly units of APT41. Maze begins delivering payloads inside a VM. A ransomware attack on a Düsseldorf hospital is implicated in the death of a patient. Googl ...  Show more

Jefferson Graham runs down the top tech headlines for the weekend edition of Talking Tech, 10/20-10/21, highlighted by Amazon, Snap, Inc. and Mastercard. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ...  Show more

In the wake of all those protests, police scanner apps are red hot, Uber says rides are down 70% and Snapchat bans Trump. Your tech headlines for Wednesday, 6/3/20.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se ...  Show more

0:00 some new vocab 0:11 Xbox Game Pass hurts game sales 1:29 Samsung “fixes” 990 Pro SSD 2:33 Amazon takes 50 percent cut 3:34 iFixit 4:14 QUICK BITS 4:31 Deepfake scams are here 5:18 Internet Explorer disabled 5:58 New TikTok creator fund 6:38 Blue Origin makes solar panels fro ...  Show more