Jul 3rd 2024
This Week in Google 775
Chocolate Creme Filled Donuts for the Soul
SCOTUS Decisions, Meta's Oversight Board, llama.ttf
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Cathy Gellis
- In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says ‘Try Again’ – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
- In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That’s Largely Good News
- Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media
- Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas
- What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
- Threads turns 1
- Meta’s Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.
- Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board
- The White House will host a conference for social media creators
- Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
- llama.ttf
- Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76
- Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
- Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened
- Perplexity’s grand theft AI
- Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
- MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
- Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI
- Tim Wu Is Out Of Control
- Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature
- Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
- This week's news on human cells
- 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate
- Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen
- the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram
- Calculus Advice Poem
- The Material
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Links
- In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says ‘Try Again’ – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections
- In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That’s Largely Good News
- Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media - The Verge
- Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas
- What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more - The Verge
- Meta’s Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. - The Washington Post
- Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board
- The White House will host a conference for social media creators | TechCrunch
- Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers | Ars Technica
- Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76
- Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web | Windows Central
- Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened | Tom's Hardware
- Perplexity’s grand theft AI - The Verge
- Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
- MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
- Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI
- Tim Wu Is Out Of Control
- Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature
- Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
- This week's news on human cells
- 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate
- Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen
- the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram
- Calculus Advice Poem
- The Material