This Week in Google with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Jul 17th 2024

This Week in Google 777

Victim of Affluence

AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms

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Category: News
  • AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach
  • AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign
  • Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
  • Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC
  • This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down
  • EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"’
  • Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
  • FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over ‘Right To Repair’ Violations
  • Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
  • Google in talks to buy Wiz
  • Google switches to selective indexing
  • Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)
  • Taboola to sell ads for Apple
  • The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok
  • Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app
  • OpenAI's AGI progress chart
  • Samsung’s new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge
  • Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more
  • YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing
  • Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
  • Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen
  • OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say
  • Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat
  • Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
  • Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud
  • Drone conquers Everest
  • The Planets Today

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