Jul 17th 2024
This Week in Google 777
Victim of Affluence
AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- 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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Links
- AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach | TechCrunch
- AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign - Bloomberg
- Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks – Krebs on Security
- 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 : ScienceAlert
- EU accuses Elon Musk’s X of deceptive practices over blue ‘checkmark’
- Mercedes-Benz’s 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks - The Verge
- FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over ‘Right To Repair’ Violations | Techdirt
- 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 - The Washington Post
- 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