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TWiT 984: Fifty-three Clicks - Bot Farms in Ukraine, LA Public Health Dept. Phished

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Ukranian Bot Farms, LA Public Health Dept. Phished

  • MS Recall and Apple AI
  • Congress grills Microsoft boss Brad Smith after 'cascade' of security errors
  • Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
  • Exclusive: MediaTek designs Arm-based chip for Microsoft's AI laptops
  • Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law
  • Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say
  • Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
  • Successful phishing attack at LA County Department of Public Health exposes PID of 200k + people
  • Bot Farm that attacked Ukrainian phones is shut down
  • Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call
  • Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
  • Talking about Mark Zuckerberg
  • The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
  • T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next
  • Games that the panel members are playing
  • Lynn Conway, a true pioneer, passes away at 86

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Devindra Hardawar, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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0:00.0

It's time for Twint this week at Tech, great panel for you and Gadgets to

0:03.4

Vinder Hardawar is here at Daniel Rabino from Windows Central and we

0:07.3

celebrate Father's Day with an actual father, Father Robert Palisir,

0:10.5

the Digital Jesuit Microsoft says what I don't recall

0:15.0

The Stanford Internet Observatory is being shut down for I think

0:21.0

shameful reasons how Apple found a path to Apple intelligence and the passing

0:28.0

of a true computer pioneer but a woman many of you have never heard of I know I hadn't it's all coming up next on

0:35.2

twit.

0:37.2

Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit.

0:44.0

This is Twit.

0:47.0

This is Twit.

0:51.0

This week in tech, episode 984, recorded Sunday, June 16, 2024.

0:58.0

53 clicks. It's time for Twit this week at Tech, the show we cover the weeks. Tech, it was a very busy busy week so we've brought in the heavy hitters

1:15.3

de Vindra Hardawar is back from Cupertino dressed in his what is that

1:22.1

see the close of my God, Kirby, Nintendo's Kirby.

1:25.0

My kids got me a Kirby shirt for a father's day.

1:28.0

I love it.

1:29.0

I love it.

1:30.0

I love it. So I remember when your first was born and you were a brand new father. How old it was five years ago? Five years. Wow.

1:39.0

Devinder of course senior editor of Engadgett, one of our favorite people so much so he's often

1:44.8

filling when I'm out of town. Thank you for being here.

1:47.6

We love having you on.

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