TWiT 987: Often Plagiarized, Never Equalled - Sapce Junk, Threads Hits 175M Users, AIndependence

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea
Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports
Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
Perplexity's grand theft AI
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure
NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
The White House will host a conference for social media creators
Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch
Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

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Guests: Paris Martineau, Allyn Malventano, and Larry Magid

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in Tech. We have a nice panel today.
0:04.0	Paris Martineau is slumming from this week in Google.
0:08.0	Also here Larry Maggot from ConnectSafly.
0:10.0	Our favorite Submariner Nuclear Expert and SSD whiz Alan Malventano.
0:16.0	We'll talk about social media and its impact on the young Microsoft's continuing problems with their exchange server and the White House's
0:27.4	conference for social media creators. Why weren't we invited? All that and a lot
0:32.2	more coming up next on Twitter.
0:37.2	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:41.5	This is Twit. This is Twit.
0:45.0	This is Twit.
0:50.0	This week in Tech, episode 987, recorded Sunday, July 7, 2024.
0:57.0	Often plagiarized, never equals. It's time for Twint this week at Tech, the show we cover the week's Tech news, of which
1:10.9	there's precious little, Fortunately, we have an excellent panel who can
1:16.2	fill in the next two hours of your life. Paris Martineau has a lot of expertise with
1:21.0	that on this week in Google, our Wednesday show. She also writes for the
1:24.8	information and is a very always a very welcome member of our team. You started on Twit and
1:30.4	then we brought you to Twig. I was about to say every time I'm here it's full circle. Yeah yeah we
1:36.8	thought oh she's so good we should put her on a much worse show and and
1:41.2	it's not worse I know it's not worse. I know. It's
1:44.9	baby. It's little twit. Yeah.
1:47.3	Yeah.
1:48.3	It's silly. I don't know. I'd say the average age is probably higher.
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