TWiT 988: Flaming Corn Maze - AT&T Breach, Galaxy Z Fold6, Olympic Disinfo
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
- Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
- FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
- AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
- EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
- After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
- AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market
- Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
- U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans
- Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics
- My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better
- Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?
- Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
- FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mike Elgan, Denise Howell, and Harry McCracken
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. Great panel for you. Denise Howell is here. Mike Elgin, Harry McCracken. |
| 0:06.0 | It's kind of like a classic Twit from the good old days. We'll talk about the FTC. |
| 0:11.0 | Taking a couple of actions, banning a social media app, or at least finding |
| 0:16.6 | them, and ordering some well-known tech companies to change their warranty rules. |
| 0:23.0 | Elon Musk is in trouble with the EU what's new. |
| 0:27.0 | And finally, spell check comes to a very important Windows program. |
| 0:33.6 | All that coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:36.2 | Podcasts you love, from people you trust. |
| 0:42.3 | This is Twit. love from people you trust. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:45.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:52.0 | This week in Tech, episode 988, recorded Sunday, July 14, 2024, Flaming Corn Maze. |
| 1:09.0 | It's time for Twit this week at Tech, the show we cover the week's Tech News |
| 1:11.0 | with a panel of brilliant stunning good-looking |
| 1:15.8 | fascinating people like the technologizer himself Harry McCracken |
| 1:20.5 | from Fast Company hello Harry hi Leo nice to see you in studio. Good to be here, Sniff. Well, it might be the |
| 1:28.7 | last time you're in studio. I feel sad about that. No, no. |
| 1:34.0 | And so we've been mentioning the fact that we're probably going to close the studio in the next couple of weeks. |
| 1:38.0 | Everybody's going to be doing their thing at home. |
| 1:40.0 | We found a technology, I think that's going to let us do the same quality of shows. |
| 1:44.7 | We're going to use continue to Zoom ISO as we do now with E-Cam switching. |
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