TWiT 996: The Quiet Office Crackdown - Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Summary

Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator
Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs
Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder's arrest
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
FBI busts musician's elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
PwC tells employees it will use location data to police 'back-to-office' rule
Apple's planned chatbot should have no 'personality'
The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly.
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Host: Iain Thomson

Guests: Mike Elgan and Emily Dreibelbis

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0:00.0	Hello you're watching this week in tech with your contemporary host Ian
0:02.8	Thompson along with Mike Elgin digital nomad and technologist and Emily Dravelbus who
0:09.2	is the senior reporter of PC magazine and is an expert in AI and electric cars.
0:14.0	Not surprisingly, we're talking AI and electric cars,
0:17.0	but also the US Navy's security leaks with a Starlink satellite installed on a naval warship,
0:22.0	and also the latest ideas when it comes to
0:25.2	casual working should you be tracking your employees or not all to come
0:30.7	podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:35.0	This is Twit.
0:38.0	You're watching this week in tech episode 996 recorded on September the 8th
0:49.1	24 the Quiet Office Cracktown. Hello and welcome to the weekend tech.
0:54.0	Your chance to hear about the latest news from journalists up and
1:04.0	down the field and indeed up and down in different countries today.
1:07.0	My name is Ian Thompson, I'm a reporter with the Register standing in for Leo La Port, who is currently
1:11.7	out and about on his travels.
1:13.9	And we have an absolutely stellar lineup for you.
1:16.4	Coming from Senior Reporter on PC mag, I've got to make sure I get this right.
1:20.9	Emory Dry Bulbus? Perfect. Okay, fine. The only this right and really dry bulbous perfect okay fine only time we'll have to say it so
1:26.0	far so we don't want to get that one wrong now you're an electric car maven based
1:30.1	out of New York it's been a great beat to be on of the last couple of years I would have thought.
1:35.5	Yeah, it's a fun one obviously changing a lot and then I also do AI which...
1:40.3	Oh, you got up. Yeah, yeah. Yes, very busy. Yes.
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