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Is Muse the AI agent we’ve been waiting for? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Taylor Lorenz (User Mag), and Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) unpack the U.S.-China AI race and why America’s obsession with AI doom may not translate abroad. Then, they weigh in on Meta’s buzzy new produc ... Show More

What if the computers of the future are alive? Scientists are growing tiny clusters of human cells called brain organoids, connecting them to electrodes, and training them to perform basic computing tasks. Does anyone remember Pong? Journalist and musician Claire L. Evans joins O ... Show More

Why did a former Anthropic employee’s X post saying AI could kill us all get 170 million views while previous warnings didn’t break through? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Taylor Lorenz (User Mag), and Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) try to make sense of why AI safety talking poin ... Show More

0:00 TECH NEWS FLOWING UNDERGROUND 0:11 HDMI 2.1 may not be 2.1 1:13 Log4j vulnerability threatens the net 2:22 Toyota locks feature behind subscription 3:14 Build Redux 3:49 QUICK BITS 3:56 Apple helps Android users not get tracked 4:29 Mercedes-Benz beats Te ... Show More

0:00 Reddit crashes during API protest 1:44 GTA Online cars paywalled 3:03 Amazon locks user out of devices 4:11 Brilliant 4:39 QUICK BITS 4:45 Comcast fights Broadband Facts labels 5:23 Google Shopping AI-powered try on 5:56 Trucking company recruits Truck Si ... Show More

The big tech outage caused by a single software update that even my mom is texting me about. The new mini AI models are bring prices down as we hoped. How Netflix completely righted its ship. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Miro.com The Next Wave Podc ... Show More

0:00 some new vocab 0:11 Xbox Game Pass hurts game sales 1:29 Samsung “fixes” 990 Pro SSD 2:33 Amazon takes 50 percent cut 3:34 iFixit 4:14 QUICK BITS 4:31 Deepfake scams are here 5:18 Internet Explorer disabled 5:58 New TikTok creator fund 6:38 Blue Origin makes solar panels fro ... Show More

0:00 wOW. IinSPiring 0:13 Windows 11 Ryzen issue LIVES 1:07 Roblox outage 1:59 Tesla sharing superchargers 2:46 Honey 3:15 QUICK BITS 3:19 Apple car crash detection 3:38 Caselabs: Resurrection 4:00 Project Kuiper launch date 4:37 Hexus + Bit-tech quittin ... Show More

0:00 Tech News from another multiverse 0:12 Intel pre-binned CPU? 1:16 El Salvador crypto crisis 2:17 LG gaming laptop 3:11 Pebblehost 3:45 QUICK BITS 3:49 Amazon phone ban 4:16 Malaysia punishes pirates 4:46 YouTube TV + Disney make up  5:24 Xbox dev ki ... Show More

0:00 day ruined 0:09 RTX 4080 12GB Un-launched 1:21 Netflix ad-supported tier 2:24 Samsung, Google partnership 3:17 Jackery Solar Generator 1000 Pro 3:53 QUICK BITS 4:02 Office is now Microsoft 365 4:40 Steam Deck Docking Station issues 5:19 Brazil fines Appl ... Show More

0:00 tech news will sleep when it's dead! 0:07 Youtube copyright report 1:10 Google repair service hacks Pixel 2:05 Bitmart hacked 2:42 Build Redux 3:15 QUICK BITS 3:20 Meta to drop Oculus brand 3:44 Xbox App performance check 4:07 Twitter reverses suspende ... Show More

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ChatGPT and Meta face widespread outages. Trump advisors explore splitting NSA and CyberCom leadership roles. A critical vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 has been disclosed. “AuthQuake” allowed attackers to bypass Microsoft MFA protections. Researchers identify Nova, a sophistica ... Show More