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Mar 2023
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About this episode
  • Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell
  • Red Team Blues
  • The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
  • Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
  • Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94
  • Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
  • Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and their impact on humanity
  • How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security
  • A TikTok ban would upend Hollywood
  • Introducing Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool
  • At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles - The New York Times
  • Part of Twitter Source Code Leaked
  • The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI
  • Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
  • The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
  • Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush
  • A 90-Year-Old Tortoise Named Mr. Pickles Is a New Dad of Three

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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