• TWiT 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed

  • Feb 17 2025
  • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
  • Podcast

TWiT 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed

  • Summary

    • TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
    • Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
    • IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
    • Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
    • Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
    • Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
    • Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
    • Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
    • Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
    • YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing
    • Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
    • Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
    • Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
    • Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
    • Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed
    • Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
    • Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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