• YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video
• Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition
• Citizen pruners
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
• Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
• LLMs don't do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
• Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout
• October Pixel Drop: Helpful enhancements for your devices
• Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments
• Google Shopping's getting a big transformation
• The latest Gboard beta lets you switch between Roboto and Google Sans fonts
• Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
• Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
• TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
• The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites
• Joe Trippi starts a social network: sezus
• Short-selling company goes after Roblox to profit
• Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China
• Defector: Year 4 in review
• Doritos to open first restaurant
• AI - generated restaurant via Taylor Lorenz

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them
• Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unmasked: Will HBO reveal who really made the cryptocurrency?
• How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
• OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
• Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI Who Expressed Alarm Over the Technology, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics
• Paris Megalopolis review
• The Wordpress saga
• Justice Department weighs fixes for Google search monopoly
• Google's response
• U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store
• Why Caroline Calloway Is Staying Put in Sarasota for Hurricane Milton
• When Cell Service Is Down, You Can Send iPhone Texts via Satellite
• A Google Doc of 2024 Events
• Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
• First a statue. Now Zuck designs a minivan for his wife.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• OpenAI Is A Bad Business
• Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?
• Taylor Lorenz, Chronicler of Digital Culture, Will Start Own Newsletter
• Twitter's value in freefall: Fidelity cuts estimate by whopping 79%
• Masnick: Gavin Newsom Vetoes Terrible AI Bill 1047, But Brace For Something Worse
• Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

Guest: Ed Zitron

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• Stanley Is Releasing Collectible Tumblers Every Day This Week to Honor Different Decades of Barbie
• EssilorLuxottica extends smart glasses partnership with Meta
• Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into 'god mode' with latest AI post
• AI conversation about Jeff's book
• The Paris show
• Exclusive: Meta's AI chatbot to start speaking in the voices of Judi Dench, John Cena, others, source says
• Google TV adds several more free channels including The Bob Ross Channel
• YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
• Google's passkey syncing makes it easier to move on from passwords
• New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
• Google Photos is getting a redesigned video editor
• Google's Gemini AI might soon appear in your corporate Workspace
• Google Earth AI eliminates clouds
• Ahead of Gemini coming to Google Buds, Hey Google & Voice Match Settings Change on Headphones
• Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough
• Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because 'Generative AI Has Polluted the Data'
• Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
• Marques Brownlee says 'I hear you' after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
• Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for trespassing
• McDonald's touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened
• Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
• Introducing HP Print AI, Industry's First Intelligent Print Experiences
• The 90s Executive Yes Man
• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Google Wins Fight to Scrap $1.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Ads
• Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers, sources say
• Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes
• Age verification AI for teen users...?
• House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback
• The Battle to Ban Screens From School Now Includes Chromebooks and Tablets
• Trump Rolls Out His New Cryptocurrency Business
• How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator
• Ex-MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy After Taking Plea Deal
• Inside Elon Musk's Mushrooming Security Apparatus
• Elizabeth McCafferty was offered £6,000 for images of her bare feet after they appeared on a fetish website without her consent.
• The 'feral 25-year-olds' making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok
• Apple's new iOS 18 upgrade doesn't fix the 'green bubble' problems
• Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats
• Why OpenAI is Hiding its Reasoning Model's 'Thoughts'
• Calif. Gov. Newsom Says He's Worried About AI Bill
• Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line
• Can AI Really Replace Salesforce and Workday?
• Mr. Beast's playbook
• Google Photos now lets you flip your photos and videos horizontally
• Google Chrome getting one-tap notification unsubscribe, starting on Pixel
• YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google's AI video model
• Google Photos is getting a new 'Ultra HDR' editing option
• Finally!! Google Slides adds multi-monitor support for presentations
• Chromebook acting weird? Try Google's new ChromeOS 'Sanitize' tool – a lighter, friendlier fix than the full-wipe 'Powerwash' feature
• The Office in Oz
• Ig Nobels
• The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
• Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Guest: Molly White

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• "Right to Repair for Your Body": The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
• The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
• Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
• AI and transportation
• WayMo safety data
• What Kermit the Frog Showed Me About AI
• Kermit post
• There's a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren't we using it?
• Stacey asked the FTC to help with bricked IoT devices
• Android Digital Wellness
• NotebookLM's new "Audio Overview" turns your notes into a mini podcast
• Mapping ships sunk in WW2
• Leviton Humidity Sensor Switch

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Mikah Sargent, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
• Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders
• Telegram Founder Pavel Durov's Indictment Thrusts Encryption Into the Spotlight
• Elon Musk, Tesla (TSLA) Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin 'Pyramid Scheme'
• America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
• Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla — and they might tow it
• NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools
• Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp
• AI's impact on elections is being overblown
• AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient
• Anil Dash: How Oprah will screw up the AI story
• The winners of Michigan's 2024 "I voted" sticker contest
• Diggnation 2.0
• Android Has Five New Features Out Today
• Google Removing Poor-Quality Android Apps From Play Store to Boost Engagement
• Google Clock rolling out new Timer Starter widget
• Google renames TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT, TensorFlow brand remains
• YouTube debuts new parental controls aimed at teens
• The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes
• Carbonara in a can? Chefs get shirty but Heinz is unrepentant

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
• TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules
• Chick-Fil-A Hatches Plans For Streaming Service
• Also: New York's Largest Hospital System Is Setting Its Sights on the Entertainment Business
• RE Fast Co new town story" The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
• How activists derailed Big Tech billionaire's dream city in California
• Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case
• Google Keep rolling out AI-powered 'Help me create a list' on Android
• Pixel 9 demo
• Google Wallet now works for California driver's licenses
• Google TV has added a few more new free channels
• Google Chat adds support for IFTTT integrations
• Google finally lets you record phone call audio in the US, but only on the Pixel 9
• Google Pixel 9 launches 'Adaptive Touch,' improves screen sensitivity while wet, etc
• 'Megalopolis' Cuts Ties With Marketing Consultant Behind Trailer Debacle; Fabricated Critic Quotes Were Generated By AI
• OpenAI Shows 'Strawberry' AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop 'Orion'
• Printful for hats
• wyze birdfeeder
• The Unbearable Slowness of Being

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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