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OpenAI says training models without using copyrighted material is impossible, China’s Beijing Institute claims it can identify telephone numbers and email addresses of those sending and receiving AirDrop messages, and Samsung's quarter ending 2023 was much worse than analysts’ predictions... Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Wi-Fi Alliance goes ahead with WiFi 7, AMD announces new Ryzen 8000 chips, LG shows off transparent TV at CES. Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft’s Mice, Keyboards, and other PC accessories are coming back by way of a licensing deal with Incase, OpenAI’s GPT Store is launching next week, and 1.6 million Teslas have been recalled in China… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft adds a dedicated CoPilot Key to the Windows keyboard, Google has started testing removing cookies from users using Chrome, and Xerox lays off 15% of its workforce… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An Oklahoma teenager beats Tetris, open source voice cloning arrives and why you might want to log out of your Google account and change the password. Get show notes here . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Supreme Court of The United States Chief Justice John Roberts believes judicial work will significantly be impacted by A.I., Fidelity has marked down its X shares 71.5% since Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Even though Apple’s premium smartphone market share fell, overall premium smartphone market share was up... Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. Se...

Google settles a $5 billion lawsuit for tracking Chrome users using Incognito Mode, Microsoft’s DALL-E 3 powered Image Creator generates violent images, and X fails to convince a federal judge that California’s content moderation law violates its freedom of speech... Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple Watches Have Gone Back On Sale, Bill Gates believes AI will accelerate the rate of new discoveries at a pace we've never seen before, and Xiaomi unveiled its first electric vehicle… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The New Your Times is Suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright violations in the training of their generative AI models, a federal appeals court paused the ban on the Apple Watch, and Amazon Prime Video is adding commercials to content on January 29th. Link to Show Notes ... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mobile carrier Mint Mobile gets hacked exposing customer information, Apple Vision Pro mass shipments rumored to begin the first week of January, and Chevy Blazer EV sales are halted amid a slew of reported problems... Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Windows 10 EOL could generate over half a million tons of e-waste, Beeper gives up on trying to bring iMessage to Android, and Apple can’t fix or replace Apple Watches during the ITC ban... Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reuters reports that Tesla knowingly sells high failure rate parts to customers and lies to regulators about it, Warner Bros. Discover and Paramount discuss mergers, and a new bill in Great Britain could use facial recognition on driver’s license photos… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samsung expands its Self-Repair program, Sony PS5 sales show renewed strength, Rite Aid agrees to pause facial recognition program.  Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Xfinity suffered a massive data breach where nearly 36 million customers' personal information was exfiltrated, Google pays $700 million in fines and makes minor changes to the Google Play store to settle an antitrust lawsuit with all 50 states, and the EU has confirmed its first formal investigation looking into the practices of social media platform X... Link to Show Notes Support this show http...

A patent dispute buts the Series 9 and Ultra 2 on pause, Knoxville Tennessee gets 10 Gbps fiber service from the community, and an AI that can make smaller AIs without humans involved. Get show notes here . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Google changed the way Maps stores user data making it impossible for it to respond to geofence warrants, The FCC experimentally authorized Starlink to test its cellular Starlink service, and news publishers are worried AI could decimate traffic to their sites. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Intel releases its new chips for laptops, Google begins the end of third party cookies and Polish hackers keep the trains running. Get the show notes here . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Using brain cells with machine learning, Apple's new anti-theft plan for iPhones and OpenAI begins to pay more publishers. Get Show Notes here . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its anticompetitive practices case against Google, Ford is cutting weekly production of the F-150 Lightning in half, and the FTC warns against the growing use of QR Codes in scams… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TikTok and GoTo's Tokopedia partner to restore e-commerce offerings in Indonesia, Microsoft aligns with a labor workers federation over AI, researchers study mice brains when using VR.  Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23andMe changes its TOS days after a massive data breach making it harder to sue the company for negligence, Apple aims to build 50 million iPhones annually in India within the next 2 to 3 years, and days after its mass layoff, Spotify gets rid of its CFO. Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It doesn’t look like iMessage will receive Gatekeeper status under the EU’s Digital Markets App, Facebook Messenger now has end-to-end encryption on by default, and Disney’s One-App Experience which bundles Hulu and Disney+ in a single app is available in beta… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beeper brings Apple messages to Android just as Apple may get an exemption rom interoperability. And TikTok may relaunch its ship in Indonesia. Get show notes at this link . Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gmail gets a big AI-powered security update, 23andMe User data gets hacked, and Messenger and Instagram chat is being deprecated later this month… Link to Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A third round of layoffs hits Spotify this year, Commerce Secretary Raimondo says her department needs more money to stay ahead in the semiconductor race, is a partnership with Chase next for Apple? Show Notes Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.