• 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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• Epic judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store monopoly
• Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
• OpenAI signs multi-year content partnership with Condé Nast
• Deal in california
• xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
• Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel
• The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews
• Palantir's Alex Karp Talks About War, AI and America's Future
• Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit (And How Can It)?
• Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
• 2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster
• Google went public 20 years ago—what your $1000 investment would be worth today
• Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming's capital city
• More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November's election. The campaigns have been wary.
• Russia's AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says
• Gmail can turn 'rough notes' into a full draft with Gemini 'Polish'
• Google's Stunning New Android AI Feature Instantly Locks Phone Thieves Out
• I tried Google's Pixel Screenshots and it's everything I'd want an AI feature to be
• Early hands-on with Google Pixel 9's AI Call Notes reveals disappointing restrictions
• Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in popular Android apps
• Trap
• Where have all the Burners gone? Shops catering to Burning Man brace for slow season
• Inside the opulent world of six-figure kids birthday parties in Silicon Valley
• TikTok Parrot is 'attention hog' and smart as human toddler, owners say
• Paris 'n' pals need this

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• What Google rivals want after DOJ's antitrust trial win
• DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win
• Gemini Live is the best AI feature I've seen so far from Google
• 9 things to know about Pixel 9 cameras
• Jeff thread against incumbent media
• Google's Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot
• Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
• Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers
• An incredible life and career
• AI is a bad word to consumers
• Weekend Welcomes Two New Reporters: Josh Koehn and Paris Martineau
• Schmidt blames remote work for company's struggles
• 'Ultimate wife guy' or 'yikes'? Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife
• How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America's podcast boom
• Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo
• MSCHF: Our Cow Angus
• WCBS is no more
• Cable TV biz crumbles

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers
• Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
• Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM
• Don Lemon Sues Elon Musk Over Canceled X Deal - The New York Times
• Disney, Fox and Warner Sports Streamer Venu to Launch at $42.99/ Month
• Why I'm Joining The Bluesky Board To Support A Vision Of A More Open, Decentralized Internet
• Bloomberg's Risky, Embargo-Breaking Evan Gershkovich Scoop
• Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta's ban: study
• thecanadianpressnews.ca
• Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney'
• X officially kills its San Francisco HQ, will relocate to South Bay
• Google is set to supercharge Google Home with Gemini intelligence
• 'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
• AI dentist performs first procedure on human patient
• Without Zuckerberg money, limited private funding available for elections
• Neil Gorsuch Highlights Aaron Swartz As An Example Of Overreach In Criminal Law
• Amazon Pushes Fast Delivery Into Rural Areas in Challenge to Post Office
• tulip.computer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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• Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.
• Craig Newmark stops by
• Galaxy fold unboxing
• We know almost everything about the Google Pixel 9 series already
• A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money
• Friend in a box
• US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules
• The gymnastics world braces for an AI future
• NASA will shut down NASA TV on cable to focus on NASA+
• W3C Slams Google U-turn on Third-Party Cookie Removal
• Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act
• Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L
• Follow Ant's ZDNET stuff
• Scots brat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Craig Newmark

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