Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down

• Discussion of the iPhone 16
• Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
• Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
• Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
• Bluesky tops 10 million users
• Newsom signs California bill to limit 'addictive' social media feeds for kids
• The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley
• Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI
• Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law
• Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
• Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Alex Lindsay, and Rob Pegoraro

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iPhone Event, $700 PS5, AI in AU

• Of course: Everything Apple announced at the iPhone 16 event
• VR vs AR
• Taylor Swift endorses Harris/Walz, mentions AI imagery pushed her to be public
• No, Kamala Harris wasn't wearing earing headphones, and those things barely even exist
• PS5 Pro is real and crazy expensive at $700
• Meta admits to scraping every Australian's account to train its AI, with no opt out
• Australia's PM wants to ban social media for kids, potentially those between 14-16
• What is AI best at now? Improving products you already own
• Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully complete the first private spacewalk
• 'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
• Flappy Bird vs Flappy Bird creator
• Microsoft wants to remove low-level access
• Mark Zuckerberg is done apologizing
• Prius sets 93MPG Coast-Coast Record
• Italian Retro Video Game Pirates!
• Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a lot of fun!
• Hot Ones coming to Netflix?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Anthony Ha

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Starlink Backtracks, AI Royalty Heist

• The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink
• Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator
• Elon Musk and the rise of supranational oligarchs
• Telegram quietly updates website to allow abuse reports following founder's arrest
• The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
• FBI busts musician's elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
• PwC tells employees it will use location data to police 'back-to-office' rule
• Apple's planned chatbot should have no 'personality'
• The Electric Vehicle Future Is Coming. Just a Little More Slowly.
• Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
• Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

Host: Iain Thomson

Guests: Mike Elgan and Emily Dreibelbis

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