• Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
• Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
• Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
• Reflecting on 18 years at Google
• Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
• AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
• Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
• Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
• Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
• Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
• A new low in manels
• Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
• OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
• Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
• Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
• Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
• Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
• Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
• Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
• Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
• Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files

Picks of the week

• (Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run
• (Paris) Pentiment
• (Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
• (Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
• (Ant) City Nerd on YouTube
• (Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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• Adobe Flash Player Updater is (still) desperately trying to update
• Veracrypt password security
• Firefox moves to 120 with a bunch of very nice new features
• Do-Not-Track is back on track
• "ownCloud" -or- "PwnCloud" ?
• CrushFTP Critical Vulnerability
• Bypassing fingerprint authentication
• ApacheMQ
• TransUnion & Experian both hacked

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-950-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Ant Pruitt

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• From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week
• OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
• Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster
• Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'
• Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
• DeepMind releases new music model
• Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
• Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI
• Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand
• Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
• Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins
• Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone
• Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window
• Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta
• Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
• What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means
• MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute
• Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting

Picks:

• Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars
• Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl
• Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study
• Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15
• Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD
• Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful

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