Mar 2nd 2025
This Week in Tech 1021
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Hosted by
Leo Laporte
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- Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
- Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
- An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
- Google’s co-founder tells AI staff to stop “building nanny products
- ‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
- Skype is shutting down after two decades
- Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
- House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
- Apple to build iCloud backdoor
- Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple ‘back door’
- “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
- Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
- YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
- ‘The Brutalist’ Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
- Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
- An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
- All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
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Links
- Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
- Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
- An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational “LLM Siri” won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
- Google’s co-founder tells AI staff to stop “building nanny products
- ‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
- Skype is shutting down after two decades | CNN Business
- Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
- House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor - 9to5Mac
- “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
- Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
- YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
- ‘The Brutalist’ Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
- All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
- An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
- Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland