Sep 3rd 2023
This Week in Tech 943
You’re the Xenu I Want
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Adult site verification, right to repair vs Scientology, NFT hype
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
- Thousands stuck in mud at Burning Man festival
- Australia and Texas overturn laws requiring age verification for adult websites
- Right to repair advocates score victory in California with Apple now supporting it
- NFT sales and prices plummeting showing the downfall of the once-hyped digital assets
- Twitter to lift ban on political ads ahead of 2024 election
- Social media companies failing to curb Russian propaganda says EU report
- Arkansas law requiring parental consent for minors' social media accounts blocked by judge
- Congress working on protecting minors on social media but raises privacy concerns
- Barbie film leaks online ahead of official release showing persistence of piracy
- NFL, NBA, UFC want faster DMCA takedowns to combat live streaming of games
- Gannett admits AI-written local sports stories were "hilariously terrible"
- Department of Defense launches website for tracking UFOs/UAPs
- Georgia election interference trial for Trump to be livestreamed on YouTube
- Google killing Pixel Pass after just 22 months despite promise of ongoing new phones
- Microsoft retiring WordPad after 28 years
- Cruise self-driving cars causing problems by blocking emergency vehicles in San Francisco
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Links
- Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns | Australia news | The Guardian
- Apple details reasons to abandon CSAM-scanning tool, more controversy ensues
- Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU - BBC News
- X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban | TechCrunch
- Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists
- The NFL, NBA, and UFC want to rewrite the laws for fast DMCA takedowns
- Trump's Georgia election interference trial will be livestreamed on YouTube
- The Department of Defense Launches the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website > U.S. Department of Defense > Release
- Gannett Stops Using AI To Write Articles For Now Because They Were Hilariously Terrible
- Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance and Patient Later Died, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says - The New York Times
- Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
- Pixel Pass: Why it might have been discontinued