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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, a show where we break down the week's

news in our typical cool-headed and nuanced fashion. We have a lot of news to break down on this

July 4th weekend. I'm joined as always by Ron John Roy. We're going to talk about the involving

internet. We're going to talk about this hack that Open AI experienced. And then, of course,

looking at the year of threads and whether it's what it means next to Twitter. So first,

let me bring in Ranjan. Ron John, welcome. It's good to see you, Alex. I'm currently in Taipei, Taiwan,

still at an Airbnb that is a converted massage parlor, of all things.

When we walked in, my wife, our family, and our cousins, you can see it's four rooms all kind of going all down one hall.

And it's very clear what it was. It's been totally refurbished and it's very nice but it's uh it's been an interesting week for me i think that's like a perfect lead into like what

we're going to talk about i think it is too i'll be honest for the life of me i couldn't understand

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