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Daily Tech News Show

Stargate AI-1 - DTNS 4738

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft and OpenAI are jointly working on a data center featuring an AI supercomputer named “Stargate”. Plus what’s the current status on that legislative bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or block its use in the US? And a backdoor was found in a widely-used compression program called XZ Utils for Linux and Unix-style OSs by Microsoft developer named Andres Freund.


Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.


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0:00.0

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0:37.0

Thanks to all of you including Chris Zaragoza, Jim Hart, Logan Larson, Mikhail Soder, Devon Delaney, and MZT928.

0:47.0

On this episode of DTNS, a supply chain attack against open source unsettles things.

0:52.0

What happened to that U.S.

0:53.5

Tic-Toc ban, turns out still on,

0:55.0

and why Microsoft is footing the bill for open AI

0:58.0

to build the most expensive data center ever.

1:01.0

Not in April 4th. ever. I'm Tom Merritt. From Deep in the Heart of Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young.

1:14.6

And the show's producer, Roger Chang.

1:17.2

Today, of course, is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Gmail.

1:22.1

Happy 20th birthday Gmail, April 1st, 2004. I got my Gmail address.

1:29.7

Did you do it? Yeah. Yeah. Oh no, those invites were a hot commodity for a minute.

1:35.0

They were tough to get.

1:35.8

One of the first big, you know, invite first traps on the internet.

1:41.0

The Gmail Invite economy. on the internet

1:45.0

email invite economy. True.

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