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Thu. 12/14 – Threads Is Shipping Some Stuff!

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The gates have been opened for Europeans on Threads, and it looks like Meta’s serious about tying Threads into to Fediverse. I argue that the release of a new charging case for the AirPods Pro is kinda a big deal. Wait until you hear this wild story about hackers versus a train. And maybe ChatGPT DIDN’T turn students into cheaters afterall. Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast Links: Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub (TechCrunch) Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (The Verge) Apple now sells the AirPods Pro USB-C case by itself — for $99 (The Verge) Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on Meta’s Quest VR headsets (The Verge) Etsy Cuts 11% of Headcount as Competition From Shein and Temu Mounts (The Information) Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (404 Media) Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Thursday, December 14th,

0:06.8

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. The gates have been open for

0:10.2

Europeans on threads and it looks like Metas serious about tying threads into the

0:14.5

Fediverse. I argue that the release of a new charging case for the AirPods Pro is kind of a big deal.

0:20.4

Wait until you hear this wild story about hackers versus a train. And maybe

0:25.2

ChatGPT didn't turn students into cheaters after all. Here's what you missed

0:29.6

today in the world of tech. I said on my morning tic-talk video more about the

0:36.6

Tik-Toc experiment at the end of the show by the way I said that it feels like

0:41.4

the threads team at Meta is sort of in an end of the semester mode like

0:45.8

hurry let's get those exams taken and papers turned in so we can head home to mom and dad's house for

0:50.4

the holidays in other words they be shipping. First, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta is

0:56.2

testing making posts from Threads, accounts available on Mastodon and other services that

1:01.3

use the activity Pub protocol.

1:04.0

Quoting Tech Crunch.

1:05.2

Making threads interoperable will give people more choice

1:07.7

over how they interact and it will help content

1:10.0

reach more people.

1:11.1

I'm pretty optimistic about this," Zuckerberg said in a post.

1:14.0

While this is an important step for Threads to be part of the federated social network,

1:18.0

Zuckerberg didn't provide any details on how the integration might work just yet.

1:22.0

Hours after the announcement, multiple users reported they could details on how the integration might work just yet.

1:22.8

Hours after the announcement,

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