TNW 297: cDc's Encryption Solution - Subsea Cables, Inflation Reduction Act, IBM & NASA

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Cult of the Dead Cow has developed new encryption technology that would allow messaging and social networking apps not to hold users' personal data. Joseph Menn of The Washington Post stops by the show to discuss this new technology.
Did you know that 500+ cables are running across our ocean floor that can carry 400 terabits of data per second? Neither did we. Stephen Shankland of CNET joins the show to talk about these cables that run across our ocean floors.
Jason Howell talks about how the IRS is allowing taxpayers to file every major tax form online thanks to President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
Finally, Mikah Sargent shares how IBM and NASA have teamed up to "build the GPT of Earth sciences" to monitor deforestation, predict possible crop yields, and monitor greenhouse emissions.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Joseph Menn and Stephen Shankland

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, it's me, Jason Howell, and I speak with Joseph Men from
0:04.1	the Washington Post about the CDC. No, not the Center for Disease Control. We're talking
0:09.2	about the cult of the dead cow in their encryption scheme from next week's Defcon.
0:14.0	And I'm Michael Sargent, and I speak to CNET's Stephen Shankland about his
0:17.7	incredibly in-depth and yes pun intended piece about the sub-sea cables that are the backbone
0:23.7	of the internet. That's a fascinating interview you have to check it out. Also, the IRS,
0:29.6	getting more digital than before, and Micah's not convinced. I'm not convinced. I get a little salty,
0:36.8	but we route things out with a cool story about IBM and NASA teaming up to build what amounts to
0:42.8	like NASA GPT for Earth sciences. Plus, we talk about how we would like to see more of AI being used
0:52.4	in these kinds of fields, these hard sciences. It's all that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
0:59.6	This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought to you by the AWS Insiders Podcast. Search for
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2:01.8	all devices as an individual user at bitwarden.com slash twit. Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly,
2:09.5	the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news,
2:14.2	I am one of your hosts, Mike Sargent. And on the other guy, Jason, how come out calling from
2:20.0	my house? You might hear a little squeaking in the background. That's because I got a brand new
2:24.8	puppy a couple of days ago. And this is the only day that I couldn't figure out like for my wife
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