TNW 316: No One's Taking Your Apple Watch - Xfinity Hack, Microsoft & Suni AI, Matter in 2023
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Xfinity was a victim of a recent hack that affected 36 million customers. Microsoft Copilot will allow you to generate music via Suno AI's integration. Did Matter deliver on its promise to help create a better, more connected smart home? And how much of that photo you're viewing online was altered using AI?
- Mikah shares two stories for the week. First, Comcast has reported that Xfinity has suffered a hack that affected 36 million Xfinity customers.
- Microsoft Copilot has a new integration through Suno AI that allows you to generate your own music. Listen to a possible new theme song for Tech News Weekly made through Suno AI.
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins the show to talk about the past year for smart homes and whether Matter lived up to its promise of helping to create a more connected smart home.
- Mark Gurman of Bloomberg stops by to talk about Apple's decision to stop the sale of its Series 9 & Ultra 2 watches in the US and what led to this decision.
- Finally, Stephen Shankland of CNET returns to talk about photos in the age of AI and how much of it is altered through AI.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Mark Gurman, and Stephen Shankland
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I start out the show with some stories of the week. |
| 0:04.1 | First, it's about an X-Finity breach. |
| 0:06.8 | Allegedly, 36 million X-Finity customers have had their data stolen and you might very well be one. |
| 0:15.0 | Then I talk about a new feature in Microsoft Co-Pilot that lets you auto-generate songs |
| 0:21.0 | and we auto-generate a song for the show. |
| 0:24.0 | Afterwards, Jennifer Patterson Toe of The Verge stops by |
| 0:28.0 | to give us a year review of the Smart Home |
| 0:31.0 | and what we can and shouldn't expect in the new year. |
| 0:37.0 | Mark Germin of Bloomberg gives us some of his time to talk about Apple watches and how you don't necessarily have to worry about the Apple watch |
| 0:45.9 | on your wrist being in play when it comes to this patent dispute but what you should be |
| 0:50.3 | worried about going forward and last but not least Stephen Shankland of |
| 0:54.8 | CNET joins us to talk about AI photos digital image manipulation and how you can |
| 1:02.3 | tell the difference between something that is, you know, lightly edited |
| 1:06.0 | versus something that has been generated wholly by AI. |
| 1:10.7 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:13.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:17.3 | From people you trust. |
| 1:18.9 | This is Twit. This is Twinked. |
| 1:32.4 | This is Tech News Weekly with Micah Sergeant, episode 316 recorded Thursday, December 21st, 2023. |
| 1:34.0 | No one's taking your Apple Watch. |
| 1:37.0 | Listeners of this program get an ad-free version if they're members of Club Twit, |
| 1:42.0 | $7 a month gives you ad-free versions of all of our shows, |
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