TNW 339: Tackling Disinformation With 'Prebunking' - Google Search Documents, /e/OS, OpenAI & Siri
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Can you debunk misinformation before it gets out to the public? A massive leak of Google's search algorithm made its way online. What is the /e/OS mobile operating system? And OpenAI is working with Apple to train Siri, and it is making Microsoft concerned about their relationship.
- Will Oremus from The Washington Post joins Mikah Sargent to talk about misinformation and the practice of 'prebunking' as a way to educate voters in upcoming elections so that they are as informed as possible when casting their votes.
- Mikah talks about a recent leak of Google's search algorithm and the company's acknowledgement of the leak.
- Senior Writer Scott Gilbertson of Wired stops by the show to discuss /e/OS and its differences from the stock Google Android operating system.
- Finally, Mikah talks about OpenAI helping Apple fix its digital assistant, Siri, and how that working relationship is making Microsoft very concerned.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Will Oremus and Scott Gilbertson
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Will Oramus of the Washington Post stops by to talk about rebunking, |
| 0:07.2 | a term that means looking at the potential for election miss and disinformation and trying to get ahead of it by |
| 0:15.5 | telling people about what could be out there and describing why it's inaccurate. |
| 0:21.2 | Afterwards I have my first of two stories of the week. |
| 0:25.6 | It's all about how Google has confirmed a huge trove of data about how its search optimization works and what we can glean |
| 0:38.8 | from it. Afterwards Scott Gilbertson of Wired stops by to talk about EOS, an open source operating system that's all about beaten the goo. |
| 0:50.0 | So let's get Google out of our operating system and keep things clean. |
| 0:55.0 | Finally we round things out with open AIs, reported deal with Apple, |
| 1:00.0 | and how it has Microsoft, honestly a little bit worried. |
| 1:04.0 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:07.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:10.0 | From people you trust. |
| 1:12.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, with me, Micah Sergeant, episode 339, recorded Thursday, May 30, 2024, tackling disinformation |
| 1:27.7 | with rebunking. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:34.4 | making and breaking the Tech News. |
| 1:36.5 | I am your host, Micah Sergeant, and given that it is a rare, a fifth Thursday of the month, that means I'm flying solo today, folks. And joining us for the first |
| 1:48.1 | interview of the day is Will Oramus of the Washington Post here to talk about |
| 1:54.0 | rebunking an interesting word that I can't wait to get into. |
| 1:58.0 | Welcome back to the show, Will. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
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