TWiT 917: Pwn Not Bone - AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry

Bing Chat has a secret 'Celebrity' mode to impersonate celebrities.
@emollick: Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.
CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.
Father Robert defines the Singularity.
LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach.
Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say.
Amazon Illegally Fired NYC Union Organizer, Labor Board Says.
50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World.
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer.
Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, software liability reform.
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state.
U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren

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0:00.0	It's time for Tret, this week in Tech.
0:02.5	Three great panelists this week,
0:04.0	Father Robert Balles here,
0:05.2	the digital Jesuit on the line from the Vatican City,
0:08.5	from Back East.
0:09.9	It's our own Lou M.M. host of this week
0:11.9	in Enterprise Tech.
0:12.8	Lou Moreska joins us and Dan Moore,
0:15.0	a novelist and Mac expert.
0:17.9	We will talk about AI.
0:19.8	I started the show thinking it was just a parlor trick.
0:22.6	Now I'm worried that the singularity is near.
0:25.5	We'll also talk about that Florida bill
0:27.1	that makes bloggers register before they write
0:29.6	about the governor, the last pass hack,
0:33.4	and the end of TikTok in the US.
0:35.8	It's all coming up next on Tret.
0:38.3	Thank you.
0:40.6	Podcasts you love.
0:42.5	From people you trust.
0:45.0	This is Tret.
0:46.7	Tret.
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