TWiT 930: Can You Smell What Tim is Cooking? - WWDC preview, AI scientist statement, virtual kidnapping

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 191 minutes

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WWDC preview, AI scientist statement, virtual kidnapping

Microsoft Build 2023 - Panos Panay Keynote.
Why AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out.
AI Makes Mistakes But Could It Destroy Us?
A Chatbot Was Designed to Help Prevent Eating Disorders. Then It Gave Dieting Tips.
Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More.
Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $499.99.
Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor.
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro.
Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?
Deceptive.design: What are deceptive patterns?
How I Nearly Fell for a Frightening 'Virtual Kidnapping' Scam.
Quick Guide to Virtual Kidnapping.
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working.
Amazon to pay more than $30 million to settle FTC privacy complaints over Alexa and Ring.
Intel to add AI engine to all 14th-gen Meteor Lake SoCs.
Amazon is discontinuing Alexa's celebrity voices, even if you paid for them.
Will There Be Any Successors to 'Succession'?

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Guests: Christina Warren, Dan Gillmor, and Larry Magid

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0:00.0	It's time for Tret, this week at Tech.
0:02.0	What a great panel we have for you.
0:04.0	Christina Warren's here, film girl from Get Humb.
0:07.0	We also have Dan Gilmore from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU.
0:11.0	And from Connect, safely Larry Maggett.
0:14.0	Larry Maggett is going to tell the terrifying story of how he very nearly got scammed
0:18.0	by a virtual kidnapping scheme.
0:20.0	I'll also show you what to do to avoid.
0:22.0	That then we're going to talk about Apple's big reveal tomorrow.
0:26.0	Are you ready for a VR nerd helmet?
0:29.0	Maybe, maybe not.
0:31.0	Also, AI, of course, in the news.
0:33.0	And we talk about that press release this week from AI scientists and leaders saying
0:39.0	it's an extinction event. Watch out!
0:41.0	Why would they do that?
0:43.0	It's all coming up next. Untweet.
0:47.0	Podcasts You Love.
0:49.0	From People You Trust.
0:51.0	This is Tret.
0:59.0	This is Tret. This week in Tech.
1:03.0	Episode 930.
1:05.0	Recorded Sunday, June 4th, 2023.
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