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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 969: Chasing Shadows in the Digital Abyss - Doomed Apple Car, Chinese EVs, MWC Roundup

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

  • Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
  • Frame glasses
  • Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
  • Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
  • Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest'
  • Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget
  • South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
  • TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs
  • Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4
  • Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects
  • Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
  • Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze
  • Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles
  • Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Anthony Ha and Sam Abuelsamid

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0:00.0

It's time for Twint this week in Tech. We have a great panel for you. Anthony Ha. He's here. You may remember his byline from Tech Crunch. I certainly do. He's got his own podcast now. He writes for a lot of publications. Our car guy, Samabool Sam Samid is here. We'll talk about

0:14.8

Elon Musk. He's suing open AI saying, hey that's not what you said you'd be doing.

0:21.3

We'll also talk a little bit about cars. It seems like

0:24.6

apples getting out of the car business. Were they ever in it? And all the music is

0:29.8

leaving Tik-Tok. Where does that leave the musicians? where does that leave the talkers.

0:34.6

All that and more coming up next on Twitter.

0:37.0

Podcasts you love.

0:41.0

From people you trust.

0:44.0

This is Twit.

0:46.0

This is Twit. This week in tech, episode 969, recorded Sunday, March 3rd, 2024, chasing shadows in the digital abyss.

1:05.0

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1:16.0

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1:22.0

Why does everyone need a VPN? make you wish you'd protected yourself.

1:22.5

Why does everyone need a VPN?

1:24.5

Well, first of all, unfortunately,

1:26.4

it doesn't take much technical knowledge

1:28.3

to hack someone, just some cheap hardware.

1:32.0

And look, your data, data your privacy your information is

1:35.3

valuable hackers can make like a thousand dollars a person selling

1:39.7

personal info on the dark web so every time you connect to an unencrypted network whether it's a

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