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TWiT 973: The Inverted Goldilocks Zone - Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

  • 20 years of Gmail
  • Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
  • An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
  • EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
  • Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
  • Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times
  • The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
  • Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project
  • Phison Announces Strategic Partnerships Deploying aiDAPTIV+ at NVIDIA GTC 2024
  • Microsoft says this single key is the difference between an AI PC and just a PC with AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Allyn Malventano, Daniel Rubino, and Doc Rock

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0:00.0

It's time for Twit this week in deck. Oh, I love this panel. I always say that, but it's true.

0:05.0

Alan Malventano is here former host of our this week in computer hardware program.

0:09.6

He is of course now the king of SSDs at Phaison also here Doc Rock the king of video

0:16.7

and from Aloha Hawaii and then joining us from Worcester Massachusetts it's It's Daniel Rubino from the Windows Central website.

0:26.3

He's the editor-in-chief over there. We will talk about Windows and Microsoft and the

0:30.3

AI PC. Microsoft made a big deal about that.

0:33.6

A little utility that many computers have that turns out

0:37.6

to have been infested by malware

0:40.2

and has caused kind of a crisis in the supply chain.

0:43.4

I'll explain what you can do to protect yourself against it.

0:46.8

We're also going to talk about new PCs, new

0:51.0

AR glasses. Daniel's got a pick he really likes and Alan is going to explain

0:58.0

H.B.C.L. and NPUs. I think I got that right this time. It's all coming up next on

1:06.2

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1:12.2

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1:13.0

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1:19.0

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1:45.4

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