Wed. 10/18 – For Elon, The War On Bots Never Ends

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Elon has a fresh idea for fighting bots and maybe making some money. The IRS is finally moving ahead of cheap online tax filing. What are the odds Netflix can muscle its way into the gaming industry. And should I release this podcast in different languages? Sponsors: Earnin App Links: X will start charging new users in two countries $1 per year (The Verge) Xbox chief says Activision Blizzard games aren’t coming to Xbox Game Pass until 2024 (The Verge) IRS Will Offer Free (But Limited) Direct E-Filing Next Year (PCMag) Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document (Insider) Amazon says it has 10,000 Rivian electric vans in its delivery fleet (Reuters) ‘Wait, Netflix Has Games?’ Streaming Giant Plans New Videogames Based on Its Hit Shows (WSJ) Tongue Twisted: Adams Taps AI to Make City Robocalls in Languages He Doesn’t Speak (The City) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, October 18th,
0:07.1	23 I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.1	Elon has a fresh idea for fighting bots and maybe even making some money, the IRS is finally moving
0:15.3	ahead with free online tax filing. What are the odds Netflix can muscle its way into the
0:21.1	gaming industry? And should I release this
0:23.8	podcast in different languages? Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:27.2	tech.
0:30.2	X nay, Twitter, is apparently testing Not a Bot, a feature requiring new unverified users to sign
0:39.8	up for a $1 annual subscription just to be able to post and interact on X.
0:46.8	This is being trialed in New Zealand and the Philippines for now, quoting the verge.
0:52.0	The subscription part of a so-called not a bot program is beginning in those two countries
0:56.2	and is designed to quote bolster our already significant efforts to reduce spam manipulation of our platform and bot activity, X said Tuesday in an unsigned post on its
1:06.0	help center.
1:07.0	In addition, new web users in New Zealand and the Philippines will have to verify their
1:11.0	account with a phone number, the post says.
1:13.0	Fortune first reported that Musk was going to charge users $1 a year shortly before X's announcement
1:19.4	went live.
1:20.0	X's post doesn't explain why the new one dollar subscription is only for new users
1:24.8	joining via the web and not the mobile app or why not a bot is only being
1:29.8	rolled out in two countries. I guess would be that X has seen more bot activity from those
1:34.0	regions than others and that it's much easier to create a bunch of fake accounts
1:37.9	via the website. New users who opt out of subscribing will only be able to take read only actions such as
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