Feb 16th 2025
This Week in Tech 1019
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Leo Laporte
DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed
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- TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
- Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
- IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
- Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
- Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
- Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
- Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
- Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
- Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
- YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as “Primary Device” for Viewing
- Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’
- Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
- Google CEO Sees ‘Useful’ Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
- Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
- Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed
- Amazon’s revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
- Meta's Brain-to-Text AI
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- TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
- Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
- IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
- Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
- Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
- Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
- Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
- Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
- Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
- YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as “Primary Device” for Viewing
- Google Maps now shows the ‘Gulf of America’
- Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
- Google CEO Sees ‘Useful’ Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
- Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
- Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed
- Amazon’s revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
- Meta's Brain-to-Text AI