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Weekend Edition 1: Facebook Ready For Midterms?
Weekend Edition 2 – Need a Burner Phone? & More
Weekend Edition 3: Instagram Fined, Google Gears Up & More
Weekend Edition 4: Microsoft Screws up Security, Quantum Internet is Coming, and More…
Weekend Edition 5: Ungodly Surveillance, Musk & Twitter and More
Weekend Edition 6: Meta Is Shrinking? Newsome Overreaches Again, and More
Weekend Edition 7: Will He, Won’t He? AI Bill of Rights? And More…
Weekend Edition 8: Musk Investigated By SEC, Chip Ban Working the Way It was Supposed to? And More
Weekend Edition 9: Ebola’s Back? Here we go with the Midterm Health Scare… and More.
Weekend Edition 10: Big Tech In Big $$$ Trouble
Weekend Edition 11: No More Big Data + TikTok Ban and More...
Weekend Edition 12 – Big Tech Go Down the Hole and More!
Weekend Edition 13 – Big Tech, Crypto, FDA Issues, AI, and More
Weekend Edition 14 – China Declares Victory, Meta Passes the Buck, and More
Weekend Edition 15: Elon Plays God, Zuck Whines About Apple, and More
Weekend Edition 16 – TSMC + Bidan in Arizona, Apple Privacy Woes, and More
Weekend Edition 17 – SBF Arrested, Bad Twitter Influencers, Congress Looks to Ban TikTok, and More.
Weekend Edition 18 – Wow, It’s Legal Now... Lol What Hath Been Wrought Over the Holidays?
Weekend Edition 20: ChatGPT Goes to School, Trump Back on Social Media & More
Weekend Edition 19: Crypto, AI, FAA, and Social Media Roundup
Weekend Edition 21: Barely Legal... lol like Google
Weekend Edition 22 – Lots More Big Tech Financial News and More...
Weekend Edition 23 – The AI Wars Are Beginning Now, and More...
Weekend Edition 24 – From AI to Revivals, It’s been a Helluva Week
Weekend Edition 25: Revival & AI This Week... #smh
Weekend Edition 26: Tiktok Ban Coming in US?
Weekend Edition 27: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
Weekend Edition 28: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
Weekend Edition 29: All Sorts of AI News, Financial Follow-up & More
WE 31: Violence, Banks, and AI, Oh My!
Weekend Edition 30: AI News and Moore
Weekend Edition 32: Bob Lee, Twitter Drama & AI for the Week
Weekend Edition 33: Elon, AI, Digital Hygiene Tips, and More
Weekend Edition 34: Holmes, Amazon, Elon, and Social Media, Oh My!
Weekend Edition 35: Bob Lee Killer Pleads Not Guilty, Air Travel & 5G, and More
Weekend Edition 36
Weekend Edition 37: Holmes, Google, and AI News
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Weekend Edition 39
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Weekend Edition 41 - AI Bonanza
Weekend Edition 42: No More Social Media Collusion?
Weekend Edition 43
Weekend Edition 44: AI Actually Stupid?
Weekend Edition 45 - AI, MS, SBF
Weekend Edition 46
Weekend Edition 47: Fishing For Trump, Phishing, and AI Is Stupid ps 2
Weekend Edition 48: Black Hat 2023+
Weekend Edition 49: Malware, Autistic Hackers, AI, and More Big Tech Nonsense
Weekend Edition 50: Trojan Apps, Teams Now Separate in EU, NVIDIA News, AI, and Tesla Nonsense
Weekend Edition 51: Privacy, on the Rocks
Weekend Edition 52: AI Hype, Arm IPO, Security, Etc
Weekend Edition 53: AI All the Things & More
Weekend Edition 54: More AI Shenanigans, Elon World, and Internet for All?
Weekend Edition 55: Security, Elonworld, SBF Trial, and More...
Weekend Edition 56: Cyber Security, AI, Google Anti-trust News, and Misc
Weekend Edition 57: Whoa! Cyber Security, AI, and Tit-for-Tat from the CCP
Weekend Edition 61
Weekend Edition 60: All Manner of Things
Weekend Edition 59: Now It's Microsoft's Turn...
WE 58 - Let's Roast Facebook
Weekend Edition 40
WE 1 - FTC v Amazon
· Bezos out of picture
· Amazon getting sued
· Dark Patterns
o Prevent users from leaving Prime
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ftc-amazon-tricked-millions-into-signing-up-for-prime-subscriptions
WE 2 - AST 4G Satellite
· First experiments with LEO solar powered 4G satellite
· Off-the-shelf cell phones
· Call from TX to Japan in April
· Data transferred to remote users in HI at 10 MBs
· Partnered with the Blue Devil (AT&T)
· Other carriers are working on these same things as well, so expect satellite cell phone service soon for rural areas
· What about latency?
· How much power does it take to make this happen? How intense do these radio waves have to be in order to xfer data like that from 310 mi up?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/asts-bluewalker-satellite-successfully-delivers-10mbps-download-speeds
WE 3 – AI News
3a – AI Battle Royale
· UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon University partnership
· Large Language Model Systems Organization (LLMSys Org)
· 10 students, 4 professors
· Head-to-head blind testing
· Elo rating system
· 40k users
· Best results are from GPT 4, by a small margin
· Generative AI issues
· Privacy (data and user)
· Content quality and incentives for humans to create better things
https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-bard-or-bing-40k-people-voted-for-the-best-generative-ai-model
3b – Need a Windows Key? Don’t ask AI...
· Duh
· Reasons
· May not work
· Illegal
· ChatGPT and Bing AI are owned by Microsoft...
· Use Linux instead.
https://www.techradar.com/news/dont-ask-chatgpt-or-google-bard-for-a-windows-11-key-heres-why
WE 4 – Google Whines about Competitors Doing What They Do
· FTC asked for comments on the cloud space
· Google Cloud submitted a letter
· Pointed fingers at both MS and Oracle for using similar business tactics
· See what THEY’RE doing!!!!!
· Makes me laugh
· Try a smaller provider
· Altha Tech
· FOSS where possible
· No lock-ins
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/google-accuses-microsoft-of-anticompetitive-practices-in-azure-cloud.html
WE 5 – Meta & Twitter News
WE 5a – Oversight Board Slaps Meta
· Didn’t censor pro-insurrectionist Brazilian video
· Pattern of behavior
· Too much free speech
· Potential damage to Leftist regimes around the world
· Not enough censorship from the US election in 2020
· Leftist drone
https://www.engadget.com/metas-oversight-board-says-the-companys-rules-are-slowly-changing-for-the-better-100059192.html
WE 5b – Cage Match?
· Meta working on Twitter alternative
· Elon mad
· Zuck jokes about cage match
· Elon takes him seriously (apparently)
· Not much else to say here other than that they got some free publicity here for the new project at Meta
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/22/musk-zuckerberg-cage-match-what-to-know-about-metas-twitter-clone.html
WE 5c – Twitter Making New Deal with Google
· Elon wasn’t paying cloud bills
· Wanted to move internal tools in-house to save money
· Yaccarino appointed
· Opens dialog with Google to smooth things over
· Starts making big deals
· No more migration deadline
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-paying-its-google-cloud-bill-again-213824844.html
WE 5d – Will Elon Continue to Blow Up the Dirty Blue Bird?
· Yaccarino
· glass cliff?
· Time will tell
· My opinion
https://www.techradar.com/computing/twitter/elon-continues-to-drag-twitter-through-the-mud-and-could-face-fines-as-a-result
Wrap up
FTC v Amazon
· FTC making big moves
· Will it mean anything ultimately? No Idea...
4G Satellites
· AST BlueWalker 3
· Partnered with AT&T
· 10 MB/s download speeds in areas (rural HI) where there has never been reliable service at all before
· Looking to implement mid-band 5G soon
· Soon to have competitors (Apple, T Mo, Starlink)
AI News
· GPT 4 is best LLM out there, but costs $20/mo
· Claude, by Anthropic came in 2nd and 3rd (wait listed)
· 40,000 people have used the chatbot battle site to establish ranking for the various LLMs
PSA: Don’t Use Chatbots to Pirate Windows, Use Linux Instead
· Piracy is illegal
· codes produced may not work at all, or may not work completely, or may stop working at some random time
· Just don’t do it.
· Use Linux
Big Tech Is Evil
· ALL Big Tech Cloud outfits try to lock you into their services once you sign up
· Google has been in hot water over this
· FTC asked for tips about others acting badly
· Google obliged, hoping to get MS and Oracle into trouble as well
· As an aside, MS has been scraping your passwords and can snoop on your encrypted OneDrive and SharePoint files. Get away from these services NOW.
· MS has been scraping data from plain files for somewhere close to 10 years now. Just Like Apple and Google. Shouldn’t surprise you in the least.
· Take a look at a smaller cloud provider who will respect your privacy and not lock you into their platform, like Altha Tech.
Meta & Twitter
· Meta in trouble again
· Not enough censoring
· Zuck v Musk
· Yaccarino & Google
· Yaccarino on a glass cliff?
It’s been a wild couple of weeks since my last Weekend Edition, hasn’t it? From the FTC going after Amazon for anti-consumer practices (duh), to satellite based cell phone service, to which AI chatbot is best, to not using chatbots to pirate operating systems, to a PSA about Google and Microsoft, to drama around social media companies.
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