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Weekend Edition 1: Facebook Ready For Midterms?
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Weekend Edition 2 – Need a Burner Phone? & More
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Weekend Edition 3: Instagram Fined, Google Gears Up & More
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Weekend Edition 4: Microsoft Screws up Security, Quantum Internet is Coming, and More…
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Weekend Edition 5: Ungodly Surveillance, Musk & Twitter and More
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Weekend Edition 6: Meta Is Shrinking? Newsome Overreaches Again, and More
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Weekend Edition 7: Will He, Won’t He? AI Bill of Rights? And More…
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Weekend Edition 8: Musk Investigated By SEC, Chip Ban Working the Way It was Supposed to? And More
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Weekend Edition 9: Ebola’s Back? Here we go with the Midterm Health Scare… and More.
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Weekend Edition 10: Big Tech In Big $$$ Trouble
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Weekend Edition 11: No More Big Data + TikTok Ban and More...
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Weekend Edition 12 – Big Tech Go Down the Hole and More!
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Weekend Edition 13 – Big Tech, Crypto, FDA Issues, AI, and More
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Weekend Edition 14 – China Declares Victory, Meta Passes the Buck, and More
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Weekend Edition 15: Elon Plays God, Zuck Whines About Apple, and More
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Weekend Edition 16 – TSMC + Bidan in Arizona, Apple Privacy Woes, and More
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Weekend Edition 17 – SBF Arrested, Bad Twitter Influencers, Congress Looks to Ban TikTok, and More.
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Weekend Edition 18 – Wow, It’s Legal Now... Lol What Hath Been Wrought Over the Holidays?
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Weekend Edition 20: ChatGPT Goes to School, Trump Back on Social Media & More
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Weekend Edition 19: Crypto, AI, FAA, and Social Media Roundup
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Weekend Edition 21: Barely Legal... lol like Google
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Weekend Edition 22 – Lots More Big Tech Financial News and More...
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Weekend Edition 23 – The AI Wars Are Beginning Now, and More...
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Weekend Edition 24 – From AI to Revivals, It’s been a Helluva Week
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Weekend Edition 25: Revival & AI This Week... #smh
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Weekend Edition 26: Tiktok Ban Coming in US?
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Weekend Edition 27: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
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Weekend Edition 28: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
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Weekend Edition 29: All Sorts of AI News, Financial Follow-up & More
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WE 31: Violence, Banks, and AI, Oh My!
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Weekend Edition 30: AI News and Moore
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Weekend Edition 32: Bob Lee, Twitter Drama & AI for the Week
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Weekend Edition 33: Elon, AI, Digital Hygiene Tips, and More
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Weekend Edition 34: Holmes, Amazon, Elon, and Social Media, Oh My!
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Weekend Edition 35: Bob Lee Killer Pleads Not Guilty, Air Travel & 5G, and More
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Weekend Edition 36
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Weekend Edition 37: Holmes, Google, and AI News
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Weekend Edition 38
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Weekend Edition 39
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Weekend Edition 40
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Weekend Edition 41 - AI Bonanza
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Weekend Edition 42: No More Social Media Collusion?
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Weekend Edition 43
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Weekend Edition 44: AI Actually Stupid?
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Weekend Edition 45 - AI, MS, SBF
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Weekend Edition 46
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Weekend Edition 47: Fishing For Trump, Phishing, and AI Is Stupid ps 2
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Weekend Edition 48: Black Hat 2023+
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Weekend Edition 49: Malware, Autistic Hackers, AI, and More Big Tech Nonsense
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Weekend Edition 50: Trojan Apps, Teams Now Separate in EU, NVIDIA News, AI, and Tesla Nonsense
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Weekend Edition 51: Privacy, on the Rocks
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Weekend Edition 52: AI Hype, Arm IPO, Security, Etc
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Weekend Edition 53: AI All the Things & More
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Weekend Edition 54: More AI Shenanigans, Elon World, and Internet for All?
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Weekend Edition 55: Security, Elonworld, SBF Trial, and More...
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Weekend Edition 56: Cyber Security, AI, Google Anti-trust News, and Misc
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Weekend Edition 57: Whoa! Cyber Security, AI, and Tit-for-Tat from the CCP
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Weekend Edition 61
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Weekend Edition 60: All Manner of Things
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Weekend Edition 59: Now It's Microsoft's Turn...
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WE 58 - Let's Roast Facebook
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Weekend Edition 44: AI Actually Stupid?

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Weekend Edition 44

WE 1 – Apple Troubles
1-1 – TSMC AZ Plant Pushes 5 NM fab production back
· Apple partnered with them to produce their US-made M-series and A-series chips
· US gets further from made in America i-devices
· Why?
· Education rant
· Homelessness rant
· Corruption rant
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/20/tsmc-delays-start-of-arizona-chip-factory-that-will-build-apple-chips.html

1-2 – UK Online Safety Bill Has Tech Companies On Edge
· Bill would force encrypted messaging apps to install a back door for UK authorities
· Why?
· Who?
· What do they threaten if it passes?
· Smoke? Fire?
· On principle, I agree with their stand
· What is E2E encryption?
· We’ll see who blinks, here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081

2 – More News on Microsoft-Activision Merger
· Deadline extended 3 months
· Restructured deal
· UK CMA fast tracking process
· Etymological rants
· Government
· entertainment
· Balance rant
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/19/microsoft-activision-agree-to-extend-deal-deadline-to-oct-18.html

3 – Ripple Expects More Use By US Banks Soon
· On-Demand Liquidity product
· Cross-border transactions
· SWIFT aging, slow, possibly corrupt
· XRP instant, cheap, secure from tampering
· Depending on demand, Ripple Labs may file as a security
· If it grows into what they hope, the sky is the limit for the token valuation, from where I sit
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/17/ripple-hopes-judge-ruling-in-sec-case-will-lead-to-us-banks-using-xrp.html

4-1 - Nick Clegg, of Meta, calls “AI Quite Stupid”
· Clegg is the VP of Global Affairs at the tech giant
· Said things that I’ve been saying about these Large Language Models
· Meta to open source Llama 2
· I know what I’ve said about open source projects...
· Still don’t trust it if Meta will be prime beneficiary of development work
· Meta partnered with MS Azure cloud for hosting
· Yikes
· Regulatory concerns
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66238004

4-2 – Investing Bubble for AI?
· CEO of StabilityAI (maker of Stable Diffusion)
· Thinks that the investment craze has just begun
· Foresees the largest bubble in history
· Thinks that wise companies will do well
· Sees companies which misuse the tech being punished on the stock market
· I think it is too early to make all of these pronouncements
· Matt’s AI reminders
· It’s a tool
· Keep it in perspective
· Nothing mission-critical
· Check its work
· Privacy concerns
· Microsoft/Meta & Llama 2: yikes
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/17/ai-will-be-the-biggest-bubble-of-all-time-stability-ai-ceo.html

4-3 – British Computer Society Open Letter About AI
· 1300 experts and business people signed this one
· Counterweight to doom & gloom
· Still hype-y
· Doesn’t see dire threat
· Generally AI will benefit us if developed responsibly and regulated well
· ChatGPT “Like an overly knowledgeable and very excitable 12 year old”
· See privacy and intellectual property issues
· Is care necessary?
· Is this a hair-on-fire moment?
· How much do you use these tools?
· How much do you trust them?
· What about the hype in either direction?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66218709

https://techfreedom.pro/2023/07/21/weekend-edition-44-ai-actually-stupid/

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