This Week in Tech (Video-HI)   /     Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed

Subtitle
DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed
Duration
2:44:13
Publishing date
2025-02-16 18:26
Link
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1019
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Shownotes

  • 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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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