This Week in Tech (Audio)

Aug 13, 2023

TWiT 940: Chia Fresca - Black Hat, DEF CON, AI Bill of Rights, BlueJeans, Zoom AI disclosure, Snoopers' Charter

Black Hat, DEFCON, AI Bill of Rights, BlueJeans, Zoom AI disclosure, Snoopers' Charter * Oppenheimer and IMAX. * AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype. * Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. * The Feds showed up in force at Black Hat. * The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide . * America's original hacking supergroup creates a free framework to improve app security. * Electoral Commission apologises for security breach involving UK voters' data. * AI 'red teams' race to find bias and harms in chatbots like ChatGPT. * New 'Downfall' Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips. * An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy to Bypass. * Maui Wildfire Relief Fund. * Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy. * CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes. * Zoom AI tools trained using some customer data, updated terms say. * From $40 billion to 'going concern' — WeWork warns of possible bankruptcy. * I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires). * BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor, is shutting down. * Curiosity Rover Finds 'Striking' Evidence of Habitable Seasons on Mars. * Norway fines Meta 1M crowns per day over behavioural ads feud. * E.U. slaps Meta with record $1.3 billion fine for data privacy violations. * Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers. * Rhoda Karpatkin, Who Led Consumer Reports for Decades, Dies at 93. * MrBeast Facing $100 Million Lawsuit After Dissing Own Burgers. * Travis Kalanick expands 'dark kitchens' venture across Latin America. * Crypto's Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Christina Warren, Iain Thomson, and Rob Pegoraro Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: * Miro.com/podcast * cs.co/twit

2 hr 31 min