Episode 283
Dumb tech bills, bankruptcy, and one tech company doing good
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In this episode:
- Senators unveil bipartisan legislation to ban kids under 13 from joining social media platforms
- BeReal says it has more than 20 million daily active users | Engadget
- New York’s MTA is abandoning bus and train alerts on Twitter
- Twitter's former CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter
- Apple and Google team up to stop unwanted AirTag tracking
- Google on why Authenticator sync isn’t E2E encrypted, but option coming later
- Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223M and goes all-in on the enterprise
- Earth.com files for bankruptcy, owing $5 million for domain name
- Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices. Here’s why that’s a big deal.
- AI Political Ads Are Here, and No One Knows How to Handle Them
- Canva AI can turn photos into a professional headshot
- AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
- Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla
Weird and Wacky:
Tech Rec:
- Sanjay - News Minimalist
- Adam - Dropbox Capture
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