<ul> 
<li>A TikTok corner just for Stacey (h/t @cbryancan@twit.social)</li> 
<li>DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review</li> 
<li>Archive Team to Backup DPReview</li> 
<li>Stacey's AI Tweet</li> 
<li>The Age of AI has begun Bill Gates</li> 
<li>Leo Gets BARD</li> 
<li>Google Bard Sign-up</li> 
<li>Looking at New Midjourney</li> 
<li>ChatGPT Radio!</li> 
<li>Adobe Intro's Generative AI into Creative Cloud - Firefly</li> 
<li>Follow The Laportes on Vacation - Polarsteps</li> 
<li>Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead</li> 
<li>(2021) Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book war</li> 
<li>Google finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chipsets</li> 
<li>Google Workspace ambush and fix</li> 
<li>Support for Google Workspace #nocost</li> 
<li>Reid Hoffman wrote a book with GPT-4</li> 
<li>Stochastic Parrots Day video</li> 
<li>Bellingcat founder Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral.</li> 
<li>CEO on TikTok in DC</li> 
<li>Lawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear.</li> 
<li>Blackberry, the trailer</li> 
<li>Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming</li> 
<li>Google Kills Jacquard</li> 
<li>Stacey's Pick - Tapo TP-Link Matter Plug</li> 
<li>Leo's Pick - LoFi Air Traffic Control</li> 
<li>Jeff's Pick - The Vesuvius Challenge</li> 
<li>Ant's Pick - 50% Off an Annual Subscription to Particle Illusion by Boris FX (use code PIPLUGIN50)</li></ul> 
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Google BARD Rollout, TikTok Ban, Adobe Firefly

TWiG 708: That Ain't Cheesecake - Google BARD Rollout, TikTok Ban, Adobe Firefly

<ul> 
<li>OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.</li> 
<li>Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run.</li> 
<li>T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal.</li> 
<li>OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again).</li> 
<li>Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more.</li> 
<li>Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features.</li> 
<li>Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.</li> 
<li>Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly.</li> 
<li>The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Stochastic Parrots Day.</li> 
<li>Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.</li> 
<li>Carrot Weather gets a snarky ChatGPT update.</li> 
<li>Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action.</li> 
<li>Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why.</li> 
<li>TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech.</li> 
<li>Meta is working on a decentralized social app.</li> 
<li>Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment.</li> 
<li>Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT.</li> 
<li>Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition.</li> 
<li>YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games in preview for March Madness.</li> 
<li>Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free.</li> 
<li>Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes.</li> 
<li>March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 is now rolling out.</li> 
<li>Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help.</li> 
<li>Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.</li> 
<li>A Look Inside Elon Musk's $50,000 Prefab Tiny House.</li> 
<li>The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold or risk a nationwide ban.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Stacey - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Hardcover by Jenny Odell.</li> 
<li>Jeff - Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today, and I'm Going to Write About It.</li> 
<li>Jeff - Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis.</li> 
<li>Jeff - Here's Everything That Happened at the #BlackTwitterSummit.</li> 
<li>Jeff - The Color Printer.</li> 
<li>Mike - ChatPDF.</li></ul> 
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GPT-4, T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile, Biden's TikTok demand, Gowalla returns

TWiG 707: Heartlessness As a Service - GPT-4, T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile, Biden's TikTok demand, Gowalla returns

<ul> 
<li>Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?</li> 
<li>FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names.</li> 
<li>Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher.</li> 
<li>YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.</li> 
<li>Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle.</li> 
<li>'Slavery was wrong' and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore.</li> 
<li>Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10.</li> 
<li>Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.</li> 
<li>How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply.</li> 
<li>The privacy loophole in your doorbell.</li> 
<li>Rest of World receives a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers.</li> 
<li>Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit, which is a big mistake.</li> 
<li>Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor to register with the state.</li> 
<li>Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, and software liability reform.</li> 
<li>A New 'M*A*S*H' Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J.</li> 
<li>20% of YCombinator classes are built on machine learning.</li> 
<li>ChatGPT enters slack; the machine plays office politics.</li> 
<li>Prepare for the Textpocalypse by Matthew Kirschenbaum.</li> 
<li>Farewell to a tech brand of which I'll always be proud. Vox Media is "retiring the Recode branding" today.</li> 
<li>CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.</li> 
<li>March 2023 Pixel Feature Drop changelog leaks out.</li> 
<li>Google rolling out Android 14 Developer Preview 2.</li> 
<li>Blurry subway photos may offer our latest Pixel Fold leak.</li> 
<li>Here's everything new in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 [Gallery].</li> 
<li>Google begins rolling out its new look for Docs and other Workspace apps.</li> 
<li>Google One brings VPN to $1.99/month plan, adding dark web info monitoring.</li> 
<li>Pixel Buds Pro spatial audio with head tracking update rolling out.</li> 
<li>Android 15's dessert is apparently 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.</li> 
<li>Google launches the new Google Trends portal.</li> 
<li>Google Chrome is making it easier to delete autofill data.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Stacey - COVID</li> 
<li>Leo - Opal C1</li> 
<li>Leo - Camo</li> 
<li>Jeff - The New Gatekeepers by Benedict Evans.</li> 
<li>Ant - Peak Design TRAVEL BACKPACK 45L.</li> 
<li>Ant - FINALLY coming to "TV". Silo series based on books by Hugh Howey.</li></ul> 
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Facebook AI model leak,YouTube swearing rules, Google IO 2023

TWiG 706: What's This Dot Here? - Facebook AI model leak,YouTube swearing rules, Google IO 2023

<ul> 
<li>Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.</li> 
<li>U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.</li> 
<li>Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.</li> 
<li>All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.</li> 
<li>YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.</li> 
<li>Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.</li> 
<li>OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.</li> 
<li>Planning for AGI and beyond.</li> 
<li>You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.</li> 
<li>Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.</li> 
<li>Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.</li> 
<li>Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.</li> 
<li>YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.</li> 
<li>In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.</li> 
<li>Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.</li> 
<li>Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.</li> 
<li>Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.</li> 
<li>Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.</li> 
<li>Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.</li> 
<li>Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.</li> 
<li>Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.</li> 
<li>Chrome tweaked to improve memory use &amp; battery life on MacBook.</li> 
<li>Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.</li> 
<li>Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.</li> 
<li>Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.</li> 
<li>Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.</li> 
<li>Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Jason - Artifact for Android.</li> 
<li>Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.</li> 
<li>Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.</li> 
<li>Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon.</li></ul> 
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TikTok ban coming to the US? ChatGPT Windows 11 taskbar, Twitter job cuts

TWiG 705: I Was Merely Fluffing - TikTok ban coming to the US? ChatGPT Windows 11 taskbar, Twitter job cuts

<ul> 
<li>Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.</li> 
<li>Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral Arguments.</li> 
<li>Cathy's Amicus brief.</li> 
<li>Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit Claiming Twitter Aided Terrorists.</li> 
<li>What happened to the K9YO pico balloon? Shot down by an F-22 Raptor.</li> 
<li>The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn...</li> 
<li>Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight.</li> 
<li>YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.</li> 
<li>NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops.</li> 
<li>Mark Zuckerberg - Good morning and new product...</li> 
<li>Inside Meta's Push to Solve the Noisy Office.</li> 
<li>Google Reassessing Timeline for Massive San Jose Campus.</li> 
<li>German government banned from operating Facebook page.</li> 
<li>Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions.</li> 
<li>Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles.</li> 
<li>Subway planning EV charging oasis. Now if it were Taco Bell...</li> 
<li>Google Messages is finally just calling it 'RCS'.</li> 
<li>Google's long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March.</li> 
<li>ChromeOS 110 rolling out: Super Resolution Audio, Select-to-speak, channels labels, more.</li> 
<li>Acer Chromebook 516 GE.</li> 
<li>Google Weather gets an accidental dark theme via the Android System Webview update.</li> 
<li>Google Chrome rolls out Memory and Energy Saver modes.</li></ul> 
Picks:<ul> 
<li>Cathy - Montalbano.</li> 
<li>Jeff - AI.com now takes you to ChatGpt.</li> 
<li>Jeff - Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it.</li> 
<li>Ant - Borix FX Particle Illusion Updated.</li> 
<li>Ant - Hagibis USB-C Hub with Hard Drive Enclosure.</li></ul> 
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Section 230 in the Supreme Court, Google from the inside, Meta "verified"

TWiG 704: Ensconced in Felt - Section 230 in the Supreme Court, Google from the inside, Meta "verified"

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