Episode
What's News?
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- Technology Pill
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- Apr 18, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 2494
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Summary
Join us this week as we discuss stories that have been in the news that we're still wondering about, obsessing about, and are as confused about as you are. Links * 2G phone networks are being shutdown; read the Rest of World story - PI's Low Cost Tech research - Listen to our podcast on connectivity and vertical mergers * Google anti-trust case and potential break up; read the Washington Post story - Google buy Wiz * Impact of USAID cuts; read the NY Times article - UK cuts - PI's work on aid funding surveillance ; more of PI's work ; even more PI work * Um-ing and Ah-ing; Read the Knowable Magazine story * Israel, data and AI: - AI targeting destruction; read the 972 story and the NPR story - Cellphone data for targeting - LLM tool collating surveillance data; read the Guardian story or the 972 story about this new LLM tool - Facial recognition; read the NY Times article about FRT - Read the BBC article about the US's last Afghanistan attack on an innocent man or find it in the NY Times * Outsourced memory; read The Verge article