{"podcast":{"title":"Technology Pill","slug":"technology-pill-560921","podcast_index_feed_id":560921,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/3448418/3448418-1610538873523-a8397ebe0012e.jpg","author":"Privacy International","episode_count":104,"summary":"Find out how technology is reshaping our lives every day and explore the new powers of governments and companies.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T00:17:47.008339+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921"},"episode":{"title":"What's News?","slug":"what-s-news","published_at":"2025-04-18T11:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/what-s-news","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill/episodes/Whats-News-e31dr41","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/152674c8/podcast/play/101165633/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-11%2F398238914-44100-2-84dced05297fd.m4a","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","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2494,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/technology-pill-560921/episodes/what-s-news/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921/what-s-news.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}