License to Spill
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (Krebs on Security)
Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, back...
Duty of Careful What You Wish For
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation (BBC News)
Australia’s social media ...
No Child Left Online
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
What is in the EU's planned KIDS Act? (Reuters)
Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable an...
Some Assembly Required
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
Trump dismisses concerns about AI risks at UN, says he won't rein it in (PBS News)
A.I. Gone Rogue? Trump Proposes Not New Ru...
Going to the Ballot Bot
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In this week’s episode, Ben is joined by Katie Harbath, Meta’s former director of public policy for global elections and now founder of technology policy firm Anchor Chan...
Like Herding Chats
In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
The Official Sonic Discord Server’s Launch Went About As Poorly As You’d Expect (Kotaku)
Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse (Search Engine)
They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok (Prospect)
Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ad...
Anthropic doesn't trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
My guest today is Mike Masnick, the founder and CEO of Techdirt, the excellent and long-running tech policy blog. Mike has been writing about government overreach, privacy in the digital age, and other related topics for decades now, and he’s an expert on how the internet and the surveillance sta...
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Meta’s Threads, Mastodon, and X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying th...
Recode Decode: CDA 230
Recode's Kara Swisher convenes a panel of experts to talk about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: cybersecurity law professor Jeff Kosseff, author of "The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet"; lawyer Carrie Goldberg, author of "Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Perv...
No Good Feed Goes Unpunished
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In this week’s episode, Mike is joined by Mike McCue, founder and CEO of Flipboard, and a long term Silicon Valley exec and entrepreneur. Together, they discuss:
Reddit ...
