Tom Merritt digs into what's driving the opposition to data centers in the US, and what you need to know to make your own decision about them.

Featuring Tom Merritt.

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Meta opens up its display glasses to third parties and Xreal now sells gaming-oriented specs but is it too late? Also, Huyen teaches us how to turn off Instagram “Instants.”

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Insta360 is bringing serious nostalgic vibes with a special edition Go 3S Retro Bundle that is cheaper than the previous model, and the Big 3 US carriers are banding together to improve satellite connectivity throughout the country.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao

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Amazon renames its shopping assistant to Alexa and adds new features. Plus two brothers who wiped out 90 US government databases after being fired.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Instructure reached an agreement to pay attackers of its Canvas portal so students can get back to work, and Thinking Machines announced a research preview of a more natural conversation flow called Interaction Models.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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Reddit is testing annoying users with an unskippable pop-up. Meanwhile, Google researchers find an LLM-generated bug and warn that there are more to come.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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And thousands of schools facing ransomware as finals loom, but Airpods might get Siri’s Visual Intelligence.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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Andy Beach tells us why streaming platforms should be more wary of slop fraud, plus Google’s new fitness tracker erodes the Fitbit brand more, and why Anthropic bought all of SpaceX’s data center capacity.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.

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