EdTechSR Ep 331 CrowdStrike Crisis Impact

Podcast from July 24, 2024

Check out our Episode 331 from July 24, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date (Meta; 23 July 2024)

2. Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings (VentureBeat; 19 July 2024)

3. Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (Open AI Blog; 27 June 2024)

4. Record labels sue AI music generators Suno and Udio alleging “unimaginable scales” of copyright infringement (MusicTech, 24 June 2024)

5. Eureka Labs

6. 3 things parents and students told us about how generative AI can support learning (Google Blog; 18 July 2024)

7. [VIDEO] The real reasons Apple won’t put macOS on the iPad (The Verge via YouTube; 24 July 2024)

8. CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5 million Windows machines (THe Verge; 24 July 2024)

9. But… The worst internet outage still hasn’t happened yet (Vox; 24 July 2024)

10. The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV (Wired 17 July 2024) - Paywall free version

11. Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media (Verge, 2 Jul 2024)

12. The FBI got into the Trump rally shooter’s phone in just 40 minutes (Verge, 19 Jul 2024)

13. Jason’s Geek of the Week: https://localsend.org/

14. Wes’ Geek of the Week: Debugging Javascript with Claude and Wes on Spoutible

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature (TechCrunch; 23 July 2024)

2. Microsoft’s new AI system ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity (Venture Beat 15 July 2024)

3. Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side (THe Verge; 24 July 2024)

4. Google Researchers Publish Paper About How Ai Is Ruining The Internet (The Byte; 4 July 2024)

5. Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income (Vox; 22 July 2024)

6. Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless (The Markup; 17 July 2024)

7. It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works (404 Media, 18 Jul 2024)

8. Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (ArsTechnica, 10 Jul 2024)

9. State-Sponsored Russian Media Leverages Meliorator Software for Foreign Malign Influence Activity (FBI & CNMV, 9 Jul 2024)

10. Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines (The Verge; 23 July 2024)

11. The Windows CrowdStrike outage highlights the benefits of ChromeOS (ChromeUnboxed; 19 July 2024)

12. Highlights from the global tech outage: Airlines, businesses and border crossings hit by global tech disruption (AP, 19 Jul 2024)

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