EdTechSR Ep 333 Billions Breached

Check out our Episode 333 from August 21, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction (Vox; 17 August 2024)

2. Elon Musk's AI Image Generator Is a Deepfaker's Dream (LifeHacker; 15 August 2024)

3. Flux Tools by Black Forest Labs (from Huggingface)

4. Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. (MIT Technology Review Podcast, 7 Aug 2024)

5. Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers (Bleeping Computer; 11 August 2024)

6. Massive data leak may include the personal data of every person in the US, UK, and Canada (9to5Mac, 13 Aug 2025)

7. Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser (Fortune; 5 August 2024)

8. Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

9. Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

10. Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (PetaPixel, 14 Aug 2024)

11. US Navy Eyes Adopting SpaceX's Starlink Across Its Fleet (PC Magazine; 21 August 2024)

12. Jason’s Geeks of the Week: Updates on Jason’s AI Local Models AnythingLLM - Ollama - LM Studio

13. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Learning Journal Lesson and https://usafacts.org/

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

1. Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine (Wired; 8 August 2024)

2. This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

3. The AI photo editing era is here, and it’s every person for themselves (The Verge; 19 August 2024)

4. Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake images of Trump, Harris and Biden (CNN; 15 August 2024)

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6. Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel (The Verge; 16 August 2024)

7. Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

8. ChatGPT makes Siri more intelligent in iOS 18: Here’s how (9 to 5 Mac; 21 August 2024)

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