2023 Daily Tech News Show


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4		tm	This tenth year of Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Philip Shane Paul Boyer Bradd Lifetime Supporter Neil Wilson!
5			On this episode of DTNS, Tristan from AI Named this Show runs down the OpenAI chatbots developers are making. Where can you find them and are they any good? Plus Microsoft wants a make a third-party mobile game store and why remote work will win.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for... Friday Dec 1st, 2023. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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11			Drawing the top tech stories - in Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta
12			And I'm the show's Producer Roger Chang
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14			Tristan Jutras - Host, AI Named This Show and Momentus podcasts
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17	:01	TM	Let's start with the Quick Hits.
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20		sl	Back in May, the US state of Montana enacted SB 419, a law that would prevent app stores from offering the TikTok app to customers in the state. It's set to go into effect in January. But on Thursday, Judge Donald Molloy granted a request for a preliminary injunction, which will prevent the law from going into effect until a case against it can be heard. The judge ruled that the law appears to be too broad, and overly affects citizen's rights to free speech out of porportion with the state's governmental interest.	https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/montanas-tiktok-ban-blocked-by-federal-judge/
21		tm	The Financial Times reports that X is continuing to invest in attracting advertisements from small businesses as larger advertisers reportedly withdraw from the platform. The hope is to attract enough volume to make up the difference. FT notes that X will need to build out a more sophisticated self-service platform to increase these kinds of clients.	https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/01/x-turns-to-small-businesses/
22		sl	Telegram rolled out new features for channels including custom emojis and better channel discovery. You can also now repost stories on your own channels and pages, and get improved channel stats. Telegram also extended its voice-to-text transcription feature to free users, with a limit of two transcriptions per week.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/01/telegram-spruces-up-its-channels-with-new-discovery-and-customization-features/
23		tm	Valve has released Steam Link for the Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro. You'll need a PC with a wired connection to your router running the game and your headset on a 5GHz wifi network broadcast from that router. If you have all that, you can run VR games on Steam and play them on the SteamLink app on your Quest headset. In less fun Steam news, it's dropping support for Mac OS 10.13 and 10.14, high Sierra and Mojave starting February 15. Mojave is 5 years old.	https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23982839/steam-link-meta-quest-headset-stream-vr-games
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25		sl	A week after its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom filed notices indicating it plans to layoff more than 2100 employees on January 26th. Insider reports its sources say Broadcom is also reviewing options for two business units of VMWare as well.	https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/broadcom-to-lay-off-1300-vmware-employees-following-takeover-report/articleshow/105642355.cms
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29		tm	At the CCXP comics and entertainment convention in Brazil on Thursday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft is talking to partners about launching an Xbox Mobile store. And Spencer implied it's coming soon with the cryptic statement “I don’t think this is multiple years away, I think this is sooner than that.” The Verge reported earlier this week on court documents that showed ActivisionBlizzard had plans to launch an App Store of its own on Android but opted for a better ad deal with Google instead. And Microsoft had said in filings that it wanted to acquire ActivisionBlizzard in order to build out its mobile gaming. ActivisionBlizzard owns mobile games like Candy Crush along with mobile versions of its big franchises like Warcraft and Call of Duty.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/01/microsoft-is-in-talks-with-partners-about-launching-an-xbox-mobile-store/
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33			NOTES - In one of the filings with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, Microsoft said it planned to build an "Xbox Mobile Platform." - That filing indicated mobile gaming made up half of ActivisionBlizzard's revenues in the first half of 2022. - In August Sony’s PlayStation announced the acquisition of Savage Game Studios. - Netflix recently announced two new game studios in California and Finland. - ActivisionBlizzard's 'Project Boston" would have been conducted with Epic and charged a transaction fee of 10-12 percent. It was abandoned because Google agreed to a lucrative advertising deal. Epic is using this in its court case as an example of Google paying to eliminate competition.
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38		sl	The mandate to go 'back to the office' for workers who've gotten used to working from home has flatlined. At least that's what Nick Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University who studies workplace trends says. In fact he declared in a post on X that the "return to the workplace is dead."	https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/return-to-office-is-dead-stanford-economist-says-heres-why.html
39		tm	Here's some background: as of May 2020, the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes noted that 61.5% of paid, full workdays were from home. By 2022 that number fell by about half, indicating that people were returning to a physical office somewhere, either because they wanted to or had to.
40		sl	Bloom told CNBC that the share of paid work-from-home days has been “totally flat” this year, hovering around 28%. You might think this sounds like an ongoing downward trend. But Bloom says this number is still four times greater than the 7% of remote workers pre-pandemic. Bloom also notes data from Kastle noting the number of employee office swipe-ins shows that office occupancy in the 10 largest U.S. metro areas is also flat, hovering around 50% in 2023. Essentially, meaning the people who were going to get in the car to go back to work already did, and now we're in a new normal.
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42			NOTES: - Research from a Federal Reserve survey showed that 45% of people who currently work from home would be likely to look for a new job if required to return to work in person - WFH benefits for some companies: Reduced costs for real estate, wages and recruitment, better worker retention, access to skilled employees who live elsewhere and don't want to move - About 47% of employees who can work from home were hybrid as of October 2023, while 19% are full-time remote and 34% are fully on site, according to WFH Research. - For those looking for new work, 11% of online job postings now offer positions as either fully remote or hybrid, versus 3% before the pandemic (says Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter)
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52		tm	Last month Open AI announced GPTs, chat agents that developers can use on their platforms. OpenAI was supposed to launch a store for them but just announced that the GPT chatbot store will be delayed until next year because “unexpected things have been keeping us busy.” But that doesn't mean you can't find some GPTs to try. Tristan you and Tasia have been following the rise of all these custom chatbots on "AI Named This Show". What can you tell us about them?	https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948957/openai-chatgpt-gpt-custom-developer-platform
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55			-0- Where to find them (a bit scattered right now) -0- How to judge them -0- We can discuss some examples that stand out to each of us -0- How to build our own (I have an example) -0- Hope this works! -0-	https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17s8wnh/awesome_gpts_curated_list/
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64			Andy from Montreal writes: We lost Doctor Who to Disney+ , so its not on Crave’s CTV Sci-fi channel, even the back catalogue is gone from their streaming …. note: Classic Who is on Pluto. The crazy part …. Here in Montréal I have an xfinity based hardware & OS called Helix. I had recorded in their cloud, most of Jodie‘s last Season of Who, it’s gone!!….. I pretty sure I didn’t delete it one night of Tea drunkenness (it’s an actual thing)… so 🤔 legal shenanigans? Or me 🥴 ?		https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/disney-international-home-doctor-who/
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66			Yesterday Natalie wrote in about her disappointment and lack of communication from Mint which is shutting down. Benjamin from Boone IA writes in- I switched back to Quicken. Since I am a Linux user, this means I have to run Windows in VirtualBox. Mint.com let you run if from a web browser. Quicken requires a Windows or Mac executable. And Peter from Brampton, Ontario says: I use ynab.com (You Need A Budget) and after you get used to the different way it has you look at your money I have really liked their process. It isn’t free but I have found it worth the small cost. GDI feedback, as a person who has lived their whole life in the Greater Toronto area there isn’t a Toronto style pizza but a Canadian pizza is pepperoni, mushrooms and bacon.
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72		sl	Tristan Jutras	Tristan Jutras https://tristanjutras.com https://www.ainamedthisshow.com https://www.momentous.tv @tristanjutras @tristanjutras.bsky.social	ainamedthisshow.com
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95			"Who am I" is a guessing game where you describe the traits and characteristics about a famous, historical, or important person's for other participantgs to correctly guess their identity. In this case we created three clue lists for three notable people who have influenced or been influenced by technology. The goal is to figure out who we're talking about before the final clue is given. This week celebriy tech spokespeople!
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99		Clue 1	With the exception of taking a course in Theater Games, I never studied acting. My degree from Fordham University was in Science.
100			With the exception of taking a course in Theater Games, I never studied acting. My degree from Fordham University is in Science.
101		Clue 2	Although I'm in my 80s I host my own Podcast!
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103		Clue 3	I commuted from my home in New Jersey to LA every weekend for 11 years.
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105		Clue 4	In 1983 I was annouced that I would be representing Atari in TV advertising and public relations capacities for the following five years.
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107		Clue 5	I was the first person to win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing.
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113		Answer	Alan Alda
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117		Clue 1	In my career as a writer and professional dilettante I helped found the Paris Review and create the concept of paricipatory journalism a sort of post modern gonzo-esque approach to covering stories.
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119		Clue 2	Although I wasn't a professional actor by training I appeared in a number of films including Lawerence of Arabia, Good Will Hunting, and Nixon, where i played the president's lawyer.
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121		Clue 3	My iconic accent has been mistaken for English but in truth it is more New England in origin and I have described it as "Eastern seaboard cosmopolitan"
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123		Clue 4	American folk/comedy singer-songwriter, Jonathan Coulton wrote a song about me in 2006.
124			In 2006, the musician Jonathan Coulton wrote the song entitled "A Talk with George", a part of his 'Thing a Week' series, in tribute to Plimpton's many adventures and approach to life
125		Clue 5	During my time covering sports I competed in several professional sporting events including preseason training including goalie training with the Boston Bruins.
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127		Clue 6	I was the Intellivsion's most famous spokesperson appearing in a memorable campaign where I was billed as "Famous Author & Gamesman.” where I explained why the Intellivision was supeior to the Atari.
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130		Answer	George Plimpton
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135		Clue 1	I am a Hollywood icon. I was born and raised in San Francisco in the early 1930s. When I was in seventh grade I attended Grace Catherdal School for boys. I sang in the chruch choir until I shot the bishop during a service with slingshot.
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137		Clue 2	In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for "The Streets of San Francisco" and the other for "Rich Man, Poor Man."
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139		Clue 3	I was an accomplished amateur magician which helped me land the starring role for the TV series "The Magician" in 1973. Where I played Anthony "Tony" Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used my illusionist skills to solve crimes.
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141		Clue 4	In the 1970s I was regular panelist on game shows like Password and The Hollywood Squares
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143		Clue 5	In the 1980s I was the face for Tandy's home computers advertising campaign both on TV and in print.
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145		Clue 6	I played opposite Lou Ferrigno in the Incredible Hulk TV Show as Dr, David Banner. I was very careful never to be photographed with my costar, Lou Ferrigno in his Hulk makeup because in order to maintain the illusion that the Hulk and I were the same person for children and fans of the show.
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188			If you want to stay up-to-date in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence you need to listen to "A.I. Named This Show"! Each week Tristran Jutras (ju-tra) and Tasia Custode wade through the hype and the doomsaying to keep you informed about the latest news in the A.I. world. Catch it at "AI Named This Show" dot com!	Check out A.I. Named This Show: https://www.ainamedthisshow.com
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190			If you want to stay up-to-date in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence you need to listen to "A.I. Named This Show"! It launched during DTNS Experiment Week in August. Each week Tristran Jutras (ju-tra) and Tasia Custode wade through the hype and the doomsaying to keep you informed about the latest news in the A.I. world. Catch it at "AI Named This Show" dot com!	Check out A.I. Named This Show: https://www.ainamedthisshow.com
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