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The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco
Podcast Episode Ā· Better Offline Ā· 12/10/2025 Ā· 33m
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Hereās this weekās Better Offline. Iām joined by @lisaeadicicco.bsky.social of CNN to talk about the state of consumer electronics, Samsungās Vision Pro competitor, and why every phone kind of looks the same.
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How AI is influencing Europeās elections
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How AI is influencing Europeās elections
Synthetic political content is spreading fast, far beyond the reach of traditional journalism and EU regulation
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Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In TheĀ EU
Aquarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called āRebel Codeā. It was the first ā and is still the only ā detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generousā¦
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Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In TheĀ EU
Aquarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called āRebel Codeā. It was the first ā and is still the only ā detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous hackers who took part. Back then, it was clear that open source represented a powerful alternative to the traditional proprietary approach to software development and distribution.
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I asked NeurLPS attendees for their takeaways from the world's largest gathering of AI researchers:
- Google is king
- Reinforcement learning is the big thing
- Parties are getting over the top sourcesnews.substack.com/ā¦.
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Googleās rise, RL mania, and a party boat
I asked attendees for their takeaways from this yearās NeurIPS in San Diego. Also: Sam Altman goes on a charm offense, Google teases AI glasses.
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Did the AI boom write this?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/0ā¦.
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Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
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like there are ways to make the public hate and fear new technology less and Big AI appears to have attempted precisely zero of them
Sy Nakamura@criminalmoonlight.bsky.social
I do battery and DER deployments, often in low income communities with terrible histories of environmental justice issues Handling public perception of the risks honestly and empathetically and communicating how we mitigate them and the benefits to the community starts before permitting
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icymi EU Commission investigating Google over anti-competitive practices with its AI initiativesā¦ www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/g...
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Google hit with EU antitrust investigation over use of online content for AI
It's the latest in a string of actions the European Commission has taken against U.S. big tech companies.
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āMr. Zuckerman was clearly hoping that if he laid low for a few years, everyone would forget about the reasons why the FTC issued a ban not only against the company, but against him specifically,ā EFFās @evacide.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/...
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FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman | TechCrunch
Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.
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How ICEās Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But CivicĀ Participation
When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasā¦
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How ICEās Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But CivicĀ Participation
When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published a request for information for private-sector contractors to launch a round-the-clock social media monitoring program. The request states that private contractors will be paid to comb through…
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The Australian social media ban seems destined for fines against tech companies for failure to take "reasonable steps" to remove children. The difficulty is that to really identify all children--including children using their parents' accounts--you need draconian steps. 1/
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Pro-Russia hacktivists are using simple but effective techniques to breach operational technology machinery and potentially damage critical infrastructure, with attacks observed in the energy, food/ag, and water sectors, the U.S. and its allies say in a new advisory. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
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Weāre pleased to share Francesca Parmigiani has been named an Optica Fellowāone of photonicsā most competitive and prestigious distinctionsārecognizing her pioneering work in high-speed optical communications and optical signal processing. Congratulations Francesca! msft.it/6014tgRGK
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Googleās AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed
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Google's AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed | TechCrunch
The tech giant says the idea behind the new feed is to display recommendations so users can discover and virtually try on items. Nearly everything in the feed is shoppable, with direct links to merchants.
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I really want to be more optimistic about technology but reality simply does not make that possible.
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I see great potential in the combination of HealthKit data + a private LLM, and the new Activas app by @brianhough.com is a fantastic example of Apple Intelligence applied to something useful.
Our review: www.macstories.net/reviewā¦.
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Activas: Modern Design with a Sprinkling of AI
Activas is a new health and wellness tracker for the iPhone and iPad from developer Brian Hough, who built it from the ground up with Apple Intelligence and Liquid Glass in mind. The app serves as a d...
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idk maybe something to keep an eye on!!!! techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/t...
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Three in ten U.S. teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing | TechCrunch
While teenagers may start out using AI chatbots for basic questions, their relationship with chatbot platforms has the potential to turn addictive.
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Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+
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Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+ | TechCrunch
Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.
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have i become a techpilled weirdo if i think this is kinda cool techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/p...
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Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button | TechCrunch
Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 Index 01 ring is not meant to be a competitor to the always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instea...
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I read this @miasato.bsky.social piece and spent the entire time second-guessing whether I had, without realizing it, been Influenced. Jury still out.
www.theverge.com
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
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Court: āBecause Trump said toā may not be a legally valid defense - arstechnica.com/tech-poliā¦. " The āarbitrary and capriciousā standard strikes down another administration action."
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Court: āBecause Trump said toā may not be a legally valid defense
The āarbitrary and capriciousā standard strikes down another administration action.
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the thing about delivery apps... www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
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Instacart's AI pricing tools drive up the cost of some groceries, study finds
Federal regulators and politicians have scrutinized companies' use of AI tools to set the cost of products or services, often called "surveillance pricing."
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is youāll learn to endure it, or youāll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
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new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to āyou must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.ā so many people will wonder why they canāt just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarā¦.
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