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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about software, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 528 stories have been published about software which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Mashable

Mashable

Launch your new career in cybersecurity with this ethical hacking bundle, only $40 for one more day

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PCMAG

PCMAG

Google’s AI program is smart enough to uncover real-world software vulnerabilities on its own

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Verge

Verge

An Okta login bug bypassed checking passwords on some long usernames

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks

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Notebookcheck

Notebookcheck

ChatGPT search relies on Bing to generate search results

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Default

Default

The EU Throws a Hand Grenade on Software Liability

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

How to make open source software more secure | TechCrunch

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Engadget

Engadget

A VPN can mask your IP address and the identity of your device by routing your traffic through a remote server

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Apple is snapping up one of the best non-Adobe image editors, Pixelmator

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XDA

XDA

Microsoft adds a boatload of new features to Teams

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BleepingComputer

BleepingComputer

Sophos reveals 5-year battle with Chinese hackers attacking network devices

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CBS News

CBS News

Former Disney employee accused of hacking menu system and changing peanut allergy information

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KnowTechie

KnowTechie

Google Chrome's memory saver gets a major upgrade: What's new?

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Fingerprint

Fingerprint

Demo: Exploiting leaked timestamps from Google Chrome extensions

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Disgruntled customers discuss quitting VMware

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Mashable

Mashable

A 2TB cloud storage lifetime subscription is only $89

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The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool

Where Will Palantir Stock Be in 5 Years?

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pcgamer

pcgamer

Steam now requires developers to tell people when their games have kernel mode anticheat

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CNBC

CNBC

Microsoft CFO says OpenAI investment will cut into profit this quarter

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Regal claims its customer service chatbots are better than most | TechCrunch

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