TWiT 1011: The Year in Review - A Look at the Top Stories of 2024
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• What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR

• Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED

• Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows

• PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

• Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help

• The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1

• Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip

• Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming

• Bluesky emerges

• The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates

• Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla

• SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms

• U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction

• Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

• U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America

• U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack

• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach

• National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers

• Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.

• New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids

• GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)

• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges

• Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference

• Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

• Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon

• OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever

• Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million

• Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event

• Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge

• Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban

• So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas

• Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over

• The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams

• Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks

• We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years

• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

• Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years

• In Memoriam

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