This Week in Tech 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles
10 May 2026

This Week in Tech 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles

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Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!


    Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
    Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
    The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
    Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
    Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
    Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
    Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
    Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
    Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
    Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
    Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
    NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
    Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
    Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
    Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
    Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
    Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
    Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
    The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
    Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
    FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte


Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau


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