TEH 240: App Turmoil. A.I., Tiktok, App stores and censorship. Should we worry?

In This Episode: App Turmoil. A.I., Tiktok, App stores and censorship. Should we worry?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

  • 0:46 GR: DeepSeek.
    • Uses less processing power
      • Funny that holding back chips from China seems to have backfired.
      • 3:00 So it is somewhat trained by other AI instead of human input.
      • Future AI will use less power, instead of future AI will use the same power but be capable of more.
      • 7:00 China censorship
        • Open source may have less censorship
      • 7:40 LN: Available in Perplexity.ai (locally hosted? So not as censor-y)
  • 13:00 GR: New Apple invites app. ,
  • 22:00 GR: TikTok in the USA is probably still doomed
    • Reveals
    • Plenty of ideas for buyers, but TikTok clearly has no interest in selling
    • CapCut, Lemon8
    • Not in Apple app store. Or Android
  • 31:00 LN & GR: iPhone adult apps
  • 33:00 LN: Signal
  • 39:00 GR: Privacy while protesting
    • Do you want to be tracked or not?

Get Off My Lawn!

  • 44:00 LN: CoPilot Everywhere?
  • 47:00 GR: Apple Intelligence uses disk space even if you don’t want it

Ain’t it Cool

  • 48:00 GR: Star Trek Lower Decks (repeat)
  • 52:00 LN: The Pitt (Max)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

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