Best Reel Problems Podcasts (2025)

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The Reel Problems with The Omen (1976) 29:52

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WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of real-life accidents. The Omen (1976) is an iconic classic within in the horror genre. While the film features many frightful scenes, nothing was as terrifying as some of the incidents that took place surround the production. On this episode, we discuss beheadings, baboons, bombings, lions, airp…

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OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word ‘cameo’ 5:27

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Plus, Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat; plus, OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants 7:52

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The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features. Also, startup founders building AI shopping tools think general-purpose models are too broad to deliver truly personalized shopping experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Roblox CEO interview gets heated over child safety; X’s new About This Account feature is going great; and AI is too risky to insure 4:46

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-Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki joined the Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platform’s new age verification feature — but he seemed to get frustrated at the number of questions focused on child safety. -A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems question…

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238. Baking it Down - Vendy Blendy Insider Info 1:24:14

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Send us a textBy Heather and Corrie Miracle

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Altman describes OpenAI’s forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone; plus, DOGE days are over 6:20

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Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years. Also, DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers) 1:29:41

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David and Tamler begin their long journey home to Homer's Odyssey, the tale of king Odysseus' 10 year journey home after the Trojan war (maybe the greatest story ever told). We dive into the first two books, which focus on Odysseus' 20-year-old son Telemachus, the swarm of suitors who have descended on Odysseus' house during his long absence in the…

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A new AI benchmark tests whether chatbots protect human wellbeing 6:39

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Plus, US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all; plus Waymo expanding across Bay Area and SoCal; and Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business 5:00

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Reuters reports that the executive order has been put on hold. If signed, the order would probably face significant opposition, including from Republicans who previously criticized the proposed moratorium on state regulation. Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotaxi company posting Friday that it’s now “officially authorized to drive …

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SpaceX’s upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing 7:07

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Plus, despite Chinese hacks, Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider,’ X rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature, and Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules 8:40

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-Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike denied it had been hacked following claims from a hacker group, which leaked screenshots from inside CrowdStrike's network. -X's new feature will show where users are based, how they're connected to X, and how many times they've changed their username. -Two Trump-appointed FCC officials voted to undo the telecom ind…

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Google releases Nano Banana Pro 8:45

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Plus - YouTube tests an in-app private messaging feature again; Spotify’s latest feature lets you transfer playlists from other services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani 7:37

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According to Grok, Elon Musk can out slug the MLB's greatest power hitters... except Ohtani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model; and another fire broke out at aluminum plant that supplies Ford 5:08

6d ago5:08

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Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing chops, higher resolutions, more accurate text rendering, and the ability to search the web. Also, the fire that broke out at the Oswego, NY Is the second major fire -- and the third overall -- in the last few months at the Novelis plant, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc…

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Spotify’s new features let listeners explore the people and stories behind their favorite music 6:27

6d ago6:27

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Plus - Target joins OpenAI’s growing list of retail apps; TikTok will now give you badges for limiting your doomscrolling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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How the classic anime ‘Ghost in the Shell’ predicted the future of cybersecurity 30 years ago 7:18

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Written by: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai The story of the Ghost in the Shell’s main villain the Puppet Master hinted at a future where governments use hackers for espionage, at a time when most of the world had never connected to the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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#466: Nothing is Real 7:36

6d ago7:36

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What's your #1 Challenge in Living your Truth? Support the showBy Tarun Bathija

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The Epstein files have claimed their first OpenAI victim; plus Target joins OpenAI’s growing list of retail apps 3:53

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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released an extensive cache of emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included details of intimate affairs. OpenAI is pushing deeper into retail, with Target set to debut a new ChatGPT-powered app for shoppers in coming weeks. The news fo…

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Meta wins antitrust trial 8:19

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Plus - Toyota keeps betting on hybrid vehicles in the US; Hank Green’s Focus Friend is Google Play’s app of the year Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor; plus, Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble 7:07

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Constellation Energy will use the loan to refurbish a reactor it idled in 2019. Microsoft has agreed to buy the power once the facility reopens in 2028. Also, Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says all the attention is on LLMs, but smaller, specialized models will make sense in many use cases going forward. Learn more about your ad choi…

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Zap Energy ramps up the pressure in its latest fusion device; plus, Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider 5:55

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Zap’s Fuze-3 device has been firing pulses of plasma at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, and the results of those experiments will ultimately inform the design of the company’s future demonstration plants. The Fuze-3 device was able to compress a soup of charged particles to more than two hundred thirty two thousand PSI and heat it to more th…

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237. Baking it Down - Once a Year Cookie College Stealios 1:50:59

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Send us a text 🎓 Cookie College - Vendy Blendy Deals Breakdown. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 237 - The Cookie College Stealios, Corrie and I go through our Vendy Blendy 2025 Cookie College offerings, and... ️🥁️🥁️🥁 drumroll please... they're once-a-year good. 🎓 The Cookie College - $64/mo or $576/yr The best product we offer is Th…

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Meta releases a new tool to protect reels creators 6:23

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Plus - Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost; Google rolls out its AI ‘Flight Deals’ tool globally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Ford turns to Amazon to give used cars sales a boost; plus, Meta releases a new tool to protect reels creators from having their work stolen 4:58

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One year ago, e-commerce giant Amazon kicked off its new online car sales business with Hyundai. Now, Ford is joining in with a certified used car twist. Also, Facebook's new content protection tool extends to Instagram too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone 14:44

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As Nigel Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Amazon satellite network gets a rebrand and drops its affordability pitch; plus, a jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M 6:28

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The company has been quietly changing how it talks about who its internet customers will be before it announced a big name change last week. Also, a federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…

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#465: Incompatible Initiatives: What's Keeping you from your Dream Life 9:57

9d ago9:57

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What's your #1 Challenge in Living your Truth? Support the showBy Tarun Bathija

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OpenAI says it’s fixed ChatGPT’s em dash problem 7:07

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Plus, five people plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US companies as ‘remote IT workers.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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ChatGPT launched pilot group chats across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; plus, newsletter platform beehiiv adds AI website building, creator tools in major expansion 6:48

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The group chat is available to Free, Plus, and Team users on both mobile and web platforms. OpenAI says the pilot is designed to explore how people use group conversations in ChatGPT. Also, in a video announcing the release of beehiiv, Tyler Denk, the co-founder and CEO of beehive, said that what makes newsletter platforms powerful is ownership. “O…

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Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk’s Boring Company site 5:13

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Plus, the EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake ; plus, after 5 months, the $1,200 bottles of Besties All-In tequila are finally starting to ship 6:27

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Chad: the Brainrot IDE is an actual product that pairs vibe coding with brainrot activities like gambling, Tinder and games. Also, orders of the Besties Tequila were supposed to be fulfilled by end of summer but were delayed again and again due to the bottle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive 6:34

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Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of 6-second, looping videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Eagles-Lions SNF Preview: Who’s the real power of the NFC? 37:20

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NJ.com’s Eagles reporter Cayden Steele sits down with MLive’s Lions beat writer Benjamin Raven to analyze the key matchups and storylines heading into Sunday night’s NFC showdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy NJ.com

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Airbnb’s testing a ‘kitchen stocking’ service 9:01

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Plus - Radio streamer TuneIn acquired for $175M; Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats; plus Productivity app Hero announces an SDK that will complete your AI prompts for you 7:29

13d ago7:29

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These palm-sized robots use ultrasound signals to navigate harsh conditions in search and rescue missions. Also, the autocomplete will help users create more effective prompts for AI apps, resulting in fewer back-and-forths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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#464: Predestined Parameters or Deliberate Deciding? - Just Passing Through Life or Living? 5:56

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What's your #1 Challenge in Living your Truth? Support the showBy Tarun Bathija

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The global race for the AI app layer is still on; plus Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are ‘probing’ critical networks for espionage and sabotage 6:57

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The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models, at least in funding. But the picture is different for the application layer, global VC firm Accel highlighted in its 2025 Globalscape report. Also, Australia's intelligence chief warned that Chinese hackers are trying to break into its networks, sometimes successfully, to "pre-positio…

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Threads is targeting podcasters 6:28

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Plus - Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Robyn is an empathetic AI companion chatbot; plus Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup 7:40

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Robyn wants to position it self as an empathetic chatbot and not as a companion or a therapy app. Also, Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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236. Baking it Down - The Most BORING Podcast Ever Recorded 1:32:46

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Send us a text ☝️ Private Class Pt 2 - A BORING podcast. In this week's Baking it Down Podcast - Episode 236 - The Most BORING Podcast Ever Recorded, I paid my nephew (Corrie's son, Archer) $10 to do the podcast intro (and just when you thought no one could talk faster than Heather), and we recapped the private in-home cookie class we taught last w…

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Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees 6:37

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The platform has attracted an eclectic user base. More than half of Fortune 500 companies are using Lovable to "supercharge creativity," according to Osika, who insisted retention remains strong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist") 1:29:19

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David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story that brims with metaphorical possibilities but also implores us to accept it on its own mysterious terms. Plus gooning. The Goon Squad by Daniel Kolitz [harpers.org] "Gooning" definition [urbandictionar…

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Google Maps gets new AI tools 9:02

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Plus - Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer; Venmo launches cash back rewards program for debit cards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware, plus a better way of thinking about the AI bubble 9:19

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Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficult to justify, given the broad range of victims — journalists, activists, and now political consultants — that have come forward. AI isn't all or nothi…

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Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love, plus, ‘Pluribus’ was emphatically ‘made by humans,’ not AI 4:21

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After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X. Also, if you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by…

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OpenAI asked Trump administration to expand Chips Act tax credit to cover data centers, plus is Wall Street losing faith in AI? and Apple new iPhone features 5:58

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A recent letter from OpenAI reveals more details about how the company is hoping the federal government can support the company's ambitious plans for data center construction. Also, a rough week for tech stocks might signal a loss of investor confidence in artificial intelligence. And while Apple’s iPhone already supports texting, calling emergency…

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#463: Forgiveness is the Only Option - How to Forgive the Unforgivable 10:21

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What's your #1 Challenge in Living your Truth? Support the showBy Tarun Bathija

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Amazon launches a low-price standalone shopping app 7:27

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Plus, the Texas AG sued Roblox, accusing it of prioritizing ‘pixel pedophiles’ over child safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch

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‘Landfall’ spyware abused zero-day to hack Samsung Galaxy phones; plus CBO confirms it was hacked 6:06

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A newly identified Android spyware targeted Galaxy devices for close to a year, including users in the Middle East, researchers exclusively tell TechCrunch. In addition, the congressional research office confirmed a breach, but did not comment on the cause. A security researcher suggested the hack may have originated because CBO failed to patch a f…