Beginning with the news round, featuring the UK government's secret order for a backdoor to Apple's iCloud, AI comes up again with a new contender making waves and with another enraging users. We do share some guidance of what not to do with AI tools.

The main topic looks at the state of the open source software world. Is it in trouble?

References:

• (The Register) Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order
• (BBC News) Why Elon Musk's Grok is kicking up a storm in India
• (BBC News) DeepSeek: The Chinese AI app that has the world talking

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We're back with a news round recording made in July 2024, covering Musk and newly awarded billions, Adobe's Ts and Cs regarding AI, Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature. and Apple's stirrings with ChatGPT.

Then we turn to the main topic of the day that the Duck went down and the search for a backup search engine.

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In this episode, Dan and Shaz look at the announcements made at the Apple "Let Loose" event, the pricing and a particular fallout. Everyone's doing it, so we would like to share our opinion on it, too. Dan's relationship with Alexa has got complicated, then Shaz has an announcement of the Windows kind.

Oh, and, there's another special announcement. This time there's no spoilers.

References:

• The Verge: Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever
• XDA: AMD CPUs explained: Demystifying AMD's confusing product names

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