Welcome to episode 333 (“Billions Breached”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 21, 2024, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) discussed the alarming implications of recent massive data breaches, including the exposure of billions of personal records worldwide. They explored the broader consequences of these breaches on privacy, cybersecurity, and digital trust. The hosts also examined the ethical challenges of generative AI, the latest advancements in Google’s Pixel devices, and SpaceX’s Starlink integration with the US Navy. “Geeks of the Week” included practical tools like AI-driven local models and a creative journaling resource. Our show was live-streamed and archived on YouTube Live via StreamYard.com. Please follow our @EdTechSR page on Facebook, @edtechsr@mastodon.education on Mastodon for updates, and join LIVE on Wednesday nights if you can. All show notes are available at edtechSR.com/links.
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- Jason Neiffer (Mastodon: mastodon.cloud/@neif) – aicentrist.com – blog: blog.ncce.org
- Wes Fryer (Mastodon: mastodon.cloud/@wfryer) – wesfryer.com
- How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction (Vox; 17 August 2024)
- Elon Musk’s AI Image Generator Is a Deepfaker’s Dream (LifeHacker; 15 August 2024)
- Flux Tools by Black Forest Labs (from Huggingface)
- Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. (MIT Technology Review Podcast, 7 Aug 2024)
- Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers (Bleeping Computer; 11 August 2024)
- Massive data leak may include the personal data of every person in the US, UK, and Canada (9to5Mac, 13 Aug 2025)
- Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser (Fortune; 5 August 2024)
- Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place (The Verge; 21 August 2024)
- Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos (The Verge; 21 August 2024)
- Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (PetaPixel, 14 Aug 2024)
- US Navy Eyes Adopting SpaceX’s Starlink Across Its Fleet (PC Magazine; 21 August 2024)
- Jason’s Geeks of the Week: Updates on Jason’s AI Local Models AnythingLLM – Ollama – LM Studio
- Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Learning Journal Lesson and https://usafacts.org/
