In today’s episode of Cyber Wednesday, which is on every Wednesday after the 4.30pm news headlines on the brilliant Chris Smith Show on TNTRadio.Live, every weekend from 3 to 5pm AEDT. The show page with ALL the episodes is here.
This week we looked at the latest tech news, including: –
- A recap of my new TNTRadio.live TV show every Saturday from 6 to 7pm AEDT, called “Talking Tech with Alex Zaharov-Reutt“, featuring Brett Levy on eSports and Dr Natalia Ilyushina on everything important in the world of AI
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip, now implanted into a person for the very first time.
- Japan has finally ditched 3.5-inch floppy disks for government work – or have they?
- Apple has delayed the launch of its EV to 2028, but while EV car sales are having some problems in the US, BYD Automotive has surpassed Tesla as the World’s No.1 EV maker and is BOOMING in Australia
- OpenAI’s GPT-5 is coming soon to supercharge ChatGPT even further, but what about Google’s Bard Ultra, and Elon Musk’s Grok going to version 1.5 – with Musk spending US $500 million on AI chips from Nvidia and AMD?
- The Australian Federal Government is spending tens of millions to dramatically improve mobile coverage on all of Australia’s highways and major roads – it’s a problem that needs solving!
- Optus has unveiled new anti-scam tech to block 2 million scam calls and 2.8 million scam SMS messages per week – wow!
- Taylor Swift deepfakes invaded 𝕏, so what of the threat of deepfakes, and should social media networks do anything about it?
- It’s Safer Internet Day globally next week on Tuesday 6 February – what are the ways you can make every single day a Safer Internet Day?
