Twit: This Week in Tech
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TWiT 1029: Never Lick a Badger Twice - Selling Chrome, Modular Cars, Switch 2 Sold Out
- The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
- NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
- Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
- Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
- Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
- What Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?
- 4chan Is Back Online, Days After The Infamous Hack That Leaked Its "Janitors" Emails
- Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
- Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome
- Google's revenue tops Wall Street's expectations — and the stock climbs
- Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
- PC shipments spike as Windows 10's end and U.S. tariffs loom
- Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders: Sold out at most retailers including GameStop, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others
- The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
- Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue
- In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
- Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Daniel Rubino, and Cathy Gellis
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TWiT 1028: Some Had Leashes - Google's Monopoly, Yap Score, Robot Marathon
- Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
- AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
- OpenAI's secret Yap score
- 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
- FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
- Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon'
- Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games
- Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence
- Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers
- Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires
- China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart
- OpenAI is building a social network
- Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People
- New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
- Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau
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TWiT 1027: 20 Years in the Can - Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves
- Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
- Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
- Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'
- 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial
- Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters
- Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief
- Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
- Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from
- June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns
- The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do
- Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
- Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
- Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
- Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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TWiT 1026: I Know of BigBalls - TWIST Takeover
- Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
- Trump delays TikTok ban again
- Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
- China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot
- Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
- Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
- With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider
- Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm
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TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI xX merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T
- Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
- Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
- No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
- Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
- Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
- Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
- 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
- As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
- Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
- China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
- Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward
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