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TWiT 1060: A Shortage of Shame - Why Black Friday Numbers Aren't What You Think
Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers.
- Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed
- Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends
- View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury
- 'We do fail... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech
- Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
- Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
- China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models
- Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses
- The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug
- Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse
- Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness
- Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
- Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
- One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it
- How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time
- GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan
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TWiT 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset - Why Your Favorite Site Went Dark This Week
A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.
- Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
- NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
- Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age
- Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
- It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage
- Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD
- Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It
- Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals
- Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
- Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
- 780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
- Fortniteis getting Unity games
- Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
- SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
- Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode
- A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon
- Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
- White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner
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TWiT 1058: Furry Little Potatoes - Smart Glasses & Everyday "Surveillance"
Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!
- Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
- Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
- Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
- Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
- The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
- X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
- Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
- iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
- AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
- Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
- George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
- Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
- PNG is back!
- 3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
- What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
- Withings Beamo
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren
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TWiT 1057: Ferret Trousering - Can Apple TV Fix the Broken World of Streaming Sports?
Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).
- Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man
- SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum
- Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft
- YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
- Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024
- Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform
- YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight
- YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'
- Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess
- Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
- The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
- China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors
- Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
- Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
- FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
- Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments
- Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
- Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year
- Apple TV's new Pluribusshow might be its best sci-fi series yet
- After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers
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TWiT 1056: The Big Sleep - The Great Router Ban
From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.
- Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent
- The End of Cybersecurity
- Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'
- Here's How the AI Crash Happens
- US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers
- Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts
- FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
- Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off
- Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Digital Life
- The F5 Hack is a Big Deal
- OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher
- 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
- Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time
- Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked
- YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials
- 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
- Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News
- ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham
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