May 04, 2025

This Week in Tech 1030: Journalism Comes In Second

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Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling

Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here

The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs

The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development

UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming

Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"

Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans

Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski

Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times

Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt

Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot

Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network

Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages

Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

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May 04, 2025

This Week in Tech 1030: Journalism Comes In Second

Listen Later

2 hours 35 minutes

Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling

Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here

The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs

The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development

UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming

Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"

Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans

Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski

Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times

Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt

Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot

Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network

Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages

Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

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outsystems.com/twit

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