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May 18, 2025

This Week in Tech 1032: Cardboard, Plastic Bags, & Duct Tape

Listen Later

2 hours 38 minutes

GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation

Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust

Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI

How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed

OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away

25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI

Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores

Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store

Nextcloud accuses Google of "Big Tech gatekeeping" over Android app permissions

Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era

Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table

Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming

The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair

They're just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wil Harris, Devindra Hardawar, and Harper Reed

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