September 21, 2025

This Week in Tech 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck

2 hours 45 minutes

Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses

I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Windows 10 EOL coming soon

Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos

4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back

iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point

Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out

A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time

TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says

By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US

Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org

Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"

ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity

Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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