May 10, 2026

This Week in Tech 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles

2 hours 10 minutes

Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica

Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong

Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI

Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October

Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money

Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;

Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA

Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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