July 05, 2026

This Week in Tech 1091: But You Didn't Move the Bodies

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A landmark Supreme Court decision shakes up digital privacy, setting new limits on police surveillance and potentially redefining personal data rights in the age of AI and location tracking. Plus, Chinese AI models are rapidly gaining ground while American companies battle lawsuits, regulatory crackdowns, and soaring chip shortages. The global race for AI dominance is wide open!

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC

The World Cup added $1 billion in security systems. What happens after the games end?

U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive

Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI

Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages

Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine

Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock

Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones

BYD Sells the Most Battery Electric Cars Again

NASA mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory has launched

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

Spotify deletes streams of chart-topping song after suspicious Kalshi bets

Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Lisa Schmeiser, and Owen JJ Stone

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July 05, 2026

This Week in Tech 1091: But You Didn't Move the Bodies

3 hours

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC

The World Cup added $1 billion in security systems. What happens after the games end?

U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive

Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI

Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages

Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine

Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock

Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones

BYD Sells the Most Battery Electric Cars Again

NASA mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory has launched

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

Spotify deletes streams of chart-topping song after suspicious Kalshi bets

Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Lisa Schmeiser, and Owen JJ Stone

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

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!

Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT

canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

zscaler.com/security

box.com/AI

helixsleep.com/twit

expressvpn.com/twit

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