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November 23, 2025TWiT 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset - Why Your Favorite Site Went Dark This Week
A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids

Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age

Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet

It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage

Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD

Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws

Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks

Fortnite is getting Unity games

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer

Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode

A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon

Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream

White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner

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November 16, 2025TWiT 1058: Furry Little Potatoes - Smart Glasses & Everyday "Surveillance"
Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany

Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout

The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling

Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA

Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

PNG is back!

3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats

What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?

Withings Beamo

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren

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November 09, 2025TWiT 1057: Ferret Trousering - Can Apple TV Fix the Broken World of Streaming Sports?
Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man

SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum

Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft

YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024

Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform

YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight

YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'

Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess

Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15

The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works

China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year

Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet

After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers

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November 02, 2025TWiT 1056: The Big Sleep - The Great Router Ban
From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.
Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent

The End of Cybersecurity

Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'

Here's How the AI Crash Happens

US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers

Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts

FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements

Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off

Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Digital Life

The F5 Hack is a Big Deal

OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher

'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud

Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time

Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked

YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.

Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News

ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham

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2h 48min
October 26, 2025TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency
When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?
A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million

Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

Trump and Xi will 'consummate' TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says

3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation

Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?

All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move

Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China

iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme

Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study

Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight

GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028

WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of 'Synthetic Influencers' to Manipulate Social Media as a Service

Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval

Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

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2h 60min
October 19, 2025TWiT 1054: Nine Days a Week - Satellite Data Exposed With $750 of Equipment
Shocking new research reveals how anyone with $750 can intercept unencrypted satellite data, exposing everything from government secrets to in-flight Wi-Fi traffic. Find out why decades-old vulnerabilities are still open and who actually wants it that way.
Study: The World's Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping

You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams

cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF

Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI

The European Union issued its first fines under the AI Act, penalizing a French facial recognition startup €12 million for deploying unverified algorithms in public security contracts

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

Texas hit with a pair of lawsuits for its app store age verification requirements

Australia shares tips to wean teens off social media ahead of ban. Will it work?

California enacts age-gate law for app stores

Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll

Meta poached Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, with a compensation package rumored to reach $1.5 billion over six years

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Roku's AI-upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about what you're watching

Tesla debuts a steering wheel-less taxi for two

Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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2h 56min
October 12, 2025TWiT 1053: Robotic Lap Trimmer - Sony, Cox, & ISP Liability for User Copyright Infringement
From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.
October Term 2025

Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case

I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families

Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show

Chat Control: Germany says NEIN

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.

Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown

Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free

California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

Introducing Figure 03

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Gary Rivlin

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3h 21min
October 05, 2025TWiT 1052: It's a Nice Day for CRM - AI Slop, Media Power, & the Future of Trust
As AI-generated clip content upends trust and creativity, this week's panel members join forces to unravel whether we're facing a cultural disaster or just the next leap forward (and what anyone online needs to watch out for next). Is the world ready for AI-generated video slop flooding the internet, legal headaches over deepfakes, and million-dollar tech maneuvering?
Sora 2 is here

We need to stop the slop of OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes AI video apps before it's too late

Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say

One in five Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020

YouTube Bends the Knee

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED

CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down

ByteDance to Maintain Control Of TikTok's U.S. Advertising, E-Commerce

German government must reject chat control

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance

Swiss voters back electronic identity cards in close vote

Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses

Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month

No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry

Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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2h 40min
September 28, 2025TWiT 1051: Hype or True? - Nvidia's $100 Billion Dollar Investment in OpenAI (Over Time)
With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.
Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).

Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ever pay off?.

Jensen Huang: "We're already seeing trillion-dollar AI investments".

How Anthropic and OpenAI are developing AI 'co-workers'.

OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs.

Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop.

Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership.

Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over allegations it misled Prime users.

Is GenZ unemployable?

Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs.

AI startup friend bets on foes with $1M NYC subway campaign.

Peter Thiel wants everyone to think more about the Antichrist.

Apple builds a ChatGPT-like App to help test the revamped Siri.

Host: Alex Kantrowitz

Guests: Brian McCullough, Dan Shipper, and Ari Paparo

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3h 5min
September 21, 2025TWiT 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck - Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Raise Privacy & Social Acceptance Concerns
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

Ig Winners

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

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