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May 04, 2025TWiT 1030: Journalism Comes In Second - Government Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom
Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling

Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here

The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs

The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development

UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming

Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"

Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans

Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski

Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt

Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot

Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network

Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages

Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

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April 27, 2025TWiT 1029: Never Lick a Badger Twice - Selling Chrome, Modular Cars, Switch 2 Sold Out
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?

Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs

Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status

Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge

What Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?

4chan Is Back Online, Days After The Infamous Hack That Leaked Its "Janitors" Emails

Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over

Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome

Google's revenue tops Wall Street's expectations — and the stock climbs

Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25

PC shipments spike as Windows 10's end and U.S. tariffs loom

Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders: Sold out at most retailers including GameStop, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue

In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving

Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Daniel Rubino, and Cathy Gellis

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2h 34min
April 20, 2025TWiT 1028: Some Had Leashes - Google's Monopoly, Yap Score, Robot Marathon
Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup

AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk

OpenAI's secret Yap score

4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack

FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe

Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon'

Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games

Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence

Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers

Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires

China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart

OpenAI is building a social network

Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People

New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children

Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau

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2h 57min
April 13, 2025TWiT 1027: 20 Years in the Can - Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves
Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions

Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'

5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial

Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters

Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief

Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos

Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from

June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns

The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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3h 18min
April 06, 2025TWiT 1026: I Know of BigBalls - TWIST Takeover
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead

Trump delays TikTok ban again

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.

China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot

Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots

Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider

Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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3h 14min
March 30, 2025TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T
Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare

Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All

Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year

As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next

Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design

China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?

Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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2h 40min
March 23, 2025TWiT 1024: Payday Loan Burrito - Section 230, Intel's Future, TikTok's Fate
Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st

Apple Can't Beat Spotify

Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April

Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France

Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company

Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink

Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database

Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy

Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%

Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really

Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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2h 50min
March 16, 2025TWiT 1023: This is Not Tax Advice - The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI
The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags

Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.

Intel has a new CEO

Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci-Fi

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games

Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie

Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090

Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic

Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination

TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app

F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries

Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot

Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28

Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Glenn Fleishman, and Mikah Sargent

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3h 13min
March 09, 2025TWiT 1022: Chatting With MrBabyMan - Spring Forward, MWC 2025, AI Poisoning
'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say

The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake

Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features

An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time

Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI

The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025

AMD finally has a decent NVIDIA killer with the Radeon 9070 + 9070 XT

Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations

Crony Crypto Capitalism

Utah Passes First US App Store Age Verification Law

The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week

YouTube Premium and Music Surpass 125 Million Subscribers

America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome

Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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2h 44min
March 02, 2025TWiT 1021: Benito On High - Alexa Plus, Goodbye Skype, YouTube on TV
Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote

Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus

An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027

Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products

'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI

Skype is shutting down after two decades

Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist

House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking

Apple to build iCloud backdoor

Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia

Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content

YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content

'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash

Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland

An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station

All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Emily Forlini, Doc Rock, and Janko Roettgers

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2h 53min

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