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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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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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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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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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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

Host: Leo Laporte

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

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2h 46min
September 14, 2025TWiT 1049: Gas Station Lafufu - Apple's Pumpkin Spice Orange & Influencer Era
iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote

Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

What to expect from Meta Connect

SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package

Gen Z protests in Nepal, sparked by a social media ban, have killed nearly 2 dozen and injured hundreds. Here's what to know

Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they're coming for your time and money

Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case

Geek News Central Mourns the Loss of Todd Cochrane

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Victoria Song, and Jason Hiner

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September 07, 2025TWiT 1048: Tiny Steering Wheel - Unpacking Google's Antitrust Ruling & AI's Impact
Google walks away from another monopoly ruling with barely a scratch, while tech giants gather at the White House to praise a president who holds their futures in the balance. Inside, our panel questions whether "playing the game on the field" is killing tech innovation and U.S. privacy for good.
Google avoids harshest penalties in landmark search monopoly ruling

Google fined $3.5 billion by EU over ad-tech business

Probe finds Houston police using surveillance tool like a search engine

iPhone 17 specifications leak, 'Air' model rumors, and what to expect at Apple's Awe Dropping' event

Instagram coming to iPad after 15 years

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright claims

Apple accused of training AI models on pirated books

Trump hosts tech CEOs at first event in newly renovated Rose Garden

Postal traffic to the US down over 80% amid tariffs, UN says

Satellite companies like SpaceX ignore astronomers' calls to save the night sky

Microsoft says Azure service affected by damaged Red Sea cables

Meta still hasn't given up on the Facebook poke after 21 years

Fake celebrity chatbots send risqué messages to teens on top AI app

First brain-wide map of decision-making charted in mice

NVIDIA's sale-and-leaseback chip schemes raise questions about AI bubble

Tesla changes meaning of 'full self-driving' and gives up on autonomy promise

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million

Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement in major legal battle

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Wilhelm and Harry McCracken

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August 31, 2025TWiT 1047: Nerd Harder! - From Cloudflare's Internet Gatekeeping to AI's Labor Threat
Cloudflare's latest moves to police who can access the internet and governments' push for age verification set off alarms for the future of the open web, as panelists debate the hidden costs of centralization and regulation.
Microsoft fires four workers for on-site protests over company's ties to Israel

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification law

UK's Online Safety Act censors the internet — a preview of US proposal

Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen user

Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its service

UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously though

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback

FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers

The web does not need gatekeepers

Intel warns a US equity stake could trigger "adverse reactions"

US firms are racing through a $1 trillion buyback spree in record time

Microsoft reveals two in-house AI models

Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

A rule exempting small packages from tariffs is ending today

Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops

Germany fines economist Thomas Vierhaus €16,100 for sarcastic X posts

Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers' identities

South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Cory Doctorow, and Louis Maresca

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2h 55min
August 24, 2025TWiT 1046: Shrimpspiracy - Musk Trolls Microsoft With Macrohard
You should buy a faster CPU

The Trump-Intel deal is official

Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban

Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief

Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft

Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration

Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years

Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11

Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

Sports streaming enters a bold new era

Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'

Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series

German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers

Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision

More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino and Paris Martineau

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2h 46min
August 17, 2025TWiT 1045: The Juice Ain't Worth the Squeeze - Meta's Flirty Chatbot
Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t

The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform

Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower

Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays

Elli-q

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale

PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents

Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X

Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Sam Abuelsamid, and Lisa Schmeiser

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