This Week in Tech (Video)

This Week in Tech (Video)

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This Week in Tech (Video) episodes

  • TWiT 1020: Smell My Mouse - Biggest Crypto Heist, iPhone 16e, Alexa Revamp
  • Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange
  • Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order
  • iOS18.4 Beta adds priority notifications, support for robot vacs in Apple Home, but no smarter siri
  • Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
  • OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
  • The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom
  • Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
  • Spotify is making it easier to release audiobooks narrated by AI
  • California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers
  • Donald Trump Is Turning CISA Into The Embodiment Of His Election Conspiracy Theories
  • Asus Continues Fragrant Device Trend With an Aromatic Mouse - Slashdot
  • iPhone 16E: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone
  • Smart ring tracks health, fitness data with long battery life

    • Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Larry Magid

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      • 2 hr 46 min
    • TWiT 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed
    • TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
    • Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
    • IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
    • Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
    • Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
    • Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
    • Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
    • Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
    • Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
    • YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing
    • Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
    • Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
    • Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
    • Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
    • Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed
    • Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
    • Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

      • Host: Leo Laporte

      Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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        • 2 hr 45 min
      • TWiT 1018: Self-Driving Government - Meta Torrents Books, Sideloading TikTok, Xbox Sales
      • UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data
      • Google rolls back DEI efforts, including hiring goals
      • Brits Want to Ban 'Smarter Than Human' AI
      • Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl 'Trades' Pit State Regulators Against Feds
      • Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad
      • "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed
      • Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling
      • Google starts testing new Search 'AI Mode' internally – Here's an early look at it
      • In Upholding The TikTok Ban, SCOTUS Compromises, And With It The First Amendment
      • TikTok advises Android users in the US to sideload the app
      • In Other SCOTUS First Amendment News, It Also Just Heard Oral Argument Over Yet Another Texas Law Censoring The Internet
      • Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'
      • CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears
      • Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff 'AI-First' Is the Future of Key Government Agency
      • German civil activists win victory in election case against Musk's X
      • Trump Ends Legal Challenge Over Twitter Ban After Jan. 6 Riot
      • Crypto-stealing apps found in Apple App Store for the first time
      • Apple's Long-Awaited Overhaul of iPhone SE Nears Release
      • Former iOS engineer sued by Apple issues apology as lawsuit is dismissed
      • PS5 sales more than twice Xbox Series X/S reveals Take-Two by accident

        • Host: Leo Laporte

        Guests: Daniel Rubino, Cathy Gellis, and Lisa Schmeiser

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          • 2 hr 50 min
        • TWiT 1017: Yellow-Bellied Marmots - Return of Pebble, O3-Mini, Apple AI
        • Takeaways From a Monumental Week for AI
        • Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source | TechCrunch
        • DeepSeek's AI success is overshadowed by a serious security breac
        • AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch
        • OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, nuclear weapons security
        • The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes
        • OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model | TechCrunch
        • Rabbit R1 and Pebble
        • Apple's AI and AR Struggles Show It Has Lost Some of Its Product Edge
        • Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
        • Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott
        • Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
        • Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems
        • Elon Musk seizes computer system, locks out senior government officials
        • Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
        • Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
        • 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
        • Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates
        • Super Bowl Sundays are really noisy everywhere in the US

          • Host: Leo Laporte

          Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Christina Warren, and Dan Patterson

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            • 3 hr 17 min
          • TWiT 1016: Marc or Marx? - Copilot Launch Disaster, DeepSeek, Sir Paul vs. AI
          • The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster
          • Satya Nadella says he's 'good for $80 billion' after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn't have the cash
          • How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI
          • Tesla brand value drops $15B in 2024
          • Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans
          • Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
          • Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
          • Crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are collectibles, not securities
          • Trump's Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support
          • Paul McCartney calls on UK government to protect artists from AI | TechCrunch
          • Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with 'no successor' planned
          • Startups are built on dreams. This one is just more literal about it.
          • When S.F. fought 'Pac-Man'
          • Interview with Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz
          • Bill Gates: Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me

            • Host: Leo Laporte

            Guests: Ed Bott, Sam Abuelsamid, and Owen Thomas

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              • 2 hr 53 min
            • TWiT 1015: Smarter Than a House Cat - TikTok, Trumpcoin, Samsung Unpacked 2025
            • Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban
            • Trumpcoin
            • Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
            • Skyrocketing car-insurance premiums are pushing inflation higher
            • Behind the Curtain — Coming soon: Ph.D.-level super-agents
            • 4 surprise products we could see at Samsung Unpacked 2025
            • Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts
            • US Finalizes Rule Banning Smart Cars With Russian, Chinese Tech
            • Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit - WyoFile
            • Cash App parent fined $175 million for 'woefully incomplete' response to fraud
            • FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products

              • Host: Leo Laporte

              Guests: Jason Hiner, Paris Martineau, and Molly White

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                • 3 hr 4 min
              • TWiT 1014: Just Say It's Capitalism - CES 2025, Meta News, Newag DRM
              • The panel discusses CES 2025
              • How Watch Duty's wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
              • Worst in Show awards 2025
              • Aaron Swartz v Sam Altman
              • We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure
              • All the Meta stuff (fact checking, etc.)
              • Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors
              • The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers
              • Twitch Streamers Come Home After Big-Money Contracts at Rivals Dried Up
              • Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

                • Host: Leo Laporte

                Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Cory Doctorow

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                  • 2 hr 59 min
                • TWiT 1013: Calamari in Crisis - Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

                  Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

                • AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse
                • How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024
                • NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' In Defining Moment For Humankind
                • Elon Musk Calls Out NASA's Moon Ambitions: 'We're Going Straight to Mars'
                • Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
                • Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
                • US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
                • Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
                • Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident
                • US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
                • The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists)
                • Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements, From Homes To Brothels
                • Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025
                • Public Domain Day 2025
                • Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive
                • End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

                  • Host: Leo Laporte

                  Guests: Richard Campbell, Anthony Ha, and Stacey Higginbotham

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                    • 2 hr 36 min
                  • TWiT 1012: Our Best Of 2024 - The Best Moments From TWiT's 2024

                    TWiT wishes all listeners and viewers a Happy New Year and peaceful 2025!

                  • Padre's CES 2024 haul
                  • Cory Doctorow's infamous ensh*ttification term
                  • Tesla teases a robotaxi
                  • Last in-studio audience for TWiT
                  • Padre on the AI priest
                  • Google Search gets worse
                  • Christina Warren's Rabbit R1
                  • Snowflake and the AT&T breach
                  • Crowdstrike's big outag
                  • Last in-studio episode before moving out
                  • Salt Hank shows off his new cookbook
                  • TWiT's 1000th episode brings back old friends
                  • The State of X/Twitter under Elon
                  • Parenting with TWiT daddies
                  • Tech billionaires affecting Trump's transition team

                    • Host: Leo Laporte

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                    1 hr 49 min
                  • TWiT 1011: The Year in Review - A Look at the Top Stories of 2024
                  • What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR
                  • Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED
                  • Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows
                  • PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
                  • Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
                  • The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1
                  • Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
                  • Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
                  • Bluesky emerges
                  • The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
                  • Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
                  • SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms
                  • U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
                  • Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
                  • U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
                  • U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack
                  • AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
                  • National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers
                  • Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.
                  • New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
                  • GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
                  • Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
                  • Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
                  • Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
                  • Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
                  • OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever
                  • Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
                  • Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event
                  • Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge
                  • Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
                  • So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas
                  • Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
                  • The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
                  • Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
                  • We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
                  • Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
                  • Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years
                  • In Memoriam

                    • Host: Leo Laporte

                    Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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                      • 3 hr 21 min

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