This Week in Tech (Video)

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  • TWiT 890: Jail or Olympics - Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

    Twitter whistleblower, LastPass hack, Ethereum merge, Artemis 1, Zuck meets Rogan

  • Twitter whistleblower says the platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6.
  • Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's.
  • Apple's 'Far out' iPhone event will be held on September 7.
  • SpaceX, T-Mobile to Connect Satellites to Cellphones in Remote Areas.
  • Nichelle Nichols' ashes will head to space on a rocket.
  • Scientists announce the first detection of carbon dioxide on a faraway planet with James Webb Space Telescope.
  • LastPass developer systems were hacked to steal source code.
  • How big is your haystack?
  • Ethereum's Merge: Opportunities and risks.
  • The Crypto World Can't Wait for Ethereum's 'Merge.'
  • Web3 is going just great.
  • A Month on 'Mars': Flags and Footprints of the Moon and the Arctic.
  • Hackers Are Breaking Into and Emptying Cash App Accounts.
  • 10 Million Watched 'House of the Dragon' Premiere, HBO Says.
  • Big budget blockbusters arrive amid fears of 'peak TV.'
  • Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Running Facebook Sucks, Metaverse Is Better.
  • California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars.
  • Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all.
  • Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code.
  • Meet Commander Moonikin Campos, the mannequin going farther than any astronaut.
  • NASA's asteroid-deflecting test mission is just 1 month away from impact.
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    • Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Becky Worley, Rod Pyle, and Wil Harris

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      • 3 hr 11 min
    • TWiT 889: The Thin Green Line - Streaming TV is winning, House of the Dragon, Zuckerberg's avatar, Pixy RIP
    • Game of Thrones' v. 'Lord of the Rings': The Biggest Battle in Fantasy TV History Is Here.
    • How About We Just Don't Watch the 'Game of Thrones' Prequel?
    • HBO Max to Remove 36 Titles, Including 20 Originals, From Streaming.
    • Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags.
    • U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time, Nielsen Says.
    • Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' Coverage to Be Tracked by Nielsen.
    • Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign.
    • Do We All See Baby Mark Zuckerberg as Jesus in This 18th Century Sculpture?
    • Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter.
    • A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.
    • Apple releases iOS, iPadOS and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack.
    • Why Janet Jackson made laptops crash.
    • HBO Achieves New Heights of Corporate Synergy With Bizarre 'House of the Dragon' Tie-Ins.
    • Ring's new TV show is a brilliant but ominous viral marketing ploy.
    • Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy.
    • Snap Scraps Development on Flying Selfie Pixy Drone.
    • Now selfie drones can fly inside Apple stores.
    • The US plans to block sales of older chipmaking tech to China.
    • A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools.

      • Host: Leo Laporte

      Guests: Jason Hiner, Nicholas Deleon, and Owen Thomas

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        • 2 hr 24 min
      • TWiT 888: Frolic and Detour - FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

        FTC's privacy push, the fall of social media, Excel esports, Netflix gaming

      • AngledDesigners on Etsy.
      • This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
      • Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.
      • The FTC has kicked off its massive push to regulate the data economy.
      • Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests.
      • Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors.
      • Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
      • TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants.
      • Sunset of the social network.
      • Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever.
      • Apple is in talks to acquire streaming rights for Big Ten athletics, report says.
      • Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
      • IBP Inc. v. Tyson Foods.
      • Starlink Ground Stations Successfully Hacked.
      • California DMV accuses Tesla of deceptive practices in marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving options.
      • The Creators of 'King's Quest' Are Back With a New Game.
      • Netflix's slow start in gaming.
      • Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.

        • Host: Leo Laporte

        Guests: Denise Howell, Doc Rock, and Brian McCullough

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          • 2 hr 49 min
        • TWiT 887: Chorizo in Spaaaaaaaaace! - Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

          Amazon buys iRobot, Mofi vinyl controversy, Cybertruck cost increase

        • Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
        • Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes.
        • Ring, Google, and the Police: What to Know About Emergency Requests for Video Footage.
        • Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK.
        • Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.
        • California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot.
        • U.S. Senate passes major $430 billion bill to fight climate change, cut drug costs.
        • Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
        • Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
        • Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
        • Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned.
        • How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire.
        • Citing Danger of "Ink Spills" Epson Programs End of Life for Some Printers.
        • Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour.
        • Pearson (LON:PSON) Sees NFT, Blockchain Helping Making Money From E-Books Sales.
        • Samsung Unpacked Date Is Aug. 10: This Is What To Expect.
        • Tinder scales back its plans for dating in the metaverse.
        • HBO Max, Discovery+ to Launch as Merged Product in Summer 2023.
        • Why HBO Max Spent $130 Million to Shelve 'Batgirl' and 'Scoob 2'.
        • French Scientist's Photo of 'Distant Star' Was Actually Chorizo.

          • Host: Leo Laporte

          Guests: Christina Warren, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Georgia Dow

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            • 2 hr 28 min
          • TWiT 886: The Barn Has Left the Horse - CHIPS Act, earnings week, FTC sues Meta, Twitter Blue price hike
          • CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries.
          • Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022.
          • Intel Kills Optane Memory Business Entirely.
          • Apple's $83B quarter by the numbers.
          • FY22 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft.
          • Amazon (AMZN) Q2 2022 earnings.
          • Peacock's paid subscribers stayed flat at 13 million, losses widen to $467 million.
          • Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports.
          • Collect and Trade NFL Highlights As NFTs.
          • Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money.
          • Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals.
          • FTC's Lina Khan Overruled Staff to Sue Meta Over Virtual-Reality Deal.
          • Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok.
          • Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why.
          • Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed.
          • Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly.
          • Twitter v. Elon Musk trial date set to start October 17th.
          • FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications.
          • Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us.
          • T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history.
          • Tim Hortons offers free coffee to settle mobile app class action lawsuits.
          • Russia tried to hijack some of Apple's internet traffic for 12 hours.
          • Details from FBI Raid of U.S. Private Vaults Being Kept from Public.
          • Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet.
          • HBO Max will begin streaming 'Game of Thrones' in 4K HDR next month.
          • Ultiworld on Twitter: "Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) with the MASSIVE sky for @PrideofNY at the World Ultimate Club Championships"
          • NASA on Twitter: "We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible."

            • Host: Leo Laporte

            Guests: Jason Snell, Shoshana Weissmann, and Dan Patterson

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              • 2 hr 29 min
            • TWiT 885: St Jeff's Memorial Hospital - Amazon Buys One Medical, Google Glass AR, Netflix Ad-Supported

              Amazon Buys One Medical, Google Glass AR, Netflix Ad-Supported

            • Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk loses effort to delay
            • Snap shares plunge 25% on disappointing second-quarter results and plans to slow hiring
            • House panel advances landmark federal data privacy bill
            • Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now
            • Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B
            • OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
            • "DALL·E Now Available in Beta"
            • BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
            • Gated is the new email program that makes people pay for access to your inbox
            • Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers, Vows Rebound
            • Netflix Aims to Launch Cheaper, Ad-Supported Plan in Early 2023
            • Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
            • Steve Jobs' prototype for the original Apple computer is being auctioned off, and bidding has already hit $230,000
            • 'Doom' co-creator John Romero is making a new first-person shooter
            • Discord voice chat is coming to Xbox
            • A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta

              • Host: Jason Howell

              Guests: Megan Morrone, Roberto Baldwin, and Ashley Esqueda

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                • 2 hr 34 min
              • TWiT 884: Not Tested With Normal People - James Webb pics, Ev Williams steps down, MacBook Air M2 review

                James Webb pics, Ev Williams steps down, MacBook Air M2 review

              • First James Webb Space Telescope pics give us our deepest look into space yet.
              • Musk Seeks to Block 'Warp Speed' Twitter Trial Over $44 Billion Deal.
              • What would a post-Twitter world look like?
              • Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium.
              • Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google, according to Google's own data.
              • Kids and teens now spend more time watching TikTok than YouTube, new data shows.
              • TikTok to roll out content filters and maturity ratings in pledge to make app safer.
              • The Uber whistleblower: I'm exposing a system that sold people a lie.
              • Uber Faces Lawsuit by Women for Sexual Assault Claims.
              • MacBook Air M2 is here, and it's spectacular.
              • macOS Ventura preview: Stage Manager is the star of the show.
              • Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader.
              • Hands-On with Tilt Five Production AR Glasses!
              • Magic Leap 2 will go on sale in the US on September 30th.
              • Hands-On with Mojo Augmented Reality Contact Lens!
              • FCC proposes new US broadband standard of 100Mbps down/20Mbps up.

                • Host: Devindra Hardawar

                Guests: Brianna Wu, Patrick Norton, and Norman Chan

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                  • 2 hr 27 min
                • TWiT 883: More Data Than Sense - Musk bails on Twitter, Europe's big data laws, China's big data hack

                  Musk bails on Twitter, Europe's big data laws, China's big data hack

                •  Elon Musk tries to walk away from the Twitter deal.
                •  Twitter will sue Elon Musk for calling off his $44 billion takeover.
                •  Elon's out, and his bid to buy Twitter was likely a joke.
                •  When Elon Musk dreams, his employees have nightmares.
                •  Report: Tesla Factory Workers Are in Danger Because Elon Musk Hates the Color Yellow.
                •  How Elon's bizarre Twitter takeover saga could have just been a cover for him to sell $8.5 billion in Tesla stock.
                •  Europe's Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part.
                •  Biden order fortifies data privacy ahead of state-by-state legal battle over abortion.
                • Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police.
                •  What the Heck Is a 'Super App' and Why Are Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel, and Jack Dorsey Interested?
                •  Web3 projects have lost more than $2 billion to hacks this year.
                •  Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire".
                •  Starlink on your yacht, so hot.
                •  Apple's Mac Studio shows the power of its M1 chips, but isn't priced for mere mortals.
                •  The fate of Apple and Sunday Ticket to be determined by fall, says NFL commissioner.
                •  Apple's New Lockdown Mode for iPhone Fights Hacking, Spyware.
                •  Why the Soviet Union wanted to nuke this hot dog stand.
                •  NASA will unveil the James Webb Space Telescope's 1st science photos this week. Here's how to watch.
                •  The machine behind the 'God particle' is on the hunt for dark matter.

                  • Host: Leo Laporte

                  Guests: Amy Webb, Dwight Silverman, and Connie Guglielmo

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                    • 2 hr 48 min
                  • TWiT 882: Many Mini Metaverses - Don't Buy Entry Level M2 Macbook Pro, Google To Delete Abortion Clinic Visits

                    Don't Buy Entry Level M2 Macbook Pro, Google To Delete Abortion Clinic Visits

                  • GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit
                  • Section 230 Is a Last Line of Defense for Abortion Speech Online
                  • Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
                  • Google will start auto-deleting abortion clinic visits from user location history
                  • Elon Musk Takes Unusually Long Twitter Break
                  • Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months
                  • Dollars for Docs
                  • Department of Justice seized iPhones from two attorneys involved in January 6 probe
                  • Bitcoin Crash Continues
                  • Instagram tests ditching video posts in favor of Reels
                  • TikTok says it's putting new limits on Chinese workers' access to U.S. user data
                  • FTC commissioner's solo TikTok memo that was misreported around the world
                  • Mike's recent Computerworld piece on the inevitability of the "splinternet"
                  • Judge Luttig: Here's why I spoke so slowly at Jan. 6 hearing
                  • Apple's Entry-Level M2 MacBook Pro Turns Into a Celeron Under Heavy Load
                  • Steve Jobs Receives Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

                    • Host: Leo Laporte

                    Guests: Christina Warren, Mike Elgan, and Glenn Fleishman

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                      • 2 hr 50 min
                    • TWiT 881: A Cowboy Hat For Your Dog - Roe vs. Wade, Amazon robots, Twitter Notes, Nothing Phone (1)

                      Roe vs. Wade, Amazon robots, Twitter Notes, Nothing Phone (1)

                    •  U.S. tech industry frets about handing data to states prosecuting abortion.
                    •  Meta Clamps Down on Internal Discussion of Roe v. Wade's Overturning.
                    •  Google tells workers they can relocate 'without justification' following the Supreme Court decision.
                    •  Big Tech is silent on data privacy in post-Roe America.
                    •  For people seeking abortions, digital privacy is suddenly critical.
                    •  We Need to Take Back Our Privacy.
                    •  Amazon's Latest Trick: Pipe In a Dead Person's Voice Through Alexa's Speakers.
                    •  No, Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise aren't dating: A TikTok video with impersonator confuses fans.
                    •  Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot.
                    •  A leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire.
                    •  Elon Tells Twitter He Needs Moar Data, Twitter Gives It to Him.
                    •  Elon Musk says he's worried about keeping Tesla out of bankruptcy.
                    •  Elon Musk says Tesla's AI humanoid robot 'Optimus' that can walk at 5mph and deadlift 150lbs will be ready in THREE MONTHS.
                    •  @Twitter: Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter.
                    •  Prime Day 2022 Will Start July 12—Here's What to Expect.
                    •  Google News returns to Spain and unveils redesign promoting local news and fact checks.
                    •  The underbelly of tech journalism.
                    •  Nothing Lives Up to Its Name, Hypes Up Nothing.
                    •  For All Mankind' prop fused an Apple Newton MessagePad 120 and an iPhone 12.

                      • Host: Leo Laporte

                      Guests: Brianna Wu, Iain Thomson, and Florence Ion

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                        • 2 hr 37 min

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