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- TWiT 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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2 hr 36 min - TWiT 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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2 hr 34 min - TWiT 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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2 hr 57 min - TWiT 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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3 hr 18 min - TWiT 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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3 hr 14 min - TWiT 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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2 hr 40 min - TWiT 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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2 hr 50 min - TWiT 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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3 hr 13 min - TWiT 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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2 hr 44 min - TWiT 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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