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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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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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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
February 23, 2025TWiT 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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2h 46min
February 16, 2025TWiT 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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2h 45min
February 09, 2025TWiT 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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February 02, 2025TWiT 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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January 26, 2025TWiT 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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2h 53min

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