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November 17, 2024TWiT 1006: Underwater Alien Civilizations - Bluesky Growth, Tyson Vs. Paul, AI Granny
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth

Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event

Biden Asked Microsoft to "Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity." He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.

CFPB looks to place Google under federal supervision, setting up clash

Apple's Tim Cook Has Ways to Cope With the Looming Trump Tariffs

Apple Removes Another RFE/RL App At Request Of Russian Regulator

Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'

Elon Musk's X Corp. files notice in Alex Jones' Infowars bankruptcy case

Spotify's Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström

This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff

In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Daniel Rubino, and Iain Thomson

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2 hr 42 min
November 10, 2024TWiT 1005: $125,000 in Baguettes - iPod Turns 23, The $1.1M AI Painting, Roblox
Apple launched the iPod 23 years ago, and changed the world

Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops

How the 2024 US presidential election will determine tech's future

Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Tim Cook and other tech leaders congratulate Trump on election win

AI didn't sway the election, but it deepened the partisan divide

YouTube dominated Election Day as viewers guzzled 84 million hours of presidential news

The other election night winner: Perplexity

Dogecoin and other memecoins surge as Trump wins presidential election

Detroit to Accept Crypto for Tax Payments in Bid to Spur Tech Innovation, Fuel Economic Growth

Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million

OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

OpenAI acquired Chat.com

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

Roblox is banning kids from 'social hangout' spaces

Reddit Passes Snap

Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Dan Patterson, and Lisa Eadicicco

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2 hr 46 min
November 03, 2024TWiT 1004: Embrace Uncertainty - Political Texts, Daylight Saving Time, Digital Ad Market
The panel discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections to the tech industry

Alexa's New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab

Why do we keep changing our clocks?

ChatGPT Search

Online political ads--we're almost done!

Elon Musk Wants You to Think This Election's Being Stolen

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine

Digital ad market booms for Big Tech

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Nicholas De Leon, and Amy Webb

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2 hr 53 min
October 27, 2024TWiT 1003: CrabStrike - Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing
Delta Sues Crowdstrike, Hospital AI, Surge Pricing
Foreign Election Interference

North Korean hackers and bitcoin

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Delta actually sues Crowdstrike

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user's mouse cursor

Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely

Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro

Kroger and Walmart Deny 'Surge Pricing' After Adopting Digital Price Tags

Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead

Musk steers X disputes to conservative Texas courts in service terms update

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Stamos and Owen Thomas

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2 hr 46 min
October 20, 2024TWiT 1002: Maximum Iceland Scenario - Data Caps, 3rd Party Android Stores, Nuclear Amazon
Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling 'is dangerous'

Canceling subscriptions is about to get easier

The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist

Wyden: CALEA Hack Proves Dangers Of Government-Mandated Backdoors

Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

X Will Soon Let Users See Tweets From People Who Block Them

People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes

US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4 mln cars after fatal crash

French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites

Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand

Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Amazon debuts next-gen family of Kindle devices: First color model, fastest and lightest Paperwhite ever

Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

Netflix third-quarter subscribers barely beat estimates as ad-tier members jump 35%

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Cory Doctorow, and Jason Hiner

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3 hr 5 min
October 13, 2024TWiT 1001: The Anti-Force Entruster - Tesla's Cybercab, Hacked Robovacs, Mario Alarm Clock
Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot

The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise

How to send messages via satellite on your iPhone or Pixel

US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case

Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs

More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them

A Whole Bunch Of States File Garbage Grandstanding Lawsuits Against TikTok With The Main

Complaint Being 'Kids Like It'
Two Scientists Share Physics Nobel for Machine Learning

Three Scientists Get Chemistry Nobel for Research Into Proteins

This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again

How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain

A closer look at Nintendo's adorable Alarmo alarm clock

Samsung is turning your Galaxy phone into a smart door key

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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3 hr 19 min
October 06, 2024TWiT 1000: The Reunion Episode - Catching up With the Original Twits
On this 1000th episode of TWiT, Leo has his old pals Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Roger Chang, and David Prager on the show to reminisce about the TechTV days, discuss the future of AI, and get caught up on each other's lives.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, David Prager, and Roger Chang

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2 hr 45 min
September 29, 2024TWiT 999: Bananas and Browsers - CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews
CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews
Sam Altman's AI Manifesto

News from Meta Connect

Gavin Newsom vetoes sweeping AI safety bill, siding with Silicon Valley

The Panel discusses CoPilot

The Panel debates AGI

James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm

SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against 'League of Legends'

Rabbit says only 5,000 people use the R1 daily

Orion: True AR Glasses Have Arrived

AI smackdown: How a new FTC ruling just protected the free press

DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

Firefox Review Checker - Ensure review authenticity in your online shopping

New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations

The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

Some Mad Genius Put ChatGPT on a TI-84 Graphing Calculator

23andMe troubles, company recently settled data insecurity suit for $30 mil

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Parmy Olson, Daniel Rubino, and Henry Laporte

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2 hr 52 min
September 22, 2024TWiT 998: Artisanal Locally-Sourced Dopamine - Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down
Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down
Discussion of the iPhone 16

Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon

Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil

Bluesky tops 10 million users

Newsom signs California bill to limit 'addictive' social media feeds for kids

The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley

Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI

Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law

Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December

Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Alex Lindsay, and Rob Pegoraro

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2 hr 32 min
September 15, 2024TWiT 997: Put an OLED on it - iPhone Event 2024, $700 PS5, AI in AU
iPhone Event, $700 PS5, AI in AU
Of course: Everything Apple announced at the iPhone 16 event

VR vs AR

Taylor Swift endorses Harris/Walz, mentions AI imagery pushed her to be public

No, Kamala Harris wasn't wearing earing headphones, and those things barely even exist

PS5 Pro is real and crazy expensive at $700

Meta admits to scraping every Australian's account to train its AI, with no opt out

Australia's PM wants to ban social media for kids, potentially those between 14-16

What is AI best at now? Improving products you already own

Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully complete the first private spacewalk

'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

Flappy Bird vs Flappy Bird creator

Microsoft wants to remove low-level access

Mark Zuckerberg is done apologizing

Prius sets 93MPG Coast-Coast Record

Italian Retro Video Game Pirates!

Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a lot of fun!

Hot Ones coming to Netflix?

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Anthony Ha

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2 hr 44 min

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