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August 15, 2021TWiT 836: Brian's OS - IBM's PC turns 40, Senate plan to open Apple's App Store, where Countach got its name
IBM's PC turns 40, Senate plan to open Apple's App Store, where Countach got its name
Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 unveiled: This wedge is a hybrid.
"Blue" hydrogen is worse for the climate than coal, study says.
The real reason everyone hates Apple's child porn idea (it has nothing to do with privacy).
Apple and Google Are Gearing Up to Fight a New App Store Bill.
TikTok overtakes Facebook as world's most downloaded app.
Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40 August 12.
Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech.
The Ethics of a Deepfake Anthony Bourdain Voice.
On the banality of our deepfake future.
Nikola founder charged with securities fraud over allegedly fake truck demo.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Announced With S Pen Support and Water Resistance.
Xiaomi announces Mix 4 with under-display camera.
Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data' Back Door' in Pakistan Project.
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach.
Excerpt: How Google bought Android—according to folks in the room.
YouTube, Google Launch New Protections for Kids Under 18.
How YouTube's Crackdown on Unboxing Videos Could Play Out.
Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money.
Old-fashioned business travel is dead (but don't blame the pandemic).
Aston Martin's 217 mph convertible.
Bugatti's 1,500 hp Bolide.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Tim Stevens, Mike Elgan, and Owen Thomas
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2 hr 36 min
August 08, 2021TWiT 835: A Straw Man Without Legs - Apple's proposed CSAM protections, Google Pixel 6, Firefox declines
Apple's proposed CSAM protections, Google Pixel 6, Firefox declines
Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images.
Daring Fireball: Apple's New 'Child Safety' Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope.
Pixel 6 Preview: Google Confirms Its First Smartphone Chip.
Google Pixel 5A Launching Later This Month at $450.
Google Tensor debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall.
Google+ class action starts paying out $2.15 for G+ privacy violations.
How Biden's E.V. Plan Could Help Tesla and Squeeze Toyota.
Stacey gets advice on buying a new electric vehicle.
Super Electric Scooter Looks To Zapp Urban Mobility Market.
Buy a Rolley.
Firefox Lost Almost 50 million Users: Here's Why It is Concerning.
Elon Musk and Apple deny the wild story that he tried to replace Tim Cook.
Apple Sinks 'Submarine Patent,' Escapes $308.5 Million Verdict.
Google revamps its camera devices but could do more with AI.
Swarm Eval Kit.
A Look Back At The Very First Website Ever Launched, 30 Years Later.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Doc Rock, and Sam Abuelsamid
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2 hr 39 min
August 01, 2021TWiT 834: Bimbo Squalo - Blizzard mess, China tech crackdown, quarterly earnings, Rickroll hits 1 billion
Bimbo Squalo - Blizzard mess, China tech crackdown, quarterly earnings, Rickroll hits 1 billion
Review: A deep new history of Tesla takes the shine off Elon Musk.
Apple Watch lead Kevin Lynch reportedly transferred to 'Apple Car' team.
Apple's Mac and iPad sales break quarterly records.
Facial recognition technology faces a crackdown in China.
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Kotick apologizes for the "tone deaf" response, promises action following a lawsuit.
Inside The Cosby Suite From The Activision Blizzard Lawsuit.
2010 Blizzcon panel in which a fan was brave enough to ask a panel full of men whether there's scope for some of WoW's female characters to be less sexualized.
First 'Time Crystal' Built Using Google's Quantum Computer.
TSMC 2nm chip plans are announced, a day after Intel said it could catch up.
Mark Zuckerberg is betting Facebook's future on the metaverse.
Thanks to the Rickroll, 'Never Gonna Give You Up' hits 1 billion YouTube plays.
U.S. Government Sells Wu-Tang Clan Album Once Owned By Martin Shkreli.
Sony has sold 10 million PS5 consoles.
Scarlett Johansson sues Disney, says Disney+ release of Black Widow broke contract.
YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion, Alphabet Beats Estimates.
Spotify Misses Overall Q2 User Target, Ad Revenue Jumps 110%.
3G-only Kindles begin their long, slow death this year.
Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV.
Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code.
Lucasfilm hires the YouTube deepfaker who put its Luke, Leia, and Tarkin cameos to shame.
Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones.
With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Carolina Milanesi
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2 hr 32 min
July 25, 2021TWiT 833: Herbs of Providence - Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
Amazon's New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.
Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day.
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair.
iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction.
Framework | The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews.
Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option.
'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Wants to Have the Biggest Podcast in the World.
Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices.
Akamai DNS outage knocks many major websites and services offline: PSN, Steam, Fidelity, more.
A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn.
BritBox Customers Stunned When Billed 100 Times Their Monthly Fee.
Twitter shares a first look at the 'big overhaul' coming to TweetDeck.
Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate.
Tennessee man died from heart attack after 'Swatting' over Twitter handle.
Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X.
Tesla Full-Self Driving Software Alarms Safety Advocates.
Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking.
Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars.
ROUTERS! ROUTERS!! ROUTERS!!!

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Owen JJ Stone, and Iain Thomson
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2 hr 37 min
July 18, 2021TWiT 832: Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet - Windows 365, Windows on iPad
Windows 365, Windows on iPad
Targets of spyware revealed
Retail stores packed with unchecked Facial Recognition
So Long, Twitter Fleets
Twitter for iOS now lets you edit (who can reply to your old) tweets
Running Windows 3.1 and TRS-80 emulation on an iPad!
Facebook Has Fired Dozens Over Abusing Access to User Data, New Book Says
Surgeon General's Warning for Facebook
Social Warming (book)
Windows 365 puts PCs in the cloud
The new Steam Deck for Gaming
Lots of apps use your personal contacts. Few will tell you what they do with them.
Tesla FSD beta v9, Not So Great
Apple Watch and Health exec Kevin Lynch joining the Apple Car team
Dyson EV
Anthony Bourdain AI narration
Val Kilmer comparison
Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back
Where Lorem Ipsum Comes From

Host: Jason Snell
Guests: Harry McCracken, Rosemary Orchard, and Andy Ihnatko
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2 hr 25 min
July 11, 2021TWiT 831: Do You Even Rocket, Bro? - Branson in Space, Amazon, Kaseya Hack
Branson in Space, Amazon, Kaseya Hack
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
AI voice actors sound more human than ever—and are ready to hire
Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming His Own Government Violated The Constitution
Larry Magid: Trump's misguided social media lawsuit (mercurynews.com)
Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act
Richard Branson and Crew React To Space Flight
Blue Origin Tweets about "Space" Travel
FTC Opens Probe of Amazon's MGM Purchase, Signaling a Lengthy Inquiry
Apple has reportedly requested streaming rights for NFL Sunday Ticket games
The First Camera Phone and photo by Phillipe Kahn
Kaseya Failed to Address Security Before Hack, Ex-Employees Say
Microsoft Teams is bringing back Clippy and all your old favorites
The Yahoo! Brand Is Still Worth $1.6 Billion to Masayoshi Son
Microsoft Teams is bringing back Clippy and all your old favorites
Meet the Switch Pro: $350 "OLED Model" launches on October 8
Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
Pokémon GO Catches $5 Billion in Lifetime Revenue in Five Years
Zuck's flag-waving

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Christina Warren, Larry Magid, and Devindra Hardawar
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2 hr 26 min
July 03, 2021TWiT 830: Meat Us in Singapore - Amazon and the FTC, REvil ransomware, GitHub Copilot, Pokémon Go
Amazon and the FTC, REvil ransomware, GitHub Copilot, Pokémon Go
FTC votes to expand antitrust enforcement powers
FTC charges computer chip supplier Broadcom with illegal monopolization
Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism
The Jeff Bezos Paradox
Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built?
Amazon Revises Corporate Values Days Before Bezos Steps Down
REvil ransomware hits 200 companies in MSP supply-chain attack
Supermarket chain Coop closes 800 stores following Kaseya ransomware attack
Russian hackers are trying to brute-force hundreds of networks
Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users' Facebook passwords
Microsoft warns of Windows' PrintNightmare' vulnerability that's being actively exploited
Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users
Judge blocks Florida law aimed at punishing social media
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is changing to black in Windows 11
Stars and Stripes - Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
Amazon Plans' Rebel Alliance' With Slack, Dropbox to Fight Microsoft
Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m
The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error
Meat Grown in Israeli Bioreactors Is Coming to American Diners

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Brianna Wu and Amy Webb
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2 hr 20 min
June 27, 2021TWiT 829: You Don't Even Get a Beanie Baby! - Windows 11 unveiled, China bans Bitcoin mining, gig app for intel gathering
Windows 11 unveiled - can your PC run it? China bans Bitcoin and other crypto mining, gig app for open-source intel gathering, and more.
Microsoft makes Windows 11 official, and it's coming this fall.
Microsoft will let devs keep every penny their Windows app makes — unless it's a game.
Fret not, you can sideload Android APKs directly onto Windows 11.
Will your PC run Windows 11? Even Microsoft can't say for sure.
Windows 11 will integrate Chat from Microsoft Teams in the Taskbar.
New GitHub app details precisely why your PC cannot upgrade to Windows 11.
DirectStorage on Windows 11: Next-gen gaming performance, with PC requirements.
"I'm totally screwed." WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted.
Tech giants, fearful of proposals to curb them, blitz Washington with lobbying.
This year's Prime Day broke sales records.
Apple says allowing sideloading on iPhone would expose users to serious privacy and security risks.
Google delays Chrome's cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years.
Sundar Pichai faces internal criticism at Google.
App taps unwitting users abroad to gather open-source intelligence.
John McAfee was not suicidal, says widow of antivirus software magnate.
Real estate mogul Frank McCourt has a $100 million plan to replace Facebook.
Court rules for high school cheerleader in First Amendment dispute over Snapchat profanity.
China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans.
South African brothers vanish, and so does $3.6 billion in Bitcoin.
UK watchdog bans cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

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Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Ed Bott, Daniel Rubino, and Denise Howell
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2 hr 27 min
June 20, 2021TWiT 828: Space Space Space Space - Five Anti-Big Tech bills, Windows 11 leak, WWW as an NFT, Right to repair
Five Anti-Big Tech bills, Windows 11 leak, WWW as an NFT, Right to repair
Read The Five Big Tech Bills Congress Just Introduced.
Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden.
Pros and Cons of Amazon's Sidewalk Network. Plus, How to Opt Out.
Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
A top tech journalist shares the pitch deck he uses to sell ads on his Substack newsletter and podcast.
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more.
We investigated whether digital contact tracing actually worked in the US.
New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation.
FTC Comes Out in Favor of Right to Repair.
Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers.
Amazon confirms it removed RavPower, a popular phone battery and charger brand.
Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews.
The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means.
Consumer Reports: Prime Days best deals.

Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Alex Kantrowitz, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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2 hr 13 min
June 13, 2021TWiT 827: Weather Balloons and Swamp Gas - WWDC highlights, Big Tech regulation, flying cars
WWDC highlights, Big Tech regulation, flying cars
Apple Lists 'M1X MacBook Pro' in YouTube Tags for WWDC Keynote Video.
Rene picks privacy and extensibility as his favorite announcements during WWDC.
WWDC 2021: macOS Monterey further blurs lines between Mac, Catalyst, and iPad apps.
Jason picks Unified platform and Mac shortcuts as his favorite announcements during WWDC.
WWDC 2021: I love it when a platform comes together.
iOS 15 and macOS Monterey — Apple's walled garden just got even higher.
FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web.
Philip picks SharePlay API as his favorite announcement during WWDC.
Apple employees push back against returning to the office in an internal letter.
Leo picks Apple ID reform as his favorite announcement during WWDC.
Public reaction to Amazon Sidewalk.
Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight with auction winner.
House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies.
Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat.
The hard truth about ransomware: we aren't prepared, it's a battle with new rules, and it hasn't near reached peak impact.
The U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers.
GameStop stock falls sharply amid 5M-share sales plan, SEC investigation.
Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11.
FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs.
Apple says it didn't know Trump's DOJ was asking for Democrats' data.
Some Apple Suppliers in China Tell Ethnic Minorities: Don't Bother Applying For Jobs.
iPhone 13 release date, price, specs, and leaks.
Billionaire Larry Page's Kitty Hawk Is Making An All-In Bet On Robot Air Taxis. Its Program Head Is Out In Disagreement Over It.
What Is a Flying Car?
Facebook plans its first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor.
Twitter to add a newsletter 'subscribe' button to profiles for simple sign-ups.
Happy 42nd Anniversary to the Original Intel 8086 and the x86 Architecture.
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing a law.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asks whether the Forest Service or the BLM can alter the orbit of the moon or the Earth in order to fight climate change.
Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest.

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Guests: Rene Ritchie, Jason Snell, and Philip Michaels
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2 hr 30 min

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