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August 24, 2025TWiT 1046: Shrimpspiracy - Musk Trolls Microsoft With Macrohard
You should buy a faster CPU

The Trump-Intel deal is official

Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban

Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief

Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft

Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration

Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years

Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11

Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

Sports streaming enters a bold new era

Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'

Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series

German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers

Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision

More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 46 min
August 17, 2025TWiT 1045: The Juice Ain't Worth the Squeeze - Meta's Flirty Chatbot
Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t

The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform

Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower

Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays

Elli-q

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale

PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents

Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X

Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Sam Abuelsamid, and Lisa Schmeiser

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3 hr 7 min
August 10, 2025TWiT 1044: Elephants on the Moon - Apple and the AI Race
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions

Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac

Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper

Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain

Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift

Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?

Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer

San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner

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2 hr 44 min
August 03, 2025TWiT 1043: It All Starts With Baby Shark - Tesla's $240 Million Bill for FSD Crash
A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash

Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021

Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push

Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'

Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.

Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'

AI Capex is Eating the Economy

Will data centers crash the economy?

What content strategy looks like in the age of AI

Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout

Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump

How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything

Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan

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2 hr 55 min
July 27, 2025TWiT 1042: Well Played Astronomer - The Stats Behind Google's AI Mode Search
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation

Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out

FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report

Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial

Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day

A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups

People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online

Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories

AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban

FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger

Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal

Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Molly White, Janko Roettgers, and Jacob Ward

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2 hr 21 min
July 20, 2025TWiT 1041: A $4 Bill - DOGE Kills Free Tax Tool
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry

Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool

DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists

EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal

Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac

Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

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Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Iain Thomson, and Devindra Hardawar

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2 hr 42 min
July 13, 2025TWiT 1040: The $100,000 Stapler - Veo 3 and Deepfakes
A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin

Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

House "crypto week" could change how Americans use, save money

Latest stablecoin bill addresses foreign issuers, national security safeguards

Grok team apologizes for the chatbot's 'horrific behavior' and blames 'MechaHitler' on a bad update

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions

European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems

Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Belkin shutting down these Wemo smart home products in 2026

It's YouTube vs. Netflix as the Streaming Wars Come Down to 2

Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth

GameStop's Nintendo Switch 2 stapler sells for more than $100,000 on eBay after viral mishap

Professor Oak's voice actor, James Carter Cathcart, has died

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Amy Webb

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3 hr 9 min
July 06, 2025TWiT 1039: Mmmm Ham Shack - YouTube Piracy on the Rise
SCOTUS Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May

SCOTUS granting cert to Cox v. Sony

Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright case

Kadrey v. Meta AI copyright case

Microsoft layoffs hit 9,000 employees in new wave of cuts

Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban

Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams

Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's Starlink Adds $750 Congestion Charge

Mystery recall of iPhone engineers may be Chinese interference in Apple's plans

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis and Nicholas De Leon

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2 hr 46 min
June 29, 2025TWiT 1038: Wu Wei Meets Wu Tang - Microsoft Making Moves in Gaming
The panel discusses the current gaming environment

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad

Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI

Android phones could soon warn you of "Stingrays" snooping on your communications

Tesla Ordered to Stop 'Deceptive Practices' on Cars' Self-Driving Capabilities in France or Face Thousands in Fines

Trump's 'big beautiful bill' could mean slower Wi-Fi for you

Future of States' AI Laws Hinges on Senate Rules for Tax Bill

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It's So Much Worse

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Patrick Beja, and Daniel Rubino

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2 hr 46 min
June 22, 2025TWiT 1037: Teach Amanda Fish - AI Backlash
Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue

Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction

Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System

Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV

AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans' top news source

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time

The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer's Notebook Are a Failure of Congress

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet

Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram

WhatsApp's rollout of ads will change the app forever

Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis, Amanda Silberling, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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2 hr 53 min

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