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June 15, 2025TWiT 1036: Apple Reflux - Progress in Quantum Computing!
Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language

Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow

Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era

Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade

Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete

Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel

Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization

IBM aims to build the world's first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch

Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe

Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent

YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro

Army reserve tech executives meta palantir

Nintendo Switch 2 Is Fastest-Selling Game Console of All Time - Slashdot

An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories

Anker recalls 1.1 million power banks due to fire hazard risk

Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns

Bald eagle live cam update: Babies are leaving nest. What's next?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Harry McCracken, and Jason Snell

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2 hr 31 min
June 08, 2025TWiT 1035: The Droids Are in the Escape Pod - You Can't Copyright Eleanor
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74

Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails

Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues

TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots - Slashdot

Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly

Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules

Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design - Slashdot

Ending USB-C® Port Confusion

Walmart to Expand Wing Drone Deliveries to 100 Stores

Nintendo Switch 2 Has Record-Breaking Launch, Selling Over 3 Million Units - Slashdot

Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You're Not Copyrightable After All

California county accused of using drones to spy on residents

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Cathy Gellis, and Larry Magid

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June 01, 2025TWiT 1034: Two I's and No P - Network Layer Parenting
YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Trump makes a last-minute backtrack on his pick to lead NASA

Xbox co-founder J Allard is working on 'breakthrough' devices at Amazon

GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot

Using technology may sharpen aging brains, not harm them

We Bought a 'Peeing' Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It Was Even Weirder Than Expected

Humanoid Robots for $3000, Hugging Face

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Doc Rock, and Iain Thomson

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May 25, 2025TWiT 1033: Our Friend Zinc - Apple's $900 Million Tariff Nightmare
In this jam-packed episode celebrating Towel Day, the TWiT crew dives into Apple's terrible week with Trump's tariff threats, Google and Microsoft's latest AI advances, the death of CAPTCHAs, and some wild new tech including laser-powered smart homes and sock-picking robot vacuums.
Trump's Phone Tariff Ultimatum - President threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones and Samsung devices unless manufacturing moves to the US, putting Apple in an impossible position between economics and politics

The Sock-Stealing Robot Revolution - Jennifer tests a $2,600 Roborock vacuum with an arm that picks up socks and occasionally tries to grab cats

Microsoft's AI Science Breakthrough - Microsoft Build showcases agentic AI platform that helped create new coolant liquids by analyzing scientific journals and generating novel molecular compounds

Windows Goes Agentic - Microsoft announces MCP protocol integration into Windows, raising both excitement about AI capabilities and concerns about data security

Gaming Industry Consolidation - FTC finally drops its challenge to Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition after three years of failed legal battles

Meta's Monopoly Defense Strategy - Company argues that Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were beneficial rather than anti-competitive, as antitrust trial concludes

Google's Hyper-Realistic AI Videos - Veo 3 generates convincing fake videos that blur the line between reality and AI creation, raising concerns about misinformation

Revenge Porn Legislation Concerns - New "Take It Down" Act passes with bipartisan support but raises censorship worries about its 48-hour removal requirements

Smart Glasses Make a Comeback - Google announces Android XR partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, signaling the return of consumer AR eyewear

The $6.5 Billion AI Hardware Gamble - OpenAI's record-breaking acquisition of Jony Ive's design firm sparks debate about whether AI needs dedicated hardware devices

Amazon's Smart Speaker Surveillance - Investigation reveals how much personal data Echo devices collect and store, highlighting the privacy costs of convenient AI assistants

The Death of CAPTCHAs - AI now solves visual puzzles better than humans, making traditional bot-detection methods obsolete and forcing a rethink of online security

America Abandons the Penny - The US will stop minting pennies due to production costs exceeding face value, ending a century-old currency tradition

Air Traffic Control Crisis Exposed - Newark Airport's radar failures reveal America's dangerously outdated aviation infrastructure held together by 1990s technology and hope

Fortnite's App Store Victory - Epic Games successfully returns to iOS after Apple quickly capitulates under legal pressure, ending years of bitter disputes

Brain-Computer Interface Competition - Valve's Gabe Newell announces Neuralink competitor, expanding the race to connect human brains directly to computers

Infrared Contact Lenses Enable Night Vision - Researchers develop contacts that let wearers see heat signatures even with eyes closed, promising superhuman vision capabilities

23andMe's Genetic Data Gold Rush - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals acquires the DNA testing company for $256 million, raising questions about genetic privacy and

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan
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2 hr 47 min
May 18, 2025TWiT 1032: Cardboard, Plastic Bags, & Duct Tape - What's Going on in Montana?
GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation

Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust

Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI

How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed

OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away

25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI

Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores

Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store

Nextcloud accuses Google of "Big Tech gatekeeping" over Android app permissions

Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era

Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table

Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming

The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair

They're just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wil Harris, Devindra Hardawar, and Harper Reed

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2 hr 39 min
May 11, 2025TWiT 1031: My 3 Friends - The FTC Gets Busy
Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals

Proposed Amicus Brief – #1300, Att. #1 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC (D.D.C., 1:20-cv-03010) – CourtListener.com

Eddy Cue Causes a Stir for Google

DOJ pushes for Google to sell its advertising platforms

Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission

What Stacey has been doing

Attorney General Bailey Files Groundbreaking Rule to End Big Tech's Censorship Monopoly and Protect Online Free Speech

DOGE bro Kyle Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk

Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - Slashdot

How AI Demand Is Draining Local Water Supplies

Tom Brady, Stephen Curry and other big names are mostly off the hook from the FTX fallout

FTC Bans Hidden Fees For Live Events and Short-Term Rentals - Slashdot

The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule

20 years to give away virtually all my wealth | Bill Gates

Mexico is suing Google over 'Gulf of America' name change for US users

Switzerland To Hold Referendum on Introducing Electronic ID

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Wesley Faulkner, and Stacey Higginbotham

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2 hr 37 min
May 04, 2025TWiT 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
April 27, 2025TWiT 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
April 20, 2025TWiT 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

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Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 57 min
April 13, 2025TWiT 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

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Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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3 hr 18 min

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