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TWiT 1081: That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO

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Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.

  • Toyota Woven City
  • Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
  • Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy
  • Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
  • Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
    • In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
    Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
  • OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
  • China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
    • Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
  • Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
  • Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
  • Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
  • Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
  • What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
  • Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
  • Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
  • Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
  • Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
  • 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
  • Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
  • The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
  • 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet
  • To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
  • This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
  • The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
  • This pasta sauce wants to record your family

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