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17 Feb 2025TWiT 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed02:44:13
  • TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
  • Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
  • IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
  • Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
  • Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
  • Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
  • Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
  • Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
  • Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
  • YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing
  • Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
  • Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
  • Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
  • Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
  • Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed
  • Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
  • Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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24 Feb 2025TWiT 1020: Smell My Mouse - Biggest Crypto Heist, iPhone 16e, Alexa Revamp02:45:31
  • Over $1.4 billion taken from Bybit crypto exchange
  • Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order
  • iOS18.4 Beta adds priority notifications, support for robot vacs in Apple Home, but no smarter siri
  • Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
  • OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
  • The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom
  • Amazon Appstore for Android is shutting down in August
  • Spotify is making it easier to release audiobooks narrated by AI
  • California privacy regulator seeks to fine Florida data broker after huge breach of Social Security numbers
  • Donald Trump Is Turning CISA Into The Embodiment Of His Election Conspiracy Theories
  • Asus Continues Fragrant Device Trend With an Aromatic Mouse - Slashdot
  • iPhone 16E: all the news on Apple's new $599 phone
  • Smart ring tracks health, fitness data with long battery life

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Larry Magid

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03 Mar 2025TWiT 1021: Benito On High - Alexa Plus, Goodbye Skype, YouTube on TV02:52:45
  • Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
  • Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
  • An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
  • Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
  • 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
  • Skype is shutting down after two decades
  • Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
  • House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
  • Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
  • Apple to build iCloud backdoor
  • Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
  • "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
  • Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
  • YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
  • 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
  • Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
  • An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
  • All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Emily Forlini, Doc Rock, and Janko Roettgers

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10 Mar 2025TWiT 1022: Chatting With MrBabyMan - Spring Forward, MWC 2025, AI Poisoning02:43:07
  • 'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say
  • The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
  • Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features
  • An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
  • Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
  • The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025
  • AMD finally has a decent NVIDIA killer with the Radeon 9070 + 9070 XT
  • Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations
  • Crony Crypto Capitalism
  • Utah Passes First US App Store Age Verification Law
  • The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
  • YouTube Premium and Music Surpass 125 Million Subscribers
  • America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome
  • Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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17 Mar 2025TWiT 1023: This is Not Tax Advice - The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI03:12:58

The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics

  • An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
  • DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
  • Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.
  • Intel has a new CEO
  • Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci-Fi
  • Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games
  • Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie
  • Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090
  • Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
  • Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination
  • TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app
  • F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries
  • Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
  • Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot
  • Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28
  • Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Glenn Fleishman, and Mikah Sargent

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24 Mar 2025TWiT 1024: Payday Loan Burrito - Section 230, Intel's Future, TikTok's Fate02:49:42
  • Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
  • Apple Can't Beat Spotify
  • Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
  • Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
  • Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
  • Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
  • Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
  • Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
  • Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
  • Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
  • Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
  • Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
  • Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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31 Mar 2025TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare02:39:42

Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T

  • Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
  • Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
  • No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
  • Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
  • Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
  • Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
  • Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
  • 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
  • Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
  • As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
  • Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
  • China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
  • Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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07 Apr 2025TWiT 1026: I Know of BigBalls - TWIST Takeover03:13:29
  • Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
  • Trump delays TikTok ban again
  • Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
  • China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot
  • Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
  • Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
  • With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provider
  • Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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14 Apr 2025TWiT 1027: 20 Years in the Can - Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves03:17:10
  • 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

Host: Leo Laporte

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

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21 Apr 2025TWiT 1028: Some Had Leashes - Google's Monopoly, Yap Score, Robot Marathon02:56:01
  • 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

Host: Leo Laporte

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

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