This Week in Tech (Audio)
by TWiTThis Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast from TWiT.tv. Every Sunday, Leo Laporte and a roundtable of insiders explore the week's hottest tech news from AI to robots, and PCs to privacy. When it comes to tech, TWiT is IT. Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
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Episodes
TWiT 969: Chasing Shadows in the Digital Abyss - Doomed Apple Car, Chinese EVs, MWC Roundup
2h 49m · Published- Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
- Frame glasses
- Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
- Why Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
- Elon Musk Asks Satya Nadella for Tech Support: 'I Don't Mean to be a Pest'
- Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget
- South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
- TikTok Begins Removing Universal Music Publishing Songs
- Progressive Web Apps in the EU will work fine in iOS 17.4
- Push alerts are the latest technique the FBI uses to track criminal suspects
- Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
- Best of MWC 2024: AI, Wearables, and Bending Phone Concepts That Amaze
- Republican US senator wants to hike tariffs on Chinese vehicles
- Robert "Bob" G. Heil - Kurrus Funeral Home in Belleville, Illinois
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Anthony Ha and Sam Abuelsamid
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TWiT 968: Don't Tell the Moon - NVIDIA Dominates, Gemini Taken Down
2h 29m · Published- How Exactly NVIDIA Is Pulling This Off
- Google takes down Gemini AI image generator. Here's what you need to know
- AT&T restores service after hours of outage
- AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
- Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown
- Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
- Walmart isn't buying Vizio for its hardware. It wants the TV maker's ad business
- Wyze sent camera thumbnails from 13,000 systems to other users
- Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
- KeyTrap' DNS Bug Threatens Widespread Internet Outages
- Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data
- SpaceX May Be Withholding Satellite Internet in Taiwan, Congressman Contends
- FTC cracks down on H&R Block for deleting tax data when users want to downgrade
- 3rd Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Janko Roettgers, Mike Elgan, and Alex Kantrowitz
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TWiT 967: I'll Be Your Shabbos Goy - KOSA, French Public Scrolling Ban
2h 27m · Published- Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
- Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law
- Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
- 2 Twitter books are coming out
- Bluesky opens up to the public
- The Reply Guy Constitution
- Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
- Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
- Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
- Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
- Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown
- FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
- Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand
- Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Amanda Silberling, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Shoshana Weissmann
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TWiT 966: He's Got a Huge Corpus - Bluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans
2h 21m · PublishedBluesky Goes Public, Zuck's AI plans
- The panel discusses the Apple Vision Pro
- Transcribe Glass
- X rival Bluesky launches to public with option to pick your algorithm
- Tech layoff tracker - layoffs.fyi
- A general discussion on AI
- Zuckerberg's Plan for AI Hinges on Your Facebook and Instagram Data
- The panel looks back at the proto-internet
- Reddit Doesn't Have to Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules
- David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93
- The passing of John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Nicholas De Leon
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TWiT 965: Baby's First Layoff - Apple Vision Pro, Google Retires Cache links
2h 8m · Published- The panel gives their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro
- Online safety hearing gets skeptical response from kids, advocates
- Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
- Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs
- There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube
- Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
- Google Search officially retires cache link
- The panel discusses the recent spat of tech industry layoffs
- Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
- Amazon Content Spending 2023 Rose 14% to $18.9B for TV, Film and Music
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Georgia Dow, Lisa Schmeiser, and Wesley Faulkner
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TWiT 964: No One Talks to the Faucet Anymore - AI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes
2h 35m · PublishedAI Investing Trends, Taylor Swift Deepfakes
- 160-180k Apple Vision Pros sold
- Ben Parr's 110+ Page Slide report I came out with on AI investing trends + predictions in 2023/2024
- George Carlin AI Lawsuit: Estate Sues Creators Over Comedy Special
- Nightshade, the tool that 'poisons' data, gives artists a fighting chance against AI
- Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
- Taylor Swift explicit AI finally blocked on X after days
- Tim Sweeney on Europe's new Digital Markets Act
- iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find
- N.S.A. Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
- Pokemon-like game has gone viral, 5m+ downloads in a week, lots of questions on copyright
- Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
- Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Ben Parr, and Allyn Malventano
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TWiT 963: Low-Key Clippy - Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack
2h 47m · PublishedVerizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack
- The panel talks about the Apple Vision pro
- The Apple Google Duopoly
- Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
- Javier Milei Special Address WITH AI
- Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in "uncomfortable" ways
- Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs
- Origins and definition of "Ensh*ttification"
- Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely
- The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
- Microsoft'senior leadership' emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers
- Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
- Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cory Doctorow, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay
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TWiT 962: CES Recap - Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery
2h 45m · PublishedPadre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery
- The panel discusses what they saw at CES
- Padre shows off some toys from CES
- Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'
- Mercedes-Benz's best-in-class voice assistant is getting an AI boost
- AI-Generated 'George Carlin' Comedy Blasted by Comedian's Daughter
- SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024
- Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams
- Microsoft's new battery is a test of AI-infused scientific discovery
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, David Pierce, and Daniel Rubino
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TWiT 961: A Nation of Nerds - CES Preview, NYT vs. OpenAI
2h 29m · Published- CES preview
- The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI
- A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.
- Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
- Microsoft's keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership
- A physical keyboard for your iPhone
- RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Amy Webb, Christina Warren, and Devindra Hardawar
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TWiT 960: Best of 2023 - This Week in Tech's Best Moments in 2023
2h 46m · PublishedLooking back at some of This Week in Tech's best moments from 2023:
- Rating Google's AI Music Tool MusicLM
- What is Plaguing Google?
- Xerox Alto: 50 Year Later
- Lessons Learned By the SVB Collapse
- Is Copyright Good For Authors?
- What's Your (Microsoft) Copilot?
- Goodbye, Computer Magazines
- UK Emergency Alert Test
- A Look At WiFi Pineapple and Flipper Zero
- Ten Years Since Snowden's Revelations Were Revealed
- The Seven Deadly Sins and Tech
- Blind: Anonymous Workplace Gossip
- Earthquake!
- Why Apple Ended Its CSAM-Scanning Tool
- Meta's Uncanny New AI Avatars
- MIke Elgan's Meta Ray-Ban Smartglasses
Host: Leo Laporte
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This Week in Tech (Audio) has 74 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 192:53:34. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 13th, 2024 18:12.