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This 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 / 22:15 UTC.

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Are we witnessing an AI-fueled gold rush or the early signs of an epic crash? Listen to these hard-hitting discussions on bubbles, breakthroughs, and the real impact behind Silicon Valley's AI obsession.

 
 • Time Magazine's "Person of the Year": the Architects of AI
 
 • The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
 
 • 'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges
 
 • Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
 
 • It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
 
 • Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub
 
 • Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
 
 • Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
 
 • Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
 
 • The countdown to the world's first social media ban for children
 
 • US could demand five-year social media history from tourists before allowing entry
 
 • Reddit making global changes to protect kids after social media ban - 9to5Mac
 
 • There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale
 
 • Paramount CEO Made Trump a Secret Promise on CNN in Warner Bros. Convo
 
 • Whatnot's Schlock Empire Shows Digital Live Shopping Can Thrive in America
 
 • The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
 
 • Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
 
 • Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
 
 • Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot
 
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 • sweeps The Game Awards — analysis and full winners list
 
 • Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
 
 • An ex-Twitter lawyer is trying to bring Twitter back
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Jason Hiner
 

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TWiT 1062: The Architects of AI - Can Small Models Outrun the Data Center Boom?

What happens if your internet provider gets the blame for what you download? This week, the panel unpacks a billion-dollar copyright battle at the Supreme Court that could upend how we all use the web.

 
 • Justice Alito Makes The Most Sense, Or This Week At The Supreme Court In The Cox-Sony Copyright Case
 
 • First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of
 
 • These new FDA-approved glasses promise to slow nearsightedness in kids. Here's how they work
 
 • Amazon Tests U.S. Ultrafast Delivery Offering
 
 • What the heck is going on at Apple? | CNN Business
 
 • Meta's Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts
 
 • Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
 
 • Instagram mandates total return to office for employees in 2026
 
 • Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? - Slashdot
 
 • School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement
 
 • RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: 'Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art'
 
 • People who talk with their hands seem clearer, more persuasive - Fast Company
 
 • (a petition to cancel Twitter's trademark for abandonment)
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Amy Webb, Cathy Gellis, and Brian Woolf
 

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TWiT 1061: Amy's Crazy Husband - Can One Build a Truly Anonymous Laptop?

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers.

 
 • Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed
 
 • Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends
 
 • View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury
 
 • 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech
 
 • Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
 
 • Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
 
 • China leapfrogs US in global market for "open" AI models
 
 • Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses
 
 • The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug
 
 • Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse
 
 • Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness
 
 • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
 
 • Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
 
 • One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it
 
 • How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time
 
 • GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan
 

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TWiT 1060: A Shortage of Shame - Why Black Friday Numbers Aren't What You Think

A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.

 
 • Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
 
 • NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
 
 • Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age
 
 • Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
 
 • It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage
 
 • Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD
 
 • Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It
 
 • Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals
 
 • Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
 
 • Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
 
 • 780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
 
Fortnite • is getting Unity games
 
 • Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
 
 • SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
 
 • Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode
 
 • A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon
 
 • Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
 
 • White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner
 

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TWiT 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset - Why Your Favorite Site Went Dark This Week

Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!

 
 • Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
 
 • Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
 
 • Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
 
 • Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
 
 • The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
 
 • X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
 
 • Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
 
 • iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
 
 • AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
 
 • Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
 
 • George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
 
 • Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
 
 • PNG is back!
 
 • 3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
 
 • What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
 
 • Withings Beamo
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren
 

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TWiT 1058: Furry Little Potatoes - Smart Glasses & Everyday "Surveillance"

Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).

 
 • Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man
 
 • SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum
 
 • Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft
 
 • YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
 
 • Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024
 
 • Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform
 
 • YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight
 
 • YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'
 
 • Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess
 
 • Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
 
 • The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
 
 • China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors
 
 • Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
 
 • Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
 
 • FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
 
 • Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments
 
 • Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
 
 • Take-Two delays
 'GTA VI' • for second time to November next year
 
 • Apple TV's new 
Pluribus • show might be its best sci-fi series yet
 
 • After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers
 

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TWiT 1057: Ferret Trousering - Can Apple TV Fix the Broken World of Streaming Sports?

From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.

 
 • Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent
 
 • The End of Cybersecurity
 
 • Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'
 
 • Here's How the AI Crash Happens
 
 • US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers
 
 • Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts
 
 • FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
 
 • Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off
 
 • Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Digital Life
 
 • The F5 Hack is a Big Deal
 
 • OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher
 
 • 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
 
 • Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time
 
 • Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked
 
 • YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials
 
 • 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
 
 • Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News
 
 • ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham
 

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TWiT 1056: The Big Sleep - The Great Router Ban

When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?

 
 • A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million
 
 • Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)
 
 • Trump and Xi will 'consummate' TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says
 
 • 3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
 
 • Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?
 
 • All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move
 
 • Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
 
 • Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China
 
 • iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
 
 • Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
 
 • Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight
 
 • GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028
 
 • WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
 
 • a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of 'Synthetic Influencers' to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
 
 • Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval
 
 • Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock
 

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TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency

Shocking new research reveals how anyone with $750 can intercept unencrypted satellite data, exposing everything from government secrets to in-flight Wi-Fi traffic. Find out why decades-old vulnerabilities are still open and who actually wants it that way.

 
 • Study: The World's Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping
 
 • You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say
 
 • Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
 
 • DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams
 
 • cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF
 
 • Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
 
 • Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp
 
 • How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'
 
 • New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI
 
 • The European Union issued its first fines under the AI Act, penalizing a French facial recognition startup €12 million for deploying unverified algorithms in public security contracts
 
 • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
 
 • Texas hit with a pair of lawsuits for its app store age verification requirements
 
 • Australia shares tips to wean teens off social media ahead of ban. Will it work?
 
 • California enacts age-gate law for app stores
 
 • Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll
 
 • Meta poached Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, with a compensation package rumored to reach $1.5 billion over six years
 
 • Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers
 
 • Roku's AI-upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about what you're watching
 
 • Tesla debuts a steering wheel-less taxi for two
 
 • Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti
 

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TWiT 1054: Nine Days a Week - Satellite Data Exposed With $750 of Equipment

From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.

 
 • October Term 2025
 
 • Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case
 
 • I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...
 
 • AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
 
 • Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show
 
 • Chat Control: Germany says NEIN
 
 • Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
 
 • China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.
 
 • Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs
 
 • FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown
 
 • Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free
 
 • California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services
 
 • Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
 
 • TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News
 
 • Introducing Figure 03
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Gary Rivlin
 

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TWiT 1053: Robotic Lap Trimmer - Sony, Cox, & ISP Liability for User Copyright Infringement

Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

 
 • Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
 
 • I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
 
 • Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
 
 • Windows 10 EOL coming soon
 
 • Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
 
 • 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
 
 • iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
 
 • Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
 
 • A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
 
 • TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
 
 • By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
 
 • Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
 
 • Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
 
 • Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
 
 • ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
 
 • Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
 
 • Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
 
 • Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
 
 • Ig Winners
 

Host: Leo Laporte
 

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon
 

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TWiT 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck - Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Raise Privacy & Social Acceptance Concerns

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