This Week in Tech

What do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache.
Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction
Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot
Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10
Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
Tucson Daily Brief
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud
Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters
The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth
A flood of cheap used EVs is coming
Signal guide for everyday folks
PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack
Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges
F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)
CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon
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Is social media addictive by design or just irresistible entertainment? The panel tackles the lawsuit that's dragging tech giants onto the witness stand and how surveillance tech is quietly expanding while lawmakers and users scramble to catch up.
Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not 'Clinically Addictive' in Landmark Trial
Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans
Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app.
Discord backtracks on controversial age verification rollout...kind of
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor that this man remotely accessed thousands of them
HP's laptop subscriptions are a great deal — for HP
FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation
Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says
Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China's ChatGPT Fans Aren't OK
Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Stacey Higginbotham, and Thomas Germain
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Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.
More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple
After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion
Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge
Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites
Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem
Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
Dave Farber
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Larry Magid, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca
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What happens when AI bots get their own social network, Silicon Valley execs cozy up to power, and Apple takes a cut from creators? This week's panel calls out the bold, bizarre, and often problematic ways tech's biggest players are reshaping everything from AI assistants to your everyday privacy.
There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say
Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners
SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets
Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline
Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon
Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines
What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla
Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November
Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis
A rival smart glasses company is suing Meta over its Ray-Ban products
TikTok, YouTube, and Meta are headed to court for a landmark trial over social media addiction
The 'Social Media Addiction' Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself
TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means
A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US
Groundhogs are bad at predicting weather, but they're valuable animal engineers\
Satellites encased in wood are in the works
Belkin reminds users that its Wemo smart home products are shutting down this week
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Gary Rivlin, Devindra Hardawar, and Victoria Song
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Microsoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok's new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital fallout. Plus, how gambling platforms are changing the future of news and sports.
You can bet on how much snow will fall in New York City this weekend
Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech
China, US sign off on TikTok US spinoff
TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means
Elon Musk's Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw - Forbes
House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database
Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
Anthropic revises Claude's 'Constitution,' and hints at chatbot consciousness
The new Siri chatbot may run on Google servers, not Apple's
A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to 'Humanize' Chatbots
GitHub - anthropics/original_performance_takehome: Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try!
Telly's "free" ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they're actually delivered - Ars Technica
Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost From AI Rush - Slashdot
Dr. Gladys West, whose mathematical models inspired GPS, dies at 95
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Alex Stamos, Doc Rock, and Patrick Beja
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Claude isn't just the hottest name in AI right now—it's quietly ushering in a wave of ultra-personalized, vibe-coded software that could transform how we build and use tech in 2026. Find out why coders and normies alike are obsessed and what's coming next.
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Behind the Curtain: The AI future has arrived
Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World
Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune
Elon Musk's Grok 'Undressing' Problem Isn't Fixed
I asked Grok's AI to undress me after X's new limits. It's still easy on the app.
Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes
Instagram says it fixed the issue that sent password reset emails
Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition
Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban
TikTok has quietly launched a new micro drama app called PineDrama as the category picks up steam in the US
Creator income inequality is rising as top influencers rake in big paydays from brands
Managers on alert for "launch fever" as pressure builds for NASA's Moon mission
Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts
Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome
Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it
Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers
'Are You Dead?' is now the top paid App Store app in China
Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote
Cinemark will fill almost anything with popcorn this weekend—but there's a catch
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia: We need you now more than ever
Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Harper Reed and Abrar Al-Heeti
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Is putting a camera in your toilet the future of health, or have tech companies lost the plot? This episode's panel digs into what's truly innovative versus what's just over the top, as industry leaders spar over privacy concerns and the real impact of AI in everyday devices.
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry
Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready version of Atlas robot at CES 2026
Hair Drying Robot
Jensen Huang Says Nvidia's New Vera Rubin Chips Are in 'Full Production'
AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series includes the first Copilot+ desktop CPU — Team Red refreshes Zen 5 APUs and Strix Halo
Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses
Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access
Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop
The Verge Awards at CES 2026
These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Jason Hiner
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Happy New Year! NVIDIA just spent $20 billion to hollow out an AI company for its brains, while Meta and Google scramble to scoop up fresh talent before AI gets "too weird to manage." Who's winning, who's left behind, and what do these backroom deals mean for the future of artificial intelligence?
Andrej Karpathy admits programmers cannot keep pace with AI advances
Economic uncertainty in AI despite massive stock market influence
Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft drive AI productization for business and consumers
OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini battle for consumer AI dominance
Journalism struggles to keep up with AI realities and misinformation tools
Concerns mount over AI energy, water, and environmental impact narratives
Meta buys Manus, expands AI agent ambitions with Llama model
OpenAI posts high-stress "Head of Preparedness" job worth $555K+
Training breakthroughs: DeepSeek's mHC and comparisons to Action Park
U.S. lawmakers push broad, controversial internet censorship bills
Age verification and bans spark state laws, VPN workaround explosion
U.S. drone ban labeled protectionist as industry faces tech shortages
FCC security initiatives falter; Cyber Trust Mark program scrapped
Waymo robotaxis stall in blackouts, raising AV urban planning issues
School cellphone bans expose kids' struggle with analog clocks
MetroCard era ends in NYC as tap-to-pay takes over subway access
RAM, VRAM, and GPU prices soar as AI and gaming squeeze supply
CES preview: Samsung QD-OLED TV, Sony AFEELA car, gadget show hype
Remembering Stewart Cheifet and Computer Chronicles' legacy
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Dan Patterson and Joey de Villa
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AI video generation
TWiT turns 20
Harper Reed on vibe-coding
Job loss and AI
Apple's iPhone 16 event
Amy Webb's crazy husband talks about his anonymous computer
Host: Leo Laporte
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After a year tangled in political drama, AI hype, and regulation battles, the TWiT crew explains how many of tech's "biggest stories" simply fizzled into nothing or left us with new headaches by year's end.
Year-end tech trends: AI, politics, and security dominated 2025
Major stories faded fast: TikTok saga, political tech drama, DOGE scandal
TikTok's ownership battle—Oracle, Trump donors, and US-China tensions
China tech fears: banned drones, IoT vulnerabilities, secret radios in buses
Rising political pressure for internet privacy and media literacy reform
Surveillance and kill switch concerns in US grid and port infrastructure
Convenience vs. privacy: Americans trade data for discounts and ease
Age verification, surveillance, and flawed facial recognition across countries
Discord's ID leak highlights risks of rushed compliance with privacy laws
Social media's impact on kids pushes age-gating and verification laws
ISPs monetize customer data, VPNs pitched for personal privacy
Global government crackdowns: UK bans VPN advertising, mandates age checks
The illusion of absolute privacy: flawed age gates and persistent tracking
AI takes over: explosive growth, but profits elusive for big players
Arms race in LLMs: DeepSeek's breakthrough, OpenAI/Meta talent bidding war
Ad-driven models still rule; Amazon's playbook repeated in AI
Humanoid robots and AGI hype: skepticism vs. Silicon Valley optimism
AI-generated art, media, and the challenge of deepfake detection
Social platforms falter: Instagram and X swamped by fake or low-value content
Google's legal, regulatory, and technical woes: ad tech trial, Manifest V3 backlash
RAM price spikes and hardware shortages blamed on AI data center demand
YouTube overtakes mobile for podcast and video viewing, Oscars move online
The internet's growth: Cloudflare stats, X vs. Reddit, spam domain trends
Weird tech stories: hacked crosswalks, Nintendo Switch 2 Staplegate, LEGO theft ring
Sad farewell: Lamar Wilson's passing and mental health awareness in tech
Reflections on the year's turbulence and hopes for a better 2026
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Mikah Sargent, Paris Martineau, and Steve Gibson
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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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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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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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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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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?
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Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren
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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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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 Ditital 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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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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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
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Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti
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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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