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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.

  • TWiT 1015: Smarter Than a House Cat - TikTok, Trumpcoin, Samsung Unpacked 2025

    • Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban
    • Trumpcoin
    • Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
    • Skyrocketing car-insurance premiums are pushing inflation higher
    • Behind the Curtain — Coming soon: Ph.D.-level super-agents
    • 4 surprise products we could see at Samsung Unpacked 2025
    • Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts
    • US Finalizes Rule Banning Smart Cars With Russian, Chinese Tech
    • Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit - WyoFile
    • Cash App parent fined $175 million for 'woefully incomplete' response to fraud
    • FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Jason Hiner, Paris Martineau, and Molly White

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  • TWiT 1014: Just Say It's Capitalism - CES 2025, Meta News, Newag DRM

    • The panel discusses CES 2025
    • How Watch Duty's wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
    • Worst in Show awards 2025
    • Aaron Swartz v Sam Altman
    • We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure
    • All the Meta stuff (fact checking, etc.)
    • Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors
    • The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers
    • Twitch Streamers Come Home After Big-Money Contracts at Rivals Dried Up
    • Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Cory Doctorow

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  • TWiT 1013: Calamari in Crisis - Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

    Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

    • AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse
    • How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024
    • NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' In Defining Moment For Humankind
    • Elon Musk Calls Out NASA's Moon Ambitions: 'We're Going Straight to Mars'
    • Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
    • Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
    • US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
    • Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
    • Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident
    • US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
    • The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists)
    • Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements, From Homes To Brothels
    • Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025
    • Public Domain Day 2025
    • Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive
    • End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Richard Campbell, Anthony Ha, and Stacey Higginbotham

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  • TWiT 1012: Our Best Of 2024 - The Best Moments From TWiT's 2024

    TWiT wishes all listeners and viewers a Happy New Year and peaceful 2025!

    • Padre's CES 2024 haul
    • Cory Doctorow's infamous ensh*ttification term
    • Tesla teases a robotaxi
    • Last in-studio audience for TWiT
    • Padre on the AI priest
    • Google Search gets worse
    • Christina Warren's Rabbit R1
    • Snowflake and the AT&T breach
    • Crowdstrike's big outag
    • Last in-studio episode before moving out
    • Salt Hank shows off his new cookbook
    • TWiT's 1000th episode brings back old friends
    • The State of X/Twitter under Elon
    • Parenting with TWiT daddies
    • Tech billionaires affecting Trump's transition team

    Host: Leo Laporte

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  • TWiT 1011: The Year in Review - A Look at the Top Stories of 2024

    • What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR
    • Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED
    • Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows
    • PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
    • Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
    • The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1
    • Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
    • Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
    • Bluesky emerges
    • The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
    • Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
    • SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms
    • U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
    • Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
    • U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
    • U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack
    • AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
    • National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers
    • Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.
    • New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
    • GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
    • Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
    • Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
    • Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
    • Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
    • OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever
    • Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
    • Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event
    • Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge
    • Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
    • So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas
    • Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
    • The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
    • Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
    • We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
    • Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
    • Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years
    • In Memoriam

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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