Twit: This Week in Tech
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TWiT 1027: 20 Years in the Can - Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves
- 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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TWiT 1026: I Know of BigBalls - TWIST Takeover
- 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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TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI xX 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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TWiT 1024: Payday Loan Burrito - Section 230, Intel's Future, TikTok's Fate
- 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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TWiT 1023: This is Not Tax Advice - The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI
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 Gois 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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