This Week in Tech (Audio)
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 / 21:15 UTC.
Episodes
April 21, 2024 • 147 mins
- Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
- TikTok 'ban' passes in the House again
- Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration
- Surveillance Law Section 702 Keeps Us Safe
- Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2024
- Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
- How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
- Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High ...
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April 14, 2024 • 158 mins
- AI Music with Suno and Udio
- Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
- Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI
- How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
- AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
- Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
- Google and the CJPA
- Consumers will fi...
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April 7, 2024 • 160 mins
- House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill
- Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine
- Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
- Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
- X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for
- President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
- Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News ...
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April 1, 2024 • 189 mins
Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor
- 20 years of Gmail
- Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
- An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
- EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
- Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
- Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New Y...
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March 24, 2024 • 168 mins
- U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
- Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
- Tennessee becomes first US state with law protecting musicians from AI
- In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
- Murthy v Missouri at SCOTUS
- Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
- Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver
- Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)
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March 17, 2024 • 185 mins
- The Panel discusses video Formats and aspect ratios
- House of Reps pass bill that could ban TikTok
- TechDirt: TikTok ban would be unconstitutional and doesn't actually help with threats
- TikTok estimated to be worth $100B, or $40B if it doesn't include the algorithm
- US wants to ban TikTok for the sins of every social media company
- What social media is the panel using?
- Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network ...
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March 10, 2024 • 144 mins
TikTok Ban, Creepy AI, Practical Fusion
- Why Trump now opposes banning TikTok
- Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
- OpenAI announces new members to the board of directors
- OpenAI Responds to Elon Musk's Lawsuit
- Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
- Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls
- AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Valu...
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March 3, 2024 • 169 mins
- 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
- Pro...
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February 25, 2024 • 149 mins
- 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 make...
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February 18, 2024 • 147 mins
- 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 U...
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