This Week in Tech (Audio)

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

June 8, 2025 150 mins
  • Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
  • Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
  • OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
  • A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
  • Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
  • TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back
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  • YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom
  • Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
  • Trump makes a last-minute backtrack on his pick to lead NASA
  • Xbox co-founder J Allard is working on 'breakthrough' devices at Amazon
  • GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot
  • Using technology may sharpen aging brains, not harm them
  • We Bought a 'Peeing' Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It...
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In this jam-packed episode celebrating Towel Day, the TWiT crew dives into Apple's terrible week with Trump's tariff threats, Google and Microsoft's latest AI advances, the death of CAPTCHAs, and some wild new tech including laser-powered smart homes and sock-picking robot vacuums.

  • Trump's Phone Tariff Ultimatum - President threatens 25% tariffs on iPhones and Samsung devices unless manufacturing moves to the US, putting Appl...
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  • GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation
  • Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust
  • Elon Musk's apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He's Making Himself Obsolete With AI
  • How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed
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  • Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals
  • Proposed Amicus Brief – #1300, Att. #1 in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC (D.D.C., 1:20-cv-03010) – CourtListener.com
  • Eddy Cue Causes a Stir for Google
  • DOJ pushes for Google to sell its advertising platforms
  • Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission
  • What Stacey has been doing
  • Attorney General B...
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  • Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
  • Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
  • Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
  • Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
  • The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
  • The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
  • Congress Moving Forward On...
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  • The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
  • NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
  • Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
  • Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
  • Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
  • What Ha...
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  • Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
  • AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
  • OpenAI's secret Yap score
  • 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
  • FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
  • Trump Signal...
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  • 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 Cau...
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  • 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 provi...
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