TWiT 1047: Nerd Harder! - From Cloudflare's Internet Gatekeeping to AI's Labor Threat
Cloudflare's latest moves to police who can access the internet and governments' push for age verification set off alarms for the future of the open web, as panelists debate the hidden costs of centralization and regulation.
Microsoft fires four workers for on-site protests over company's ties to Israe
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water
Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenu
FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification law
UK's Online Safety Act censors the internet — a preview of US proposal
Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen user
Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its service
UK's demand for Apple backdoor may have been broader than previously though
Bluesky now platform of choice for science communit
SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback
FCC rejects calls for cable-like fees on broadband providers
The web does not need gatekeepers
Intel warns a US equity stake could trigger "adverse reactions"
US firms are racing through a $1 trillion buyback spree in record time
Microsoft reveals two in-house AI models
Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
A rule exempting small packages from tariffs is ending today
Framework is working on a giant haptic touchpad, Trackpoint nub, and eGPU for its laptops
Germany fines economist Thomas Vierhaus €16,100 for sarcastic X posts1
Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers' identities
South Korea bans smartphones in all middle and elementary school classrooms
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Guests: Shoshana Weissmann, Cory Doctorow, and Louis Maresca
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TWiT 1046: Shrimpspiracy - Musk Trolls Microsoft With Macrohard
You should buy a faster CPU
The Trump-Intel deal is official
Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban
Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief
Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft
Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years
Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri
Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law
4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
Sports streaming enters a bold new era
Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling
T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'
Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome
Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet
New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series
German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers
Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision
More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination
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Guests: Daniel Rubino and Paris Martineau
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TWiT 1045: The Juice Ain't Worth the Squeeze - Meta's Flirty Chatbot
Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
More thoughts from Sam on the Ford EV platform
Popular car brand wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower
Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays
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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake
Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
The Key to Crack the CIA's Mysterious 'Kryptos' Sculpture Is Up for Sale
PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents
Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X
Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows
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TWiT 1044: Elephants on the Moon - Apple and the AI Race
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
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Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner
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TWiT 1043: It All Starts With Baby Shark - Tesla's $240 Million Bill for FSD Crash
A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.
Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'
AI Capex is Eating the Economy
Will data centers crash the economy?
What content strategy looks like in the age of AI
Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout
Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO
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