This Week in Tech (Audio)

Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.

Toyota Woven City

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today

Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model

China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims

What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'

Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty

Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment

The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet

To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham

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As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI

AI anxiety is turning volatile

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.

Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules

Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One

Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case

Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights

What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?

TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company

Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman

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Anthropic has built an AI model so sharp it's being withheld from the public, sparking debate over who gets access to world-changing tech and who's left behind. Hear how this "too dangerous" AI could tip the balance for the world's most powerful players. This episode unpacks the fresh moral minefields created when cutting-edge tech collides with politics, security, and human lives.

Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing

Sam Altman Fire Bombing Response

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

Samsung flags eightfold jump in quarterly profit as AI chip demand pumps prices

SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending

Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million

CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads

GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed

FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages - 9to5Mac

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware

Helium Is Hard to Replace

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk

The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet

DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin's Great Mystery

Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%

'Abhorrent': the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Jason Hiner, and Mike Elgan

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This week's episode confronts the mounting legal battles over addictive social apps, questioning whether court rulings should reshape Instagram and YouTube's design. Explore the heated clash between user autonomy, scientific uncertainty, and the next wave of regulation.

NASA: Artemis II

Artemis II Live Tracker – Real-Time Orion Spacecraft Position, Speed & Trajectory

NASA did eventually solve Artemis II's Outlook glitch

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one

Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.

Claude Code's Source Didn't Leak. It Was Already Public for Years. | AfterPack Blog

Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra

OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for 'low hundreds of millions'

The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive

After 16 Years and $8 Billion, the Military's New GPS Software Still Doesn't Work - Slashdot

Why the Pentagon loves Xbox controllers for laser weapons

Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares "hard down" status for multiple zones

Iran's hackers go to war

Breaking down the government's bizarre router ban

How to turn anything into a router

You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television

Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law - Slashdot

Delta to Tap Amazon Satellite-Internet Service for In-Flight Wi-Fi

The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won computing's highest prize

Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones

ZomboCom was stolen by hacker, put up for sale, and has now been...

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Iain Thomson

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Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform "addictiveness" in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits. Find out why attorneys, entrepreneurs, and everyday users are suddenly on edge.

• Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube

• Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts

• Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy

• Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out

• Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims

• FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout

• Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs

• The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification

• Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography

• Antimatter on the move: CERN's oddball truck experiment

• Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse

• Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance

• Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger

• Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade

• Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers

• Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders

• Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed, Brian McCullough, and Cathy Gellis

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