TWiT 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset - Why Your Favorite Site Went Dark This Week
A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age
Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage
Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD
Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It
Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
Fortnite is getting Unity games
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode
A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon
Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)
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Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner
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Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
PNG is back!
3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
Withings Beamo
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren
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TWiT 1057: Ferret Trousering - Can Apple TV Fix the Broken World of Streaming Sports?
Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man
SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum
Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft
YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024
Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform
YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight
YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'
Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess
Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year
Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet
After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good
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Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers
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TWiT 1056: The Big Sleep - The Great Router Ban
From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.
Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent
The End of Cybersecurity
Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'
Here's How the AI Crash Happens
US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers
Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts
FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off
Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Digital Life
The F5 Hack is a Big Deal
OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher
'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time
Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked
YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News
ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV
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Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham
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TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency
When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?
A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million
Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)
Trump and Xi will 'consummate' TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says
3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?
All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China
iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight
GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028
WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of 'Synthetic Influencers' to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval
Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite
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Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock
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