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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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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TWiT 1042: Well Played Astronomer - The Stats Behind Google's AI Mode Search
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial
Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day
A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories
AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger
Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal
Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
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TWiT 1037: Teach Amanda Fish - AI Backlash
Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans' top news source
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time
The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer's Notebook Are a Failure of Congress
40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet
Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
WhatsApp's rollout of ads will change the app forever
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg
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