This Week in Tech (Video)

• 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 Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
• White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
• UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
• Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
• President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
• Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
• Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
  Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
• Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
• Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
• Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
• How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
• Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
• Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
• Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

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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 Happens When You Pay People Not to Use Google Search?
• 4chan Is Back Online, Days After The Infamous Hack That Leaked Its "Janitors" Emails
• Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
• Google is scrapping its planned changes for third-party cookies in Chrome
• Google's revenue tops Wall Street's expectations — and the stock climbs
• Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
• PC shipments spike as Windows 10's end and U.S. tariffs loom
• Apple Aims To Source All US iPhones From India in Pivot Away From China
• Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders: Sold out at most retailers including GameStop, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others
• The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
• Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue
• In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
• Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare

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Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Daniel Rubino, and Cathy Gellis

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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 Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon'
• Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances
• Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games
• Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence
• Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers
• Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires
• China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart
• OpenAI is building a social network
• Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People
• New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
• Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

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Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau

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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 Cause Chaos
• Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from
• June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns
• The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do
• Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
• Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
• Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
• Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet

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Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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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 provider
• Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

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Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T

• Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
• Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
• Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
• Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
• Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
• Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
• 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
• As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
• Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
• China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
• Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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• Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
• Apple Can't Beat Spotify
• Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
• Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
• Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
• Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
• Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
• Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
• Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
• Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
• Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
• Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
• Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

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Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics

• An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
• DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
• Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.
• Intel has a new CEO
• Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci-Fi
• Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games
• Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie
• Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090
• Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
• Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination
• TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app
• F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries
• Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
• Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot
• Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28
• Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Glenn Fleishman, and Mikah Sargent

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• 'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say
• The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
• Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features
• An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
• Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
• The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025
• AMD finally has a decent NVIDIA killer with the Radeon 9070 + 9070 XT
• Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations
• Crony Crypto Capitalism
• Utah Passes First US App Store Age Verification Law
• The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
• YouTube Premium and Music Surpass 125 Million Subscribers
• America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome
• Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
• Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
• "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
• Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
• An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
• All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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Guests: Emily Forlini, Doc Rock, and Janko Roettgers

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