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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TWiT 1054: Nine Days a Week - Satellite Data Exposed With $750 of Equipment
Shocking new research reveals how anyone with $750 can intercept unencrypted satellite data, exposing everything from government secrets to in-flight Wi-Fi traffic. Find out why decades-old vulnerabilities are still open and who actually wants it that way.
Study: The World's Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping
You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams
cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF
Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp
How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'
New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI
The European Union issued its first fines under the AI Act, penalizing a French facial recognition startup €12 million for deploying unverified algorithms in public security contracts
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
Texas hit with a pair of lawsuits for its app store age verification requirements
Australia shares tips to wean teens off social media ahead of ban. Will it work?
California enacts age-gate law for app stores
Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll
Meta poached Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, with a compensation package rumored to reach $1.5 billion over six years
Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers
Roku's AI-upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about what you're watching
Tesla debuts a steering wheel-less taxi for two
Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti
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TWiT 1053: Robotic Lap Trimmer - Sony, Cox, & ISP Liability for User Copyright Infringement
From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.
October Term 2025
Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...
AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show
Chat Control: Germany says NEIN
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.
Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown
Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free
California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services
Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News
Introducing Figure 03
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cathy Gellis, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Gary Rivlin
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TWiT 1052: It's a Nice Day for CRM - AI Slop, Media Power, & the Future of Trust
As AI-generated clip content upends trust and creativity, this week's panel members join forces to unravel whether we're facing a cultural disaster or just the next leap forward (and what anyone online needs to watch out for next). Is the world ready for AI-generated video slop flooding the internet, legal headaches over deepfakes, and million-dollar tech maneuvering?
Sora 2 is here
We need to stop the slop of OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes AI video apps before it's too late
Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
One in five Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
YouTube Bends the Knee
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'
How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down
ByteDance to Maintain Control Of TikTok's U.S. Advertising, E-Commerce
German government must reject chat control
Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Swiss voters back electronic identity cards in close vote
Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry
Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships
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Guests: Patrick Beja, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson
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TWiT 1051: Hype or True? - Nvidia's $100 Billion Dollar Investment in OpenAI (Over Time)
With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.
Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).
Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ever pay off?.
Jensen Huang: "We're already seeing trillion-dollar AI investments".
How Anthropic and OpenAI are developing AI 'co-workers'.
OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs.
Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop.
Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership.
Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over allegations it misled Prime users.
Is GenZ unemployable?
Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs.
AI startup friend bets on foes with $1M NYC subway campaign.
Peter Thiel wants everyone to think more about the Antichrist.
Apple builds a ChatGPT-like App to help test the revamped Siri.
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Guests: Brian McCullough, Dan Shipper, and Ari Paparo
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