This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 1075: The Commonwealth Club - Meta Layoffs, DOGE Data Theft, & the Rise of AI FailsFrom "gainfully employed robots" to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge. • Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount • Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model • Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children • Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside • Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam • X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation • Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X • Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion • Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform • Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots • Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases • DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery • U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them • EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story) • TerraPower gets permit to build reactor • Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots' • Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud • Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case • Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power • Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff • How Pokémon Go • is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world • 'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer • YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue • Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns • Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them • Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson, Richard Campbell, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit preview.modulate.ai monarch.com with code TWIT spaceship.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit

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TWiT 1072: The Devil's Advocate - Jailbreaking Fighter Jets, Social Media Addiction, and Self-Driving SnafusWhat do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache. • Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court • Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction • Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot • Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned • Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20 • Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10 • Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving • Tucson Daily Brief • Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs • A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud • Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain • Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans • Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters • The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth • A flood of cheap used EVs is coming • Signal guide for everyday folks • PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months • Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on • You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised • Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack • Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges • F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware • Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It) • CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/twit365 threatlocker.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit meter.com/twit shopify.com/twit

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