This Week in Tech 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck

Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses • I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried • Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man • Windows 10 EOL coming soon • Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos • 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back • iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point • Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out • A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time • TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says • By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US • Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks • Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org • Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time" • ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity • Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves • Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people • Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar • Ig Winners

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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