This Week in Tech (Audio)

• 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

Host: Leo Laporte

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

Host: Leo Laporte

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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