TNW 406: iFixit's Take on iPhone 17 'Scratchgate' - EU Considering Ending Cookie Consent Banners
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week! The EU is considering ending the cookie consent banners. Amazon reaches a $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC. Some insight into why the new iPhone 17 Pros are more prone to scratches and dings. And is TechWoven truly better than FineWoven?
- Emily talks about how the EU is considering ending the cookie consent banners that pop up when users visit websites.
- Mikah shares how the FTC is bringing Amazon to trial over allegations that the company misled users into signing up for Amazon Prime. However, Amazon has settled the matter for a cool $2.5 billion!
- And Liz Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability of iFixit, joins the show to discuss what has led to the iPhone 17 Pro showing more wear than the other models, the organization's teardown of the iPhone Air, and how Apple's TechWoven improves on some of the failures of the previous FineWoven material.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Liz Chamberlain
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily Forlini is here, and we kick off the show by talking about how those cookie consent banners might be going away. |
| 0:09.8 | Then I talk about Amazon settling with the FTC for dark patterns and Amazon Prime subscriptions. |
| 0:18.4 | Afterwards, Elizabeth Chamberlain of I Fixit joins the show. |
| 0:22.5 | Very excited to talk about the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, the teardown, |
| 0:26.9 | and tech woven. |
| 0:28.9 | Can it be saved from your hot sauce fingers? |
| 0:33.2 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:38.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:42.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:46.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 406, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:52.5 | Recorded Thursday, September 25th, 2025. |
| 0:56.3 | I fix its take on iPhone 17 Scratch Gate. |
| 1:01.4 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:08.5 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week by PCMag's own Emily Forlini. |
| 1:16.6 | Welcome back, Emily. |
| 1:18.6 | Lovely to be here. |
| 1:20.6 | Lovely to have you here with us. |
| 1:22.6 | For the people who are tuning in for the first time, |
| 1:25.6 | or perhaps you've been here before, but just need a little reminder. This is the part of the show where we talk about our stories |
| 1:31.4 | of the week. These are the stories that we've found interesting. Sometimes these stories |
| 1:38.2 | creep up on us early in the week, and sometimes they're late breaking. And so I'm very excited because I do believe this |
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