TNW 430: Understanding the US Router Ban - What the Ban on Consumer Foreign-Made Routers Means For You
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Dan Moren joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly! Rumors of iOS 27 are slowly making the rounds, with Apple's planned AI reboot. A look inside the lawsuit between Halide co-founders. The US just banned consumer routers made outside of the US. And NASA unveiled its initiatives to return back to the Moon.
- Dan talks about the rumors of iOS 27 and Apple's planned AI refresh, alongside a new "Ask Siri" feature, that will be part of the unveiling of iOS 27 & macOS 27 at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference later in June.
- Mikah goes a bit deeper into the lawsuit that Lux co-founder Ben Sandofsky brought against Sebastiaan de With over financial misconduct and bringing source code with them over to Apple.
- Sean Hollister of The Verge joins the show to talk about the US's ban on imports of new foreign-made consumer routers and explains what the ban is seeking to do.
- And Mikah explains NASA's initiatives and plans to return to the Moon, and what NASA plans to do once they return.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guest: Sean Hollister
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Morin, |
| 0:02.2 | subbing in for Emily Forlini. |
| 0:03.5 | We kick off the show by talking about the rumors for iOS 27 |
| 0:08.3 | and that finally AI reboot of Siri. |
| 0:12.1 | Then I talk about some drama that went down |
| 0:15.1 | for a company that Apple attempted to acquire. |
| 0:19.1 | Afterwards, Sean Hollister of the Verge stops by |
| 0:21.8 | to tell us about that consumer router ban in the U.S. |
| 0:26.1 | And I round things out with a story about NASA's upcoming plans |
| 0:32.0 | for the moon and for Mars. |
| 0:34.2 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:38.9 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:46.8 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 430 with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:52.5 | Recorded Thursday, March 26th, 2026. |
| 0:56.1 | Understanding the U.S. router ban. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:07.1 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and the wonderful Emily Forlini is out this week and will |
| 1:14.5 | be for a while, as you might recall, Emily did share with us that she had or was going to be |
| 1:22.1 | having a baby and she did indeed have a baby. |
| 1:25.5 | So congratulations to her and her family. But joining us today is Dan |
| 1:32.1 | Morin, East Coast Bureau Chief of Six Colors.com. Hello, Dan. Hello, Micah. I too have a baby, |
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