TWiT 1030: Journalism Comes In Second - Government Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech.
0:02.0	Gary Rivlin is here, the author of AI Valley.
0:05.0	We're glad to welcome our first Pulitzer Prize winner onto the show.
0:08.0	Ian Thompson's here from the Register, Owen Thomas, from the San Francisco Business Journal.
0:13.0	We're going to talk about Apple, big spanking in court this week.
0:17.0	Google saying, please, Your Honor, don't make a spin-off search and
0:22.4	finally Jeff Bezos gets his first Kuiper satellites in the sky all of that
0:29.0	and more coming up next on Twit podcasts you love From people you trust.
0:39.4	This is Twit.
0:47.1	This is Twit. This week in Tech, episode 130, recorded Sunday, May 4th, 2025.
0:53.6	Journalism comes in second.
1:00.6	It's time for Twit this week in tech,
1:02.4	the show we cover the week's tech news.
1:04.6	I'm pleased to bring together three stellar journalists.
1:08.9	Owen Thomas is here from the San Francisco Business Times. He's managing editor there.
1:13.0	Great to see you again, Owen. You're getting buffer and buffer. Would you stop lifting?
1:19.0	We're going to have to do a movie about you. We'll call it. I don't know. I'm trying to think of what we should call it.
1:26.9	Pumping. Pumping tech news. Yeah, that's it.
1:31.7	You know, Leo, I flipped some tires this morning just to prepare for this show.
1:36.1	Did you really? Oh, you're Mr. CrossFit now, huh? All right. It's great to see you,
1:40.6	Owen. Always a welcome voice on the show. Ian Thompson is also here.
1:46.9	Mirror technology reporter now.
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