TWiT 1035: The Droids Are in the Escape Pod - You Can't Copyright Eleanor
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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šļø 8 June 2025
ā±ļø 150 minutes
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Summary
- Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
- Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
- OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
- A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
- Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
- TikTok dodges U.S. ban ā again ā as Trump administration pushes deadline back
- Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data
- The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
- The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
- AI Startup Revealed To Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending To Be Chatbots - Slashdot
- Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook ā and AI podcasts ā publicly
- Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules
- Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design - Slashdot
- Ending USB-CĀ® Port Confusion
- Walmart to Expand Wing Drone Deliveries to 100 Stores
- Nintendo Switch 2 Has Record-Breaking Launch, Selling Over 3 Million Units - Slashdot
- Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You're Not Copyrightable After All
- California county accused of using drones to spy on residents
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Cathy Gellis, and Larry Magid
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. |
| 0:01.7 | Great panel for you. |
| 0:02.8 | My car guy, Samabool Samad, is here. |
| 0:05.4 | My internet lawyer, Kathy Gellis, is here. |
| 0:08.1 | And our eighth most popular guest, Larry Magid, is here. |
| 0:12.3 | We're going to talk about the passing of a computing legend with some great stories. |
| 0:17.8 | TikTok is still alive. |
| 0:20.2 | And good news, free file goes open source. All of that |
| 0:24.1 | more coming up next on Twit. |
| 0:28.6 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:41.8 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.3 | This Week in Tech, episode 1,035, recorded Sunday, June 8th, 2025. |
| 0:51.4 | The Deroids are in the escape pod. |
| 0:59.3 | It's time for Twit this week at Tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. We've got an all-star panel assembled for you as usual. |
| 1:02.7 | Larry Maggot is here from connectsafely.org. |
| 1:05.6 | Good to see you, Larry. Welcome. |
| 1:07.4 | Good to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:08.6 | When was the first time you were on Twitter? |
| 1:10.3 | You've been on for a long time ago. |
| 1:12.1 | And, you know, I did something kind of fun. |
| 1:13.6 | I took your spreadsheet, which shows all of your guests for the last umpteen years. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah. |
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