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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition
Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry
Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool
DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal
Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users
Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac
Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It
I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Iain Thomson, and Devindra Hardawar

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in Tech.
0:01.8	Abrar Al-Hiti is here from CNET, from Engadgette de Vindra Hardwar, from the Register Ian Thompson.
0:07.5	Yeah, it's going to be a great panel.
0:09.7	We'll talk about the Coldplay kiss cam and what it means for surveillance.
0:14.4	You won't believe what rings about to turn back on.
0:18.5	And stablecoin.
0:20.0	It's the law of the land.
0:21.5	But what does it mean?
0:22.6	All that more coming up next on Twit.
0:27.6	Podcasts you love.
0:29.2	From people you trust.
0:31.7	This is Twit.
0:49.1	This is Twit. This is Twit. This Week in Tech, episode 1,0401, recorded Sunday, July 20th, 2025, a $4 bill.
0:54.3	It's time for Twit, this week in tech. The time we get together for the week's tech news and I assemble a rotating panel of the smartest, most insightful, most connected people in the world.
1:05.2	We got a good panel for you.
1:06.5	Ian Thompson is here from the Register.
1:08.6	Hello, Ian.
1:09.8	Always pleasure.
1:10.2	Hello, that's fun. Green card still in hand? I'm actually going for citizenship.
1:17.3	So all I would like to say is President Trump is a wonderful person. I will say nothing against
1:22.2	sick. Watch your socials, please. Good. Okay. When is the hearing or whatever they call it?
1:29.1	I just filed the paperwork with a lawyer.
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