TWiT 1046: Shrimpspiracy - Musk Trolls Microsoft With Macrohard
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 166 minutes
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Summary
- You should buy a faster CPU
- The Trump-Intel deal is official
- Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban
- Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief
- Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft
- Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
- Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years
- Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
- Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri
- Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law
- 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
- Sports streaming enters a bold new era
- Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
- Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling
- T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
- Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch'
- Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome
- Perplexity's Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
- Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet
- New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
- YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series
- German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers
- Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates' software factory vision
- More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Daniel Rubino and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. We've got a great panel. It's kind of a cozy panel for you as we get ready for the Labor Day weekend. |
| 0:07.8 | Daniel Rubino is here. Paris Martineau. We're going to talk about PCs and why maybe you should buy a faster CPU. |
| 0:16.8 | TikTok's back, baby. And Elon Musk announced a Microsoft competitor. |
| 0:22.9 | He calls it macro hard. |
| 0:25.1 | Really? |
| 0:25.8 | Really? |
| 0:27.0 | All that and more. |
| 0:27.8 | Coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:32.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:34.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:36.5 | This is Twit. |
| 0:43.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:45.2 | This week at Tech, episode 146, |
| 0:48.3 | recorded Sunday, August 24th, 2025. |
| 0:52.4 | Shrimpiracy. |
| 0:54.2 | It's time for Twit, the show we get together and talk about the week's tech news. |
| 0:59.3 | Every Sunday for me, it's like opening, and maybe for you too, it's like opening, it's like Christmas, like opening a present and saying, oh, I can't wait to see who's on Twitter this week. |
| 1:10.2 | And lo and behold, look at this,is martineau is here we see her every |
| 1:14.5 | wednesday on intelligent machine she's gift wrapped she's on the radioactive shrimp beep at consumer |
| 1:19.3 | reports it's true it's ever expanding ever expanding always a pleasure to see actually you know |
| 1:25.4 | you're kind of this is back home because you started as a |
| 1:29.2 | regular on twit and i said boy you know we got we got to get her on one of our shows so this is back |
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