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This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote
Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
What to expect from Meta Connect
SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package
Gen Z protests in Nepal, sparked by a social media ban, have killed nearly 2 dozen and injured hundreds. Here's what to know
Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they're coming for your time and money
Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age
Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case
Geek News Central Mourns the Loss of Todd Cochrane

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson, Victoria Song, and Jason Hiner

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week at Tech. What a great panel. Jason Hiner's here from ZDNet, Dan Patterson,
0:05.0	from Blackbird AI, and The Verges Victoria's song, Victoria and Jason, we're both at the Apple event.
0:11.1	We'll have the inside story of all that Apple announced. We're going to talk about the uproar going on in Nepal.
0:17.4	Turns out you turn off people's social media. They get pretty upset. And the new
0:22.4	little teeny records coming from Target, all that more coming up next on Twit.
0:29.5	Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit.
0:40.7	This is Twit. This is Twit. This week in Tech, episode 14, 49, recorded Sunday, September 14th, 2025.
0:49.4	Gas Station LaFoufu. It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news, and it has been, as the TV hosts say, a busy week. Fortunately, we have a lovely panel joining us. Jason Heiner is here, editor-in-chief at ZD-Net, our good friend. Hello, Jason. Hey, good to be here. Always good to see you. Yes. I got nothing to say.
1:15.6	I'm just welcome and it's always good to see you. It's always good to see you. Also with this.
1:19.3	My guy's my friend. Dan Patterson, who for many years was at CBS. He's been on our show for years and years and years he's now at blackbird day
1:28.0	AI with they're doing their best to disabuse disinformation that's a wonderful word disabuse yes
1:37.2	I'm going to disabuse you of your disinformation because you're all wrong yeah Yeah, especially this week.
1:45.2	Oh, my God.
1:46.8	Yeah, well, we're not going to go into that, actually,
1:49.0	because it's really more of a journalism story, but yeah.
1:51.6	I was just talking about the new iPhones.
1:53.9	Oh, okay.
1:54.7	There you go.
1:55.5	Well, speaking of the new iPhones,
1:56.9	we're thrilled to have Victoria's song here.
1:58.5	She is, of course, at The Verge, senior reviewer.
2:01.0	And Victoria was at the Apple campus for the big event on Tuesday.
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