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This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Windows 10 EOL coming soon
Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
Ig Winners

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week at Tech. I love this panel. Devendra Hardawar from a gadget is here.
0:05.4	Nicholas DeLeon from Consumer Reports and our own father, Robert Ballasere from the Vatican.
0:11.9	We'll talk about the plan to make an AI Pope. It's not going to happen. Don't worry. Robert made sure of that.
0:17.7	We'll also talk about Megatmeta's amazing new glasses
0:21.2	and the demo fail
0:23.0	one after the other
0:24.6	at the Meadow event.
0:26.1	The iPhone Air turns out
0:27.7	it's a pretty good phone
0:29.4	and what is the TikTok deal
0:31.5	going to do for TikTok?
0:33.0	That and a whole lot more
0:33.7	coming up next on Twitter.
0:44.3	Podcasts you love. from people you trust this is twit this is twit this week in tech episode 150, recorded Sunday, September 21st, 2025.
0:58.6	Live demo. Good luck.
1:01.4	It's time for Twit. This week in Tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. I wasn't supposed to be here.
1:07.1	This week, I was supposed to be on vacation, and Devendra Hardewar, senior editor and Gadget,
1:11.8	very kindly agreed to run the show. So I'm just going to sit back and watch Devendra. Do you mind? That would be great. No, I wouldn't. You're just being kind of, we should just put you in the guest spot, Leo, and you should just be kind of interesting. Great being a guest. I can't do it. You just know, I can't do it.
1:27.3	I can't do it.
1:28.0	I can't.
1:28.9	But I very much appreciate you sticking around and, uh, interesting right being a guest there's no pressure you just know i can't do it i can't do it i can't
1:27.8	i can't but i very much appreciate you sticking around and uh we'll take the burden off your
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