TWiT 1053: Robotic Lap Trimmer - Sony, Cox, & ISP Liability for User Copyright Infringement
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 200 minutes
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Summary
From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.
- October Term 2025
- Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case
- I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...
- AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
- Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show
- Chat Control: Germany says NEIN
- Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
- China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.
- Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown
- Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free
- California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services
- Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
- TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News
- Introducing Figure 03
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Guests: Cathy Gellis, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Gary Rivlin
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. We have a fantastic panel for you. Gary Rivlin is here, |
| 0:05.3 | the author of AI Valley. Kathy Gellis, our favorite attorney to talk about the Supreme Court. |
| 0:10.6 | They just started their new term. And from the verge, Jennifer Patterson, Tooey. She's going to talk |
| 0:16.0 | about robotic vacuum cleaners and the new figure three humanoid robot. We'll also talk about the |
| 0:23.7 | Supreme Court and a couple of interesting cases, including one where Sony Music is suing an |
| 0:29.7 | ISP saying they should have blocked all their users. They were stealing our music And maybe some good news for chat control in the |
| 0:40.9 | EU, all that and a whole lot more coming up next on Twit. |
| 0:47.1 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:51.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:52.8 | This is Twit. |
| 1:00.4 | This is Twit. This Week in Tech. |
| 1:01.5 | Episode 153, recorded Sunday, October 12th, 2025. |
| 1:07.1 | Robotic Lap Trimmer. |
| 1:09.6 | It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news with always fascinating people. |
| 1:16.6 | This week in particular is going to be great. |
| 1:18.6 | Kathy Gellis is back, our attorney at law. |
| 1:21.6 | Now a fellow at UC Law SF, congratulations, and writer, of course, for TechDirt. Always a pleasure to see you and your |
| 1:29.8 | collection of beverages. Thank you. Usually you put a blanket over the beverage. I was like, |
| 1:35.8 | there's nothing in there I'm embarrassed about. You can see that I'm hydrating. This is fine. |
| 1:41.3 | Nor should there be. But Kathy, we should mention lives on a houseboat. |
| 1:44.9 | So, of course, it's very important that, I don't know, she keeps water around. I don't know. That doesn't make sense. Yeah, water, water, you know, everywhere, not a drop to drink. I got to have a bottle inside the show. You don't want to drink the San Francisco Bay water, that's for sure. Not in any respect now. Also with us, Jennifer Patterson, Tooie. |
| 2:01.3 | She's a senior viewer at The Verge. |
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