TWiT 1056: The Big Sleep - The Great Router Ban

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.

Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent
The End of Cybersecurity
Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'
Here's How the AI Crash Happens
US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers
Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts
FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off
Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Ditital Life
The F5 Hack is a Big Deal
OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher
'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time
Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked
YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News
ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham

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0:00.0	It's time for twit this week in tech, stellar panel for you this week. Stacey Higginbotham is here from Consumer Reports.
0:06.5	Jill Duffy from PC Magazine and Wired Magazine and our favorite security guru after Steve Gibson.
0:13.8	Alex Stamos is here. We're going to talk about the time change and how we almost became this close to avoiding it. Thanks, Congress.
0:24.1	We'll talk about YouTube TV and Disney. Alex ain't too happy about his Cal game. And the AI
0:32.4	layoffs, are they really AI? And is the big crash coming? All that more.
0:38.8	Next on Twit.
0:43.1	Podcasts you love.
0:44.7	From people you trust.
0:47.5	This is Twit.
1:02.0	This is Twit. This Week in Tech. Episode 156 recorded Sunday, November 2nd, 2025, The Big Sleep.
1:14.7	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the latest tech news and man we got a great panel oh man i know i say this every week but it's true this week stacey higginbotham is here she
1:22.0	couldn't make it last week due to a power outage on her tight little island but she uh consented to join us this week and I'm so thrilled
1:29.6	hi Stacy hi happy to be here policy fellow consumer reports she's the person responsible for
1:35.5	getting Microsoft to back down on uh wait a minute back down they didn't back down oh well
1:42.9	tilting at windmills I know they kind of they made it as easy as
1:47.5	possible to get another year out of them but but they didn't do what you you and your colleagues called
1:52.8	for which was to just give it another year microsoft you're going to do it anyway give it another year
1:57.6	it's great to see you stacey we will have another stacey's book club and i will tell you
2:02.0	what that book is soon she's reading it right now and she's depressed also with us jill duffy
2:10.8	we haven't seen jill in a long time it's so great to see you she's a contributor at pc magazine
2:15.4	and wired and always welcome on our network, even though it's
2:21.9	five in the morning where she is today. I'm so sorry. Yeah. Shout out to everybody on Vianchian Louse.
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