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This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age
Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage
Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD
Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It
Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
Fortnite is getting Unity games
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer
Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode
A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon
Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Father Robert Balliser is here. Molly White is here.
0:06.4	Wesley Faulkner's here. Oh, what a great panel. We're going to have a lot of fun talking about,
0:11.9	well, the deadline is approaching where kids are banned from social media in Australia.
0:18.5	But how do you prove their age? Do you do what Roblox does
0:21.6	and force 10-year-olds to submit a video selfie?
0:26.0	Meta wins in court.
0:27.7	Google's penalty phase is coming.
0:30.5	And why more than a million Windows users downloaded Linux last month?
0:35.2	All that more coming up next on Twitter.
0:40.0	Podcasts you love.
0:41.9	From people you trust.
0:44.4	This is Twit.
0:51.4	This is Twit.
0:53.1	This Week in Tech.
0:54.3	Episode 159, recorded Sunday, November 23rd, 2025.
0:59.9	I'm interested in your tool set.
1:02.8	It's time for Twit this week in tech to show we cover the latest tech news.
1:06.6	We've been having a lot of fun.
1:07.8	That's why we're starting 20 minutes late because we have such a great panel. Wesley Faulkner is here. It's great to see you, Wesley. It's good to be here. Founder of works dash not dash working.com. We'll ask him a little bit about that later in the show. And he's working on some interesting projects. Always to see you wesley molly white is also
1:29.4	here creator of uh web three is going just great at molly white dot net for all of her her substack and
1:37.2	all of the all of the things she does she is uh we your name i hope your ears were burning we talked to
1:43.5	jimmy wales the founder of wikipedia on wednesday and i said were burning we talked to Jimmy Wales the founder
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