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This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.

More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple
After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion
Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge
Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites
Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem
Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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0:00.0	It's time for twit this week in tech. It's the LLM episode. No, not AI. It's Larry, Lou and Mike.
0:06.7	Larry Magid, Lou Moreska, and Mike Elgin. Plus me, another L. We'll be talking about AI and how
0:13.4	much the hyperscalers are spending. This year, almost a trillion dollars to build out data centers.
0:19.4	Data centers in space, what could possibly go wrong?
0:24.2	And why McDonald's doesn't want you to use their products for your passwords,
0:28.6	all that and more coming up on Twit.
0:33.3	Podcasts you love.
0:35.0	From people you trust.
0:39.2	This is Twit this is twit this week in tech episode one thousand 70 recorded Sunday February
0:51.5	8th 2026 a yacht for your yacht.
0:56.5	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news.
1:01.3	Hello, everybody.
1:02.2	If you're watching live, yeah, we started a little bit early because I guess there's a sporting event.
1:06.6	Oh, yeah, the Winter Olympics later today.
1:08.4	No, the Super Bowl later today.
1:11.6	That's hence my outfit I'm wearing.
1:14.5	Well, we decided with AI that everybody could be wearing their favorite outfit, right?
1:20.0	I'm wearing my Niners gear.
1:21.7	I don't know what Larry is wearing in this AI-aided picture.
1:26.1	Benito, do you have it there?
1:27.1	I'm wearing a shirt with a big moray pattern. No, no. You look like a Patriots guy. A pay. Oh, no. Mike Elkin's a Steelers fan. And I don't know why they made Lumeresca, who doesn't even look like Lumeresca, a Eagles fan. Oh, Jets, it says. I look like Aaron Rogers there. You look, you know what?
1:46.0	They put a little Aaron Rogers on you. Lumeresca is here. He is an AI engineering lead, a co-pilot
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