TWiT 1078: The Great British Marmalade Scandal - Building Your Own Router
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 156 minutes
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This week's episode confronts the mounting legal battles over addictive social apps, questioning whether court rulings should reshape Instagram and YouTube's design. Explore the heated clash between user autonomy, scientific uncertainty, and the next wave of regulation.
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Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Patrick Beja, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Iain Thomson
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. Ian Thompson is here, Abraar Alhidi, Patrick Bejja. |
| 0:06.1 | We'll talk about Outlook crashing in space. They did manage to fix it. OpenAI buys a podcast for hundreds of millions of dollars, not ours. I'm sorry to say. |
| 0:19.0 | And the end and maybe rebirth of zombo.com. |
| 0:24.1 | Twit is next. |
| 0:27.9 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:32.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:41.1 | This is Twit. This Week in Tech. |
| 0:46.5 | Episode 178, recorded Sunday, April 5th, 2026. |
| 0:49.3 | The Great British Marmalade Scandal. It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 0:59.1 | Let me introduce our esteemed panel this week from C-Net, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 1:03.7 | Abra Rale Hiti, she's senior technology reporter there. |
| 1:06.9 | And we finally figured it out because it always seemed like you were on Tech News Weekly and then on Twitter the following Sunday. Yeah. And we wanted to separate it. But Benito said, well, we let them choose what day. And everybody who's on Tech News weekly figures, well, I'm going to have a Tech News, a Twit week. Yeah. Why not? Why not do it all at once? So you're getting it out of the way, I guess. No, I'm, what are you talking about? I've never seen that. |
| 1:30.9 | It's teasing you. Great to see you, Abra. It's nice to see you. Ian Thompson is also here, Professor Thompson, because look at his library. It's just jam-packed with goodies. |
| 1:41.8 | Oh, this is just a couple of bookcases. We've got another five in the house. Oh, I love it. I love it. You save your books. Yeah, I mean, I had to give up half my library when I moved over here, and it broke my heart. But I took a very simple rule. If I could get it on an e-book, then I'd do that, something which i've regretted because they've started changing e-books |
| 2:02.2 | or if i hadn't read it in five years then uh it went to the charity shop or to the book shop or whatever |
| 2:08.1 | oh that's smart yeah also here joining us from paris former nato nation |
| 2:14.8 | wait no no you're still in nato we're the former NATO nation. It's you. It's us. You're the |
| 2:20.1 | almost former NATO nation. Patrick Feshaw, not Patrick.com. Staying up late for us. I appreciate it. Thank you. |
| 2:27.7 | Happy to. Patrick. We had actually one thing to celebrate this week, which was the launch of Artemis 2. The Integrity capsule is now on its way. |
| 2:39.3 | This is a NASA thing built in unity, actually, which is kind of cool. On its way to the moon. |
| 2:45.6 | It's actually closer to the moon by far. It's only 54,000 miles away from the moon it's almost a quarter of |
| 2:51.1 | a million miles from the earth and what's uh what's cool uh is that they have now seen a part of |
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