TWiT 1081: That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.
- Toyota Woven City
- Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
- Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy
- Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
- Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point. - OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
- China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview - Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
- Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
- Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
- Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
- What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
- Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
- Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
- Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
- Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
- 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
- Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
- The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
- 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet
- To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
- This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
- The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
- This pasta sauce wants to record your family
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit. This week in Tech. Great panel this week. We've got Victoria's Song from The Verge. |
| 0:05.2 | Our dear friend Stacey Higginbotham Consumer Reports and car guy Sam Abul Samad. |
| 0:10.8 | We'll talk about Tim Cook leaving Apple, a lot more leaving meta, involuntarily, and why Australia's teen media ban just ain't working. |
| 0:21.9 | That's coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:26.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:28.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:30.6 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.4 | This is Twit. This is Twit. This Week in Tech, episode 1881, recorded Sunday, April 26th, 2026. That's Myasma. |
| 0:49.9 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. The show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 0:54.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:56.5 | Good to see you and good to see our panel today. |
| 0:59.7 | Stacey Higginbotham is back in the house. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello, Stacey. |
| 1:03.3 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:04.6 | Policy Fellow for Consumer Reports. |
| 1:07.2 | Looks like a beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:11.3 | It is. |
| 1:12.6 | It hurts my soul to be inside. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:16.1 | We'll get this over with real quick so you can get out for the sunset. |
| 1:18.8 | How about that? |
| 1:19.4 | Do you get really nice sunsets on your island? |
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