TWiT 916: Fetch Happens - Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Section 230, NSA surveillance, Spotify podcasts flop, Apple Watch ban

U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance.
Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption.
Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.
It's Time to Tear Up Big Tech's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card.
Section 230 Won't Protect ChatGPT.
Twitter lays off another 50 employees as cost cutting continues under Elon Musk: report.
FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable feed aggregator.
Sumi.news.
Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator.
Calckey: A greatly enhanced fork of Misskey with better UI/UX, security, features, and more!
Mammoth is a new free Mastodon client for iOS and macOS.
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers.
SF's new startup hotspot seen as the road to AI riches.
Sometimes Open Systems Beat Those Who Try To Lock Them Up: Spotify's Podcast Colonization Flops.
YouTube tests adding podcasts to 'Create' button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics.
Spanish court authorises extradition of Briton who allegedly hacked Biden, Obama.
Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs.
Filmmakers Request Identities of Reddit Users to Aid Piracy Lawsuit.
Apple Watch ban: Biden will make decision next week.
OG sealed iPhone breaks record selling for almost 2x that of a recent auction.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Masnick, Alex Lindsay, and Owen Thomas

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech with a big week at the Supreme Court.
0:04.4	We're really glad Mike Maznik from TechTurt is here.
0:07.2	Owen Thomas joins us from the San Francisco Examiner and from Macbreak Weekly,
0:11.1	Alex Lindsay is in the House. We'll talk about section 230, the oral arguments.
0:16.4	Why the NSA probably should be governed a little bit more by the Supreme Court.
0:23.0	A potential Apple Watch band. They got the hacker who hacked all those Twitter
0:29.4	accounts and then an iPhone that sold for $63,000 all that and more coming up next on Twitter.
0:37.5	Podcasts You Love.
0:41.7	From People You Trust.
0:43.9	This is Twitch.
0:46.4	This is Twitch.
0:54.4	This week in tech, Episode 916, recorded Sunday, February 26th, 2023.
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