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TWiT 967: I'll Be Your Shabbos Goy - KOSA, French Public Scrolling Ban

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

  • Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
  • Apple to be fined over $500 million under EU antitrust law
  • Fighting the smartphone 'invasion': the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
  • 2 Twitter books are coming out
  • Bluesky opens up to the public
  • The Reply Guy Constitution
  • Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
  • Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
  • Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
  • Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
  • Apple iMessage, Microsoft Bing Dodge EU's Big Tech Crackdown
  • FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
  • Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand
  • Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amanda Silberling, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Shoshana Weissmann

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0:00.0

It's time for Twint this week in Tech. We got a great panel for you. I'm so excited about this.

0:04.8

Amanda Silverling is back. She covers media and culture for Techcrunch.com.

0:11.5

From CNET, their technology reporter, she's really great Abrau al-Heedy, and she lives

0:17.7

in a pineapple under DC, my favorite lobbyist, Shoshana Weisman from R Street.org lots to talk about including

0:26.9

why Mark Zuckerberg thinks the Quest 3 is better than the Vision Pro. We'll also talk about the 500 million euro fine Apple is facing.

0:36.8

A French village that's banning scrolling in public and why Sarah Silverman is just mediocre. It's all coming up next on

0:46.0

Twitter.

0:48.8

Podcasts you love from people you trust.

0:53.0

This is Twit.

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This is Twit.

0:57.0

This is Twit.

1:02.0

This week in Tech, episode 967, recorded Sunday, February 18, 2024.

1:08.0

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