TWiT 1002: Maximum Iceland Scenario - Data Caps, 3rd Party Android Stores, Nuclear Amazon

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 184 minutes

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Summary

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling 'is dangerous'
Canceling subscriptions is about to get easier
The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist
Wyden: CALEA Hack Proves Dangers Of Government-Mandated Backdoors
Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
X Will Soon Let Users See Tweets From People Who Block Them
People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software in 2.4 mln cars after fatal crash
French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites
Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
Amazon debuts next-gen family of Kindle devices: First color model, fastest and lightest Paperwhite ever
Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
Netflix third-quarter subscribers barely beat estimates as ad-tier members jump 35%

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Cory Doctorow, and Jason Hiner

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech. This is one of those shows you're going to want a bookmark listen to maybe over a period of time
0:08.2	Because it is very
0:10.8	Information Rich Corey Doctoro is here, always fascinating,
0:14.9	our favorite sci-fi, author and big thinker,
0:19.1	Jason Heiner, editor and chief of Z-D-Net,
0:22.0	and Brian McCullough from the tech meme ride home we're
0:24.6	going to talk about Google's victory in court last minute victory. We're going to
0:29.6	talk about the hacking of Kalea and why that shows governments should not have backdoors, some good
0:36.0	things the FTC has done, and why Netflix is doing so well.
0:41.8	All of that and more coming up next on Twit.
0:45.0	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:51.0	This is Twit.
0:57.0	This is Twit. This is Twit. This week in Tech. Episode 1, 2002 recorded Sunday October 20, 2024. Maximum Iceland Scenario. Yeah. It's time for Twit this week in Tech, the show we cover the week's tech, the show we cover the
1:19.6	week's Tech News. And this is a unique show on the Twit network because we have a
1:26.8	rotating panelists. It's never the same. I think that's kind of fun. All the
1:31.6	other shows have kind of a consistent group of panelists, but this one's always different.
1:35.6	However, all three of our panelists this week are old friends who've been on the show many times before some of the smartest people in the business
1:43.8	starting with kory doctoro science fiction author EFF representative for a long time
1:50.3	I just found out you were used to be an imagineer at one point I didn't know that when
1:55.0	when was that I was about a decade ago I was I think the title was something like
2:00.2	visionary in residence but it was a Disney R&D and Blue Sky at WDI at Imagineering and then I still
2:07.8	contract for them every now and again I am most of what you work on when you're an Imaginer you can't talk about because of the NDA,
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