TWiT 1011: The Year in Review - A Look at the Top Stories of 2024
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 200 minutes
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Summary
- What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR
- Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED
- Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows
- PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
- Microsoft delays Recall after security concerns, and asks Windows Insiders for help
- The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1
- Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip
- Apple hit with €1.8bn fine for breaking EU law over music streaming
- Bluesky emerges
- The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates
- Apple's Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla
- SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms
- U.S. versus Apple: A first reaction
- Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
- U.S. Accuses Chinese Hackers of Targeting Critical Infrastructure in America
- U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack
- AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
- National Public Data confirms breach exposing Social Security numbers
- Schools Want to Ban Phones. Parents Say No.
- New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
- GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
- Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
- Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
- Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and TicketmasterThe Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
- Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon
- OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in largest VC round ever
- Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
- Netflix's Live Mike Tyson Vs. Jake Paul Fight Battling Sound & Streaming Glitches In Lead-Up To Main Event
- Infowars Sale to The Onion Rejected by Federal Bankruptcy Judge
- Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
- So You Want to Solve the NJ Drone Mystery? Our Expert Has Some Ideas
- Beeper's push for iMessage on Android is really over
- The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams
- Japan finally ends mandatory form submission on floppy disks
- We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
- Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
- Game Informer to Shut Down After 33 Years
- In Memoriam
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit, everybody, and a special show. |
| 0:03.1 | Our last show of 2024, and as our want, we will be doing a review of the biggest stories |
| 0:09.1 | from 2024 with three of my favorite people. |
| 0:12.6 | Micah Sargent is here, Father Robert Balliser, and from Windows Weekly, Richard Campbell. |
| 0:18.2 | A very special twit up next. |
| 0:23.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:27.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:33.6 | This is Twit. This is Twit. This week in Tech. Episode 111 recorded Sunday, December 22nd, 2024. |
| 0:45.5 | The Year in Review. |
| 0:56.5 | It's time for Twit. |
| 1:00.8 | This week in Tech, the last show of 2024. |
| 1:02.8 | Thank God. |
| 1:06.7 | We'll take next week off for a best of, and then we will be roaring, come roaring back. |
| 1:10.5 | What is that? January 4th? |
| 1:13.4 | I actually don't know. |
| 1:15.1 | I should probably find out January 5th. |
| 1:17.6 | So a couple of weeks off. |
| 1:19.2 | But you know what we do at the end of the year? |
| 1:20.7 | We like to do kind of a review of the year. |
| 1:23.4 | And we like to do it with people in the family. |
| 1:26.2 | It's a family show. |
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