TWiT 1013: Calamari in Crisis - Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse
How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024
NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' In Defining Moment For Humankind
Elon Musk Calls Out NASA's Moon Ambitions: 'We're Going Straight to Mars'
Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident
US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists)
Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements, From Homes To Brothels
Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025
Public Domain Day 2025
Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive
End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell, Anthony Ha, and Stacey Higginbotham

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. We have a great panel for you. Stacey Higginbotham is here. Richard Campbell is here. And from TechCrunch, Anthony. Of course, we're going to talk about what to expect at CES this year. Of course, Stacey is all about IoT. We'll talk about matter. We'll talk about AI. And then the banned words of 2025, words we never want to hear again.
0:23.4	All that more.
0:24.5	Coming up next on Twit.
0:29.1	Podcasts you love.
0:31.1	From people you trust.
0:33.6	This is Twit.
0:40.2	This is Twit. This is Twit.
0:42.4	This Week in Tech, episode 113, recorded Sunday, January 5th, 2025.
0:50.1	Kalamari in Crisis.
0:59.4	Thank you. Calamari in Crisis. It's time for Twitter this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news, brand new year,
1:04.6	brand new news, and a lovely panel assembled for your delectation.
1:10.4	Stacey Agibotham is here.
1:12.5	Longtime host at this week in Google.
1:14.0	She still does Stacey's Book Club in our club,
1:16.2	and she's now a policy fellow at Consumer Reports,
1:19.5	where she just wrote a lovely piece on why all IoT devices
1:24.5	should have updatable firmware.
1:26.8	They should have an expiration date.
1:28.8	Yeah.
1:29.8	Yeah, that was my 2025, like big thing.
1:33.2	That's all I'm going to talk about next year.
1:34.8	Well, actually, we brought you here to talk about matter because you're also a home or at least.
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