TWiT 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts - DOGE Hacked, IRS Supercomputer, Alexa Delayed

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Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.
Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer
Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,
Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business
Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel
Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing
Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away
Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed
Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event
Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

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Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech.
0:01.9	Brian McCulles here from the TechMeme Ride Home podcast, Ian Thompson from the register.com,
0:07.6	and our good friend Wesley Faulkner in the news, TikTok, it's back in the app store.
0:13.0	How did that happen?
0:14.7	Elon Musk's Doge website has already been hacked, and it looks like we're ready to sell off Intel for parts.
0:21.8	Oh, it's all next on Twit.
0:26.9	Podcasts you love.
0:28.6	From people you trust.
0:31.1	This is Twit.
0:40.9	This is Twit. This is Twit. This in Tech. Episode 1019 recorded Sunday, February 16th, 20205.
0:47.8	Nickel for your thoughts.
0:59.9	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news.
1:07.7	And here I thought we were like amazing because we've been doing this for 20 years and we have 1,000.
1:09.4	This is episode 1019.
1:13.4	And along comes Brian McCullough of the Tech meme ride home podcast who is about to celebrate 2,000 episodes well yeah but if we strung together all the episodes
1:20.9	for all your shows i mean i guess have you ever done that counting yeah it's more than 10,000. Yeah, I figured. It's a lot. It's enough that if I really wanted to retire, I could have an AI ingest them all. And I wouldn't have to do a show. A lick of work for the rest of my life. Great to have you, Brian. Welcome. Also here, Wesley Faulkner, influencer, Wesley Wesley 83.com he's decided he doesn't
1:47.6	want to talk about work anymore he just wants to be an influencer I want to be a
1:52.7	person of the people I just am here representing the the regular Joe
1:57.4	okay I like it what does that make us the princes of technology what we're all regular Joe in technology. I like it. What does that make us?
2:00.9	The princes of technology?
2:02.6	We're all regular Joe's here.
2:05.5	You're the platform.
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