TWiT 1024: Payday Loan Burrito - Section 230, Intel's Future, TikTok's Fate
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 170 minutes
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Summary
- Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
- Apple Can't Beat Spotify
- Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
- Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
- Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
- Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
- Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
- Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
- Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
- Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
- Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
- Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
- Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week at Tech. |
| 0:01.8 | Harry McCracken is here from Fast Company. |
| 0:04.1 | Father Robert Ballasere from the Vatican. |
| 0:07.0 | And from France, Patrick Bejja. |
| 0:09.5 | We'll talk about the future of Intel. |
| 0:13.3 | TikTok's future. |
| 0:14.6 | Who's going to buy it and what's going to happen? |
| 0:16.8 | And finally, France has freed Pavel Doroff. |
| 0:20.8 | Our long nightmare is over. |
| 0:22.6 | It's all coming up next with a whole lot more on Twit. |
| 0:28.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:29.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:32.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:49.5 | This is Twit. This is Twit. This Week in Tech. Episode 1024, recorded Sunday, March 23rd, 2025. Payday Loan Burrito. It's time for Twit, the show where we cover the latest tech news this week in tech. |
| 1:00.4 | And three of my favorite people are here, the technologizer himself, Harry McCracken, from Fast Company, who has in many ways, you've become our internet historian or a technology historian i love that |
| 1:12.0 | love all your wonderful pieces on old technology great to have you harry thank you for joining us |
| 1:16.9 | great to be here leo father robert balasair joins us from uh high atop vatican uh he is uh not in |
| 1:25.0 | vatican city i i can't quite figure it out, but you are overlooking St. Peter's Square. |
| 1:32.7 | Right. |
| 1:33.2 | So there's Vatican City, and then there's the land that the Vatican owns that's outside of Vatican City. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm on one of those pieces of land. |
| 1:40.7 | So it is the Vatican. |
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