TWiT 1027: 20 Years in the Can - Delete IP Law?, Recall Roll Out, Not Dire Wolves
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 197 minutes
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Summary
- Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
- Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
- Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'
- 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial
- Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters
- Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief
- Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
- Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from
- June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns
- The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do
- Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
- Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
- Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
- Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech. It's a very different twit this week. I got to warn you ahead of time. |
| 0:06.4 | We've got a great panel, as always Robert Balliser, the digital Jesuit, Father Robert, joins us. |
| 0:12.4 | Alan Malvantano. He's back at Soledim, our SSD expert, Samma Bullseman, my car expert, all old friends. |
| 0:19.1 | But this is a special episode because we're celebrating today our 20th anniversary. |
| 0:23.6 | The first twit aired on April 17th, 2005, 20 years ago. |
| 0:29.6 | And because on the 1,000th episode we brought back the old panel and we kind of reminisced, |
| 0:35.6 | I thought it'd be fun on this 20th anniversary episode |
| 0:39.2 | to hear from our audience, people who watch the show, how they discovered us, where they |
| 0:45.2 | watch us, that kind of thing. So we've got a lot of videos, poems, and letters from you, our listeners. |
| 0:52.3 | And we'll be playing those throughout the show, talking about the news as well. |
| 0:56.9 | It's going to be a very special twit. |
| 0:58.6 | Coming up next. |
| 1:02.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:04.4 | From people you trust. |
| 1:06.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:13.4 | This is Twit. This is Twit. |
| 1:15.6 | This Week in Tech, episode 1027, recorded April 13th, 2025, 2025, 20 years in the can. |
| 1:31.1 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech, the show we get together for the last 20 years |
| 1:36.5 | and talk about the week's tech news. This is our 20th anniversary episode. I'm really thrilled |
| 1:42.8 | to have this group with me. Good friends, Padre S.J, Father Robert Ballas here, the Digital Jesuit visiting from the Vatican. |
| 1:49.7 | Nice to see you, Father. |
| 1:51.7 | You can bless this show. |
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