TWiT 1028: Some Had Leashes - Google's Monopoly, Yap Score, Robot Marathon

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
OpenAI's secret Yap score
4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming 'Very Soon'
Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances
Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games
Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence
Risks to children playing Roblox 'deeply disturbing', say researchers
Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires
China's First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart
OpenAI is building a social network
Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People
New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Nicholas De Leon, and Paris Martineau

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Oh, we're going to have fun this week. Nicholas DeLeon joins us from Consumer Reports, Georgia Dow from Montreal, Paris Martine. Lots to talk about the meta, the revelations, frankly, in the meta trial. Google loses its second antitrust trial. And are the tariffs on?
0:22.5	Are they off?
0:23.2	How much is an iPhone going to cost this fall?
0:25.6	All that and a whole lot more.
0:26.7	Coming up next on Twit.
0:31.7	Podcasts you love.
0:33.3	From people you trust.
0:35.8	This is Twit.
0:43.4	Okay. from people you trust. This is Twit. This is Twit.
0:45.4	This week in Tech.
0:46.6	Episode 1028, recorded April 20, 2025.
0:51.5	Some had leashes.
0:59.3	Yeah. 2025. Some had leashes. It's time for Twit this week in tech.
1:01.3	The show we cover the week's tech news.
1:02.9	I love this panel.
1:03.6	I'm so happy to see Georgia Dow.
1:05.6	Again, it's been an age.
1:07.4	Georgia is the YouTube therapist, YouTube.com slash Georgia Dow.
1:11.9	And of course, lives in beautiful Montreal where the sun shines all the time.
1:20.1	Maybe not all the time.
1:22.1	At least is the snow melted.
1:24.0	The snow's gone.
	...

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