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New episodes every Sunday.
New episodes every Sunday.
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Mar 30, 2026 • 2h 37min
TWiT 1077: I Would Download a Car - New Jury Ruling Could Reshape Social Media Liability
Brian McCullough, tech journalist who summarizes the week in tech. Harper Reed, entrepreneur and AI practitioner from 2389.ai. Kathy Gellis, Supreme Court‑admitted attorney and tech litigator. They dig into a landmark ruling on social platform liability, Section 230 and First Amendment tensions, a major LightLLM supply‑chain malware incident, and the rise and risks of personified AI agents.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 2h 21min
TWiT 1076: I'm Monitoring the Situation - Meta's Horizon Worlds Stays Alive Against The Odds
Janko Roettgers, media and VR/AR reporter; Dan Patterson, audio and misinformation strategist; Lisa Schmeiser, enterprise communications editor. They dig into Meta keeping Horizon Worlds alive, CBS ending nearly-century radio news and the podcasting surge, FBI buying location data and privacy concerns, Microsoft’s Windows 11 changes, plus AI, disinformation, and big tech legal and security shakeups.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 2h 56min
TWiT 1075: The Commonwealth Club - Meta Layoffs, DOGE Data Theft, & the Rise of AI Fails
Richard Campbell, long‑time tech commentator and podcaster, Iain Thompson, British/Commonwealth tech columnist, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Verge senior reviewer, dig into Meta's AI-driven layoffs and delayed Avocado model. They unpack bot abuse of web LLMs, a major social media addiction trial, DOGE-related data claims, the rise of agentic AI disrupting services, and quirky tech like plug‑in solar and flying cars.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 3h 7min
TWiT 1074: Chicken Mating Harnesses - Supreme Court Rules AI Art Not Copyrightable
Joey de Villa, developer advocate and longtime tech community voice, and Cory Doctorow, author and digital-rights activist, dissect AI, privacy, and tech power. They debate AI in warfare, supply-chain blacklists like Anthropic, and whether AI art can be copyrighted. They also tackle data-broker breaches, surveillance via ad tech, and the economic risks of the AI boom.
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Mar 2, 2026 • 2h 54min
TWiT 1073: Broetry in Motion - Anthropic Stands Up to The Pentagon
Harry McCracken, tech journalist and historian; Owen Thomas, SF business reporter; Molly White, critic of crypto and web3. They wrestle with Anthropic refusing Pentagon demands and the PR ripple as Claude tops app charts. Conversation jumps to AI deployment models, industry layoffs and Gemini's cutbacks, Netflix pulling from the Warner bid, Samsung product news, and worrying new cyber and privacy threats.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 3h 4min
TWiT 1072: The Devil's Advocate - Jailbreaking Fighter Jets, Social Media Addiction, and Self-Driving Snafus
Nicholas De Leon, Senior electronics reporter and local tech builder. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, the Digital Jesuit offering ethics and culture from Rome. Sam Abuelsamid, automotive analyst focused on vehicle tech. They riff on jailbreaking fighter jets, social media addiction and legal fallout, AI hype vs hardware, GPS-led delivery fails, robo-taxi crash data, Ring surveillance worries, and weird tech oddities.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 2h 46min
TWiT 1071: Image Pickles - Are Social Platforms Addictive or Just Too Good?
Thomas Germain, BBC technology correspondent, brings a UK media lens. Wesley Faulkner, founder focused on workplace/community projects, brings product and policy perspective. Stacey Higginbotham, tech journalist and consumer‑tech policy fellow, adds privacy expertise. They debate whether social platforms are engineered to be irresistible, dig into tracking and facial‑recognition risks, and unpack surveillance, regulation, and IoT security.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 2h 29min
TWiT 1070: A Yacht for Your Yacht - Super Bowl LX Gets a Surge of AI Ads!
Mike Elgan, AI and culture writer who runs gastronomic travel experiences; Lou Maresca, Microsoft Copilot engineering lead specializing in agentic AI; Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely focused on kids' online safety. They tackle AI-powered Super Bowl ads, rival model releases, orbital data center plans, school phone bans, TikTok regulation, zero-day findings in code, and supply-chain attacks — rapid-fire tech topics and policy sparks.
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Feb 2, 2026 • 2h 48min
TWiT 1069: In My Head I Have 3 Buckets - Moltbook Becomes a Surreal AI Agent Social Network
Devindra Hardawar, a skeptical gadget reviewer; Victoria Song, a hands-on smart device critic; and Gary Rivlin, a Pulitzer-winning tech historian. They unpack Moltbook, a surreal social network for AI agents. They debate agent security, memory and weird anthropomorphic posts. They also tackle AI in the military, big tech deals, and the risks of rapid agent deployment.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 2h 52min
TWiT 1068: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck - Is TikTok's New Privacy Policy Cause for Alarm?
Doc Rock, YouTuber and strategic partnerships lead with social-media anecdotes. Patrick Beja, Paris-based podcaster, offers a European policy lens. Alex Stamos, security and AI expert, brings deep cybersecurity analysis. They debate TikTok's alarming privacy wording, Microsoft's BitLocker key practices, Europe's tech contingency plans, AI-driven bug noise, gambling's impact on news, and internet routing and credential leaks.
