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• Apple testily responds to Google's Project Zero discovery of China's iOS hack against Uyghur Muslims.
• Avoiding FUD: how secure is too secure?
• Facebook leaks 420 Million users' phone numbers. In a related story, until recently, AT&T stored users' phone numbers in unencrypted paper files and delivered them directly to all US citizens.
• Apple Event this Tuesday! Which new phone will win the 2019 Fall Challenge?
• Phone Photography of the Phuture!
• Apple Watch 5 is all about sleep.
• Apple Tile, Apple Glasses, Apple TV, Apple Arcade, what else will happen on Tuesday?
• Harry is excited about the 16 Inch MacBook coming soon.
• Samsung Fold released in South Korea. It's not perfect, but it is a necessary step towards a cyberpunk future.
• An AI beat an 8th-grade science test. My 8th grader spends most of his time in the backyard blowing up stuff. Should we be scared?
• Joi Ito resigns over Epstein ties. Let's make sure we punish all the tech people who worked with Epstein and ignore all the bankers and politicians.
• Bill Gates has spent the past 10 years rehabilitating his image. Will his ties to Jeffrey Epstein remind everyone what a jerk he used to be?
• Verizon's 5G rollout to NFL stadiums only covers some seats.
• DOJ demands Apple and Google give them data on everyone who downloaded a gun scope tuning app.
• Supermicro flaw - no, not that Supermicro flaw, the other one.
• Huawei says the US is cyber-attacking it. Um, Duh.
• Biohacking is here. Stick a server in your thigh!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harry McCracken, Jason Hiner, and Seth Rosenblatt

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• Apple Event September 10th: iPhone. Which phone will be better, iPhone 11 or Pixel 4?
• Apple Event September 10th: Apple Watch. What health features should we expect, and how will they save Christina Warren's life this time?
• Jack Hacked! Twitter CEO's Twitter account hacked by white supremacists. (Again.) Can Twitter ever be properly secured? (No.) Will someone hack Trump's account next? (Maybe they already have, we just don't know it.)
• Trump proposes tracking US citizens with Fitbits to prevent mass shootings.
• Reddit detectives figure out which satellite Trump uses to track Iranian space launch facilities after he tweets a picture of one.
• 15% tariffs on Apple Watch, AirPods and HomePod start today! Apple vows to move all production back to America immediately. Just kidding - they're moving to Vietnam. So is Google Pixel. Coming soon: Iraqi-made Microsoft Surface Pro and Afghani HP laptops!
• Project Zero at Google discovered a very interesting iPhone hack that went on for years. China used those hacks to target Uyghur Muslim Chinese citizens.
• Black Hat attendees infected with a real-life virus: Measles!
• Google doubles down on third-party trackers, arguing that eliminating them will break the web. Why this is a big fat lie.
• Microsoft Surface event coming October 2nd. Greg Ferro wants to know why Windows still sucks.
• Apple turns 180 degrees, allows 3rd-party repairs.
• Microsoft gives ExFat to Linux. Can we please have NTFS next?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren and Greg Ferro

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This Week's Stories:

• Hacking the US Military at DEF CON
• Voting machine hacks at DEF CON
• GDPR is a hacker's delight
• Company sues DEF CON because their presentation was booed
• Will the T-Mobile/Sprint merger go through?
• Android Q is not a dessert
• New phone season is here
• Using mice to detect deepfakes
• Navigating our increasingly fakeable world
• Is computational photography more or less "real"?
• Human connection in an online world
• Apple TV+, Disney +, where does it end?
• Apple Card and its various stains
• Don't wash titanium with tap water
• 5G is as carcinogenic as coffee and pickles
• WeWork IPO chicanery
• Pokemon Go trespassing is still a problem
• No, Instagram is not going to steal your photos

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Iain Thomson, and Alex Wilhelm

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• Amazon's paid tweeters program backfires
• Telus email out for the past 4 days
• $3 Million Fortnite winner SWATted
• How Gamergate launched a culture war
• Esports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to college
• Verizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years ago
• iPhone 11 coming September 10 - how private will it be?
• Apple sues Corellium for virtualization service
• Google's challenging past 3 years
• Google forces Nest to leave recording lights on
• iPhone 11 Pro Max?
• Pixel 3a's faux 20x zoom
• Rival search engines drop out of Google's search engine ballot auction
• Amazon's Rekognition face recognition system can't tell the difference between congressmen and criminals
• "NULL" vanity plate garners man $12,000+ in parking violations
• 3 simple ways to defeat face recognition
• Update your Windows 10 system NOW. Seriously.
• New Bluetooth KNOB attack
• Huawei gets a break
• Georgia required to use paper ballots
• FTC willing to break up big tech
• IKEA gets serious about smart tech
• Disney after account sharers
• Don't use Kaspersky anti-virus
• Tesla owner implants her key in her arm
• Apple shuts down 3rd-party WebKit anti-tracking abusers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Matt Cutts, Denise Howell, and Owen JJ Stone

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This Week's Stories

• Video games don't cause mass shootings, but toxic gamer culture doesn't help
• White House proposes social media censorship
• Apple wants as many people as possible to get the Apple Card
• Are Teslas reliable?
• Chase forgives Canadian customers' debt
• Apple locks out DIY battery repairs
• FedEx splits with Amazon
• Amazon's PillPack fighting with CVS and Walgreens
• Woz wants you off Facebook
• Teenagers work overnight to make Amazon Echo
• Samsung Note 10 kills headphone jack and Bixby button, embraces Microsoft
• FBI, NSA want hackers, even if they used to smoke pot
• Defcon takes on voting machine security
• Elizabeth Warren's plan for rural broadband
• US Navy ditching touchscreen controllers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Ben Johnson, and Sam Abuelsamid

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This Week's Stories

• Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
• Phone season starts this week
• Apple gearing up on R&D
• Amazon takes over
• RIP Amazon Dash button
• Your Assistant is listening
• Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
• Capital One hack
• Apple Bluetooth security hack
• Facial recognition for drunks
• Chinese smile to pay
• Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
• AI customer service hell
• Amazon partnering with police
• Turkey cracks down on Internet
• Instagram from Facebook
• Livestreaming Funerals
• Spotify takes off
• US Govt vs social media addiction
• Locast gets sued
• Ninja moves to Mixer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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• Apple buys Intel's modem business
• House passes anti-robocall bill
• Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September
• As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier
• iPadOS is the Future of Apple
• iPhone 11 is all about the camera
• Note 10 - no headphone jack, no buttons
• How Apple fights factory thefts
• Apple Card coming in August
• Google will buy your face for $5
• Facebook founder wants to break up Facebook
• Google bans repair business search ads
• Big government vs big tech
• Do not install PremierOpinion software from VoiceFive
• Pampers develops "smart" diapers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Lisa Schmeiser, and Lexy Savvides

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• Is FaceApp safe? As safe as any other photo app.
• Russian Intelligence Service hacked
• Apollo 11 helped launch computer programming
• Elon Musk wants to sew a chip in your brain
• Equifax fined $700 million
• TikTok takes over
• Celebrate World Emoji Day
• New MacBook Air have slower SSD
• Apple Pushes Exclusive Podcasts
• Trump threatens Google
• Congressional hearings on Big Tech
• Google kicks Chinese app developer off Play Store
• Tinder removes itself from the Play Store
• Oakland Bans Facial Recognition
• Amazon has record sales on Prime Day
• How should Facebook Libra be regulated?
• Influencers are taking over the world
• Boston Dynamics Spot Mini is coming

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Iain Thomson

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Top Stories This Week

• Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
• The dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacy
• Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
• Instagram vs bullies
• Prime Day deals and dilemmas
• Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
• Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
• Your car is watching you
• Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
• RIP MacBook
• Mac update kills Zoom hack
• Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
• Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
• Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
• Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
• Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
• Netflix Cuphead Show
• Prime Day phishing scams
• HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
• France's Tech Tax
• Niantic kills its first app
• Google's new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
• Google's privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
• Google is listening to you in Flanders
• Twitter will test "Hide Replies" in Canada
• A eulogy for the father of the password
• Chatterbox will teach children robotics

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan and Caroline Haskins

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This Week's Stories

• HQ Trivia Lays off Staff, Pivots to HQ Words
• Fortnite is an Advertising Machine
• The Fragmented Nature of Gaming: Fortnite vs CoD BLOPS vs Dream Daddy
• Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
• Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
• MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
• Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
• Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
• Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
• Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
• Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
• Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
• Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Patrick Beja, and Simone de Rochefort

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• Apple tanks on Tim Cook's earnings warning - is the golden age of iPhone over?
• Are Facebook and Google too big to Fail? No. Here's why.
• China and the US duel over security, AI, and quantum computing.
• Qualcomm vs Apple legal battles heat up.
• Fortnite and Pokemon Go rake in the dough in 2018.
• Amazon wins big over the holiday season.
• Microsoft wants to give you control over your digital data.
• For the 1st time in 20 years, an entire year's worth of books, movies, and art enter's the public domain.
• The 10-second toothbrush, the Kurigization of Things (KoT) and more reasons why you shouldn't go to CES 2019.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Mike Elgan, and Alex Wilhelm

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The Best of TWiT from 2018!

Host: Leo Laporte

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• Mark Zuckerberg promised to fix Facebook in 2018. How'd that go?
• Apple hits $1 Trillion; Jeff Bezos hits $150 Billion; Amazon warhouse workers hit $15/hr.
• Elon Musk's ups and downs
• The biggest mergers of 2018
• Net neutrality ends, SESTA/FOSTA, and more legal news
• Bloomberg's big blunder
• China's social credit system and CRISPR babies
• Those we lost in 2018

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: John C. Dvorak, Owen JJ Stone, and Alex Lindsay

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• Elon Musk is a terrible person to work for.
• The internet is a garbage fire of hate.
• It is not Google's fault that searching for "idiot" results in pictures of Donald Trump.
• The Chinese are not spying on you with secret spy chips on Super Micro servers.
• The Chinese are spying on you by hacking Marriott.
• The Chinese may or may not be spying on you with Huawei phones and 5G infrastructure.
• Taylor Swift is most definitely spying on you at her concerts.
• The Australian government really, really wants to spy on you.
• YouTube Rewind 2018 is awful.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Harry McCracken, and Michael Nuñez

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• What role did Facebook play in the French riots?
• Tumblr bans porn, Facebook bans vague hints that sex might be a thing that exists.
• Meanwhile in the UK, Parliament releases sensitive internal Facebook memos and emails.
• Tik Tok is where all the youngs are at.
• And then there were 5: Google tries to make sense of its Messaging platforms. Meanwhile, Apple's iMessage is the one app that could rule them all.
• Microsoft puts some Chromium in their Edge.
• Canada arrests Huawei's CFO for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran.
• Australia passes a dangerously vague anti-encryption law.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rich DeMuro, Patrick Beja, and Sam Abuelsamid

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• Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day ever
• Marriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 years
• Indian Microsoft scammers busted
• Amazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum blockchain, and more from re:Invent
• When is Amazon rolling out Prime Health?
• UK grabs thousands of Facebook emails from bikini app company
• Google's China woes continue
• Apple at the Supreme Court
• Microsoft tops Apple as world's most valuable company

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nate Lanxon, Devindra Hardawar, and Dwight Silverman

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• US government tells allies not to buy Huawei products
• China to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020
• Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?
• Google News may leave EU over link tax
• Cards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses.
• For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft was the world's most valuable company
• Social media influencers and social media backlash
• Amazon wants to buy Fox sports channels

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Jason Snell, and Adam Fisher

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• Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis.
• Waymo plans a driverless car service.
• Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia.
• Google's "smart city" in Toronto gets some pushback.
• Julian Assange has been charged with... something?
• SpaceX gets approval to launch 7000 internet satellites.
• Japan's cybersecurity chief is 100% unhackable - because he has never touched a computer.
• Alphabet's Verily gives up on glucose-measuring contact lenses.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Larry Magid, and Georgia Dow

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• Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.
• Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day.
• Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class."
• 22% of Americans still trust Facebook.
• Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap.
• Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case.
• DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights.
• China unveils the first AI news anchor.
• Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe.
• With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype.
• FCC has harsh words about robocalls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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• Apple announces new MacBook Air and Mac Mini, then blows them both away with its new iPad Pro.
• Apple will no longer tell us how many iPhones it sells.
• How to kill an iPhone with a balloon.
• Iran unmasks dozens of CIA agents with a Google search.
• Google employees stage walkout over sexual harassment
• Amazon exec mad at Washington Post for leaking new headquarters location.
• Facebook targets ads at "White Genocide Conspiracy Theorists."
• Voter suppression on Twitter, and IRL in Georgia.
• Passcodes are officially protected by the fifth amendment (at least in Florida, and only in some cases).
• Senator proposes a bill that would jail tech CEOs for misusing consumer data.
• FCC says community broadband is an "ominous threat to the first amendment."

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brian McCullough, Iain Thomson, and Mike Elgan

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