Go offline with the Player FM app!
This Week in Tech 1050: Live Demo, Good Luck
Manage episode 507794311 series 68506
Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.
- Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
- I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
- Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
- Windows 10 EOL coming soon
- Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
- 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
- iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
- Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
- A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
- TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
- By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
- Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
- Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
- Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
- ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
- Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
- Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
- Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
- Ig Winners
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
1067 episodes
Manage episode 507794311 series 68506
Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.
- Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
- I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
- Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
- Windows 10 EOL coming soon
- Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
- 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
- iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
- Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
- A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
- TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
- By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
- Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
- Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
- Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
- ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
- Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
- Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
- Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
- Ig Winners
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
1067 episodes
All episodes
×Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.