Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!

• Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
• Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
• Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
• Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
• The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
• X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
• Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
• iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
• AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
• Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
• George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
• Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
• PNG is back!
• 3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
• What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
• Withings Beamo

Host: Leo Laporte

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Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).

• Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man
• SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum
• Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft
• YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
• Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024
• Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform
• YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight
• YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'
• Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess
• Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
• The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
• China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors
• Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is
• Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments
• Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
• Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year
• Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet
• After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers

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From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and why most companies aren't ready for it.

• Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent
• The End of Cybersecurity
• Amazon says it didn't cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of 'culture'
• Here's How the AI Crash Happens
• US government is getting closer to banning TP-Link routers
• Neato cloud shutdown sees robocleaners robbed of their smarts
• FCC will vote to scrap telecom cybersecurity requirements
• Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off
• Swedish Death Cleaning But for Your Ditital Life
• The F5 Hack is a Big Deal
• OpenAI Releases Agentic Security Researcher
• 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
• Proton Data Breach Observatory aims to alert you in near real-time
• Using a Security Key on X? Re-Enroll Now or Your Account Will Be Locked
• YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials
• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
• Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads - gHacks Tech News
• ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jill Duffy, Alex Stamos, and Stacey Higginbotham

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When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?

• A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Million
• Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)
• Trump and Xi will 'consummate' TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says
• 3,000 YouTube Videos Exposed as Malware Traps in Massive Ghost Network Operation
• Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV?
• All the implications of F1's game-changing TV move
• Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
• Browser Promising Privacy Protection Contains Malware-Like Features, Routes Traffic Through China
• iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker scheme
• Rubbish IT systems cost the US at least $40bn during Covid: study
• Counter-Strike cosmetics economy loses nearly $2 billion in value overnight
• GM to introduce eyes-off, hands-off driving system in 2028
• WordPress co-founder files countersuit against WP Engine over trademark violations
• a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of 'Synthetic Influencers' to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
• Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval
• Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite

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Shocking new research reveals how anyone with $750 can intercept unencrypted satellite data, exposing everything from government secrets to in-flight Wi-Fi traffic. Find out why decades-old vulnerabilities are still open and who actually wants it that way.

• Study: The World's Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping
• You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say
• Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
• DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams
• cr.yp.to: 2025.10.04: NSA and IETF
• Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
• Court reduces damages Meta will get from spyware maker NSO Group but bans it from WhatsApp
• How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'
• New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI
• The European Union issued its first fines under the AI Act, penalizing a French facial recognition startup €12 million for deploying unverified algorithms in public security contracts
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
• Texas hit with a pair of lawsuits for its app store age verification requirements
• Australia shares tips to wean teens off social media ahead of ban. Will it work?
• California enacts age-gate law for app stores
• Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll
• Meta poached Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, with a compensation package rumored to reach $1.5 billion over six years
• Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers
• Roku's AI-upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about what you're watching
• Tesla debuts a steering wheel-less taxi for two
• Waymo and DoorDash Are Teaming Up to Deliver Your Food via Robotaxi

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Guests: Jacob Ward, Harper Reed, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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From internet service providers facing billion-dollar lawsuits for their users' file sharing to Amazon's smart displays turning into ad machines, the future of your connected life is up for grabs. If you want to know who's really pulling the strings in tech and where the battle lines are being drawn, this is the episode you can't miss.

• October Term 2025
• Supreme Court denies Google's request to pause Play Store changes while it appeals Epic case
• I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc...
• AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
• Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show
• Chat Control: Germany says NEIN
• Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
• China Flexed. Trump Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw.
• Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs
• FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown
• Windows 10 support ends October 14, but here's how to get an extra year for free
• California bans loud commercials on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services
• Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet
• TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News
• Introducing Figure 03

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As AI-generated clip content upends trust and creativity, this week's panel members join forces to unravel whether we're facing a cultural disaster or just the next leap forward (and what anyone online needs to watch out for next). Is the world ready for AI-generated video slop flooding the internet, legal headaches over deepfakes, and million-dollar tech maneuvering?

• Sora 2 is here
• We need to stop the slop of OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes AI video apps before it's too late
• Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
• One in five Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
• YouTube Bends the Knee
• Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal
• ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'
• How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
• CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down
• ByteDance to Maintain Control Of TikTok's U.S. Advertising, E-Commerce
• German government must reject chat control
• Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
• Swiss voters back electronic identity cards in close vote
• Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
• Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
• No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry
• Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships

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Guests: Patrick Beja, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.

• Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).
• Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ever pay off?.
• Jensen Huang: "We're already seeing trillion-dollar AI investments".
• How Anthropic and OpenAI are developing AI 'co-workers'.
• OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs.
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs.
• Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop.
• Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership.
• Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over allegations it misled Prime users.
• Is GenZ unemployable?
• Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs.
• AI startup friend bets on foes with $1M NYC subway campaign.
• Peter Thiel wants everyone to think more about the Antichrist.
• Apple builds a ChatGPT-like App to help test the revamped Siri.

Host: Alex Kantrowitz

Guests: Brian McCullough, Dan Shipper, and Ari Paparo

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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

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• iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote
• Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
• Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
• The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
• What to expect from Meta Connect
• SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
• Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
• Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package
• Gen Z protests in Nepal, sparked by a social media ban, have killed nearly 2 dozen and injured hundreds. Here's what to know
• Microdramas are TikTok turned up to 11, and they're coming for your time and money
• Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age
• Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case
• Geek News Central Mourns the Loss of Todd Cochrane

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