This week in tech

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

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren

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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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

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