TWiT 1030: Journalism Comes In Second - Government Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom

May 5, 2025

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Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Iain Thomson, and Gary Rivlin

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