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May 5
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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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