Aug 24th 2025
This Week in Tech 1046
Shrimpspiracy
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Musk Trolls Microsoft With Macrohard
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Daniel Rubino,
Paris Martineau
- You should buy a faster CPU
- The Trump-Intel deal is official
- Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban
- Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief
- Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk’s AI simulation of Microsoft
- Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
- Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years
- Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
- Apple explores using Google Gemini AI to power revamped Siri
- Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law
- 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
- Sports streaming enters a bold new era
- Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
- Oura secures decisive legal victory with ITC patent ruling
- T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
- Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’
- Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome
- Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
- Agentic browser security: indirect prompt injection in Perplexity Comet
- New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
- YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series
- German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers
- Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates’ software factory vision
- More frozen shrimp recalled for possible radioactive contamination
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Links
- You should buy a faster CPU
- The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official
- The Trump administration's big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants | TechCrunch
- Trump admin strips ocean and air pollution monitoring from next-gen weather satellites | CNN
- Trump Signals Fourth Delay of TikTok Ban
- Trump to Tap Airbnb Co-Founder as First Government Design Chief
- Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk’s AI simulation of Microsoft
- Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
- Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years
- Bluesky Blocks Service In Mississippi Over Age Assurance Law - Slashdot
- 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
- Sports streaming enters a bold new era
- Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 | TechCrunch
- Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City
- Oura Secures Decisive Legal Victory with ITC Patent Ruling
- T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree
- Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer's network with a 'kill switch' | TechCrunch
- Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome
- Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online
- Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
- New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
- YouTuber Mark Rober is getting a Netflix series
- German court revives case that could threaten ad blockers
- Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
- Satya Nadella says Microsoft must move beyond Bill Gates’ software factory vision
- Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri
- Radioactive Shrimpgate continues
- Paris' shrimpspiracy
- Can you beat the Nick (30yo) simulator?