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Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.
- More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple
- After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
- EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
- Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
- Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny
- Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
- Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion
- Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
- A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge
- Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
- AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl
- SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
- Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites
- Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
- New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
- Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
- A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
- The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem
- Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
- Dave Farber
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Larry Magid, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca
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