This Week in Tech (Audio)

Twitter API fallout, Section 230, TikTok ban, tech layoffs, AmazonSmile RIP

• Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients.
• Twitterrific: End of an Era.
• In Memory of Tweetbot.
• Extremely Hardcore.
• Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Elon Musk with unpalatable options.
• Google has been sued and is involved in a lawsuit over YouTube algorithms.
• Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230.
• R Street Institute signs onto amicus brief in Gonzalez v. Google.
• Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech.
• India blocks YouTube videos and Twitter posts on BBC Modi documentary.
• As states ban TikTok on government devices, evidence of harm is thin.
• TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral.
• How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation.
• Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.
• Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees.
• Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens.
• Apple Postpones AR/VR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset (AAPL).
• How Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches.
• Comixology hit hard by Amazon's massive layoffs.
• Inside CNET's AI-powered SEO money machine.
• CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy.
• The Lisa: Apple's Most Influential Failure.
• T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers.
• AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces.
• Former Exec explains why on Reddit.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Brianna Wu, and Shoshana Weissmann

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