Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words • AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse • How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024 • NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ In Defining Moment For Humankind • Elon Musk Calls Out NASA’s Moon Ambitions: ‘We’re Going Straight to Mars’ • Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia • Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban • US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident' • Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media • Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident • US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules • The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists) • Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements, From Homes To Brothels • Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025 • Public Domain Day 2025 • Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive • End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes ‘within two years’ Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Richard Campbell, Anthony Ha, and Stacey Higginbotham This Week in Tech episode 1013 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1013 Sponsors: • ZipRecruiter.com/Twit • joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT • canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT • zscaler.com/security Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: https://twit.tv/ https://twitter.com/TWiT https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv #ai #tiktokban #nasa About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, and more.