Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses


• I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried


• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man


• Windows 10 EOL coming soon


• Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos


• 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back


• iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point


• Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out


• A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time


• TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says


• By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US


• Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks


• Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org


• Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"


• ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity


• Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves


• Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people


• Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar


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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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