Tech news with memory, jokes, and teeth.
This Week in Tech pairs a steady handoff style with a rotating panel of reporters, lawyers, analysts, and technologists. The result is brisk weekly tech analysis that can move from Supreme Court doctrine to browser fingerprints to marmalade jokes without losing the thread.
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This Week in Tech is a long-running weekly roundtable for listeners who like their tech news argued over in public. It does not treat the industry as a parade of product launches. The show is more interested in power, incentives, law, media, privacy, workplace software, and the strange habits that form around new tools. Recent conversations have covered OpenAI buying a podcast, Meta’s legal exposure, AI agents, social platforms and addiction claims, Microsoft’s effort to de-center the desktop, browser fingerprinting, face recognition, smart glasses, and the continuing expansion of bloated web pages. The range is broad, but the show’s center is clear: technology is never just technology once money, institutions, and human trust get involved. The panel format gives it texture. Reporters bring market memory. Lawyers and policy voices slow the room down when the legal stakes matter. Technologists pull the conversation back toward how systems actually work. The host keeps the pace moving, often with a joke, a tangent, or a handoff that lets a guest sharpen the issue. Some of the best moments come from collision. A discussion of AI interfaces can become a question about con artists, trust, and why people treat software like a person. A Windows segment can detour through K2, mountaineering books, and the early web before returning to Microsoft’s enterprise strategy. That looseness is part of the appeal. The show assumes the audience can follow legal terminology, platform history, and industry shorthand without being spoon-fed. It also assumes there is room for humor. The tone is dry rather than breathless, skeptical without being sour, and warm when the panel lands on shared history. It is especially strong when tech news requires more than a headline: regulation, liability, privacy tradeoffs, AI behavior, media ownership, and the business logic behind platform choices. For listeners who want a polished five-minute recap, it may feel sprawling. For listeners who want the week’s tech news tested by people with memory and opinions, that sprawl is the point.
Made for: For technically literate listeners who follow platform power, AI, privacy, legal fights, and the business of the web. It fits people who enjoy informed disagreement more than tidy recap.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the seasoned roundtable: legal context, reporting instincts, technical literacy, and dry banter all working on the same story. The show lets digressions breathe when they reveal how today’s tech arguments connect to older media shifts and recurring industry habits.
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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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