About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Elon Musk's legal troubles, CBS's news service shutdown, and updates on Meta's Horizon Worlds and Windows 11.

Elon Musk faces a multi-billion dollar verdict after a California jury finds his tweets misled Twitter shareholders, raising the stakes for tech CEOs with unchecked social media influence. Plus, CBS kills its legendary radio news service while podcasting explodes, signaling a dramatic shift in how America consumes, trusts, and pays for news. CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms The 49MB Web Page Microsoft unveils MAJOR improvements coming to Windows 11 this year — movable Taskbar, reduced RAM usage, less AI and ads, and much more CONFIRMED: "We are evolving how Windows is built behind the scenes to raise the quality bar" Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups Jury agrees that Musk's tweets during Twitter takeover misled investors After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold 200,000…

Topics covered

• Elon Musk
• social media influence
• CBS news service shutdown
• podcasting growth
• Meta Horizon Worlds
• cybersecurity
• Windows 11 updates

Keywords

• Elon Musk
• Twitter
• CBS
• Meta
• Horizon Worlds
• Windows 11
• cybersecurity
• podcasting
• Galaxy Z TriFold
• Kalshi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Twitter, CBS, FBI, Microsoft, Meta, Kalshi

Products: Galaxy Z TriFold

Places: California

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