This Week in Tech 833: Herbs of Providence - a podcast by TWiT

Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware

• Amazon's New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.


• Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.


• Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day.


• The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair.


• iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction.


• Framework | The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews.


• Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option.


• 'Call Her Daddy' Host Alex Cooper Wants to Have the Biggest Podcast in the World.


• Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices.


• Akamai DNS outage knocks many major websites and services offline: PSN, Steam, Fidelity, more.


• A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn.


• BritBox Customers Stunned When Billed 100 Times Their Monthly Fee.


• Twitter shares a first look at the 'big overhaul' coming to TweetDeck.


• Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate.


• Tennessee man died from heart attack after 'Swatting' over Twitter handle.


• Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X.


• Tesla Full-Self Driving Software Alarms Safety Advocates.


• Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking.


• Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars.


• ROUTERS! ROUTERS!! ROUTERS!!!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Owen JJ Stone, and Iain Thomson

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