TF News | Tech Week in Review | Episode 45

🎙️ Tech Week in Review — Episode 45 (16–24 Feb 2026)

Episode 45 is a collision of courtrooms, code, and consequences. Tech giants face a global reckoning over child safety, addictive design, and AI misuse. Governments tighten rules on deepfakes while militaries quietly test AI in real-world operations. Meanwhile, autonomous systems cause outages and crashes, robots entertain crowds, and engineers try to preserve humanity’s data for thousands of years in glass.

 

Episode 45 Topics Covered:

• ⚖️ Zuckerberg testifies as social media addiction case targets platform design
• 🧒 Apple and Roblox sued over child safety failures
• 🇬🇧 U.K. orders deepfakes removed within 48 hours or face massive fines
• 🇮🇹 Italy weighs nationwide under-16 social media ban
• 🪖 U.S. military reportedly uses Anthropic’s Claude in Venezuela operation
• 🎬 ByteDance’s hyper-real video AI sparks Disney copyright clash
• ⚡ AWS outages triggered by rogue internal AI coding agents
• ⛪ Vatican deploys AI translation for Mass in 60 languages
• 🚖 Tesla robotaxis log crashes in Austin, raising autonomy concerns
• 💰 Microsoft commits $50B to reduce global AI inequality
• 🧊 Quartz glass “eternal storage” tested for millennia-long data preservation
• 🤖 China showcases autonomous robots at Lunar New Year events
• ⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court blocks emergency tariffs, disrupting trade plans
• 🏎️ Radical 2026 Formula 1 cars push drivers to the limit

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Join Adam and Eve as they unpack these stories with insight and humor, offering clarity on how technology continues to shape, challenge, and sometimes disrupt our world.

TechFyle's weekly podcast, Tech Week in Review, provides a digest of significant tech news. The podcast presents several overarching technological trends that inform listeners about the most important technological developments and discussions of the past week.

 

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