WAN Show October 24, 2025 TL;DR

Linus and Luke kick things off by dissecting Amazon AWS’s massive outage (spoiler: DNS flubs galore), reliving past Twitch and Pokémon Go meltdowns, then jump into Counter-Strike 2’s face-plant that wiped its market cap down to $3 billion. They also marvel at jet engines powering new data centers, chat about Samsung’s AI-powered Galaxy XR headset (and whether smart glasses can ever stick), and sneak in nerdy riffs on neural links.

On the lighter side, there’s a roundup of hot takes—from the SuperBox lock-up drama to OpenAI’s Atlas vs. Microsoft’s Mico, YouTube’s new AI-video detectors, and PRIMA’s vision-restoring implant. Toss in random Japan fab tours, a “Doritos-as-weapon” AI gaffe, Xbox’s 30% dev cut demand, and the usual LTT store gossip, and you’ve got one jam-packed, wildly entertaining podcast.

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