Amazon Owes Us $2.5 Billion – WAN Show Highlights

Linus and Luke kick things off with Amazon getting slapped with a $2.5 B settlement for making Prime cancellations nearly impossible, plus the FTC’s beef with sneaky opt-in prompts. They then cover Microsoft’s decision to unbundle Teams from Office, a slick AI-driven chip cooling method, and SFU’s latest supercomputing upgrades. Other news bites include Google’s rumored Android-powered PC, Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite, Steam yanking a scammy title, and Synology axing hardware transcoding on some NAS models.

In between sponsor shenanigans, they chat about the Android–ChromeOS mashup, GPU acceleration woes, Facebook’s AI “Vibes” feed, SpamGPT (a bot that replies to your spam), Toyota’s PHEV charging game app, and whether Linus would ever build his own house—or return to WoW’s player housing. Toss in UI blunders, Apple’s migration quirks, Linus catching flak for hot takes, and an array of listener questions to round out the almost two-hour tech rollercoaster.

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