TL;DR WAN Show – November 7, 2025

Linus kicks things off with the mind-boggling revelation that the Louvre’s internal password was literally “LOUVRE,” sparking a chat on basic security hygiene and 2FA. They also dig into Floatplane’s billing bug that accidentally charged users multiple times, share Linus’s epic airport saga (including a Chinese customs confiscating his battery), and field viewer questions on everything from smart-home gear to shipping bags.

On the news front: YouTube’s sneaky paid-membership pop-ups, AI’s mass takedowns of small channels and a Teams scheduling glitch, Microsoft finally squashing that decade-old update-restart bug (but still not top dog in AI), Amazon suing Perplexity over AI shopping, Nvidia planning server rigs in orbit, a Chinese thorium-powered container ship, and AMD clearing the air on RDNA driver drama.

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