The WIRED Podcast

Europe's New Law Takes a Hammer to Big Tech

The WIRED Podcast

Show Notes

Coming up today: We delve into the details of the EU’s big move against Big Tech power and tell the harrowing story of the destruction of Mariupol’s communications infrastructure.

The stories we talked about this week:

Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech https://www.wired.com/story/digital-markets-act-messaging/

Forcing WhatsApp and iMessage to Work Together Is Doomed to Fail https://www.wired.com/story/dma-interoperability-messaging-imessage-whatsapp/

The Last Cell Tower in Mariupol https://www.wired.com/story/mariupol-ukraine-war/

Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess

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