This Week's Topics: TikTok ban bill signed by Biden US FTC bans non-competes Engineers reestablish communications with Voyager 1 Google delays cookie deprecation again Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant

Windows Needs An F*** Off Button

8 days ago 1h 18m

This Week's Topics: Debris from ISS hits Florida home Microsoft considering ads in Windows 11 search bar EU rules against Meta's Pay or OK model Security cameras with a twist Guests: Jeff […]

Worse Than Reddit

21 days ago 1h 29m

This Week's Topics: Many-shot jailbreak fools AI safety Google reveals launch date of Android’s Find My Device network XZ backdoor discovered by Microsoft engineer Gmail launched 20 years ago Guests: Jeff Gamet, […]

Ian Pulls A Beer

28 days ago 56m 21s

This Week's Topics: AI-driven beer brewing Qualcomm, Intel, Google team up to take on NVIDIA's CUDA with OneAPI Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry

Trash Panda Throw-Down

Mar 22nd, 2024 1h 14m

This Week's Topics: Car companies collecting and selling driver data Doctor Who Season 14 debuts soon Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry

Mice at the Movies

Mar 7th, 2024 1h 21m

This Week's Topics: Microsoft/NY Times copyright fight Nikon buys cinema camera maker RED SambaNova delivers AI modeling platform Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry

Really Dodgy Crap

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 15m

This Week's Topics: Intel will make chips for Microsoft The EU is formalizing rules for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services Guests: […]

Flora Flashback

Feb 17th, 2024 1h 14m

This Week's Topics: Facebook £3bn legal action given go-ahead in London The FCC bans robocalls with AI-generated voices Tesla Cybertrucks are already rusting Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant

International VU meter

Feb 9th, 2024 55m 17s

This Week's Topics: ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros, Discovery sports streaming deal Youtube adding podcast RSS support Google replaces Bard AI with Gemini Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig

20-year-old Memory Faster Than Today’s

Feb 1st, 2024 1h 17m

This Week's Topics: US Congress grills social media tech execs Apple-created spatial video available on Meta's Quest devices Intel, Hynix, NTT partnership to deploy photonics for faster speed, lower power Guests: Ewen […]

Datacenters on Mars

Jan 25th, 2024 1h 26m

This Week's Topics: Meta lets EU users unlink accounts UK Post Office scandal Microsoft lays off 1900 XBox/Activision employees Amazon says they stop sending video to police OpenAI's Altman in talks to […]

Datacenters on Mars

Jan 25th, 2024 1h 26m

Ewen is back!!! This Week's Topics: Meta lets EU users unlink accounts UK Post Office scandal Microsoft lays off 1900 XBox/Activision employees Amazon says they stop sending video to police OpenAI's Altman […]

Tiny chips and big speeds

Jan 18th, 2024 1h 14m

This Week's Topics: Waymo begins highway testing New transistors announced to further silicon technology Researcher busts myth of Bitcoin anonymity Big announcement... listen until the end of the show! Guests: Jeff Gamet, […]

Annual BS Show

Jan 12th, 2024 1h 9m

This Week's Topics: We review our predictions for 2023 and make new predictions for 2024 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry

Year-End Quiz

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 46m

The annual quiz show, with questions from this year's Big tech news Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry

Damp and Wet

Dec 8th, 2023 1h 27m

This Week's Topics: Google launches Gemini AI Stellantis And Ample Launch EV Battery Swap Squid Game: The Challenge gets a second season Hugging Face/CMU quantify AI-generation power usage Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben […]

En-Jeff-ication of Chat Explanation

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 17m

This Week's Topics: Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers Threads may finally launch in Europe in December Amazon unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant, Tom […]

AI Soap Opera

Nov 24th, 2023 1h 10m

This Week's Topics: Broadcom completes acquisition of VMware Sam Altman/OpenAI Saga Amazon to sell cars online, beginning with Hyundai Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant

Two Ians are better than one

Nov 16th, 2023 1h 21m

This Week's Topics: Google sends a third of Safari ad revenue to Apple The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now Microsoft Reveals Custom 128-Core […]

It’s Called A Focus Group Kelly

Nov 10th, 2023 1h 20m

This week’s topics: MyQ garage controller drops HomeKit and Home Assistant support WeWork files for bankruptcy Limits revealed for Google’s Magic Photo Editor Actors strike resolved Guests: Jeff Gamet, Kelly Guimont, Patrice […]

Ben Explains Chat

Nov 2nd, 2023 1h 5m

This week’s topics: Sergey Brin's airship company gets approval for flight tests Sierra Space space plane set for flight tests in 2024 Amazon's price-raising algorithm made $1.4B Guests: Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, […]

Halloween Stream Consciousness

Oct 27th, 2023 1h 35m

This week’s topics: BP buys Tesla SuperCharge hardware UK’s Online Safety Act is now law Microsoft CEO admits giving up on Windows Phone was a mistake NVIDIA and AMD to make Arm-based […]

Earthquakes: Nature’s DDOS

Oct 19th, 2023 1h 31m

Topics: Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Android WearOS Nokia eliminates 14,000 jobs HTTP/2 feature exploited for massive DDOS attacks ShakeAlert brings early earthquake warnings Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian […]

Collection of Lynx

Oct 12th, 2023 1h 7m

This week’s topics: T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans Google makes passkeys default 1st asteroid sample rich in carbon and water Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry

King Ben of Iowa

Oct 6th, 2023 54m 12s

This week’s topics: X sued for trademark infringement Q Dot scientists win Nobel Google launches Pixel 8 Patrick Stewart's memoir Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry