1025 | AI Hype, Hacked TVs and a Very Old Turtle
From AI's missing payoffs and LLM-written code to hacked TVs, exposed brain signals, and a 190-year-old turtle on a coin — a tour of what's new, what's broken, and what it means.
1024 | Models, Sandboxes, and one Retro Easter Egg
From new open-weight language models and hardened AI sandboxes to dashboards replacing six-figure tools, phone privacy fights, and a handful of delightful web curiosities — a fast tour of what the tech world shipped, leaked, and argued about this week.
1023 | Enclosures, Exploits, and Escape Hatches
From AI claiming the scientific commons and forests cleared for data centers, to botched security disclosures, court-ordered DNS blackouts, a hacked phone, a Switch 2 jailbreak, and independent builders keeping open tech alive — a tour of who controls technology and who fights back.
1021 | Critical Bugs, Cloud Outages and the Future of Open Knowledge
A fast tour through this week's tech and security news: critical PHP patches, CA key leaks, ransomware turncoats, Google's outages and open-source releases, plus education, culture and a few playful projects.
1020 | Models, Agents, and Broken Trust
A fast tour of the week: a wave of new AI models, AI agents reshaping software work, autonomous agents gone wrong in security, fights over platform and market power, big moves in open-source systems, and drones, space, and lab-grown science.
1019 | AI Proxies, Agent Souls, and Retro Silicon
From AI agents that can search your WhatsApp to the ethics of machine-made math, this episode rounds up the week: self-hosting LLM proxies, agent token costs, software losing its soul, and a grab bag of retro tech from the 8087 to a PalmOS Lemmings clone.
1018 | XSLT Dies, Solar Surges, and Other Stories of the Week
This episode tours the week's most talked-about stories: Chrome and Edge dropping XLT support, the OpenCode security breach, DeepSeek's new model, a new way to preview local LLM hardware, the first solar-beats-nuclear milestone, gold topping U.S. exports, an attack on diplomats in the West Bank, Linux kernel 7.2's statistics, plus lighter fare — a synthesized duck pond, transparent chicken, and one man's path to Japanese citizenship.
1017 | AI in the Engine Room: From Ring to RDMA
A fast tour of this week's tech news: AI doing real engineering and security work, big models running on Macs and consoles, the classic Token Ring vs Ethernet battle, plus privacy, networking, and a few odd corners of computing culture.
1014 | Agents, Apple, and Borrow Checkers
From a Rust music player to giant AI migrations and Apple hardware week, this episode covers the tools, models, and stories shaping tech right now — plus a Hittite archive, a hacked tunnel project, and why UK power use keeps falling.
1013 | AI Everywhere, Freezer Attacks, and a 50fps GT4
AI is reshaping work, tools, and law while security incidents pile up — from supermarket freezers to GitHub malware. Plus: a Google FMA mystery, balcony solar, and a browser-running GT4.
1012 | AI Promises, Corporate Fouls, and the Fight to Keep Things Open
From AI's widening gap and its limits to worker surveillance, digital rights, and the communities keeping old tech and open culture alive — a tour of the week's most argued-about tech stories.
1011 | Consolidation, Decisions, and a Bombilla Computer
From Nvidia's bid for an open-models startup and the question of who decides when AI acts, to unikernels returning, DuckDB's faster cloud reads, a 2–8°C open-source COVID vaccine, safer food research, odd corners of computing history, and the fine print of software licenses and housing taxes. A fast tour of tech, science, and policy stories.
1009 | From Threads of Light to Math 2.0
An episode touching hardware in the real world — worn LEDs and tired OLED monitors — software, AI, standards, energy, and a look at human-scale tech stories from social networks to education.
1007 | Open Weights, Open Questions: A Week of AI, Math, and Machines
From AI-discovered math proofs and open hardware to geothermal power, streaming megamergers, and niche personal software, this episode tours the week's biggest stories in tech, science, and the systems that shape them.
1006 | Agents at Work, Guards Gone Missing
From AI building software in an hour to AI agents discovering new materials — this episode looks at what large models can now actually do, and where they go wrong: forged cartoon signatures, a diary read by police, a hacked Mac Mini. Then security and privacy news from Texas to Denmark, developer tooling updates, and the industry moves shaping robotics and chips.
1004 | Broken Cultures, Bending Light, and Bin Sensors
A rapid tour of this week's tech and society news: AI safety split, agents' failures, GPU and WebP engineering wins, free-culture fights over Flock and 3D scans, plus niche tools and games.
1003 | Harnesses, Satellites and Stratego Kings
From SaaS becoming harnesses around models to TPUs in orbit, this episode looks at how AI is reshaping software, hardware, and privacy — plus local inference engines, agent databases, a Stratego-playing AI, exoplanet imaging, Zig's new release, a Gleam blogging pipeline, von Neumann lore, and museum visits.
1002 | Agents, Benchmarks, and Border Phones
AI is reshaping how software gets built, sold, and policed: we look at coding agents and their open questions, then database and language-tool performance, security and identity in an agentic world, AI's business and political fallout, and finish with the maker and community side of the hacker news cycle.
1001 | Openness, Intelligence, and an Analog World
From open hardware and open compilers to secret satellites, honest AI progress, and an anxious world — a sweep of what changed this week in tech, science, and beyond.
0930 | Agents, Gigawatts, and a Vibe-Coded Website
A fast tour of this week's news: OpenAI's DevDay blitz and what it means for pricing and model quality, the privacy and ethics problems of AI and surveillance, a batch of software and platform stories, big infrastructure wins in energy, some striking science and data, and a closing look at how we live and read.