Episodes

Aug. 24, 2024

(BNS) The Crowdstrike Thing (With Overmind.tech)

Breaking down the Crowdstrike outage with Overmind.tech
Aug. 23, 2024

Fri. 08/23 – The Bolt Saga

Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There’s a pretty big loophole that is still letting China use H100 chips. The weird saga evolving over at Bolt. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Aug. 22, 2024

Thu. 08/22 – The Mike Lynch Saga

As Mike Lynch’s body is recovered off Sicily, a deeper look at what was a roller coaster of a life. More cross posting for Meta’s apps. We have a date for the re-release of Recall. Interesting executive shuffle at Apple. And…
Aug. 21, 2024

Wed. 08/21 – AI Grabs The Spotlight Back

AI news has been a bit quiet for a little while now, but the headlines came roaring back today. More evidence Waymo might be having some sort of tipping point. Can we really get 3D without the need to wear glasses? And the t…
Aug. 20, 2024

Tue. 08/20 – Checkin On How The Vision Pro Is (Or Is Not) Coming Along

New Raspberry Pi 5. Waymo’s rolling out its new self-driving tech. A major developer draws plaudits for going anti-AI. The tragic and odd story of that tech exec who is missing after his yacht sank. And after six months, how…
Aug. 19, 2024

Mon. 08/19 – Everything Eventually Becomes An Advertising Business

Is X closing up shop in Brazil? Remember how Apple is trying to make their own modems? How’s that going? Why is the online dating sector suddenly struggling? And could the next big advertising platform actually be Walmart?
Aug. 16, 2024

Fri. 08/16 – Epic Saga Conclusion?

The Epic saga has reached a sort of conclusion. Epic saga. See what I did there? That California AI safety bill has been pruned a bit. You can now add you California drivers license to your smartphone wallet. And, of course,…
Aug. 15, 2024

Thu. 08/15 – Grok Will Let You AI Anything

The new version of Grok will pretty much let you make an AI image of anything or anyone. More rumors of an iPad/robot/smart home hybrid from Apple. Masa Son wanted Intel to spin up a competitor to Nvidia, but Intel reportedl…
Aug. 14, 2024

Wed. 08/14 – When It Comes To AI On Phones, Google Does It Itself

All the details from yesterday’s pixel event, but especially the AI features that show how far ahead Google is. At least when it comes to putting AI on phones. We have official post quantum computing cryptography standards. …
Aug. 13, 2024

Tue. 08/13 – Apple Comes For Patreon

Patreon is forced to change how it does things because Apple finally came to claim their vig. Have basically all our social security numbers been leaked? Crowdstrike owns its mistakes in person. And even if you build it, the…
Aug. 12, 2024

Mon. 08/12 – Some Apple Rumors Before Pixel Day

Hey, want to know the iPhone product road map for the next year or so? I wonder why that’s coming out today? Instagram is copying something it forgot to copy from Snapchat. Celsius wants a ton of bitcoin back from Tether. Fl…
Aug. 9, 2024

Fri. 08/09 – Mac Mini To Get Mini-er?

Apple’s new EU rules still aren’t acceptable to Spotify and Epic. Could we be getting a new, smaller Mac Mini this year? Perplexity AI is showing some real numbers in its effort to unseat Google Search. And, of course, the w…
Aug. 8, 2024

Thu. 08/08 – Would You Buy A Subscription Mouse?

TikTok launches Spotlight. Meta’s budget kills a VR studio. Why did everyone think Logitech was going to create a mouse you had to pay a subscription to use? And did you know how big Anime is? I did not.
Aug. 7, 2024

Wed. 08/07 – Is The New Google TV Streamer An Apple TV 4K Killer?

Google’s new TV streaming appliance, plus lots of lot of Gemini stuff is coming to Google Home and Nest and such. Elon tries to get advertisers to come back to X by… suing them. That time Intel had a chance to invest in Open…
Aug. 6, 2024

Tue. 08/06 – Google Loses In Court

Three big stories to catch you up on. A federal judge has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. The Game Of Thrones style drama at OpenAI is just getting weirder. And what if all those weird acquihires in all but name are act…
Aug. 5, 2024

Mon. 08/05 – OpenAI Can Detect AI Text But Isn’t Sure It Wants To

Why is OpenAI sitting on technology that could detect AI cheating? Why is Bitcoin so correlated to the stock market? Why is Elon restarting his lawsuit against OpenAI? Why are the Chinese launching a Starlink competitor? And…
Aug. 2, 2024

Fri. 08/02 – Intel Is Bailing Water

So, tech earnings continued to be boring. Apple was fine. Amazon was not quite so fine. And then someone we don’t cover closely really messed the bed. I’ll tell you who. Are we starting to see the first next-generation AI st…
Aug. 1, 2024

Thu. 08/01 – Now Meta’s AI Spending Is Fine?

So I guess Zuck has convinced Wall Street that all the capex spending on AI is fine. How good a business is Tether? A gooooood business. The first arrival of Apple Intelligence is sort of a ho-hum for now. And how sports is …
July 31, 2024

Wed. 07/31 – CapCut Ascendant

Another big pullback of a major AI tool. Microsoft earnings. How CapCut is taking over the creator tools space. Amazon speedy delivery is rolling out to the nooks and crannies of North America. And the startup taking a new r…
July 30, 2024

Tue. 07/30 – A (Mostly) AI Day

Perplexity wants to share ad revenue with publishers. But lots of AI companies are continuing to gamble with scraping. Meta’s new Segment Anything 2 model. AI influencers on Instagram. Canva makes an AI acquisition. And in n…
July 29, 2024

Mon. 07/29 – Big Tech IPO From… Honeywell?

Apple Intelligence might be coming sooner than we dared hope. Might want to check your settings on X. The universe of alt coins is back. A big tech IPO coming from an unexpected source. And is that Galaxy Ring a thing or no?
July 26, 2024

Fri. 07/26 – SearchGPT

OpenAI takes on Google search directly. Another Hollywood style with the same underlying causes. We know absolutely everything about the new Pixel 9 series already. Is WhatsApp finally catching on in the US? And, of course, …
July 25, 2024

Thu. 07/25 – Reddit’s Throwing Elbows Again

Once again, Reddit looks like it’s not worried about upsetting people. New generative search on Bing, new models from Mistral and a new video model from Stability. But did Runway train it’s video models on YouTube videos? We…
July 24, 2024

Wed. 07/24 – Llama 3.1 Bests The “Frontier Models”?

Meta’s Llama 3.1 shows that open models can at least go toe to toe with proprietary AI models. Why did the Google-Wiz deal fall apart? Was the CrowdStrike outage a part of it? Kamala Harris, AI czar? And what do the reviews …