Chaos Lever Podcast

Rogue AI Agent Swarms & SpaceX Takes Over Cursor | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/31/2026. This week we are covering: Bill Gates warning about the severe dangers of AI, court rulings against Kalshi and the Trump

Supermicro GPU Smuggling, Stripe Acquires OpenRouter, and Physics of Pasta | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/24/2026. This week we are covering: Las Vegas approving thousands of robotaxis, Stripe acquiring AI routing startup OpenRouter, Su

Lost Archives, Risky BMCs, and Solar Quantum Leaps | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/17/2026. This week we are covering: Nine PBS loses access to archival footage, an AI model round-up, persistent Baseboard Manageme

Chrome Eats Your Drive & GPT 5.6 Escapes | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 08/10/2026. This week we are covering: Chrome silently downloading 20GB local AI models, Elon Musk settling his multiyear advertiser

Chaos Lever After Dark — Season 2 Kickoff

Welcome to the debut of Chaos Lever After Dark! Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner return to officially kick off Season 2 with a refreshed, sanity-preserving format. A

The End of Season One (Finally) | Chaos Lever

Ned and Chris are back for one final ramble before they vanish into the summer ether like a Wi-Fi balloon over Cádiz. No, seriously—Ned might actually be in a balloon. Th

Spinning Rust [Still] Ain’t Dead Yet (Redux) | Chaos Lever

Spinning rust is still not dead. Despite what some all-flash evangelists want you to believe, hard drives have a lot of life left—and yes, we’re still talking about tape

Can WordPress Be Saved from Its Creator? | Chaos Lever

🔥 The world may be on fire, but at least we’ve got s’mores and dark chocolate (just not 98% cacao, thank you). In this episode, we dunk on tech billionaires with the fine

Microsoft’s OneDrive Fiasco and the FAA’s Retro Tech | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week! Here's what caught our eye in the past seven days: Scammers are out in full force this summer with hyper-detailed (but totally fake) DM

Negligence as a Service | Chaos Lever

Welcome back, fellow humans (and bots in disguise)! This week on Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned dive into the dusty archives and slap us with a two-by-four of cybersecurity d

Your ASUS Router Is a Botnet Now | Tech News of the Week

Chaos is inevitable—especially on Patch Tuesday. This week, Chris and I dive into four juicy stories that highlight just how strange, scary, and downright ridiculous the

The Legacy of LaMDA | Chaos Lever

What happens when a Google engineer thinks his chatbot has developed a soul? Three years ago, we covered the LaMDA saga, and now it's back—because someone forgot to turn

Your Interview Process is a Lie | Chaos Lever

Chris and Ned are joined this week by Colin Lacy, a senior software engineer at Cisco, recovering architect, and food photographer in a past life—yes, really. What starts

Microsoft Layoffs Amid Record Profits- Wait, What? | Tech News of the Week

Another week, more tech news chaos. This week: 🧠 Students are getting salty over professors using ChatGPT while banning it in their own assignments. One Northwestern Uni

Brain Dumps, VARs, and Toiletfeet: The Certification Debate | Chaos Lever

🎙️ In this episode of Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned dive deep into the murky waters of IT Certifications. Are they still relevant? Are they just money grabs? Or do they actu

Apple’s Smart Glasses Chips & Clippy's AI Comeback | Tech News of the Week

Welcome back to Tech News of the Week! Today, we're diving into some of the most interesting stories shaking up the tech world right now. 📰 Wikipedia vs. the UK Governme

Sparkles McTwinklefeet and the Insanity of Job Interviews | Chaos Lever

In this episode, Ned and Chris dive headfirst into the chaotic world of technical interviews. From absurd coding tests to multi-hour marathons that seem more like hazing

AI Writes Code, Judges Write Burns | Tech News of the Week

Another week, another tech reckoning! In this episode of Tech News of the Week, we dive into Microsoft's AI coding claims, password security doomscrolling courtesy of Hiv

How Google and Facebook Turned You Into a Product | Chaos Lever

Welcome back, fellow alleged humans 👋 In this episode of Chaos Lever, we jump headfirst into the ad-tech cesspool to answer one burning question: how did we go from banne

Perplexity’s New Browser Wants All Your Data | Tech News of the Week

The legendary Blue Meanie is back, and so are we! 🎙️ This week on Tech News of the Week, we dive into four wild stories that you need to hear about. First up, Chris rants