Chaos Lever Podcast

Voters Reject AI Data Centers, Google's Privacy Pivot, and DigiCert Exposed | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2026. This week we are covering: DigiCert leaving customer passports exposed on the open internet, voters overwhelmingly reject

Proton's AI Pivot & Gemma Space Haikus | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2026. This week we are covering: Proton's awkward AI pivot, Google's orbital data center satellite, GitHub's agentic infrastruc

OpenAI Dots, Anthropic's Ominous IPO, & Meta Glasses Spying | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2026. This week we are covering: OpenAI launching managed cloud agents and cutting Pro usage allowances, Microsoft finally pull

Steam Decks on Mars and Meta's AI Exploit | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 09/28/2026. This week we are covering: Meta's Muse AI zero-day vulnerability, Anthropic's legal battle with the DoD, unpermitted data

Meta’s Muse Takeover, Hallucinated Nukes, and Underwater Solar Panels | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 09/21/2026. This week we are covering: Meta's new AI assistant Muse taking over social media handles and topping the App Store charts

Astra Arrives, Apple Stumbles, and VMware Caves | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 09/14/2026. This week we are covering: OpenAI releases its new flagship model Astra, Apple introduces hardware alongside a new CEO, V

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