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Apple Launches Ergonomically Terrible Laptops - DTNS 5383

Apple added a touchscreen laptop to its lineup, a design once called “ergonomically terrible” by Steve Jobs. Meanwhile, Amazon tried to steal Apple’s hardware thunder wit

Apple Won’t Stop Releasing Hardware This Week - DTNS 5382

OpenAI won’t stop releasing science and why LLMs are more expensive if you don’t speak English. Starring Tom Merritt and Jason Howell Show notes found here. Hosted o

Anthropic Doesn’t Lose as Much Money As You Think - DTNS 5381

What the average person will find interesting about the Anthropic IPOs. Plus iFixit figures out what’s causing iPhone Duo screens to crack. Starring Tom Merritt and Robb

Fooling Your Friends to Make You Both Safer

- Deception is a virus - Passive protection doesn't work. - Build up your deception immune system (And why you need a DM for your corporate wolf masking strategy) "Wo

How to Vibe Code Custom Firmware for Audio Gear

Rich Stroffolino joins Jason Howell to geek out on the state of audio technology in the age of agentic AI that enables anyone to safely modify the inner workings of their

What's The Next Apple-gate? - DTNS 5380

The top stories of the week are about AI discovering a critical bug in the Web, Responsible Disclosure and patching systems breaking down, and how nation-states may be ge

Talk to Your DNA - DTNS 5379

Hugging Face releases an on-device open model for studying DNA. And Amazon security researchers say PHP2Shell may have been exploited as early as Saturday. Starring Tom

The Day the Internet Broke - DTNS 5378

Eight insecure TLS certificates seemed to be bad enough, but then folks leaked out a PHP vulnerability that could compromise more than 70% of the Web. Thank goodness ther

Vibe Code Ads Right Off of Your TV - DTNS 5377

People are removing the smart from their TVs using agents. Plus, the discovery that could help us actually understand what goes on within LLMs. Starring Tom Merritt and

Airship Successfully Delivers Cell Service in Japan - DTNS 5376

A New Mexico company delivers LTE from a zeppelin in Japan, Samsung may shift its S-series announcement back to January, and iPhone Duo preorders start shifting earlier.

The Scampocalypse: How to Survive the Present Attacks

- What's changing now - Bad habits in the past are now dangerous. - Cognitive security - Patient Zero: Madison Square Garden hack Featuring Tom Merritt and Brian Bru

Is the DIY PC Era Over? – DTNS Weekend

On this episode of DTNS Weekend, Roger and Patrick go head-to-head over the possible death of DIY PC building. Who or what is killing the hobby, and is this the end of an

Who's Running Your Smart Home? - DTNS 5375

This week Apple announced its Home View smart home hub along with several smart home devices in cooperation with LG and Schneider. So our BIG QUESTION this week is: Do yo

Who the GoogleBook is For - DTNS 5374

Iyaz Akhtar from PC Mag joins us to talk about his experience using a Googlebook as his daily driver. Plus Amazon’s Bee has new note-taking gadgets. Starring Tom Merritt

Spy Rhymes with AI - DTNS 5373

Plus, Fortnite on Linux gets closer and what really makes you a developer. Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao. Links to stories discussed in this episode can be fo

Apple Wants to Lock You Into Your Home - DTNS 5372

Apple has a new smart home hub and a door lock among other things. Plus, Jason’s been trying out Google’s flagship Gemini 4 Argon. Has Google caught back up in frontier m

Social Engineering 101

- What has worked up until now - 3 psychological back doors (plus social proof) - What DTNS listeners think of as social engineering "Wolfmasking | Enterprise Deceptiv

Is Software Over? - DTNS 5371

Brandon Thomas of Artcraft has used that declaration to get attention on his Artcraft product. But does he have a point? When you can vibe code whatever you want, what ro

Amazon Goes Full Android for Tablets - DTNS 5370

Amazon announced a new smart tablet lineup, plus a developer at Artcraft vibe code replacements for all of Adobe’s Creative Suite. Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane

Microsoft Brings 1 Trillion Parameters to the Desktop - DTNS 5369

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is also out and can do a lot of parameters locally too. And Tom vibe codes a crappy but cute game on Google’s new Playground service.