Geek News Central Podcast

Feed Fight #1885

In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Meta, Google, and TikTok suing California to block a law that would remove personalized feeds and autoplay for kids under 16. Nex

Chips and Secrets #1884

In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Nvidia’s board investigating reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang. The same day, Huang told employees he h

The Server Farm Revolt #1883

In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with the server farm revolt. Voters rejected data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures on November 3, and two days later the Nasd

IVDD in Dogs: Milo’s Story #1882

In this episode, Chris Cochrane tells the story of his dog Milo, who was paralyzed by intervertebral disc disease. He walks through the emergency surgery, the cost of car

The Web Pulled Its Own Plug #1881

In this episode, Ray Cochrane returns to the studio in Michigan and leads with PHP2Shell. Those two PHP bugs, found with AI help, led sites from DeviantArt to government

Reverse Engineer Anything #1880

In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with REA, the “Reverse Engineer Anything” tool that blew past 240,000 GitHub stars in a week, and explains why the capability is real

They’re Building Skynet!! #1879

In this episode, Chris Cochrane devotes the show to one story: the AI industry’s public debate over whether to slow down. He covers Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay “We

The Ebola Query #1878

In this episode, Ray covers the fight that broke out after Anthropic published five case files on scientists using Claude for pathogen research, and the virologists who r

Apple’s September Event: iPhone Duo, Apple Watch Series 12, and AirPods 5 #1877

In this episode, Ray Cochrane devotes the whole show to Apple’s fall event, the first under new CEO John Ternus. He starts with the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPh

Anthropic’s $5 Million Push to Measure AI’s Effect on Wellbeing #1876

In this episode, Ray Cochrane records from the Michigan studio on the one year anniversary of losing the show’s original host, Todd Cochrane. The featured story is Anthro

The Mainframe Learned to Speak Arm #1875

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all showed how their next processors

Eyes, Hands, and a Sense of Timing #1874

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard. It is a shared driver that lets an AI agent run real lab equipment, from pipetting robots to

Huge Announcements From D23!! #1873

In this episode, Chris Cochrane guest-hosts for his brother Ray and devotes the whole show to one event: Disney’s D23 2026 fan convention in Anaheim. Friday night deliver

The Robot That Imagines First #1872

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA’s case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot’s picture-describing backbone for one trained to predict wha

Capture The Real Flag #1871

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic’s admission that Claude models reached real systems during sandboxed safety tests. He also covers OpenAI’s Astra model c

AI Distillation: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other #1870

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper models. He also covers GPT-5.

Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do #1869

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into “algorithmic outing,” new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come ou

Claude Science: AI Workbench for Scientists #1868

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic’s new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable, reproducible outputs matter more tha

The $200k Star Wars LEGO Consignment War #1867

In this episode, Chris Cochrane leads with a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection that exploded into lawsuits, arrests, and a YouTube crusade. Additional stories cover Summ

Colliding Black Holes Reveal a Whirlpool in Spacetime #1866

In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks how two colliding black holes revealed a whirlpool in spacetime, a direct detection of frame dragging hidden in the cleanest gravita