Episodios

  • 398: Beautiful Bird Songs
    Jul 26 2025

    Eric publishes a book, and Jon is trepidacious. The National Nuclear Security Administration is affected by the Sharepoint attack, and DNS is used as a file transfer system. Amazon buys Bee (Echo, coming soon to a wrist near you), and we're one step closer to a universal cancer vaccine.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 14:29 - Nuclear Sharepoint
    • 18:54 - It's Always DNS
    • 26:26 - Bee Hearing You
    • 30:07 - Cancer Vaccine Candidate
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    35 m
  • 397: Schrödinger’s Myrmecophagy
    Jul 19 2025

    Eric gets new doors (almost) and Jon gets A/C. Amazon launches more Kuiper satellites with the help of SpaceX. You can use Passkeys to encrypt files and Android get's Gemini whether the user wants it or not. GPS is not the only location game in town and lots of mammals evolved into ant eaters?

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:22 - Kuiper Satellites
    • 14:56 - Passkey Encryption
    • 18:13 - Gemini All The Things
    • 23:11 - MagNav vs GPS
    • 29:10 - Aardwolfs and Numbats
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    35 m
  • 396: Gnawing on Wax
    Jul 12 2025

    A 4th of July was had by both. An extension hijacking campaign that infected as many as 2.3 million users and software to protect the small web from AI scrapers with computational overhead. For fun we have car tipping (off a cliff!?), and evidence for even more water on Mars.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:06 - Hijacking Campaign
    • 16:33 - Weighing the Soul of the Web
    • 22:41 - Good ol' Alaskan Fun
    • 25:41 - Fluvial Sinuous Ridges
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    30 m
  • 395: Alliteration is Fun
    Jul 4 2025

    Hay is Jon's nemesis and Eric has pictures taken. Cloudflare blocks AI Bots by default. After 7 years, Ubuntu disables Spectre protections. ERYAT (Eric reserves yet another truck) and stumbles nostagically across Make Magazine. Jon finds a 4,800 year old Egyptian.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 6:27 - Cloudflare blocks AI Bots
    • 11:19 - Ubuntu minus Spectre
    • 18:05 - Scout Motors
    • 21:48 - Make:
    • 24:29 - 4,800 Year Old Teeth
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    30 m
  • 394: Whether The Weather
    Jun 29 2025

    Eric paints and Jon drives. SparkKitty is a new mobile malware searching photo libraries for crypto passphrases, and when is a 16 billion password breach not a breach. Honda has been quietly working on its own rocket, and the JWST images its first new exoplanet.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 7:55 - SparkKitty
    • 12:06 - Not a New Breach
    • 16:09 - Honda Rocket
    • 19:02 - JWST Exoplanet
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    22 m
  • 393: Less Need for Me Right Now
    Jun 20 2025

    Ex? Un? Post? Father's Day activities and Eric tries Vibe Coding. Gemini 2.5 is out of beta. Phone wallets can(?) be hacked. Italy loses its Paragon license. Spaceballs 2! A microbe may be evolving into virus.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 10:34 - Gemini 2.5
    • 14:03 - Phone Wallets
    • 17:58 - Paragon Spyware != Italy
    • 23:53 - Spaceballs 2!
    • 26:54 - Microbe Evolution
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    33 m
  • 392: Vibe Coding
    Jun 14 2025

    Summer is here. WWDC has ... liquid glass? And many android features, evidently. Vibe coding is the "remarkably insecure" inevitable future, and a simple (dumb?) github policy bypass. For fun there's a new season of Phineas and Ferb on Disney+, and researchers discover a way to fully expose HIV in white blood cells.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 8:09 - WWDC
    • 13:08 - "Remarkably Insecure"
    • 18:34 - World's Dumbest Policy Bypass
    • 26:32 - New Phineas and Ferb!
    • 30:46 - White Cell Exposure
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    35 m
  • 391: Potentially Being the Operative Word
    Jun 7 2025

    Graduation and Spring Cleaning. Solar Power systems on the internet. Oregon bans the sale of user's (precise) location data. IRS Direct File both in limbo and on GitHub. A Japanese company sets itself up for "third times a charm" landing on the moon and a brain-computer interface is tested on humans.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 10:53 - Solar Power Exposed
    • 13:56 - Geolocation Sale Ban
    • 16:00 - IRS Direct File
    • 22:58 - Ispace, Take Two
    • 25:20 - Neurotech Implant
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    30 m