Podcast Episodes

Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps; plus, Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.

Also, ZML, …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human; plus, hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk; Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Also, the hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores s…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become; plus, Mark Zuckerberg said AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.

And at an …

2 months ago

US government says it got hacked — again; Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company

A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may ri…

2 months ago

Realta Fusion generates electricity directly from a fusion reaction; plus, the ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring

Realta Fusion showed it could generate electricity from a fusion reaction, no steam turbine required.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protoco…

2 months ago

The AI jobs debate just got messier; plus, 92 GW of new electricity supply threatened with red tape

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering th…

2 months ago

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short; Rocket Lab continues its buying spree; and why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia

Ford execs said, "mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Also, the al…

2 months ago

It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore; plus, Novak Djokovic has a new job

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collec…

2 months ago