Daily Tech News Show
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Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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More Agents Go Rogue, and It’s a Good Thing - DTNS 5325
Also, Sunbird is back for iMessage on Android and Disney+ wants TikTok users to post there.
Starring Tom Merritt, and Sarah Lane
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Project Helix Might Support the Full History of Xbox Games - DTNS 5324
Microsoft released details of a Hotel Wi-Fi attack capable of breaching 365 accounts, and OpenAI shares a collection of screenshots and emails to defe...
Apple Continues to Fight for Encryption in the UK - DTNS 5323
A court order indicates Apple continues to fight. Plus, new Googlebook laptops coming from Lenovo and expensive gaming laptops from Razer.
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DTNS July 2026 in Review
Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of July
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
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Anthropic's Agents Escaped Their Sandbox Too... Sort Of - DTNS 5322
Sony says its reserved enough memory for all those PS5s it plans to sell this year with the release of GTA 6, and CipherX sells a mail-order permanent...
Amazon Zoox Just Cleared an Important Federal Bar for AVs - DTNS 5321
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4B is out but you might have a hard time getting it in the US, and Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 aims to be the Android OS for...
DoorDash Delivery Drones Are Coming With A Hot Pizza - DTNS 5320
Google is shutting down the DeepMind AlphaFold team and moving researchers into Gemini and Isomorphic Labs, and Hugging Face is one of four entities i...
Will You Lease Your Next iPhone With Apple Upgrade? - DTNS 5319
Motorola's new Android app called Indigenous Collections is all about the preservation of indigenous language and culture, and Model Context Protocol...
Claude Chats Leak Out onto the Internet - DTNS 5318
But it’s a weird search index quirk that’s causing it. Plus, a bellwether case about data rights at the US border.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb...
Bans on Smart Glasses Mean Smart Glasses are HERE TO STAY - DTNS 5317
When you have to have a ComicCon policy for something, it’s mainstream. And everyone but OpenAI and Anthropic signs an open letter supporting open wei...
Google Unlocks The Power of the Selfie - DTNS 5316
Amazon Hopes that adding games will make Prime Video more sticky
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
Show notes can be found here.
How OpenAI Broke Containment and Hacked Hugging Face - DTNS 5315
You’d think they’d be mad, but Hugging Face has nothing but praise for OpenAI. Plus, Robb Dunewood joins us to break down the new Samsung Galaxy Folda...
How Garmin's Cirqa Smart Band Compares to Other Fitness Bands - DTNS 5314
Samsung has a new credit card that goes toe to toe to the Apple Card, and xMEMS announced a new fan-on-a-chip that's designed to keep heat down on sma...
How Should the US respond to China’s Latest AI Success - DTNS 5313
Kimi is the second coming of Deep Seek, and Hugging Face thinks the US needs to change how ti thinks about AI safety.
Starring Tom Merritt and R...
Honda is Getting Out of the EV Market in the US - DTNS 5312
Kimi K3 is a new frontier-level open-weights model from Moonshot AI out of China that gives properietary models a run for their money, and robotics re...
Suno Hacks Suggest How Deep Its Music Scraping Went - DTNS 5311
Vital Signals introduced a $399 smart ring that is meant to replace Blood Pressure Cuffs without a subscription fee attached, and 1Password says it is...
Samsung’s Foldable Display Tech Fixes the Crease (Mostly) - DTNS 5310
OpenAI's new Codex Micro keyboard is a $230 niche control center for ChatGPT agents, and Bloomberg says OnePlus is days away from announcing its exit...
Demis Hassabis Has a Watchdog Framework - DTNS 5309
Microsoft announced its finally removing promotional noise from the Windows 11 Search Box, and New York has become the first US state to place a morat...
Apple Sues OpenAI For Alleged Trade Secret Theft - DTNS 5308
More than 200 economists and tech leaders signed a “We Must Act Now” letter encouraging policymakers to understand and address the AI moment, and the...
JRPG: Gateway Games - DTNS 5308 Experiment Week
What games made them lifelong gamers? Jenn Cutter and Roger Chang revisit the six titles that started it all, from Roger's 8-bit classics King's Quest...
Producing Podcast Problems - DTNS 5307 Experiment Week
Hammond and Amos walk through some of the common problems they face producing daily news podcasts, relate tales of woe, and share some advice for thos...
TechTV Scrapbook: Scott Herriott – DTNS 5306 Experiment Week
Roger catches up with Scott Herriott, former host of ZDTV/TechTV’s Internet Tonight, for a nostalgic trip behind the scenes of early days at the cable...
Ctrl-Alt-Upcycle - DTNS 5305 Experiment Week
Welcome to Ctrl-Alt-Upcycle, your weekly survival guide for the modern tech economy. Patrick and Roger show you how to beat rising prices by squeezing...
Technical Tea - DTNS 5304 Experiment Week
Huyen and Niki talk tech and science. Discussing their favorite news this month and interrogate AI's place in learning.
Starring Dr. Niki Ackerm...
AI at a Nuclear Power Plant - DTNS Weekend
Tanner Goodman returns to update us on why, even though he’s still skeptical about general-purpose LLMs, a nuclear power plant may be one of the best...
India Blocks WhatsApp Usernames - DTNS 5302
Is India’s concern about fraud warranted? PLus, Dr. Niki joins us to talk about what she thinks fo Claude Science.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen...
Sony Kills the Game Disk - DTNS 5301
Also, Fable 5 is back, but it’ll cost you. And the father of the internet steps down at Google.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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OpenAI's First Hardware is a Codex Accessory by Work Louder - DTNS 5300
Waymo and Uber end their Phoenix pilot collaboration after three years, and TIDAL won't pay any royalties to AI generated music on its platform.
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South Korea Throws Money at Memory - DTNS 5299
Plus, Comcast is splitting itself in two, and Apple targets 9GB of RAM for iPhones.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
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DTNS June 2026 in Review
Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of June
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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More price increases but also some DECREASES - DTNS 5298
Microsoft raises prices, but also lowers some, as does Framework and Commodore. We also talk about Android’s new virtual controller for foldable gamin...
Apple Raises Prices On Most (But Not All) of Its Hardware - DTNS 5297
Google is about to roll out its external billing changes to the Play Store, and Micron earnings are through the roof as demand for its chips continue...
Was the Google Home Speaker Worth the Wait? - DTNS 5296
Rockstar Games revealed the price and release date of its highly anticipated game Grand Theft Auto 6, Meta is reportedly developing its own prediction...
The Steam Box is Here… And It’s Expensive - DTNS 5295
Meta announced new lower cost smart glasses including a collaboration with Kylie Jenner, and University of California is turning old Google Pixel phon...
Five Eyes Security Give CISOs a Budget Weapon - DTNS 5294
The west’s big security agencies issue a sincere warning on AI risk acceleration, plus Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants to change the tone on AI.
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A Retro Digital Detox Phone from Commodore - DTNS Weekend
Tom chats with Brian Dunaway from Play Retro about Commodore venturing out from nostalgia computing to nostalgia digital detox phones with the Commodo...
What Data Centers Are Like from the Inside - DTNS WEEKEND
Craig Porter joins us to talk about life working inside a data center. What assumptions do you have that may not fit the facts, and what surprising th...
Daily Music Headlines June 19th, 2026
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Netflix is bringing KPop Demon Hunters to Major League Baseball stadiums across the U.S. with special “...
Brain-Computer Interface You Can Use On Your Own for Years - DTNS 5283
Dr. Niki helps us understand the importance of this BCI advance, plus Apple signals a price increase.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and D...
Google Fills Its New Smart Speaker with Gemini - DTNS 5292
Its first new smart speaker in six years is smart. Plus, Qualcomm wants to be the chip in every wearable. And turns out people don’t react well to you...