TekTok = Tech Talk / Tech News

Siim Kuusik

We are both technology enthusiasts who like to talk tech, news, games, music, movies and memes. We reside currently in Estonia. P.S. TekTok is a name that I figured sounds like Tech Talk and has nothing to with TikTok, although we sometimes talk about it also because it is in fact, tech, sooo yea. Anyway it's fun, come hang out.

  1. TekTok 0193 - Australia world's first scammer law / Microsoft Hololens dead / Apple Maps ads soon

    2 DAYS AGO

    TekTok 0193 - Australia world's first scammer law / Microsoft Hololens dead / Apple Maps ads soon

    (0:00) A weekly technology podcast and tech talk from Estonia (0:55) Estonia voted their Eurovision song - Espresso Macchiato by Tommy Cash (13:55) Australia passes world-first scams prevention framework (19:38) YouTube Shorts adds Veo 2 so creators can make GenAI videos (53:40) Trump Moves to Fire Staff Overseeing Nuclear Weapons Then Backtracks (1:00:50) Apple Now Lets You Move Digital Purchases From One Apple Account to Another (1:02:42) Apple Maps Might Start Showing Ads (1:06:00) Microsoft confirms it’s getting out of HoloLens hardware entirely (1:07:50) PIN AI launches mobile app letting you make your own personalized, private DeepSeek or Llama-powered AI model on your phone (1:11:28) Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills (1:14:44) Reddit CEO confirms plans to introduce paywalls for exclusive content later this year (1:17:13) Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits (1:20:45) We can't have Bloodborne on PC but we can have Mudborne, a thematically similar game about breeding frogs (1:28:28) Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch (1:32:17) MEME BREAK (1:30:20) How to feel really really old (1:47:14) New music albums released this week and a some song recommendations (1:48:55) TV Shows and Movies we are excited about (1:55:00) Free game of the week and games I am excited about (2:08:18) Saying bye and hit the bell next to the subscribe button to catch us live next time 🔔

    2h 8m
  2. TekTok 0192 - Apple made their own Facebook Events app / Leaving the S(Ohm)iet Union / 5 days of PS+

    2 DAYS AGO

    TekTok 0192 - Apple made their own Facebook Events app / Leaving the S(Ohm)iet Union / 5 days of PS+

    (0:00) A weekly technology podcast and tech talk from Estonia (12:50) Estonia Lithuania and Latvia cutting all electrical connections to Russia (13:10) Elering CEO: Desynchronization hardest thing we've done this century (27:10) Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU (39:00) iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time (45:30) Apple launches Invites a Facebook Events rival where you can send party invites (51:25) U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (1:09:05) Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot With Lifelike Movements Ahead of Rumored Launch by 2027 (1:12:30) Potentially the first airline to link Baltic states directly to the U.S (1:14:14) PlayStation's daylong global outage disrupted the online gaming economy and knocked Sony's stock (1:14:40) Sony offers 5 free days of PlayStation Plus but no explanation for 24-hour 'operational issue,' (1:16:35) Sony apparently hates fun, axes the Bloodborne demake with another copyright claim (1:22:52) Running Doom On An Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter (1:24:50) MEME BREAK (1:30:20) How to feel really really old (1:32:05) New music albums released this week and a some song recommendations (1:39:00) TV Shows and Movies we are excited about (1:41:35) Free game of the week and games I am excited about (2:22:37) Saying bye and hit the bell next to the subscribe button to catch us live next time 🔔

    2h 23m
  3. TekTok 0191 - Wanna get a $200 / month ChatGPT Advanced for free? Just release a China comptetitor

    2 DAYS AGO

    TekTok 0191 - Wanna get a $200 / month ChatGPT Advanced for free? Just release a China comptetitor

    (0:00) A weekly technology podcast and tech talk from Estonia (6:30) The new AI trade emerging after DeepSeek shock (9:30) DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot (11:40) Taiwan bans government departments from using DeepSeek AI (12:05) Italy's regulator blocks Chinese AI app DeepSeek on data protection (16:05) Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware (18:02) OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (19:20) OpenAI and Microsoft ironically accuse DeepSeek of copyright infringement — training its cost-effective model with privileged data (20:35) Alibaba's new AI model outperforms DeepSeek-V3 (22:42) ChatGPT’s advanced AI costs $200/mo. It’s now free for Windows users (25:15) After DeepSeek R1's Release, ChatGPT Offers Free Trials for o3-mini (34:44) Garmin has pushed a blue triangle fix for its watches; here's what you should know (35:30) Google Open Sources PebbleOS: New Pebble Device In Development (41:33) EU to make Temu, Shein and Amazon liable for 'unsafe' goods, FT reports (47:35) Kremlin Propaganda Revives as ‘Neutral’ YouTube Channels Amid Claims of Baltic Migration (57:15) Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam (1:02:28) MEME BREAK (1:16:44) New music albums released this week and a some song recommendations (1:30:22) TV Shows and Movies we are excited about (1:43:25) Free game of the week and games I am excited about (2:15:05) Saying bye and hit the bell next to the subscribe button to catch us live next time 🔔

    2h 16m
  4. TekTok 0188 - Linus Tech Tips was on Jimmy Fallon / THE WEIRDEST CES 2025 products / New Sony patent

    2 DAYS AGO

    TekTok 0188 - Linus Tech Tips was on Jimmy Fallon / THE WEIRDEST CES 2025 products / New Sony patent

    (0:00) A weekly technology podcast and tech talk from Estonia (10:50) Linus Tech Tips shows Jimmy Fallon and Bad Bunny Some Mind-Blowing Technology (23:22) Ai Me a weird robot egg baby AI from TCL (25:50) mirumi - a weird staring robot owl (29:20) Realbotix Robot a AI waifu for 150 000 USD (33:00) VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos (37:47) Anker's solar beach umbrella is a must have for the ultimate geek summer (40:50) EcoFlow Power Hat (41:50) Solar panels in your jacket anyone? (43:14) Kirin Holdings presents the "Electric Salt Spoon" a spoon that electrocutes your food for a salty taste (47:40) Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking (57:25) Mark Zuckerberg’s New Facebook and Instagram Policy Allows Users to Call LGBTQ+ People Mentally Ill (1:07:10) TikTok ban will pass (1:11:45) Oh No, This Startup Is Using AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Marketing Slop (1:14:00) Hollywood stars and top technologists want to billionaire-proof social media using Bluesky’s protocol - Free our Feeds (1:20:20) Russia disconnects several regions from the global internet to test its sovereign net (1:23:45) Finland has discovered geothermal energy that will last millions of years (1:27:45) China’s Robobus begins Europe’s first driverless shuttle service at Zurich airport (1:28:44) Nvidia is planning to rival Apple's M1 moment with N1X also a arm based chip (1:31:30) Sony patents playing YOUR game for you (1:40:53) MEME BREAK (1:45:37) New music albums released this week and a some song recommendations (1:48:08) TV Shows and Movies we are excited about (1:58:59) Free game of the week and games I am excited about (2:20:22) Saying bye and hit the bell next to the subscribe button to catch us live next time 🔔

    2h 21m
  5. TekTok 0187 - You wear a Garmin and go to India? = JAIL / Apple users get $20 / device for Spy Siri

    2 DAYS AGO

    TekTok 0187 - You wear a Garmin and go to India? = JAIL / Apple users get $20 / device for Spy Siri

    (0:00) A weekly technology podcast and tech talk from Estonia (4:48) A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work (6:03) Belgium has become the first EU country to ban the sale of disposable vapes (11:34) Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral (15:08) Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies (18:40) Asus, Samsung, and MSI announce world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors (20:20) Acer launches three “UltraSpeed” Nitro gaming monitors, including a 600Hz display for $600 (20:38) Pimax Dream Air next gen VR headsets (24:15) Pimax Crystal Super a computer strapped to your head (26:10) Apple to pay $95 million settlement for Siri listening to your private conversations (29:18) Chinese electric model tops Israel's car sales in 2024 (33:10) Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars (35:20) Heat pumps: Why Germany's heating revolution is stalling (41:35) Ukraine stops russian gas imports to western europe (43:00) A Canadian Ultrarunner Was Arrested in India for Carrying a Garmin inReach (47:45) Tallinn-Vilnius passenger train connection launches on Monday (50:22) Phone fraud surges in Estonia, experts urge caution and critical thinking (51:27) Tired of Boring CAPTCHAs, This Developer Created a Doom-Themed One (52:25) MEME BREAK (53:55) New music albums released this week and a some song recommendations (57:04) TV Shows and Movies we are excited about (58:03) Free game of the week and games I am excited about (1:27:46) Saying bye and hit the bell next to the subscribe button to catch us live next time 🔔

    1h 28m

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We are both technology enthusiasts who like to talk tech, news, games, music, movies and memes. We reside currently in Estonia. P.S. TekTok is a name that I figured sounds like Tech Talk and has nothing to with TikTok, although we sometimes talk about it also because it is in fact, tech, sooo yea. Anyway it's fun, come hang out.