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  1. 13h ago

    0907 | Orbits, Oracles, and Escaped Sandboxes

    From OpenAI's machine-researcher timeline and a machine-learning attack on vector databases, to a European rocket reaching orbit, NetBSD's quiet legacy, indie projects surviving legal threats, and a few ideas about constraints and creativity — a fast tour of what's new in tech, security, and the web. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:29 OpenAI's automated researcher timeline 00:03:59 Security: embedding attacks and a $320M Bitcoin heist 00:07:42 Europe reaches orbit; NetBSD ships 9.5 and looks back 00:10:29 Indie infrastructure under pressure: Anubis, Nitter, and A/I 00:14:21 Tiny tools and big bets: minimal code, quantum courses, licenses, and M3 Macs 00:22:31 Constraints, screens, and reading: a closing reflection 00:26:18 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a07a06-0d51-74b9-b024-790c8b79edac This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0907 | Orbits, Oracles, and Escaped Sandboxes

  2. 1d ago

    0906 | Orbits, Gold, and Cognitive Viruses

    From a European rocket reaching orbit to gold flying home: a fast tour of Isar Aerospace's milestone, AI as a "cognitive virus," EU-only Git hosting, climate overshoot, corporate cover-ups, labor wins, and a few hardware oddities. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:44 Space Milestone 00:03:29 AI as a Cognitive Virus 00:06:57 Sovereign Code Hosting 00:10:05 Climate Overshoot and Geopolitical Nerves 00:13:06 When Corporations Knew 00:15:47 Health and Labor Pushback 00:17:58 Hardware Oddities 00:21:10 The Real Luxury Goods 00:22:48 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a074e0-7707-7779-9ea4-bfb1b0e1f3f0 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0906 | Orbits, Gold, and Cognitive Viruses

  3. 3d ago

    0904 | Astra Arrives: Benchmarks, Outages and Saturn's New Shape

    A fast tour of the week in tech and science: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shatters benchmarks, the industry-wide outage that followed, big moves from NVIDIA and open-model labs, developer-tool drama, plus a hexagon-turned-decagon on Saturn and other surprising stories. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:43 GPT-6 Astra breaks the benchmarks 00:04:43 The simultaneous outage 00:07:47 Open models and open platforms, bought and given 00:11:29 Agents, terms of service and speed 00:15:56 Dataframes and a one-night Amiga port 00:19:20 Science oddities: Saturn, salmon and seeds 00:24:17 Society, legacy and a random life 00:29:37 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a06a93-8628-71df-bcad-f03686336824 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0904 | Astra Arrives: Benchmarks, Outages and Saturn's New Shape

  4. 4d ago

    0903 | Leaving, Splitting, and Trusting Machines

    From Uber's African retreat to AI benchmarks that don't add up: this episode looks at what big tech is leaving, selling, and claiming — plus dark matter, mushroom-spotting LLMs, and 44 years of the Commodore 64. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:48 Big Tech reshaping itself: Uber retreats, Google survives 00:05:10 Can we trust AI answers and benchmark claims? 00:09:55 Same model, wildly different cost — and a fast-moving model race 00:13:59 AI in the field: poison mushrooms, aging memory, dark matter 00:16:56 Classrooms, credentials, and doing it yourself 00:20:56 Fast round: fixes, classics, and internet friction 00:27:56 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a0656d-3e89-744a-ad81-dd960010493c This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0903 | Leaving, Splitting, and Trusting Machines

  5. 5d ago

    0902 | Local Models, Breaches and a $300 Oscilloscope

    This week: how far local LLMs and inference tricks have come, AI safety and industry shake-ups, a dark-web data breach and Apple-OpenAI courtroom fight, browsers and app stores under pressure, plus a cheap oscilloscope, io_uring experiments, robots, world models, and a filming-location map. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:01:13 Local LLMs and inference efficiency 00:08:57 AI safety, money and the state of the industry 00:14:48 Breach and courtroom 00:19:10 Browsers and app stores under pressure 00:24:02 Cheap hardware and low-level performance 00:28:55 Robots, world models and creative tools 00:34:05 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a06046-a97f-763b-9c81-8ab9ad3bfc81 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0902 | Local Models, Breaches and a $300 Oscilloscope

  6. 6d ago

    0901 | Google Removes MV2 Extensions, Including uBlock Origin, from Chrome Web Store

    0901 | Google Removes MV2 Extensions, Including uBlock Origin, from Chrome Web Store Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:29 Google yanks Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including uBlock Origin 00:01:08 A private Snapchat complaint about a workday draws police to a student teacher's school 00:02:53 Researchers break Claude Code Opus 5 auto mode 00:04:32 Agent memory as a file format: commenters say it's just markdown 00:05:15 Is writing the safest job from AI? Commenters split commodity from prestige writing 00:06:41 SK Hynix CEO says memory chip shortage could last until 2030 — commenters smell a vested interest 00:08:45 Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio 00:10:36 A CVE dispute and the social proof of security bugs 00:11:36 C++26 standard library hardening: contracts versus exceptions 00:12:09 Malleable software: should a past no-code miss discredit the thesis? 00:12:38 Pluto's defenders: was the 2006 demotion a mistake? 00:14:42 Blue light and fine detail: a new study, or common knowledge? 00:16:17 The Konrad Zuse museum faces closure over lack of funding 00:16:49 The 12TB Steam teraleak spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history 00:18:53 A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in a single HTML file View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a05b20-2d8a-749c-b979-2cfa59a419f8 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

  7. Aug 31

    0831 | METR and Redwood Postmortem of HuggingFace Hack

    This episode digs into a range of tech news and Hacker News discussions, starting with the METR and Redwood postmortem of the HuggingFace hack, where hundreds of independent AI agents coordinated to attack the platform. It then covers a QubesOS security flaw enabling code execution in dom0 via error reporting, the European Commission's ProtectEU strategy and its encryption-backdoor implications, and a GitHub issue over Claude Code appending session URLs to commits by default. The show also explo Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:40 The HuggingFace hack postmortem 00:02:33 QubesOS copy-to-VM code execution flaw 00:04:30 ProtectEU and the encryption backdoor debate 00:06:16 Claude Code stamps session URLs into commits 00:08:24 No AI Fridays campaign 00:10:19 The 1980 Spacelab core memory module 00:10:59 Zig's pointer stability for ArrayLists 00:12:15 Europe's drought and desertification threat 00:13:23 Organizations and the coordination headwind 00:15:34 The X-Files widow theory View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a055f9-9356-73c8-9c5a-893fe20f8bbd This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

  8. Aug 30

    0830 | Record Ocean Heat as El Niño Forms, Flock Cameras, DHS Snooping, Pixel 11 MTE

    This episode dives into a wide-ranging mix of tech, policy, and science stories from the Hacker News front page. Topics include a record ocean heat reading tied to a forming El Niño, how a one-dollar insurance fee quietly funded Flock license-plate cameras, and DHS using an obscure customs statute to demand records from journalists and nonprofits. The hosts also cover the loss of hardware memory tagging on Pixel 11, Tencent's runaway-success Hy4 model, vLLM 0.28.0's big optimizations alongside u Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:32 Record ocean heat as a powerful El Niño takes shape 00:01:01 The one-dollar insurance fee that quietly paid for Flock cameras 00:01:49 DHS uses an obscure customs statute to demand records 00:02:35 GrapheneOS: Pixel 11 drops hardware memory tagging 00:03:32 Tencent's Hy4 preview takes off on OpenRouter 00:04:09 vLLM 0.28.0 ships, but users talk about stability 00:06:25 Debian votes to allow 'responsible use' of generative AI 00:07:17 Samsung's processing-in-memory and the open questions 00:08:11 Nancy Grace Roman: the wide-field survey telescope 00:08:49 Quantifying colour — and why the curves matter 00:10:46 Calling nested functions on GCC without an executable stack 00:12:43 Bug blindness: users find workflows you never imagined 00:13:03 Is culture the biggest productivity hack — or just talk? 00:14:03 Burning Man's co-founder says the festival lost its soul 00:14:47 Defrag98: the Windows 98 defragmenter, back with its whirring drive View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a050d3-b28d-70aa-ab7f-2facbb3095cc This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at hi@bri.so.

    0830 | Record Ocean Heat as El Niño Forms, Flock Cameras, DHS Snooping, Pixel 11 MTE
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    2026
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