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  1. 8h ago

    1013 | AI Everywhere, Freezer Attacks, and a 50fps GT4

    AI is reshaping work, tools, and law while security incidents pile up — from supermarket freezers to GitHub malware. Plus: a Google FMA mystery, balcony solar, and a browser-running GT4. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:25 Are LLMs tools or automation? AI and cognitive work 00:04:56 The AI money and hype machine 00:07:39 Security incidents: freezers, cookies, and a poisoned commit 00:11:17 Platforms drawing lines on AI 00:13:53 A mystery Intel instruction 00:15:22 Neat engineering and retro tech 00:18:34 Culture, climate, and geopolitics 00:20:44 Mobile and ecosystem odds and ends 00:21:40 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a1336b-b995-766e-aecd-e98cf267f135 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.

    1013 | AI Everywhere, Freezer Attacks, and a 50fps GT4

  2. 1d ago

    1012 | AI Promises, Corporate Fouls, and the Fight to Keep Things Open

    From AI's widening gap and its limits to worker surveillance, digital rights, and the communities keeping old tech and open culture alive — a tour of the week's most argued-about tech stories. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:42 The AI Access Divide and the Limits of Machine Judgment 00:07:07 Watching You Work, Tracking You Everywhere 00:10:21 Who Owns Your Subscriptions and Your Sign-ins 00:13:11 Accountability: Exxon's Files and Google's Forest 00:15:24 Open Communities Under Pressure: Nitter, IRC, LineageOS 00:19:46 Hobbyists Rebuilding the Past, One Engine at a Time 00:23:10 Curiosity-Driven Craft: Holograms and Mapping North Korea 00:25:18 Money and Manuals: How Good Advice Actually Works 00:28:06 Quick Hits and Odd Corners 00:29:28 Seeing, Copying, and Preserving Culture 00:30:24 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a12e45-3f9a-70ec-96cf-13051987bd1d 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.

    1012 | AI Promises, Corporate Fouls, and the Fight to Keep Things Open

  3. 2d ago

    1011 | Consolidation, Decisions, and a Bombilla Computer

    From Nvidia's bid for an open-models startup and the question of who decides when AI acts, to unikernels returning, DuckDB's faster cloud reads, a 2–8°C open-source COVID vaccine, safer food research, odd corners of computing history, and the fine print of software licenses and housing taxes. A fast tour of tech, science, and policy stories. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:32 Nvidia eyes Reflection AI: open models and vertical consolidation 00:02:21 Decision laundering: the person behind the model decides 00:04:12 Emulating decision models with restricted option tokens 00:05:35 Talorys: self-hosted AI with one command 00:06:54 Unikernels return as AI erases friction 00:09:15 DuckDB 2.0: asynchronous I/O makes S3 fast 00:10:41 Lightbulb Computer: projector + vision in a bulb 00:11:56 Bitwarden: store apps go commercial, GPLv3 remains on GitHub 00:13:08 WallHop: a ladder fork, not (yet) open source 00:15:00 Knuth's checks: real rewards become San Serriffe certificates 00:16:20 Denmark's CPR breach: password '123456' 00:17:47 US tax reform shifts the burden onto housing 00:18:59 Discretionary Review: SF housing as a playable fight 00:20:19 Virginia Tech: ultra-processed food changes metabolism beyond nutrients 00:21:43 PopVax PVX-001: broad COVID vaccine enters phase I, open source to come 00:23:28 macOS is still UNIX 03 — probably a rendering glitch 00:24:32 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a1291f-159d-729f-a3cd-27bf5275e96f 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.

    1011 | Consolidation, Decisions, and a Bombilla Computer

  4. 4d ago

    1009 | From Threads of Light to Math 2.0

    An episode touching hardware in the real world — worn LEDs and tired OLED monitors — software, AI, standards, energy, and a look at human-scale tech stories from social networks to education. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:43 Wearable light and failing pixels: tech meets the physical world 00:03:22 30 months of QD-OLED: burn-in is measurable 00:07:01 The .lan domain fight 00:09:51 Demoscene in the browser 00:11:58 OpenAI's math manuscripts: retractions and formalization 00:14:49 Math 2.0: beyond solving problems 00:16:45 Learn to write code even with AI 00:19:48 Whistle: tiny local speech recognition 00:21:17 Theranos.world: reliving a fraud from court documents 00:22:48 Orkut's founder returns with a community-first social pitch 00:24:31 Small talk as social glue 00:26:17 ADHD and the circadian clock 00:28:31 Batteries beat gas peakers in 43 markets 00:30:17 US restricts Microsoft and others in labor certification program 00:31:48 Ten years of funding education in Tanzania 00:33:32 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a11ed2-5800-71f8-9869-884362a0c08d 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.

    1009 | From Threads of Light to Math 2.0

  5. 6d ago

    1007 | Open Weights, Open Questions: A Week of AI, Math, and Machines

    From AI-discovered math proofs and open hardware to geothermal power, streaming megamergers, and niche personal software, this episode tours the week's biggest stories in tech, science, and the systems that shape them. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:25 AI pushes into mathematics and decisions 00:07:06 Open and efficient AI infrastructure 00:12:26 Security in the AI era 00:18:09 Open-source engineering wins 00:27:00 Vibe-coded personal software and how coding feels 00:34:51 Corporate power, law, and the state 00:40:40 Health, energy, and the physical world 00:47:45 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a11485-7bbf-771f-9f65-a3bd50b401f8 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.

    1007 | Open Weights, Open Questions: A Week of AI, Math, and Machines

  6. Oct 6

    1006 | Agents at Work, Guards Gone Missing

    From AI building software in an hour to AI agents discovering new materials — this episode looks at what large models can now actually do, and where they go wrong: forged cartoon signatures, a diary read by police, a hacked Mac Mini. Then security and privacy news from Texas to Denmark, developer tooling updates, and the industry moves shaping robotics and chips. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:01:03 AI that builds and discovers 00:10:07 When AI misbehaves 00:17:05 Security, privacy and state power 00:25:12 Regulation moves fast 00:27:03 Dev tools and lighter fare 00:35:54 Industry moves: robots, chips, materials 00:41:07 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a10f5f-1304-706e-a3a7-2ce7b5b4248e 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.

    1006 | Agents at Work, Guards Gone Missing

  7. Oct 4

    1004 | Broken Cultures, Bending Light, and Bin Sensors

    A rapid tour of this week's tech and society news: AI safety split, agents' failures, GPU and WebP engineering wins, free-culture fights over Flock and 3D scans, plus niche tools and games. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:54 AI safety split: a broken culture vs zero extinction concerns 00:05:21 Building for agents: Cloudflare's next-Git competition 00:09:19 Fast decoding and old GPUs: Rust, SIMD, and Linux 6.19 00:11:59 Courts and openness: 3D scans vs FOI, Flock vs the 4th Amendment 00:16:12 Open formats, open models, narrowed browsers 00:20:50 New tools: Vx and FTL rethink systems layers 00:24:07 Quick hits: bins, black holes, sterile cities, minds, and agents 00:28:36 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a10511-effc-769c-89de-5a5fadbd2f4a 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.

    1004 | Broken Cultures, Bending Light, and Bin Sensors

  8. Oct 3

    1003 | Harnesses, Satellites and Stratego Kings

    From SaaS becoming harnesses around models to TPUs in orbit, this episode looks at how AI is reshaping software, hardware, and privacy — plus local inference engines, agent databases, a Stratego-playing AI, exoplanet imaging, Zig's new release, a Gleam blogging pipeline, von Neumann lore, and museum visits. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:02:53 AI reshapes the software business 00:04:55 Apple locks down the Mac as agents arrive 00:07:01 Local AI hardware: from gadgets to orbit 00:10:31 AI research: reading hidden states 00:13:24 Developer tooling: Zig 0.17 and a Gleam blog pipeline 00:15:37 Culture, museums and von Neumann lore 00:19:23 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a0ffeb-9e67-72bc-90b4-91602d94184c 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.

    1003 | Harnesses, Satellites and Stratego Kings
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