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Latest episodes
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34 min
Anthropic Doesn’t Lose as Much Money As You Think - DTNS 5381
What the average person will find interesting about the Anthropic IPOs. Plus iFixit figures out what’s causing iPhone Duo screens to crack.Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.Li…
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30 min
Fooling Your Friends to Make You Both Safer
- Deception is a virus- Passive protection doesn't work.- Build up your deception immune system(And why you need a DM for your corporate wolf masking strategy)"Wolfmasking | Enterp…
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41 min
How to Vibe Code Custom Firmware for Audio Gear
Rich Stroffolino joins Jason Howell to geek out on the state of audio technology in the age of agentic AI that enables anyone to safely modify the inner workings of their gear to d…
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57 min
What's The Next Apple-gate? - DTNS 5380
The top stories of the week are about AI discovering a critical bug in the Web, Responsible Disclosure and patching systems breaking down, and how nation-states may be getting a ju…
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27 min
Talk to Your DNA - DTNS 5379
Hugging Face releases an on-device open model for studying DNA. And Amazon security researchers say PHP2Shell may have been exploited as early as Saturday.Starring Tom Merritt and…
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35 min
The Day the Internet Broke - DTNS 5378
Eight insecure TLS certificates seemed to be bad enough, but then folks leaked out a PHP vulnerability that could compromise more than 70% of the Web. Thank goodness there’s a fix…
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35 min
Vibe Code Ads Right Off of Your TV - DTNS 5377
People are removing the smart from their TVs using agents. Plus, the discovery that could help us actually understand what goes on within LLMs.Starring Tom Merritt and Jason Howell…
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30 min
Airship Successfully Delivers Cell Service in Japan - DTNS 5376
A New Mexico company delivers LTE from a zeppelin in Japan, Samsung may shift its S-series announcement back to January, and iPhone Duo preorders start shifting earlier.Starring To…
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22 min
The Scampocalypse: How to Survive the Present Attacks
- What's changing now- Bad habits in the past are now dangerous. - Cognitive security- Patient Zero: Madison Square Garden hackFeaturing Tom Merritt and Brian Brushwood. Hosted on…
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44 min
Is the DIY PC Era Over? – DTNS Weekend
On this episode of DTNS Weekend, Roger and Patrick go head-to-head over the possible death of DIY PC building. Who or what is killing the hobby, and is this the end of an era, or w…
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58 min
Who's Running Your Smart Home? - DTNS 5375
This week Apple announced its Home View smart home hub along with several smart home devices in cooperation with LG and Schneider. So our BIG QUESTION this week is: Do you want App…
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33 min
Who the GoogleBook is For - DTNS 5374
Iyaz Akhtar from PC Mag joins us to talk about his experience using a Googlebook as his daily driver. Plus Amazon’s Bee has new note-taking gadgets.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane…
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34 min
Spy Rhymes with AI - DTNS 5373
Plus, Fortnite on Linux gets closer and what really makes you a developer. Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here. Host…
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42 min
Apple Wants to Lock You Into Your Home - DTNS 5372
Apple has a new smart home hub and a door lock among other things. Plus, Jason’s been trying out Google’s flagship Gemini 4 Argon. Has Google caught back up in frontier models?Star…
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23 min
Social Engineering 101
- What has worked up until now- 3 psychological back doors (plus social proof)- What DTNS listeners think of as social engineering"Wolfmasking | Enterprise Deceptive Role Play" htt…
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59 min
Is Software Over? - DTNS 5371
Brandon Thomas of Artcraft has used that declaration to get attention on his Artcraft product. But does he have a point? When you can vibe code whatever you want, what role do the…
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30 min
Amazon Goes Full Android for Tablets - DTNS 5370
Amazon announced a new smart tablet lineup, plus a developer at Artcraft vibe code replacements for all of Adobe’s Creative Suite. Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah LaneShow notes fou…
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37 min
Microsoft Brings 1 Trillion Parameters to the Desktop - DTNS 5369
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is also out and can do a lot of parameters locally too. And Tom vibe codes a crappy but cute game on Google’s new Playground service.Starring Tom…
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34 min
Open Weights Aren’t Just Chinese Anymore - DTNS 5368
Mistral and a New York company get competitive in open weights, and a startup wants to sell you a cheap AI PC. Cheap by AI standards.Starring Tom Merritt and Jason HowellShow notes…
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33 min
Googlebooks Have a Tiny Intel Problem - DTNS 5367
Some Android apps don’t work as well on the Intel Googlebooks. How many? Google says don’t worry about it. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says we need to put up with a little ris…