• 373: All The Things
    Feb 1 2025

    Eric has no memory while Jon recounts his iPad replacement travails. DeepSeek garners unwanted attention while Change Healthcare leaks your data. The Bennu asteroid reveals the building blocks of life (aka carbon) and Endurance's history is explored.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 14:14 - DeepSeek Attention
    • 18:00 - Change Healthcare Breach
    • 21:54 - Bennu Asteroid Results
    • 27:26 - Haunting Endurance Photos
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    33 mins
  • 372: Bee In My Bonnet
    Jan 25 2025

    Eric tidies the nest and Jon putters about. Stackoverflow down to 2009 question volume and Texas sues Allstate for their data collection and use practices. Hubble's 10 year compilation of the Andromeda galaxy, and regenerative agriculture restoring arid lands in Africa.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:19 - Stack Overflow Decline
    • 21:08 - (Illegal?) Insurance Analytics
    • 30:48 - Megapixel Andromeda
    • 34:24 - Regenerative Agriculture
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    40 mins
  • 371: Done or Done Done?
    Jan 18 2025
    Eric finishes* painting, gets Paramount+ for "free" and construes adventures in 3D printing. Jon builds shields and drives a lot. TikTok's clock runs out while Scholastic entertains a bored hacker. Is it the Ad Industry or the Surveillance Industry or is there a difference? Here comes the Woolly Mammoth and Mars rises over the Moon.
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    37 mins
  • 370: Metronomical
    Jan 11 2025

    Eric sends his kids back to school, and both Eric and Jon attend the last Harry Potter Oregon Symphony performance. HTTP is (evidently) still a (big) thing, and a roundup of the new Mac malware discovered in 2024. Los Angeles fires are still raging (donate to the Red Cross to help). For fun we have a startup that wants to bury its plant a mile underground, and scientists discovered the volcano that erupted in 1831 and wreaked havoc.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:49 - Open Port Chronicles
    • 21:13 - 2024 Mac Malware Roundup
    • 32:05 - Buried Nuclear Startup
    • 36:39 - LA Fires Red Cross Response
    • 38:01 - Volcano Mystery Solved
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    45 mins
  • 369: Ham Gravy
    Jan 3 2025

    Happy New Year! Jon explains "Y2K" to his children, Eric continues to check off small projects around the house. NASA's Parker Probe is alive! Eric translates a VW data leak article from German and then gets side tracked by the new VW Buzz while Jon admires the Karmann Ghia before chatting about hacked Chrome extensions. For fun, Eric talks Thorium and Jon shares what's new on Public Domain Day!

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 7:40 - Parker Probe is alive!
    • 8:39 - Dude, I Know Where Your Car Is
    • 13:54 - Karmann Ghia
    • 15:24 - Chrome Extension Attack
    • 21:49 - Thorium Reactor
    • 26:02 - Public Domain Day
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    31 mins
  • 368: Rooting For Meta
    Dec 28 2024

    Eric and Jon enjoy the holiday break with family. Ascension begins notifying people from the May breach, and NSO is ruled liable for WhatsApp hack in 2019. The Parker space probe does the closest (and fastest) flyby of the sun, and Jon visits the Chacchoben Ruins and Kennedy Space Center.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 11:06 - Ascension Ransomware Fallout
    • 14:43 - NSO Liable for WhatsApp Hack
    • 18:21 - Fastest Human Made Object
    • 21:43 - Chacchoben Ruins
    • 26:48 - Kennedy Space Center
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    30 mins
  • 367: Self-deprecating Humor and Salmon Hats
    Dec 21 2024

    Jon is on a ship and Eric is not. Microsoft Recall is making its way back to your PC while Project Zero hunts driver bugs. Nate Bargatze is funny (or at least Eric thinks so) and Jon thinks Orcas wearing salmon hats is funny.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 4:17 - Recall is Back
    • 9:03 - Driver Bug Hunting
    • 16:24 - Self-deprecating Humor
    • 17:59 - Salmon Hats
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    22 mins
  • 366: Megafaunal Specialists
    Dec 14 2024

    Eric and Jon get Treed and ready for holidays. AI for MacOS threat creation, and a buncha prompt attacks against various models and tools. Blue Origin says they're ready for testing, and science says the Clovis people ate Mostly Mammoths.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:17 - Moonlock
    • 16:16 - Prompt Mania
    • 23:43 - New Glenn Ready
    • 26:38 - Mammoth-Eaters
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    32 mins