
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organized crime ring and the other vulnerable everyday infrastructure. Then we move on to a recent blog post by one of iRobot's founders, in which he expresses extreme wariness about the safety of humans interacting with humanoid robots. Lastly, with only a week and change to go until Windows 10 EOL, we look at Valve's ending support for the 32-bit Steam client (and the end of 32-bit Windows in general) and some predictions for how things might go when the deadline comes... assuming Microsoft doesn't blink at the last minute.
‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say | WIRED
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this - Ars Technica
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - Ars Technica
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks
Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades - Ars Technica
Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod
By Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith4.7
476476 ratings
A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organized crime ring and the other vulnerable everyday infrastructure. Then we move on to a recent blog post by one of iRobot's founders, in which he expresses extreme wariness about the safety of humans interacting with humanoid robots. Lastly, with only a week and change to go until Windows 10 EOL, we look at Valve's ending support for the 32-bit Steam client (and the end of 32-bit Windows in general) and some predictions for how things might go when the deadline comes... assuming Microsoft doesn't blink at the last minute.
‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say | WIRED
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this - Ars Technica
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - Ars Technica
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney Brooks
Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades - Ars Technica
Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

649 Listeners

5,658 Listeners

144 Listeners

533 Listeners

311 Listeners

2,108 Listeners

1,684 Listeners

500 Listeners

1,130 Listeners

107 Listeners

118 Listeners

1,009 Listeners

168 Listeners

838 Listeners

31 Listeners