Daily Tech News Show

By Tom MerrittNews Technology

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Daily Tech News Show episodes

August 15, 2025 Patching Humanity’s Security Hole - DTNSB 5083
Plus tech journalism’s dinner with Sam Altman, and why you need to be skeptical of that Booking.com link.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Brian Brushwood.

Show notes found here.
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38 min
August 14, 2025 Apple’s Siri Robot is Coming For Your Tabletop - DTNSB 5082
The next version of Microsoft Windows will become even more agentic, and Insta360's Antigravity brings a new immersive perspective to the drone creator toolkit.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

Show notes found here.
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28 min
August 13, 2025 OpenAI Adds Old Models Back - DTNSB 5081
Plus, AI assistance makes Endoscopists worse, and the Pebble Time 2 gets closer to reality.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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28 min
August 12, 2025 Perplexity offers $34.5 billion to buy Chrome - DTNSB 5080
Reddit announces its will block the Internet Archive to prevent AI scraping of its data, and Samsung's new Micro RGB TV is an affordable $32,000!
Starring Jason Howell, and Tom Merritt.
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33 min
August 11, 2025 Is It Legal for the US to Require 15% of Nvidia’s China Sales? - DTNSB 5079
The UK tells Wikipedia to wait to sue, and Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt podcast joins us to tell US car shoppers what EVs might be good to get before the EV tax credit expires.

Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, and Bodie Grimm.

Show notes can be found here.
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34 min
August 09, 2025 What Is a Game Engine? - DTNS WEEKEND
IT Manager Matthew Stevens (aka GadgetVirtuoso) talks to us about how game engines work. What is a game engine and why is it needed?

Guest: Matthew Stevens (aka GadgetVirtuoso) IT Manager at a mobile game studio for a decade
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19 min
August 08, 2025 Why the President Wants Intel’s CEO to Resign DTNSB 5078
Also, should coders fear AI, and why Google Maps isn’t as good in South Korea.

Starring Tom Merritt, and Huyen Tue Dao. Show notes can be found here.
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35 min
August 07, 2025 ChatGPT-5 Chooses the Right Model For You - DTNSB 5077
Apple will manufacture all of its iPhone and Apple Watch glass at a Corning facility in the US, and Dr. Niki explains why putting wires in mouse eyes might be a good thing.

Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, Tom Merritt and Dr Niki.

Show notes can be found here.
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36 min
August 06, 2025 Prompt Injection Attacks Get Worse - DTNSB 5076
Plus, goodbye to Hulu’s app and hello to Instagram Maps.

Starring Tom Merritt, Jenn Cutter, and Andy Beach.

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28 min
August 05, 2025 Inside Google DeepMind's Genie 3 world model - DTNSB 5075
Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for evading no-crawl directives, and Windows XP and Clippy are coming for your feet!

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Ryan Whitwam.

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33 min