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  • 341: Late Night Lathe Run

    Eric is on vacation, so Jon is up late. Panera lost some employee data and Snowflake is updating stuff. Eric enjoys the South Pacific Epcot while Jon looks forward to going to a library.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 9:09 - Panera Fallout
    • 12:04 - Snowflake Fallout
    • 18:22 - Polynesian Cultural Center
    • 23:14 - Klementinum
    27 min
  • 340: Pilot To The Last

    Eric graduates his last, and Jon hosts a field trip. Club Penguin fans post inside documents from Disney (among others) and Apple announces how they will securely and privately execute LLMs in the cloud. Wyoming nuclear power plant breaks ground, the Civ7 trailer is released, and Astronaut William Anders passes away in his plane.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 14:32 - Bad Penguins
    • 21:10 - Private Cloud Compute
    • 32:28 - Nuclear Wyoming
    • 35:51 - Civilization VII
    • 36:37 - William Anders
    42 min
  • 339: Mediocre Night

    Eric says goodbye (sorta) to Coke Zero just in time for Chaos Week; aka Last Child Graduating High School. Jon cleans out his barn and discovers the bees are making him honey. Polish Hackers call out train repair shenanigans and Ticketmaster loses 560 million(ish?) user accounts due to(?) a Snowflake database misconfiguration? So many questions. Panamanian islands are "sinking" and China lands on the moon (again). Jon listens to a new "Harry Potter meets Ender's Game meets Ready Player One" book series and now Eric is spending more money on books.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:00 - Polish Train Hackers
    • 20:22 - Ticketmaster hack?
    • 22:37 - Snowflake hack?
    • 25:36 - Panama's Carribbean Relocation
    • 27:51 - China lands on the Moon
    • 29:32 - Warformed: Stormweaver
    34 min
  • 338: Rescue Goose

    Eric grills ribs for Memorial Day, and Jon finds a goose. The internet archive under attack (literally and legally), and essays on programming. Two Mayan fun things ... books and bees.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 12:05 - Wayback Attack
    • 16:20 - Essays on Programming
    • 31:25 - Doomsday Match
    • 35:13 - Stingless Bees
    40 min
  • 337: Your Flap Is Dangling

    Eric hangs out downtown and plans a trip to the symphony. Jon is hitting the end of the high school concert season, has opinions on iPad and notes that the bees both giveth and taketh away. While recovering from a long trip, they ask themselves many important questions... Who knew college students would want free laundry services? When did your WiFi routers become Apple AirTags? Who wants Patch Tuesday details? Was there anything non-AI related at BUILD? Why won't more people buy Marshmallow Sky Ice Cream? What is that underground near the Giza Pyramids? When will this podcast end?

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 12:18 - Free Laundry!
    • 16:53 - WiFi Router is an Airtag
    • 23:14 - Patch Tuesday
    • 27:05 - BUILD AI
    • 35:42 - Marshmallow Sky
    • 38:41 - Giza Anomaly
    42 min
  • 336: Edward Abbey

    Eric has superlative steak and Jon has ... pizza. Northern lights, concerts, and grafting bees oh my. Microsoft's security priorities, FCC designates Royal Tiger, and Ascension hospitals attacked with/by Black Basta. A Vampire Drone and Wallets everywhere.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 16:05 - Top Priority
    • 23:15 - Royal Tiger
    • 27:28 - Ascension Land
    • 32:09 - Vampire Drone
    • 36:20 - Wallets Wallets Everywhere
    49 min
  • 335: Cacophony of Sound

    Eric's on the road again and has irrelevant opinions about Taylor Swift's new music. Jon is surrounded by music and actually watches a show Eric recommended. LockBit gang is doxxed by the FBI. Microsoft's top priority is security. Eric is suprised by Sugar and Jon discovers a new show: Doctor Rakus, Medicine Primate.

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 11:58 - LockBit Exposed
    • 15:57 - Microsoft's Priority
    • 22:05 - Sugar
    • 26:43 - Primate Doctor
    32 min
  • 334: Recurrent Nova

    Eric wins the exercise challenge and Jon's iPad is busted. The FCC is (attempting to) fine carriers for sharing your location data, stats on Google's android app store protections in 2023, and GitHub comments are abused to host malware. For fun we have a Netflix series of the Three Body Problem, and an every-80-years-not-a-normal-nova.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 14:07 - Fining Carriers
    • 18:12 - Malicious App Police
    • 21:05 - Github Comment Malware
    • 26:22 - Three Body Problem
    • 31:19 - White Dwarf Guyser
    37 min
  • 333: Blow Your Reality Mind

    Jon and Eric make it back from Texas, despite airport security. Nespresso has an open redirect vulnerability, eScan AV delivers updates via HTTP and Cisco has Zero-day fun time. Eric admires vaporizing water without heat while Jon is impressed with a pushing firmware updates to a spacecraft 15 billion miles away...

    • 0:00 - Introduction
    • 2:29 - Brisket Seasoning
    • 6:01 - Open Redirect
    • 9:20 - Protect your Updates!
    • 14:50 - Cisco Zero-day
    • 19:27 - Vaporizing Water Sans Heat
    • 23:36 - Programming Voyager 1
    31 min
  • 332: Aging And Eclectic

    Eric performs Digital Spring Cleaning and Jon mostly works outside. Open source groups are worried about other 'XZ Style' hacks, Roku announces a second security incident, LastPass employee is deepfaked, and LG TV vulnerabilities. Don't expose your TVs to the internet folks. For fun we have an amazing article about deep sea cable repair ships and a performance by Drum Tao.

    • 0:00 - Intro
    • 13:34 - "XZ Style" Hacks
    • 14:46 - Roku Part Deux
    • 17:21 - LastPass Deepfaked
    • 20:31 - LG TV Vulns
    • 26:50 - Cable Repair Ships
    • 29:57 - Drum Tao
    34 min

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