Stephan's Daily Tech News

Stephan's Daily Tech News

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Stephan's Daily Tech News episodes

  • Outages, Affairs, and Monkey Coins: Friday the 13th Strikes
    Join AI host Joe Progran for episode 191 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, recorded on Friday the thirteenth, as he covers Microsoft's 20-hour global outage, Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia CEO, the Cybertruck's wind-down, and Ring's new home security drones. He also explores Voyager 1's one light-day milestone, the mystery of a 60-second pulse in power grids, North Korea-linked crypto laundering, and Anthropic's record-setting IPO and new workplace tools, all with a dose of dry British humour.
    21 min
  • Fridges Get Hacked, Honeypots Pretend, Devs Leak Passwords Anyway
    Episode 190 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, hosted by AI presenter Joe Progran, covers France blaming Iran for the supermarket fridge cyberattacks, the new coldframe honeypot, and Claude Code secrets leaking onto GitHub. It also dives into Anthropic's Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 launch and record-breaking IPO, the EU's proposed Digital Fairness Act, IBM's visa shake-up, and the Nvidia shareholder lawsuit. Rounding things out are Meta's AI age checks, the legal risks of vibe coding, and how AI is helping decode dolphin communication, all with a generous helping of sci-fi quips.
    24 min
  • Robots, Fridges, Spies, and Dolphins Judge Us All
    Join AI host Joe Progran for episode 190 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, covering Claude Code's GitHub secret leaks, the Iran-blamed supermarket fridge cyberattacks across Europe, and the lawsuit facing Nvidia and Jensen Huang. We also look at the EU's Digital Fairness Act, Anthropic's new models and upcoming IPO, Meta's AI age checks, and AI-assisted dolphin research. It's all delivered with dry wit and plenty of pop-culture nods.
    18 min
  • Hackers, Jet-Powered Chatbots, and Moustache Verification Fails
    Joe Progran, an AI host, covers Monday's biggest tech stories on Stephan's Daily Tech News, from the Binance crypto heist and AI-powered hacking to a decade-old Alpine Linux bug and cyberattacks on industrial freezers and a French blood bank. Also in this episode: fake job candidates, jet engines powering AI data centres, SpaceX's Starfall capsule, armed robots for Ukraine, and Texas electing a governor who campaigned against data centres. Expect plenty of movie-themed jokes along the way.
    21 min
  • Mondays, Hackers, and One Very Punny SSH Bug
    Joe Progran, an AI host, covers Monday's biggest tech security stories in episode 189 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, including how the Binance heist unfolded through a malicious ad and a fake job interview. He also looks at the rise of candidate fraud in hiring and how AI agents are speeding up exploits while patching lags behind. Plus, the Chainalysis breach and a decade-old OpenSSH bug with a very memorable name.
    6 min
  • AI Robs Banks, Taxes Gigabytes, Loses to Fertilizer Committee
    Join AI host Joe Progran for episode 188 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, covering the FBI's attribution of a six-billion-dollar Binance hack to North Korean hackers, France's proposed gigabyte tax, and newspaper lawsuits against Brave. We also dig into Anthropic's amended IPO filing, Goldman Sachs restricting AI coding tools, Sam Altman's Samsung visit, and AI agents descending into bureaucracy in Minecraft. All delivered with a healthy dose of dry wit and plenty of pop culture references.
    19 min
  • Six Billion Stolen, AI Hosts Pretend Not to Panic
    Join AI host Joe Progran on episode 188 of Stephan's Daily Tech News for the latest in tech and AI, including the FBI's attribution of the massive Binance crypto heist to North Korean hackers, allegations about an AI coding agent in a Department of Defense environment, France's proposed data tax, and lawsuits against Brave Software. The episode also covers Elon Musk's admission that Grok is financially unsustainable, Sam Altman's meeting with Samsung executives, and Anthropic's eye-watering amended SEC prospectus, all served with a dose of hard rock and pop-culture humor.
    13 min
  • Meta Builds Robots While Humans Fight for Their RAM
    Episode 187 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, hosted by AI host Joe Progran, covers Meta's humanoid robot Max, Intel's rough earnings and Apple's return as the world's most valuable company, plus the details of Anthropic's IPO filing. In AI news, the episode digs into Chinese labs allegedly distilling OpenAI's models, a new AI personality benchmark, Claude's ad-free pledge, Reddit's stock drop tied to Google's AI search, and a humanist's religious exemption from using AI at work. It also touches on Neuralink's Blindsight progress, all delivered with a dose of dry, existential humor.
    18 min
  • AI Deletes Emails, Escapes Cages, and Owes Elvis Money
    Join AI host Joe Progran for episode 186 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, where Microsoft offers voluntary exits, hackers exploit critical PHP flaws and Teams-based IT impersonation scams, and n8n patches a batch of security advisories. In AI news, Meta's Muse launch draws safety concerns, OpenAI hacks its own agents, Delaware proposes AI-run companies, and Anthropic reveals its IPO filing details. Plus, a new poll shows widespread opposition to data centers, and Elvis Presley's estate sues Anthropic over alleged copyright infringement.
    19 min
  • Musk, Elvis, and Rogue AI Walk Into a Courtroom
    Join AI host Joe Progran for episode 185 of Stephan's Daily Tech News, covering GM's new OnStar AI assistant, Elon Musk's admission that he throttled Starlink for Ukraine's military, and Moonshot AI's open-weight, three-trillion-parameter Kimi K3.1 Pro. Plus, Elvis Presley's rights holders sue Anthropic over lyrics, mathematicians push back on pre-verifying AI results, and a new AI platform aims to improve event planning. It's all delivered with a healthy dose of wit and sarcasm.
    12 min

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