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- Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #181 (11/05/2026)Tech
- Apps Can Now Try to Stop You From Canceling Subscriptions
- The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control - Engadget
- Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. - Ars Technica
- Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution - Engadget
- Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
- Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” - Ars Technica
- Google says students in schools that ban AI won’t have access to Search - Engadget
- Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’
- OpenAI Billionaire: PCs are ‘terrible’ when data centers need more memory
- Sam Altman Pulls Spectacular 180 After Unpopular Comments About RAM: ‘It Is F*cking Annoying’
- Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games
Gaming- One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It’s Taking Action - GameSpot
- Steam Is Tightening Its Game Submission Rules As AI Slop Floods The Store
- Nexus Mods gets stricter on AI for mods but no outright ban | GamingOnLinux
- Arkane union workers accuse Microsoft of sabotaging the studio
- Nintendo’s main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
Content Creation- Elgato Makes Its Excellent Teleprompter Software Free in Version 2.0 | Digital Foundry
Hardware/Software Updates- Fedora 45 arrives to continue advancing the Linux desktop | GamingOnLinux
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3 hr 3 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #180 (10/22/2026)Tech
- Israeli firm used online ads to run vast spy operation, researchers say | Reuters
- TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release - Engadget
- Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies - Engadget
- Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs - Ars Technica
- Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract
- 1Password will let AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
- Unauthorized AI agents are reportedly already accessing US bank accounts - Engadget
Gaming- Nintendo Switch 2 jailbroken in latest AI-assisted hack
- Japanese acting union fights back against AI-generated voice use, proposing strict new guidelines, especially regarding the use of a deceased actor’s voice
- Here’s the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings | GamingOnLinux
- Dune: Awakening studio faces layoffs as it restructures following console release | Eurogamer.net
- EA officially shutting down BioWare, cancels new Mass Effect
- Following shock BioWare closure, scope of EA job cuts becomes clear as layoffs hit Respawn, Maxis, Full Circle, EA Motive, and more | Eurogamer.net
- “This act is intended to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine“ - Umurangi Generation studio blocks new game Penguin Colony from being sold in Israel | Eurogamer.net
Hardware/Software Updates- New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And Sony May Be Tightening Security Before GTA 6 - GameSpot
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3 hr 1 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #179 (10/15/2026)Tech
- Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it - Engadget
- Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police - Ars Technica
- Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices - Ars Technica
- YouTube Music rolling out AI labels in the Now Playing screen
- Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022 - Engadget
- Trump ballroom’s biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies - Engadget
Gaming- Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses
- Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
- Epic Brags That Its New ‘Vibe Coded’ Store Launcher Is Faster Than Steam
- Epic Is Overhauling Its Anti-Cheat So That Fortnite Can Finally Come To A New Platform - GameSpot
- NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership - Engadget
- Big Walk Developers Say “Free Palestine” 🍉
Deals/Sales/Free Games- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk and more
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2 hr 58 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #178 (10/08/2026)Tech
- Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
- Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches - Ars Technica
- Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional
- Apple Now Pushing iPhone Users Still on iOS 26 to Install iOS 27 - MacRumors
- Skydance will combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming service - Engadget
- Bobby Kotick returns: former Activision boss becomes board member of Skydance, the new company formed by Paramount and Warner Bros | Eurogamer.net
- PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop - OMG! Ubuntu
Gaming- Unity lean heavily into AI prompting games into existence with Unity Spark | GamingOnLinux
- Ninja Theory developers announce they are facing redundancy, as the studio starts laying off staff following widespread Xbox cuts
- Supermassive Games suffers layoffs as more than 70 developers seem to have left the company this week | Eurogamer.net
- Star Wars Zero Company Developer Sees Portion Of Furloughed Workers Return - GameSpot
- Refurbished PS5 Pros Are Now 50% More Expensive than New Ones at GameStop
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2 hr 12 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #177 (10/01/2026)Tech
- New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators - Ars Technica
- Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 - Ars Technica
- Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
- Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones - Engadget
Gaming- PlayStation Wants You to Use Your Controller to Simplify Payments
- Ubisoft Workers of Montreal Union petition to “preserve hybrid work” secures over 300 signatures
- Here’s the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for September 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Content Creation- Malicious Twitch chat messages can trigger code execution on OBS Studio
Hardware/Software Updates- SteamOS 3.8.28 stable released with big improvements for Steam Deck, Steam Machine and more hardware support | GamingOnLinux
Deals/Sales/Free Games- Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts | GamingOnLinux
- When Is The Next Steam Sale? Dates For 2026 And 2027 Sales Revealed - GameSpot
- PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October: F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2
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2 hr 32 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #176 (09/17/2026)Tech
- Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data - Ars Technica
- AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed - Ars Technica
- Instagram chief thinks a chronological feed is ‘much worse’ and says the quiet part out loud
- Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable
- Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
- University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
- Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
Gaming- IGN Ownership Chooses Busiest Time For Games Media In Years To Lay A Bunch Of People Off
- Wardogs lead says the studio won’t hire people who decry crunch on social media
- MindsEye Developer Seemingly Shutting Down after New Round of Layoffs
- Activision Blizzard Sued Again For Alleged Gender Discrimination
- Candy Crush developers are planning a strike for next week - Engadget
- PS5 Linux dev quits after “the only hypervisor bug left” was reported to Sony | GamingOnLinux
Content Creation- Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics and more - Engadget
Hardware/Software Updates- iOS 26.7 now available for iPhone, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac
- iOS 27 and iOS 26.7 Fix More Than 100 Security Bugs - MacRumors
- Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26.7 and macOS Sequoia 15.8 - 9to5Mac
- New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And Sony Actually Added Some New Features - GameSpot
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3 hr 21 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #175 (09/10/2026)Tech
- Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time | WIRED
- Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs - Ars Technica
- Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. - Ars Technica
- The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No
- Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution - Ars Technica
- Apple details how Apple Watch’s new Audio Intelligence features work in privacy paper
Gaming- The Legend Of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct: All The Biggest Announcements - GameSpot
- Nintendo’s Latest Sale Is Made Possible By Tariff Refunds It’s Not Giving You - GameSpot
- Hideo Kojima’s Physint now being published by Xbox, as PlayStation severs ties with Kojima Productions and Microsoft steps in to take over | Eurogamer.net
- After Years Of Company Stalling, Blizzard Workers Win Mega-Contract That Applies To All Unionized Teams
- Ubisoft Is Making Its Games Work Better on Steam by Letting You Uninstall Connect | Digital Foundry
Hardware/Software Updates- Apple Releases iOS 26.6.2 - MacRumors
- Apple Announces iOS 27 Release Date - MacRumors
Deals/Sales/Free Games- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for September: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, WWE 2K26, Ball x Pit, Date Everything! and more
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3 hr 5 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #174 (09/03/2026)Tech
- Cisco probably violated Middle Eastern and Muslim employees’ civil liberties
- Here’s What Apple is Paying John Ternus to Run the Company
- Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don’t Destroy Them
- FBI investigates as hackers sell digital scans of 153M drivers licenses
- MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing ‘Lake America’ Change - MacRumors
Gaming- State of Play & State of Play Japan: all announcements, trailers – PlayStation.Blog
- Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy
- New Sony Policy Could Lead To Legal Action Against Vocal PS5 Disc Critics
- Game Pass Is Getting Worse, And More Expensive - GameSpot
- Most Of Star Wars Zero Company’s Developers Were Furloughed Weeks Ago
- Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations DLC was “brutal” with up to 17-hour days | Eurogamer.net
- Indie Dev Releases Tearful Message After Multiple Laptops Are Stolen At Gamescom
- ‘This is horrifying’ Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 AI filter leaks and players are inserting it into every game | VGC
- How does Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reckon we can fight the industry’s “Crash 2.0”? By building more factories | Eurogamer.net
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3 hr - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #173 (08/13/2026)Tech
- Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat - Ars Technica
- Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”. - Gadget Review
- City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for ‘Public Safety’
- Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel
- Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a photo came from an iPhone camera - 9to5Mac
- Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse - Engadget
- US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf - Engadget
- Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
Gaming- Saber Interactive’s CEO Matt Karch Can Get In The Bin
- Indie game publisher Devolver Digital wants to go private | Eurogamer.net
- Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds - Ars Technica
- Marvel’s Wolverine “fully playable” on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be | Eurogamer.net
Content Creation- Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content - Engadget
Deals/Sales/Free Games- PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors, Hell is Us and more
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3 hr 7 min - Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #172 (08/06/2026)Tech
- Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth - Engadget
- Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
- SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center - Engadget
- Judge refuses xAI’s request to stop a Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps - Engadget
- Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
- NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors - Engadget
- The California Teamsters union is suing the state over self-driving trucks - Engadget
- The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
- Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
- Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup? - Ars Technica
- According to Statcounter, Linux on the desktop crossed over 7% globally
Gaming- Steam Numbers for July
- Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey | GamingOnLinux
- A PC cooling company shows Sony and Nintendo how it’s done, as it pledges to pass US tariff refunds onto customers
- Nintendo reports incredible profits, and physical games still play a big part
- EA is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity
- Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Has Guns Now, Nintendo Just Won’t Admit It - GameSpot
- Halo Studios suffers layoffs despite success of Campaign Evolved
Content Creation- YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making ‘Sexually Gratifying’ Videos
Hardware/Software Updates- NVIDIA stable driver 595.91.07 and new feature driver 610.57.04 released for Linux
- Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 With Security Fixes - MacRumors
Deals/Sales/Free Games- Get plenty of games by supporting the ‘Game industry hardship fund’
- Beloved roguelite Moonlighter is free on Steam for a limited time
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