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1. PlayStation ending disc production

Source: PlayStation Blog - CS 100/100

2. Nvidia RTX spark

Source: Wikipedia - CS 100/100

3. Ram shortage news

Source: Xbox - CS 100/100

Source: 9To5Mac - CS 85/100

4. Microsoft linux

Source: ZDNET - CS 88/100

5. Meta Compute

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 89/100

6. intel price increase

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 92/100

7. Valor Atomics successfully used a micro-reactor to power a desktop PC

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 96/100

8. Class-action lawsuit against Samsung, SK Hynix, & Micron

Source: PC MAG - CS 85/100

9. The Steam Machine Is…

Source: IGN - CS N/A (Review)

Source: LTT - CS N/A (Video Review)

10. WWDC26

Source: Apple Newsroom - CS 100/100

11. Dbrand has cancelled its Portal-themed case after issues regarding licensing from Valve

Source: dbrand - CS 100/100

12. IBM 1nn chip

Source: IBM - CS 100/100

13. Apple might skip high-end M6 chips

Source: 9To5Mac - CS 92/100

14. The YouTube UI redesign that removes the dislike button from shorts

Source: 9To5Google - CS 89/100

15. Claude Mythos Craziness

Source: Anthropic - CS 100/100

16. Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers from websites without paying (add all below to data base)

Source: TNW - CS 78/100

17. The pre built Steamroller PC offers a SteamOS PC

Source: XDA - CS 82/100

18. Intel’s Next Gen Nova Lake CPU

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 82/100

19. Usbliter8 might be used to jailbreak iPhones

Source: 9To5Mac - CS 89/100

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1. OpenAI is rumored/leaked to be making a phone to compete with the iPhone

Source: 9to5mac - CS 85/100 (High)

1. The iPhone 18 is rumored to have cost cutting measures

Source: MacRumors - CS 68/100 (Low due to it being pure rumors/leaks)

1. MacBook Neo is being backlisted into late May due to A18 Pro shortage, along with other Macs facing supply issues.

Source: 9to5mac - CS 85/100 (High)

1. Windows “K2”

Source: Windows Central - CS 91/100 (Very High)

Source: Microsoft - CS 100/100 (very high)

1. New Framework laptop pro

Source: Framework - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. Meta wants to beam solar energy from satellites to earth

Source: Overview - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. Tim Cook is officially stepping down

Sources: Apple - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. Claude Mythos

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 82/100 (High)

1. Apple fixes notification date base vulnerability

Source: 9to5mac - CS 90/100 (Very High)

1. You can now run Steam on the OG Switch family with the latest Proton beta

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 82/100 (High)

1. Android 24 hour side loading verification

Source: Google - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. News-outlets blocking wayback

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 85/100 (High)

1. Net-gear is not banned now

Source: 9to5mac - CS 92/100 (Very High)

1. Windows recall security risks

Source: The Verge - CS 96/100 (Very High)

1. Google is testing a new YouTube AI feature called “Ask Youtube”

Source: TechChurch - CS 82/100 (High)

1. Tensor G6 might have a old PowerVR from 2021

Source: 9to5google - CS 82/100 (High)

1. Oracle, Microsoft, and Meta are laying off more people due to AI

Sources: CNBC - CS 82/100 (High)

The Guardian - CS 92/100 (Very High)

SPEED RUN

1. EU age verification app can by hacked in 2 mins

Source: cybernews - CS 89/100 (High)

1. Da Vinci Resolve 21 is now a photo editor

Source: Blackmagic design - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. Meta raises prices for the Quest lineup

Source: Meta - CS 100/100 (Very High)

1. Toyotas new limited edition gaming chair

Source: Tom’s Hardware - CS 90/100 (Very High)

1. ChatGPT images 2.0

Source: OpenAI - CS 100/100

Welcome to the Byte-Sized Brief! by Danny & Sterling

Sources And Credibility Score.

AirPods Max 2 Source: Apple - CS 100/100

Apple Acquires motion VFX Source: 9To5Mac - CS 93

WWDC26 announced Source: Apple - CS 100/100

Xbox adds copilot Source: Windows Central - CS 81/100

OpenAI kills Sora after less then a year Source: 9To5Mac - 84/100

Samsung kills try fold after 3 months Source: 9To5Google - CS 85/100

Googles New “TurboQuant” Source: Google - CS 100/100

Apple discontinued the Mac Pro! Source: TBSB - CS N/A (spotted on Apple official website) RCS 4.0! Source: 9To5Google - CS 94/100

Apple handed over a users name and email address to the FBI Source: 9To5Mac - CS 85/100

PS5 price hike! Source: PlayStation - CS 100/100

Arm is making there on CPU!…….but its for AI data centers 😩 Source: Tom’s Hardwere - CS 96/100

All routers are banned Source: FCC.GOV - CS 100/100

Airdrop x samsung s26 Source; Samsung - CS 100/100

GrapheneOS . Source: GrapheneOS - CS 100/100

Androids 24 hour waiting period to install side loaded apps Source: PCMag - CS 99/100

Dlss 5 Source: Nvidia - CS 100/100

Firefox will include a free 50gb VPN V149 Source: Firefox - CS 100/100

Wine Source: XDA - CS 70/100

Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, now offers official Android support Source: 9to5Google - CS 89/100

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1. New Google Maps update

Source: PC MAG-https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-maps-gets-major-gemini-ai-upgrade-heres-how-ask-maps-will-work - Credibility Score 88/100

2. Apple Week

Source: Apple-https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/macbook-neo-iphone-17e-ipad-air-with-m4-and-more-are-now-available/ - Credibility Score 100/100

3. New Nothing Products

Source: WIRED-https://www.wired.com/story/nothing-phone-4a-and-phone-4a-pro-and-headphone-a/# - Credibility Score 84/100

4. Xbox Project Helix

Source: Xbox - https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/03/11/project-helix-building-next-generation-of-xbox/ - Credibility Score 100/100

5. Firefox still updating win 7!

Source: Mozilla - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support# - Credibility Score 100/100

6. iran cyber attacks

Source: Tom’s Hardware - https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/iran-hacking-group-claims-attack-on-med-tech-company-stryker-says-over-200-000-devices-have-been-wiped-clean-and-over-50tb-of-data-extracted - credibility score 96/100

7. FBI is looking for victimized Steam users who downloaded games with hidden malware

Source: Tom’s hardware - https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/the-fbi-is-looking-for-victimized-steam-users-who-downloaded-games-with-hidden-malware-investigation-underway-into-multiple-infected-titles-from-2024-to-2026 - Credibility Score 90/100

8. YouTube is the biggest entertainment by revenue!

Source: 9to5google - https://9to5google.com/2026/03/11/youtube-is-now-the-worlds-largest-media-company-beating-even-disney/ - CS 90/100

9. Windows GOOD update!

Windows Central - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-kb5079473-is-here-with-some-actually-good-upgrades-heres-whats-rolling-out-this-patch-tuesday - CS 92/100

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In this weeks episode we go over the Galaxy unpacked, A new Wi-Fi vulnerability, Age verification madness with discord in California, Nvidia N1 AND N1X CHIPS HAVE LEAKED...again, Phil Spencer leaving Xbox, Sam Altman compares human resource usage to AI resource usage, The government is banning use of Anthropic after a shake up and is now going to be using ChatGPT for military AI, Ram shortage hits the steam deck, PlayStation Is now leasing PS5 in UK, Nvidia is rumored to not be releasing any new GPUs until 2028, And there is Apple products coming out this week!

In today's episode, Sterling and Danny go over the Adobe Animate Discontinuation, Ryzen 9000 CPU Failures on ASRock Motherboards, Backdoor in Notepad++ (Chrysalis), Apple’s New Mac Building Page, Amazon Blocking Sideloaded Apps on Fire TV, Moto G17 and G17 Power – No OS Upgrades, Spotify and Major Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion, Google Project Genie (DeepMind AI), Google’s New Laptop OS Leak, Amazon Email Leak About 16,000 Layoffs (Project Dawn), Canada Computers Credit Card Skimming, Pixel 10a – Disappointing Rebrand, HP Laptop Subscription Service, Ring “Search Party” Feature for Lost Pets…and mass surveillance

Hello everyone and welcome back to the bite-size brief podcast, or as we like to call our longer podcast-like episodes, discussions!

In today's episode, Sterling and Danny go over Apple acquiring Q.Al for some interesting tech, the new Apple AirTag 2, recapping all of the Galaxy S26 Ultra rumors, the ChatGPT outage, BitLocker keys for Windows given to authorities by Microsoft, Microsoft might actually be listening, Copilot button discovered and File Explorer, Al killswitch in Firefox, a social media for Al agents called Multbook, and last, but not least, a ton of Elon Musk news Including the X.Al Paris office raid, Elon stopping production of his most popular cars to ditch why people loved Tesla to make humanoid robots, Elon sending 1 million satellites up in our atmosphere to crowd everything and have junk flying everywhere, and returning more of insane Elon Musk news!

Hello everyone and welcome to our new short-form news coverage! We will be doing these episodes in weeks where we just don't have enough news to make a podcast. Please give us your feedback on this!

Anyway, today we went over the massive Verizon outage, the iPhone 18 Pro's 5G satellite connectivity rumor, OpenAl's wearable Al device, Nvidia's new Arm chip leaked, Sony sold 51% of their TV company to TLC, Windows 11 bugs, an update on the Spotify piracy case, Apple's creator experience, TSMC raising prices on Apple, and ads in ChatGPT!

Welcome to the Byte-Sized Brief special CES (consumer electronics show) 2026 coverage episode! And this week's episode, we will be covering all of the major tech news from CES! Along with our favorite items at the end! Enjoy!

Note: all tech news that is CES related was gathered from various news articles and YouTube creators, who were at CES

In today's episode of the Byte-Sized Danny and Sterling talk about the latest tech drama! Florida making wireless charging roads, China's CXMT stealing trade secrets from Samsung dram facilities, Gmail address changing without making a new account, Ai companies (possibly) using nuclear submarines to power Al data centers, A company completely downloaded all of Spotify illegally and made it free to torrent, Google breaks the Dreamcast web browser, Amazon catches north Korean worker posing as an American by detecting his latency, EU forcing Apple to allow 3rd party devices to use its AirPods paring tech, and the MASSIVE DJI DRONE BAN!

Stay tuned for our special CES 2026 episode next week!