The Lighthouse IT Podcast - December 26th, 2025

In this final 2025 episode of the Lighthouse IT Solutions Podcast, Matt and Griff reflect on the year. They break down the biggest tech stories, security shocks, and industry shifts that shaped the year, and what they mean to us, our clients, and business owners in general, heading into 2026.

Highlights we cover:

• Valve’s 2026 “Trinity” vision: Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame
• The Louvre Heist and security
• Major outages like AWS and Cloudflare
• Doomscrolling Sora 2 and the state of AI-generated media
• How Google wasn’t forced to sell Chrome
• AI bot traffic surpassing human web use
• The end of AOL dial-up
• Instagram content became indexable
• 23andMe’s bankruptcy and data privacy implications
• Microsoft’s 50th anniversary
• Nintendo Switch 2 launch
• Skype shutting down
• The return of Pebble OS and watches (Repebble)
• UnitedHealth’s breach that impacted 100M people
• DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model
• Windows 10 reached End-of-Life
• Slate Auto trucks coming in 2026
• Odoo today and what Odoo v19 will do
• Hatz AI, our secure AI chat platform
• zTech joining Lighthouse IT Solutions

Don't miss out on these interesting discussions and more!

Read the full show notes over at: https://hub.lighthousesol.com/blog/lighthouse-podcast-2/the-lighthouse-it-solutions-podcast-2025-year-in-review-450