What would it be like if Enterprise IT Suppliers had Black Friday deals?  Who would get trampled….and for what? iPhone select trick https://www.dummies.com/consumer-electronics/smartphones/iphone/how-to-edit-text-on-your-iphone/ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/bitcoin-skids-to-a-13-month-low-nearing-5000.html The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now down 22 percent in the past week, falling as much as 12 percent Monday to its lowest level in more than a year. Other major […]

We recap ONUG Fall 2018 with Co-Founders Nick Lippis & Ernest Lefner.

The Homage and we also discuss deep throat informant at Google, regarding Dragonfly. Also up… https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/young-couples-are-sharing-fingerprints-to-unlock-each-others-phones.html As smartphones like those made by Apple and Google increasingly move toward biometric access, younger users lean on the convenience of a single tap or look, over traditional passcodes. And with the option to store multiple fingerprints or facial appearances, […]

Matt is an extremely technical CEO.  We discuss the pros and cons of that skill as a leader. The security space is so vast.  Perhaps an underserved area is the cloud development space.  Matt Konda Founded JEMURAI at http://www.jemurai.com .  Their SaaS solution, JASP, will not only find issues on your AWS cloud deployments, but also provide […]

The Tech Fugitives interview Ernest Lefner.  Ernest is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Open Network User Group AND… Our good Friend.  He will be guest hosting with us for a few weeks…. He is in FACT a Tech Fugitive. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/11/06/mysterious-oumuamua-object-space-alien-probe-harvard/1900213002/ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/06/microsoft-has-a-version-of-its-new-campus-in-minecraft.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/amazon-will-reportedly-create-two-new-headquarters-instead-of-one.html The update follows a pair of weekend reports naming Crystal City, Va., […]

We discuss the potential of disruption to the IBM Storage Portfolio… AND….Mark gets worked up over male dumbness… Kyle throws cold water.   https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-construction-workers-find-roughly-1000-human-teeth-hidden-inside-wall https://www.webmd.com/balance/features/negative-ions-create-positive-vibes#1 Columbia University studies of people with winter and chronic depression show that negative ion generators relieve depression as much as antidepressants. “The best part is that there are relatively no side effects, but we still […]

The Halloween show also features scary ISP security failures and a Presidential swing at China.   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/2400_year_old_shipwreck_black_sea/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/26/china_trump_huawei_phone_spying/ Hahaha hahahaha…. HA! Follow up on Hubble Reboot https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/hubble_back_online/ https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-will-sell-artificial-intelligence-technology-to-the-pentagon-2018-10 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm9dmj/an-isp-left-corporate-passwords-keys-and-all-its-data-exposed-on-the-internet SPs are particularly juicy targets for bad actors given their insight into every shred of data that touches their networks, and have been designated as part […]

In addition to ATT debacle, we also discuss MIT’s sweaty wad of cash and why China is the biggest threat to Intellectual freedom.   https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17979974/att-uverse-tv-internet-service-outage-fire https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article220079330.html https://www.cnet.com/news/mit-to-push-the-rise-of-ai-with-new-college-1-billion-funding/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b The Schwarzman College of Computing is intended to be “an interdisciplinary hub” for work in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science and related fields. The research conducted there […]

Google says it has many personalities… some of them are cray, cray. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/09/google_jedi_drops_out/ I could literally just talk about this all day. We also discuss: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/3/17931924/burger-king-ai-ads-confusion-misunderstanding “The chicken crossed the road to become a sandwich. Burger King encouraged the chicken,” says the voice. “The Whopper lives in a bun mansion, just like you,” it chirps. […]

It’s not even possible to do an episode without a massive hack report. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/facebooks-security-breach-shows-even-significant-security-investment-might-not-help.html Facebook reported Friday that up to 50 million user accounts may have been compromised and taken over by cyberattackers. Companies spend millions on cybersecurity, but still fall prey to cyberattacks. Many of the cybersecurity issues companies are tasked with fixing are […]