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TEH 276: AI regulation and apocalypse. Lessons Off the Grid. Satellite Texting.
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In This Episode: Lessons Off the Grid, Satellite Texting, Apple’s Latest Gadgets and AI Regulation This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 1:37 LN: My new Apple purchase AirPods – https://www.apple.com/airpods-5/ LibrePods – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kavishdevar.librepods&hl=en-US&pli=1 3:00 GR: New earphones. Beats Studio Pro. 8:11 LN: AI regulation, does it stand a chance? 11:38 LN: AI apocalypse, do we stand a chance? 15:30 It is people 17:48 GR: Tech review of my Grand Canyon trip Solar… not so much: 👎 24:21 what I should have done instead iPhone 17 Pro Max 👍, Sony camera: needed more access and right lens, X5 👍 for lots of reasons 37:35 Satellite text messages: 👍 40:00 LN: VERY interested for SAR animal rescue reasons. 42:00 The satellite system being used 43:39 Being offline: 👍👍👍 (no withdrawal symptoms) Ain’t it Cool 50:23 LN: Neagly on Amazon Prime. A Reacher spin-off that delivers. 51:18 GR: Where the Water Goes by David Owen BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 53:30 LN: What Happened When My “Bank” Called Me – askleo.com/195987 54:51 GR: https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-combined-spotlight-and-siri-ai-menu-in-macos-golden-gate.html Transcript teh_276 Video https://youtu.be/z62BhbmBbV8
In This Episode: What to Do With Old Macs. A day in the Life of a tech creator. Day in the Life of Tech Creators This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: What to do with my “Late 2013” Mac Pro? Currently: streaming music. 12 cores & 64GB RAM seem overkill for that. 🙂 13:50 LN: “A day in the life of an internet entrepreneur” 14:27 GR: produce a video a week. 24:00 LN: Very similar work days. 43:00 LN: This week’s “How I used AI”: image upscaling. Original screen shot After asking Google Gemini to upscale by 300%. Gary’s original thumbnail. AI generated thumbnail. Ain’t it Cool 54:00 LN: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances: A Novel – Glenn Dixon 55:00 GR: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe – HBO BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:00 LN: Clickfix: What It Is and How to Avoid It – https://askleo.com/195093 1:00:01 GR: Denver Walking Tour Video: https://youtu.be/fpFTEG8OEdk Transcript teh_275 Video https://youtu.be/UJeTy2TCWF0
In This Episode: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: AI podcasts / AI voices 1:00 NotebookLM – https://notebook.google.com 4:00 GR: My personal podcast 11:00 GR: AirPods “cameras” https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/ I’m guessing these don’t record, and maybe don’t even use full color regular light Maybe one frame and low res and no ability to record at all Worried that there will still be some backlash 22:30 Apple vision pro 23:40 GR: Are AI companies really destroying rare books? I have an idea what is happening, and it isn’t as bad as it sounds. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/airtag-reveals-amazon-scanning-destroying-books-for-ai-training-report/4030780 https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ (paywall) 32:00 Plagiarism issues 36:00 LN: When your cloud storage provider goes under? Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under Someone wise once said: “If it’s in only one place, it’s not backed up.” and “The cloud is only one place.” 43:25 Online backups as archival storage. Drives have raised in price. 46:00 GR: The whole Claude watermarking thing. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content 48:00 Marked by choices of words Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: Spiderman Far From Home, and No Way Home (in prep for Homecoming) 57:00 GR: A Walk In the Park by Kevin Fedarko BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 59:00 LN: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Sharing Links – askleo.com/195019 59:50 GR: Why Is My Mac Menu Bar Missing? Transcript teh_274 Video https://youtu.be/7FC4AihiTc0
In This Episode: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Baseball with ipads. https://apnews.com/article/mlb-ai-ipads-ac940e2490557438f440514977832a74 5:30 Ai is not smarter. People have been doing this all along. 12:56 GR: City and counties are putting up cameras to record everything. https://www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/ 23:00 LN: The OpenAI “breakout” – https://apnews.com/article/openai-hugging-face-hacking-ai-model-708cb598bc1e33cef560e7196adb2afa Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? Imagine if your AI could not only search the public internet, but also use stolen credentials to sign-in to private networks. That’s kind of what this is. It’s messy. Guardrails were apparently not at 100% Is it mimicking humans? Humans willing to use compromised credentials, that is. Concern, OF COURSE, is that today it’s data retrieval from a competitor, but it could someday be data poisoning, or worse. 34:00 GR: Drones to be used to try to stop school shootings: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/drones-to-stop-school-shootings-promising-tool-or-unproven-strategy/2026/05 Will they really be effective? What are the costs? Budget vs just guards and more traditional methods. Budget vs spending money on actual education. 38:00 What about pepper balls? 39:00 Hacked pepper balls? 42:00 GR: Apple sued because of a third-party app. Is the only legal option for Apple to be 100% perfect when it comes to app store security? https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/apple-sued-after-alleged-app-store-crypto-scam-cost-users-1-8m/ Ain’t it Cool 47:00 LN: Furious. (Hulu) – Dark police murder mystery series staring Emily Rossum (Shameless) 48:00 GR: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot diaries series) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 49:00 LN: How Do I Find Good Local Computer Help? – askleo.com/25661 50:00 GR: How To Protect Yourself Against ClickFix Scams Transcript teh273 Video https://youtu.be/e6gikp0TX-U
In This Episode: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Our guest is … (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories o:00 LN: This week’s AI: Google Flow “A Corgi in a space suit walking on the surface of Mars where he encounters the Curiosity rover.” https://labs.google/fx/tools/flow/shared/video/1f04a3af-79d7-4a53-8c94-f83442f3b179 4:00 GR: My use of AI this week: mini golf app https://oliomo.com/minigolfscorepad/ 8:00 LN: Investigation: “Does this EULA restrict the number of machines I can install the product on:” 12:00 Interpreting manuals 18:00 LN: Is AI poisoning search results in a different way? Images: “corgi playing guitar” “-ai” may or may not help? 24:00 GR: Tap-to-ride is cool, but also needlessly confusing Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-light-rail-broke-records-for-world-cup-how-many-riders-paid/ “Data shows that between 58% and 74% of riders paid …” 40:00 GR: Sun-Reflecting Satellites: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/the-fcc-just-approved-a-sun-reflecting-satellite-and-astronomers-already-hate-it/ Very weird set of plusses and minuses Ain’t it Cool 49:00 LN: Silo 50:00 GR: The Emerald Mile (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15803144-the-emerald-mile) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 51:00 LN: Stop Spreading Manure – https://askleo.com/9419 52:00 GR: https://macmost.com/keep-small-notes-always-in-reach-on-your-mac-with-stickies.html Transcript teh272 Video https://youtu.be/gO6tmKY5UQ0
In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Windows Quickies: Windows 10 ESU 1:46 Windows 11 26H2 3:03 GR: Apple price increases 4:11 RAM shortages 12:30 GR: ClickFix attacks (https://hackmag.com/news/gizmodo-clickfix) Macs targeted too Apple fixed some parts, so switching tactics (Script Editor) https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/the-clickfix-scam-infect-your-own-mac 16:00 Why get more complex when simple keeps working? 17:00 LN: https://askleo.com/tip-of-the-day-captchas-never-use-start-run/ (For my Tip of the Day subscribers) 21:00 LN: Today in AI: flooded with ads for a back relief product, I asked Claude: “is this real?” – the answer was genuinely helpful. – https://claude.ai/share/be7e88cc-ccca-4ebd-b0b4-6187eb510584 25:00 GR: Mark Twain poison medicine. 27:40 Bonus for fun, what’s the English for 14,016,833,949,999,999,673,980,362,756,575,985,664 (38 digits)? – 20 character password made up of letters, numbers, and 10 different special characters. 20^72 14 undecillion, 016 decillion, 833 nonillion, 949 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 673 quintillion, 980 quadrillion, 362 trillion, 756 billion, 575 million, 985 thousand, 664. 31:40 GR: The lucrative market for fake dashboards (https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter) Ain’t it Cool 35:00 LN: Dungeon Crawler Carl – with caveats 39:20 GR: Widow’s Bay BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 41:39 LN: How Long Should a Password Be? – https://askleo.com/4844 42:19 GR: https://macmost.com/helping-others-with-their-macs-using-screen-sharing-through-messages.html Transcript teh_271 Video
In This Episode: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 LN: Adam, our synthetic announcer and pronunciation. 4:21 LN: Some random, short items on AI Bots and cloudflare 6:00 Claude and bot blockers 8:20 AI in politics (which is not AI in politics) – both are scary, though one is “normal” https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5856359/ai-anthropic-congress-spending-openai-midterms-election 10:15 Mythos fallout? (Server owners, keep checking for updates.) 11:55 Fable fail 13:30 GR: Bank switch tech standards Basically: My bank was bought by another bank, switch was “automatic” which meant I should have only had several hours of work to do 🤬 Range: enter new routing+account. Scan driver’s license. Send pennies to confirm. Phone call where they called my bank. Login through a link system. No way but to email customer service (still waiting to hear back). 30:00 GR: Human Consent Registry https://rslmedia.org/ 36:40 GR: A rant about click bait scaring people without providing details – https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/ Ain’t it Cool 42:00 LN: Gemini for … odd tasks. 47:30 GR: Claude Cowork to pick photos BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 52:25 LN: Common Cloud Objections: Yes, They Can See Your Data. No, You Shouldn’t Panic. – https://askleo.com/193269 53:00 GR: https://macmost.com/an-early-look-at-siri-ai.html (Club MacMost Exclusive) Transcript teh_270 Video https://youtu.be/dBq36eJSvT0
In This Episode: Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Our guest is … (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) They’ve largely stopped talking about each OS separately 2:25 Golden Gate 4:50 Not liking liquid glass. Rollback on design a bit 6:00 Focus on speed and reaction times 7:50 “Siri AI” Functional AI: Safari tabs, custom Safari extensions, Photo extend/reframe, build a Shortcut, act on files 12:50 Safari Notify me 16:00 Photos 19:20 Shortcuts 22:40 AI privacy 25:00 Splintering of OS features: US, EU, China. 30:00 Release dates 31:20 LN: AI search Google’s announcement: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ 34:00 Switching to ChatGPT 35:50 Kagi 37:00 Control with a question mark 40:40 Results depend on how you phrase your question 41:45 Semi-related: Better search customization coming in Windows 11 (i.e. no Bing, no Store) – https://hothardware.com/news/windows-11-disable-bing-search-single-toggle Ain’t it Cool 43:10 GR: Hacks series finale 44:50 LN: World of Warcraft BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 46:20 LN: You Can’t Un-Ring a Bell: What Really Happens to Your Data When You Post Anything Online – https://askleo.com/24288 47:50 GR: https://macmost.com/3-ways-to-keep-icloud-files-and-photos-local.html Transcript teh_269 Video https://youtu.be/PEr1RMD3EaA
In This Episode: Airline Bluetooth Scare. Understanding the Cloud. Is AI Creepy? This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Police department’s social media tactics lead to arrests — and criticism https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/21/police-departments-social-media-tactics-lead-to-arrests-and-criticism/ (“The online attention can have long-lasting consequences for those named in the posts”) GR: Reserecting Vine https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/ 7:00 LN: Neo competitors arrive. Microsoft’s surface laptop ultra – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-laptop-ultra https://www.howtogeek.com/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-are-doomed-to-fail-heres-why/ Nvidia chip based (ARM) – doomed IMO GR: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/macbook-neo-outsold-every-other-mac/ 14:00 GR: Plane turned around with bluetooth device name https://apnews.com/article/united-flight-newark-spain-bluetooth-device-ccdd9c111084ca0b8f5127f1baa74465 29:00 LN: Cloud Storage, Objections, and a great AI use case Can cloud services see your data? Do cloud services use your data? Do cloud services own your data? 45:00 GR: Asking AI to do something and then being creeped out that it did it well https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/941388/gemini-spark-ai-agent-trip-planning 50:00 GR: Guess you didn’t escape the “subscription” after all https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-no-edit-documents/ Ain’t it Cool 55:00 LN: Eupohoria 56:00 GR: Boys Series finale BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:01:00 LN: Mythos About Mythos – https://askleo.com/192235 1:02:00 GR: https://macmost.com/7-skills-you-need-to-master-mac-pages.html Transcript teh_268 Video https://youtu.be/3p3G94fTSjE
In This Episode: Apple’s AI, Google I/O Updates, and the BitLocker Yellow Key Security Flaw This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: What will the new Siri be like? (WWDC coming up) Stand-alone app Voice assistant that understands what you mean Gemini but not Gemini, Gemini model running on Apple’s servers, doing Apple things 12:30 LN: Bitlocker busted? Yellowkey exploit 16:00 How encryption keys are really stored 22:00 GR: Folding Phones? Big deal or niche product? Really looks like Apple is doing this soon (iPhone Ultra) Pixel Fold: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_10_pro_fold?hl=en-US&pli=1 33:00 GR: Google I/O stuff, audio glasses, AI agents Glasses without any visual component: just mic, speaker and camera? 36:00 LN: https://bee.computer/ 41:00 Hot take: People don’t want agents, as people don’t normally have assistants. Normal people talk to other people (chat) Also: Could it come to a point where it is all just moving too fast? Ain’t it Cool 57:00 GR: I’ll Miss Stephen Colbert 1:00:00 LN: New Murderbot – Platform Decay BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 01:01:16 GR: https://macmost.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-be-using-icloud-photos.html 01:03:43 LR: Has BitLocker Been Broken? What YellowKey Means to You – askleo.com/192620 Transcript teh_267 Video
Are you an AI? Robot music... is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.
What Happens to Ask Leo and MacMost as AI Evolves? When we first touched computers.
Hacked Traffic Signals. Pokémon Go makes Pizza Bots. AI generated confusion.
Apple’s Cheapest MacBook Ever. When AI makes friends with AI. Tech Bubble Insights.
Apple announcements. Coding with AI. Copyright and AI.
Solving Server Headaches With AI, Age Verification Dilemmas, and the Software Subscription fight.
The Internet Archive saves an old car. AI Bird IDs. Claude code. Ringing Lost Dogs.
AI is still dumb. Who's in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.
Gravity Wins: Leo’s Fall. So many subscriptions. Faking AI Fakes.
When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying.
Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs. Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech
When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach
Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon... or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.
New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.
Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.
Camping connectivity. Fiber isn't Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating.
New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?
Can You Trust AI? Fact-Checking. AI Coding and Streaming Trends
Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs.
Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?
AI Bots in Law Enforcement, Coding Assistants, Wilderness Connectivity, and Why Sherlock Holmes Won’t Die
Podcasting with AI and YouTube. Genmojis, Quishing and more.
Microphones, Security Blunders, VPNs, and that tariff thing.
Tech travel, security bloops, getting the news, rewriting COBOL.
Shortest Episode Ever
TEH 241: Search problems, hosting videos, moving servers. And... Why? But don't ask Why.
App Turmoil. A.I., Tiktok, App stores and censorship. Should we worry?
January's Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends
Facebook Fact Checking. New displays. AI in Housing.
Misinformation Madness: Debunking Viral Tech Myths from TikTok to iPhones
Is Google stealing content? New Social Media. Bomb Cyclone and connectivity. Is privacy a myth?
ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends
Apple’s New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation
Catching rockets out of the air. Wordpress feud. Archive.org disaster.
When tech shuts down. Fancy locks. Prime day. Name salad.
Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.
Apple buttons. Are AirPods hearing aids now? Windows force-upgrade.
Mediocre rumors. AI bubble. Amazing cameras and more.
Wordstar still exists, Google Pixel, AI movies? A little mini?
Friend, Azure and Google news. What's wrong with search?