TEH Podcast

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 – https://askleo.com/195987
• 54:51 GR: https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-combined-spotlight-and-siri-ai-menu-in-macos-golden-gate.html

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• 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

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• 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 – https://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? – https://askleo.com/25661
• 50:00 GR: How To Protect Yourself Against ClickFix Scams

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• 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

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• 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 – https://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.