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Flock blames bots for its surveillance backlash, while our own camera setups leave us with an uncomfortable double standard to explain.

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• Hit and Run By: Amber Sweeney

Amazon's new AI wearable promises to remember everything you say, but the real question is what Amazon plans to do with it.
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• Why some people become super smellers
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• Hands-on with Bee, Amazon's latest AI wearable
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• Disco Swag By: The Doerfels

Apple wants to take over your smart home, and we're breaking down what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and whether it's worth letting Apple move in.

• Apple’s “Welcome Home” Smart Home Event
• Apple Announces HomeView Smart Home Hub
• HomeView Requires an iPhone or iPad for Some AI Features
• Apple Launches Home Collection With Cameras, Locks, and Thermostats
• Apple Announces New Apple TV 4K With A19 and Siri AI
• Siri AI Is Coming to Older Apple TV 4K Models
• Apple Announces HomePod Mini 2 With Siri AI
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• Bullet Train by My Friend Jimi

Chris tells an IT war story about the time one vacation email revealed an entire company held together by flaky drives, secret download links, and one guy’s brain.

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• Let's Imagine By: Aaron Koenig

Give an agent a browser, and suddenly it can do a lot more than search the web. We dig into Playwright, what that unlocks, and why it matters for Clanker Therapy 2.

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• “Home Grown Funk Take 2” by Jon Peterson

The AI hacking panic gets a lot less impressive once the real details start coming out.
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• Israeli startup Irregular linked to AI hacks OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta
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• Trump says US will form 'AI Force' and appoint an artificial intelligence tsar
• Trump's call for "AI Force" sets off scramble for new AI czar
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• Leaving The Country By bennyjeans

I turn the Quest 3 into a spatial workstation, wire it into my AI agents, and discover one trick the Valve Frame should steal.

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• Endless Deja Vu By My Friend Jimi

Three of the biggest AI stories of the year landed at once. Somehow, everyone is excited about the wrong one.

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• OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra its most powerful model yet - CBS News
• Nvidia's Jensen Huang Says 'AGI Has Arrived' and Congratulates OpenAI - Business Insider
• OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens
• World’s first public Tesla Cybercab ride (no steering wheel) - YouTube
• NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face | NVIDIA Blog

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• Hit the Target by Theo Katzman

Tim Cook is Fully Cooked, Apple hands the keys to a hardware guy, and the company’s next era starts with one very big AI problem.
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• Apple’s Ternus Has ‘Huge Shoes to Fill’ After Cook’s 2,300% Gain - Bloomberg
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• One Fine Day By: Right Said Fred

Everyone loves their tech, but now that the infrastructure is showing up, nobody wants it next door.

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• Data Center Uproar Scrambles the Midterm Election
• GOP Issues Stark Warning to AI Companies
• Governors' Races Are Being Buffeted by Data Center Politics
• The Unexpected Winners of America's Data Center Boom
• Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area
• Opposition to Local Data Centers Rises Sharply
• Skagit County Commissioners Adopt Moratorium on New Data Centers
• United States Data Center Energy Usage Report: 2025 Update
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• Data Centers in Virginia — Economic and Infrastructure Impact Summary
• Ratepayer Protection Pledge
• Building Community-First AI Infrastructure
• The Data Center Era Reshaping America
• Data Centers "Dug Their Own Grave," Says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
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• Bloodshot Lies Funky By: The Doerfels

Your projects, problems, discoveries, and questionable decisions take center stage as we dig into a stack of listener voicemails.

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• Merriest Christmas Contest
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• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

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• Too Many Chickens

Starlink Mini promises to kill the deadzone, but the real story is in the tradeoffs, hidden details, and the places where it works better than you’d expect.
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• Starlink Service Plans
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• The AI Fixer Upper
• Main Character Syndrome House
• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

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• Nevermind By: MOOKY

Something is living among the rocks at the farm, and as we learn how coyotes sleep, hunt, and raise their young, the trail leads uncomfortably close to the chicken coop.
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• Diffusion of Innovation Theory: The Adoption Curve - YouTube
• Coyotes - Theodore Roosevelt National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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• Is There a Correlation Between Rodents and Backyard Chickens?

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• Particular Man by Abel James

Chris spent five nights camping in an EV, and the car handled everything he worried about. It was the problems he never anticipated that nearly ruined the trip.

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• 1950's Hoover Constellation Vacuum Cleaner TV Commercial - YouTube
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• Tanz am Druidenstein By: Ric Sattler

China’s open-source AI models are catching up fast, rattling American labs, threatening their business models, and triggering a growing push to regulate or outright block the competition.

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• Jim Cramer posted on X this morning
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• Look to Close and you Might get a Splinter
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• Millennium Tower Grand Penthouse SOLD for $13M - YouTube

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• Lost Summer By: Ollie

More than 115,000 Flock-style cameras now scan America’s streets billions of times each month. But this summer, a growing resistance is taking matters, and the cameras, into its own hands.

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• FlockHopper | See ALPR Surveillance Cameras Near You
• Find Nearby ALPRs | DeFlock
• Flock's Surveillance Cameras Face Another Blow as LAPD Won't Renew The Contract
• LAPD Lets Agreement With Flock Safety Expire Over Privacy Concerns - Business Insider
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• Flock cameras wrongly flag plates as stolen, lead to police stop in Plymouth - CBS Minnesota
• Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras | American Civil Liberties Union
• Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit: 8 bombshell accusations and how the legal war might change your next iPhone
• Apple lawsuit reveals how many of its former employees now work at OpenAI

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• Shut It Down By: Robots Are Dix

A Scattered Spider arrest reveals how a VPN wasn’t enough when Windows device telemetry helped investigators connect the dots.

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• A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID
• Alleged Member of Criminal Cyber Hacking Group “Scattered Spider” Arrested in Finland and Extradited to the United States | United States Department of Justice
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Time By: The Fifty Four Plates

A new lawsuit claims RAM prices are being driven by a conspiracy to fix supply, but is that the real story, or just cope?

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• Tech companies hike prices due to 'chipflation' - YouTube
• RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
• Major RAM manufacturers sued for manipulating prices and demand
• Today, Micron announced a $250 million investment to increase long-term savings opportunities for children and families through Trump Accounts
• Space Ship House
• A House with an Elevated Style

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• Is Anybody There? By: The Paisley Daze

Free and open AI models get cast as the villain, Valve’s Steam Machine gets mugged by RAM prices, and we check who’s selling the panic popcorn.

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• It's National Donut Day! Here's how chains are celebrating - YouTube
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• Chinese AI models raise cybersecurity concerns, new report warns
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• Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049 | The Verge
• Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price - YouTube
• Steam Machine Review: Valve's New Console/PC Hybrid - YouTube
• Even Valve is Disappointed - Steam Machine Review - YouTube
• The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles | Push Square
• The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed
• Here's What The Steam Machine Might Have Cost If Not For AI
• The Great North Tip
• Live Like a Pirate

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• Cherry, Cherry By: Right Said Fred

SpaceX went public, raised more money than any IPO in history, and then traded like there were barely any shares to buy. Today we sort out the hype, the float, the Cursor deal, and what this actually says about the future of space and AI.

• SpaceX tops Amazon in market value as investors buy in
• Technical factors are adding fuel to SpaceX's meme stock fire
• SpaceX Unlock schedule
• SpaceX Agrees to $60 Billion Cursor Takeover Post-IPO - YouTube
• SpaceX’s $60 Billion Deal to Buy Cursor Gives It More AI Coding Power
• Cursor on X: "We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon." / X
• Infuse - Video Player for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Vision Pro
• For the Homeschoolers Out There
• The Basket
• Clanker Therapy Highlight - YouTube
• Clanker Therapy Full Member Recording

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• Against All Love • FM Rodeo