Apple finally steps into the smart home display race with HomeView, shakes up its HomeKit lineup, and partners with major brands for "second-party" devices. Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard break down what these big changes mean for everyday users and power tinkerers alike.

• Apple debuts major Home app updates in iOS 27
• HomeKit Secure Video gets AI-powered descriptions, smarter notifications, and search
• New HomeKit features: Thread, Matter support, energy monitoring, 4K streaming
• Apple reveals HomeView: smart display for the home with speaker or wall-mount options
• HomeView's features, FaceTime, and multi-user support
• Apple TV 4K updated with better Siri AI, microphones, and Find My remote
• Four-speaker HomePod/HomePod mini surround sound with latest Apple TV
• HomePod mini 2 announced: new sounds, color-matched features, and Siri AI caveats
• Apple's "second-party" Home accessories line launches with LG, Schneider Electric
• Overview of new cameras, video doorbell, floodlight, thermostat, and smart lock
• Matter support in Apple Home devices: features, pitfalls, and real-world advice
• Shortcuts Corner: Advanced HomeKit automations, weather integration, and triggers
• App Caps: HomePass for HomeKit and Signals for HomeKit automate and simplify smart homes

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance.

• Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
• Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25%
• Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights)
• "Introducing Muse Spark Open,
• The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date"
• Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40
• What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks?
• First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode
• AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk
• The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
• German Court Rules Google Earth is 'Spying' on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes
• Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
• Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy
• Anthropic S-1
• Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid
• ** Bill Gross's AI Tool Could Supercharge the Number of Startups
• Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
• New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
• Craig Newmark AMA
• A new SubwayTakes star rises: Debbie
• How SubwayTakes's First Spinoff Star Outwitted Conan
• Some final words on Foursquare.
• Squad

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On this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah answers a question from Otis, who relies on the 6-digit text-message codes his bank sends at sign-in but has started to worry about SIM swap attacks, and wants to know whether those codes are still worth anything and whether he can lock down his number at the carrier.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

• Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections
• Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach
• Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers
• Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
• Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
• Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud
• Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment
• Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
• Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
• Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!
• OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"
• AI Spenders Get Spooked
• Musk says Grok bot's costs were 'unsustainably high' weeks after touting rapid growth
• He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too
• The best coffee is back at PERC
• Padre's Cofeemaker
• Cupertino

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
• Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
• Muse Wonder
• OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math
• GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
• Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers
• Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
• Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
• Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'
• Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
• REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent
• Cupertino
• Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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From the earliest works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to the best of contemporary space science fiction, Tariq and I dive deep into our favorite space si-fi across the ages! And our challenge to you for some of the most obscure titles we know.

Headlines:

• Remembering Apollo Era Legends Margaret Hamilton and Milt Windler
• Soviet Meteor 27 Satellite Breaks Up, Raising Space Debris Concerns
• Elon Musk Receives National Science Award Amid NASA Science Cuts

Main Topic: Space Science Fiction Books and Media

• Influential Childhood Sci-Fi Classics and Lesser-Known Gems
• H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and the Enduring Power of Classic Novels
• Comic Books as Gateway to Space Narratives, from Star Trek to Modern Series
• Golden Age Science Fiction: Venus Sagas, Heinlein, and Asimov
• Modern Standouts: The Expanse, Jack McDevitt, Martha Wells, and Ann Leckie
• Women in Sci-Fi: Hidden Voices and Impactful Authors
• Sci-Fi Landmarks: War of the Worlds' Grover's Mill Monument and Other Cultural Footprints

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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Amanda Silberling joins Mikah Sargent on this week's episode of Tech News Weekly! Common Sense Media labels ChatGPT for Teens as an "unacceptable risk." AI agents from companies such as Meta and OpenAI are "cute washing" to make them feel friendlier. A federal judge ruled a Flock license plate search unconstitutional. And organs-on-chips, simulations, and AI models are starting to replace animal testing.

• Amanda talks about Common Sense Media's labeling of ChatGPT for Teens as an "unacceptable risk", as its friend-like design, engagement incentives, and rarely appearing "take a break" prompts can keep teens talking to a chatbot instead of a trusted adult.
• Mikah shares an article from Fast Company's Grace Snelling, who coined the term "cute washing" for how SpaceX AI's Grokbot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dot all use big eyes and soft shapes to make autonomous AI agents feel friendly.
• Jason Koebler of 404 Media joins the show to discuss the first federal ruling to call an automated license plate reader search unconstitutional, and explains how Flock's network of more than 100,000 cameras feeds federal programs like HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area).
• And Mikah explains how organs-on-chips, computer simulations, and AI models are beginning to replace animal testing as regulators like the FDA shift their rules, as noted by IEEE Spectrum's Brandon Kim.

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Guest: Jason Koebler

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What's actually inside an AI model? Mikah Sargent opens up the file from last week's episode and finds tokens, billions of numbers, and one surprisingly simple job: guess the next piece of text. Along the way, he shows why the same question can get a different answer every time, where all those numbers came from, and why a chatbot can sound completely sure of itself and still be wrong.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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