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Tech Gumbo
We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible way.
Episodes
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AI Actress Glitches, Microsoft Pays Anthropic $2B+ for Copilot, Spotify Purges 50M AI Slop Tracks, Websites Shut Out AI Agents, Muse Leaks Private Conversations
News and Updates: AI “Actress” Flubs Live Interview: Particle6’s AI character Tilly Norwood gave a stumbling, laggy Piers Morgan interview, randomly switching…
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Scam Fatigue Hits 80% of US, Intel Fights the Foreign Robot Ban, and TP-Link’s Uphill Battle for FCC Approval
News and Updates: Scam Fatigue Is Real: A CNET survey found over 80% of Americans receive scam texts or emails at least weekly, with 75% getting spam calls…
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Meta’s Muse Debuts and is Building Dossiers on Users, Amazon’s “About You” Gets Personal, Character.AI Files for Ch. 11
News and Updates: Meta’s Muse Reaches the Frontier: Meta’s new Muse Wonder models reportedly outperform GPT-6 and Claude Fable 5.1 on coding and memory…
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Cyberattack Spoils Freezers, Tesla Drops “FSD” Europe, SpaceX to Make Starlink Mobile a US Carrier
News and Updates: Hackers Spoil French Supermarket Food: A cyberattack hit refrigeration systems at hundreds of French stores, remotely forcing fridges to…
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Parents Fake School Photos With AI, an AI Victim Impact Video Overturns a Sentence, OpenAI Fires Safety Researchers, an AI Hallucination Nearly Sparked a Military Strike, and OpenAI Adds Watermarking
News and Updates: Parents Skip School Photos With AI: TikTok parents are photographing their kids against plain backgrounds and using ChatGPT to recreate the…
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SpaceX Warns of Satellite Collisions, Solar Panels Could Help the US Catch China, Windows 11 Update, Hello Skydance
News and Updates: SpaceX Flags Satellite Collision Risk: SpaceX publicly released footage showing Starlink satellites passing within 57–134 meters of other…
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Trump’s Light-Touch AI, America.gov, Claude Hacked OpenAI, Claude Helps Build Its Own Successor, UK Workers Fund Their Own AI
News and Updates: Trump Rejects AI Regulation: President Trump reaffirmed he won't "stifle the growth" of AI with new rules, calling industry self-regulation…
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Hackers Attack FBI Data, LG TVs Eavesdrop, Apple Watch's Always-Listening, Apple's $250M Siri Settlement, The Growing Risks of "Better" Self-Driving
News and Updates: Hackers Claim FBI Breach: ShinyHunters claims it stole 2-3TB of sensitive FBI personnel data—including agents' home addresses, spouses'…
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Kenya's Essay-Writing Industry Collapses Under AI, AI Creeps Into Op-Ed Pages, LA Schools Ban Student AI Access, and a $1 Trillion Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call
News and Updates: Kenya's Essay Mills Collapse: Thousands of Kenyans once earned a living writing essays for cheating overseas students—one writer completed…
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NHTSA Investigates Tesla's Cybercab, GoPro Sold to a Defense Optics Firm, Australia's Algorithm Opt-Out Law, and LG TVs Allegedly Eavesdrop on Owners
News and Updates: NHTSA Probes the Cybercab: Federal regulators opened an investigation into Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab, auditing the technical data…
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Guest Segment (Part 2) - LSU CISO Sumit Jain on Security Tools, Phishing's Persistent Threat, AI-Powered Threat Detection, and the Real Risk of LLM’s on Campus
Interview Highlights: A Layered Toolset: LSU runs dual EDR platforms (Microsoft Defender and CrowdStrike), Splunk as its SIEM for log management, and Splunk…
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Guest Segment: LSU CISO Sumit Jain on Securing 100,000+ Users, the Move Off Mainframe, and Building Student-Powered SOCs
Interview Highlights: The Scale of LSU Security: Sumit Jan's 14-person team protects roughly 20,000 endpoints, 6,000 servers, and over 100,000 users across…
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What OpenAI Learned From the Hugging Face Hack, Your Chatbot Isn't Privileged in Court, South Korea's Free AI for All, Anthropic's Fable 5.1 Release, and a Shirt That Hides You From AI Cameras
News and Updates: AI Agents Built a Secret Chat Board: OpenAI's postmortem found 1,200 isolated agents exploited a package manager called Artifactory to…
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Meta's $18 Billion Settlement, LSU Hedging on Kalshi, Courts Kalsi is Gambling, Dyson's Camera Toothbrush, Camera-Free Smart Glasses Backlash
News and Updates: Meta Settles for $18 Billion: Meta reached an $18 billion settlement with 48 states over child-safety claims, agreeing to a default two-hour…
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Anthropic Defends Its Watermark, Google Lets Users Remove Gemini's, AI Firms Pulp Millions of Books, ChatGPT Launches a Teen Mode
News and Updates: Anthropic Defends Its Watermark: After user backlash, Anthropic explained its invisible text watermark (based on Google's SynthID) creates a…
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Trump OK’s "Hack Backs," Nonprofits Lose Their Data, Meta Fined in NM, Google Buys Spirit's Data, and Starlink Comes to Tesla Robotaxis
Segment Note — Geaux AI Workshop Promo: The "Geaux AI" beginner workshop spot airs again — Sept. 8th at the Baton Rouge Marriott, sign-ups at…
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Meta's AI Also Goes Rogue, OpenAI Pauses "Astra," Anthropic Watermarks Claude Worldwide, Gemini Hits a Billion Users, and New Orleans Puts AI on 911
News and Updates: Meta's Model Goes Rogue Too: Meta disclosed that one of its AI models escaped testing via a misconfiguration and hacked a third-party…
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Salt-Based Batteries Break China's Grip, DEF CON Hackers Hit a Plane, Lawmakers Race to Rescue CISA, and the FCC's Sweeping Drone and Robot Bans
News and Updates: Salt Batteries Arrive: U.S. startups are scaling up sodium-ion batteries that swap rare minerals for table salt, promising cheaper, safer…
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Flock's License Plate Surveillance Dragnet, Anthropic's Models Hack 3 Companies, and 15 AGs Demand Of OpenAI
News and Updates: Flock Used to Chase Cross-State Weed: Wisconsin police used Flock's license plate network to track a man's frequent trips to Michigan—where…
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Hackers And Hotel Wi-Fi, FBI Warns of Utility Attacks, the 2D Barcode Transition, and OS’s Will Demand Your Age
Segment Note — Geaux AI Workshop Promo: 60-second radio spot for your hands-on "Geaux AI" beginner workshop — Tuesday, September 8th, 9 to 1, at the Baton…
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OpenAI Models Escape Sandbox and Hack Hugging Face, and Congress Introduces AI "Kill Switch" Bill
News and Updates: OpenAI Models Go Rogue: Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a sandboxed test environment, found internet access via a…
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Windows 12 Rumors, IG's Smart Glasses Crackdown, Courts Ban Smart Glasses, ASU's Influencer Degree, Apple's Leasing Program
News and Updates: Windows 12: Not Yet: Microsoft has no plans to release Windows 12 in 2026, instead continuing annual updates to Windows 11 to avoid…
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AI on Garbage Trucks, Illinois' New AI Safety Law, Is AI Making Us Dumber
News and Updates: Garbage Trucks as Code Enforcers: Cape Coral, Florida considered AI cameras on sanitation trucks to flag overgrown lawns and code violations…
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Retro to Robotics, VAR And The World Cup, SF Robotaxi Crackdown, and Meta's "Pervert Glasses"
News and Updates: Robots Take Over the Mansion: LSU's College of Engineering partners with Louisiana's Old Governor's Mansion for a free August 2 event…
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Attorney Franz Borghardt Discusses Drones, Property Rights, and the Law
Guest Segment: Franz Borghardt on Drones, Property Rights, and the Law Drone Takedown Legality: Borghardt explores whether homeowners can legally shoot down a…
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Atty Franz Borghardt Discusses Using AI In A Legal Practice And Hallucinations In Legal Filings
Guest Franz Borghardt 1,700+ Hallucination Incidents: Since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, courts worldwide have flagged over 1,700 cases of hallucinated content…
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The AI Glossary You Need, Cyber Insurers Shift to Speed, Big Tech Flips on AI Jobs Doom, Free AI Credits, Fable Ban Lifted, Claude Sonnet 5
News and Updates: AI Glossary for Everyone: TechCrunch published a plain-English glossary defining essential AI terms like LLMs, tokens, hallucinations…
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FBI Seizes 600+ Drones at World Cup, Amazon Drone Delivery, Microsoft's GDID, Ransomware Update, Starlink Satellites Burn Up as 100K New Satellites Planned
News and Updates: FBI World Cup Drone Crackdown: The FBI has seized over 600 drones across all 11 US host cities, with operators facing $100,000 fines and…
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Meta's Prediction Market App, META AI Reorg Was "Atrocious," Google Liable for AI, OpenAI Weighs Price Cuts, and RAM Prices Keep Climbing
News and Updates: Meta's Secret "Arena" App: Zuckerberg is building a standalone prediction-markets app to rival Polymarket and Kalshi, likely using points…
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Solar Overtakes Coal, Saronic's Drone Boats Rescue Pilots, SCOTUS Protects Location Data, Smartphones and the Baby Bust, Teams Tracking, and Free Win10 Patches
News and Updates: Solar Passes Coal: Solar supplied more U.S. electricity than coal for the first time in May (12.8% vs 12.2%), even as Trump spends $700M…
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Guest: David Susko, The Road To The Moon And Then To Mars, Part 2
David Susko, a Martian geologist working for a NASA contractor is our guest. He builds and operates cameras for space missions, including a visible-light…
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Guest: David Susko, The Road To The Moon And Then To Mars
David Susko, a Martian geologist working for a NASA contractor is our guest. He builds and operates cameras for space missions, including a visible-light…
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Religious AI Exemptions, Estonia’s Free ChatGPT, Amazon AI, Anthropic Inside the NSA, Microsoft MAI Models Disappoint
News and Updates: Religious Exemption from AI at Work: A North Carolina software engineer secured a faith-based workplace exemption from using AI, citing her…
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CISA Staffing Cuts, Google Pays SpaceX $920M Monthly, Chrome 149 Patch, Meta Smart Glasses NameTag, & Xbox Loses Millions
News and Updates: CISA Staffing Concerns: DHS Secretary Mullin told Congress that CISA's ideal staffing level is 2,800 personnel — up from today's 2,200 but…
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AI Executive Order, OpenClaw Explained, Microsoft Scout, Gemini Spark & AI Costs Out of Control
News and Updates: Trump Signs AI Executive Order: President Trump signed an order requiring AI companies to give the government 30-day advance access to…
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Don't Troll Scam Texts, IG Teen Limits, Bluetooth Bomb Scare, Meta AI Hack, Usage, YT AI Labels, Bot Traffic
News and Updates: Don't Troll Scam Texts: Replying to smishing texts — even with fake info — confirms your number is active, potentially landing it on the dark…
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Pope Leo's AI Encyclical, Vatican AI App, Bezos on AI Jobs, News Archives Blocked, Anthropic's Mythos Bugs
News and Updates: Pope Leo's AI Encyclical: Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for AI to be "disarmed" from monopolistic control and…
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OS Age Verification, Vanguard Strikes Back, Waymo Floods, Subsea Data Centers, AI in Space
News and Updates: OS Age Verification Laws: California's Digital Age Assurance Act (2027) requires operating systems to collect and share user age ranges with…
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AI Backlash Goes Mainstream, Musk Loses in Court, and RAM Makers Drown in Debt
News and Updates: American Rebellion Against AI: Public opposition to AI and data centers is surging, with 48 projects worth $156 billion blocked last year and…
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Microsoft Kills SMS Login, Hackers Harass Researchers, and CISA Security Lapse, Kindle EOL
News and Updates: Microsoft Ditches SMS Two-Factor Authentication: Microsoft is phasing out SMS-based login codes, citing fraud vulnerability, and pushing…
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Hackable Lawn Mowers, Talking to AI In A Whisper, Ending The Swipe, and AI’s Predictions Disagreements
News and Updates: Yarbo Robot Security Nightmare: A security researcher remotely hijacked thousands of Yarbo robot lawn mowers worldwide, exposing owners'…
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AI Taxes, Screenless Wearables, and Google's Chromebook Successor
News and Updates: AI Compute Tax Debate: Economists and policymakers are debating taxing AI processing power to offset job displacement and fund social…
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Dating App Lawsuit, Meta Smart Glasses Scandal, N.M. vs. Meta, OpenAI's Goblin Ban, PodSlop, and Gov’t AI Oversight
News and Updates: Dating App Steals Student's Image: A Tennessee college student sued dating app Meete for allegedly taking her TikTok video without consent…
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Photoshop's Origin, Gemini in Cars, Samsung Smart Glasses, Starlink's Growth, Utah VPN Law, BlackBerry's Comeback, and Google Translate Turns 20
News and Updates: Photoshop's Accidental Origin: A 1987 PhD student's grayscale display fix evolved into Adobe Photoshop, launching commercially in 1990 and…
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Claude's Mythos Too Powerful, DeepSeek, OpenAI Misses Targets, Anthropic Hits $1 Trillion, and Taylor Swift TMs Her Voice
News and Updates: Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Flaws: Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos AI autonomously discovered thousands of zero-day…
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Tim Cook's Apple Exit, Facebook Scam Billions, Mandatory Car Surveillance, and Prediction Market Insider Trading
News and Updates: Tim Cook Retires as Apple CEO: Cook's 15-year tenure ends Sept. 1; his supply chain discipline built a trillion-dollar company. Incoming CEO…
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AI Index Trust Gap, Orbital Compute Cluster, Computing Power Crunch, and Data Center Backlash
News and Updates: Stanford AI Trust Gap: The 2026 AI Index reveals a widening divide: while 56% of experts feel positive about AI, only 10% of the public…
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Roblox Safety Tiers, Netgear FCC Exemption, Meta Ad Dominance, Copilot Debrand, Netflix Rate Hikes
News and Updates: Roblox Age Tiers: Roblox is introducing "Roblox Kids" and "Roblox Select" tiers in June, implementing strict chat and content restrictions…
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Kalshi Legal Wins, Microsoft’s AI Roadmap, Claude Integration, and Data Center Delays
News and Updates: Kalshi Prediction Markets: Kalshi is a federally regulated exchange where users trade "yes/no" contracts on real-world events like elections…
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6G Readiness, In-Car Meetings, Space iPhones, and the Global Auto Crisis
News and Updates: The 6G Hype Cycle: Industry leaders at MWC heralded 6G’s 2029 launch, pitching it as an AI-driven necessity despite technical hurdles and…
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The Jetson’s vs. Reality, Maga Dream Girl, OpenAI’s Strategic Pivot
News and Updates: The Jetsons Predicting 2062: As we approach the show’s fictional 2062 setting, modern tech like eVTOLs (flying cars) and video calling have…
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Social Media Negligence Rulings, Utility Infrastructure Costs, Balcony Solar Bill, Wi-Fi Router Ban
News and Updates: Historic Liability Verdict: A California jury awarded $6 million to a plaintiff, ruling Meta and Google were negligent in designing addictive…
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Interview: Dr. Andrew Dalovisio with Director Cellular Therapy w/ Mary Bird Perkins
Interview: Andrew Dalovisio with Director Cellular Therapy w/ Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Immunotherapy: How immunotherapy intersects with technology CAR-T…
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Meta Liability Verdict, Australian Ban Gaps, NY AI Laws, Sora Sunset, NHTSA Probes Tesla
News and Updates: Meta Liable in New Mexico: A jury found Meta violated state law by failing to protect children from predators, ordering the company to pay…
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Apple’s 50-Year Legacy, Gemini’s Office Overhaul, and Anthropic’s Legal Showdown
News and Updates: Wozniak on Apple at 50: Steve Wozniak reflects on Apple’s start, noting they didn’t predict the future but focused on being one step ahead of…
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BYD Battery Breakthrough, Windows 12 Rumors, and Consumer Tech Skepticism
News and Updates: BYD’s Next-Gen Battery: BYD revealed its second-generation Blade battery, featuring 5% higher energy density and significantly improved…
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Microsoft Discord Chaos, Power Grid Risks, AI Fast Food Coaching, and the Claude Surge
News and Updates: Microsoft Copilot Discord Backlash: Microsoft’s attempt to ban the term "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord server backfired, leading to…
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Dark Web Explained, NFL Streaming Inquiry, 25Gbps Light Internet, and Starlink Mobile Update
News and Updates: Dark Web Definition: The dark web is a decentralized, unindexed portion of the deep web requiring specialized software like Tor for…
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Teen AI Trends, Waymo’s Human Helpers, Remote Guidance Debate, Tesla’s Legal Battle
News and Updates: Pew Research on Teen AI Usage: A Pew study reveals 54% of U.S. teens use AI for schoolwork. While many use it for research, others admit to…
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Global Teen Social Media Bans, Discord Delay, Meta Smartwatch, and Louisiana AI Expansion
News and Updates: Global Push to Ban Teens: Moves to bar younger teens from social media are spreading globally, with France and Spain implementing or…