Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The First Third-Party App Store Arrives on Google Play - DTNS 5328
Google finally opens back up to a game store, meanwhile a vulnerability in UK military drones may not be as bad as it seems.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood
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DTNS Weekend - The Science Behind the App That Beats Jet Lag
Dr. Niki helps us understand how TimeShifter can actually reduce your jet lag with solid science.
Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr. Nicole Ackermans.
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OpenAI is Planning a Smart Doughnut - DTNS 5327
But will it have a hole? Also, Google open sources the solution to hurricane preparedness.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
Show notes can be found here.
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Bose Releases Lighter QuietComfort Headphones That Bring Features from Ultra - DTNS 5326
It’s the first new Bose QuietComfort headphones in three years. Plus, Dolby Vision 2 comes to HiSense, a Samsung soundbar that doesn’t need a subwoofer, and smart glasses displays that don’t need prescription inserts.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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More Agents Go Rogue, and It’s a Good Thing - DTNS 5325
Also, Sunbird is back for iMessage on Android and Disney+ wants TikTok users to post there.
Starring Tom Merritt, and Sarah Lane
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Project Helix Might Support the Full History of Xbox Games - DTNS 5324
Microsoft released details of a Hotel Wi-Fi attack capable of breaching 365 accounts, and OpenAI shares a collection of screenshots and emails to defend itself against Apple's trade secret lawsuit against it.
Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Dr. Niki.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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Apple Continues to Fight for Encryption in the UK - DTNS 5323
A court order indicates Apple continues to fight. Plus, new Googlebook laptops coming from Lenovo and expensive gaming laptops from Razer.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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DTNS July 2026 in Review
Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of July
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
Links to storied discussed in this episode can be found here.
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Anthropic's Agents Escaped Their Sandbox Too... Sort Of - DTNS 5322
Sony says its reserved enough memory for all those PS5s it plans to sell this year with the release of GTA 6, and CipherX sells a mail-order permanent tattoo technology that's pain free and pretty cheap.
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter
Show notes found here.
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Amazon Zoox Just Cleared an Important Federal Bar for AVs - DTNS 5321
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4B is out but you might have a hard time getting it in the US, and Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 aims to be the Android OS for physical AI and humanoid robots.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
Show notes found here.
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DoorDash Delivery Drones Are Coming With A Hot Pizza - DTNS 5320
Google is shutting down the DeepMind AlphaFold team and moving researchers into Gemini and Isomorphic Labs, and Hugging Face is one of four entities impacted by OpenAI's agentic cyberattack.
Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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Will You Lease Your Next iPhone With Apple Upgrade? - DTNS 5319
Motorola's new Android app called Indigenous Collections is all about the preservation of indigenous language and culture, and Model Context Protocol got its biggest update to date to make AI agents in the enterprise more practical at scale.
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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Claude Chats Leak Out onto the Internet - DTNS 5318
But it’s a weird search index quirk that’s causing it. Plus, a bellwether case about data rights at the US border.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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Bans on Smart Glasses Mean Smart Glasses are HERE TO STAY - DTNS 5317
When you have to have a ComicCon policy for something, it’s mainstream. And everyone but OpenAI and Anthropic signs an open letter supporting open weight models.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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Google Unlocks The Power of the Selfie - DTNS 5316
Amazon Hopes that adding games will make Prime Video more sticky
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
Show notes can be found here.
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How OpenAI Broke Containment and Hacked Hugging Face - DTNS 5315
You’d think they’d be mad, but Hugging Face has nothing but praise for OpenAI. Plus, Robb Dunewood joins us to break down the new Samsung Galaxy Foldables.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Robb Dunewood.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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How Garmin's Cirqa Smart Band Compares to Other Fitness Bands - DTNS 5314
Samsung has a new credit card that goes toe to toe to the Apple Card, and xMEMS announced a new fan-on-a-chip that's designed to keep heat down on smartglasses and XR headsets.
Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.
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How Should the US respond to China’s Latest AI Success - DTNS 5313
Kimi is the second coming of Deep Seek, and Hugging Face thinks the US needs to change how ti thinks about AI safety.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
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Honda is Getting Out of the EV Market in the US - DTNS 5312
Kimi K3 is a new frontier-level open-weights model from Moonshot AI out of China that gives properietary models a run for their money, and robotics research has now given us the ability to get dressed without having to use our hands and it's... kinda wierd.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
Show notes found here.
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Suno Hacks Suggest How Deep Its Music Scraping Went - DTNS 5311
Vital Signals introduced a $399 smart ring that is meant to replace Blood Pressure Cuffs without a subscription fee attached, and 1Password says it is letting Claude tap into its password vault and 2-factor codes safely.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao
Show notes found here.
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Samsung’s Foldable Display Tech Fixes the Crease (Mostly) - DTNS 5310
OpenAI's new Codex Micro keyboard is a $230 niche control center for ChatGPT agents, and Bloomberg says OnePlus is days away from announcing its exit from the US market.
Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.
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Demis Hassabis Has a Watchdog Framework - DTNS 5309
Microsoft announced its finally removing promotional noise from the Windows 11 Search Box, and New York has become the first US state to place a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers.
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
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Apple Sues OpenAI For Alleged Trade Secret Theft - DTNS 5308
More than 200 economists and tech leaders signed a “We Must Act Now” letter encouraging policymakers to understand and address the AI moment, and the European Union is planning a ban of children under 13 from using social media with staged access as they get older.
Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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JRPG: Gateway Games - DTNS 5308 Experiment Week
What games made them lifelong gamers? Jenn Cutter and Roger Chang revisit the six titles that started it all, from Roger's 8-bit classics King's Quest and Star Trek to Jenn's Mario adventures on the NES and SNES.
Starring Jenn Cutter and Roger Chang.
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Producing Podcast Problems - DTNS 5307 Experiment Week
Hammond and Amos walk through some of the common problems they face producing daily news podcasts, relate tales of woe, and share some advice for those wanting to create their own content.
Starring Anthony Lemos, Hammond Chamberlain
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TechTV Scrapbook: Scott Herriott – DTNS 5306 Experiment Week
Roger catches up with Scott Herriott, former host of ZDTV/TechTV’s Internet Tonight, for a nostalgic trip behind the scenes of early days at the cable network. Scott talks about how the show was built from scratch, the real reason Michaela Pereira wasn't co-hosting from day one, and the one infamous website from the dot-com era that is still permanently burned into his brain.
Follow Scott at Squatchfilms.com
Starring Scott Herriott and Roger Chang
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Ctrl-Alt-Upcycle - DTNS 5305 Experiment Week
Welcome to Ctrl-Alt-Upcycle, your weekly survival guide for the modern tech economy. Patrick and Roger show you how to beat rising prices by squeezing every drop of value from the gear you already own—and hunting down the absolute best deals when you actually do need a replacement. Stop buying new. Start upcycling.
Starring Patrick Norton and Roger Chang
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Technical Tea - DTNS 5304 Experiment Week
Huyen and Niki talk tech and science. Discussing their favorite news this month and interrogate AI's place in learning.
Starring Dr. Niki Ackermans, Huyen Tue Dao
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AI at a Nuclear Power Plant - DTNS Weekend
Tanner Goodman returns to update us on why, even though he’s still skeptical about general-purpose LLMs, a nuclear power plant may be one of the best places to use them.
Featuring Tom Merritt and Tanner Goodman.
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India Blocks WhatsApp Usernames - DTNS 5302
Is India’s concern about fraud warranted? PLus, Dr. Niki joins us to talk about what she thinks fo Claude Science.
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao and Dr. Niki
Show notes found here.
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Sony Kills the Game Disk - DTNS 5301
Also, Fable 5 is back, but it’ll cost you. And the father of the internet steps down at Google.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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OpenAI's First Hardware is a Codex Accessory by Work Louder - DTNS 5300
Waymo and Uber end their Phoenix pilot collaboration after three years, and TIDAL won't pay any royalties to AI generated music on its platform.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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South Korea Throws Money at Memory - DTNS 5299
Plus, Comcast is splitting itself in two, and Apple targets 9GB of RAM for iPhones.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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DTNS June 2026 in Review
Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of June
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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More price increases but also some DECREASES - DTNS 5298
Microsoft raises prices, but also lowers some, as does Framework and Commodore. We also talk about Android’s new virtual controller for foldable gaming.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.
Show notes found here.
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Apple Raises Prices On Most (But Not All) of Its Hardware - DTNS 5297
Google is about to roll out its external billing changes to the Play Store, and Micron earnings are through the roof as demand for its chips continue to sky rocket.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao
Show notes found here.
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Was the Google Home Speaker Worth the Wait? - DTNS 5296
Rockstar Games revealed the price and release date of its highly anticipated game Grand Theft Auto 6, Meta is reportedly developing its own prediction market app called "Arena."
Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.
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The Steam Box is Here… And It’s Expensive - DTNS 5295
Meta announced new lower cost smart glasses including a collaboration with Kylie Jenner, and University of California is turning old Google Pixel phones into computing clusters for university-scale data center workloads.
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.
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Five Eyes Security Give CISOs a Budget Weapon - DTNS 5294
The west’s big security agencies issue a sincere warning on AI risk acceleration, plus Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants to change the tone on AI.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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A Retro Digital Detox Phone from Commodore - DTNS Weekend
Tom chats with Brian Dunaway from Play Retro about Commodore venturing out from nostalgia computing to nostalgia digital detox phones with the Commodore Callback 8020.
"Commodore - The Future We Were Promised™" https://commodore.net/
"Long-forgotten brand is bringing back the flip phone with no apps — and tech-weary fans are relieved: ‘Take my money’ - AOL" https://www.aol.com/articles/long-forgotten-brand-bringing-back-173550000.html?guccounter=1
"8Bit Computer Club – The once a week meet up where we celebrate the history and future of 8bit Computing." https://8bitcomputer.club/
"Play Retro | Scott Johnson" https://frogpants.com/en-us...
