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.
Snap’s Specs Are AR Glasses Without the Puck - DTNS 5291
Commodore has a new digital detox flip phone called the Callback 8020 that has strict limits on what it can and can't do, and Microsoft unveiled new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro devices with Snapdragon X2 processors and steep price increases.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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Is Dario about to become Dari-out? - DTNS 5290
Justin Robert Young helps us understand Anthropic’s latest fight with the government, plus why Fox is buying Roku and the UK is banning social media for kids.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, and Justin Robert Young
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Why Siri AI is Delayed in the EU - DTNS WEEKEND
Patrick Beja joins us from France to discuss the dispute between the EU and Apple over releasing Siri AI there.
Have your say: here's why Siri AI isn't coming to EU iPhones and iPads — and why users are totally split on the issue
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/have-your-say-heres-why-siri-ai-isnt-coming-to-eu-iphones-and-ipads-and-why-users-are-totally-split-on-the-issue
Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27Â
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/
Thomas Regnier post on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas-regnier-24a05810b_wha...
SpaceX IPO is All Systems Go - DTNS 5289
Nothing brand smartphones and headphones will soon be available in Best Buy stores and online for the first time, and a software update to Amazon's delivery vans is turning off the air conditioning for drivers after 30 seconds as the summer heats up.
Starring Jason Howell and Sarah Lane.
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Microsoft Gets Honest About Xbox - DTNS 5288
Xbox is about to get serious about winning. And YouTube adds messaging in a good way.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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Microsoft Breaks a Patch Tuesday Record - DTNS 5287
Is AI or “Nightmare Eclipse” the cause of the huge patch drop? Plus an $80 foldable mouse you’ll love.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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Anthropic Releases Mythos-Class Model to the Public - DTNS 5286
Apple isn't using nearly as much Gemini in its models as you might have thought, and OpenAI filed for its IPO while Perplexity targets 2028 for its public offering.Â
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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Apple's New Take on Intelligence - WWDC 2026 - DTNS 5285
Tom, Sarah, Robb, and Nica Montford from SnobOS break down what just happened at WWDC.
Starring Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Sarah Lane, and Nica Montford
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Do People Hate Tech Now? - DTNS Live
Iyaz Akhtar joins the Friday hangout to talk about decades of covering tech and what lies in the future.
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How Does Gurman Get All Those WWDC Leaks? - DTNS 5284
Full details from Apple's WWDC next Monday are leaked and we wonder why this always happens, and Dr. Niki tells us how we might someday regrow our teeth.
Starring Jason Howell, Jenn Cutter, and Dr. Niki Ackermans.
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Google Brings a Powerful Multimodal LLM to Your Laptop - DTNS 5283
We also talk about Nintendo’s replaceable battery in Europe, some hope for energy storage, and an explanation of Apple's smart glasses strategy as well.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter
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Microsoft’s new Android for AI Agents - DTNS 5282
Microsoft shows off its plans for an agentic OS, while the Supernatural VR app gets a new more expensive lease on life.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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Microsoft Announces Its Most Powerful Surface at Build 2026 - DTNS 5281
Microsoft brings its new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to the stage at its Build developer conference, and Anthropic is expanding access to Claude Mythos to about 150 more organizations worldwide.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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NVIDIA Comes for Windows PCs - DTNS 5280
NVIDIA puts out a CPU meant for Windows machines, while Dell joins the laptops gunning for the MacBook Neo. And its chips, chips, chips as Computex kicks off.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.
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DTNS May 2026 in Review
Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of May
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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Acer Aspire Go 15 Tries To Compete With the MacBook Neo - DTNS 5279
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 bringing Dynamic Workflows to Claude Code and Effort settings to everyone else, and Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at launch marking a huge setback for Jeff Bezos' internet satellite plans.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao
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Meta Risks Subscription Fatigue With New Plans - DTNS 5278
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has a solid idea of what the new Siri features will look like in iOS 27, and Intel announced its Arc G-series chips for handheld gaming.
Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, Tom Merritt and Dr. Niki
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AR Glasses Go Budget - DTNS 5277
Xreal’s questionably named X by Xreal glasses play to your pocketbook. Meanwhile DuckDuckGo gets a boat from backlash against Google’s AI mode.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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How AI Is Actually Impacting the Job Market - DTNS 5276
Reviews of the Google FitBit Air are out, and it’s a stylish and inexpensive alternative to the Whoop, and Ferrari unveiled its first fully electric luxury car, designed in part by Jony Ive, called The Luce.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt
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Vibe Coding the News - DTNS Weekend
Bodie Grimm from the Kilowatt podcast talks about vibe coding news sources.
Featuring Tom Merritt and Bodie Grimm.
Link: Why Work is Starting to Look Medieval by Sierra LaDuke
A note from Bodie:
I remixed my project so people can play around with it without affecting my original version: https://kilowatt-curator-clone.lovable.app
I also figured out how to let others Remix a project on Lovable.Â
Sign up for a Lovable account and log in. Go to the following link: https://lovable.dev/projects/20673798-2...The End of Destiny 2 is Nigh, Sort Of - DTNS 5275
Meta launched the Forum app for iOS that acts as a dedicated app for Facebook Groups that behaves a lot like Reddit, and smart ring company Oura has filed paperwork to prepare for an IPO.
Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.
Show notes found here.
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A Network Multitool For Hackers - DTNS 5274
Yes, SpaceX has filed its IPO, and NVIDIA had amazing earnings too. But we also have cheap LiDAR that can see around corners.
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn CutterÂ
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Do You Want the Right to Mod Your TV? - DTNS 5273
An 8-year-battle to open up Linux-based TV operating systems finally gets a court date. Plus, Stability can now generate 6 minutes of pro music at a go.Â
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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Google I/O in the Foothills of the Singularity - DTNS 5272
Jason Howell joins us from Google I/O on all their Gemini dreams. Plus, Microsoft has a Linux Distro!
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Jason Howell.
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The Viture Beast Looks Like Real Glasses, Mostly - DTNS 5271
Apple’s Siri revamp might launch with an auto-delete control that puts conversation history in the hands of users, and Microsoft is retiring the Teams Together mode view after first launching in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown.
Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.
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Should You Oppose Your Local Data Center? - DTNS WEEKEND
Tom Merritt digs into what's driving the opposition to data centers in the US, and what you need to know to make your own decision about them.
Featuring Tom Merritt.
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The Year of the Smart Glasses Is Looking Like a Flop - DTNS 5270
Meta opens up its display glasses to third parties and Xreal now sells gaming-oriented specs but is it too late? Also, Huyen teaches us how to turn off Instagram “Instants.”
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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Motorola Razr Fold is a Noble Competitor to the Galaxy Z Fold 7 - DTNS 5269
 Insta360 is bringing serious nostalgic vibes with a special edition Go 3S Retro Bundle that is cheaper than the previous model, and the Big 3 US carriers are banding together to improve satellite connectivity throughout the country.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao
Show notes found here.
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Amazon Beefs Up Voice-Assisted Shopping - DTNS 5268
Amazon renames its shopping assistant to Alexa and adds new features. Plus two brothers who wiped out 90 US government databases after being fired.Â
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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Android Intelligence Comes to the Googlebook - DTNS 5267
Instructure reached an agreement to pay attackers of its Canvas portal so students can get back to work, and Thinking Machines announced a research preview of a more natural conversation flow called Interaction Models.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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Why Reddit Is Angering Logged Out Users - DTNS 5266
Reddit is testing annoying users with an unskippable pop-up. Meanwhile, Google researchers find an LLM-generated bug and warn that there are more to come.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood
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Switch 2 Prices Rise, Forecast Drops - DTNS 5265
And thousands of schools facing ransomware as finals loom, but Airpods might get Siri’s Visual Intelligence.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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Spotify Embraces AI - DTNS 5264
Andy Beach tells us why streaming platforms should be more wary of slop fraud, plus Google’s new fitness tracker erodes the Fitbit brand more, and why Anthropic bought all of SpaceX’s data center capacity.Â
Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.
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Love for eReaders, Hate for Browsers - DTNS 5263
Why everyone loves the new ReMarkable Paper Pure, and why both Chrome and Edge browsers are misbehaving.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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Bose Lifestyle Takes a Shot At Sonos - DTNS 5262
Apple is reportedly checking out Intel and Samsung as alternate sources for its main device chips, and OpenAI is working really hard to bring a smartphone to market as soon as 2027.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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GameStop Bids $56B to Buy eBay - DTNS 5261
Ask.com shuts down after 25 years of answering the world’s questions, and how might the growth of “podslop” could impact the podcast industry in the next year.
Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.
Show notes can be found here.
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DTNS April 2026 in Review
Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of April.Â
Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.
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Apple Sold a Ton of iPhone 17s and Mac Minis - DTNS 5260
Google is rolling out Gemini to Google built-in as a replacement to Assistant, and Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum can now be enjoyed on new portable handhelds designed to look like the classic computers.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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Why OpenAI Has Literally Been Fighting Goblins - DTNS 5259
OK, not LITERAL goblins, but it’s an interesting gremlin that helps us understand model training. Plus, Sony says don’t worry about the PlayStation DRM, but doesn’t give details, therefore skipping the be happy part.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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Sony’s 30-Day DRM Clock Reappears - DTNS 5258
Did Sony mean to put DRM back on offline games? And what DIDN’T Elon Musk say on the witness stand Tuesday.Â
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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