Brewhaus Podcast, Technology News And Information You Need: Recent Episodes
John Hass
On the Brewhaus we cover technology news, including crypto currency. Sometimes we tell stories about technology.
In this episode of The Brewhaus, we dive into the latest headlines shaping the tech world:
- Apple's Bold Move: We discuss Apple's decision to remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store and what it means for internet privacy in the region.
- Google's Speedy Update: Google is rolling out speedometer and speed limit features for iPhone and CarPlay users worldwide. Find out how this new update could change your driving experience.
- Microsoft's Platform Shift: Why Microsoft is forcing its Chinese employees to switch from Android to Apple devices and what implications this has for the tech giant.
- Free Dark Web Monitoring: Google is making its dark web monitoring service free for all users. Learn how this tool can help protect your personal information.
- Walmart Takes on Prime Day: Get the scoop on Walmart's new sales event designed to rival Amazon Prime Day and what deals you can expect to find.
Join John on this week's Brewhaus Tech Roundup as he dives into the latest tech news:
- Chrome OS Flex Going Away: Discover what led to the decision to phase out Chrome OS Flex and what it means for current users.
- Netflix Phases Out Cheapest Ad-Free Plan: Learn about Netflix's strategy shift as it begins to phase out its most affordable ad-free subscription plan.
- SSH Race Condition Alert: Uncover the details behind the newly discovered SSH race condition vulnerability and its implications for secure communications.
- Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to Pull Plug on FM Radio: Find out why Switzerland is transitioning away from FM radio and what the future holds for Swiss listeners.
- Shameless plug for my new Youtube channel: @JohnHKnows
Description: In this episode, we delve into the latest and most pressing issues in tech, cybersecurity, and global politics. Join us as we explore:
- AI's Expanding Role: The transformative power of artificial intelligence and its impact across education.
- Microsoft Hospital Breach: A deep dive into the recent cybersecurity breach at a major hospital, its implications, and how it highlights the vulnerabilities in our healthcare systems.
- Amazon's Alibaba Move: An analysis of Amazon's strategic initiatives to compete with Alibaba, and what this means for global e-commerce.
- Julian Assange's Freedom: The latest developments in Julian Assange's legal battles and what his potential freedom could mean for journalism and whistleblowers.
- The End of the First Amendment?: A provocative discussion on the current challenges facing freedom of speech and expression, and whether we are witnessing an erosion of First Amendment rights.
This week on the Weekly Tech Roundup, we delve into Microsoft's latest advancements in artificial intelligence and explore how these innovations are shaping the tech landscape. We also review the newly released Zelda game, highlighting its unique features and what sets it apart from previous installments. Lastly, we discuss the recent downfall of another electric car company, analyzing the factors that led to its demise and what this means for the future of electric vehicles. Tune in for insightful discussions and expert opinions on the latest in tech!
Ledger Wallet the very popular Bitcoin/Crypto Wallet has admitted to having access to your private keys. Through some sort of opt-in process Ledger can now send your private keys off to three third parties in "shards" we break down why this is a compromise, and you should no longer trust your keys to Ledger.
Lastpass has finally revealed how they were hacked back in August, and it goes deep very deep.
Hackers breached T-Mobile more then 100 times last year, To help aid other hackers in Sim Swapping.
Nvidia's latest drivers make 1080p look like 4k, and the results are amazing.
Newscorp reveals what data was stolen by hackers in it January 2020 and February 2020 hack.
Volkswagen representative refuses to turn on GPS for a detective looking for an abducted child.
Is the Domino's Pizza tracker real?
It seems as of late Tech Work Layoffs have exploded, I am here to say that might not be all a bad thing.
Section 230
Coinbase Hacked
Subway To Build EV Charging Playgrounds, 'Oasis' For Diners
Biden won't stop ban on importing watches.
Four day work week continues.
One Extra story.
Today we talk about why link shortening services are a bad idea to use in research.
Doom V1.1 Multiple Screens
Paid Blue Checkmark coming to Meta.
VRamFS Use that GPU memory for fast storage.
On this weekly Tech Roundup:
Microsoft Disables Internet Explorer.
Google Flubs AI Release.
Unknown Malware infecting Wordpress sites.
WHO Abandons Covid 19 Origin search.
Ford Halts F-150 Lightning Shipments.
In this Episode we talk about what is CBDC, how the Government could use it, how other governments are using it. We talk about how CBDC could relate to Bitcoin. Lastly we look into why the SEC is cracking down on Kraken, Coinbase and other staking as a service providers.
It has been a bit since I have made a new show, sorry about that! This week we talk about how Microsoft could change with it's investment in Chat GPT. There are some indications the IRS could have been hacked. Hive Ransomware is taken offline, but for how long? Lastly we go over a Pig Butchering scam.
In this slow news week episode, we are going to chat about gaming specifically the setup of games and how it's annoying. The USDA approves a vaccine for bees that supposed to help with Foulbrood, Updates on the iPod restoration project.
While on vacation I saw a tweet from one of my favorite Podcasters in reply to another tweet, the original tweet talked about in solopreneurship you should be able to pivot, change, work hard. The Podcaster I listen to said that you are in a privileged position if you can be wrong. I commented that, this was untrue, and I was shocked by the things that were commented back at me, and I want to make sure everyone out there knows that while being an Entrepreneur is hard it certainly isn't a privilege, and shouldn't be a barrier to achieving your dreams.
In this final episode of 2022 we discuss what's going on with SBF Caroline and the whole gang, and why some people probably took the money and ran.
Elon takes to twitter to vote for changes, but what happens when they vote him out as CEO?
New Version of Hive Ransomware is release.
A few weeks ago I tried out ChatGPT, ChatGPT will replace Google, it will replace the internet, This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my life.
While working on some iPod upgrades I fell into what I call Youtube Hell, Youtube Hell means I started on one thing then end up completely in a different thing, and that happened to be what is all going on with Retro Computing, it's a neat world.
In this special episodes I got over some disturbing twitter posts from someone who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto the creator of Bitcoin, and if he is how easy it would be to prove it.
CEO Alameda Research Spotted getting some Jitter Juice, Neuralink is Bananas, Fosshost is shutting down, Rackspace outage.
Today we are going to talk about my Managed Service Provider Company, some tips and tricks to help you get started, and some pitfalls and things to think about if you ever wanted to start your own MSP.
By now you have all heard of the FTX and Almeda collapse. But do you know all the innerworkings of SBF and Caroline Ellison along with SBF's parents, in this episode we explore what happened and the bankruptcy John J Ray III describes as the worse he has ever seen.
A few years ago I went out looking for a new hobby to get away from the computer life, and I found that I really enjoyed brewing beer, but of course my computer side took over and I fixed it! Today we are going to talk about my obsession with microcontrollers and sensors
In this episode we discuss Google's Manifest v3 for extensions, we talk about the removal of the background script and the deprecation of the webrequest api.
I do love a little nostalgia, and Clerks 3 didn't disappoint, Here is a Clerks 3 Thursday movie review.
I have been in Telephone for most of my working life, and never really liked going to conferences, but when a friend invited me to Cluecon, and sent me a coupon code, I couldn't say no, this is my Review and time of Cluecon 2022
My Rivian R1S was recently delivered and I talk about the things I like and don't like in this Episode.
Paypal was going to start labeling things misinformation, but then they called that Misinformation.
EU To Force Apple to USB-C - Will it change in the USA, let's find out
PS5 jailbroke - But will it play doom?
Microsoft Exchange Active Exploit underway - What is NotProxy and why doesn't Microsoft seem to care
Google Breaks Chrome - And this time it's permanent.
I love a good conspiracy theory, it's probably one of my favorite things, I especially love conspiracy theories that revolve around time travel, Whether you believe in the Butterfly Effect or maybe each time traveler gets their own time line, Or consider the Mandela affect something you remember for certain that just isn't so. A conspiracy theory is just like looking at the tabloid covers in the grocery store checkout, but not picking it up, it, is, the spice of life
NASA crashes into an Asteroid
Interpol issues red notice for TerraForm lab's Do Kwon
Are you guilty of the millennial pause
Intel's Unison APP will allow you to sync txts, pics, and make calls from your PC
Today we talk about the recent strange sounds that are happening on American Airlines flights, multiple of them. We also go over the Max Headroom hack.
Today we are going to talk about the day Malwarebytes blocked all Google and Google related services for over an hour and a half.
The other day I was doing some research and I found a coin that is so obviously a ponzi scam coin I needed to share it here. The coin has over a $160 billion marketcap, it's crazy, I deep dive the coin and talk about it.
In this episode we talk about assigning productivity scores to employees, why it's bad for the employee and why it's bad for business.
It was an honor to sit down with Torrey Proctor and discuss tech in Education, Torrey works for the Prairie Lakes AEA, and he goes around to schools and shows students tech, specifically in this episode we talk about how Torrey uses Virtual Reality to show the students possibilities of jobs they might have never considered. Maybe the Metaverse isn't so bad!
Caution this episode does have some echo, but it's too good not to release.
TikToc hacked - Will I finally not have to like for part 2 Cloudflare Blocks site Access - Who is really in charge? LG is making NFTs for TVs - It's art you just wouldn't understand T-Mobile lies to customer - No shock there California passes a bill that makes the internet safer for youth - But at what cost?
The title says it all, I have given up on Auto Drive and Full Self Drive, I have even given up on using Tesla's Cruise Control. Phantom Braking is a serious problem and Tesla needs to fix it right away.
NASA Launch delayed until Friday.
The twitter court case is heating up.
Apple may take your iPhone to space.
Walmart's storage is not all that it's cracked up to be.
Traveling before the internet.
I don't throw around the term "will change the world" lightly, it's reserved for things like The Internet and Bitcoin. But I have been using Starlink for a little over a year, and I truly believe it will change the world, and provide internet to the most remote parts of the world easily and inexpensively. In this episode we talk about what makes Starlink different from the competitors.
In this episode we talk about sleep paralysis, sleep hacking. What the Old Hag is. How to make sleep hygiene, part of your life, and that the 8 hour sleep schedule is relatively new.
The metaverse has a big unveiling was it worth it, we will find out.
Microsoft flips the script on Google and finds a chromeOS bug, my how the turntables have turned.
NASA captures a sound in space, and it's as horrifying as you think it might be.
Hyundai infotainment system has been hacked, how might surprise you.
Apple patches both iOS and Monterey update now!
I know the title of this Podcast is a gotcha, click bait even. In this episode we talk about my 3 year journey into learning Spanish, I include tips and tricks of what I did. Learning a language can be difficult but it should be fun, and something you do every single day!
In this Episode we sit down with Jon, and discuss his mining operation, he has 600 GPUs and currently mines ETH and ETC, we talk about the ramifications on the switch to stake. It's a great conversation.
Twilio hack is bad for signal users, can you hear me now?
Google flubs the roll out on Android 13, I really hope you like Android 12
Apple finds a new source of revenue in an old place, is it good for users, probably not.
John Deere now allows it's users to play doom, kinda.
Google trys to public shame Apple, is it working, not for me.
Adam Neumann former CEO of the company WeWork who he attempted to take public, and failed has a new venture in a surprising place.
Linux has changed over the year more hardware support better hardware support, Is now the time to switch to Linux? Well of course I think yes, you can't beat free, and you really can't beat free when all the applications are free and are on par with the OS you are currently using, and depending on the OS, you can buy cheaper hardware and get the same or better results.
In this episode I talk about working on tractors and phones, and about how anyone who buys equipment should have the ability to repair non warrantied items!
Burger king flame broils it's customers in maybe a hack.
Microsoft loses data of new PCs, oh wait it's 2022 is this new?
Ford suffers from the chip shortage, and your electric car will cost more, we have more from the obvious files in a moment.
Apple hates RCS.
Mark Cuban hates the metaverse.
Ethereum is going through a huge change on September 19th, in this episode we talk about the implications of ETH2, why you shouldn't call it ETH2, what will happen to the mining rigs, what will happen to the prices. How you can stake ETH right now. Should you? The history of ETH and ETC. So sit back grab a cold one and listen!
What is in your Hackel Box, In this story we talk about being a Red Teamer, and the tools I use for network testing an penetration.
This week on the Midweek Tech Roundup we look at the new Delorean, how can this be a thing? The political BIAS ACT which is a monstrosity of stupid, Linus announces Kernel 5.19, where he announced it is turning heads. Pearson book sellers looks to incorporate Blockchain into their books..
Oliver and I traveled to Mexico over the last few days, we made it a goal to spend some Bitcoin in Mexico. We were successful. Before we left for the trip we read that there was a senator that was pushing the central bank to accept Bitcoin, and the Central bank is reluctant.
Youtube bans my show for misinformation, I tried to file for them to relook at it, and have heard nothing so far, it's not that I really care, I would like to know where I was wrong so I could make the appropriate corrections.
Bombshell study shows every thing we know about depression is wrong.
In this out of band thank you episode we talk about Joseph Popp the creator of the first ransomware. How he used AIDS research at a critical time to trick researchers into putting a disk into there computer and demanding a ransom via PO Box. It's a great story and an interesting history lesson.
HBO creates a documentary all about the meta verse.
FCC Fines Charter and LTD Broadband. Is it enough? Probably not.
Microsoft is speeding up Xbox boot times, you'll be surprised to hear how.
Netflix cuts apple out of the middle.
Original apple 1 expected to fetch 500,000 at auction, but will it boot?
How much does energy saving mode on TVs really save, the answer will surprise you.
In this episode I reminisce about how I got started in tech and how I did it without a college degree. I explain that if you want to get started in tech while in high school or after high school graduation it's possible. You just have to be willing to start at the bottom and work hard, get started during summers reach out to MSPs and see what work they have, learn to make connections, and keep the connections close and don't be afraid to use them!
In this the first episode of the midweek tech roundup we learn that Netflix is taking to Central America to target users who use Netflix in more then one home offering them per home plans.
A bank in Iowa alleges that Apple illegally profited by walling off the NFC in contact payment systems to competitors.
The Department of Homeland Security bought over 336,000 data points how can this be legal?
Zoom and Snapchat square off in an unlikely rivalry for video conference domination.
The FCC chair proposes broadband of 100 down 25mbps up but how do they determine that?
Denmark Schools ban Chromebooks, will Google change their ways?
Lawmakers prepare a bill that would codify Net neutrality, unfortunately I don't think they understand what they are doing.
In this episode we talk about the Open Source Bitcoin ATM a group of us got together and built, how we created the software in 24 hours, Another person built the the wood case for it, we mounted it, got some press, but then ended up getting a letter from the Federal Government and had to take it down.
Also in this episode we talk about my Bitcoin trip to El Salvador, how I was mostly disappointed with the ability to spend my bitcoin with vendors, even so much as having people sitting in front of signs saying they accept Bitcoin only to have them say that "no they do not accept Bitcoin". We talk a little about El Salvador culture as well.
ATM Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AXoYtyPUWpg
Github Source Client: https://github.com/techknowio/catmjs
Github Source Server: https://github.com/techknowio/ctm-server
Today, on the first episode of the Brewhaus we are going to talk about Coinbase and other exchanges and why you need to get your Bitcoin off of all Exchanges and put into cold wallets like the Ledger Nano X https://amzn.to/3IJMlIh and keeping the the seed phrase on a steel wallet https://amzn.to/3uQhdRK and using some punch tools https://amzn.to/3OeIrbq. The Ethereum merge is coming. In California you can get paid $2 per kw/h for energy production. Russia Bans Crypto Currency for buying products. And the study no one asked for because everyone knew it already, no one wants to work on Fridays.
