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This Week's Topics:
- Discord data breach
- iFixit tear down of new Meta Ray Bans
- Synology now allows 3rd party drives
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-10-09
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Backlash for nursery hackers
- Lack of safe online spaces affects mental health
- AOL shuts down dial-up service
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-10-02
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Meta unveils new smart glasses
- Pandora is 20 years old
- Microsoft skates through EU probe
- Deal to keep TikTok in US
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-09-18
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
Patrice Brend'amour and Jeff Gamet hold down the fort in this fall's first post-Summer of Fun episode.
- Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
- Our eight-year wait is over – Spotify Lossless is finally here!
- More than 10 European startups became unicorns this year
- OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal
- Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-09-11
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour
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This Week's Topics:
- A very special guest, Jeff's dad Jim Gamet, teaches us all about model trains!
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-08-28
Guests: Jim Gamet, Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, David Ginsburg
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This Week's Topics:
- We talk about our favorite games/platforms of yesteryear: Binatone, Cosmic Adventure, Odyssey 2, Gorilla, Rogue Spear, Lotus Elan, Flight Simulator and many more
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-08-21
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Our likes, dislikes, habits when we travel
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-08-14
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Book talk
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-08-07
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
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This Week's Topics:
- The evolution of sitcoms
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-07-31
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour
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This Week's Topics:
- Personal data of 6.5M members of UK Co-Op compromised
- Perplexity launches Comet browser
- Windsurf CEO goes to Google; OpenAI acquisition crashes
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-07-17
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- North Korean IT worker "laptop farm" uncovered
- China firm 3D prints a micro turbojet engine
- Dorsey releases BitChat with security flaws
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-07-10
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Humanoid robots stumble through football match
- Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth
- Intel may skip 18A for foundry customers
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-07-03
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
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- Ewen discusses podcasting history and broadcasting advice with Dr. Happy Mac and students at Cirencester College
Guests: Dr. Happy Mac, Ewen Rankin
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This Week's Topics:
- AI changing our brains?
- Anker power bank recall
- Ads coming to WhatsApp
- X sues New York over hate speech law
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-06-19
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- AI defend their own survival
- SSH backdoor installed on Asus routers
- GPS blackout would shut down the world
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-06-05
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- OpenAI buys Jony Ive's startup
- Google 3D teleconferencing platform, Beam
- Google's AI-powered glasses
- Signal blocks Windows Recall
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-05-22
Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Skype shuts down after 23 years
- Scottish Co-Op victim of cyber attack
- 40th anniversary of Arm
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-05-08
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative
- Musk's latest crazy claims about Tesla self-driving
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-04-24
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- Wikipedia bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
- NaNoWriMo shuts down due to AI and other problems
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- White House Using Starlink
- Elecom releases sodium-ion battery
- NVidia thinks AI can solve power problems caused by AI
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
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This Week's Topics:
- CrowdStrike boss apologizes for outage
- Drama with WordPress
- Excel gets Python and Co-Pilot enhancements
- Kaspersky replaces security software without user consent
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-26
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, David Ginsburg, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- SONY launches 30th anniversary limited-edition PlayStations
- Attacks targeting Hezbollah through pagers
- Entire 23AndMe board resigns
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-19
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- EU imposes large fines on Apple and Google
- Researchers demonstrate side-channel attack on air-gapped computer
- Infineon delivers first 300mm GaN wafers
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-12
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- More trouble at Intel
- Ubikey security vulnerability
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-05
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Colmi Smart Ring
- Creative Labs MP3 player
- CueCat
- BlackBerry PlayBook
- SONY minidisk player
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-29
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
Our favorite British TV comedy series
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-22
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics:
We discuss MythBusters!
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-15
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour
Our Favorite Rewatchable Movies:
- Shaun of the Dead
- Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague
- Dazed and Confused
- Now You See Me
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- Pulp Fiction
- Mostly Martha
- Alien
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-08
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
Our favorite "guilty pleasure" TV shows
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-01
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
CrowdStrike's epic fail (Of course it's this week's topic!)
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-07-25
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig
This Week's Topic: Our favorite audiobooks and radio plays
- Lord of The Rings (BBC)
- War of The Worlds
- Expeditionary Force
- Somebody Knows
- The Truth
Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-07-18
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Kioxia announces 2Tb NAND chip
- Sony reduces optical disk manufacturing
- Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard breach impacted federal agencies
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, David Ginsburg, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Boeing Starliner troubles
- NBC to use AI-generate Al Michaels for Olympic updates
- Who owns the moon?
- China moon probe returns with rare rocks
Guests: Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, Ian Grant, Ben Roethig
This Week's Topics:
- Signal president slams government surveillance moves
- California governor wants to limit smart phone use in schools
- Bank fires employees for using mouse jigglers
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Concern over social media addiction leading people back to analogue/physical world
- Lynn Conway, chip industry pioneer, passes away
- Ikea hiring Roblox players to mind the store
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Google faces 13.6B pound lawsuit
- Zoom CEO wants your avatar to attend meetings
- Adobe's updated terms of service causes outrage
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Major cyber criminal taken down
- Google search API documents leaked
- Former enemies unite: Atari acquires Intellivision
- ICQ shuts down after 28 years
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Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Scarlett Johansson not happy with OpenAI voice
- Windows Recall feature raises privacy concerns
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Google I/O 2024
- Elon fires entire SuperCharger team
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour
This Week's Topics:
- UnitedHealth breach caused by lack of 2FA
- Tesla Axing Its Supercharger Team
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- TikTok ban bill signed by Biden
- US FTC bans non-competes
- Engineers reestablish communications with Voyager 1
- Google delays cookie deprecation again
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics:
- Debris from ISS hits Florida home
- Microsoft considering ads in Windows 11 search bar
- EU rules against Meta's Pay or OK model
- Security cameras with a twist
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Many-shot jailbreak fools AI safety
- Google reveals launch date of Android’s Find My Device network
- XZ backdoor discovered by Microsoft engineer
- Gmail launched 20 years ago
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- AI-driven beer brewing
- Qualcomm, Intel, Google team up to take on NVIDIA's CUDA with OneAPI
- Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Car companies collecting and selling driver data
- Doctor Who Season 14 debuts soon
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Microsoft/NY Times copyright fight
- Nikon buys cinema camera maker RED
- SambaNova delivers AI modeling platform
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics:
- Intel will make chips for Microsoft
- The EU is formalizing rules for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere
- VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services
Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics:
- Facebook £3bn legal action given go-ahead in London
- The FCC bans robocalls with AI-generated voices
- Tesla Cybertrucks are already rusting
Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics:
- ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros, Discovery sports streaming deal
- Youtube adding podcast RSS support
- Google replaces Bard AI with Gemini
Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig
The last Summer of Fun episode! Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, David Ginsburg, Tom Ferry
Another Summer of fun episode!
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This week's topic:
UK vs. US versions of the same TV show
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant
This week’s topics: Another Summer of fun episode! Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
This week’s topics: Another Summer of fun episode! Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour
This week’s topics: Discussion of our favorite streaming shows: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Good Omens, Hijack, and others Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
This week’s topics: Favorite foods and related topics Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
This week’s topics: Microsoft working on low-cost AI inference chip FTC investigating OpenAI on data collection and false info Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
This week's topics: NHS Using AI to speed cancer treatment EU fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries Micron joins Samsung in announcing GDDR7 support for faster memory Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian […]
Topics for this week: Musk-Zuckerberg Cage Match! Meta Plans Twitter Rival Tesla Buys Wiferion, Wireless Charging Company Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig
Topics for this week: More adopting Tesla NACS charging standard Microsoft makes Surface replacement parts available Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
Topics for this week: Antitrust watchdog questions future of behavioral advertising BA, Boots and BBC targeted in cyber-attack SK hynix Starts Production of 238-Layer NAND Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, […]
Topics for this week: Uber/Waymo Driverless Taxis Reddit's High API Pricing Amazon Fined For Privacy Violations Arm Announces Cortex X4 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Topics for this week:
- Youtube changes video deletion plan
- Sony confirms handheld device for this year
- TSMC on track for new transistors for 2nm in 2026
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Topics for this week:
- Tik Tok Ban In Montanta
- Modern Mayhem, Content Moderator Simulator
- 1Password Supports Passkey With Tool For Developers/Websites
- Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines??
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry, Patrice Brend’amour
Topics for this week:
- Product Announcements at Google I/O
- Vodaphone turns off 3G
- Waymo Car Perplexes San Francisco PD/FD
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Topics for this week:
• Japanese Moon Lander Failure
• UK Opposes Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition
• BuzzFeed News Shuts Down
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Topics for this week:
- AI-generated photo wins contest
- AMD engineer reveals confidential info on LinkedIn
- Twitter removes policy against misgendering trans people
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry