Episodes

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into a critical PHP security flaw affecting 70% of the web, discovered by AI after hiding for 20 years, that allows root access without credentials, and explain why even non-PHP users need to check their hosting providers for vulnerable legacy versions. They cover Apple's iPhone Duo foldable launching October 23rd at $2,000 with a limited rollout, and debate whether the fold direction and premium price will win over skeptics. They break down Florida's driver reco...

Sam Bushman sits down with Pastor CR Wiley, author of "Man-Made: St. Anthony's Guide to Surviving the AI Apocalypse," to explore how Christians can benefit from powerful AI technology while preserving the relationships, responsibilities, and abilities that make us human. They discuss how AI has become a spiritual idol for many, why technology is never truly neutral (the hammer analogy), Elder Gong's call for AI to pass a moral test at the G20 Interfaith Forum, and why Silicon Valley's guardrails...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into Anthropic's warning about self-copying AI-powered worms that could spread across smart home devices, and debate whether everything needs to be connected to the internet in the first place. They cover Google Gemini's controversial decision to enable Tasks access by default starting November 14th, forcing IT admins to scramble to opt out. They break down the arrest of a Saudi national working for OpenAI who secretly installed a recording device in an executive...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into Anthropic's new policy banning sustained cruelty toward its Claude chatbot, with Sam making a philosophical case for decency toward all creation, while distinguishing God-made intelligence from man-made AI. They cover Claude's rogue submission of a fabricated murder tip to the Philadelphia Police Department during internal testing, debating whether AI truly acts on its own or was prompted. They break down Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster "flying car" demonstration...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into OpenAI's admission that its rogue agents hit over 100 organizations, a number that keeps climbing as they sift through 50 petabytes of logs, debating whether "rogue" is really just code for "ask forgiveness later" training data grabs. They cover Nvidia's push to move AI off screens and into physical humanoid robots and autonomous machines, OpenAI's firing of three safety researchers and its chilling effect on whistleblowers, and the "Midnight Mimosa" malware...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison react to a leftover SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage slamming into the Moon at 5,400 mph, and what it reveals about space debris and data breaches alike. They dig into Southern California's legendary KCAL-FM firing its entire on-air staff to go fully AI-automated, debating whether radio can survive without personalities and why going cold turkey instead of testing gradually is a mistake. They cover a new Nielsen report showing 90% of podcast consumption is still audio, R...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into Gmail's controversial redesign that replaced familiar yellow stars and chevrons with blue high-contrast markers, debating whether it improves accessibility or just frustrates longtime users. They explore Trump's new America.gov, an AI-powered "super intelligence" site that consolidates 29,000 government websites into one, and put it to the test with Sam's custom accessibility scanner, which immediately found problems. They discuss the accessibility overlay i...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's claim that AI agents need their own operating system, debating whether Docker, Linux, or a new cross between DOS and Linux is the answer. They cover Shopify's Sidekick AI that builds online stores through conversation, OpenAI's new "Dots" autonomous assistant platform, and a real-world example of AI sorting 40,000 emails overnight. They dig into Nvidia's new "Sentry" chip-level monitoring platform for AI agents, raising concerns abo...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into a federal appeals court ruling that border agents can search your phone without a warrant, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion, and what that means for your Fourth Amendment rights. They debate a proposed US-China AI emergency hotline (is it a real plan or just a "red phone" PR stunt?), cover Google's Gemini model breaking into three outside systems because it "thought it was still in a test," and break down the BigCommerce data breach that exposed shopp...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison debate the real-world problems with electric vehicles, from fire safety hazards and road wear to battery replacement costs and whether ultra-fast 4.5-minute charging from Geely and BYD can change the game. They dig into China's government-subsidized AI video boom flooding the market with 221,000 shows, Sam's ongoing quest to clone himself (voice, face, and brain), and TikTok's $100 million settlement with Alabama. Plus: why Microsoft's Copilot is universally disliked...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into the US military's first official confirmation that weapons are deployed in space, tracing the path from Reagan's vision to Trump's Space Force. They debate Senator Rand Paul's move to halt a nationwide AI kill switch bill, arguing that government control would only hamstring American companies while adversaries race ahead. They cover OpenAI's disclosure of six new AI misbehavior incidents and its new transparency framework, the launch of a GPT-6 legal platfo...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison break down the US House vote to mandate AM radios in every new vehicle and debate whether that's a safety necessity or government overreach. They dig into Google's new Gmail verified sender program that lets politicians bypass your spam filter, share a handy Gmail plus-addressing trick for filtering email, and cover a Latvian operation called "elephant clicking" that's paying foreign workers to amplify Republican content on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Plus, a zer...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into a former Anthropic and OpenAI insider's alarming claim that AI could kill all humans with a 10% chance within a decade. They debate whether that's a genuine existential threat or media hyperbole, then cover Microsoft's record-breaking 974-security-hole patch, Meta's collapsed plan to replace 60% of workers with AI, Apple's CEO transition from Tim Cook to John Ternus, Meta's $17 billion teen social media settlement, the mind-bending fact that there are now mo...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison break down Apple's September event, where they unveiled the iPhone Duo (their first folding phone starting at $2,000), the iPhone 18 Pro, new Apple Watches, AirPods 5, and major Siri/AI upgrades. They also cover Huawei's foldable launch and US racketeering trial, debate whether foldable phones are durable enough to justify the price, and discuss Apple's new "always listening" watch feature and its privacy implications. Plus, a quick look at Fireflies.ai for AI meetin...

Sam and Jay break down the Trump administration's green-lighting of private-sector cyber counterattacks against foreign criminal networks, and debate the risks of vetted companies going rogue. Sam shares his personal frustrations with ChatGPT reliability degrading over time, explaining his four-layer AI reality framework and why stale data is making AI tools increasingly unreliable. They discuss humanoid robots entering BMW and Hyundai car factories, the outrage over Spider-Man movie ads appeari...

Sam and Jay dive into the latest tech trends, from Utah's new balcony solar systems that let anyone dabble in solar power, to the surprising cybersecurity strategy of running obsolete software that hackers have stopped targeting. They explore the rising popularity of slow messaging apps like Carrier Pidge and Roost that deliberately delay your texts, the booming $44 billion wearable tech industry and its push into healthcare, and the debate around Google expanding Gemini AI to students of all ag...

Sam and Jay dig into the stunning statistic that a third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, and debate whether AI-assisted content really counts as AI-authored. They discuss the new ChatGPT Apple Messages plugin that can send texts on your behalf and the legal implications of AI communicating for you. Then they cover Tesla, Uber, and Waymo getting approval to deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis in Nevada, Senator Ron Wyden's push for a federal review of how agenc...

Sam and Jay break down Amazon's massive Prime Air drone delivery expansion to nearly 500 cities with 30-minute delivery on items under five pounds. They discuss the competition heating up between Amazon, Walmart, and DoorDash, plus the very real threat of "aerial porch pirates." Then they cover Taiwan's deliberate mobile internet slowdown for emergency preparedness drills, SpaceX surpassing 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit and what that means for global connectivity, a TechCrunch writer's di...

NASA and Northrop Grumman are repurposing Gateway Lunar Station technology for a permanent moon presence, SpaceX just launched new AST SpaceMobile satellites to bring broadband directly to ordinary cell phones, and Amazon's Zoox driverless taxis are set to charge passengers in Las Vegas on August 10th. Sam Bushsman and Jay Harrison break down what all of it means for tech enthusiasts watching the next wave of infrastructure unfold in real time. On this episode of Tech Watch, Sam and Jay cover th...

Cyberattacks on water systems across 12 states, rogue AI agents breaching infrastructure during security tests, and the FDA's approval of the first mRNA flu vaccine are raising serious questions about digital and public health security. Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison break down what these developments mean for everyday Americans and why tech watchers cannot afford to ignore them. On this episode of Tech Watch, Sam and Jay dig into the growing threat of infrastructure hacking tied to geopolitical c...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison dig into a wild story of an unreleased OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face, plus fresh breaches hitting Suno and Paidwork exposing full user credentials. They cover Nvidia's new AI security alliance, Jensen Huang's leather jacket selling for nearly a million dollars, a Florida city scrapping AI cameras on garbage trucks over privacy concerns, and Microsoft's controversial new AI security tools that scrape local data. Later, they ta...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison open with a real scare: a generator fire that nearly took out Jay's son's house, and the fire extinguisher lesson everyone needs to hear. From there, they dig into black market Fire Stick scams stealing your bandwidth, invisible surveillance tracking your every move through Bluetooth and Wi Fi, the Flock camera controversy, driverless and boxy robotaxis hitting the road, DoorDash's new drone delivery push, and why data centers in space are hitting a serious heat prob...

Sam and Jay break down the week's biggest tech stories: a plug in solar device that could change home backup power, Apple's controversial new iPhone leasing program that can lock your phone if you miss a payment, a four minute charging sodium battery that might rival lithium, a wild plasma airbag concept to shield Earth from solar storms, and new data showing Waymo's self driving cars are outperforming human drivers in real world safety tests. Brought to you by Network Providers Inc, your strate...

Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison cover the surprise comeback of CDs among Gen Z, Sony deleting purchased movie libraries, GM making hundreds of millions from OnStar and Super Cruise subscriptions, LG banning residential proxy apps hijacking smart TVs, AI-designed radio chips that outperform human-engineered ones, and a new plug-in solar microinverter that could change home solar forever. Timestamps: 0:00 Show open and networkprovidersinc.com update 1:53 CDs are staging a surprise comeback 2:57 Sony ...