Is Software Over? – DTNS 5371
Developer Brandon Thomas of Artcraft says he used Claude Opus 5.5 to build “clean-room replacements” for seven Adobe products, with Word, Ex...
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20 of 153 episodesAmazon Goes Full Android for Tablets – DTNS 5370
Amazon announced a new smart tablet lineup, plus a developer at Artcraft vibe code replacements for all of Adobe’s Creative Suite. Starring...
Microsoft Brings 1 Trillion Parameters to the Desktop – DTNS 5369
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is also out and can do a lot of parameters locally too. And Tom vibe codes a crappy but cute game on Goog...
Open Weights Aren’t Just Chinese Anymore – DTNS 5368
Mistral and a New York company get competitive in open weights, and a startup wants to sell you a cheap AI PC. Cheap by AI standards. Starri...
Googlebooks Have a Tiny Intel Problem – DTNS 5367
Some Android apps don’t work as well on the Intel Googlebooks. How many? Google says don’t worry about it. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...
The Floppy Disk is Not Dead, Yet. DTNS Weekend
Tom Merritt talks to Tom Persky, the proprietor of Floppydisk.com, about how he’s still able to sell new blank floppy disks, how he ended up...
Why TCL is Suing Samusng over MiniLEDs – DTNS Weekend October 3, 20206
Robert Heron from Heron Fidelity joined us to talk about the lawsuit over the meaning of MiniLED, what it means to you, and what to keep in...
Should We Trust Proactive Agents? – DTNS 5366
OpenAI introduced Dots this week; proactive agents that run in the cloud and act for you without being asked. Meta’s Muse and Manus offer si...
New Kindles or New Google Gemini 4 Model. Which is Better? – DTNS 5365
We break down the new Kindles, talk about Gemini 4 Argon, and assess the iPhone’s China comeback. Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane Downlo...
Apple Comes for the Amazon Echo – DTNS 5364
Apple’s going to release a smart home hub in a few weeks. Plus, the real US AI story you’re not hearing as much about and why you should car...
OpenAI Release Proactive Dots on Your Computer – DTNS 5363
It’s Dev Days for OpenAI, so they added a new $500-a-month plan. Plus, a way to use batteries to remove CO2 from the air. And we interpret A...
OpenAI Pauses Training Again After More Agent Alignment Issues – DTNS 5362
NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform is a reference design for how agents can be confined and monitored, and Bose released its USB-C powered...
Can Googlebook Bridge the Gap? – DTNS 5361
Can Googlebooks replace a MacBook or PC laptop? We discuss AI charms, the future of personal AI, and which jobs technology could leave behin...
Meta Wants AI on Your Backpack – DTNS 5360
Meta’s new Muse Charm makes agentic AI cute. Plus Rob DeMillo joins to talk about Google launching its Tensor Processing Units into space. S...
Qualcomm Wants Your AI on Device – DTNS 5359
Jason Howell reports from the Snapdragon Summit on the new Snapdragon Elite Gen 6 models, plus most of the world feels good about AI, so why...
Xbox Reset Moves Halo to Activision – DTNS 5358
A few hundred layoffs and some other studio moves continue the changes at Xbox, plus Beats 360 modular headphones and an LLM for ancient Gre...
Who the GoogleBook is For: Android Users – DTNS 5357
Ron Richards got his hands on the new Googlebooks, which are great laptops for Android users. Plus, the Mac Mini and Mac Studio reviews are...
Who is the Steam Frame For? – DTNS Weekend
Scott Stein, CNET Editor at Large, walks through the new Steam Frame VR headset, where it sits in the pantheon of VR devices in 2026, and wh...
Cable Clutter: What Can You Ditch? – DTNS Weekend
Which cables should you keep and which can you finally ditch? Roger and Patrick Norton tackle the tangled mess of cables taking over our clo...
Is Obsolescence Planned, or is It Natural? – DTNS 5356
We debate if companies intentionally plan their products to go obsolete after several years to get people to upgrade? And we discuss if you...