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Keep up to date with independent, authoritative and trustworthy discussion of the tech news of the day. Tom Merritt and co-host's home for daily tech news.
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Keep up to date with independent, authoritative and trustworthy discussion of the tech news of the day. Tom Merritt and co-host's home for daily tech news.
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×The US military uses AI, and we put a brain in a jar. But Don’t worry! We promise it will be all right. We think. Plus, the red LEDs ARE good for your skin! Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao. MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations • The Register World’s First “Biological Computer” Runs AI Models On Actual Human Brain Cells – Yanko Design Meta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice features | TechCrunch Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS The M3 MacBook Air is officially discontinued, but the M2 MacBook Air will live on elsewhere and that’s good news | TechRadar M3 Ultra on par with M4 Max in CPU benchmark performance Apple delays upgraded Siri: it’s taking ‘longer than we thought’ | The Verge Toyota launches its cheapest smart EV in China, aims to up market share | Reuters At-Home LED Devices for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Acne | JAMA Dermatology | JAMA Network Can at-home red-light therapy really cure acne? Was Manus another DeepSeek moment? Chinese AI agent faces doubts after rapid rise to fame | South China Morning Post No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard – Ars Technica Mistral releases new optical character recognition (OCR) API claiming top performance globally | VentureBeat AMD says top-tier Ryzen 9900X3D and 9950X3D CPUs arrive March 12 for $599 and $699 – Ars Technica feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com patreon.com/dtns dailytechnewsshow.com…
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When is thin too thin for smartphones? Why are so many sites moving content behind a paywall and does it bode for tightening ad sector? Reddit is introducing new tools to improve user engagement and help prevent rule violations. And 1Password has a new feature to add a specific physical location to items. Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
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Broadcom addresses a few nasty zero-day vulnerabilities affecting its hypervisors, and Pison CEO John Croteau talks about how its wearables are improving the world of medicine. Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao. MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000 Kuo: Apple Developing Faster ‘Refreshed’ C1 Modem With mmWave Support for Mass Production Next Year iOS 18.4 beta introduces AI-powered review summaries in the App Store Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks Prime Video is beginning an AI dubbing pilot program for select movies and series Apple’s Use of SiTime in iPhone 16e Fuels Stock Rally for Chipmaker Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content Reddit’s rule check feature will help users avoid breaking subreddit rules YouTube will soon restrict creators from mentioning certain online gambling sites Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ OpenAI Makes its GPT 4.5 Model Available for ChatGPT Plus Members…
Apple’s unveiled refreshes for the Mac Studio and MacBook Air. Are they enough of uplift to warrant an upgrade? Plus cheap EVs are still unfulfilled wish. But VW plans on changing that with new entry-level EVs next year and in 2027. And users of Sesame’s demo of its conversational speech model report feel emotionally connected to it. Google announced an experimental “AI Mode” in Search to compete with services like Perplexity AI and ChatGPT Search. Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
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Plus Jason Howell reports from the Nothing party in Barcelona but has something to say about the new Nothing phones. Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter. MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes “Apple Upgrades MacBook Air, Mac Studio After Sales Resurgence (AAPL) – Bloomberg” “Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips | The Verge” “Apple debuts M3 Ultra in refreshed Mac Studio with up to 512GB memory | Tom’s Hardware” “Apple announces MacBook Air with M4 chip and a price cut | The Verge” “Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg | TechCrunch” “AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT is the most exciting GPU to launch in years” “AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review and benchmarks | The Verge” “AMD’s new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems | Tom’s Hardware” “Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones released today, but surprise surprise, stocks are low | PC Gamer” “Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards won’t launch until later this month | The Verge” “Judge denies Musk attempt to block OpenAI from becoming for-profit” “YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription | TechCrunch” “Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor – Ars Technica” “Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order | TechCrunch” “Xpeng to test autonomous driving system in Hong Kong” “Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online – Ars Technica” “Google is expanding AI Overviews worldwide, and adding an AI Mode | The Verge” “Malaysia to pay $250m for access to Arm chip designs” patreon.com/dtns dailytechnewsshow.com…
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What’s got everyone excited about the NHL’s smart watch app for referees? Google Messages is adding a scam detection tool for Android users. Smartphone concepts that use full size camera lenses make a reappearance at this year’s Mobile World Congress. And Hasbro announces a Monopoly App Banking, replacing cash and the banker with a mobile app to manage all transactions in the board game. Would you play it? Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Tasia Custode, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
Plus, Tencent launched super apps as a service, and why the US may not have ended all cyber command activities against Russia. Starring Tom Merritt. strong> MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes “Nothing’s new budget Android phones make Samsung and Apple look bad | ZDNET” “Nothing’s Phone 3A and 3A Pro use AI to organize all your stuff | The Verge” “Google Improves Gemini on Android and iPhone – Thurrott.com” “Gemini app on iPhone adds Control Center, lockscreen widgets” “Meta and Internet Society team up to expand internet access around the world” “Tencent Cloud unveils platform to build super app” “LlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructured data agents | TechCrunch” “Geely to launch smart driving system for all its car brands” “Xiaomi to expand EV sales globally after SU7 Ultra success” “Apple iPad Air 2025: launch, price, and specs | The Verge” “Apple introduces new iPad Air with M3 chip, Apple Intelligence” “AI Massage Startup Raises $83 Million, Brings Robots to Equinox – Bloomberg” “TSMC is investing an additional $100 billion into semiconductor manufacturing in the US” “In-Depth Analysis of TSMC’s New Investment Plans in the United States: TSMC stands out as the most successful non-US company in negotiations with the Trump administration | by 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) | Mar, 2025 | Medium” “Foxconn Mega-AI Plant in Mexico to be Ready in a Year Despite Trump Tariffs – Bloomberg” “Pentagon Denies Report of Halt in Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia – Bloomberg” “Starlink Rival Eutelsat Triples on EU Defense Spending Plan” “China Adds 15 American Companies to Export-Control List” “Exclusive: China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say | Reuters” reddit.com/r/DailyTechNewsShow patreon.com/dtns dailytechnewsshow.com…
Allison Sheridan shares her experience with getting rid of her landline after 42 years. Should parents of young children expose them to generative AI at an early age? Lenovo announced some wild new laptop form factors and concepts. Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
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External NPUs and solar-powered laptops, plus new EV battery tech. Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood. MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes “The Lenovo Solar PC Concept feels like a device whose time has come” “Lenovo’s new AI laptops for MWC 2025 include the Yoga Pro 9i Aura edition and the IdeaPad Slim 3x” “Lenovo teases solar-powered and foldable screen concept laptops” “MWC 2025: Lenovo Announces New AI Laptops, Plus Concept PCs and External NPUs – Thurrott.com” “Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen | TechCrunch” “Google’s New Tech Means Video Calls May Not Be the Death of Us After All – WSJ” “TCL reveals pricing for NXTPAPER 11 Plus and 60 Series phones” “MWC 2025: TCL Brings AI to Super-Bright RayNeo X3 Pro Smart Glasses | PCMag” “Xiaomi 15 and 15 Ultra launch: Price, specs, availability” “Xiaomi Wants to Make Modular Magnetic Lenses for its Phones | PetaPixel” “Belkin Showcases Next-Gen Charging, Audio, and Docking Solutions at MWC 2025” “Finland-based Nokia supplier launches kid-safe smartphone” “Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K | TechCrunch” “MWC 2025: Stability AI Partners with Arm on Generative AI Audio for Mobile – Thurrott.com” “MWC 2025: Qualcomm X85 5G Modem Hits 12.5 Gbps – Thurrott.com” “NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 With “Missing ROPs” Has Finally Been Tested; Up To 11% Performance Drop In Gaming Tests” “Tim Cook teases new Apple product this week: ‘There’s something in the air’ – 9to5Mac” “(21) Tim Cook on X: “This week. https://t.co/uXqQaGNkSk” / X “Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash | TechCrunch” “Firefly’s Blue Ghost becomes second private spacecraft with moon landing” “Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night | TechCrunch” “Opera Previews a Web Browser AI Agent – Thurrott.com” “Chinese Buyers Are Ordering Nvidia’s Newest AI Chips, Defying U.S. Curbs – WSJ” reddit.com/r/DailyTechNewsShow patreon.com/dtns dailytechnewsshow.com…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants employees to work 60-hour weeks in the office every weekday to accelerate AI development. Microsoft is shutting down Skype. We look back at our fond and maybe not so fond memories of the service. Plus are return to office policies catering to a companies lowest performing employees? And its Friday quiz time. Do you know these UK musicians who participated in the silent album titled “Is This What We Want?”. Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
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OpenAI’s Last Unreasonable Model Plus, Skype will go down for good and Mozilla insist it does not want to sell your data to AI. Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao. MP3 Download Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , Threads , YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes OpenAI’s new GPT-4.5 model is a better, more natural conversationalist OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model | The Verge OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’ | TechCrunch OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its largest AI model yet | TechCrunch OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it money | TechCrunch Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 | TechCrunch Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AI | TechCrunch Meta plans to release a standalone Meta AI app Meta announces experimental Aria Gen 2 research smart glasses AMD’s $549 Radeon 9070 and $599 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA’s mid-range throne AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT target ‘4K gaming at a 1440p price’ | PCWorld AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT start at $549, ship March 6th | The Verge Intel delays first Ohio chip factory in New Albany, again The New York Subway strapped Pixels to subway cars, for science Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030 | TechCrunch NHL officials are wearing Apple Watches on ice | The Verge Tecno Spark Slim concept features unbelievable 5.75mm profile – GSMArena.com news Apple Provides Reason for iPhone 16e’s Lack of MagSafe – MacRumors patreon.com/dtns dailytechnewsshow.com…
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Social Media and Misinformation are often presented as two sides of the same coin, but what does the data actually say? Andrea Jones-Rooy is here to break it down for us. And surveillance technology used to monitor warehouse workers is being introduced into the office workplace but does it actually measure anything useful? Instagram looking into the idea of launching Reels as a standalone short-form video app. And OpenAI announced GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI model, available as a research preview. Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe. MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Download the (VIDEO VERSION), here . Watch Live Monday-Friday at 4 PM Eastern on YouTube and Twitch . Follow us on Bluesky , Mastodon , X Instgram , and Threads . Please SUBSCRIBE HERE for free or get DTNS Live ad-free. A special thanks to all our supporters –without you, none of this would be possible. If you enjoy what you see you can support the show on Patreon , Thank you! Become a Patron! Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here !…
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