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Sonos’s New Soundbar and Headphones Right Some of Its Wrongs – DTNS 5344

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:46:03 +0000

Roku’s first OLED TV is more affordable and likely still has ads, and a new study that finds that raindrops really can do the electric slide and that’s one reason why metal corrodes.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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Sonos Debuts $449 Ace Ultra Headphones, $699 Beam Ultra Soundbar With ChatGPT Tie-In
Sonos September 2026 Product Launch
Roku Launches Its First OLED TVs Starting at $999
Roku Expands Its Premium TV Lineup With Its First OLEDs
Anthropic Paused AI Training After Claude Took Unauthorized Actions
Anthropic Resumes External Cyber Testing
Raindrops Are Tiny Lightning Bolts Discussion
Raindrops Are Tiny Lightning Bolts, and They’re Corroding Cars
Dyson Announces $499 CameraJet Smart Toothbrush With AI Camera
Samsung Adds a Budget-Friendly $799 Galaxy Book 6
Nvidia DLSS 5 Launches With NBA 2K27 on September 3
Perplexity Hybrid Compute Splits Sensitive Tasks Between Cloud and Local AI
TP-Link Announces Its First Consumer Wi-Fi 8 Routers
Meta Makes Navigation on Its Smart Glasses More Useful
Debian Votes to Let Contributors Code With AI
Stella Juva Solar Ambulance Heads to Kenya
Windows 11 Gets Bing Search Toggle in Europe
Atlas Is a Wearable EEG for Tracking Brain Activity
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The EU Regulates ChatGPT Like a Search Engine – DTNS 5343

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:08:29 +0000

The EU calls ChatGPT a Very Large Search Engine Platform; also, it’s Tim Cook’s last day, and Microsoft leans back towards physical media for Xbox.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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Why Robot Blood Draws Are Better for Workers and Patients – DTNS WEEKEND

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:46:45 +0000

Dr. Gerry Tolbert joins us to tell us why he’s so excited for a robotic system to draw blood and what hurdles it will need to overcome to get widespread acceptance. And yes, his name is pronounced Jerry, not Gary, which Tom knows, but Gerry was too nice to correct him during the show.
https://thenextweb.com/news/vitestro-aletta-fda-robotic-blood-draw
https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/72/8/845/8566288?login=false
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05878483

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Anthropic is (almost) Not a Supply Chain Risk – DTNS 5342

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:44:59 +0000

Grand Theft Auto VI runs at an articulable 30 frames per second and apparently has around 80 hours of gameplay, and Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lineup pushes 1100Hz refresh whether you can tell the difference or not.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/judge-blocks-pentagon-blacklist–anthropic-.html

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-lawsuit-supply-chain-risk-f15e3c30186385e73e72bee82d85b05c
https://thenextweb.com/news/judge-strikes-down-pentagon-anthropic-blacklist
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/28/pentagon-blacklisted-anthropic-over-claude-powers-it-didnt-have/5293266
https://www.engadget.com/2246187/grand-theft-auto-vi-could-take-more-than-80-hours/
https://www.eurogamer.net/gta-6-frame-rate-ps5-xbox-series-x-s
https://www.engadget.com/2245635/samsungs-new-odyssey-lineup-includes-world-first-1100hz-gaming-monitor/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/anthropic-pushes-into-physical-world-with-new-standard-to-help-ai-agents-operate-machines.html
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/28/anthropic-proposes-plumbing-spec-to-link-ai-agents-to-lab-kit-and-robots/5293135
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/

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Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again

Android 17 boosts network security by hiding domain names, lets carriers disable 2G

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-17-adds-ech-support-to-make-web-browsing-harder-to-track/
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/south-koreas-ai-for-all-push-gives-free-access-to-every-citizen-451f6b2c
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warning
https://www.engadget.com/2245776/meta-closing-loophole-that-allowed-people-to-record-with-smart-glasses-light-covered/

Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-h200-china-zero-revenue-guidance-europe-gigafactories
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/27/cyborg-cockroaches-may-soon-deliver-life-saving-drugs-to-disaster-victims/5293081
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28891192/
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To Pay, or Not to Pay? That is the Question – DTNS Live 5141

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:17:59 +0000

Ransomware is a looming threat for any business or entity that has an online footprint. But we ask the big question. Should companies pay ransomware or not? We engage each other in a debate for the ages. Plus Walmart began accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at its Walmart and Sam’s Club locations. Robb wants to ask us why aren’t more people using tap to pay? Xbox announced its disc-to-digital program that will let owners of physical game discs claim digital copies. You can use those digital copies in Xbox Play Anywhere and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, David Spark, Roger Chang, Joe

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NVIDIA is about to buy HuggingFace – DTNS 5341

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:43:21 +0000

And HuggingFace made a dancing robot duck.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition.html
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-ceo-weve-achieved-agi-but-it-doesnt-really-matter
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/nvidia-estimate-topping-forecast-fails-to-wow-investors

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/hugging-face-unveils-400-singing-skating-duck-like-robot
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325705/20260827/openai-agents-formed-secret-swarm-hacked-hugging-face-then-forged-their-own-logs.htm

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/openai-hugging-face-technical-report-ai-hack
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-hugging-face-technical-report-missed-signals-article-55
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hugging-face-hack-debrief-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
https://qz.com/openai-technical-report-ai-agents-hacked-hugging-face-082726
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/26/hundreds-of-ai-agents-went-rogue-in-openais-hugging-face-hack-01052139

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/samsung-s-700-galaxy-26-fe-gets-a-price-hike-even-with-many-tradeoffs

Samsung’s More Affordable Galaxy S26 FE Launches on September 3 for $700

https://www.engadget.com/2245218/google-special-edition-pokemon-sleep-fitbit/
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/08/portland-video-game-company-surprises-customers-with-tariff-refund.html
https://thenextweb.com/news/uclh-ai-assisted-pituitary-tumour-surgery
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-latest-viral-ai-assistant-rocketing-across-silicon-valley-abb46276

Meta Agrees to Change Its Ways, But Not Admit Guilt – DTNS 5340

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:40:20 +0000

Meta will change its teen policies for ten years, Bill Gates wants to tax AI and robots, and Xbox kicks off its disc-to-digital program.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Apple to Hold Sept. 9 Foldable iPhone Launch to Start Ternus Era
Meta Reaches Settlement in Social Media Harm Trial
Meta Settles States’ Lawsuit Alleging Harms to Young Users
Meta and States Agree to Settle Teen Social Media Harm Case
Meta Announces Agreement With State Attorneys General Supporting Teens
Meta Settles for $18 Billion in Social Media Harm Lawsuit
Meta Settlement Includes Conditional TikTok and YouTube Teen Limits
Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child Safety Claims
Xbox Announces Disc-to-Digital Feature for Physical Games
Xbox Disc-to-Digital Supports Thousands of Physical Games at Launch
Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection Ships November 13
Xbox Series X25 Console and Controller Prices and Release Dates Announced
IKEA and Xbox Unveil New Furniture Collection at Gamescom
Bill Gates Issues a Strident Warning About AI
Bill Gates: A Turbulent AI Era and Critical Choices to Make
Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Human-Reserved Jobs to Mitigate AI Harms
Three Takeaways From Bill Gates’s Warning on AI
Ring Gives Itself a Security Makeover Called TAKE
Ring Introduces New Encryption Standard for Cloud Features
Rockstar Responds to GTA 6 Leaks
Instagram’s First Draft Feature Aims to Make Editing Reels Less Tedious
Lenovo Launches Flagship Tablet With 2.5K 165 Hz OLED and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Takes Aim at Microsoft, Amazon and Google
China’s Z.ai Made Ox Alpha, a Stealth Model That Rivals DeepSeek
Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Model
Huawei’s AI Chip Push in Egypt Tests U.S. Tech Diplomacy
Amazon Service Jeff Bezos Called “Artificial Artificial Intelligence” Is Shutting Down
SoundCloud Will Let You Buy Music Directly From Artists
Self-Hosted Email Is in Steep Decline as Microsoft and Google Take Over

Apple’s new Mac Mini and Mac Studio Are All About Local AI – DTNS 5339

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:18:55 +0000

Uber is giving parents of teens the ability to livestream video of the child’s ride in real time, and Android 17 includes a new Motion Assist feature to help reduce motion sickness for riders in moving vehicles.

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt and Dr. Niki.

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Apple Leans Hard Into Local AI Inference With New Mac Studio and Mac Mini
Apple Refreshes Mac Studio With M5 Ultra and M5 Max Chips
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio With M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple Debuts Its Most Powerful Chip Ever in M5 Ultra and M6
Apple M5 vs. M6: How Much Faster Is the New Silicon?
Apple M5 Ultra Brings an 80-Core GPU for AI Models and 8K Video
Uber to Offer Optional Livestreams of Teen Rides to Parents and Guardians
Google Begins Rolling Out Android 17 Motion Assist
Google Is Rolling Out Motion Assist on Android
OpenAI Disrupts Russian ChatGPT Influence Campaign
US Data Centers Tripled Their Water Footprint in 10 Years
OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Is Built for Fast Inference at Scale
OpenAI Jalapeño Benchmarks Against Nvidia GB300
Nvidia Says Jetson Orin Nano 2 Doubles Inference Performance
Fitbit Founders Launch Luffu Link LTE Health and Safety Band
WhatsApp Tightens Account Security With Stronger Two-Step Verification
Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Portable Computer, a Fully Local AI Agent
Apple Adds a New Hide My Email Domain
iCloud Private Email
New York Times AI Search Summaries Draw Guild Concerns
Waymo Plans Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Munich in 2027
AI-Generated Music to Be Banned From ARIA Charts
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 Marks Xbox’s 20th Anniversary
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 Now Available for Preorder
Linux Turns 35: Linus Torvalds Almost Called It Freax
Vitestro’s Aletta Robotic Blood-Draw System Gets FDA Clearance
Scientists Created Female Clones of Male Mice
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Netflix Wants to Manage Your Streaming Bill – DTNS 5338

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:49:59 +0000

Netflix might join Amazon and Apple in letting you add services. Plus, a humanoid robot runs faster than Usain Bolt and game preservationists plan a boycott of Sony.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood

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Jet Lag from a Pilot’s POV – DTNS Weekend

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:30:19 +0000

Brian Hoffman joins us to talk about how pilots like himself deal with jet lag after decades of experience.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Brian Hoffman.

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Are Sails the Future of Cargo Shipping? – DTNS Weekend

tommerritt@gmail.com (Warpath TV) — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:30:33 +0000

Dr. Niki chats with Jim Ackermans, Naval engineer, about carbon footprint reduction in commercial shipping. What methods have promise and which ones might sink.

Featuring Dr. Nicole Ackermans and Jim Ackermans.

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