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Tech Gumbo

Haggai Davistechgumbo.podbean.com
We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible way.
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iOS 18 Released With Security Flaws, Cybersecurity Talent Shortage, Is Big Tech Really Listening, Instagram Restricting Teen Accounts, Autonomous Vehicle Stats

News and Updates: Apple released iOS18, and quickly had to release an update to patch 33 security flaws The Biden Administration is trying to address Cybersecurity talent pool shortage Are the Social Media Platforms really listening to everything, or is it something worse? Instagram rolling out stricter guardrails to prevent teens from “workarounds” Waymo released impressive safety stats for autonomous vehicles

Sep 23, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 498

Kids And Cybersecurity, iPhone 16 Announcement, Apple Intelligence, Apple Pays Ireland $13 Billion

The Question of the Week: My children are starting to use the Internet, what should I be telling them? The Big Stories: iPhone 16 (all versions) announced, plus Apple Watch 10 and AirPods 4 Apple Intelligence (A.I.) will not be available at launch, look for a slow roll out CIO’s and CTO’s concerned about the new iPhone’s AI and security risk Wait until Thanksgiving or Christmas before you buy the new phone or upgrade to iOS 18 Apple loses tax dispute again, must pay Ireland $13 Billion...

Sep 19, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 497

Ford Patents In Car Ads, Voldemort Malware, Hackers Bypassing MFA, Messaging Platforms Becoming Interoperable, Google Maps In Space

News and Updates: Ford was awarded a patented for in car advertising that will listen to passenger’s conversation A new Malware, name Voldemort has been released and is affecting Google Sheets Hackers are learning how to bypass MFA WhatsApp and Messenger must be compatible with Telegram, Signal and iMessage Google upgrades from Sky Maps to Google Maps in Space! And it is Awesome!

Sep 16, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 496

Interview with Brian Housewright - Tech and The Health Care Industry

Tech and the Health Care industry Tell me about the sector of the Health Care industry that you come from? Talk about the evolution of technology in Health Care What is an EHR/EMR? Why is it important? How has it developed over time? What are some of the challenges related to the adoption of Technology in a healthcare setting? How does it affect the user? Talk about some of the key regulations and mandates related to technology in the healthcare industry (i.e HIPAA) Talk about the different Heal...

Sep 12, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 495

Our Guest, Doug Kelly, American Edge Project

The Interview: The importance of American Leadership in all things technology China is biggest threat to US technology and economy Congress needs to develops laws to spur technology advancements

Sep 05, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 493

Altering Google Maps, NFL & Facial Recognition, Gemini Replacing Google Translate, SpaceX for Emergency Cellular Calls, Cars Talking To Cars

News and Updates: People are requesting to blur their homes on Google Maps NFL is using facial recognition for credentialing in Vegas, not everyone is happy with Will Google’s LLM Gemini replace Google Translate? SpaceX wants to provide emergency cellular calls to go across their system USDOT is pushing for car to talk to other cars, especially autonomous vehicles

Sep 02, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 492

DOJ Sues TikTok, Win10 To Win11 Upgrade Mandate, Streaming Vs. Cable TV, Unique Challenge to Section 230, Social Security Number Breach, AI Creates IPA Beer

News and Updates: US Dept of Justice sues TikTok over Child Privacy law infractions Microsoft Confirms Oct 2025 as End of Life (Support) for Windows 10, Upgrade to Win 11 Now! Streaming platforms were 41% of TV watched in July, Cable TV was 20% New challenge to Section 230, trying to use it against Big Tech National Public Data was breached, 272 Mil Social Security numbers released NJ Brewery used AI to create a recipe for a new IPA to great reviews...

Aug 26, 202422 minSeason 6Ep. 490

Google Ruled A Monopolist, Musk Sues Former Advertisers, Musk Moves Twitter HQ

News and Updates: US Dept of Justice wins case against Google Illegally maintained a monopoly status Could possibly change search industry Could possibly change smartphone industry If Google is forced to change, what are the possibilities? Microsoft Edge, Mozilla and Firefox could benefit from the ruling Don’t expect changes from Google very quickly, probably in the courts for years Elon Musk and Twitter/X Suing Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which represents lots of major advertisers Mo...

Aug 12, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 488

Guest Host William Sellers Talking About Datacenters

The Big Stories: What is a datacenter and what actually happens in a there What are the qualifications one would need to have to work in a datacenter? In your nearly 25 years of working in a datacenter, what are some of the biggest changes you seen? Are all datacenters alike? If not, what are some differentiators? DartPoints Datacenters

Aug 08, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 487

CrowdStrike Details, Trump Shooter’s Phone, Stalkerware

The Question of the Week: How can our society minimize the effects of such things as the CrowdStrike Tech outages recently? News and Updates: CrowdStrike: Who are they, Who was affected, What caused the crash, Lessons learned FBI gets into Trump shooter’s smartphone Stalkerware: What is it?, How do you get it?, How do you get rid of it?

Jul 29, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 484

Guest Host Suzanne Wortmann- Car Dealership Woes, AT&T Client Data Leak, No New Siri, Google Maps Upgrade, Google Advanced Protection, Google Monitoring Dark Web

News and Updates: CDK Global ransomware attack cripples car dealerships then pays ransom Entire AT&T Customer Base phone and text data released. White hat hacker deletes the data Apple will not upgrade Siri with new AI until Spring 2025 Google Maps gets upgrades on Car Play Google Advanced Account Protection is easier to use Google will monitor Dark Web for you for free

Jul 22, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 482

Which Accounts need MFA, Big $$ Investments in AI Startups, Smaller AI May Be Better, AI Bubble?, Training AI LLM’s, Too Much Spent On AI, Little ROI

The Question of the Week: Is MFA more important on different types of accounts? The Big Stories: Investors put $56B into startups in Q2- 2024, ½ went to start up AI Companies AI Companies are trying smaller Large Language Models to save money We are in an AI Bubble, are we headed for an AI Burst AI Companies are spending billions on training their LLM’s When, if ever, will investors see a return on their money?

Jul 18, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 481

The End Of: Japan’s Floppy Disk, Wii U, Amazon’s Astro Robot, 1 Million Check Boxes, 10B Passwords Leaked, Tips for Better Passwords, Hackers Stealing Crypto

News and Updates: Japan has finally stopped requiring 3.5 inch floppy disc Nintendo will no longer support/fix the Wii U Amazon ends the Astro Robot program One Million Checkboxes is useless and fun! 10 Billion Password leaded in largest ever data breach 4 Tips for creating better passwords Hackers have stolen $1.4B in Crypto currency so far this year

Jul 15, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 480

A Special 1-Year Later Discussion on LLM’s And Generative AI (Part 2 of 3)

The Expert Panel: Don Monistere, CEO & President - General Informatics Justin Obney, CTO – Paystar Alexander Adams Founder/CEO - Vigilus & Griffin Games Kenny Nguyen, CEO – ThreeSixtyEight From a year ago: What have we learned about Generative AI? What is the predominant status of Generative AI?

Jul 03, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 475

A Special 1-Year Later Discussion on LLM’s And Generative AI (Part 1 of 3)

The Expert Panel: Don Monistere, CEO & President - General Informatics Justin Obney, CTO – Paystar Alexander Adams Founder/CEO - Vigilus & Griffin Games Kenny Nguyen, CEO – ThreeSixtyEight From a year ago: What were we right about Generative AI? What were we wrong about Generative AI?

Jul 01, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 474

iOS 18 Features, Apple intelligence, Apple AI on your iPhone 15 or newer, AI Candidates Running For Parliament and For Mayor In Wyoming Microsoft’s New AI Tool

The Question of the Week: When is ChatGPT coming to my iPhone? The Big Stories: Apple new AI started in Google datacenter, runs local on your phone or Mac Apple’s AI will require the iPhone 15 Pro or later to get all of the features of iOS 18 An AI candidate is running for Parliament in the UK An AI candidate wants to run for Mayor in Cheyenne, Wy- Sec of State says NO! Microsoft’s new AI tool VASA-1 can create realistic videos from a still photo...

Jun 27, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 473

Surgeon Gen’s Warning Label for Social Media, Mouse-Mover get workers fired, Online Passport Renewals, Microsoft Delays “Recall”, Ending Samsung Repair Programs

News and Updates: The US Surgeon General urges Congress to put a Warning label on Social Media Remote workers caught using “Mouse-Mover” technology get fired You can renew your US Passport online, if you are quick enough to log on at 1pm ET Microsoft decides against rolling out “Recall” and negative feedback and security risk BestBuy and iFixit ending their Samsung repair programs

Jun 24, 202422 minSeason 7Ep. 472

Conner Leblanc joins as Special Co-Host- Is Starlink Profitable?, Apple’s Entry in to AI, Siri Gets ChatGPT Integration

The Question of the Week: You mentioned recently that Starlink now has over 6,000 satellites, my question is, “Are they making or losing money”? The Big Stories: Apple’s WWDC announces new “Apple Intelligence”, their entry in the AI arena Apple Intelligence will be integrated into the iOS, iPadOS and macOS Apple’s Siri will get ChatGPT Integration, so will it suck a lot less

Jun 20, 202422 minEp. 471

Conner Leblanc joins as Special Co-Host- Microsoft Teams and Office, Windows Recall, MacBook’s Secret Radio, China’s Prepositioned Cyber Threat, Randy Travis’ New AI Generated Song

News and Updates: The EU has force Microsoft to split Teams from Office Microsoft’s Copilot+ will have a feature called “Windows Recall” MacBooks and iPads have secret radio that does nothing? China is reading cyber attacks aimed at US infrastructure Randy Travis has released an AI Generated song and it debuted on Billboard’s Country chart

Jun 17, 202422 minSeason 6Ep. 470

Restarting Smart Phones, OpenAI’s Next Frontier and SuperAlignment Team, Google Gives Strange Results, Google’s Algorithm Leaked, Can You Trust AI?, Celebrity AI, Low Adoption Rate for AI Worldwide

The Question of the Week: You Should Restart Your Phone Weekly: Here's Why The Big Stories: OpenAI begins planning for their “Next Frontier Model” OpenAI is restarting their SuperAlignment Team to put in safeguards and better training Google’s Gemini Give bizarre search results and scrambles to remove weird answers Google confirms leaked documents about their search algorithm are legitimate Can you trust AI, especially at work? Would you want to talk to an AI of your favorite celebrity or influe...

Jun 13, 202422 minSeason 10Ep. 469
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