Daily Tech News Show

Instructure reached an agreement to pay attackers of its Canvas portal so students can get back to work, and Thinking Machines announced a research preview of a more natural conversation flow called Interaction Models.Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

Reddit is testing annoying users with an unskippable pop-up. Meanwhile, Google researchers find an LLM-generated bug and warn that there are more to come.Starring Tom Merritt and Robb DunewoodShow notes can be found here.

And thousands of schools facing ransomware as finals loom, but Airpods might get Siri’s Visual Intelligence.Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

Andy Beach tells us why streaming platforms should be more wary of slop fraud, plus Google’s new fitness tracker erodes the Fitbit brand more, and why Anthropic bought all of SpaceX’s data center capacity. Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

Apple is reportedly checking out Intel and Samsung as alternate sources for its main device chips, and OpenAI is working really hard to bring a smartphone to market as soon as 2027.Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

Ask.com shuts down after 25 years of answering the world’s questions, and how might the growth of “podslop” could impact the podcast industry in the next year.Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.Show notes can be found here.

Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of April. Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.

Google is rolling out Gemini to Google built-in as a replacement to Assistant, and Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum can now be enjoyed on new portable handhelds designed to look like the classic computers.Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.