Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the problem of spam in the current era. We last talked about spam in 2007. (Note that spam is distinct from slop. In the news, Rym is back from Hong Kong, supply chain attacks remain a major threat, the kids are booing AI people at graduations, Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, deepfake software is getting better, and Meta is laying off 10% of its entire workforce.
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Tech News Roundup May 2026
May 4 2026
Tonight on GeekNights, it's a Tech News Roundup! Madison Square Garden's insane surveillance machine, …
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Age Verification on the Internet
February 23 2026
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the dangers of trying to mandate age verification on …
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Webcams
January 26 2026
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss webcams. In the news, ICE murdered another person in …
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Tech Bubbles
October 20 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss tech bubbles like the Dot-com bubble. Unrelatedly here's a …
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Fitness Tech
September 22 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss fitness tech like heart rate monitors and Strava and Dance …
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Specific Mice
September 8 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about specific mice. Mice we've used over the years, since …
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Video Chat and Teleconferencing
August 25 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the modern marvel that is video chat. In the …
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Computer Audio Interfaces
August 11 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss audio interfaces. Rym uses a PreSonus Studio 1810c to record …
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Why there's no big tech news
July 14 2025
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider why there, broadly, aren't major consumer technology developments lately. In …
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