Listen: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-zngfq-19c47d9

Also covered: Meta tying employee reviews to "AI-driven impact" starting in 2026. UK announces first small modular nuclear reactor facility in Wales. Both signal major shifts in how we deploy technology.

Bruce Ediger noticed Meta's AI crawler hitting his blog, so he fed it 270,000 procedurally-generated pages about condiments and underwear. Meta consumed it all for training data, then kept requesting non-existent pages for 5 more months. Peak AI desperation.

Solo developer Hans Halverson spent 3 years building Brimstone: a JavaScript engine written entirely in Rust that passes 97% of the ECMAScript test suite. Complete implementation from scratch, including Proxy objects and async generators. Memory-safe V8 alternative.

One proof-of-concept logged all processed data while still performing sentiment analysis perfectly. Nearly every major ML framework is vulnerable. The entire machine learning supply chain—including platforms like Hugging Face—is at risk.

Plus: Google's $15B India AI investment, Blue Origin's first booster landing during a Mars mission, Disney-YouTube TV resolution, and Apple Watch import ban developments.
Listen: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-iq3n9-19c378b

AI World Clocks asks nine models to draw analog clocks with HTML/CSS. The results accidentally mirror dementia testing. Haiku 3.5 forgets numbers 2, 9, 10, 11 exist. Qwen 2.5 produces abstract chaos. Clock drawing tests cognitive decline - AI fails the same way.

AWS executed its largest service deprecation ever, killing 24 services at once. Four will force painful rewrites: Glacier API, S3 Object Lambda, Snowball Edge, and CodeCatalyst (AWS's embarrassingly failed GitHub competitor). Clearing out the "rotten fruit."

The timing is suspicious: this coordinated campaign coincides with an FBI investigation into Archive.today's anonymous founder. It represents a new attack vector - bad actors using fabricated legal threats to pressure infrastructure companies into censorship without courts.

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https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-fk5re-19c0882

The question: why hasn't IBM published physical coherence times or logical error rates? Those are the metrics needed for real comparisons with Google's Willow chip. We explain what to watch for as the quantum race heats up.

Main segment: IBM's "Loon" quantum chip (Nov 12). IBM claims it shows the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029 with sub-480ns error decoding. We break down LDPC error correction, tunable couplers, and what IBM isn't disclosing about coherence times.

Today's episode covers Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday (63 vulns including a zero-day already exploited), Rust 1.91.1 (fixing WebAssembly import bugs), and LignoSat—Japan's wooden satellite testing whether magnolia timber reduces space junk by burning cleanly.

Listen:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-k4ivd-19bf233

In today's tech news: Bluetooth 6.2 protects against RF attacks, YouTube forces yt-dlp to require external JavaScript runtimes, and FFmpeg developers tell Google to fund them or stop sending AI-generated bug reports.

Researchers estimate a Carrington Event-level storm today could cause $2.6 trillion in global damage. We came terrifyingly close in July 2012 when a massive solar eruption narrowly missed Earth.

The same solar energy that creates stunning auroras can overload our technological infrastructure. The 1989 Quebec blackout left six million people in darkness for nine hours from a solar storm.