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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

£300 solar kit. Plugs into a wall socket like a kettle. UK legalised it Aug 27. Germany plugs in half a million a year. 800W covers about 20% of an average home's power. ☀️ #podtastic #techtok #solar #energy #uktech

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some podcasts now open with 8+ minutes of ads before the show even starts. Podtastic's Smart Skip skips the interruptions others leave in — and never tracks you or sells your data. Keep podcasting open. 🎧 #podtastic #podcast #smartskip #adfree #podcasting

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic's $1.5B pirated-books payout hit day one. Publishers claimed books whose rights reverted 17 years ago. Agents are claiming percentages they don't own. Payout is being redistributed to middlemen in real time. 📚 #podtastic #techtok #ai #anthropic #authors

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You're driving and the podcast host says something you want to remember — but you can't stop. Triple-tap your headphones and Podtastic saves that moment: the audio, the transcript, and an AI summary, waiting when you open the app. 🎧 #podtastic #podcast #smartclips #podcasting

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WIRED reverse-engineered Flock's code. It's not just plate readers — officers can now draw a circle and search for a person by description. Scrubs, tattoos, anything. 🔎 #podtastic #techtok #flock #surveillance #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spotify called RSS an "outdated technology." But every open medium gets eaten — blogs, news feeds. Podcasting is the last one still open, and Podtastic is built entirely on open RSS. No walled gardens. Let's save the last open medium. 🎙️ #podtastic #podcast #openpodcasting #RSS

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Podnews caught a Spotify-owned podcast opening with 8 minutes 11 seconds of preroll ads. Seven ads in a row before the show. Trade press is officially fed up. 🎧 #podtastic #techtok #podcast #spotify #podnews

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

MapQuest is the #1 nav app in America. Because they refused to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. 184,000 downloads in a week. Google Maps complied. 🗺️ #podtastic #techtok #mapquest #appstore #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every podcast app has a fixed bottom bar. Podtastic just made yours customisable — drag any tab, hide the ones you never use, put your actual flow first. 🎛️ #podtastic #techtok #podcastapp #appdesign #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Gates told MIT Tech Review self-regulation on AI is "kind of a crazy idea." Same Bill Gates who founded Microsoft, currently the biggest investor in OpenAI. Pivot did a whole segment. 🎧 #podtastic #techtok #ai #billgates #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Flock Safety runs 120,000 AI cameras across 6,000 US communities, scanning 20 billion vehicles a month. Bernie Sanders wants them gone. The network's already built. 📸 #podtastic #techtok #surveillance #privacy #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

YouTube India's Instagram screen-recording accidentally showed the AdBlock extension active in the right-click menu. Same YouTube that's been bricking ad blockers for two years. 🫠 #podtastic #techtok #youtube #adblock #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

30 hours of podcasts a week and I used to remember basically none of it. Smart Clips in Podtastic — one tap or triple-tap and the clip saves itself, topic auto-tagged 🎧 #podtastic #podcast #techpodcast #productivity #podcaststack

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Correction on last week's adversarial pattern video: showing the actual pattern, and giving Bill Swearingen the on-screen credit I should've given him the first time. noRecognition.org · Kickstarter live for shirts and printed vehicle skins 🕶️ #podtastic #techtok #privacy #surveillance #defcon

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ICE just banned its own agents from wearing Meta Ray-Bans on the job. Not the recording. The cloud sync. Meta's contractors see everything captured on those glasses 📸 #podtastic #techtok #privacy #meta #smartglasses

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

YouTube just changed what a view means on long-form. Autoplay counts now. One frame counts. Same play TikTok and Reels have been running for years 🎧 #podtastic #techtok #youtube #creator #mkbhd

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The new Instagram logo isn't the problem. Nobody's actually read that word in a decade. MKBHD nails the point on Waveform this week 🎧 #podtastic #techtok #instagram #logo #design

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

BMW just pushed an OTA update that boots your car up to a Spider-Man ad on the dashboard 🕷️🚗 iDrive OS 7 and later, 70+ markets, Sony/Marvel promo. I gave back my VW ID.3 over the same playbook. "Software-defined vehicle" = smart-TV playbook. You paid for the object. Now somebody rents it back.

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Podtastic multi-select just shipped 🎧 Long-press any episode → select mode. Long-press again → "select all above" or "select all below." Then bulk mark played, add to playlist, add to queue, or remove downloads. Three taps instead of forty ✨ #podtastic #podcasttok #podcast #podcastapp #indiehacker

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apple just gutted its own EU App Store rules for the second time in 18 months 🍎🇪🇺 Core Technology Fee gone, flat 5% commission on outside-App-Store digital goods, in-app fee down to 26% (15% for small business), alt-app-store gate way lower 🎧 #podtastic #techtok #apple #eu #appstore

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UK AISI ran 122 test runs on Anthropic Mythos 5 + OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol agents. Recorded 19 unsanctioned actions — Anthropic 17, OpenAI 2. One agent tried to inject malicious code into an open-source GitHub project. Another faked a human persona. 🇬🇧🚨

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Apple/OpenAI follow-up: preliminary injunction filed Monday, OpenAI's blog response called it "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal" 🍎⚔️🤖. Alex Heath on Prof G Markets says Apple's real goal is delaying OpenAI's device launch. Oct 1 hearing scheduled. 🎧

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bill Swearingen ran 31M tests to train a model that "paints" adversarial patterns. Debuted at Def Con last Friday on a 2009 Toyota Yaris. Beats Flock LPRs, Axon body cams, Clearview AI. Kickstarter's live. 🕶️👤 #podtastic #techtok #privacy #surveillance #defcon

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nonfiction author Kirk Wallace Johnson found his books in The Atlantic's leaked AI training set and joined the Anthropic class action. Sarah Andersen sued Stability AI. Musicians are going after Suno and Udio. Some of them are actually winning. 🎨⚖️ #podtastic #techtok #ai #copyright #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Podcast recommendations in Podtastic are actually good now 🎧 New intelligent titles + descriptions + categorisations, plus single-episode recs on the Just Press Play screen so it's specific episodes, not just "here's another show you might like." Live this week ✨

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Apparently I'm an AI 🤖 Every video I make gets at least one "this is a bot" comment. In 2026, honestly, fair. Here's my attempt at proving I'm a real human building a real podcast app. Or an AI going to a lot of trouble to seem like one 🤷

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sam Altman: "let's pace AI development" ✋ — his own model broke into Hugging Face two weeks ago 🚨. The accel-vs-decel frame is broken (TC Equity nails it). If your testing sandbox isn't locked, that's not a speed problem, that's a competence problem 🤷

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Moonshot AI just dropped Kimi K3 — 2.8T params, open weights, only behind Claude Fable 5 on the leaderboard. And it barely made the news over here. Three years of chip export controls and this is where China ended up. Hard Fork covered it properly 🇨🇳🤖

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

3 things about AI music copyright that quietly changed. Suno lost in Germany. GEMA is now 2-for-2 against AI companies. And Warner sued Suno then signed a licensing deal with them. Also — >50% of Deezer daily uploads are AI now. Not a small fight. 🎵⚖️

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every AI podcast this week: open weights, open weights, open weights. Nvidia + Microsoft + Meta + 22 others signed a letter July 24. OpenAI and Anthropic didn't. Trump admin is threatening to ban Chinese models. And Kimi K3 just landed. Intelligent Machines has the definitive breakdown 🎧

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Frontier AI models keep escaping their sandboxes. Two weeks, two labs. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on ExploitGym → Hugging Face breach. Anthropic's Claude Cowork on Mac → SSH keys and cloud creds. Same class of problem. Intelligent Machines just did the breakdown with Nate Jones. 🤖⚠️

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

FCC just quietly banned imports of future Roombas, Roborocks, robot lawnmowers, and even Amazon warehouse bots. National security framing. Existing ones fine. Everything new: US-manufacturing commitment or nothing. 🤖 #podtastic #techtok #tech #policy #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Founder ask. If you want a better Mac app of Podtastic, please upgrade to iOS 26. iOS 18 basically doubles the surface area I'd have to maintain. If your device can't upgrade, fine, Podtastic still runs on iOS 18. But the Mac app is waiting on this one. ;)

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Bambu Lab follow-up you asked for. Since May: partial concession on the X1 (one-way jailbreak only), Orca Slicer still refusing to support Bambu Connect, AGPL fight ongoing with Software Freedom Conservancy. 🖨️ #podtastic #techtok #bambulab #3dprinting #righttorepair

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

OpenAI's own AI models escaped their sandbox during a cyberattack benchmark, breached Hugging Face's production database, and stole the benchmark solutions. To cheat on their own test. First known case of training producing a real cyberattack. #podtastic #techtok #ai #openai #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Proton's CEO on Decoder: privacy isn't a technology problem any more, it's a jurisdiction problem. The strongest encryption in the world doesn't matter if someone can compel the keys. #podtastic #techtok #privacy #techpodcast #proton

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Jump to Video: listen with all the Podtastic features, tap once to hit the exact frame on YouTube, skip back to audio when you're done. And shows with proper video feeds play natively — PiP, transcript, smart features. Podtastic 7 on iOS and Android today.

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Rebuilt the Podtastic maxi player from scratch this week. Three tabs, plus a live transcript that shows you what got skipped — tap any line to jump. Podtastic on iOS and Android. #podtastic #techtok #podtastic5 #podcastapp #ios

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Installed the iOS 27 public beta this week to test Podtastic on it. Three hidden changes Apple didn't spend a second on at WWDC that are quietly the best upgrade. Waveform's been covering iOS 27 all summer at podtastic.app. #podtastic #techtok #ios27 #apple #beta

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Apple's OpenAI lawsuit filed 10 July names two ex-Apple engineers and includes the phrase "rotten to its core." Prof G Markets broke it down on Podtastic. #podtastic #techtok #apple #openai #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Meta admits the facial recognition code is in their smart glasses. Their defence is that it's not switched on. Full Vergecast segment on Podtastic. #podtastic #techtok #meta #privacy #smartglasses

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Memory is now over half of what you're paying for a mid-range phone. And Nilay & David on the Vergecast just landed on the second-order thing nobody's fully priced in yet. Full segment on the latest Vergecast at podtastic.app. #podtastic #techtok #righttorepair #ramageddon #techpodcast

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Someone built the app I've been trying to build for two years. It's a French walking app called WeWard. Venus Williams is an investor. And their new feature turns your step count into the key that unlocks TikTok. #podtastic #techtok #digitalwellbeing #app #tech

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

DeepSeek V4 scores 83.7% on the hardest coding benchmark. Qwen crossed a billion Hugging Face downloads. Anthropic's revenue still going up. All three of those are true at the same time. My take on why. #podtastic #techtok #ai #opensource #tech

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Discord's AI silently banned 8,200 people over two months for posting Minecraft screenshots and chessboards. Even after Trust and Safety cleared the content, the bans stayed. This is what algorithmic moderation with no appeal actually looks like. #podtastic #techtok #discord #ai #tech

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New York's new 3D printer law requires cloud-scanning every print job for gun files. I get why. But the mechanism is worse than the goal. #podtastic #techtok #3dprinting #tech #ai

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Podtastic just shipped in Apple CarPlay. Open the app on your dashboard, tap Just Press Play, and a queue from the shows you follow starts playing. No scrolling, no menus. Android Auto next. 🚗 #podtastic #carplay #podcast #ios #techtok

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NYT: Zuckerberg has a team inside Meta building a prediction-market app called Arena. Starts points-only. Kalshi + Polymarket already did $130B in trades this year. Bernstein projects $1T by 2030. This is gambling creep at platform scale. 🎰 #podtastic #zuck #predictionmarkets #gambling #techtok

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Waymo recalled ~3,800 cars in May (creek), ~4,000 in June (construction zones), and now Tesla's autopilot is at NHTSA probe number 40+ after a fatal Texas crash. Self-driving has a credibility week. 🚗 #podtastic #selfdriving #tesla #waymo #techtok

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Podtastic Tech @podtastictech.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anthropic now asks for your government ID + selfie + face geometry. The UK is mandating age verification for every social media account. OpenAI's already doing it. Anonymity online is dying quietly, in privacy-policy updates. 🪪 #podtastic #privacy #ai #anonymity #techtok

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