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9to5Mac's daily podcast recap reports that Apple has launched a new Apple TV 4K model and made its HomeView feature available. The episode rounds up these developments as part of its daily news summary without providing further technical details.
Nature debuted a new podcast series called 'Cooked?' in which a reporter interviews climate experts about renewables progress, AI's energy demands, and how nations are performing on climate targets. The first episode features Hannah Ritchie, Ketan Joshi and Niklas Höhne discussing whether data support cautious optimism despite record heat, floods and wildfires over the past year.
Fiverr has released data identifying the highest-earning side hustles on its freelance platform, ranging from podcast production to app development and website building. The report cites a separate Omnisend survey of 1,370 Americans showing 28% currently have a side hustle, with 80% of those saying they started one for financial reasons rather than enjoyment.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts Rebecca Bellan and Tim De Chant spoke with Ascend Analytics senior managing director Brent Nelson about distinguishing real data center construction plans from speculative announcements. The discussion addresses obstacles like local opposition, permitting delays and electricity shortages facing the broader data center boom.
Developer Iain Kay created 'Ram-Altman,' a bash script that checks a Linux system's RAM usage via /proc/meminfo and sends an email to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once per day if more than 10 percent of memory sits available. The project is a satirical response to Altman's October 29 Cheeky Pint podcast comments criticizing idle personal-computer RAM as a waste of the world's limited DRAM supply.
In a new episode of 9to5Mac's Security Bite Podcast, macOS security researcher Christopher Lopez discussed how attackers reportedly used a malicious Homebrew clone and a fake job-interview lure to compromise an engineer's Mac, which then enabled the record-breaking $6.3 billion Binance hack. Host Arin Waichulis and Lopez walked through how the infection chain unfolded on macOS systems.
In Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, voters decided on 41 ballot measures related to data centers, approving added restrictions in all but one. The results came alongside Democratic wins for governor and congressional seats, with candidates who campaigned partly on tighter oversight of data centers and Big Tech. TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the implications for the tech industry, noting OpenAI's recent efforts to rebrand data centers.
Sam Altman changed his display name on X to "Ram Altman" after facing online criticism, including from Elon Musk, over remarks he made on the Cheeky Pint podcast about consumer RAM versus data-center memory. Altman said his comments were taken out of context and claimed he has long advocated for increased memory production.
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, writer Amanda Silberling and colleagues discussed a pattern of tech executives making AI anecdotes that struck many as tone-deaf, including Dazzle AI CEO Marissa Mayer's comment about using AI to describe her daughter, Sam Altman's remarks on AI-generated podcasts for kids and parenting with ChatGPT, and Mark Zuckerberg's comments on AI fulfilling social and romantic needs. Silberling argued the issue is 'a little bit of both' marketing and product design, and warned the industry risks optimizing basic human interaction out of daily life.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that he sympathizes with mathematicians overwhelmed by the company's flood of AI-generated math results, but that OpenAI will keep publishing them. He argued the public's right to scientific knowledge outweighs the disruption caused, while admitting OpenAI needs to improve how it communicates its findings.
A publicist and podcast host explains that experts who pitch media outlets by listing their credentials and job titles often get ignored. Media producers, she says, are instead looking for guests who can address audience problems with a unique perspective, not just a resume.
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz discussed two critical bugs recently discovered in PHP, the open source language powering roughly 70% of websites. Schwartz described working alongside OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team to address the flaws, which forced some organizations to take sites offline until patches were applied.