TEH 268: Airline Bluetooth Scare. Understanding the Cloud. Is AI Creepy?

In This Episode: Airline Bluetooth Scare. Understanding the Cloud. Is AI Creepy?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 0:00 GR:   Police department’s social media tactics lead to arrests — and criticism
  •   https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/21/police-departments-social-media-tactics-lead-to-arrests-and-criticism/
  • (“The online attention can have long-lasting consequences for those named in the posts”)
  • GR: Reserecting Vine
  • https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/ 
• 7:00 LN: Neo competitors arrive.
  • Microsoft’s surface laptop ultra – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-laptop-ultra 
  • https://www.howtogeek.com/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-are-doomed-to-fail-heres-why/ 
  • Nvidia chip based (ARM) – doomed IMO
  • GR: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/macbook-neo-outsold-every-other-mac/ 
• 14:00 GR: Plane turned around with bluetooth device name
  • https://apnews.com/article/united-flight-newark-spain-bluetooth-device-ccdd9c111084ca0b8f5127f1baa74465 
• 29:00 LN: Cloud Storage, Objections, and a great AI use case
  • Can cloud services see your data?
  • Do cloud services use your data?
  • Do cloud services own your data?
• 45:00 GR: Asking AI to do something and then being creeped out that it did it well
  • https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/941388/gemini-spark-ai-agent-trip-planning
• 50:00 GR: Guess you didn’t escape the “subscription” after all
  • https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-no-edit-documents/

Ain’t it Cool

• 55:00 LN: Eupohoria
• 56:00 GR: Boys Series finale

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 1:01:00 LN: Mythos About Mythos – https://askleo.com/192235
• 1:02:00 GR: https://macmost.com/7-skills-you-need-to-master-mac-pages.html

Transcript

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Video

https://youtu.be/3p3G94fTSjE