TEH 273: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones.

In This Episode: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones.

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: Baseball with ipads.
  • https://apnews.com/article/mlb-ai-ipads-ac940e2490557438f440514977832a74 
  • 5:30 Ai is not smarter. People have been doing this all along.
• 12:56 GR: City and counties are putting up cameras to record everything.
  •  https://www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/
•  23:00 LN: The OpenAI “breakout”
  • – https://apnews.com/article/openai-hugging-face-hacking-ai-model-708cb598bc1e33cef560e7196adb2afa 
  • Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? 
  • Imagine if your AI could not only search the public internet, but also use stolen credentials to sign-in to private networks. That’s kind of what this is.
  • It’s messy. Guardrails were apparently not at 100%
  • Is it mimicking humans? Humans willing to use compromised credentials, that is.
  • Concern, OF COURSE, is that today it’s data retrieval from a competitor, but it could someday be data poisoning, or worse.
• 34:00 GR: Drones to be used to try to stop school shootings:
  • https://www.edweek.org/leadership/drones-to-stop-school-shootings-promising-tool-or-unproven-strategy/2026/05 
  • Will they really be effective? 
  • What are the costs? Budget vs just guards and more traditional methods. Budget vs spending money on actual education.
  • 38:00 What about pepper balls?
  • 39:00 Hacked pepper balls?
• 42:00 GR: Apple sued because of a third-party app. Is the only legal option for Apple to be 100% perfect when it comes to app store security?
  • https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/apple-sued-after-alleged-app-store-crypto-scam-cost-users-1-8m/

Ain’t it Cool

• 47:00 LN: Furious. (Hulu) – Dark police murder mystery series staring Emily Rossum (Shameless)
• 48:00 GR: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot diaries series)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 49:00 LN: How Do I Find Good Local Computer Help? – askleo.com/25661
• 50:00 GR: How To Protect Yourself Against ClickFix Scams

Transcript

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Video

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