Daily Podcast – 2026-10-25

Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we are diving deep into a mix of high-stakes surveillance, cutting-edge AI architecture, and the philosophical challenges of modern software development. From finding root shells on consumer electronics to debating whether a 10-year-old CNN can beat the latest frontier LLMs, we have a packed show. Let's get into the stories.

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:22 Root shell on Samsung TV 0:58 Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop 1:41 Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more 2:24 We should be more ambitious with the software we build 2:56 The Goose Programming Language 3:52 A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis 4:33 Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models 5:06 GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards 6:06 Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin 6:36 JetBrains Thinkrail 7:09 Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions 7:46 I don't understand quantum physics (2018) 8:36 I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 9:12 Small Programs and Languages 9:45 fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine 10:52 Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you 11:20 Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz 11:48 AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework 12:29 Story 19 13:33 Story 20 14:39 Story 21 15:41 Story 22 16:42 Story 23 17:47 Story 24 18:53 Story 25 19:46 Story 26 20:47 Story 27 21:39 Story 28 22:37 Story 29 23:34 Story 30 24:38 Story 31 25:34 Story 32 26:18 Story 33 27:07 Story 34 28:10 Story 35 29:12 Story 36 30:11 Outro