Episodes

  • 3×72: Lawyers guns and money

    3×72: Lawyers guns and money
    Oct 1 2025
    Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we have a single topic this week! [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:05] OpenSSF: open infrastructure is not free, and the OpenSSF are making some noise about it [00:25:16] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via […]
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    28 mins
  • 3×71: Did we do something correct?

    3×71: Did we do something correct?
    Jun 11 2025
    Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we complain about the universe, we cannot commit to podfading, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:28] Governments using commercial chat systems [00:20:55] A pro tip for you: udm=14 [00:24:09] iOS 19 refresh (talked about before the beta announcement of “iOS 26”) [00:39:44] Outro We’re on […]
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    42 mins
  • 3×70: Swallowed up in Crimethink

    3×70: Swallowed up in Crimethink
    Mar 6 2025
    Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which encryption backdoors rear their ugly heads (party like it’s 1999!), Minority Report is not a manual, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:19] The UK government demands that Apple put a back door in their end to end encryption. Apple are not prepared to do this, […]
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    48 mins
  • 3×69: They Call It Nice

    3×69: They Call It Nice
    Jan 27 2025
    Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is sadly unwell (get well soon Jezza!) and so we in theory look at the latest news but actually spend three quarters of the show on one topic! This is what happens when there’s no Jeremy to keep us on track. Including: [00:00:00] Intro […]
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    53 mins
  • 3×68: In The Abysmal Sea

    3×68: In The Abysmal Sea
    Dec 19 2024
    Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we are back, back again, Bad Voltage is back, tell a friend, and we look back a little at the big things that happened in 2024’s tech world: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:19] Social Media 2024 [00:26:19] Drones in NY [00:30:28] The UK is over […]
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    56 mins
  • 3×67: Drunk From The Wrong Grail

    3×67: Drunk From The Wrong Grail
    Aug 12 2024
    Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is a particularly excellent shirt, a particularly absent salting of the conversation with, y’know, actual facts and that from Jeremy, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:19] CrowdStrike: how half the computers in the world went down (with thanks to abadidea for research) [00:28:41] Reddit might paywall […]
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    59 mins
  • 3×66: Return of the Mack

    3×66: Return of the Mack
    Jul 11 2024
    Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we return after an unplanned hiatus, there is a squirrel in your car (not a euphemism), and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:04:16] The US government demands that Bytedance sell TikTok, or do they? There’s lots going on in this case, and it leads into lots […]
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    54 mins
  • 3×65: Not Evenly Distributed

    3×65: Not Evenly Distributed
    Mar 1 2024
    Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look to the year ahead (well, the 10 months ahead) and predict what will happen in the tech industry and the world in 2024. 2024’s predictions: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:49] Jeremy: Sundar Pichai will not be CEO by end of 2024 [00:06:55] Jeremy: […]
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    51 mins