It was a pretty momentous week in US politics this week with a historic midterm election outcome that inspired us to sit down and discuss our media consumption on election night, including the Kornacki Cam and the Giant Bombification of the Internet, plus algorithmic social media bubbles and more. We also caught up on some recent news we've been meaning to get to, like the touchscreen MacBook Pros, (minor) problems with the iPhone Duo, Reddit moving to a logged-in-only site, and the end of the Cybertruck. Lastly, we touch on some low-cost 10 gigabit network hardware and Steam Frame insert optics that we've been hands-on testing. It's a pretty packed podcast!

Notes 'n links: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-364-kornacki

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Last week was a rough one in the annals of cybersecurity, with a major vulnerability in the PHP language that runs the majority of the web, and a grossly negligent lapse in the certificate chain of trust that validates the identity of major websites. There have also been very serious exploits in Plex, the Linux kernel, and plenty of other stuff lately, so we put on our amateur infosec hats and try to make sense of all this chaos, what's driving it, how you can protect yourself, and where this all might be going.

Show notes and links: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-363-cybersec

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The year's most horrifying crop of questions has arrived (accompanied by some fun spooky usernames), and we bare our fangs as we address such topics as: 5AM air travel hacks, what to do with decommissioned Ring cameras, extending your devices' lives in these uncertain times, home VPN options in a world of rapidly increasing security issues, choosing a monitor refresh rate, Halloween candy rankings, the AI-driven Eternal September, whatever happened to the Optimus keyboard, launching your own CubeSat, and a bunch of other stuff.

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