Daily Tech News Show
By Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes (11)
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DTNS May 2026 in Review
The May 2026 tech landscape was defined not by breakthroughs, but by systemic shifts: Google’s aggressive pivot to AI agents across its ecosystem, the controversial rollout of AI features in search, and a wave of price hikes that are reshaping consumer expecta
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NVIDIA Comes for Windows PCs - DTNS 5280
NVIDIA is making a bold move into the consumer PC market with the RTX Spark, a 20-core Grace CPU co-developed with MediaTek and built on the Blackwell architecture, designed for thin laptops, compact desktops, and the DGX Station workstation. This marks a dram
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Microsoft Announces Its Most Powerful Surface at Build 2026 - DTNS 5281
Microsoft just dropped its most powerful developer hardware yet: the Surface RTX Spark DevBox, a compact, aluminum-chassis machine packing 128GB of unified RAM and a 190-watt thermal envelope powered by NVIDIA's new ARM-based RTX Spark chip. Designed explicitl
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Google Brings a Powerful Multimodal LLM to Your Laptop - DTNS 5283
Google has just released Gemma 412B, a powerful multimodal large language model that can run locally on laptops with just 16GB of RAM—making advanced AI accessible without cloud dependency. This isn't just a technical upgrade; it's a strategic shift toward pri
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How Does Gurman Get All Those WWDC Leaks? - DTNS 5284
The Daily Tech News Show dives deep into the mystery behind Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the most prolific Apple leak source, asking how he consistently uncovers details about Apple's WWDC keynote months in advance. While Gurman's accuracy is legendary, the episod
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Do People Hate Tech Now? - DTNS Live
The host and guest, Ayaz Akhtar of PCMag and CNET, confront a central paradox in modern tech culture: despite widespread claims that people hate technology, the real issue isn't hostility toward tech itself—but a profound erosion of trust in the institutions b
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Microsoft Breaks a Patch Tuesday Record - DTNS 5287
Microsoft unleashed its largest Patch Tuesday ever, fixing 206 security vulnerabilities—39 of them critical—marking a turning point in how software security is discovered and disclosed. At the heart of the storm is 'Nightmare Eclipse,' a mysterious researcher
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Microsoft Gets Honest About Xbox - DTNS 5288
Microsoft is facing a reckoning with its Xbox division, admitting publicly that it's underperforming with a mere 3% profit margin and a $20 billion investment in Activision Blizzard failing to drive revenue growth. In a rare, unvarnished memo, CEO Asha Sharma
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SpaceX IPO is All Systems Go - DTNS 5289
SpaceX has officially launched its IPO on NASDAQ, opening at $150 per share and surging to $166 midday—ushering in a new era of space-based tech and billionaire wealth. The event marks Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire, with a net worth of $1.1 trill
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Is Dario about to become Dari-out? - DTNS 5290
The U.S. government has abruptly ordered Anthropic to shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally, citing export control concerns after Amazon employees reportedly bypassed safety protocols to uncover vulnerabilities. While Anthropic claims
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Snap’s Specs Are AR Glasses Without the Puck - DTNS 5291
Snap just dropped its long-anticipated AR glasses, Specs, and they’re not what you’d expect: no tethered puck, no bulky backpack, just sleek, normal-looking glasses with full-color AR, four hours of battery life, and a $2,195 price tag. These aren’t the Vision
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