Zero Downtime

Apple products are about to get more expensive and Apple is pointing at AI as the reason, Samsung and SK hynix and Micron are being sued for allegedly restricting consumer RAM supply, Best Buy accidentally listed a $149,999 TV for $2,999, and T-Mobile is quietly walking away from the Un-carrier identity that built the company. This week, John and Logan break down eight stories covering AI's real c...

Researchers say they have found an iPhone exploit Apple cannot patch, a man in the UK was just criminally convicted in 2026 for burning and selling pirated CDs, and a high school student in India just cracked open Apple's AirPods walled garden. This week, John and Logan break down ten stories covering AI, Apple, healthcare breaches, wireless plans, and one genuinely bizarre medical study. Stories...

The White House just forced Anthropic to shut down Claude Fable 5 less than a week after launch, and the fingerprints on that decision lead straight back to Amazon. This week, John and Logan break down the wild 48-hour Fable 5 shutdown, the new class-action lawsuit hitting Anthropic over Claude Max usage limits, Fox's $22 billion acquisition of Roku, and the UK's aggressive new ban on social media...

Apple's new Siri is quietly powered by Google's Gemini, hackers took over Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram by simply asking Meta's AI, and Microsoft just shipped native Linux commands directly into Windows. This week, John and Logan break down WWDC 2026, the critical UniFi exploit IT teams need to patch immediately, the AI customer support failure that gave away 20,000 Instagram accounts, and the histo...

Microsoft's banned security researcher is back with a new project that allegedly bypasses BitLocker, Starbucks just retired an AI that could not reliably count syrup bottles, and Japan's tooth-regrowth drug is actually in human trials. This week, John and Logan break down eight stories shaping tech, AI, and cybersecurity right now. Stories in this episode: Nightmare-Eclipse returns with Bitskrieg....

Microsoft just phased Claude Code out of internal developer use, the Pope dropped one of the most important AI documents of 2026, and a hacker GitHub banned is reportedly threatening Microsoft for the next Patch Tuesday. This week, John and Logan break down what's looking like an AI cold war inside Microsoft, the Vatican entering the AI policy debate, the security researcher Microsoft cannot conta...

This week, John and Logan take a break from the news roundup to go deep on one topic: Zero Trust. No vendor pitch, no sales angle, just a real conversation about why the castle and moat security model is dying and how Zero Trust is changing the way the industry thinks about ransomware, identity, and access. What's covered in this episode: What Zero Trust actually means. Never trust, always verify....

A security researcher took remote control of thousands of internet-connected robotic lawn mowers, then drove one over a reporter to prove the point. This week, John and Logan break down the Yarbo hack and what it means when cybersecurity gets physical, the iOS 27 leaks that suggest Apple is scrambling to fix Siri, the strange silence after the Canvas breach, and Chrome quietly downloading a 4GB AI...

A platform built to expose ICE operations may have ended up exposing nearly 18,000 of its own users instead. This week, John and Logan break down the GTFO ICE data leak and the irony of an activist site getting taken down by Web App Security 101 mistakes, Utah's new law that tries to make websites responsible for VPN users (which is not how the internet works), the Microsoft Defender update that s...

Apple might be about to rebrand its entire lineup around one word: Ultra. This week, John and Logan break down why the foldable iPhone is reportedly going to be called iPhone Ultra (not Fold), the AI coding agent that wiped an entire production database in 9 seconds and then wrote an apology, Ford's new patents that let your car decide whether you are allowed to drive, and the new Windows 11 polic...

Prego just released a device that records your family's dinner conversations, and we have questions. This week, John and Logan break down the strangest brand pivot of the year, why Microsoft's 8,000 person buyout is really a layoff in disguise, how a new AI model is finding zero-day vulnerabilities at 10x the normal rate, and whether Xbox actually dropped prices or just rearranged the math. Storie...

GTA 6 just got hacked again, Apple is betting its next big product is smart glasses, Huawei beat everyone to the next foldable trend, and you literally cannot buy certain high-end Macs right now. This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down the Rockstar Games ransom demand from a group called ShinyHunters, Apple's rumored 2027 smart glasses and the pivot away from Vision Pro, Huawei's new...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down a packed lineup of stories that say a lot about where tech is heading right now: T-Mobile tightening device promos, Steam on Linux climbing past 5% market share, the Microsoft Copilot “for entertainment purposes only” controversy, reports that LinkedIn may be scanning browsers for thousands of Chrome extensions, and NASA using an iPhone to phot...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down Apple Swift 6.3 adding official Android support, the head of Claude Code saying Claude writes 100% of his code, the LiteLLM supply chain hack, why the Mac Pro may be effectively finished, what is really behind falling RAM prices, and what showed up in the Infinite Campus breach dump. They start with Swift on Android and why this matters beyond...

Zero Downtime is a weekly tech news and cybersecurity podcast. In this episode, John and Logan break down the Infinite Campus breach, the Intoxalock outage, the Stryker cyberattack, Amazon's reported smartphone comeback, Chrome for ARM64 Linux, Google Search AI rewriting headlines, and Microsoft's latest Windows 11 quality fixes. They start with Infinite Campus, the student information system used...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down the Windows 11 bug affecting some Samsung PCs, Google’s move to make Android sideloading less anonymous, Meta ending optional encryption in Instagram DMs, the growing Anthropic vs FSF fight, and the experimental AI-assisted cancer vaccine story that is raising real questions about the future of personalized medicine. They start with Microsoft c...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down the iPhone Fold CAD leak, Windows 12 rumors, Ray-Ban Meta privacy concerns, Apple’s MacBook Neo, and the real quantum threat to Bitcoin. They start with Apple’s foldable plans and whether the iPhone Fold could finally make foldables feel mainstream. Then they get into Windows 12 and the bigger shift happening inside Microsoft, where AI features...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down Apple MacBook Neo rumors, DeepSeek vs Claude AI, suspicious Polymarket Iran bets, and the growing legal fight over 3D printer gun file bans. They also dig into operating system age verification and why Oracle could become one of the biggest winners in the next phase of medical AI. First up, 3D printer gun files. Several states are trying to res...

On this episode of Zero Downtime, John and Logan dig into what happens when automation gets too much access. An internal Amazon AI agent was configured to “fix unused resources” and had the ability to terminate EC2 instances, delete S3 buckets, and modify IAM roles. It misread production state and started deleting critical infrastructure. Not malicious. Not hacked. Just overly trusted automation a...

This week on Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down a Chrome zero-day being exploited in the wild, a ClickFix-style DNS attack that turns troubleshooting into malware delivery, and why Windows 11 is pushing more users toward Linux. They also dig into Apple’s rumored A18 MacBook aimed at the Chromebook market, plus the lawsuit alleging an AI “stolen voice” connected to Google NotebookLM. Topics c...

Every year, people buy a massive TV for the Super Bowl and return it days later. Retailers know it happens. Policies are built around it. And eventually, the cost shows up somewhere. In this episode of Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down the Super Bowl TV return cycle, how it creates waves of open box inventory, and why policy abuse always leads to tighter rules and higher prices. They also t...

John and Logan open this episode of Zero Downtime with a simple idea to fix the Olympics: bring back the drugs. They look at what was common in the earliest Games, why modern purity is mostly branding, and how the Olympics sell a cleaner story than the reality. From condoms to cardboard beds, they break down the myths that keep getting repeated and what the facts actually say. They then move into...

In this episode of Zero Downtime, John and Logan open with the annual Groundhog Day debate and why the push to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a 3D projection keeps resurfacing. What starts as a cultural sideshow turns into a familiar argument about tradition, technology, and what we are actually trying to prove. The conversation then shifts into real world tech, breaking down how John Deere GPS gu...

In this episode of Zero Downtime, John and Logan break down why you should ditch Ring doorbells after the Ring and Flock Safety connection, and how cloud stored footage can get pulled into bigger search networks. They explain the limits of opt in controls when video lives on someone else’s servers, what subpoenas and the data broker loophole change, and what a safer setup looks like with local rec...

In this episode of Zero Downtime, John and Logan unpack reports that Iran was able to disrupt Starlink during protests and why that matters more than most people realize. If satellite internet can be jammed or interfered with, it changes a lot of assumptions about censorship resistance and always on connectivity. They dig into what actually works when traditional networks go dark, why mesh network...