Chaos Lever Podcast

Redefining Virtualization in the VMware Acquisition Era Episode: 89 Published: 1/18/2024 VMware’s virtualization Voyage Ned and Chris are at it again in the latest Chaos Lever episode, serving up their unique blend of tech expertise and uproarious humor! This time around, they’re tackling the big shake-up in the virtualization world ��� the aftermath of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. The duo di...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 023 Published: 1/16/2024 Tech News of the Week for 1/16/2024 AI versions of people are upsetting the internet, HPE and Cisco are making some interesting acquisitions, and Wifi 7 is here, but will it live up to its theoretical specs? People Are Creating AI Versions of People, and People Are Pissed HPE Acquiring Juniper to Enhance Their AI Networking Chops Wifi 7 is Here,...

The Future of Tech in 2024 as Predicted by Ned and Chris Episode: 88 Published: 1/11/2024 Nostradamus Who? With their impeccable track record of defying the odds and predicting upcoming events in the tech landscape, Ned and Chris once again place their metaphorical bets on the top tech news for 2024. Coming up, they predict various acquisitions, a legal reckoning for AI from none other than Mickey...

The 2023 Tech Year in Review Episode: 87 Published: 1/4/2024 Prognostications, Auguries, and Soothsaying: Oh my! In this special episode of Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned sit down to review their predictions for 2023 to see if they have proven to be accurate, or at least amusing. Ned provides compelling evidence for why most of his predictions were somewhat correct, although Chris challenges some of h...

The Not-So-Hostile Takeover of iMessage Technology Episode: 86 Published: 12/21/2023 The Dreaded Green Bubble It���s the shake-up of the century, or at least… it���s pretty big news. It seems that pretty soon, non-Apple devices will be able to support iMessage technology. So how is this even possible? In order to answer that question, Ned walks us through the history of text messaging technology,...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 022 Published: 12/19/2023 Tech News of the Week for 12/19/2023 Google loses monopoly case, but Google Fiber will be offering a 20Gbps symmetrical speed service for $250 per month, the Okta security breach is worse than everyone thought, and VMWare is discontinuing their perpetual licensing. Advertising Company Google Loses Monopoly Case Around App Store 20Gbps For A Mere...

The Trouble with Smart TVs Episode: 85 Published: 12/07/2023 A Big Ol��� IoT Vulnerability - A Breakdown What is IT security, and why should you care? As Chris explains in this episode, IT security in the IoT affects us all - especially if you own a smart TV. That���s right, four years ago a major vulnerability was reported in the technology used to cast media from one device to a smart TV . Four...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 021 Published: 12/12/2023 Tech News of the Week for 12/12/2023 Quantum Modular Computing from IBM 23AndMe Attack Just Went From Bad To Worse Amazon Q is like pretty bad Advertising Company Google Announces AI-Powered Upgrade to GMail���s Spam Filters Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

An OpenAI Question Episode: 84 Published: 12/07/2023 The Altman of It All There���s a lot of players involved in the latest card shuffle over at OpenAI, and it���s no wonder this mess is making headlines. It���s not every week you see a CEO ousted, hired by Microsoft, and then hired back by their previous company who then replaces their entire board. So how did this happen? Is it just an example o...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 020 Published: 12/5/2023 Tech News of the Week for 12/5/2023 Actually Employing People To Write Content Is For Losers, Skinflint Publishers Continue To Try To Say DevTernity Canceled After Faking Diversity Disturbing Reports Surfacing About Advertising Company Google���s Drive Service Losing User Files Maybe Robotaxis Aren���t Doing That Great Intro and outro music by Ne...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 019 Published: 11/23/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/23/2023 Microsoft Brings a Nitro Boost to Azure NVIDIAs Insanely Expensive AI Chips About To Get Expensiver Rackspace���s $11 Million Mistake I Was GOING To Complain About TikTok, But NOW I Have To Complain About Nothing Apple is dipping their toe into the open-standard RCS protocol Intro and outro music by Ned Bella...

Security Field Day with Forward Networks Episode: 83 Published: 11/21/2023 Security Field Day 10: The Security Fieldening Another day, another��� Field Day? The most recent Security Field Day, namely the 10th one on record, was two weeks back, remotely this time, on November 8th. For people who want to see the full details, including recordings of the sessions, they are available at TechFieldDay.c...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 018 Published: 11/16/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 Apple Makes Major Video Output Device Change In Minor Release of OSX GitHub Copilot is the Future of Programming New AI Product Alert: This Time It���s a Lapel Pin That You Can Talk To! Ventana Pushing RISC-V in the Datacenter Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

KubeCon Conversations Episode: 82 Published: 11/14/2023 Deep Dishing on KubeCon 2023 Chicago Last week Ned attended KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2023 in Chicago, which for our purposes we will simply refer to as KubeCon going forward. While he was there, Ned met with a ton of vendors, walked the expo floor, and attended 0 keynotes or sessions. Let���s talk about it! Ned’s List of Cool Vendors : Acorn La...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 017 Published: 11/09/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2023 Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted On All Counts Great News! Nuclear Fusion is Just ��� 15 Years Away! Real-estate Company WeWork Likely Filing For Bankruptcy Trillion Dollar Advertising Company Google Continues Cash-Grab TLDs, this time .ing Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Hold My Asahi: Linux on the Mac Episode: 81 Published: 11/07/2023 Linux on Apple Hardware?!? Say it IS so! Asahi Linux’s principal objective is to allow Linux to run on Apple Silicon. This is the M1, M2, M3 chips that are proprietary to Apple, but based on ARM and not x86. They���re also (probably) eventually the only chips you will get in consumer grade Apple compute products. As we will see, the...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 016 Published: 11/02/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2023 Fighting Back Against AI Companies Harvesting Images Online With Nightshade Intel Thinks That ARM CPUs are NBD Cisco CVE With A Severity of 10 Remains An Active And Dangerous Threat Oxide Compute Receives $44M From Intel Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Journey To The Center Of AI Episode: 80 Published: 10/31/2023 How to AI AI has been in the headlines almost constantly for the last 18 months. But despite all that fanfare, ChatGPT���ing, and Faces being hugged; I have to admit that I still don���t know how it all works. Not that anyone really does, but beyond the prompt text I submit to a Chats GPT or Dalls ‘E’, I don���t know what is happening i...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 015 Published: 10/26/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2023 Nvidia and AMD take to ARMs Unusual Job Openings Alert: Old Tech In Museums Is Breaking Down Patching Across the Universe Elon���s Plan Of Charging $1/year For Twitter To Defeat Bots Is Guaranteed To Fail Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Oxymoronic Business Intelligence Episode: 79 Published: 10/24/2023 What is Business Intelligence (BI)? When you hear someone say Business Intelligence? It���s probably that ���business intelligence��� is one of those famous contradictions in terms like ���jumbo shrimp��� or ���Congress in action.��� But in reality Business Intelligence is something we definitely know about, and are affected by, ev...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 014 Published: 10/19/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/19/2023 Microsoft Retiring NTLM FINALLY VBScript is also being removed from future Windows releases AI Can Be Useful: Reading Unopened Scrolls From Herculaneum With Computers AI Can Be Useful Two: Ebook Bugaloo You can find all the books on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or the Internet Archive DRAM and SSD Components About...

HashiConf 2023: A Private Preview Episode: 78 Published: 10/17/2023 Just Flew Back From HashiConf, And Boy Are My Tacos Tired HashiConf is (as the name strongly implies) the annual conference held by HashiCorp, creator of fine products like Terraform and a bunch of other things you might not have heard of. Ned attended the conference last week and is here to summarize the announcements around Vaul...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 013 Published: 10/12/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/12/2023 OpenAI is looking into making their own AI chips Like Crushing Water With Your Hands Multiple 3nm semiconductor processes failing to reach 50% viability Quantum-tunneling problems Adding RISC To Satellites��� but in a good way Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Living On The Edge Episode: 77 Published: 10/10/2023 Edge Field Day 2: The Edgening Last week, I attended Edge Field Day 2 remotely, and I wanted to share what I learned and the vendors who presented. In case you didn���t know, Edge Field Day is part of the Tech Field Day series of events put on my Gestalt IT. Other variations include Security Field Day, Cloud Field Day, and Mobility Field Day. Th...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 012 Published: 10/05/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/05/2023 BlackBerry Stock Inches Up On Less Losses Apple Blames Everyone But Themselves For Issue They���ve Had for Years Net Neutrality Coming Back? Raspberry Pi 5 Released Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022