The Lighthouse IT Podcast

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - June 26th, 2026 No AC, No Problem. Lessons from a Week Without Air Conditioning. In this episode of the #LighthouseITPodcast, we reflect on the rapidly changing business landscape and the importance of business resilience. While many businesses focus on cyber threats or technological failures, environmental surprises, such as an unexpected air conditioning failure durin...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 29th, 2026 What Happens When 275 Million Users Depend on One Platform? In this episode of the Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast, Matt and Griffin discuss the April Canvas (Instructure) breach claimed by ShinyHunters, involving about 3.65 TB of exfiltrated data affecting roughly 275 million users across about 9,000 institutions, including names, emails, student IDs, an...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - April 3rd, 2026 In this episode of the Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast, Matt and Griff discuss the open source movement and how it compares to proprietary software. They explain what open source means, highlight common examples (Linux, Firefox, VLC, WordPress, Android), and outline key benefits such as lower cost, flexibility, transparency, and the “many eyes” security...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - March 6th, 2026 In this Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast episode, we discuss why small businesses may benefit from AI faster than large corporations, focusing on what large language models (LLMs) are, how chatbots work beyond “a fancy Google,” and why AI can hallucinate or overly agree with users. We explain tokenization and context, then contrast chatbots with agents th...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - February 6th, 2026 Welcome back to an exciting new season of the Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast! As we embark on this journey, we bring with us a series of changes and insights into the ever-evolving landscape of technology. Dive into the transformations in our podcast format, the technology trends shaping the industry, and how you can prepare for the inevitable shifts...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - December 26th, 2025 In this final 2025 episode of the Lighthouse IT Solutions Podcast, Matt and Griff reflect on the year. They break down the biggest tech stories, security shocks, and industry shifts that shaped the year, and what they mean to us, our clients, and business owners in general, heading into 2026. Highlights we cover: Valve’s 2026 “Trinity” vision: Steam...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - December 12th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff cover: 🧊 Valve's Gaming Trinity: Frame, Machine, and Controller Walk Into 2026 📝 AI Can Invent, But Humans Get the Patents (And the Lawsuits) 🤖 Anthropic's Opus 4.5: Smarter, Cheaper, and More Effort-Conscious 💻 Anthropic Disrupts First Fully AI‑Orchestrated, China‑Linked Cyber‑Espionage Campaign Don't miss o...

Join us for our annual end-of-the-year address where we dive into the latest advancements and initiatives at Lighthouse IT Solutions, as well as what the future holds. This session covers changes in digital presence, AI applications, operational automation, enhanced IT security measures, and a new face in the company. Key topics include the transition from SSL VPNs to Zero Trust solutions, SEO and...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - November 14th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff cover: 🔐 Password = “LOUVRE” ☠️ SonicWall Breach: Mandiant Confirms State-Sponsored Attack 💸 Nvidia Breaks Records: First $5 Trillion Company 🤖 Is AI Dumber on Mondays? 🤐 Your ChatGPT Prompts Are Showing in Google Search Console 🔎 AI Training on Google Search Results Featuring Reddit 🗺️ Apple Maps Ads Coming in 2026 📍...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - October 31st, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff cover: 📉 #AWS US-East-1 outage disrupted major services 🛏️ Eight Sleep smartbeds malfunctioned during AWS outage 🌐 #OpenAI launches #ChatGPT Atlas browser, starting the AI browser wars 💼 Meta revives job listings in Facebook, but within Marketplace 💬 Meta to shut down Messenger desktop app Dec 15th 📱 Instagram UI shifts...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - October 17th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff cover: 🤖 #OpenAI’s launch of #Sora2, a new #AI video platform that’s already topping the App Store charts and blurring the line between content creation and social media. ☠️ A potential zero-day threat brewing for #PaloAltoNetworks. 🤳 #Discord’s first major age-verification data breach and what it means for third-party secu...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - October 3rd, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff cover a range of topics, including Jaguar Land Rover's recent £1.5 billion loan to recover from a cyber attack, the emergence of Spam GPT, GPT's interaction with online shopping, and upcoming features like Chat GPT Pulse. We also touch on the ongoing legal battles of tech giants like Google and TikTok, and delve into s...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - September 19th, 2025 This week, Mark and Matt examine the new reality where AI bot traffic has surpassed human web activity, while simultaneously exploring how AI is reshaping both threats and defenses. We cover emerging challenges from Gen Z workers' security blind spots, AI-powered ransomware targeting developer tools, rising AI costs, and Google's open-source...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - September 5th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss the wild intersection of cybersecurity, branding blunders, and algorithmic overreach. From an exploit that ripped through SonicWall to a disgruntled developer’s revenge code that landed him in prison, the digital world is anything but quiet. Add in Cracker Barrel’s $100 million logo misstep, Instagram’s stealthy ad t...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 22nd, 2025 Join us in this episode of the Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast as we dive into a variety of topics! From discussing weekend movie plans including 'Barbarian', 'Him', and 'Nobody 2', to talking about technological advancements and AI's impact on the economy. We cover wins in the tech industry, such as Epic Games' antitrust case against Google, and the r...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 8th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff uncover the hidden superpowers of everyday technology: 🫨 Millions of Android phones are now part of a crowdsourced earthquake alert system. 🐧 The surprising surge of Linux on desktops as it challenges Windows and macOS. 🤵 Microsoft Edge gets an AI 'Copilot' butler. 🏫 ChatGPT gets a new "Study Mode" designed to teach, not ju...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 25th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff dive into: 🎸 Soundslice's Accidental Feature : Music learning platform Soundslice noticed users mistakenly believed it had a feature for scanning ASCII tablature for guitar due to misinformation from ChatGPT. Instead of correcting the error, Soundslice decided to develop the feature. 🔍 Instagram Now Google-Searchable : Pub...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 11th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff dive into: 🏎️ Apple's F1 Movie Races to the Big Screen, and Controversy 🪦 RIP Blue Screen of Death. Meet Its Dark Successor 🖼️ PNG Format Is Back, and It's Better Than Ever 🗣️ Branding 101: Should Your Company Yell or Whisper? 🤑 Cloudflare Tells Bots to Pay Up 📈 Bots Buying Ads? Google's Agent2Agent Advertising Re...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - June 27th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff dive into critical cyber alerts as the "Scattered Spider" group targets insurance firms and CISA issues urgent warnings for TP-Link and Zyxel devices. In the gaming world, a new handheld war begins with the Microsoft/Asus ROG Ally taking on the record-breaking Nintendo Switch 2. Plus, we break down Google's new con...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - June 13th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss the future of AI, spacey software loopholes, Apples rebranding, Gen Z's surprising take on data privacy and why your LinkedIn post probably isn't going viral. https://hub.lighthousesol.com/blog/lighthouse-podcast-2/claude-4-forever-trials-gen-z-data-deals-linkedin-algorithm-seo-2-0-405

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 30th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff talk about how HBO is renaming itself again, the Pope's trading card craze, Collage students using AI to "cheat", Apple and BYOD, Coinbase's breach due to bribery, Regeneron buying 23andMe, why your IT budget might be dangerously low, and much more!  https://hub.lighthousesol.com/blog/lighthouse-it-podcast-2/holy-cards-cheating-g...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 16th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss: 🕹️ How Gemini 2.5 Pro beat Pokémon Blue 🎵 The Janet Jackson Song Crashed Laptops for 9 Years 🔑 OpenAI's Restructuring and Microsoft Holding the Keys 📊 AI Usage Stats in 2025: Beyond Search and Code 🔍 When AI Workers are coming and the Security Risks ⚖️ The new App Store Freedom Act 🛻 The Slate Auto Debut, A $20K...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 2nd, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff delve into how Sam Altman stresses the unexpected computational cost of digital politeness in AI interactions, security vulnerabilities, such as a critical flaw in CentreStack and Triofox, and an unconfirmed Oracle Cloud breach. Also, Apple is looking at new Vision models to advance their AR technology, how iPadOS might soon resem...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - April 18th, 2025 This week, we discuss the latest tech breakthroughs, as well as some history. They explore Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, where past and present CEOs reflected on the company's influential history and future potential. The launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 boasts some upgrades and exciting new games. Additionally, Roblox's collabora...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - April 4th, 2025 This week, we discuss a wide range of developments in the tech world, first the Pebble Smartwatch. The Core 2 Duo ($149) is bringing back the nostalgia of the original Pebble with the same black-and-white e-paper display and a battery life lasting over 30 days. The addition of an in-device speaker for chatting with AI assistance is a modern touch. The Co...