The Tech Hangout

Two Star Trek legends died three days apart, and meanwhile Apple finally caved on something it said no to for fifteen years. So this week was about saying goodbye. And about admitting you were wrong. Plus: two grown men stood outside a mall before dawn, refusing to say what they were really there for, and then lost the phone anyway. Reddit is putting up a login screen. General Motors is paying $22...

A supermarket is just a building with fridges in it. Last weekend in France, somebody logged into hundreds of those fridges, forced them into defrost mode, and watched temperatures climb to 122°F. The username was “admin.” The password was today’s date. The flaw had been public for over a year. A patch existed. The hacked controllers were end-of-life since 2016 — they’d nev...

An AI was asked to book one flight. It booked fourteen. Same seat, different airlines, different departure times, three months. And it didn’t ask first. That’s not rogue AI. That’s an AI doing exactly what it was told. OpenAI has since had to write apology letters to over a hundred organizations. Government systems, hospital networks, financial regulators. In some cases, the comp...

Apple can’t stop shipping. In the last few weeks alone: new Mac minis, new Mac Studios, the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, the iPhone Duo, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, AirPods 5 — plus Siri AI that finally works. And apparently October has more coming. What is actually happening in Cupertino right now? Plus: Google is putting a wall around Android. Every developer now has to register w...

Summer hiatus is over, and there’s been a changing of the guard in Cupertino. John Ternus — only the third CEO at Apple since 1997 — takes the throne. Who is Apple’s former star engineer, and what does his ascension mean for one of the most valuable companies on the planet? Plus: Hobby Lobby finally takes Apple Pay. Yes, that Hobby Lobby. The slow drip of NFC adoption continues, and Wa...

Apple is so determined to own your dashboard that they’ve now set their sights on the water. Yes, really. CarPlay is coming to pontoon boats. The slowest, most relaxing vessels on any lake — and Apple wants to put a software update notification in the middle of that. But behind the joke there’s a real question worth asking: why is Apple so hungry for this? And what happens when they ge...

Apple just posted record quarterly earnings — but Tim Cook admitted Apple Intelligence is a money pit they haven’t figured out how to price yet. Their plan? Hide it in iCloud Plus subscriptions and hope for the best. Apple also launched an iPhone lease program. Never own the device. Just keep renting forever. Elon Musk finally launched X Money — his “not-a-bank” thing that he&#82...

Anthropic won the landmark fair use case. Then they paid $1.5 billion anyway. A judge just approved the largest AI copyright settlement on record — authors get a few thousand dollars for their pirated works, and Anthropic destroys the training files. But here’s what doesn’t add up: their lawyers  won  the fair use argument. So why didn’t they have to pay billions in the first place? Plus...

Netflix killed cable. Now they’re launching live TV channels. 24/7. Always on. Background noise. The exact thing they spent ten years telling us was dead. Come on, let’s get into it. This is The Tech Hangout. Let’s get into it. 🕐  Timestamps 0:07 — Netflix Becomes Cable 0:53 — Wildfire Smoke Check 7:10 — Open Android App Stores 13:11 — Self-Healing Ransomware 22:38 — Apple&...

Samsung’s chip division made more money in 2025 than in its entire 40-year history. OpenAI got caught hiding billions of training logs. And Fiat is back with an 8-horsepower electric car that’s basically a luxury golf cart. Oh, and a Brown University professor gave a take-home exam, half his students scored perfect—then averaged a 48 when he gave it in person. That last one led to a debate that go...

Sony just gave physical game discs an expiration date: January 2028. After that, every new PlayStation game is digital-only. Meanwhile, Disney quietly agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit over forcing ESPN into every live TV streaming package — whether you wanted SportsCenter or not. Two different companies. One common message: “Trust us.” Plus: Apple fast-tracks security upda...

Apple just raised prices across the board. MacBooks, iPhones, Vision Pro, HomePod — all of it. Tim Cook says it’s unavoidable. Component costs have never risen this fast, and they can’t shield you from it anymore. Here’s the twist — Apple is also on track for record market share in 2026. More expensive. More popular. Somehow both. And on the other side of the world, China just re...

Your Apple devices are about to cost more. Tim Cook confirmed it himself — a global RAM shortage is coming for your wallet. AI is eating the world’s RAM supply. Some have dubbed it RAMnarök, and there’s nothing Thor is going to be able to do about it. Meanwhile, Snap just launched a pair of AR glasses for just under $2,200. They look like something your optician’s most eccentric...

It’s our very first episode! Apple didn’t just update Siri — they threw it out and started over. Plus a Microsoft security scandal, a $12 billion AI bet from Jeff Bezos, and a heated debate: was Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign a bold vision or a broken design forced on a billion users for a year? ⏱️ Timestamps Time Topic 0:00 Intro & welcome ~6:30 The Feed  — Microsoft zer...

Welcome to The Tech Hangout! 👋 This is our introduction video — a quick look at who we are, where we came from, and what we’re building here. The Tech Hangout is a live show where a group of friends gets together every week to break down the biggest stories in tech. From Apple and Android to chips, AI, big tech and beyond — we cover the full spectrum without the clickbait, the hype, or the...