Your favorite podcast about nothing continues to find things to talk about.
Whatever you do, DO NOT e-mail me at podcast@searls.co or else I will read it on air and tell everyone how smart you sound and how good you look.
Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.
Links to follow:
- Loving my Tariffmas gifts: external SSD array and pool skimmer, especially
- My first taste of GitHub Copilot's Agent mode
- Me putting Agent mode to the test in a fun little screencast
- Aaron's puns, ranked
- Videogame consoles like the Switch 2 are NOT exempt from tariffs
- Digital Foundry's technical analysis of Mario Kart World
- The stunning Marathon cinematic trailer
- Star Wars Zero Company is the X-Com game I want
- Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals
- A bunch of Vision hardware leaks and rumors: 1, 2, 3, 4
- People at Apple were calling the AI/ML group AIMLess, lol
- React Native might not be as popular as you think
- Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up
- Incredible plot to print every single possible ticket to win the Texas lotto
- A Lack of Intelligence, Not Training, May Be Why People Struggle With Computers
- AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows
- LLM bots + Next.js bankrupting people who design their sites badly
- Apps are being paid to install frameworks that sell users' bandwidth to proxy providers for AI scrapers
- OpenAI o3 and o4-mini announced (they also hallucinate more)
- GPT 4.1 is better at coding
- Codex CLI is OpenAI's answer to Claude Code
- Extremely long read: OpenAI is a Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry
- GPS magnetic quantum is 50x more accurate and unjammable
- The Gorge is good but takes a sharp left turn into horror town
- I went to Epic Universe and have opinions