PC Pro Podcast 679

The team discusses skyrocketing investments in AI and cloud hardware, a collapse of employee morale at Google, and a clever trick that breaks Microsoft's BitLocker disk encryption. They also explore the worry over electric toothbrushes being absorbed into malicious botnets and the latest developments in right-to-repair legislation. The episode covers the Ubiquiti UniFi Enterprise 8 PoE as the Hot Hardware candidate. Additionally, they discuss the capital expenditures of hyper cloud companies and the risks and benefits associated with investing in AI technologies. AI-enabled insights and job search on LinkedIn, a user information leak on the Spoutable platform, the opening of Blue Sky microblogging site, account control and switching for Wi-Fi access, and the limitations of Wi-Fi 7 chipsets are also discussed.