In This Episode: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:14 — 53.4MB)
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
- 0:00 LN: Adam, our synthetic announcer and pronunciation.
- 4:21 LN: Some random, short items on AI
- Bots and cloudflare
- 6:00 Claude and bot blockers
- 8:20 AI in politics (which is not AI in politics) – both are scary, though one is “normal”
- 10:15 Mythos fallout? (Server owners, keep checking for updates.)
- 11:55 Fable fail
- 13:30 GR: Bank switch tech standards
- Basically: My bank was bought by another bank, switch was “automatic” which meant I should have only had several hours of work to do 🤬
- Range: enter new routing+account. Scan driver’s license. Send pennies to confirm. Phone call where they called my bank. Login through a link system. No way but to email customer service (still waiting to hear back).
- 30:00 GR: Human Consent Registry https://rslmedia.org/
- 36:40 GR: A rant about click bait scaring people without providing details – https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/
Ain’t it Cool
- 42:00 LN: Gemini for … odd tasks.
- 47:30 GR: Claude Cowork to pick photos
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
- 52:25 LN: Common Cloud Objections: Yes, They Can See Your Data. No, You Shouldn’t Panic. – https://askleo.com/193269
- 53:00 GR: https://macmost.com/an-early-look-at-siri-ai.html (Club MacMost Exclusive)
My last paper check was years ago at the DMV because there’s a surcharge for using a credit or debit card. The next time I renewed, I just had to give them my account number and routing number for a Direct debit authorization which is free.