TEH 274: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies

In This Episode: AirPod Cameras, Book Scanning, and Digital Outrage: Tech’s Latest Controversies

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:36 — 56.5MB)

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.

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Top Stories

0:00 LN: AI podcasts / AI voices
- 1:00 NotebookLM – https://notebook.google.com
- 4:00 GR: My personal podcast
11:00 GR: AirPods “cameras”
- https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
- I’m guessing these don’t record, and maybe don’t even use full color regular light
- Maybe one frame and low res and no ability to record at all
- Worried that there will still be some backlash
- 22:30 Apple vision pro
23:40 GR: Are AI companies really destroying rare books? I have an idea what is happening, and it isn’t as bad as it sounds.
36:00 LN: When your cloud storage provider goes under?
- Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under
- Someone wise once said: “If it’s in only one place, it’s not backed up.” and “The cloud is only one place.”
- 43:25 Online backups as archival storage. Drives have raised in price.
46:00 GR: The whole Claude watermarking thing.
- https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
- 48:00 Marked by choices of words