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An episode touching hardware in the real world — worn LEDs and tired OLED monitors — software, AI, standards, energy, and a look at human-scale tech stories from social networks to education.

From AI-discovered math proofs and open hardware to geothermal power, streaming megamergers, and niche personal software, this episode tours the week's biggest stories in tech, science, and the systems that shape them.

From AI building software in an hour to AI agents discovering new materials — this episode looks at what large models can now actually do, and where they go wrong: forged cartoon signatures, a diary read by police, a hacked Mac Mini. Then security and privacy news from Texas to Denmark, developer tooling updates, and the industry moves shaping robotics and chips.

A rapid tour of this week's tech and society news: AI safety split, agents' failures, GPU and WebP engineering wins, free-culture fights over Flock and 3D scans, plus niche tools and games.

From SaaS becoming harnesses around models to TPUs in orbit, this episode looks at how AI is reshaping software, hardware, and privacy — plus local inference engines, agent databases, a Stratego-playing AI, exoplanet imaging, Zig's new release, a Gleam blogging pipeline, von Neumann lore, and museum visits.