1024 | Models, Sandboxes, and one Retro Easter Egg

From new open-weight language models and hardened AI sandboxes to dashboards replacing six-figure tools, phone privacy fights, and a handful of delightful web curiosities — a fast tour of what the tech world shipped, leaked, and argued about this week. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:57 New AI models and how they're kept in line 00:09:36 AI's growing footprint — trust, benchmarks, and one big claim 00:16:23 Privacy, platform lock-in, and phone security 00:22:32 Internet culture: time nerds, rediscovery, and retro charm 00:27:49 Quick hits: home, retro gaming, and code caveats 00:34:08 Closing Related links OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone Time Nuts (2005) Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web CVE Tracker Apple Music 404 Not Found Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025) UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does Job loss and cortisone mania View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].