Show notes
In This Episode: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.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 Stories3:08 LN: “How Do I Know You’re Not AI?” – Article coming up “tomorrow” as we record this.A problem that’s only going to get “worse”, for some definition of worseAs things improve, will it matter? Good content is good content regardless of the source, right?7:00 GR: Starting to suspect PR pitches are using a lot of AIEvery one now starts with flatterySuggestions can be totally of the wall12:00 GR: AI MusicNeeded music, Suno was easy and “safe”What are the alternatives?Music without soul? Or, not all art needs to be Art.15:00 Link to video montage: https://vimeo.com/1187110569/1742b3aeb4 Cain Walker: https://www.youtube.com/@CainWalkerMusic real or AI?27:00 LN: Anthropic’s Mythos: hype or legit concern?Pronunciation controversy? 😏Supposedly extra good at identifying vulnerabilities“We have identified thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities that we are working on responsibly disclosing to open source maintainers and closed source vendors.”Just as good at fixing?Project “glasswing” – a select few, but you know it’ll get outNot targeted at vulnerability detection, just a Really Good Model that happens to do this well. What else will it do well?Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities – AnthropicAnthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems – Hacker News37:00 GR: Ditching VPNI’m done wasting my vacation time46:00 LN: Didn’t work in the hospital either47:00 GR: Travel: Real camera kept winningBig sensor, big glass, viewfinder, but also mindfulnessAin’t it Cool58:00 LN: The Boys – not for the faint of heart, but fascinating, and the subtle and not-so-subbtle digs to current events are great. (Daredevil also.)59:00 GR: “Apple: The First 50 Years” by David PogueBSP: Blatant Self-Promotion1:01:00 LN: How Do I Know You’re Not AI? – https://askleo.com/1917831:02:00 GR: 10 Weird macOS Features That Are Somewhat Useful (2026)Transcriptteh_266Machu PicchuMachu Picchu as shot. Click for larger image.Machu Picchu after “dehaze” applied. Click for larger image.Videohttps://youtu.be/xqu_aV429rA