Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #179 (10/15/2026)
Tech Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it - Engadget Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police - Ars Technica Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices - Ars Technica YouTube Music rolling out AI labels in the Now Playing screen Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022 - Engadget Trump ballroom’s biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies - Engadget Gaming Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy Epic Brags That Its New ‘Vibe Coded’ Store Launcher Is Faster Than Steam Epic Is Overhauling Its Anti-Cheat So That Fortnite Can Finally Come To A New Platform - GameSpot NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership - Engadget Big Walk Developers Say “Free Palestine” 🍉 Deals/Sales/Free Games PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk and more Please consider supporting the channel and the MajorsHouse network at https://ko-fi.com/majorlinux If there are any topics you’d like to see covered, reach out to ttt@majorshouse.com or join the Discord at https://majors.house/discord