In this episode, Carolyn Ford welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent a…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates! Paperlike Screen Protector Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds Hydrogels can learn to play Pong Lavarand Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their T…

Grape Job! This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color Libby Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case Kindle Scribe Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Good-Bye to All That Kindle Unlimited Ghost Fleet D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Mas…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite! Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile Dave enjoyed The Penguin The '#1 restaurant in Austin' doesn't exist Do Robots Love Their Customers? Auto…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile! EcoFlow Power Hat Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine See also: Slim Goodbody Make It Stick Writing advice: Keep the bear,…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI! Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 The European Patroleum Survey Group what3words Google Plus Codes Cardinal direction 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems OpenStreetMap Overture Maps Foundation Prithvi WxC: NASA and …

This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263! Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching! Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka RHEL AI released! Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at …

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people! Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut! An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie Ohio Renaissance Festival D&G This Week in Skeuomo…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666! Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek Black-bellied whistling duck Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days The Hives Hate to Say I Told You So Foo Fighters Steve Miller Band (80!) Journey Def Leppard (6…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones! Apple Watch Oura Ring Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE University of Farmington University of Farmington on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine World's first …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment! Apple Care After World by Debbie Urbanski Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner Microsoft's new lightweight AI rivals GPT-3.5 — it's learning from children's boo…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers! Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi! Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate! The creepy sound of online trackers Check the videos here! A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese! Resident Alien (TV series) Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper Pixel Buds Pro A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam Commonwealth Legal Services Liberals acc…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets Fallout Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced Laudato Si, paragraph 107 HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages D…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots Bloons TD 6 Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything MemGPT MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System MemGPT Explained! Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Wo…

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu. Bali ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It Search…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful Dave achieves Platinum Pro? Dave becomes an author using AI? Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive Chatbot Hallucinations …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans! Gunnar endorses: DND Beyond Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen Dave endorses: Kindle Scribe Julia H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war 211. Regulating AI by Executive Order …

This week Dave joins Dynatrace’s Carolyn Ford on the Tech Transforms Podcast about what's scaring the public sector most and how Salesforce is utilizing - and securing - AI to improve customer experience with their Einstein Trust Layer. Additionally, Carolyn and Dave dive into the spooky worlds of brain cell chips, mind-reading AI, and more! Key To…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things! Grammarly Pocket Feedly Blogtrottr Slack Remember the Milk Todoist Drafts DayOne 1Password Bitwarden uBlock Origin Video Speed Controller GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) Chromebooks Thermoworks Thermapens Radbike Radrunner 2 Yamaha MT/FZ-09 Anything from Tom Bihn Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!) Sc…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism! Dreamforce Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit Who Are the Salesforce Characters? Caffeine 2, Dave 0 Awake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bites Panera Charged Lemonade Dungeons & Dragons…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them. Iceland Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Delete on Netflix Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work Open source generative AI Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT FreedomGPT GP…

Grammarly includes AI assistant! Warp terminal? Ansible Lightspeed Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator DebateDevil chirper.ai: Social Network for AI. No humans allowed. First, they came for the fortune cookie writers AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host Sources: …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills ChatPDF Einstein GPT GitHub Co-pilot Amazon CodeWhisperer MidJourney is a lifestyle MidJourney Prompt Helper Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT D&G This Week in “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Dept: Develop…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX Marriott does MFA wrong iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to enable it Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks Gunnar endorsed: time blocking @[email protected]! Perplexity AI: generative AI with citations! Edible NDAs: The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore. Drinkers needed to help deputi…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)! Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800) ChatGPT Mastodon RSS ActivityPub PeerTube Pixelfed Friendica mastodon.social invite from Dave This is why we can’t have nice things Movetodon: Find your Twitter f…

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216! Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders! Dave endorsed: OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video) Rectangle (see YouTube video) Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac John le Carré NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts US Police Warn of P…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce! Karate! In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse Sold out: Cargo swim briefs This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard Kinesis Advantag…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs! GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO Pocket Drafts The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split. Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet Toilet Seat With Remote Control Meet the Polish LARPe…

This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud! Check out Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum on episode 237! Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell Profian Defcon Blockchain Zero Trust: Poorly named? Would Explicit Trust be more accurate? Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thom…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes SANDMAN Dave is now a TODAQ advisor! (See also D&G 216!) What’s more stable than Bitcoin or UST? AriZona Iced Tea To learn more, check out their whitepaper D&G This Week in Slippery Slopes Quest 2 Add-On Increases VR Immersion by Making You Suffocate Finally, VR for your mouth Th…

This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum about confidential computing! Check out Mike on D&G 201 from 2020! Enarx Red Hat Profian McCallum-Relyea exchange Trusted computing Confidential computing – the new HTTPS? Confidential Computing Consortium Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Digital Rights M…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting Gunnar endorses: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Simply Piano Pianos.pub: Find a public piano to play Sur l'air de service ← Burger King in France Red Hat Summit! Dave end…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action! The Container Commandos Coloring Book Podman Podman in Action by Dan Walsh! Docker systemd Kubernetes OpenShift Get started with RHEL for Edge rpm-ostree podman-machine Docker Desktop Podman Desktop What Is Confidential Computing? virtiofs podman-tui SCaL…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time) Keychain garage door openers: they’re great! How to See Your Uber Passenger Ratings Breakdown (and Improve Your Score) How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot)…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets! Google Meet bot Drafts Todoist The Eisenhower Matrix Tech Startup Wants To Gamify the U.S. Court System Using Crypto Tokens No one asked for lickable TV, and yet… This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor This X Does Not Exist Ar…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming Drafts! From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals See also: D&G 43 -- Goldfish driving a robot car -- Feb 2014! Rats in Doom VR Remote Control Cockroach Ingenious new search and rescue drone finds people by listening for screams I, Libertine…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone Air Conditioning test in Allendale FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware See also: D&G 138 (from 2017!) …

Dave read Dune The Dune Encyclopedia Luminations Antiwork Receipt Printers Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme Real-time deepfakes could bring chaos to your next Zoom call Check the examples: GitHub - iperov/DeepFaceLive Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings Biometric auth bypassed using fingerpr…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs! Dune RHEL 9 Beta Pine Gap Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo A&W Turns its 'Worst Marketing Fail' Into a New Burger How Twitter Applied the “Jobs to Be Done” Approach to Strategy Marketing Ma…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel iPad Mini remains excellent Leaf blower paradox of choice A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches People are hiring out their faces to become deep…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes David Macaulay books and Turing Tumble Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' Trust Facebook to find a way to make video …

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters Marriott misses Dave New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard Hogwarts Castle Lego is a journey D&G Viewer Mail Uzoma Nwosu rejoices Norm Joseph endorses Norms Dr. David A. Wheeler says: “Podcast didn’t mention by name “Law(s) of War”, yet I think…

Gelato Network is middleware infrastructure used by DeFi protocols & platforms in order to automate certain smart contract interactions. Their partners include MakerDAO, Aave, InstaDapp and others. The episode was recorded in July of 2021 at EthCC in Paris. Please excuse some background noise.By Cursed Mining

Florian Glatz, Crypto Lawyer in action at EthCC4 and talked about cryptocurrency & regulations regarding Ethereum, DeFi and beyond. Florian has founded the European Crypto Initiative - among many things they are a place where you can get informed about what is going on with blockchain & law. This episode was recorded in July of 2021 at EthCC Paris,…

Discussing Crypto, Mining Pools and the Aion project with the founders of Aionpool Tech. Recorded in October 2019. Cursed MiningBy Cursed Mining

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and deep work retro innovation Microsoft Natural Keyboards are not water-resistant Mini Metro Critics Say Apple Built a 'Backdoor' Into Your iPhone With Its New Child Abuse Detection Tools Related: The CEO of WhatsApp Attacked Apple Over Privacy. He Seems to Have Forg…

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory Bo Burnham’s “Inside” Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center Are advertisers coming for your dreams? Silent Lucidity by Queensryche Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen) Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants…