Daily Podcast – 2026-10-05
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a mix of stories ranging from major global data breaches and the latest in AI infrastructure, to deep dives into niche engineering projects and the ongoing debate about digital privacy. We'll be covering the passing of a tech history figure, the massive environmental footprint of modern data centers, and the latest struggles with platform control in the mobile world. Let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:26 Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died 1:50 Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data 3:44 Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back 5:31 Web Search API 7:22 Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage 9:34 Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge 11:20 Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped 12:50 Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation 14:28 We ported the original Doom to SQL 16:01 Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust 17:49 A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE 19:45 The Tao of Backup 21:13 A map of every lighthouse 22:46 What is going on with ceiling fans 24:07 Outro