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June 16, 2026Episode 11323 min

Bigpod alone again Yawn

bigpod talks: wwdc 2026 so much AI Valve Watch - still waiting is disapointed Antropic releases and unreleases Fable 5 Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 9, 2026Episode 11244 min

Miasma: The Latest Blight

Security News: Redhat NPM packages were found to be compromised https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-npm-packages-compromised-to-steal-developer-credentials/ These packages were not in a public repo redhat publishes for customers Another compromised github account Chrome Adds Per Device Session Cookie Protection https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-chrome-adds-session-cookie-theft-protection-for-all-users/ This should prevent things like the LTT youtube channel hack. At the possible tradeoff of user privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A&pp=ygUYTFRUIHlvdXR1YmUgY2hhbm5lbCBoYWNr Nvidia RTX Spark https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/nvidia-gets-into-the-arm-pc-business-with-new-high-end-rtx-spark-processor/ Josh Almost fell victim to an AI fake, thankfully Google might be doing something about it. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/google-rolls-out-fake-call-detection-to-protect-against-ai-deepfake-impersonation-scams/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

June 1, 2026Episode 11133 min

Bigpod talks Valve Watch

Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 26, 2026Episode 11041 min

Google’s Latest Snafu

Plex increases lifetime license by 200% https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/plexs-200-lifetime-pass-price-hike-tries-forcing-users-to-another-subscription/ Use Jellyfin - https://jellyfin.org/ Tor Project launches a new crowdfunding campaign to fund “Internet Freedom projects” https://cyberinsider.com/tor-launches-crowdfunding-campaign-to-support-internet-freedom-projects/ https://internetfreedom.torproject.org/ Google Accidently leaks an unfixed Chrome vulnerability https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-accidentally-exposed-details-of-unfixed-chromium-flaw/ https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40062121 Google announces the end of Google Search https://www.businessinsider.com/google-intelligent-search-box-ai-mode-features-information-agents-io-2026-5 Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 19, 2026Episode 10935 min

Who is Willing to Pay for AI?

Valve Watch HDMI 2.1 comes to AMD on Linux https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/amd-is-adding-hdmi-2-1-support-for-linux-thats-good-news-for-the-steam-machine/ The Steam Controller Screams when dropped https://kotaku.com/valves-new-steam-controller-screams-when-you-drop-it-2000695650 Steam machine SKU and Price speculation rampant https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/steam-machine-2026-pricing-specs/ Steam Frame Shows up Steam Frame Compatibility Requirements posted https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/compat Steam Frame shows up on Qualcom’s website https://www.qualcomm.com/xr-vr-ar/device-finder/valve-steam-frame Experimental Steam Frame support in Unreal Engine 5.8 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/unreal-engine-5-8-adds-experimental-steam-frame-support-qualcomm-give-the-steam-frame-a-dedicated-page/ YouTube is still a giant https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/youtube-viewers-watch-2-billion-hours-of-shorts-on-tvs-each-month/ Google swaps Chromebooks for GoogleBooks https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/googles-android-powered-laptops-are-called-googlebooks-and-theyre-coming-this-year/ OpenAI might be suing Apple for “breach-of-contract” https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/openai-is-reportedly-preparing-legal-action-against-apple-it-wouldnt-be-the-first-partner-to-feel-burned/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 11, 2026Episode 10852 min

When Your CI/CD System is Failing You

Valve Watch Valve received “Game Consoles” in a shipment according to manifests https://videocardz.com/newz/valve-may-be-preparing-steam-machine-stock-as-game-consoles-reach-us-warehouse These might be Steam Machines, a Steam Deck restock, or even the Steam Frame Linux Kernel sees a new vulnerability, thanks to AI kernel.org announcement of it being fixed https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026042214-CVE-2026-31431-3d65@gregkh/ EU describes it more digestably. https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/ Ghostty terminal is leaving github, but of course they wanna talk about the issues with Github https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github Forgejo https://forgejo.org/ ICANN to sell gTLDs https://www.techradar.com/pro/hundreds-of-new-internet-top-level-domain-names-could-appear-very-soon-as-icann-announces-new-gtld-round-14-years-after-one-that-gave-us-africa-google-microsoft-and-bananarepublic-but-will-potus-register-trump Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

May 5, 2026Episode 10748 min

AI has made the Internet Worse

Valve Watch The Steam Controller Appears https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/04/steam-controller-the-ars-technica-review/ US Consumers lost $2.1 Billion due to Social Media Scams https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/consumers-lost-2-1-billion-to-social-media-scams-in-2025-ftc-reports/ US lawmakers are attempting to regulate AI https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-lawmakers-take-ai-chatbots-fraud-new-bills-2026-04-28/ Identity Systems are failing in the world of AI https://technode.global/2026/04/28/we-built-identity-systems-for-an-internet-that-no-longer-exists/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

April 27, 2026Episode 10656 min

Is An internet Connected Safe A Good Idea?

Oscar Hedaya joins us to talk about his safe https://www.thespacesafe.com/ EU To Require all Batteries be user “serviceable” starting next year https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/ Deezer says half of it’s new music is AI Generated https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/deezer-says-44-of-new-music-uploads-are-ai-generated-most-streams-are-fraudulent/ Time Cook CEO of Apple is stepping down https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/tim-cook-stepping-down-as-apple-ceo-john-ternus-taking-over/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

April 20, 2026Episode 10537 min

The year of the French Linux Desktop

Multiple Wordpress Plugins found with Backdoors https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/someone-planted-backdoors-in-dozens-of-wordpress-plugins-used-in-thousands-of-websites/ Netgear makes it’s way into FCC approval https://www.pcmag.com/news/netgear-scores-the-first-exemption-from-the-fccs-foreign-made-router-ban Waymo is slowly coming closer to London https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/london-gets-closer-to-its-first-robotaxi-service-as-waymo-begins-testing/ AI Segment Gallup polls says workers are hesitant to use AI https://apnews.com/article/ai-workplace-poll-gallup-gemini-chatgpt-e4c129e9773255203ccae208bfccb367 Meta to make an AI Mark Zuckerberg https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-reportedly-building-an-ai-clone-of-mark-zuckerberg-130242840.html France Ditches Windows https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/ https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ EUPL license https://eupl.eu/1.2/en/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

April 13, 2026Episode 1041 hr 0 min

Bigpod Talks Artemis

Articles: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/ Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/