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September 30, 2026Episode 48654 min

The Personal Computer Radio Show - 9-30-26

In the News Is iOS 27 Draining Your iPhone Battery Amazon Prime Customers may be able to get up to $200 as Settlement Expands The Best Tech Jobs for Promotions, Pay, and Stability Why can't AI companies test with Samples of LLMs before releasing them into the real world? Signals From a Planet Beyond Our Solar System Astronomers Finally Pick Up Radio Signals From a Planet Beyond Our Solar System ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell ToolConsolidation can make sense but there's a Roadmap to it From the Tech Corner Did OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI Security Breaches to Pressure Feds · Computational Photography vs Traditional Photography · Cornell Researchers Develop Method to Restore EV Batteries to Up to 95% of Original Capacity Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Dealing with Various Power and other Technical Issues

September 17, 2026Episode 48555 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday September 16, 2026

In the News AI Industry Is Asking Government to Regulate the AI Business Microsoft Builds an App to Push Bing Into Chrome, Firefox, and Brave OpenAI Jalapeño Sony Claim Purchase of a Digital Game is only a Permission Slip to Play the Game States Are Having Second Thoughts about AI Data Centers The DseWiki Incident and AI Misalignment ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell Treating your career as a ladder and leveraging AI as a new skill From the Tech Corner Networking in the Age of AI The World's Battery Supply Chain Could Snap at Any Time TV in 2029 will look very different from the Cable-Dominated World a Decade Ago Windows 11 Is Getting Faster Boot Times and Better Performance on 8GB RAM Systems Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston The processing of video can be daunting

September 2, 2026Episode 48454 min

The Personal Computer Radio Show - 8-2-26

In the News FBI Dismantled Chinese-Linked Network Hacking U.S. Government Agencies Meta Settles with US States over Social Media Harms Beyond Hubble - NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Apple Maps is getting Ads, and There's No Way to turn them Off Guess Who Didn’t Make TIME’s Top 100 AI List? Bill Gates vs. Jensen Huang: Two Very Different Views of AI ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell Distractions, even smaller ones, can Disrupt our Workflows, Impacting Enterprise From the Tech Corner Cyberpunk 2077 Meets the Commodore 64 Despite Decades of Uncertainty, the Commodore Name Continues to Survive. Old Compact Cameras with Single-Digit Megapixel are Booming in Japan What Problems Can a CMOS Reset Fix? Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Navamo Lawn Mower Experience by the Picky Neighbor

August 19, 2026Episode 48355 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday August 19 2026, at 5PM ET

The Personal Computer Show Wednesday August 19th 2026 www.PRN.live - Streaming on the Internet 5:00 PM Eastern Time In the News Claude Is Putting Invisible Watermarks In AI-Generated Text Cloud Storage is great until your Vendor Goes Out of Business Samsung Z Fold 8 Reveals the downside of New Battery Tech Powerful Features to Enable on Your Chromebook The Bluetooth Symbol on your Phone ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell Digital Inefficiency is a Common Problem in the Workplace From the Tech Corner The Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence The Hidden Water Cost of Artificial Intelligence What Is Open-Weight AI? Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Asus Zen Wifi Routers BT8 and BD5 Mesh

August 13, 2026Episode 48255 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday August 12 2026

In the News AI Political Ads Put State Deepfake Laws to the Test China Cracks Down on Copycat Chip Design Google Assistant Begins Disappearing from Android Phones Navigating New Tax Regulations for Gig Workers Recent Reports of Rogue AI Agents Tech Rehiring After AI-Driven Layoffs ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell The Company Risks of Shadow IT From the Tech Corner Upgrade Your Car's USB Port with One Simple Gadget What Is a Smart Plug? The Easiest Way to Make Your Home Smarter Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in Artificial Intelligence? Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Mark Brownstein Asus Zen Wifi Routers BT8 and BD5 Mesh

August 5, 2026Episode 48156 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday August 5 2026

In the News Anthropic Says Its AI Models Hacked Real Organizations During Testing Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results Kodak’s New Point-And-Shoot Is a $35 35mm Camera Qualcomm is Raising the Price of its Chips by a Double-Digit Percentage The Future of Tech Is Leasing and Owning Nothing The RAM Shortage Is Starting to Hit the Auto Industry OpenAI Still Fighting Major Copyright Lawsuits ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell The Risk of Over-Connected Workflows From the Tech Corner AI Is Starting to Rewrite the Software That Made Nvidia Untouchable Gen Z Is Bringing Back Early 2000s Compact Digital Cameras Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Exploring the Various AI Platforms

July 29, 2026Episode 48056 min

The Personal Computer Show - Wednesday July 29, 2026

In the News Chipmakers Face a Growing Labor Shortage The Hidden Cost of the AI Data Center Boom OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Health Available to All US Users OpenAI AI Models Broke Out of a Hacked Testing Environment OpenAI and Anthropic Join Forces in Warning About China's Open AI Models KODAK to Release New Retro Compact Cameras ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell Overestimating What Tech can Handle From the Tech Corner China's Memory Chip Giants Take on the World Too Much Television can Rot your Brain Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Faraday Shielding to Protect Devices with the SLNT Faraday Bag

July 22, 2026Episode 47955 min

Personal Computer Show - Wednesday July 22, 2026,

In the News AliExpress Hit with Record $629M Fine Selling Counterfeit and Illegal Products Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Theft of Trade Secrets Backtracked: Samsung Health Won’t Delete All User Data DuckDuckGo Browser now Blocks YouTube Video Ads Communities across the US Are Pulling Back on Flock Safety License Plate Readers New York Expands Free College Degree Programs for Adult Learners Back Market - World's Largest Online Marketplaces for Refurbished Electronics Major League Baseball Draws a Line on AI in the Dugout ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell The Myth of the Fully AI Driven Automated Workplace From the Tech Corner Tech Fears N.Y. Data Center Ban Sets US Precedent The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Mark Brownstein Keychron Mouse and Asus Zenbook 316S Laptop

July 15, 2026Episode 47856 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday July 15 2026

n the News Samsung Health Users Face AI Data Dilemma Huang Calls Smuggled AI Data Centers a Dead End Meta Facing a Backlash over its New AI Tool Muse Image Microsoft Discontinues Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go New Recovery Option Coming to Windows 11 OpenAI has Combined ChatGPT and Codex into a more Unified Platform Windows 11 Identifier Code Used to Track Scattered Spider Perp Companies are Rehiring Workers they Replaced with AI ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell How Systems Fail Differently when under Pressure From the Tech Corner A Warning Sign About AI's Real Cost: Windows Expands AI-Powered Security to Find Vulnerabilities Earlier Your Friendly AI Chatbot May Know More About You Than You Realize Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston Anker 14-in-one Supreme Performance Dock

July 8, 2026Episode 47754 min

The Personal Computer Show, Wednesday July 8th 2026

In the News · A Big Change Coming to WhatsApp Messaging App · Communities Might Not Want Data Centers, but Thieves Do · Companies are Rehiring Workers they Replaced with AI · How Microsoft Is Making Windows Better by Learning from Enthusiasts · Microsoft is Making one of the Biggest Changes in Xbox History · Pixel Phones Are Silently Ignoring Incoming Calls · Windows 11 Bug that can Quietly Consume Enormous Amounts of Storage Space ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell · Dealing with the Quiet Risks of Sharing Devices with Others From the Tech Corner · LLMs and NotebookLM: What's the Difference? · What is Open Notebook? · AI Memory Demand Is Breaking the Traditional PC Upgrade Cycle Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston · Issues of Massive Datacenters and How Artificial Intelligence Works