Les meilleurs podcasts Bonehead Weekly (2024)

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Ep.344 Scarefest 2025 1:26:51

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Ep.344 Scarefest 2025 by Bonehead WeeklyPar Bonehead Weekly

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Talking About The Computer While Talking About The Computer (PREVIEW) 3:29

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. Fun times create happy people, happy people create lovely times, lovely times create fun people. It's another loose, shot from the hip premium ep, folks. ChatGPT’s voice mode is finally here, while OpenAI itself s going through more weird pala…

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The Society of the Spectacles 45:28

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In last week's premium episode, we sounded off about the state of VR and smart glasses. In true Down Round fashion, Meta had already announced its concept product, a pair of AR-enabled smart glasses named Orion, by the time the ep aired. We will never admit we were wrong. Instead, we press forward. In this ep, we talk about Orion, Meta's plans, and…

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Ep. 343 Slime in Movies and Pop Culture! 45:00

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Intel Outside 47:29

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Intel may have more or less invented modern digital computing, but it hasn't been going so crash hot lately. Following decades of strategic missteps and blunders, it's now experiencing weakening earnings and stock price declines as it attempts to engage in the mother of all turnaround jobs with a little help from the US government. Now, the sharks …

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Ep. 342 Pop Poetics 53:53

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How Many Rs Are There In Strawberry? (PREVIEW) 4:36

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. After 2 months of cringe-posting references to strawberries, OpenAI have released their latest model: o1. And AI heads are losing their minds. Ostensibly, it's intended for the kind of thorny math and reasoning problems that LLMs tend to strug…

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Accelerating The iPhone Supercycle 36:15

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We didn't cover the Apple iPhone keynote last week because it wasn't particularly exciting and there were virtually no surprises. But, having been given a week to ruminate on it, we have thoughts. In this ep, we talk about why analysts have been obsessed with an AI-driven iPhone supercycle, why Apple has backed itself into a corner by overcharging …

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Ep. 341 Silent Films 1:31:56

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Them Kids Ain't Right (PREVIEW) 6:48

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. Social media. Is it too dank for the malleable and developing mind? The Australian government seems to think so. Labor has joined the ranks of a number parties and bodies in various jurisdictions in attempting to set a lower age limit for soci…

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Humanoid Robots: Just Another Guy In Your House 41:47

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For decades, technologists have fantasised about the ultimate prize: a humanoid robot, available to consumers and industry, which can perform a range of humanlike tasks. The recent AI moment has reignited those aspirations, with everyone from Tesla to Apple – and a handful of ambitious startups – either openly or secretly working on humanoid robot …

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Ep. 340 Famous People We Want Haunting Us 1:02:45

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The Boys Go Founder Mode (PREVIEW) 5:29

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. The tech world has been ablaze over the past week or so, both ironically and unironically, about the concept of Founder Mode. Inspired by a short essay by Paul Graham, 'founder mode' vaguely posits that there's a natural point in a startup's e…

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X vs Brazil 40:56

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Brazil has slapped a ban on X, as the culmination of a dispute between the platform and the country’s judiciary over censorship. It’s weird, because Elon Musk’s platform has complied with government requests from other countries, like Turkey and India. So what’s the deal? In this ep, we talk about Musk's free speech crusade, the Brazilification of …

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Ep. 339 Movies That Could Be Remade In Anime 1:09:23

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Telegram: Oh, So Posting Is ILLEGAL Now? 44:55

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested over the weekend in France, with prosecutors accusing him of violations discovered as part of an investigation into child exploitation material, drug trafficking and fraudulent transactions on the platform. It’s more than plausible that stuff like that is happening on Telegram. But there’s certainly something u…

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Ep. 338 Best Fictional Weapons 55:34

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Ep. 337 James' Casting Couch 55:20

2M ago55:20

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This episode is about our fake casting choices for made up movies, stories and some real ones you've never knew!Par Bonehead Weekly

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Google's Apparently Illegal Monopoly 41:25

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Apple's profit from "Services" is set to surpass profits from iPhones within a couple of years, which is pretty crazy, really. Of the ~$80-90b Apple make a year in "Services", around 25% of that comes from Google handing over north of $20 billion per year to be the default search engine in Safari. For years, Google has been freaked out by the prosp…

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Ep. 336 Historical Events That SHOULD Be Movies 1:24:21

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Nike: Barefoot is Illegal (PREVIEW) 8:00

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Nike: The brand of brands. When it comes to brands, they're top dog. When it comes to returning money to shareholders, less so. At least this year. As Nike have pursued the quest to become as close as an apparel company can be to a tech business, their share price has tanked – this year by over 30%. A former executive's LinkedIn post went about as …

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You Gotta Spend Money To Make Money 44:17

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It's quarterly earnings season, and some of our favourite tech companies are looking a bit shaky. Not because they're not making money – they are – but because they're spending it on new data centres and AI research. In this episode, we take stock of the current earnings reports, and touch on a few interesting tidbits like Amazon's softness in e-co…

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Ep. 335 Director Bradford May 57:41

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This week we have Director Bradford May! 80's Twilight Zone, Darkman Sequels and the Equalizer, he has worked on them all!Par Bonehead Weekly

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Llama-ma-mazing! 35:30

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Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals. The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent. Why? Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an ar…

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Ep. 334 Bad Day Movies 1:02:38

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Because you had a bad day.... Check out this episode about movies that give examples of the worst day you can have!Par Bonehead Weekly

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Into The Goldilocks Zone (PREVIEW) 4:27

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Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech" To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to en…

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CrowdStruck 28:29

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You are no doubt aware that the world suffered a fairly significant IT outage at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines. In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the…

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The Tech Trump Turn (PREVIEW) 6:40

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A recent political incident involving the former president provide a stress test of X under Elon Musk. It also provides us with an opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison of how it was reported on the various post-twitter clones: Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. Additionally, the several loud noises at the Trump rally led to a cascade of Silicon …

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Ep. 333 Director Mike Mendez 1:27:52

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Investigating Real Estate Agent Drip 31:34

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Real estate tech is an underrated part of the broader tech ecosystem. From listing and buying platforms to property management apps and everything in-between, there's a suite of tech solutions for selling, buying, renting, investing and just having a squiz at property. In this ep, we take a little tour through real estate tech, which mostly ends up…

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Ep. 332 Tales Of The Paranormal With Mary Ann Farley 1:20:25

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Who Made This? (PREVIEW) 3:21

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. While the northern hemisphere is on summer holiday, we grind. Given there's not much tech news floating around as a result, we continued the discussion of AI from last episode – this time getting wildly philosophical about legal rights and the…

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You're Spending How Much On Graphics Cards? 36:00

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Over the past few weeks, several equity reports – from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Barclays – have sounded the alarm on the amount of capital expenditure currently being spent by the tech industry on building out AI capacity. Analysts and investors are asking: how are you going to pay for all this? And how long do we have to wait for that? In th…

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Ep. 331 The Return Of Screenwriter Todd Farmer 1:53:28

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Gimme Money! Media Edition 43:03

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Australia's experiment with forcing big tech to pay media companies like Nine and News Corp for content is running into choppy waters, as Meta refuses to play ball and Google seems less keen on news than it once was. In this episode, we catch up with the media and how it's handling today's dynamics of the internet and – especially – the new era of …

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Ep. 330 Patriotic Movies 1:06:46

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A Small Modular Nuclear Reactor For Every Australian (PREVIEW) 4:17

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Nuclear is in the air. (Not literally.) In Australia, politicians are debating it, while a huge range of nuclear startups are ruling it out for funding and attention. In this episode, we chat about nuclear power and how the tech industry is talking about it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Hitting The Nvidia Wall 37:30

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Nvidia is the engine room of the AI moment, but they are struggling a little right now. The stock underwent a massive correction this week, and founder Jensen Huang is reportedly worried that the gravy train is about to end. We used that as an excuse to dive into a few interesting trends going on in AI, Apple's moves, whether the hype is matching t…

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Ep. 329 Who Should Replace The Boneheads? 42:51

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Chad's out this week and the conversation turns to not only replacing him, but who should replace ALL OF US! Check out this very meta conversation!Par Bonehead Weekly

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What's Tencent All About? 27:57

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Tencent is one of the largest and most valuable companies on earth, with operations that touch just about every part of the digital economy in China and beyond. From WeChat to gaming to film production to payments, Tencent continues to expand far beyond its original station as a Chinese app developer. In this ep, we take a tour through Tencent, inc…

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Ep. 328 Famous Masks In Movies And Television 51:37

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GameStop Revisited (PREVIEW) 5:20

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. You thought that because COVID was long over you could stop hearing about GameStop. Wrong! Keith "RoaringKitty" Gill has returned, and the notorious meme stock has been pumping as a result. We took this as an excuse to revisit the GameStop sto…

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WWDC 2024: AI For The Rest Of Us Chumps 57:08

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This week, Apple held the keynote at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), where it traditionally announces its upcoming software updates. As predicted, the company announced its moves into generative AI – which it is bundling under the name Apple Intelligence – alongside a partnership with OpenAI. In this ep, we dive into the announce…

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Ep. 327 Random Topic Episode, DUNE, Dreyfuss And Evil Trees 1:14:27

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Ep. 327 Random Topic Episode, DUNE, Dreyfuss And Evil Trees by Bonehead WeeklyPar Bonehead Weekly

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Down Round Featuring Microsoft Copilot + PC (PREVIEW) 4:29

4M ago4:29

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This is a free preview of a premium episode. To subscribe to Down Round Premium and get access, head here. A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced its new Surface Laptop with Copilot + PC, which it intends to be a direct competitor with the MacBook Air. On the one hand, it's an interesting attempt to get Windows PCs back into competition. ON the other…

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The Tech-Military Complex 45:10

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For a long time, it wasn't a great look for startups and big tech – outside of companies like Microsoft – to openly work with the military-industrial complex. That was for contractors like Raytheon and General Dynamics. Tech generally maintained the sunny disposition that it was better to enable world peace through well targeted digital ads. That h…

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Google & OpenAI's Rough Couple Of Weeks (Pt. 1) 35:37

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In the first part of a two-part episode on Google and OpenAI's tough PR challenges of the past couple of weeks, we dive into Google's launch of AI summaries on the web, which led the venerable search engine to recommend pregnant women blast cigs and amateur chefs to mix glue into their pizza sauce. We chat about the rocky launch, what it means for …

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Ep. 326 Writer and Director Michael Davis 2:12:16

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Down Round Q&A: Your Boneheaded Questions, Answered 51:49

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It's time for another edition of DOWN ROUND Q&A. We solicited questions from both or premium members in Discord and our followers on X, and today we're answering them for you. We cover everything from macOS to LLMs to Boeing and smart homes. Links Down Round on X Down Round on Instagram Down Round on TikTok Sign up for Down Round Premium See omnyst…