Best Simplified Science News Podcasts (2025)

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HN796: The Why and How of Making Your Infrastructure Quantum-Safe (Sponsored) 53:33

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Your production IT operations are almost certainly using cryptography libraries that are not quantum-safe, and the time to begin planning a cryptography overhaul is now. But this is likely to be a daunting project because it touches everything: clients, servers, apps, network devices, middleboxes, and so on. Daunting, but doable. We talk with Richu…

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N4N038: Well Actually 02 – OSPF Multi-Area and LSA Types 49:57

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We got some interesting listener feedback from our series on OSPF, so today’s N Is for Networking is another “Well actually” episode where we dig into that feedback. In particular, we’ll cover a defense of OSPF multi-area deployments, and dig into OSPF LSA types. Episode Links: N4N032 – OSPF Basics – Packet Pushers Episode Transcript:... Read more …

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IPB183: Measuring IPv6 and IPv6 Statistics 27:21

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Today we talk about measuring IPv6 and IPv6 statistics. We talk about why it’s useful to measure IPv6, how to track v6 deployment initiatives, and tools to help with your measurements. Episode Links: Google IPv6 – Google IPv6 Global Statistics Dashboard IPv6 Enabled – Hexabuild Episode Transcript: This episode was transcribed by AI and lightly... R…

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RELOAD: Being Strong for Life and Getting Results with Gold’s Gym CEO Adam Zeitsiff 29:54

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week, I’m reflecting on a conversation I shared with Adam Zeitsiff a while back. Adam is the President & CEO of Gold’s Gym - one of the world’s most recognizable and iconic brands. Gold’s Gym serves over 3 million people daily with more than 700 locations across 23 different countries on 6…

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D2DO282: Simplifying Complex Kubernetes Deployments With kro 30:16

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Kubernetes is flexible and customizable, but it can also be notoriously complex and difficult to deploy to. On today’s Day Two DevOps we learn about kro (Kube Resource Operator), an open-source tool that helps simplify complex application deployments. Our guest is Islam Mahgoub, a Solutions Architect at AWS focused on building kro. We talk about...…

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Spikes vs Shells: Armadillo Takes on Porcupine! 4:03

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It’s a battle of natural armor as two of the animal kingdom’s most unique defenders go head-to-head! In this episode of Animal Battle Royale, the quick-footed Armadillo rolls into the ring to face the spiny Porcupine in a clash of instinct, agility, and creative defense. Who will outmaneuver the other — the rolling fortress or the walking spike tra…

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The sunk cost dilemma 32:35

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Deep into engineering studies for Project Cormorant, 8 Rivers' massive low-carbon ammonia facility, the team discovered new efficiencies that would create a safer, more advanced version of their hydrogen technology. But there was one problem: they'd already invested heavily in the current design. CEO Damian Beauchamp faced a classic dilemma. Should…

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Building an Immune System for AI Generated Software with Animesh Koratana - #746 1:05:11

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Today, we're joined by Animesh Koratana, founder and CEO of PlayerZero to discuss his team’s approach to making agentic and AI-assisted coding tools production-ready at scale. Animesh explains how rapid advances in AI-assisted coding have created an “asymmetry” where the speed of code output outpaces the maturity of processes for maintenance and su…

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HW060: CNAE – A New Wired Networking Certification From the CWNP 26:13

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The CWNP offers vendor-neutral certifications for wireless networking professionals. This summer, the organization rolled out a wired certification, the Certified Network Administrator and Engineer (CNAE). This cert is aimed at wired and wireless network engineers to ensure they have a solid grounding in switching, routing, cabling, and wired proto…

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PP077: News Roundup–Drift Breach Has Long Reach; FCC Investigates Its Own IoT Security Program 37:20

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Is any publicity good publicity? On today’s News Roundup we talk about how Salesloft, which makes the Drift chat agent that’s been used as a jumping-off point for credential harvesting and data breach attacks against a bunch of big-name companies, is testing that proposition. We also discuss bugs affecting industrial refrigeration controllers, and …

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Closing Cybersecurity Blind Spots: Civic Engagement and Policy Innovations with Betsy Cooper 48:02

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On this episode of To the Point Cybersecurity, hosts Jonathan Knepher and Rachael Lyon sit down with Betsy Cooper, founding director of the Aspen Policy Academy and a longtime leader in cybersecurity policy. Betsy brings a wealth of experience from her work at the Aspen Institute, UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and her time at th…

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NB542: Hollow Core Fiber Outshines Glass; Broadcom Bags Big AI Bucks 24:57

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Take a Network Break! We shine a red light on an AnyShare Service Agent API vulnerability and an active exploit against FreePBX. SASE vendor Cato Networks makes first-ever acquisition with purchase of AI security startup AIM, Microsoft researchers tout hollow core fiber tests that out-perform glass core fiber optics, and Wi-Fi 7 helps drive up... R…

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HN795: Adventures In Latency 57:36

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Monitoring and troubleshooting latency can be tricky. If it’s in the network, was it the IP stack? A NIC? A switch buffer? A middlebox somewhere on the WAN? If it’s the application, can you, the network engineer, bring receipts to the app team? And what if you need to build and operate a network that’s... Read more »…

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Samir Alhafith & Rus Pnevski - SS Nemesis found at 160m! 2:50:18

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Samir Alhafith, founder of The Sydney Project, and Navy Clearance Diver Lieutenant Rus Pnevski take us deep into one of NSW’s most enduring maritime mysteries — the rediscovery of the SS Nemesis. Built in 1880 by Thomas Turnbull & Sons in Whitby, England, the steamship was later used to haul coal between Newcastle and Melbourne and was tragically l…

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Simplifying Growth with Meredith Schmidt 26:04

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week, I’m excited to welcome Meredith Schmidt, who recently joined me on my LinkedIn Live show and is my first ever Salesforce guest. She is the EVP and GM of Revenue Cloud. She's responsible for creating products to manage the product-to-cash lifecycle and end-to-end revenue management. T…

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TCG057: Following the Progress of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) With John Capobianco 57:43

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John Capobianco is back! Just months after our first Model Context Protocol (MCP) discussion, John returns to showcase how this “USB-C of software” has transformed from experimental technology to an enterprise-ready solutions. We explore the game-changing OAuth 2.1 security updates, witness live demonstrations of packet analysis through natural lan…

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NAN099: Bridging the Gap Between Innovative Tech and Everyday Users 53:29

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New technologies, tools, and innovations help move IT forward, but it can be hard for users to keep up. Network Automation Nerds welcomes guest William Collins, a dynamic force in the world of technology. As a passionate tech evangelist, he helps to bridge the gap between emerging technologies such as AI and everyday users with... Read more »…

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D2DO281: Faddom: Providing a Unified Source of Truth for Security and IT Operations (Sponsored) 45:13

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Faddom is re-envisioning what application dependency mapping and infrastructure inventory can be in the era of cloud and hybrid IT. Join us today on this sponsored episode as we speak with Faddom’s Itamar Rotem, CPO and Ofer Regev, CTO, about how Faddom’s discovery process can help to improve migrations for any size organization and help... Read mo…

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Speed vs. Shell: Hummingbird vs. Tortoise in a Battle of Extremes 3:36

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Get ready for one of the most unexpected face-offs in Animal Battle Royale! In this episode, a high-speed hummingbird takes on a well-armored tortoise in a battle of opposites — speed vs. endurance, flight vs. defense, and energy vs. patience. Join Katie and Tyler as they explore how each animal’s unique adaptations come into play in this imaginati…

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $863 million; New fusion company is launched; Fusion funding and power purchase agreements ramp up 4:20

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September 3rd, 2025 Abdus Shaik, PhD student at Imperial College in London, gives this week's Fusion News update - summarizing behind the headlines of recent fusion energy news articles. Links to the stories discussed are included below. 1. Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $863 Million https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-systems…

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Autoformalization and Verifiable Superintelligence with Christian Szegedy - #745 1:11:48

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In this episode, Christian Szegedy, Chief Scientist at Morph Labs, joins us to discuss how the application of formal mathematics and reasoning enables the creation of more robust and safer AI systems. A pioneer behind concepts like the Inception architecture and adversarial examples, Christian now focuses on autoformalization—the AI-driven process …

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PP076: RF Risks and How to See Unseen Threats 59:58

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Our airwaves are alive with radio frequencies (RF). Right now billions of devices around the world are chattering invisibly over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and other protocols you might not have heard of. On today’s show we peer into the invisible world to better understand the RF threat environment. Our guest is Brett Walkenhorst, CTO of... Read mo…

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HS111: When Someone Makes Your Cloud Service Go Poof! 38:29

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The modern enterprise is built on cloud, with most organizations using SaaS for their “horizontal” work horse layers, such as communications, conferencing, HR, and payroll. That makes the enterprise entirely dependent on the good-faith execution and good-will delivery of the cloud providers. Those providers have a huge economic incentive to reliabl…

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NB541: Cisco Gets Serious About Wi-Fi Certs; Is AI Infrastructure Ebullience Ebbing? 29:30

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Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups regarding the 7-year-old Cisco bug, risks of AI agents, and Anthropic forcing you to opt out or have your chats saved for five years. Then we highlight a serious vulnerability (which is being exploited in the wild) in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway systems. On the... Read more »…

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Exploring Rowhammer, ECC, and the Future of Secure Data Storage with JB Baker 43:13

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Welcome to a brand new episode of To The Point Cybersecurity, brought to you by Forcepoint! This week, hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher dive into a side of cybersecurity that doesn’t often get the spotlight: the ever-evolving world of memory, storage, and hardware security. They’re joined by JB Baker, Vice President of Marketing and Product …

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HN794: How the Bundle Protocol Enables Interplanetary Networking 1:03:33

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How might we get network traffic from Earth to a lunar base? Or Mars? Or to spaceships carrying astronauts or probes exploring space? And how do we get it back? The problem, among other things, is latency. The answer isn’t TCP/IP. The answer is…complicated. On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the challenges of getting packets... Read more »…

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TNO040: From ARPANET to the Stars: Vint Cerf on the Past and Future of the Internet 1:14:22

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Vint Cerf, widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet, is today’s special guest on Total Network Operations. He currently serves as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. His pioneering work began back in the 1960’s when he was involved in the ARPANET project. Alongside Bob Kahn, Vint co-invented the TCP/IP... Read mor…

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IPB182: IPv6 Transition Technology Options 27:30

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Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6, or at least IPv6-mostly, is no easy task. Today’s show provides some education and advice about IPv6 transition mechanisms. We cover options such as NAT64, DNS64, PREF64, and more, as well as use cases. Also, if your technology vendors aren’t offering some of these mechanisms, ask for them – you’re... Read more »…

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N4N037: IPsec Basics 58:11

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It’s time to talk crypto. No, not the Bitcoin kind. Ethan and Holly introduce the basics of IPsec, the protocol that authenticates and encrypts traffic between endpoints. They discuss what it is, how it provides trustworthiness and secrecy to IP traffic, and common use cases. They review the different types of IPsec protocols and modes,... Read mor…

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RELOAD: Leading with Creativity to Deliver Insight with Ron Tite 30:57

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week, I’m reflecting on a conversation I shared with Ron Tite a while back. Ron is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker and investor. He has been an award-winning advertising writer and Creative Director for some of the world’s most respected brands. He is Founder and CEO of Church…

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D2DO280: Architect for Your AI Success With F5 and MinIO (Sponsored) 34:33

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In the changing landscape of AI data infrastructure, F5 and MinIO are partnering on a solution that brings together the best of each company. This solution bookends the AI stack—it uses F5 for reliable, secure, and observable data delivery and MinIO’s AIStor for storage of all data types. The goal is to help organizations be... Read more »…

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John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition 34:22

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Three years ago this month, the Inflation Reduction Act passed, marking the largest investment in climate policy in U.S. history. It included over $300 billion to address global warming and was expected to unlock nearly $3 trillion in private investment by 2032. But then came Donald Trump. Over the last eight months, the Trump administration has wo…

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Pool & Hot Tub Alliance in Partnership With POOLCORP Launch Women of Water 20:29

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Women of Water, a new initiative developed by the PHTA (Pool & Hot Tub Alliance) in partnership with POOLCORP, seeks to connect, empower, and advocate for women in the pool, spa, and hot tub industry through community, education, and leadership development. WOW officially kicks off at this year's International Pool Spa Patio Expo in Las Vegas. To l…

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Multimodal AI Models on Apple Silicon with MLX with Prince Canuma - #744 1:10:20

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Today, we're joined by Prince Canuma, an ML engineer and open-source developer focused on optimizing AI inference on Apple Silicon devices. Prince shares his journey to becoming one of the most prolific contributors to Apple’s MLX ecosystem, having published over 1,000 models and libraries that make open, multimodal AI accessible and performant on …

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HW059: Pi to Go: Introducing the WLAN Pi Go 21:50

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The new WLAN Pi Go is small, lightweight Wi-Fi testing tool. It can sniff Wi-Fi frames, measure signals, decode packets, and more. The tool snaps to the back of your phone and connects via a short cable for data and power. The small form factor makes it ready to take it along and test any... Read more »…

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Navigating the Maze of AI Governance: Insights on ISO 42001 and New Regulations with Walter Haydock 35:04

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Welcome back to "Forcepoint: To the Point Cybersecurity." In this episode, hosts Rachael Lyon and Jonathan Knepher are joined by Walter Haydock, founder and CEO of Stackaware. Walter brings a unique perspective from his time in the Marine Corps and Homeland Security, and now leads the charge in AI governance and risk management. Today’s conversatio…

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NB540: PQE In PAN-OS; FBI Warns 7-Year Old Cisco Bug Under Attack 47:16

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Take a Network Break! We double-dip on red alerts as the FBI warns that Russian state hackers are targeting a seven-year-old vulnerability on Cisco IOS and IOS-XE devices (a patch has been available for seven years), and a compromised XZ Utils backdoor is still lurking in some Docker images. Palo Alto Networks has added support... Read more »…

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Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Advances DNS Security with ADNSR (Sponsored) 18:58

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DNS security is our topic on today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks. Specifically, Palo Alto Networks is here to talk about its Advanced DNS Resolver, or ADNSR, which provides a security-centric, cloud-delivered DNS resolution service. We talk about how ADNSR works, its features and capabilities, and how it differs from other D…

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HN793: A Deep Dive Into High-Performance Switch Memory 1:34:35

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Today’s episode is all about high-performance memory in switches. We dig into the differences among TCAM, SRAM, DRAM, and HBM, and all the complex tradeoffs that go into allocating memory resources to networking functions. If you’ve ever had to select a Switching Database Manager template or done similar operations on a switch, this is your... Read…

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TNO039: Demystifying AI Adoption for Networkers (Sponsored) 58:49

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On today’s Total Network Operations we talk through the adoption of AI in network operations with John Capobianco, Head of DevRel at Selector. Selector is the sponsor of today’s episode. John walks us through his career journey as a network engineer, and describes the moment where he realized that AI was going to change how... Read more »…

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Learn Why Today's Leading Resorts Trust Deckology for Their Pool Decks 10:45

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On this episode of Pool Magazine Podcast, we sit down with Sean West, founder and VP of Sales at Deckology, the company behind AquaFlex — the surfacing system trusted by luxury resorts like the Bellagio, Wynn, and Mandalay Bay. From the scorching pool decks of Las Vegas to high-end properties across the country, AquaFlex has become synonymous with …

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The CEO’s Guide to Leading with Purpose with Klaus Kleinfeld 27:26

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Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week, I’m joined by Dr. Klaus Kleinfeld, who is the only leader to have successfully served as CEO of two Fortune 500 giants on different continents: Alcoa in the US and Siemens in Germany. With a nearly forty-year career spanning multiple industries, from established businesses to tech st…

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Inside PSP/Deck Expo 2025: What to Expect in Vegas 19:03

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Each year, the International Pool | Spa | Patio Expo, co-located with Deck Expo, sets the tone for the industry — and 2025 in Las Vegas is shaping up to be the biggest yet. In this episode, Show Manager Megan Magaña shares what attendees can expect, from intensive pre-conference education with PHTA and Genesis to hands-on demos on the show floor. W…

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Pool Industry Council Publishes Landmark Study on Swimming Pool Equipotential Bonding 13:52

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In this episode, we dive into a groundbreaking safety study on equipotential bonding, commissioned by the Pool Industry Council and conducted by John Antonelli in partnership with the Florida Swimming Pool Association. The report compared different bonding methods — including single copper wire, copper grids, and bonding within pool structures — to…

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NAN098: Democratizing the Learning Environment for Network Engineers 52:33

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Democratizing the learning environment is a passion for Deepak Ahuja. So much so, he founded CloudMyLab, a company that provides hands-on, cloud-based labs and networking environments. His goal is to offer an affordable lab-as-a-service for two groups of people: network engineers seeking certifications, and network engineers and automators that nee…

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TCG056: Network Automation Reality Check with Ivan Pepelnjak 1:10:51

20d ago1:10:51

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In this unplanned and unfiltered conversation, we dive deep into network automation realities with Ivan Pepelnjak, networking’s long standing and independent voice from ipSpace.net. We explore why automation projects fail, dissect the tooling landscape (Ansible vs. Terraform vs. Python), and discuss the cultural barriers preventing enterprises from…

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Orangutan vs. Sloth: Treetop Tactics in the Jungle Gym Showdown 4:37

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Swing into the rainforest for a high-stakes treetop showdown! In this episode of Animal Battle Royale, Katie and Tyler guide us through a slow-and-steady face-off between the mighty Orangutan and the stealthy Sloth. It's a clash of brains, balance, and brute strength as these two jungle dwellers compete for the title of treetop titan. From tool use…

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Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold with fusion reactions; AI enabling fusion systems improvement 5:43

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August 20, 2025 Jeff Peachman, PhD student at the University of Washington, gives this week's Fusion News update - summarizing behind the headlines of recent fusion energy news articles. Links to the stories discussed are included below. 1. Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold while creating clean energy https://phys.org/news/2025-0…

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Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models with Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter - #743 1:01:01

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Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution of the Genie project and review the current model’s scaled-up capabilities, including creating real-time, interactive, and high-re…

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PP075: Kernel Vs. User Mode In Endpoint Security Software 43:39

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Microsoft is rethinking allowing endpoint security software to run in the Windows kernel (including third-party and Microsoft’s own endpoint security software). While there are benefits to running security software in the kernel, there are also serious downsides (see the CrowdStrike outage). Dan Massameno joins JJ and Drew on Packet Protector to ta…