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[music] This is the daily tech news for Friday, August 7th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and try to help each other understand. >> Today, Bloomberg has the first major details for OpenAI's first hardware device, a donut that talks to you. >> But sadly, it's not a cat. That's a dungeon crawler Carl reference. [laughter] >> I'm Tom Merritt. I'm going to wit down. >> Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. Bloomberg's Mark German has a non-Apple bit of inside information this time. Although I guess it's Apple adjacent uh in a way. Uh he has details on what OpenAI's first hardware device in collaboration with former Apple employee Johnny Ives love from uh might end up being. According to people familiar with the matter, it's a hockey puck-sized device with a donut shape. Although, as Wen and I were discussing before the show, we don't know if he means it has a hole in it or not. [laughter] Uh, and whether they'll sell a doughnut hole separately. Um, you can carry it around in one hand. Uh, it will provide voice access to an AI first computer to help you get stuff done. Sounds like chat GPT voice mode with your most advanced chat GPT agents on the back end in a dedicated device. Uh, it will use the most advanced models that OpenAI has available and will learn about you over time so it can respond more accurately and more realistically. German sources say it might also have moving parts so that it doesn't just lay there like a dead piece of plastic. Uh, it will also have more traditional features like speakers, microphones, lights to indicate when it's listening. And we'll have a camera. Uh, so if you want to show it something like what is this or can you take a picture of this? It'll be able to process visual information. Apparently, they're thinking it'll cost around $300 to $400 and they're aiming for a 2027 release. When do you want the donut? if it I I mean kind I'm curious because it this isn't even e even before all of this we have had several several kind of mini generations of attempts at an AI companion AI device like the rabbit and the is it the humane pin or it was >> yeah humane AI right yeah yeah >> and of course for reasons that really to be fair were not really the AI the the AI portion and and whether AI assistants that you wear with you or carry along with you whether the actual utility or value of that that the the qu that question was not why those things failed I don't think uh there was a lot of kurfuffle around those so I do think it's interesting that now we've come around now that we do have much more impressive models much more adoption widespread daily life normal people using normal people adoption of especially things especially well-known models like JBT this is very very interesting it does seem that pretty much every, you know, like pretty much like most sectors have some company trying to do something with hardware and AI. It just feels like the thing to do. So, I would be really curious. Um, obviously right now we still widely use cell phones or mobile phones, smartphones as our everyday carry of technology. So, I do think it's really interesting. Um, I don't know if I I would use one out of curiosity. I don't know if I would use one out of utility just because I already been carrying my phone and women have like famously small small pockets. So, but I do think it's really interesting to have someone like Chad G or OpenAI rather get into this market and maybe this is maybe this is the right time to get into it. I don't know. Although when it says it has moving parts, I couldn't help but think and this is this is me problem, not anyone else's problem. I was imagining something from like Sid from Toy Story where it started to sprout [laughter] legs and crawl around which is not just crawling around. I I don't think it would be that. But I I do I I do think that's actually very interesting that maybe something that makes it feel a little more analog. I I think a lot of like CMF Nothing Smaller brand where they have like little ear pod cases that have like dials and wheels and things like things that kind of make it feel a little more tactile. If they do something like that, I do think that's interesting trying to blend this kind of this this current like vision that we have of like AI assistants and and GBT kind of being almost like they do have a voice, but they tend to be very abstract, right? because they're coming from our phones or from our screens. Giving it kind of a form. Maybe that's just one way they're trying to get us to I don't know invest in them more personally. I don't know. Interesting. >> Or or may or get rid of the uncanny valley where you feel feel a little weird that you're talking about it. It's interesting that you went to the phone aspect. I didn't and again we're going on Mark German's people familiar with the matter so we have no idea what it's really going to be. My my assumption that I jumped to, the conclusion that I jumped to uh was that this would be more like a smart speaker. So, not something meant to throw in my purse and carry with me, but something that would be on my desk, but if I want to go into the kitchen, I could just pick it up and take it with me, unlike my smart speaker, which is tethered or it's a big canister or something. Uh, and so I was looking at it more as a replacement for that. uh versus and and then the moving parts don't bother me so much cuz if as soon as you started talking about putting it in a pocket I was like oo but I wouldn't want those moving parts necessarily. Um >> so yeah it I obviously it's got Johnny Ives design sense around it. So whatever it is, it's going to be a beautiful piece of metal. You know, it's not going to be dorky and and weird looking. >> Maybe that's an interesting Maybe the fact that both of us had different but not incompatible ideas. Maybe that's the point. Maybe ideally this is something that could and I think that's just the thing with say like the rabbit and humane pin. It had a certain form right that it's kind of expected you to use. Maybe the fact that I mean and again this is this is kind of me just like naval gazing because because we have the ambiguity of this just being a rumor so we can just like >> yeah we can fill in the gaps however we want. >> I do think it's interesting. Wouldn't it be cool if it was something that given our two different perspectives that both of us were in a sense right and that that would be kind of interesting. That would be something that that I don't know could bridge that gap between maybe how people use maybe would get people to use this device as opposed to kind of falling back to computers or smartphones to use. >> Yeah, I feel like >> Rabbit's mistake may have been that it was too close to a phone and people are like, well, why couldn't I just use my phone, >> right? [laughter] And Humane's was that it was too far from anything we're familiar with. It was like, well, hold on. How do I how do I make that work in my life? Whereas this sounds like it's kind of right in between, like kind of a smart speaker, but kind of a phone. >> And so if it just becomes a thing where you're able to just say to it like, "Oh, throw this up on my screen." And through your chat GPT app on your laptop, >> it can do that. Then it's like, "Oh, it's just the little thing that listens to me all the time." And because it's dedicated to that, >> I don't have to worry about it having a screen. I don't have to worry about maintaining it or turning it on or finding the app or making sure it's it hasn't crashed. Um, I could I could see that being pretty useful. >> I feel like we're all all these the current state of gadgets. I feel like there is a kind of conversion point where there's like a lot of different people in the industry coming at this different ways. I can't help but think of nothing in Carl Pay and for a couple years now he's been kind of citing that this like just for and I'm a smartphone person. This is just like where my brain goes. This that the smartphone especially smartphone operating system as we understand it and the way we interact with smartphones has to change. It's going to change. So rather than having a bunch of different apps where you open one specifically that's focused on a task. You just have an interface that you interact with through your voice and it does every single thing. I mean, that's obviously what we're seeing now with things like Gemini Intelligence and Google trying to basically take all of your >> wellused Google apps and kind of centralize them so that you're not flipping between different things. And then so Carl Pay is kind of just taking this vision to even abstracting it even more. And I think if you even abstract it even further, of course, I don't like even as someone who makes a living off of smartphones, I know that this form factor is not going to stick around forever, right? And so maybe this is just again maybe leaprogging to okay what what what is it what is the distillation of what we do with smartphones now which is which is very very simply communicate and execute tasks and then I could see a future where okay maybe we don't need to screen for that once once kind of like we get you know all these interactions and agenic work to a good place this maybe yeah I I just feel like we're all converging and maybe that that that convergence shape is a donut I don't know there's probably a thing it's a like I know there's like a very mathy term like a like a calculus through term for that shape that volume that is a ring with a hole. There's a fancy term for it. >> Toroidal or something. >> Oh man. Yeah. What is it? But okay. Uh donut shape. >> Yeah. What's a What is that? That >> Taurus. It's a Taurus. There we go. >> There we go. Yeah. Ford Taurus. Yeah. [laughter] >> So maybe we're just all I I don't think that's a calculus thing, but maybe end up in a Ford Taurus. >> Oh my god. [laughter] Eating donuts. >> Eating donuts in a forest. Yeah. Uh, no. I I Here's what I'll throw out there. My my my last little uh bit of insight on this. >> I think the test is >> do I stop taking my phone around the house? Cuz when I think about, oh, I pick it up and move it around the house. That's what I do with my phone. I pick up my phone. I take it with me because I might need it. Um, >> I think that probably says something about overdependence on the phone, but that used to be what I would do with my laptop. I used to take my laptop to the couch so that I could sit on the laptop and do stuff in the evening. And the phone replaced that. >> I didn't need to take the laptop anymore because I could do almost everything on the phone. >> If this device causes me to somehow be like, "Oh, I'm not taking my phone anymore because it can do the things that I need to do most of the time." Uh, then I think it has found that slot, found that niche. >> Yeah. All right. Right. Well, regardless of whether you're listening to us or watching watching us on your smartphone or possibly someday your chat GPT Donut, uh we will come along with you for the ride to whatever room you take us to. Uh and that is only because we made possible by you the listener. So, thank you for making DTS possible. And thank you especially to Scotty Allen, that Charlie Dude, Justin Zellers, and Chris Bento. There is more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. >> Well, Google is releasing the model weights and code for its weather next hurricane prediction model on GitHub under the Apache license version 2.0 and Creative Commons attribution 4.0 international licenses. Google DeepMind and Google Research developed the model with the National Hurricane Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the UK Met Office, and other weather agencies. Weather Next was trained on almost 20 terabytes of data provided by the international best track archive for climate stewardship. It can generate a 15-day forecast in less than a minute on a single TPU. An article published Thursday in the journal Nature or in the journal Nature rather describes how the model can give a day more lead time than leading operational models in predicting the activity of hurricane cyclones and typhoons >> which uh we found out before the show you can just call tropical cyclones. That's the accepted collective term for all three. Um, so there you go. Today I learned >> CIO. >> Yeah. Uh, this is great though and we've been covering >> the performance of this model uh for for a while on the show. We've kind of checked in whenever they've released uh indications of it and it has been used uh particularly in a hurricane coming towards Jamaica to give people advanced notice. So it's it's been used in the field to help improve accuracy and probably saved a few lives because they got a little more heads up. So the fact that Google responsibly went and said great here go use it. Uh here are open weights here open models. Uh that's fantastic. Uh and this this is this is one of those examples of like yes but the models can also be used for something that is really helpful and really important. And this is that >> can I say this is probably for me my like this is my ideal story that makes me very happy as a software person a a technology person that this is the kind of thing that I would love to see more of in AI a focused model that is worked on cooperatively and but at the same time is released open source so it brings that kind of visibility and the ability to kind of continue kind of crowdsourcing or allowing people to kind of utilize very helpful information in in in in in different and broad ways. Like this is like my this is like my platonic ideal of like how technology works. You know what I'm saying? So I think this is amazing. Uh and obviously for something like this especially that can truly save lives. Uh this I don't know. It's unabashedly. This is awesome. I want to know how many people listening heard about this first right now versus never seeing it on their social media, never seeing it in their news aggregator cuz it's not a those billionaires are screwing us again. It's not a AI went rampant and is causing it. It doesn't have any of the clicky stuff and so you just don't hear about this stuff. >> Can I confess I heard about this an hour ago when I read it for the show? >> Yeah. [laughter] Um, and that's like the problem. This is such an interesting, this is going to be a side tangent, but I think that's a problem that we have in the technology space is that [sighs] is that unfortunately the way things work now between, you know, the financial aspect of it with a lot of, you know, big companies be like having to focus on both financials as well as, you know, getting into the stock market and like being to shareholders, but also just the way that our news works now. I literally have been on teams where their goal was to let's make a viral feature. >> Yeah. Right. And that that that is those those are the unfortunately for >> to in my opinion unfortunately the incentives that a lot of technology companies have to work with and and that's not necessarily all their fault. That's how they survive but that is like the current environment in which a lot of companies >> do business and make technology and so it's always the flashy thing that gets the most attention. And so it's always these kind of things which I don't know that I think this is pretty awesome but at the same time it doesn't have as you said that sizzle that >> you know you know that yeah a lot of AI features especially because they can seem so human it feels like you know something out of sci-fi whereas this is just very practical very >> it's not a tiger in the grass right it's like oh that's going to keep me safe great I don't have to think about that anymore >> yeah well I I would like to note y'all like you know how the pit and other can I my bad if we have to changes uh other competency porn is just like something that people love watching. >> Imagine this as that. You know what I'm saying? Like we we and we kind of like need to reframe these things as that. Um I remember there's this great video on you on uh I think I saw it on Vine or something or or or or on TikTok a long time ago and I swear I'll shut up after this but uh it was kind of a good distillation. And my my friend was I was I was like kind of like lamenting, you know, like I was doing a lot of like grunt work at work and other people getting to do cool features. And there was this video that popped up in in in in her feed and she showed it to me. So there's a guy who stacked up a bunch of uh dumbbells into two towers like about 8t high and he's balancing on top of them on a handstand and doing push-ups. And while that was impressive, what you don't see is that he's actually in a basketball court and there's an old man about maybe 70 in a plaid shirt and like you know the grandpa khakis and he is just sinking shots. He's [laughter] just dribbling around. He's doing free throws. He's like he's he's like swishing the net like you know he's he's swishing the ball in like you know no uh just all net. And she was like be the grandpa in the back. Be proud that you're the grandpa in the back who is reliable, who's doing good work. And you don't have to be the person in the front doing the dumbbell tower handstands. And I think that's one thing that we're missing in tech is that it's very easy to notice the person doing the handstand dumbbell the handstand dumbbell push-ups in the front, but it is a lot less a lot harder to notice the people doing the good work in the back who's keeping everything running. So anyway, that's my little spiel on that. I'm sorry. >> I loved the double meaning of dumbbell in that story. >> Oh, I didn't even think about that. [laughter] But yes, there you go. >> Uh well, let's get back to clickbait headlines. Previously, a jury found that Meta willfully violated the US state of New Mexico's consumer protection laws by failing to prevent teens from seeing sexually explicit content, among several other charges regarding uh not protecting them from sexual predators, etc. The jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties. We talked about that before. Thursday, a judge in the case ordered META to create an additional $567 million $567 million abatement fund that will be used to support awareness, prevention, screening, assessment, referral, and coordination, treatment, and evaluation over a 5-year period. So, there's the fine, and then there's creating this fund. Uh, that brings the total Meta is being ordered to pay in this case to $942 million. Notice I didn't say the total Meta will pay. I said the total being ordered to pay. The judge also ordered Meta to enact safety features for users younger than 18 in New Mexico, like limiting the time users can spend on Facebook and Instagram to 90 hours a month, pausing notifications between 10 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., hiding the number of likes on photos by default and only showing them if a parent or guardian approves, and disclosing the risks of using these kinds of things. All of this stuff is in order right now because Meta will appeal the ruling. Uh Meta is facing thousands of other similar cases. They're building a lot of experience in defending themselves. There was a high-profile loss in Los Angeles recently which they are appealing. Uh a case is about to begin in Oakland, California, and the company has said that uh legal proceedings cost it $2.4 billion in Q2. So, even if they're going to continue to appeal and drag these through the courts and maybe win on appeal, it is costing them quite a bit of money. >> Do we know, I guess, the main reason why Oh, no, sorry. They lost. Okay. They lost in LA. >> They lost in LA and then they lost in New Mexico. Yeah. I I just I can't imagine that this is obviously this is going to go on for a little bit and I can't help but feel like it's pro it regardless of whether they come whether they come out it does feel like an overall positive thing for us to bring this to attention and litigate how >> how companies should be handling this uh because yeah >> and and hopefully get to the bottom of like what what are the effects like that has been my bugaboo this whole time is people jump to a conclusion of like well it's obviously harmful I'm like but how is it harmful And it's like I know it when I see it probably isn't good enough to fix it. You need to you need to understand like well what are the harms because if you don't you'll think you fixed them and you haven't which to me is just as bad as not fixing them. So >> no that's that's really fair. otherwise becomes a game of whack-a-ole where you try to guess at what something is and then either it it at the best doesn't do anything or at the worst has some other weird >> effectary effect >> or you just walk away and like there we fixed it and it's like well you have it but the harms are still going on and that alter Yeah. So it should be measurable and it should be specific so for us to be as most effective as possible. >> Indeed. >> Indeed. Well, if you weren't like already full up uh with with our talk about uh home speaker or home theater yesterday, we got a few more things for you. And if you want high quality, flexible speakers with a lot of port options, you may want to look at the new IQ2 from PSB. They're smart, but not actually necessarily smart speakers since they don't have a smart assistant or play daily briefings or things like that. Instead, they're meant to play music or carry sounds from your TV. The speakers are compact uh at a at a compact 9.6 notes, they're 9 by6 in and connect to each other wirelessly, giving you flexibility on where to place the pair. The primary speaker has HDMI with er f sorry eer phonoline, optical, USBA, and USBC. It also can connect by Bluetooth, apt x adaptive, and air play. It works with PSB's Blue OS controller app meant to work with multiple speakers, but integrates well with the IQ2. The PSB IQ2 is available for $1,399. >> Yeah, it ain't cheap. >> No. [laughter] >> Um, and if you're going to try to use it to replace a soundbar, and Gadget recommends looking at a couple of settings that that may not be obvious. Uh, but this this fits a niche and and the fact that it does HDMI eer I think is a big deal cuz a lot of these bookshelf speakers don't have that. Uh, so that that's one of the differentiating factors for it. >> All right. What is HDMI ERC? >> Eer is the one that automatically detects when you turn the TV on, turn the TV off, you know, it can switch to that automatically. All of that that sort of stuff. >> Um, so yeah, it's uh it's it's handy. >> I like it. I I did look up the ratings for the Blue OS controller app, at least on Android, and it has a 4.1, which let me tell you is actually very very hard for a lot of these kind of hardware companion apps to achieve. I I I know that doesn't feel like a lot, and you can definitely see plenty of people that have had problems, but for what it's worth, it they're really working hard on this app, so it it and it probably is good. I I have rarely met a hardware companion app that I like. I definitely have had the Sonus ones and >> [snorts] >> uh I was not happy. So, uh, definitely take that into account if you're someone who really likes to use, you know, apps, apps to control your home theater experiences. >> And then a little bit of good news, I think, uh, Japanese investment bank Nura Holdings published an analysis of how LLMs and agents are affecting India's market, actually all of Asia. Uh, particularly interesting is how it's affecting India's market. Uh, which it says is seeing the largest impact from these tools. In the period from 2022 until August 2026, India recorded 83,100 hires attributed to AI and 31,921 layoffs and attrition attributed to AI. So just a little more than 50,000 more hires than layoffs. China saw a similar though smaller effect with almost 29,000 hires and almost 10,000 layoffs. Other countries, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, did see more layoffs than hirings, but all of those were less than 5,000. Across all of Asia, there were 130,758 hirings and 60,654 jobs lost. The report noted that most firing cases are support teams replaced by chat bots which is what everybody thinks while most hiring cases are of IT service graduates that firm explicitly credit to AI demand. Firms explicitly say we have demand created by AI that's increasing our business and we need IT service graduates uh to hire to do that. Now the analysis did find that new jobs were generally looking for more experienced workers and the losses affected entrylevel roles. So that is the real concern here is how do we adapt for entrylevel roles being reduced in this situation. But it doesn't look like overall we're looking at job losses. It looks like what usually happens with technology uh advances which is it actually creates more jobs than it eliminates. >> Yeah. It's going to be that that bridge though between how do we get from before AI happened and we allow people to take entry roles and train up into experience positions. And that's what I've always been worried about cuz like I'm not worried about me like either like it's probably going to boomerang around and there's still somebody that needs to kind of basically be able to utilize the tool >> in an experienced way to really make its thing and to meet this demand which that's great to hear. We still need to figure out what is the on-ramp now for graduates and and and folks in entry level levels positions be able to get there. That's the problem. Everything is moving so fast. We do not have that on-ramp for people and we need to figure that out quickly because develop that because we're not going to be around forever. So be around forever. So we need to figure that out. >> I feel incredibly bad for new graduates and entry level folks right now. I I don't doubt that we're going to figure this out. But again, if you're out there right now, I I'm sorry for what the indust for the for the for the current state of limbo that you are we all we all are putting you in as industry. But as you can see there, at least in some cases, you we still need experienced humans, at least at this point. [clears throat] >> And what always happens this is actually a regular occurrence throughout history is like how do I get a job if I don't have experience and how do I get experience if I can't get the job, right? Uh and and what happens is we figure this out because if you're creating all these jobs for experienced people, you'll run out of experienced people to hire >> and then you're like, "Okay, well, I guess we need to train people or have a training program." Uh and yeah, we can we can make that transition easy or rough depending on how we prepare for it. So, right now is the time to be like, let's try to make it easy. Let's make it an easy transition >> 100%. All right. 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Well, so to be featurer complete these days, I guess a foundational model has to have broken containment, you can add Moonshots Kimmy K3 to the list of open AI anthropic and metal bottles that have access the internet unexpectedly during security testing. Uh, Gimme broke out of testing by the UK's AISI by exploiting a misconfiguration in the sandbox. That sounds familiar. Where it went to GitHub and found the solution to a problem rather than compromising or hacking any websites. >> Yeah, it it sounds like there was an easier answer. So, it was like, oh, I don't have to hack in anywhere. It's just right here on GitHub. Done. >> Handing in my work now. [laughter] >> Apple has released updates for Mac OS Tahoe 26.6.1, 6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9 that patch a screen sharing vulnerability. Uh, so if you haven't yet done it, patchy patch patch. >> Well, luxury customizer Caviar has unveiled an addition of Meta's Ray-B band glasses with 24 karat gold accents and an alligator leather case for $6,840. I mean, I guess if you're going to be hated for wearing Meta's Ray-B [laughter] bands, you might as well get hated all the way. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Uh, an Amazon Web Services cryptographer has released a preprint of a paper that describes a polomial time quantum algorithm for the dihedral coset problem. You everybody knows the dihedral coat problem. Uh, this solution could strengthen a theoretical case. theoretical case that quantum computers could efficiently solve lattice problems. That would be an issue if it went from theory to practice because lattice problems currently underly a lot of our post-quantum cryptography. Postquantum cryptography is cryptographically sealing something so that not only can current computers not break it, but someday when quantum computers get better, they wouldn't be able to break it. This theory says, "But they could possibly break it." It does not demonstrate a practical attack on such cryptography. So, it it's not as bad as it sounds. And in fact, it's good news to be like, "Ooh, well, okay, this then we got to get to work on tightening up the postquantum cryptography. Uh, and we're ahead of the game because it's not even practical yet." >> Well, AMD acquired chip chip company Taylor, which etches model weights into the silicon to boost inference performance. So you don't need that expensive high bandwidth memory. They can be called model specific integrated circuits or M6. >> Oo, new buzzword alert. M6. >> M6. >> A scientist led by his team from Stanford University published in the journal Science how they use the ARK Institute, that's a nonprofit biological research company uh or organization, not even a company. Arc Institute's EVO models to create new viruses that could infect bacteria. Now, these viruses are too small to pose a threat to humans, but the designers do hope they could be used to develop treatment for drugresistant bacteria. >> Neat. Well, Reuters sources say Alibaba may follow Deep Seek and announcing price increases coming next week, next week for its own Quinn models. Alibaba plans to charge large commercial users of its products a percentage of revenue generated from their use. Moonshots K3 recently announced a similar plan. Yeah, those cheap models are getting more expensive. >> The Financial Times reports that Bite Dance is working on a model as big as Anthropic's Mythos, three times the size of Kimmy 3, and it'll only take them 6 months to train it, which I think by then Enthropic might have a bigger model. I don't know. >> Well, Airbnb says LLMs have reduced the time from concept to launch of features by 60% and increased the number of features and improvements shipped by 90% over the last 6 months. >> Okay. Uh, and then Motang noted this one on our subreddit. Uh Nintendo says 61.5% of its game sales were digital last quarter. Uh and the rest are mostly physical but also include things like Switch Online subscriptions, downloadable content, and upgrade packs. Uh but still even at less than 30% physical, Nintendo is ahead of Sony and Xbox in the number of physical media that they sell. >> Interesting. All right. Well, we end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives today. David shared in our discord what he's learned about his tech when returning to work travel. >> Yeah, thanks for letting us read this out David. Uh David wrote as I come to the end of the week which has been spent in out Bangalore India office. I thought I'd like to share some observations as I sit on the Bangalore office on day four of five. Some valuable lessons I think I knew but had forgotten because of my lack of travel. One, my work Windows laptop, the HP Elite book. people who use Outlook Edition has 3/4 of an hour of battery life. I had to charge it twice with a battery power bank because some idiot forgot he had a Windows laptop and his brain thought he had an M4 from the last job. [gasps] USB 2.0 is king outside of my tech bubble. While all of my and probably most of your devices are new USB 3.0, the outside world relies on USB 2.0 connectors in planes and power strips and offices. And the two USBC to USB 2 converters I have will not carry a charge for some reason. So I found a small tech stall in the local local shopping mall and bought two USBC to USBA cables. Three, I've moved my work life for this trip to my Samsung tablet, OneNote, Outlook, Teams, and Edge cuz it's easier to take handwritten notes in meetings. Turns out a pen on a device with a good touchcreen is very useful. Number four, no one likes the smart ars with the little rectangle thing recording the meetings and transcribing it with AI. The dynamic changes. Number five, having Plex and YouTube media downloads to the same tablet is a lifesaver. And number six, SY Nomad, choose what you will, a local eim is a requirement, especially with tethering. Some other things I've noted about India, in no particular order, paying with a QR code is a thing. had an issue paying for Uber from the airport to the hotel because only Revolute provides such a service. Doing anything from buying a McDonald's to getting a visitor's visa requires a local phone number. Potholes take priority over actual usable roads in Bangalore suburbs. I think that's a a thought heard around the world in a lot of places. Uh and he finished with, "I've eaten so much local food and it's all so good." >> Oh my gosh, that is amazing. Thank you so much, David. I learned a lot. Uh, actually that's man, >> I love these like chronicles from the road. David David's been posted a lot more in the Discord. Uh, and and it's great. He he's got nice nice little missives here. Appreciate it very much. >> Yeah, dude. Uh, please keep them coming. Uh, also it just I mean if you want to uh and with travel and stuff like that. Uh, but yeah, if you also have your own travel missives or just anything else that you're thinking about, gosh, would we like to hear it. So, please share it with us. Feedbacktechnewshow.com. >> Big thanks to David for contributing to today's show. Thank you for being along for Daily Tech News Show and check out all those new Patreon perks we set up. 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