0822 | US Border Phone Data Felony, Ohio Drops Flock Camera Charges, AI Homework vs Exam Scores

This episode digs into a mix of tech, privacy, and hardware stories making the rounds. It opens with legal clashes over digital privacy — a traveler facing felony charges for using a duress PIN that wiped his phone at the border, a grand jury declining to indict an Ohio man for destroying a Flock license-plate camera, and Winona police declining to replace their stolen cameras. The hosts then weigh the cognitive cost of heavy AI use, a study where homework scores rose 18% but exams dropped 20%, Timeline: 00:00:00 Opening 00:00:57 Felony charges for deleting phone data at the US border 00:02:03 Grand jury refuses to indict the Ohio Flock camera vandal 00:03:46 Winona police decline to replace stolen Flock cameras 00:05:33 I'm becoming AI-blind 00:06:39 AI raised homework scores, then exam scores dropped 00:07:21 What we lost when search stopped making us think 00:07:49 Claudette: making Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article 00:09:46 What happens when the cost of intelligence drops 100x 00:10:22 AI companies destroying books and the race to scan rare ones 00:11:23 Accidentally logging calls to military bases via a hijacked zone 00:13:16 Japan's failed bid to build an OS for the whole world 00:13:57 What actually happens when a GPU reads memory 00:14:56 Rebuilding the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon 00:16:57 Running Photoshop on a sixty-pence chip View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a027a0-dc8d-746d-a3c8-725af5f0d697 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at [email protected].