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**Daily Tech News Show**

Tom Merritt and the team help you stay up to date with an independent, authoritative and trustworthy tech news briefing.

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DTNS April 2026 in Review May 02, 2026

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Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of April.

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.

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Apple Sold a Ton of iPhone 17s and Mac Minis - DTNS 5260 May 01, 2026

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Google is rolling out Gemini to Google built-in as a replacement to Assistant, and Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum can now be enjoyed on new portable handhelds designed to look like the classic computers.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.

Links to stories discussed in this episode can be found here.

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Why OpenAI Has Literally Been Fighting Goblins - DTNS 5259 Apr 30, 2026

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OK, not LITERAL goblins, but it’s an interesting gremlin that helps us understand model training. Plus, Sony says don’t worry about the PlayStation DRM, but doesn’t give details, therefore skipping the be happy part.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao

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Sony’s 30-Day DRM Clock Reappears - DTNS 5258 Apr 29, 2026

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Did Sony mean to put DRM back on offline games? And what DIDN’T Elon Musk say on the witness stand Tuesday.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Inside the 1930s Vintage Language Model Called Talkie - DTNS 5257 Apr 28, 2026

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Valve's new Steam Controller is purpose-built for its ecosystem and nothing else, and the "Ask YouTube" search experiment is like a version of Gemini that is specific to YouTube video content.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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Agents Delete Rental Company’s Platform - DTNS 5256 Apr 27, 2026

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Why you need to be really careful with these agents, but also really careful about what’s possible on your platform. And also be really careful with LED flashlights. We’ll explain.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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Why Smart Homes Finally Just Work (Thanks to Matter) - DTNS Weekend Apr 25, 2026

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IKEA and Samsung just partnered—but that’s not the real story. Richard Gunther explains how Matter and Thread finally make smart home devices plug-and-play, no platform decisions required.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Richard Gunther.

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We Are Xbox and We Have a New Logo Too - DTNS 5255 Apr 24, 2026

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DeepSeek launched V4 Flash and V4 Pro with a new Hybrid Attention Architecture the means much more context in a single prompt, and Instagram is testing a new Instants app for ephemeral photo sharing that disappears in 24 hours.

Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao

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Apple Ternus-over - DTNS Live 5124 Apr 23, 2026

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Tim Cook steps down as the CEO of Apple with chief of hardware development John Ternus taking the reins. Is this a shrewd move for the Cupertino company? Will Framework latest version of its modular laptop take modular laptops and Linux mainstream? And we see if the panel can out guess the riddles on today’s quiz!

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Apple Patches A Signal Leak - DTNS 5254 Apr 23, 2026

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And Korean scientists have developed a way to switch from 2D to 3D in the same display.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao and Bodie Grimm

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