This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
by Jeanne Destro
Latest episode
The Rise Of The "Undead" Media
The Rise Of The "Undead" Media
About this podcast
WAKR's Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 166 episodes
- The Rise Of The "Undead" Media · 26 minAs we celebrate Halloween this weekend; we're having some fun exploring spooky technology. From AI that could one day kill us al, to the popular resurgence of "dead" media…
- Holding Onto Our Humanity In The Age of AI · 14 minWhat makes us truly human? Is it our superior intellect, our scientific discoveries, or our ability to create awe-inspiring works of art, literature, music, and poetry? What if…
- Defending The Frontier: Cyber Training In The Age Of AI · 26 minCybersecurity professionals are always facing new threats, and even with their best efforts; sometimes the bad guys win. But now, the "bad guys" are not just...you know...actual…
- Stop Being Mean To Claude! · 17 minFrom Anthropic's new rules that bar users from engaging in repeated, severe cruelty or verbal abuse directed at Claude, to AI helping fight wildfires out West; today's show is…
- This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro · 19 minToday we've got great news about how Tech startups, entrepreneurs, and established companies can get help to succeed, and prosper in Northeast Ohio. Listen now, as we talk with…
- Data Centers, Hackers, and AI: Oh My! · 18 minThis week, high stakes political fallout, and concern about data centers in Ohio, an AI-based dispute between Meta and Amazon, and a major hack on the FBI, which exposed…
- There’s No Place Like Drone · 12 minPharmacies make it pretty easy these days to pick up a prescription, with convenient options like drive-through pickup windows, and mail order delivery. But, what if you’re too…
- Big Tech, Big Money, Big Consequences, Big Dreams · 9 minThis week it is all about big tech, big money, and big consequences, as Meta agreed to a nearly $18 billion dollar settlement with Attorneys General from dozens of States and…
- Grab The Pitchforks! AI Backlash Targets Flock Cameras & Data Centers · 14 minTurns out people don't like being spied on, having their jobs threatened, or having to pay more for electricity to support technology and infrastructure that is both powered by…
- If You Don't Wanna Love Me; Somebody Else Will: States Step Up To Protect Kids · 7 minHonestly, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. I can't even tell you how many stories I've written over the past few years about how social media is harming kids. On…
- Critical Minerals, Space Junk, and A MySpace Reboot · 16 minThe federal government is committing more than $5 billion dollars to a national effort to expand the Genesis Mission, which is aimed at harnessing AI for science. Part of that…
- Sci-Fi Scenario Gets Real As AI Goes Rogue-Twice! · 14 minFrom soft-spoken but creepily bossy HAL on 2001 a Space Odyssey, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's killer robot on The Terminator, we've long been worried about out of control…
- Super Sensors: Next-Gen Quantum Research Gets Big Boost At Ohio State University · 20 minFrom the relatively low-tech thermostat that tells your home HVAC system when to turn up the AC, to the incredibly complex strategic early warning systems that help keep our…
- There Ought To Be A Law!: Why Congress Needs To Regulate AI · 29 minWhile there is no doubt that AI is a transformative and extremely useful technology; there is also a lot to well-founded concern about how it is being deployed, where the…
- Federal Court Affirms Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act: Now What? · 42 minOhio lawmakers made it very clear they wanted to protect children from online harms back in 2023, when they passed a law mandating that minors under the age of 16 could not use…
- Goliath V. Goliath: Big Tech and Big Government Duke It Out · 12 minThis week, we’re looking at the profound impact that technology is having on all of our lives; sometimes, in very unexpected ways. From a social media ban for children under 16…
- Lady Madonna, Who Will Pay the Rent?: The Looming AI Jobpocalpyse · 33 minI was inspired to write this story by the tumultuous events at CBS News last week, which resulted in the high profile firings of several key members of the 60 Minutes staff…
- One Thing Leads To Another: How Ohio Tech and Energy Concerns Reflect Global Disruption · 14 minThis week's story is about the interconnected web of global technology and energy production, disruption, and politics. But more than that; it is about how Ohioans are caught up…
- Drones Are The New Black · 21 minYou can dress them up, you can dress them down, and you can use them anywhere. Drones are technology's new little black dress; delivering everything from bombs, to life-saving…
- Small Particles, Big Results: Quantum Cybersecurity Breakthrough At Ohio State University · 12 minWhile the US Government mends fences with Anthropic, which recently introduced an AI tool known as "Mythos",which they claim is so powerful it can punch holes in even the most…
