Tech News Roundup May 2026

About this episode

The episode covers various significant tech news topics from May 2026.

Tonight on GeekNights, it's a Tech News Roundup! Madison Square Garden's insane surveillance machine , Github's ongoing collapse , Mac minis being hit by the ongoing RAM crisis , Ask.com is dead , a trivial-to-exploit Linux vulnerability , OpenAI won't stop talking about goblins , Apple fixes a notification vulnerability with Signal , iOS finally adds end-to-end encryption to RCS , AI slop podcasts are spreading , Roblox can't make money if kids can't sign up , and Tim Apple is replaced by John Apple . Related Links Forum Thread Tech News Roundup May 2026 Discord Chat Tech News Roundup May 2026 Bluesky Post Tech News Roundup May 2026 Things of the Day Rym -  What do other animals think of human music? Scott -  Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo

People in this episode

Hosts: Rym, Scott

Topics covered

• tech news
• surveillance
• AI
• vulnerabilities
• gaming
• encryption

Keywords

• surveillance
• Github
• RAM crisis
• Linux vulnerability
• OpenAI
• Apple
• encryption
• Roblox
• AI podcasts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Madison Square Garden, Github, Ask.com, Linux, OpenAI, Apple, Signal, iOS, Roblox

Products: Mac minis

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