TNW 429: DarkSword Puts Hundreds of Millions at Risk - The Internet's Reaction to NVIDIA's DLSS 5

About this episode

The episode discusses NVIDIA's DLSS 5 unveiling, iPhone hacking techniques, and smart home technology challenges.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! IKEA's smart home products are not quite there yet. NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 and faced backlash from within the gaming community. A powerful iPhone-hacking technique has been discovered to take over devices running iOS 18. And some updates on the probes into Tesla's and hands-free driving systems. Jennifer shares her experience using IKEA's newest smart home products utilizing the Matter-over-Thread protocol, expressing her concerns and frustrations with trying to connect them to any smart home platform. Mikah talks about Nvidia's DLSS 5 that was unveiled at GTC 2026, and the criticism & memes it has faced since its unveiling. Andy Greenberg of WIRED joins the show to talk about a tool that has been discovered, called DarkSword, that can hack into millions of iPhones running iOS 18. And Mikah chats about hands-free driving technology in vehicles and NHTSA's probe into Tesla and Ford's hands-free driving systems. Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Guest: Andy Greenberg Download or subscribe to Tech News Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly . Join Club…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Guest: Andy Greenberg

Topics covered

• NVIDIA
• iPhone hacking
• smart home technology
• gaming community backlash
• hands-free driving

Keywords

• NVIDIA
• DLSS 5
• iPhone hacking
• DarkSword
• smart home
• Tesla
• Ford
• hands-free driving

Sponsors

outsystems.com, hipebl.ai

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Verge, NVIDIA, WIRED, Tesla, Ford, NHTSA

Products: DLSS 5, iPhone, Matter-over-Thread, DarkSword

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