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Two and a Half Bens

Pheonix, PhoneBoy, and SirBemrose

The tech podcast not hosted by a Chief Twit or Tech Bros

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#30
Sunday · 2 hr 40 min
30 - Now With More AI Slop
The Bens discuss AI shenangians, Microsoft ditching Manifest v2, unsustainable patching, Waymo, Ubuntu in Windows, AI destroying physical books, losing a PBS station's history, and more!
August 15 · 1 hr 20 min
Bonus 1 - Fungal Slab
The Bens do a "bonus" episode and discuss the implications of Microsoft retiring SMS/Voice authentication as well as foisting Passkeys on everyone.
#29
August 8 · 2 hr 31 min
29 - AI VD
The Bens discuss more AI misbehavior, Microsoft UDIDs, Xbox going 100% digital, ads in your beemer, China probes Palo Alto Networks, and more!
#28
July 26 · 2 hr 47 min
28 - Vibe-Coded Sandbox
The Bens are joined by DameBemrose to recognize the passing of John C. Dvorak and discuss autonomous AI cyber attacks, among other AI shenanigans, selfies for Google, Microsoft forcing passkeys, more evidence you don’t own your tech, and more!
#27
July 12 · 2 hr 41 min
27 - Goatse Systems
The Bens discuss not owning your digital content, data breaches, AI shenanigans, AI-hallucinated espionage, Microsoft’s Quantum-Safe Roadmap, and more!
#26
June 27 · 2 hr 48 min
26 - Acronym Salad
The Bens discuss CAPTCHA, the Commodore Flip Phone, breaches, AI-bans in the workplace, more AI bullshit, Nightmare Eclipse, and more!
#25
June 7 · 1 hr 44 min
25 - Cumshot on the Motherboard
The Bens discuss AI (of course), breaches, Google unclear on the concepts of credentials, sad song signals, and more!
#24
May 23 · 2 hr 16 min
24 - Marginally Plausible Bullshit
The Bens discuss Windows feature parity, AI all up in everyone's business, unnecessary tech in vapes, Unpatched Bugs in Chrome, and more!
#23
May 10 · 1 hr 32 min
23 - Zero-Day Explitive
The Bens discuss Firestarter malware, nudify apps, AI shenanigans, BlueHammer, quantum computing hype, password resets, and more!
#22
April 25 · 1 hr 32 min
22 - Raw Dogging the Internet
The Bens discuss Firestarter malware, nudify apps, AI shenanigans, BlueHammer, quantum computing hype, password resets, and more!
#21
April 19 · 2 hr 28 min
21 - May Cause Silent Data Corruption
The Bens discuss age verification, support nightmares, forced multi-factor authentication, GPS, poisoned and leaked AI, rowhammer comes to GPUs, and more!
#20
April 2 · 2 hr 28 min
20 - C-Suite FOMO
The Bens discuss age verification on Linux systems, Android sideloading, Hide My Email not so hidden, AI sneaking into the Farm Bill, lots of other AI shenanigans, and more!
#19
March 14 · 2 hr 21 min
19 - K-Y Jelly For Your Data
The Bens discuss more AI shenangigans, Steam and malware, expsenive API key theft, data leaks from identity verifiers, glassholes, Amazon outages, age verfification, and more!
#18
February 21 · 1 hr 54 min
18 - AI Arsonist
The Bens discuss OpenClaw, Scott Schambaugh, AI news, Doordashing Waymos, Microsoft, password managers, Texas suing TP-LINK, and more!
#17
February 14 · 2 hr 56 min
17 - Open Source Freeballing
The Bens discuss interships, Notepad(++) flaws, OpenClaw, AI Assistant flaws, surrender as a service, database disclosures, and more!
#1
January 24 · 2 hr 23 min
16 - HTML Motherfuckers
The Bens discuss more AI bullshit, disabling car functionality via OTA updates, malicious browser extensions, cURL kills theer bug bounty program, and more!
#1
January 10 · 2 hr 17 min
15 - Hell-LM
The Bens discuss more fallout from the LastPass breach, Clippy 2.0, bad TACs, more AI bullshit, SmartTV data, and more!
#14
Dec 28, 2025 · 2 hr 13 min
14 - Alphabet Mafia
The Bens discuss fire suppression, UEFI flaws, malicious npm packages, Microsoft replacing it's codebase, LonGrinch, tabletop exercises, and more!
#13
Dec 13, 2025 · 2 hr 16 min
13 - A New Error
The Bens discuss React2Shell, lots of AI bullcrap, Python, Docker leaks, dumb beds, BSODs, ConsentFix, and more!
#123
Nov 29, 2025 · 1 hr 50 min
12 - From Caffeine to Hate
The Bens discuss finger C2C, the AI bubble, ChatGPT, fake Windows Updates screens, and more!

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