The PC Pro Podcast

The team reveals what excited them from last week’s Google Pixel Event (spoiler: not much), engages in a thoroughly depressing game of The Price is Right and discusses how subtle word choices may expose AI-generated text. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Ugreen magnetic NVMe SSD enclosure, a neat little caddy that snaps onto the back of your iPhone for top-quality video capture.

This week the team discusses Google’s AI staffing shakeup, NVIDIA’s latest funding round and Amazon’s new gas-powered data centre.
We find out what happens when you email noreply.net, why Meta glasses are under threat and examine the new EU Right to Repair Directive.
Our Hot Hardware of the Week nominee is Valve’s Steam Machine.

The team discusses the case of a US citizen who tricked border agents into wiping his seized phone; new ways to prove your identity with a video selfie; and a new generation of scam calls powered by frighteningly believable AI agents. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Home Assistant Green, a little box that brings together all your smart home services into one convenient, open-source platform.

In a landmark episode the team discusses an alarming AI jailbreak, the EU’s continuing efforts to weaken Google’s monopolies and LG’s ingenious but deplorable trick of using Windows Update to distribute adware. Our Hot Hardware candidate is the Devolo BE6500, the cheapest 6GHz Wi-Fi 7 router we’ve ever seen.

This week the team discuss proposed improvements to Windows Search, Apple goes to war against OpenAI, Meta's AI HR wrangle, social media curfews and a moratorium on data centres in New York.
There is also a lot of talk about Lego.
The link to the Microsoft Blog mentioned in our first story is here.
Our Hot Hardware of the Week nominee is the Pebble Time 2 smartwatch.