Microsoft Exchange Online Outage, Pokémon Go Data Reused, and Prediction Market Threats
Release Date: 03/17/2026
Hashtag Trending Weekend: Steve Visconti - Electric Vehicles and Security
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EV Charging Security Risks: Unreachable Networks, Grid Threats, and the Government Kill Switch Debate Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt In this holiday edition of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love shares David Shipley’s interview with Steve Visconti, CEO of Xiid Corporation, on the cybersecurity risks surrounding electric vehicles—especially EV charging...
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New Advancements In Quantum Processing
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Caltech Quantum Error-Correction Breakthrough, ChatGPT Ads, AI Radiologists & Starlink’s Night-Sky Risk Host Jim Love covers four stories: Caltech researchers say fault-tolerant quantum computing may be closer than expected because new error-correction work could cut the need from about 100 physical qubits per logical qubit to roughly five or six, making commercially viable systems possible at around 10,000 qubits; researcher Oscar Painter has launched Oratomic to pursue utility-scale quantum computers, raising urgency around encryption risks. OpenAI is exploring conversational ads in...
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Microsoft Has Worst Quarter Since 2008
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Claude Code Leak, Cisco Dev Breach via Trivy, Iran Threatens US Tech Firms, Microsoft Shares Slide Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending with sponsor Meter and covers four main stories: a March 31 packaging error that shipped Anthropic’s Claude code tool with a large source-code map file in its NPM package, enabling reconstruction of...
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Mythos - Anthropic's Super Powerful Model Accidentally Leaked.
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Leaked Anthropic Mythos, OpenAI’s AGI Deployment Push, Government AI Rollouts, and Facial Recognition Failures Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt The episode reports that internal documents about Anthropic’s accidentally leaked model “Mythos” describe major gains over Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity, alongside concerns about advanced cyber...
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Meta and YouTube Found Liable By California Jury
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Helium Shortage Threatens Chip Supply, Social Media Liability, EU Open-Source Office Push & Critical Chrome Update Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love covers a Qatar helium facility damaged during the Iranian conflict that has been offline for two weeks, removing about a third of global helium supply and threatening semiconductor production that relies on...
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Project Synapse - Is 2026 the Year?
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Tesla Autopilot, Grok in the Car, Robot Factory Workers, and the AI Enterprise Race (Claude vs OpenAI vs Microsoft) Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt The hosts discuss buying Teslas and Marcel’s test drive using full self-driving, auto-parking, and the optional in-car Grok assistant. They compare consumer AI hype to practical enterprise use, noting...
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Microsoft Rolls Back Free Copilot In Microsoft 365
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Microsoft Pulls Back Free Copilot Access, OpenAI Refocuses ChatGPT for Work, and Roblox Safety Scrutiny Returns Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love covers Microsoft reversing its September 2025 move to include Copilot Chat inside Microsoft 365 apps for free, with changes starting April 15 to remove in-app Copilot access for large organizations using Copilot...
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Legal Issues Hit Tech Companies With Legal Losses Mounting, OpenAI Drops Sora and More....
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Pentagon vs Anthropic, Musk Liable Over Twitter Tweets, Meta’s Child Safety Court Loss, and OpenAI Drops Sora Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt In this episode of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love covers a judge’s early view that the Pentagon’s ban labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk may look like punishment, as Anthropic argues it’s retaliation for...
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Private Zoom Calls Published Online
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Private Zoom Calls Published Online, FCC Moves to Ban Non‑US Routers, Toyota Deploys Humanoid Robots, and OpenAI Ads Lack Measurement Jim Love reports that WebinarTV has been scanning for publicly shared Zoom links, joining calls, recording them, and publishing AI-generated podcasts and summaries—often without permission—highlighting risks from loosely controlled links and third-party browser extensions. He covers a US FCC move to block authorization of new consumer Wi‑Fi routers made outside the United States, citing supply-chain and national security concerns, while noting it won’t...
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Google's Sundar Pichai Says AI Could Replace Him in the Future: Other CEO's Agree.
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AI Replacing CEOs, OpenAI Hiring Surge, Cursor’s Model Controversy & AI Protests in SF Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Host Jim Love covers claims by leaders including Google’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski that AI could someday replace CEOs, contrasted with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang rejecting the idea, and...
info_outlineMicrosoft Exchange Online Outage, Former Uber CEO Kalanick’s Texas Move, Pokémon Go Data Reused for Training Delivery Robots, and Prediction Market Threats
Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt
Host Jim Love covers four stories: a Microsoft Exchange Online disruption that blocked some Microsoft 365 users from accessing mailboxes, with Microsoft saying the issue was no longer occurring for affected users while it continued monitoring and preparing a post-incident report, even as some reports indicated lingering problems.
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he moved his primary residence from California to Texas on December 18 as a proposed California billionaire tax effort advances toward a possible November 2026 ballot, amid mixed reactions from other high-profile executives and opposition from Governor Gavin Newsom.
The episode also explores how Pokémon Go’s Visual Positioning System and landmark scanning may have helped build detailed 3D maps that could train autonomous delivery robots, raising questions about data reuse. Finally, it details allegations that Polymarket-linked gamblers threatened a journalist over wording affecting a missile-strike bet, highlighting risks and regulatory concerns around unregulated online prediction markets.
00:00 Trending Headlines
00:52 Exchange Online Outage
03:06 Billionaire Tax Moves
04:56 Pokemon Go Data Reuse
07:16 Prediction Market Threats
10:38 Wrap Up and Sponsor