A smart home vacuum goes bankrupt and suddenly the maps of your living room might be someone else’s asset—that’s where we start, and the questions only get sharper from there. We dig into iRobot’s Chapter 11, the failed Amazon deal, and why a China-linked manufacturer gaining access to device data should force a hard reset on how we think about ownership, privacy, and consent in consumer hardware. From there, we test the limits of AI in the wild. Anthropic’s “Project Vend” handed a real vend...
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A smart home vacuum goes bankrupt and suddenly the maps of your living room might be someone else’s asset—that’s where we start, and the questions only get sharper from there. We dig into iRobot’s Chapter 11, the failed Amazon deal, and why a China-linked manufacturer gaining access to device data should force a hard reset on how we think about ownership, privacy, and consent in consumer hardware. From there, we test the limits of AI in the wild. Anthropic’s “Project Vend” handed a real vend...
275: TechTime Radio: Congress Hacked, Zoom is Pantless, Gadgets & Gear spotlights Raycon Earbuds, IKEA sells a Phone Bed, and LEGO Beams Up Star Trek joy.” Is our Government Hacked more under TRUMP? We Answer | Air Date: 11/11 - 11/17/25
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275: TechTime Radio: Congress Hacked, Zoom is Pantless, Gadgets & Gear spotlights Raycon Earbuds, IKEA sells a Phone Bed, and LEGO Beams Up Star Trek joy.” Is our Government Hacked more under TRUMP? We Answer | Air Date: 11/11 - 11/17/25
Government data doesn’t just live in vaults anymore, and the latest suspected foreign cyberattack at the Congressional Budget Office proves how fragile our policy pipeline can be. We unpack why breaches keep landing on core agencies, what “zero trust” actually changes, and how identity, patch cadence, and monitoring fit together when the stakes are Congressional forecasts and budget models. Then we pivot hard into the human side of tech: a Detroit police officer’s pantsless Zoom court moment...
TechTime with Nathan Mumm
A smart home vacuum goes bankrupt and suddenly the maps of your living room might be someone else’s asset—that’s where we start, and the questions only get sharper from there. We dig into iRobot’s Chapter 11, the failed Amazon deal, and why a China-linked manufacturer gaining access to device data should force a hard reset on how we think about ownership, privacy, and consent in consumer hardware. From there, we test the limits of AI in the wild. Anthropic’s “Project Vend” handed a real vend...
