Meta's $10B Cable, Telco Trouble, Google Hijacking, & Blueskys Ahead LITS bits: This week, Matt and GriffdiscussMeta's ambitious $10B plan to build a world-spanning undersea fiber-optic cable. The countdown for TikTok continues as the Appeals Court has upheld the decis... Dec 13, 2024
Palo-Alto Zero-Day, Google’s Legal Battle, Social Media Laws, & more! LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discusssecurity vulnerabilities hitting MacOS and iOS devices, both of which have patches, as well as how VMware has confirmed the active exploitation of vulnerabi... Nov 28, 2024
Mac Tiny, Walblox, FortiJump, & Wooden Satellites LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss Apple's updates to the Mac Mini hardware, Walmart is pushing hard towards eCommerce, even going so far as to implement a brand integration into Roblox and ... Nov 15, 2024
Prime Time, Click to Cancel, & Death of Windows 10 LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discussthe recent discovery of the largest prime number known to date, and holy cow, it's a big one. Also, do you remember when Windows 10 was going to be Microsof... Nov 1, 2024
Open-source arguments, DDoSflare, & Day:Break LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discussthe growing dispute between WordPress.org and WP Engine over their contributions to the open-source project vs. their monetization of it. The internet domai... Oct 18, 2024
Wi-Fi Chipset Hole, Scraping Meta, Google Archive, & BanTok LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss the discovery that Meta has been scraping public posts on Facebook and Instagram since 2007 and using that data to train their AI models. TikTok is hoping ... Oct 4, 2024
Google's Trust Issues, CrimeTok, & Cereal Competition LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griffdiscuss Yelp filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google on the grounds of Google unfairly dominating local search and advertising. Also unfortunate for Google, the ... Sep 20, 2024
Drifting into the Void, FTC Review Ban, Windows Recall & an ISP Breach LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss how issues with the Boeing Starliner have led NASA to drop it from use, the approach of Microsoft's new Windows Recall AI feature and the potential cyberse... Sep 6, 2024
PII of 3 Billion Leaked, Google Monopoly, & CrowdStrike's Fail Award LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss Apple Mail's latest update using AI to create and display summaries of your inbox instead of just the first line of emails. Reddit is strongly hinting at t... Aug 23, 2024
AT&T Data Breach, Spotify Social, & Google's Indexing LITS bits: This week on the Lighthouse IT Solutions podcast, Matt and Griff discussthe tension in the cybersecurity industry after the Broadcom takeover of VMware threatens massive price hikes. Some i... Aug 9, 2024
Special Report - The CloudStrike Breakdown LITS bits: You have probably heard about the global outage of many Microsoft devices, but you may not have heard all the details on why. On this special extra episode of The Lighthouse IT Podcast, Mat... Jul 30, 2024
A New Voice - Our Harmony Technical Support, Andrew! Welcome back to the Lighthouse IT Podcast! We have another new speaker joining Matt for this episode! We're glad to have you, and we hope you'll enjoy this alternate format for anotherepisode of the p... Jul 26, 2024