The Lighthouse Podcast

An informative podcast covering cybersecurity news, digital marketing news and more (often movies), every other week!

How a Song Crashed HDDs, App Store Freedom, an EV Truck, & AI Shakeups

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss AI that plays Pokémon, a song that has the power to breakscertain computers, why Big Tech is sweating, AI usage stats in 2025, the Bezos-backed Auto maker ...

May 16, 2025

Security Scares, Politeness Costing AI, and Tech Industry Shakeups

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff dig into manners, hacks, and tech power plays. Momma Said Manners Didn’t Cost Anything… But She Might’ve Been Wrong Sam Altman recently acknowledged a surprising c...

May 2, 2025

Microsoft’s 50th, Switch 1.5, Roblox & Google Partner, & YouTube’s AI

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff cover quite a fewtech and gaming innovations! Microsoft Celebrates their 50th Anniversary! Microsoft recently celebrated its 50th anniversary on its Redmond campus...

Apr 18, 2025

23andMe Bankruptcy, Skype Shutting Down, Pebble Watches, & Meta Bots

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff cover a wide range of developments in the tech world, first the Pebble Smartwatch. The Core 2 Duo ($149) is bringing back the nostalgia of the original Pebble with...

Apr 4, 2025

AI Search, AI Social Media, AI Ransomware, & In-Car Ads

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griffdiscuss the massive security update for Windows; make sure you install it as soon as possible! Additionally, more security updates include a new VMware exploit that...

Mar 21, 2025

Framework Fans, Copilot Search, Fortinet Vulnerability, & AI Security

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss their favorite computer manufacturer, Framework, and their upcoming releases. To no one's surprise, another Fortinet vulnerability has been discovered and ...

Mar 7, 2025

AInception, Social Stats, 8Base-less, & Google Tag Skimming

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discussOpenAI's allegations that DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to train DeepSeek's open-source model. Bing is seeing a rise in search engine usage and authority du...

Feb 21, 2025

Pebble OS, Apple Chip Vulnerability, UnitedHealth Breach, & DeepSeek

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss Google releasing the source code for Pebble OS and allowing for the creation of a new Pebble smartwatch. Finally! Sweden has seized a ship known as Vezhen ...

Feb 7, 2025

Pineapple Checkboxes, Social Stats Wrapped, & Buying a Car on Amazon

LITS bits: This week, Matt and Griff discuss the brand new Amazon Auto, which offers to allow you to find and finance a brand new (Hyundai) car, all from your web browser. A California district court ...

Dec 27, 2024

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

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