With a large enough lever, you could move the world. Technology is that lever. Progress is the fulcrum. Where we go is up to us. Chaos Lever is a weekly, tech news podcast dedicated to tracking new and emerging trends in the enterprise IT landscape, and figuring out why they are terrible.
Chris Hayner
Ned Bellavance
Latest Episode
Tracing the Origins Of Tech Terminology
Posted on Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 | Series: Chaos Lever
Ned and Chris explore the curious origins of everyday tech terms, like ‘download’ and ’log in,’ and how they became part of our digital lives.
The Not-So-Hostile Takeover of iMessage Technology [CL86]
Posted on Thursday, Dec 21, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever
Ned and Chris explore how RCS technology is poised to take down Apple’s stronghold on iMessage.
Tech News of the Week for 12/19/2023 [MTG022]
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage
Google Fiber offers 20Gbps for $250 a month, Okta security breach is worse than everyone thought, and VMWare is discontinuing perpetual licensing in perpetuity.
The Trouble with Smart TVs [CL85]
Posted on Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever
Chris explains how IT security threats in smart TVs loom over us all.
Tech News of the Week for 12/12/2023 [MTG021]
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage
Quantum modular news from IBM, Amazon Q is pretty bad at everything, and 23andMe lost your grandfather (he’s at TCBY).
An OpenAI Question [CL84]
Posted on Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever
Ned dives into the latest OpenAI drama and boy is there a lot of generative tea to spill.
Tech News of the Week for 12/5/2023 [MTG020]
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage
AI failure is everywhere with Sports Illustrated dropping the non-existent ball to imaginary women speakers at major tech conferences to robotaxis dragging pedestrians in their wake. Oh, and Advertising Company Google may have disappeared your Google Drive files.
Tech News of the Week for 11/23/2023 [MTG019]
Posted on Thursday, Nov 23, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage
Microsoft turns on the Nitro Boost for Azure, Nvidia makes an even more expensiver GPU, and Nothing supports iMessage, sorta.
Security Field Day with Forward Networks [CL83]
Posted on Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever
Chris attended Security Field Day 10 remotely and was pretty impressed with Forward Networks and their digital twin tech.
Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 [MTG018]
Posted on Thursday, Nov 16, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage
GitHub Copilot is the future of programming, Humane is less human than human, and RISC-V is poised to compete in the datacenter.