The Personal Computer Radio Show

The Personal Computer Show

Wednesday August 19^th 2026

www.PRN.live - Streaming on the Internet

5:00 PM Eastern Time

In the News

• Claude Is Putting Invisible Watermarks In AI-Generated Text
• Cloud Storage is great until your Vendor Goes Out of Business
• Samsung Z Fold 8 Reveals the downside of New Battery Tech
• Powerful Features to Enable on Your Chromebook
• The Bluetooth Symbol on your Phone

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• Digital Inefficiency is a Common Problem in the Workplace

From the Tech Corner

• The Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence
• The Hidden Water Cost of Artificial Intelligence
• What Is Open-Weight AI?

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• Asus Zen Wifi Routers BT8 and BD5 Mesh

In the News

• AI Political Ads Put State Deepfake Laws to the Test
• China Cracks Down on Copycat Chip Design
• Google Assistant Begins Disappearing from Android Phones
• Navigating New Tax Regulations for Gig Workers
• Recent Reports of Rogue AI Agents
• Tech Rehiring After AI-Driven Layoffs

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• The Company Risks of Shadow IT

From the Tech Corner

• Upgrade Your Car's USB Port with One Simple Gadget
• What Is a Smart Plug? The Easiest Way to Make Your Home Smarter
• Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in Artificial Intelligence?

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Mark Brownstein

• Asus Zen Wifi Routers BT8 and BD5 Mesh

In the News

• Anthropic Says Its AI Models Hacked Real Organizations During Testing
• Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
• Kodak’s New Point-And-Shoot Is a $35 35mm Camera
• Qualcomm is Raising the Price of its Chips by a Double-Digit Percentage
• The Future of Tech Is Leasing and Owning Nothing
• The RAM Shortage Is Starting to Hit the Auto Industry
• OpenAI Still Fighting Major Copyright Lawsuits

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• The Risk of Over-Connected Workflows

From the Tech Corner

• AI Is Starting to Rewrite the Software That Made Nvidia Untouchable
• Gen Z Is Bringing Back Early 2000s Compact Digital Cameras

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• Exploring the Various AI Platforms

In the News

• Chipmakers Face a Growing Labor Shortage
• The Hidden Cost of the AI Data Center Boom
• OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Health Available to All US Users
• OpenAI AI Models Broke Out of a Hacked Testing Environment
• OpenAI and Anthropic Join Forces in Warning About China's Open AI Models
• KODAK to Release New Retro Compact Cameras

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• Overestimating What Tech can Handle

From the Tech Corner

• China's Memory Chip Giants Take on the World
• Too Much Television can Rot your Brain

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• Faraday Shielding to Protect Devices with the SLNT Faraday Bag

 

In the News

• AliExpress Hit with Record $629M Fine Selling Counterfeit and Illegal Products
• Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging Theft of Trade Secrets
• Backtracked: Samsung Health Won’t Delete All User Data
• DuckDuckGo Browser now Blocks YouTube Video Ads
• Communities across the US Are Pulling Back on Flock Safety License Plate Readers
• New York Expands Free College Degree Programs for Adult Learners
• Back Market - World's Largest Online Marketplaces for Refurbished Electronics
• Major League Baseball Draws a Line on AI in the Dugout

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• The Myth of the Fully AI Driven Automated Workplace

From the Tech Corner

• Tech Fears N.Y. Data Center Ban Sets US Precedent
• The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Mark Brownstein

• Keychron Mouse and Asus Zenbook 316S Laptop

 

n the News

• Samsung Health Users Face AI Data Dilemma
• Huang Calls Smuggled AI Data Centers a Dead End
• Meta Facing a Backlash over its New AI Tool Muse Image
• Microsoft Discontinues Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go
• New Recovery Option Coming to Windows 11
• OpenAI has Combined ChatGPT and Codex into a more Unified Platform
• Windows 11 Identifier Code Used to Track Scattered Spider Perp
• Companies are Rehiring Workers they Replaced with AI

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• How Systems Fail Differently when under Pressure

From the Tech Corner

• A Warning Sign About AI's Real Cost:
• Windows Expands AI-Powered Security to Find Vulnerabilities Earlier
• Your Friendly AI Chatbot May Know More About You Than You Realize

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• Anker 14-in-one Supreme Performance Dock

In the News

· A Big Change Coming to WhatsApp Messaging App

· Communities Might Not Want Data Centers, but Thieves Do

· Companies are Rehiring Workers they Replaced with AI

· How Microsoft Is Making Windows Better by Learning from Enthusiasts

· Microsoft is Making one of the Biggest Changes in Xbox History

· Pixel Phones Are Silently Ignoring Incoming Calls

· Windows 11 Bug that can Quietly Consume Enormous Amounts of Storage Space

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

· Dealing with the Quiet Risks of Sharing Devices with Others

From the Tech Corner

· LLMs and NotebookLM: What's the Difference?

· What is Open Notebook?

· AI Memory Demand Is Breaking the Traditional PC Upgrade Cycle

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

· Issues of Massive Datacenters and How Artificial Intelligence Works

In the News

·      Justices say Constitution Protects People’s Location History

·      Microsoft Is Giving Windows 10 Users Another Year of Security Updates

·      Comcast to Split into Two Separate Publicly Traded Companies

·      Polymarket has Reportedly been Paying Creators to Post Fake Betting Videos

·      Car Manufacturers Are Ditching Android Auto in 2026

·      T-Mobile To Force Migrate Over 8 Million Customers To More Expensive Plans

·      Rising Personal Computer Price Hikes

·      Apple and Intel are Working Together on a Chip Manufacturing Partnership

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

·      The Hidden Complexity of Adding just One More App

From the Tech Corner

·      Intel Wants Cheap Windows Laptops to Stop Feeling Cheap

·      Replacing Google Search with a Combination of DuckDuckGo and Perplexity

·      What Are Flock Cameras?

·      IBM has the Blueprint for the Next Generation of AI Chips

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Mark Brownstein

·      Keychron Keyboard and Keyboard Switch Differences

In the News

• Amazon Says it has Developed a Breakthrough Networking Technology
• Chinese Memory Brands Ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC Silicon
• Google Fired a New Shot in Competitive AI Subscription Market
• Google has Officially Launched Android 17,
• More than 75 Data Center Build-outs Successfully Blocked in 1Q2026
• NVIDIA and Intel could Pair an x86 Processor with RTX Graphics
• Your Ad Blocker will No Longer Work on Chrome

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• Recognizing that Small Settings can Create and Shape Big Outcomes

From the Tech Corner

• Intel Considering Possible Refresh of Raptor Lake Processor Family
• Back to the Future: When Photography Gets Weird Again
• Rethinking the Future of AI Data Center Infrastructure
• The AI Spending Binge may be Coming to an End

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• A Cool Anker Charger for Hotels and College Dorms

In the News

• Secure Boot Certificate Deadline is not a Doomsday Event
• Microsoft new Windows 11 Performance Feature Low Latency Profile
• Intel's Wildcat Lake Notebooks Aim to Challenge the MacBook Neo
• Anthropic- Fable 5 Model.
• OpenAI Reportedly has a Major ChatGPT Overhaul in Store
• Visa Plugs Its Payment Network Into ChatGPT
• Chinese Startup Claims Photonic Chip Production w/o Deep Ultraviolet Lithography

·      Technology and Business Employment Update

 

ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell

• Identifying and Dealing with the Emotional Side of Tech Frustration

From the Tech Corner

• Intel’s New AI Chip Skips the Costly Memory Nvidia Relies On
• Google has a Free Flight Simulator
• Don’t Discuss Your Legal Problems with a Chatbot

Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston

• Various Other Pieces of AI Work and How to Make Them Work for You