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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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The SVB Meltdown and Tech Start Ups
Tom and Chunga had just entered their respective studios to record this weeks episode of The Hacks, when BOOM! Breaking news reports started coming in saying that Silicon Valley Bank had just collapsed, which immediately changed the topic of the show!…
PyPi Found Stuffed With AWS Keys and Malware
Chunga wants to give a quick shout out to programmers in the U.K.! Once again, a guy in England developed a scanning tool, and found 57 API access keys for AWS and a bunch of Malware in PyPi. Tom Forbes built this tool in Rust to automatically scan…
The Smallest Mis-Steps Lead To Catastrophe
It’s been a long, hard winter. The western U.S. is suffering from record breaking arctic weather and everyone is getting sick. Somehow Chunga has managed to avoid it–until now. He hasn’t been sick since he had Covid 2-years ago! Tom says his timing…
Was a Major Wireless Provider Attacked Last Week?
If you’ve been listening to The Hacks for any length of time, you know that Tom and Chunga LOVE a good conspiracy theory. So far, 2023 has given them a fountain of strange happenings, to keep their tin foil hats happy! T-Mobile (Tom and Chunga…
Chat GPT, Is It Good Or Nah...
In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga are talking about something they probably should’ve discussed before now. Chat GPT is taking the world by storm. It launched in early December 2022 and is already boasting more than a million users….
FBI Stops a Five Power Plant Terrorist Attack!
Tom and Chunga have learned something about you! You REALLY don’t like it when we talk about self driving cars. Sorry! A bonus episode to make up for it is coming soon! This episode of The Hacks however, is much more serious. This…