TEH 266: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.

**In This Episode:** Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by **Leo Notenboom**, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and **Gary Rosenzweig,** the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) ### Top Stories - 3:08 **LN:** “How Do I Know You’re Not AI?” – Article coming up “tomorrow” as we record this. - A problem that’s only going to get “worse”, for some definition of worse - As things improve, will it matter? Good content is good content regardless of the source, right? - 7:00 **GR:** Starting to suspect PR pitches are using a lot of AI - Every one now starts with flattery - Suggestions can be totally of the wall - 12:00 **GR:** AI Music - Needed music, Suno was easy and “safe” - What are the alternatives? - Music without soul? Or, not all art needs to be Art. - 15:00 Link to video montage: https://vimeo.com/1187110569/1742b3aeb4 - Cain Walker: https://www.youtube.com/@CainWalkerMusic real or AI? - 27:00 **LN:** Anthropic’s Mythos: hype or legit concern? - Pronunciation controversy? 😏 - Supposedly extra good at identifying vulnerabilities - “We have identified thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities that we are working on responsibly disclosing to open source maintainers and closed source vendors.” - Just as good at fixing? - Project “glasswing” – a select few, but you know it’ll get out - Not targeted at vulnerability detection, just a Really Good Model that happens to do this well. What else will it do well? - 30:00 Is this the future of AI Model releases? - Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities – Anthropic - Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems – Hacker News - 37:00 **GR:** Ditching VPN - I’m done wasting my vacation time - 46:00 **LN:** Didn’t work in the hospital either - 47:00 **GR:** Travel: Real camera kept winning - Big sensor, big glass, viewfinder, but also mindfulness - 54:00 Dehazing… How I saved Machu Picchu ### Ain’t it Cool - 58:00 **LN:** The Boys – not for the faint of heart, but fascinating, and the subtle and not-so-subbtle digs to current events are great. (Daredevil also.) - 59:00 **GR:** “Apple: The First 50 Years” by David Pogue ### BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion - 1:01:00 **LN:** How Do I Know You’re Not AI? – https://askleo.com/191783 - 1:02:00 **GR:** 10 Weird macOS Features That Are Somewhat Useful (2026) ### Transcript - teh\_266 ### Machu Picchu  Machu Picchu as shot.  Click for larger image.  Machu Picchu after “dehaze” applied. Click for larger image. ### Video https://youtu.be/xqu\_aV429rA