TNW 429: DarkSword Puts Hundreds of Millions at Risk - The Internet's Reaction to NVIDIA's DLSS 5
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! IKEA's smart home products are not quite there yet. NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 and faced backlash from within the gaming community. A powerful iPhone-hacking technique has been discovered to take over devices running iOS 18. And some updates on the probes into Tesla's and hands-free driving systems.
- Jennifer shares her experience using IKEA's newest smart home products utilizing the Matter-over-Thread protocol, expressing her concerns and frustrations with trying to connect them to any smart home platform.
- Mikah talks about Nvidia's DLSS 5 that was unveiled at GTC 2026, and the criticism & memes it has faced since its unveiling.
- Andy Greenberg of WIRED joins the show to talk about a tool that has been discovered, called DarkSword, that can hack into millions of iPhones running iOS 18.
- And Mikah chats about hands-free driving technology in vehicles and NHTSA's probe into Tesla and Ford's hands-free driving systems.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guest: Andy Greenberg
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News weekly Jennifer Patterson, Tooey of The Verge joins us, |
| 0:04.3 | and we kick off the show by talking about Akea, trying to bring smart home devices to the masses, |
| 0:11.5 | but struggling to do so. |
| 0:12.7 | Afterwards, I talk about DLSS-S-5, the Yassified filter for games from Nvidia, |
| 0:20.3 | and Andy Greenberg of Wired stops by to give us an understanding of Darksword, a tool that |
| 0:26.9 | can be used to hack hundreds of millions of iPhones. |
| 0:31.0 | Before I round things out with an update on NHTSA's investigation into full self-driving |
| 0:37.1 | vehicles. |
| 0:37.8 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
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