
GCP Bytes
A fortnightly show presented by Stephen Bancroft, Ian Brown and David Wall discussing Google Cloud and any tech subject that satisfies our geek minds.
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A fortnightly show presented by Stephen Bancroft, Ian Brown and David Wall discussing Google Cloud and any tech subject that satisfies our geek minds.
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In this episode we discuss; Homelab, Anthropic Data Change, Windows NT B’Day,Google Pro Agentic Architect Cert, GDG Events, Google Spending Money, Social Media Caution, NSW Data Centre Regs, Intel CPU Market Share, Azure Ex-filtration, Mythos 5 Hacks OSS, Deepmind Exodus, Nvidia Money, Stripe to buy Openrouter, Gemini Flash 3.7, Agent Safehouse
In this episode we discuss; Slop Squatting,Sega Master System II, Pixel 11, Galaxy Tab, GDG, Francis Desouze, AWS and MS Surge, Anthropic Spend, GCVE Placement Groups, Tech Giant Levy, Mobile Roaming, Cables Damaged, Word Worm, Cold Card Hack, Gauntlet Looping, Qwen 3.8, GPT5.6 Luna, Deepmind Shake Up, EU Gigafactories, AI Threat Defence, Colibri
In this episode we discuss; Ausalert, Omnirouter, Hermes, Amazon Leo, Cloudflare DNS, Korean Market, Arcfra, GDG Events, AMD & Microsoft, Microsoft Results, Google Cloud Killing It, Oracle in Trouble, Apple Sues OpenAI, GCVE Outage, Token Efficient Software Engineering, OKF v0.2, Video Sign In Feature, New Gemini Models, Kimi K3, Fable Removed, Opus 5, Qwen 3.8 Claude Escapes, Sol Hacked Huggingface
In this episode we discuss; GCVE Outage, OCR Token Reduction, Amazon Leo, Claud Team, China Rocket, MS July Patch, Community News, Phillip Larson, GCVE using CMEK, Google Fine, UNSW MS Storage Cuts, MS Xbox Cuts, Bendigo Bank AI Use Cases, Telstra Outage, Garter Magic Quadrant, New Google Models, Anthropic Google $200 Billion Deal, MCP For Gemini Enterprise, 9router, gpt5.6
In this episode we discuss; C64, Proxmox, Euro Office, Webmarker, Fridges, EY, Sonnet 5 & Fable, GDG, Tesco, E-Safety Commissioner, Bendigo Bank Security, Google Top 10 for 2026, Gemini Review Bot, Google Bug Bounty, Anthropic no longer a threat, LLM Bottlenecks, LLM Memory Bus Improvements, GLM5.2, Google Limits Meta, Meta Saving DDR4, First Vibe Coded Game
In this episode we discuss; C64, Bankys OS, GDG, Troy Beebe, Token Honeymoon, Telstra Automation, iSCSI vs NVMe/TCP, SpaceX Deal, Open Knowledge Format, Android Auto Disconnect, Unifi Bypass, Fable 5
In this episode we discuss; C64, Bankys OS, Dave’s Garage, Mythos Preview, GDG, Vmware VE1 Hardware, ACMA Spectrum Licence, cPanel 0 Day, Google & Telstra, Google Fine, Chrome is Leaky, Crowd Strike & Google, Palo Alto Exploit, Mythos Is Going Public, DeepSeek 75 Perc Price Cut, Google Token Price War, Devin Desktop, Minimax M3, NVIDIA RTX, Gemini 35 Napkin Challenge
In this episode we discuss; C64 Build, Choice Require Subscription, API Fraud, Antigravity 2.0, Subnautica 2, GDG, Google Summit 2026, 6 Big Google Moves, VCF9.1, Service NSW Dumps Vmware, Australia Post, Google Books, Gemini Transitioning to Antigravity,Another LPE But in Linux, Mythos Marketing Stunt, Mythos Identifies 423 Firefox Bugs, Time Horizons, Click Fix Attack, Appsheet Phising, Github Repo Hack, Skymizer, Linux 7.1 LLM-pocalypse, Gemini Omni, Mythos Going Public, Gemini-3.2-flash-lite-live-preview, Google I/O
In this episode we discuss; Kubuntu 26.04, Stash, San Fan Store, Legacy SQL, Gemini Ultra, Ask Jeeves, Claude Doubling Limits, Open AI & Musk, Manna, GDG, Tech Companies Charged, X kicks out EU, Fed Gov M365 Licensing, Next In 13 Minutes, 260 Things From Next, Gemini Credit System, Google Doesn’t Care, Firestarter Malware, Shiny Hunters, Cononical DdoS, Copy Fail, AI Sand Boxes, MS to invest $25B, Google to invest $40B, OpenAI Breaks from MS, Firecracker Vms.
In this episode we discuss; Youtube Music, Paperclip AI, Caveman, ML Engineer Path, Claude, Filestore, Firestore, Google NEXT, Judo Bank, South32, Intel & Google, Gemini Agent Platform, Google TPU’s, Cloud Run, Claude Mythos, Mythos and Banks, Anthropic & Broadcom, Opus 4.7, GPT 5.5, AI Chat Law Ruling
In this episode we discuss; Google Billing, Google Plans, Google Home Assist, OpenClaw, Youtube Premium, GitHub, GDG, Apple Hire, Alphabet Has Dropped, Cloud Spending, APRA, China and NVIDIA, Google and Redshift, Mythos, TurboQuant, Gemma4, Claude Code Source Leak.
In this episode we discuss; Server upgrade and AI, Windsurf IDE, DDR5 1+1 Kits, German Government, GDG, Supermicro, Google Partner Chief, VMWare, Strait Of Hormuz, Wiz Deal, Firebase Studio, Google and DOD, AI Overviews opt out, Chrome Zero Day, AI Driven Attacks, NemoClaw, Palantir AI, DC Build Expectations, US AI Power.
In this episode we discuss; Vibe Coding, WebMarker, Mac Book Neo, GDG, Iran War, Oracle Q3 Results, Taalas, Australian DOD, HTTPS Certificates, Gemini API Keys, Openclaw and Nanoclaw, Alibaba CoPaw, Stargate Project, Oracle Layoffs, US Department of Defence and Anthropic
In this episode we discuss; Openclaw, Gemin CLI, Server Part Deals, Monty, Community News, CISCO Hypervisor, Wiz Deal, Western Digital HDDs, Password Managers, Claude Linked Malware, Government Cyber Reporting, OpenClaw Skills, Gemini 3.1, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Minimax M2.5, Steinberger, 5 Stages of AI, PaloAlto CEO, MS Email CoPilot Bug, MS to ditch OpenAI.
In this episode we discuss; OpenClaw, Moltbook, BOM Website, Google AI Company, GDG, US Job Cuts, Hayete Galot, BOM Vmware deal, Money-Go-Round on ice, Cloud Earnings, Data Centre Satellites, DRAM Prices, Wiz Deal, FIIG Penalised, ChatGPT Imports, Stealin AI Trade Secrets, OpenClaw Malware.trade secret theft , OpenClaw malware threats , Housekeeping and Sponsors.
In this episode we discuss; Sealion 7, Gmail spam filter, Ian’s coding adventures, GDG Cloud Sydney, GDG Darwin events, Alison Wagonfeld moving to Nvidia, GCVE Mixed Node Private Clouds, Google Cloud ranking, Alphabet's market cap, Intersect acquisition, Palo Alto Networks deal, HP-UX end of life, Google partner program changes, MCP support, Bangkok region launch, Gmail address changes, Gemini prompt injection flaw, OpenAI ads, Google AI Plus, Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri.
In this episode we discuss; Social Media Ban, IBM buys Confluent, 2025 Google Cloud Year in Review, Sydney AI Data Centre boost, AI Browsers, Developer Re-Certification, Antigravity, 21 Lessons from 14 years at Google, Samsung triple-zero call issues, Nutanix and Sovereign Cloud, Cloudflare outage, Telstra satellite messaging, End of Dark Web Report, NEXTDC AI campus, Google Labs Disco browser, Gemini Nano Banana 2 Flash launch
In this episode we discuss; AI Slop and a Slop Evader browser, Cloud Interconnect Setup, AI Capacity demands, BoM website cost, OpenSpec, RIP Contoso & Fabrikam, Apple & Google Gemini partnership, AI Slop Video, Nvidia and Alphabet stock performance, GDG Darwin & Perth events, Google Hires Boston Dynamics CTO, Gartner Magic Quadrant leadership, Google Code Wiki, Dhivaru subsea cable, AWS & Google Multicloud Networking, Crowdstrike Insider issue, Google AI Serving Capacity needs, Gemini vs ChatGPT, Jules Extension for Gemini CLI, Gemini 3 for developers.
In this episode we discuss; Cloudflare Outage, Waymo in Sydney, Synthient Breach, GDG Events, Broadcom & VMware, Google Wiz Deal, ACMA Outage Data, Christmas Island DC, Logitech Breach, Fortinet Bypass, Gemini 3, Ironwood TPU, Project Suncatcher, AI Bubble, Amazon vs Perplexity, Nano Banana Pro, Apple & Siri.
In this episode we discuss; AWS Postmortem, MS Outage, Formae, GDG, Q3 Results, Anthropic Deal, DC Spend, AWS Layoffs, ACCC & Microsoft, Optus Inquiry, Optus & Nokia, 2tb SQL Exposed, A4X Instances, Claude Skills Hack, Veo3.1.
In this episode we discuss; Unifi, Gen AI Leader, OpenTrickler, Intervlan Routing Provider, AWS Outage, Nadellas Pay, GDG, VMWare License, Australian Age Verification, Private Buckets and CDN, Gemini Enterprise, Qantas Hack, F5 Hack, AI Will Not Take Your Job, Mac Bank and Gemini, Google 10 New AI Products.
In this episode we discuss; Google facelift, Ubiquity NAS, GDG Events, Google to beat NVIDIA, Qualcomm PC chip, Optus 000 Outage, Deloitte, DNS Armor, Gemini for Home, Emails to Corporate Execs, Claud Sonnet 4.5, OpenAI & NVIDIA, New Gemini home screen, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Model.
In this episode we discuss; Bambulab H2S Printer, What is Broacomm is right?, Revanced, Optus Outage, GDG, Google $3T Club,Fast Track Approvals, Penske Sues Google, Nvidia Intel Deal, Shinysp1d3r, Gemini in Chrome, Agentic Payments
In this episode we discuss; Google inactive account manager, GeeekPi Rack, Passkeys, uBlock Origin, Mark Zuckerberg is Mark Zuckerberg, NBN Upgrades, Ians Wifi, GDG Cloud, Google Cuts 35 Percent Of Managers, Tesco Sues Bradcomm, VMWARE License Changes, Intel & Trump, TSMC & China, Chrome and Android to stay with Google, Gift Card Pins Hacked, Huge ddos, IPv6, Android Sideloading, AI to predict future, AI on premises.
In this episode we discuss; Terraform framework plugin, Google I/O Connect China, GCP Docs, Okinawa, Tarrifs, Gen AI Academy, Broadcomm Back On Prem, $55m Fine Optus & Telstra, Meta $10 Billion Deal, Power usage and AI, iiNet Brech, Exetel Vulnerability, Paypal Breached, eSIMS and China, Gemini temporary chats, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Oracle selling gemini, AI trying to escape.