Chaos Lever Podcast

By Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner

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Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.

Episode Date
The End of Season One (Finally) | Chaos Lever
Jun 26, 2025
Spinning Rust [Still] Ain’t Dead Yet (Redux) | Chaos Lever
Jun 19, 2025
Can WordPress Be Saved from Its Creator? | Chaos Lever
Jun 12, 2025
Microsoft’s OneDrive Fiasco and the FAA’s Retro Tech | Tech News of the Week
Jun 10, 2025
Negligence as a Service | Chaos Lever
Jun 05, 2025
Your ASUS Router Is a Botnet Now | Tech News of the Week
Jun 02, 2025
The Legacy of LaMDA | Chaos Lever
May 29, 2025
Your Interview Process is a Lie | Chaos Lever
May 22, 2025
Microsoft Layoffs Amid Record Profits- Wait, What? | Tech News of the Week
May 19, 2025
Brain Dumps, VARs, and Toiletfeet: The Certification Debate | Chaos Lever
May 15, 2025
Apple’s Smart Glasses Chips & Clippy's AI Comeback | Tech News of the Week
May 12, 2025
Sparkles McTwinklefeet and the Insanity of Job Interviews | Chaos Lever
May 08, 2025
AI Writes Code, Judges Write Burns | Tech News of the Week
May 05, 2025
How Google and Facebook Turned You Into a Product | Chaos Lever
May 01, 2025
Perplexity’s New Browser Wants All Your Data | Tech News of the Week
Apr 29, 2025
Escaping Google's Grasp: Tools for the Privacy-Minded | Chaos Lever
Apr 24, 2025
Google on Trial, AI Support Fails, and Krebs Fights Back | Tech News of the Week
Apr 21, 2025
Avoiding FAANG's Poison | Chaos Lever
Apr 17, 2025
Oracle Breach Cover-Up and Git Turns 20 | Tech News of the Week
Apr 14, 2025
Why Your AI Assistant Still Sucks (And How MCP Might Help) | Chaos Lever
Apr 10, 2025
Fast Flux DNS Threats, TikTok Faces EU Fury, NGINX Exposed | Tech News of the Week
Apr 07, 2025
Women Who Built the Future (and Got None of the Credit) | Chaos Lever
Apr 03, 2025
Microsoft Azure Is Retiring Your Admin Access | Tech News of the Week
Mar 31, 2025
OpenAI’s Freedom Salad and the Two-Page Apocalypse | Chaos Lever
Mar 27, 2025
Facebook’s Legal Meltdown & Google’s $32B Power Move | Tech News of the Week
Mar 24, 2025
Thor, Thumb Drives, and Terrible Tech: Blackhat 2015 | Chaos Lever
Mar 21, 2025
Apple AI Fail, Quantum Hype & SUSE’s Bold Move | Tech News of the Week
Mar 18, 2025
Quantum Computing, Sandwiches, and Superconductors | Chaos Lever
Mar 14, 2025
VMware Under Attack Again—Three New Zero Days! | Tech News of the Week
Mar 11, 2025
How the Internet Became a Glorious Mess | Chaos Lever
Mar 06, 2025
GPT-4.5 Drops & The Biggest Crypto Heist Ever | Tech News of the Week
Mar 03, 2025
The Rise of NAT: A Necessary Evil in Networking | Chaos Lever
Feb 27, 2025
ARM Making Chips for Meta – Big Industry Shift? | Tech News of the Week
Feb 24, 2025
Why Sneakers (1992) is Still One of the Most Accurate Hacking Movies | Chaos Lever
Feb 13, 2025
AWS Spends $100B on AI While OpenAI Fumbles Security | Tech News of the Week
Feb 10, 2025
DeepSeek vs. OpenAI: Is This Really a Sputnik Moment? | Chaos Lever
Feb 06, 2025
Apple Silicon Security Flaws Exposed—Should We Be Worried? | Tech News of the Week
Feb 03, 2025
X.500: The Directory Service That Time Forgot | Chaos Lever
Jan 30, 2025
Stargate Project’s $500B AI Dream & TikTok’s Creepy Accuracy | Tech News of the Week
Jan 27, 2025
Disaster Recovery Fails: Lessons from the Trenches | Chaos Lever
Jan 23, 2025
Stack Overflow Declines: ChatGPT's Surprising Impact | Tech News of the Week
Jan 20, 2025
Cracking the Code: The Enigma Story | Chaos Lever
Jan 16, 2025
The Worst Tech Products of CES 2025 Revealed! | Tech News of the Week
Jan 13, 2025
Tech Predictions 2025: AI, RISC-V, and Big Tech Shakeups | Chaos Lever
Jan 09, 2025
OpenAI’s Broken Promises & USB-C Victory | Tech News of the Week
Jan 06, 2025
Bold Predictions, Bad Math, and 2024 Failures | Chaos Lever
Dec 26, 2024
Free GitHub Copilot: A Taste of AI Coding | Tech News of the Week
Dec 23, 2024
From Cray-1 to El Capitan: The Evolution of Supercomputers | Chaos Lever
Dec 19, 2024
Google's AI Surge and GM's Robo-Taxi Retreat | Tech News of the Week
Dec 16, 2024
Breaking Unbreakable Codes: The Evolution of Cryptography | Chaos Lever
Dec 12, 2024
Chinese Hackers, Data Brokers, and AI Power Grabs | Tech News of the Week
Dec 10, 2024
The Beer Keg Cipher: A Cryptographic Journey | Chaos Lever
Dec 05, 2024
Replay: The Not-So-Hostile Takeover of iMessage Technology
Nov 29, 2024
DOJ Takes Aim at Google’s Monopoly | Tech News of the Week
Nov 25, 2024
Dialing Into History: Telephony’s Hidden Evolution | Chaos Lever
Nov 21, 2024
The Future of AI, Cloud Emulation, and Cybersecurity | Tech News of the Week
Nov 18, 2024
A Brief History of Passwords and NIST’s New Rules | Chaos Lever
Nov 14, 2024
Amazon's Big AI Move & Qualcomm's ARM Laptop Surge | Tech News of the Week
Nov 11, 2024
Can We Make Attack Surface Management … Fun? | Chaos Lever
Nov 07, 2024
The Government Hates C++, DNA Storage Advances, Microsoft’s Recall Fumble | Tech News of the Week
Nov 04, 2024
40 Years of Excelleration
Oct 31, 2024
Our Long National Nightmare is Over. Internet Archive is Back | Tech News of the Week
Oct 29, 2024
Cyber Insurance: Folies à Deux
Oct 24, 2024
Amazon is Going Nuclear?! | Tech News of the Week
Oct 21, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Blogging: From BBS to WordPress and Beyond
Oct 17, 2024
Tech News of the Week - 10/14/2024
Oct 14, 2024
When AI Pretends to Be Your CEO
Oct 10, 2024
Tech News of the Week - 10/07/2024
Oct 07, 2024
You Had Me At EHLO... with Dylan Beattie
Oct 03, 2024
Tech News of the Week - 09/30/2024
Oct 01, 2024
The Main in the Frame Stays Mainly In The IB … Aim?
Sep 26, 2024
Tech News of the Week 09-24-2024
Sep 24, 2024
Social Engineering and Rollerblades: The Hackers Breakdown You Didn’t Ask For
Sep 19, 2024
Tech News of the Week 09-17-2024
Sep 17, 2024
Turing to Transistors: Classical Computing 101
Sep 12, 2024
Tech News of the Week 09-10-2024
Sep 10, 2024
Gridiron Gizmos: How Football Tech Scored Big in Broadcasting
Sep 05, 2024
Tech News of the Week 09-03-2024
Sep 03, 2024
Talk QWERTY to Me: A Keyboard History Lesson
Aug 29, 2024
Tech News of the Week 08-27-24
Aug 27, 2024
Quantum Weirdness in Computing
Aug 22, 2024
Tech News of the Week 08-20-24
Aug 20, 2024
Bootstrappin' Boogie: Why Your Secure Boot Might Not Be So Secure
Aug 15, 2024
Tech News of the Week 08-13-24
Aug 13, 2024
Failing the (En)Trust Fall
Aug 08, 2024
Tech News of the Week 08-06-24
Aug 06, 2024
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Because of CrowdStrike)
Aug 01, 2024
Tech News of the Week 07-30-24
Jul 30, 2024
That Time Amazon Lied About Their Renewable Energy Use
Jul 25, 2024
Tech News of the Week 07-23-24
Jul 23, 2024
Going Deeper into BGP with Doug Madory
Jul 18, 2024
Tech News of the Week 07-16-24
Jul 16, 2024
Behold the Superbook (Over-Overhyped Edition)
Jul 11, 2024
Drinking from the AI Firehose at the DC AWS Summit
Jul 04, 2024
Tech News of the Week 07-02-24
Jul 02, 2024
Infinitely Jesting About the Year of Quantum Science & Tech
Jun 27, 2024
Tech News of the Week 06-25-24
Jun 25, 2024
Break the Glass and Walk Away: A (VERY) Brief Overview of BGP
Jun 20, 2024
Tech News of the Week 06-18-24
Jun 18, 2024
Reviewing the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2024
Jun 13, 2024
Tech News of the Week 06-11-24
Jun 11, 2024
Would You Like To Play a Game (With Chris Williams’ AI Agent)?
Jun 06, 2024
Tech News of the Week 06-04-24
Jun 04, 2024
Deciphering the 2024 RSA Conference Keynote(s)
May 30, 2024
Tech News of the Week 05-28-24
May 28, 2024
DNS: Rewinding Network Norms (Part 2)
May 23, 2024
Tech News of the Week 05-21-24
May 21, 2024
DNS: The Backbone Of Browsing (Part 1)
May 16, 2024
Tech News of The Week 05-14-24
May 14, 2024
Decoding Quantum Quandaries
May 09, 2024
Tech News of The Week 05-07-24
May 07, 2024
HashiCorp Under IBM’s Wing
May 02, 2024
Tech News of The Week 04-30-24
Apr 30, 2024
Whose Space Is It Anyways? The Battle of Indents and Whitespace In Code
Apr 25, 2024
Tech News of The Week 04-23-24 [MTG-35]
Apr 23, 2024
Tracing the Origins Of Tech Terminology
Apr 18, 2024
Tech News of The Week 04-16-24 [MTG-34]
Apr 16, 2024
When Code Goes Rogue: The CVE-2024-3094 Saga
Apr 11, 2024
Tech News of The Week 04-09-24 [MTG-33]
Apr 09, 2024
AI’s High Speed Chase in Networking
Apr 04, 2024
Tech News of The Week 04/02/24 [MTG-32]
Apr 02, 2024
The Anatomy of AI: The Tech Behind the Intelligence
Mar 28, 2024
More like VMwhere it's at? (Remixed and Remastered)
Mar 21, 2024
Outsmarting Sophisticated Phishing Attacks in the Digital Era
Mar 14, 2024
Tech News of The Week 03/12/24 [MTG-31]
Mar 12, 2024
The Reality of 'Secure by Design' and the Future of Cybersecurity
Mar 07, 2024
Tech News of the Week
Mar 05, 2024
The Time Someone Actually Broke The Internet
Feb 29, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 2/27/2024 [MTG 29]
Feb 27, 2024
Beyond The Rumors and Into the Future of Cloud Computing [CL 94]
Feb 22, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 2/20/24
Feb 20, 2024
The Emerging Landscape of Cyber Insurance
Feb 15, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 2/13/24 [MTG027]
Feb 13, 2024
SoftIron's Breakthrough in Private Cloud Technology Was On Display at Cloud Field Day 19 [CL92]
Feb 08, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 2/6/24 [MTG026]
Feb 06, 2024
How AI Is Reshaping The Internet As We Know It
Feb 01, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 1/30/2024 [MTG-25]
Jan 30, 2024
Unraveling GitHub's Tech Mysteries [CL90]
Jan 25, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 1/23/2024
Jan 24, 2024
Redefining Virtualization in the VMware Acquisition Era [CL89]
Jan 18, 2024
Tech News of the Week for 1/16/2024 [MTG023]
Jan 16, 2024
The Future of Tech in 2024 as Predicted by Ned and Chris [CL88]
Jan 11, 2024
The 2023 Tech Year in Review [CL87]
Jan 04, 2024
The Not-So-Hostile Takeover of iMessage Technology [CL86]
Dec 21, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 12/19/2023 [MTG022]
Dec 19, 2023
The Trouble with Smart TVs [CL85]
Dec 14, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 12/12/2023 [MTG021]
Dec 12, 2023
An OpenAI Question [CL84]
Dec 07, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 12/5/2023 [MTG020]
Dec 05, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 11/23/2023 [MTG019]
Nov 23, 2023
Security Field Day with Forward Networks [CL83]
Nov 21, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 [MTG018]
Nov 16, 2023
KubeCon Conversations [CL82]
Nov 14, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2023 [MTG017]
Nov 09, 2023
Hold My Asahi: Linux on the Mac [CL81]
Nov 07, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2023 [MTG016]
Nov 02, 2023
Journey To The Center Of AI [CL80]
Oct 31, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2023 [MTG015]
Oct 26, 2023
Oxymoronic Business Intelligence [CL79]
Oct 24, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 10/19/2023 [MTG014]
Oct 19, 2023
HashiConf 2023: A Private Preview [CL78]
Oct 17, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 10/12/2023 [MTG013]
Oct 12, 2023
Living On The Edge [CL77]
Oct 10, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 10/05/2023 [MTG012]
Oct 05, 2023
Under The Sea Cable Dance [CL76]
Oct 03, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 9/28/2023 [MTG011]
Sep 28, 2023
My Pet, Server Cow [CL75]
Sep 26, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 9/21/2023 [MTG010]
Sep 21, 2023
ReiserFS In Decline [CL74]
Sep 19, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 9/14/2023 [MTG009]
Sep 14, 2023
Opposite Day With Advertising Company Google [CL73]
Sep 12, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 9/7/2023 [MTG008]
Sep 07, 2023
Spinning Rust Ain't Dead Yet [CL72]
Sep 05, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 8/31/2023 [MTG007]
Aug 31, 2023
Exploring VMware, err, Explore [CL71]
Aug 29, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 8/24/2023 [MTG006]
Aug 24, 2023
Software Licensing is BS...L [CL70]
Aug 22, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 8/17/2023 [MTG005]
Aug 17, 2023
Soapbox Engineering? [CL69]
Aug 15, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 8/10/2023 [MTG004]
Aug 10, 2023
Honesty Is The Worst Policy [CL68]
Aug 08, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 8/3/2023 [MTG003]
Aug 03, 2023
Tech News of the Week for 7/20/2023 [MTG002]
Jul 20, 2023
Hyper Prologue Log [CL67]
Jul 18, 2023
Moar Tech Garbage [MTG001]
Jul 13, 2023
Microaggressive Licensing [CL66]
Jul 11, 2023
Thirty-Six GigaToasters [65]
Jul 04, 2023
Just Disappointed [64]
Jun 27, 2023
Sometimes You���re The Problem [63]
Jun 20, 2023
Cher: The Cheez-It of Pop [62]
Jun 13, 2023
The Algorithm Made Me Do It [61]
Jun 06, 2023
Lying To Itself And Others [60]
May 30, 2023
New Ways To Do Things Wrong: RSA Conference 2023 [59]
May 23, 2023
Squiggly Red Lines: Adventures in WiFi 7 [58]
May 16, 2023
Moar AI Goshdarnit [57]
May 09, 2023
Regular Mario Can���t Jump: The State of IPv6 in 2023 [56]
May 02, 2023
Leo The Angry Penguin: A Malware Cautionary Tale [55]
Apr 25, 2023
An Oddly Shaped Cloud: Flexera State of the Cloud 2023 [54]
Apr 18, 2023
Know Thyself Jellyfish: OWASP API Security Top 10 Countdown [53]
Apr 11, 2023
Electoral College of My Emotions: AI is a Stupid Parrot with a God Complex [52]
Apr 04, 2023
Anniversary Kitten BBQ: Biometrics for all the wrong reasons [51]
Mar 28, 2023
Soft Shell Nachos: Cybersecurity Starts in the Home [50]
Mar 21, 2023
Red-Teaming Barbados: Our National Cybersecurity Strategy [49]
Mar 14, 2023
The Bad Boy of Martha���s Vineyard: Addressing the Cloud Repatriation Fervor [48]
Mar 07, 2023
Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm [47]
Feb 28, 2023
Larry���s Fun Dip: Exploring SBOMs For Fun And Profit [46]
Feb 21, 2023
Gourmet Grey Goo [45]
Feb 14, 2023
The Hellscape Abides [44]
Feb 07, 2023
Shiska Bobby Tables [43]
Jan 31, 2023
A Young Warthog [42]
Jan 24, 2023
Behemicorny Dreaming [41]
Jan 17, 2023
Slow Motion Scraping [40]
Jan 10, 2023
Celestial Fire on the Royal Edifice [39]
Jan 03, 2023
Six Tanks A Singing [38]
Dec 13, 2022
Tin Foil Birds Aren���t Real [37]
Dec 06, 2022
Bram Stoker���s Copper Emporium [36]
Nov 29, 2022
Pathetic Meat Bags [35]
Nov 22, 2022
Squeezable Deans [34]
Nov 15, 2022
Figuratively Baggels [33]
Nov 08, 2022
Social Media Megafauna [32]
Nov 01, 2022
Andre The Peanut [31]
Oct 25, 2022
Inveterate Journalistic Pitbulls [30]
Oct 18, 2022
There Are No Blue Balls [29]
Oct 11, 2022
Behold the Superbook [28]
Oct 04, 2022
Random Adjacent Memories [27]
Sep 27, 2022
Just DID It On Em [26]
Sep 20, 2022
Relighting Our Users [25]
Sep 13, 2022
Soapy Alt Dave [24]
Sep 06, 2022
Centralia Hairspray Challenge [23]
Aug 30, 2022
Down With The Sickness [22]
Aug 23, 2022
A Table Of Cards [21]
Aug 16, 2022
It Wasn���t Worth The Effort [20]
Aug 09, 2022
The Wisdom of Fred Smellypants [19]
Aug 02, 2022
Synchronous Viralicity [18]
Jul 26, 2022
Shiny Vampires in the Woods [17]
Jul 19, 2022
DevOops I Did It Again [16]
Jul 12, 2022
Exactly One Giraffe [15]
Jun 28, 2022
Shallow HAL 9000 [14]
Jun 21, 2022
Manifest Developer [13]
Jun 14, 2022
Internet Explorer Nostalgia [12]
Jun 07, 2022
More Like VMwhere? [11]
May 31, 2022
Wenceslas Denied [10]
May 24, 2022
Strawberry, No Icing [9]
May 17, 2022
Supercloud Is Banish-ed [8]
May 10, 2022
Poised for Data Dominance [7]
May 03, 2022
There Is No Multicloud [6]
Apr 26, 2022
Dog Is My Copilot [5]
Apr 19, 2022
Rabid NFT Squirrels [4]
Apr 12, 2022
Half An Arsonist [3]
Apr 05, 2022
Secure Virtual Giraffe [2]
Mar 30, 2022
Layered Tech Garbage [1]
Mar 22, 2022