The Launch 🚀

Let’s warm up for the week together with the best stories and clips that set the stage for the rest of your week.

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Angela Fisher

Chris Fisher

AGI My Ass(tra) | The Launch 🚀 83

9 September 2026

Three of the biggest AI stories of the year landed at once. Somehow, everyone is excited about the wrong one.

Apple Ternover | The Launch 🚀 82

2 September 2026

Tim Cook is Fully Cooked, Apple hands the keys to a hardware guy, and the company’s next era starts with one very big AI problem.

Not In My Back Yard | The Launch 🚀 81

26 August 2026

Everyone loves their tech, but now that the infrastructure is showing up, nobody wants it next door.

All Hail Voicemail | The Launch 🚀 80

19 August 2026

Your projects, problems, discoveries, and questionable decisions take center stage as we dig into a stack of listener voicemails.

Minimaxxing | The Launch 🚀 79

12 August 2026

Starlink Mini promises to kill the deadzone, but the real story is in the tradeoffs, hidden details, and the places where it works better than you’d expect.

Coyote Ugly | The Launch 🚀 78

5 August 2026

Something is living among the rocks at the farm, and as we learn how coyotes sleep, hunt, and raise their young, the trail leads uncomfortably close to the chicken coop.

Battery Wasn’t the Problem | The Launch 🚀 77

30 July 2026

Chris spent five nights camping in an EV, and the car handled everything he worried about. It was the problems he never anticipated that nearly ruined the trip.

The Knives Are Out for Open Source AI | The Launch 🚀 76

22 July 2026

China’s open-source AI models are catching up fast, rattling American labs, threatening their business models, and triggering a growing push to regulate or outright block the competition.

Flock Around and Find Out | The Launch 🚀 75

15 July 2026

More than 115,000 Flock-style cameras now scan America’s streets billions of times each month. But this summer, a growing resistance is taking matters, and the cameras, into its own hands.

The Windows Fingerprint | The Launch 🚀 74

8 July 2026

A Scattered Spider arrest reveals how a VPN wasn’t enough when Windows device telemetry helped investigators connect the dots.

RAM Racket | The Launch 🚀 73

1 July 2026

A new lawsuit claims RAM prices are being driven by a conspiracy to fix supply, but is that the real story, or just cope?

Open Scare | The Launch 🚀 72

24 June 2026

Free and open AI models get cast as the villain, Valve’s Steam Machine gets mugged by RAM prices, and we check who’s selling the panic popcorn.