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 Open AI is making real ad money, AI's go down, Windows will be more secure, and people

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 Welcome to Log Level Debug, the technology news show that's so fun you'll watch one

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 maybe two more.

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 Recorded live Sunday, September 6th, 2026, and I'm your host, who's still learning how

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 to read.

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 Please don't tell my third grade teacher she was right. We're recording this episode

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 a day earlier than usual. So if any breaking news happens between recording and releasing,

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 that's why it's not included.

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 Unlike every other time, where it's not included because the script was already written, and

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 I'm not making changes once the editor signs off.

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 The past week has been full of news, with stories like these from globalGlob.dev.

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 Wow, thought provoking.

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 Now let's talk about the other news we logged over the past week, with links on the show

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 notes. And in the artisinally crafted QR codes right here.

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 Open AI has announced that their advertising business has reached a new milestone, a

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 $1 billion annualized revenue run rate.

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 To be clear, this doesn't mean their advertising business made a billion dollars, but they

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 will a year from now, if they keep making the same amount of money each month as they just

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 started doing. Which is $83 million a month.

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 So what Open AI really announced is that they just started making $83 million a month from

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 ads.

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 It's just like how I haven't made a billion dollars yet, but hopefully soon. Because this

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 show makes less than that.

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 Hey, by the way, if anyone wants to sponsor a Log Level Debug for a couple million an episode,

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 we're open to it.

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 Open AI says that their ads do not influence ChatGPT's responses. But I find that hard to believe,

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 because every time I ask it to do some basic math, it won't do it until I show it a McDonald's

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 receipt from that same day.

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 I'm like, "Please process this spreadsheet", and ChatGPT just says "McDonald's receipt, McDonald's

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 receipt now, show McDonald's receipt now please". Then I buy a happy meal.

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 I have so many Hello Kitty Godzilla toys right now.

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 Next month Microsoft will enable a memory integrity feature in Windows 11.

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 The feature has been installed, but disabled, on most Windows 11 devices for some time.

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 Now Microsoft will enable it on more devices through Windows Update. So if your computer

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 breaks all of a sudden, just turn it off and back on again, it'll be fine.

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 The security feature will protect against untrusted low-level code from running on the

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 system, specifically at the kernel mode and device drivers level.

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 Microsoft says you may notice a performance degradation while playing video games, but there

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 is a workaround. And for once the answer isn't to switch to Linux.

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 Just buy an Xbox.

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 Tim Cook is gone at Apple, all hail the new CEO John Ternus. Tirnus? Tern..?

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 It doesn't matter, we have loads of time to keep mispronouncing his name. But in the meantime,

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 in one of those legal forms companies file when they get a new CEO, Apple says John Ternus

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 will get a $3 million a year paycheck and $55 million worth of stock. But only if Apple

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 continues making a ton of money.

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 I guess if he does nothing, he'll get all $58 million.

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 At the same time, former CEO Tim Cook will also get a pay package around $47 million for

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 being executive chairman of the board. Which is a lot for a position that doesn't traditionally

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 While Tim Cook with CEO, Apple stock grew by 2200%.

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 Ternus has a lot of work ahead of him to beat that number. But I believe he can do it if

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 he's brave enough to raise the price of the iPhone $300 each year.

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 What are people going to do, not buy an iPhone?

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 New York City's public school system is banning the use of generative AI for all students

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 through eighth grade. which means everyone in ninth grade or higher are still allowed to

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 The ban includes any software purchased by schools that will be used by students.

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 Some worry this means students won't be able to use any software, now that AI features

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 have been crammed into every piece of software these past few years.

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 Additionally, the school system will have a global ban on companion chatbots for all grades.

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 Which is probably a good thing.

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 Have you seen the 2025 hit film Companion?

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 I haven't either. But after reading the online synopsis, I bet someone watched the movie

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 and appended the companion bot app thing into the law. Which is good because the movie

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 features robots and we don't need teenagers getting addicted to their companion chatbot

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 The world is infested with too many nerds.

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 The European Union has chosen not to classify Microsoft's Edge browser as a gatekeeper, because

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 nobody uses it. Which is one hell of a backhanded compliment.

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 In this case, the court realized Edge is only used when people need to download Chrome,

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 There was online discourse this week because the password manager company 1Password gave

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 a bunch of money to a guy that's overtly racist, and argues in favor of killing minorities.

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 I know what you're thinking, but he didn't explicitly say he wants people dead. So it's

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 Okay, let's do some backstory to get to the tech angle of this story.

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 David Heinemeier Hansson, who goes online by DHH, is a developer best known for creating

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 the Ruby on Rails framework. And also for that time he got an Apple credit card with a

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 higher limit than his wife, and the two of them did not shut up about it.

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 He specifically called out the Romani people in the blog's title.

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 Soon after that he tried to use Claude to translate the blog post into Italian, but then

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 He has a history of these things, links in the show notes and all that.

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 Omarchy is a newer Linux distribution created by, and fully controlled by, DHH.

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 Omarchy is targeted at being a Linux distro for agents. Because even racist people like AI.

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 It's a universal technology.

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 And now 1Password is receiving a lot of online backlash because they gave $300,000 to the

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 Which means everyone is saying 1Password supports racist ethnic cleansing.

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 Which is totally wrong.

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 All they did was give money to support a person who wants...ethnic...

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 After 1Password employees complained internally, the CEO and one of the co-founders of the company

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 commented on the matter, in what can best be described as...not helpful.

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 The CEO said 1Password doesn't endorse those views, including those from DHH.

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 Anyway, just to get this out of the way early, everyone here at GlobalGlob is 

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 anti-ethnic cleansing.

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 We passed a survey around everyone with a checkbox, Yes, No, Sometimes. Everyone said no.

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 Except Matt who said sometimes. I've been meaning to talk to him. And Sarah was out that day.

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 Visit globalglob.dev, we're probably all against ethnic cleansing. Hopefully.

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 Four major AI chatbots had downtime this week. And for once, you can't blame Oracle Cloud.

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 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and whoever runs Grok, all had chatbot downtime this week at

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 the exact same time.

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 Right now, no one is saying Microsoft's CoPilot tried to go in for the kill, but I really want

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 It's not uncommon for online services to experience downtime.

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 That's why we call it The Cloud.

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 Clouds eventually rain, causing downtime.

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 And eventually, the sun comes out to bring the water back up to the sky.

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 That's uptime.

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 In this scenario, I guess the water is software...or the water binary bits.

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 I guess the sun would be IT admins.

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 The lightning is actual lightning, no comparison there.

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 It's the same thing.

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 And is wind something?

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 Okay, you know what?

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 I think the metaphor got away from me.

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 But when something goes down, just wait.

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 At this time, the only service to publicly state the cause of their outage is SpaceXAI,

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 saying Grok was down because they had an issue at their Memphis data center.

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 What the cause of the problem was, nobody knows.

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 I tried to ask Grok, but it started talking about DHH.

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 And I did not need to know where that was leading.

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 And that's all the news we logged this week.

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 If you enjoyed the show, tell your lawyer.

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 Seriously, please leave a review.

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 I have no idea if the podcast downloads are people or just bots.

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 For more news, before the next episode, remember to visit globalglob.dev.

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 For news technology professionals really care about it.

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 Until next time, go twitle some bits.

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