They Talk Tech – mit Eckert und Wolfangel

They Talk Tech is a German technology-journalism show built around the patient reconstruction of messy digital stories. It usually begins with something current, odd, or alarming. Then it asks what is actually happening underneath. A vibe-coding episode does not stop at the novelty of AI-built apps; it follows the trail into Supabase defaults, open tables, student records, production data, and contact data left open on the internet. A Signal scandal becomes a route into account compromise, stolen phones, messenger trust, and the ordinary chaos around supposedly secure tools. The show is strongest when a headline has been flattened elsewhere. It restores the mechanism. Palantir is treated not as a buzzword but as software, documents, targeting workflows, authorities, military interest, and a basic-rights problem that becomes clearer the more concrete it gets. AI coverage has the same posture. Claude Mythos, Grok, ChatGPT, election aftermath, agent talk, and model marketing are met with skepticism that is procedural rather than performative. The question is not simply whether AI is impressive. The question is who is selling the claim, what evidence supports it, and why panic or euphoria might serve the companies involved. The show also keeps one foot in ordinary behavior. Social media addiction, dopamine loops, phone visibility, app design, and physical blocking tools sit beside cybercrime, DNS infrastructure, and data security. That range gives the conversations texture. A guest can bring a new field into view, as Renée Burton does with DNS and phishing infrastructure, or Rabea Rogge does with spaceflight and the view of Earth. The tone stays conversational, dry, and exacting. It respects curiosity without assuming expertise. It also refuses the smoothness of corporate tech talk. Listeners get technology as journalism: specific, skeptical, practical, and alert to the political consequences of defaults.