Sourish and Kuankuan
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Interesting stories and bytes about technology, business, and things that might change the world. Hosted by Kuankuan Lin and Sourish Sharma, available every Monday. We try not to waffle. Follow us on Twitter/X @the_wafflebyte
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
waffleByte turns technology headlines into practical arguments about adoption, incentives, product choices and the businesses expected to make them work.
waffleByte: Tech News & Deep Dives pairs brisk news roundups with longer examinations of companies, products and institutions. Kuankuan Lin and Sourish Sharma move from phone launches and AI investment to Palantir's business, Reuters' history and the incentives behind…
A salvaged E key, then an OpenAI feud: your tech curiosity can afford a detour.
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Policy shocks, platform moves, and the money behind them, handled with a brisk, practical edge.
Waffle Byte uses tariffs to open a wider tech and markets story. Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" duties, the market reaction, and the pressure they put on consumer tech are tied together cleanly, especially where supply chains in China are hard to replace.
A brisk tech roundup linking product news, AI adoption, and media history.
Waffle Byte takes a lively tech-news route through a time-gated social app, OpenAI's growth in India, lab-grown meat, Shopify's AI push, and Reuters' pigeon-delivered stock quotes.
A broad look at AI infrastructure, power, and the costs of scale.
Dan Scarborough, Stellia's Chief Commercial Officer, presents a firm thesis: the internet for AI depends on a data mobility platform built for fast scaling and broad access to global compute.
Tech news, business nerves, and a pub-chain origin story keep the episode moving at an easy, conversational clip.
The episode moves quickly through phone and Mac launches, Discord's possible IPO, the AI fundraising rush, TSMC's investment aimed at pleasing Trump, and Wetherspoons' origin story.
A grounded episode on trust, phishing, physical security, and deepfake CEO fraud.
Social engineering comes through here as a study of everyday trust, shaped by Chris Hadnagy's work as founder and CEO of Social Engineer LLC. His experience covers both physical penetration tests, including breaking into buildings, and large digital phishing campaigns.
A brisk tech survey of phone tradeoffs, cybercrime, Palantir's volatility, and convenience economics.
WaffleBite ranges from the suspected state-backed North Korean breach of Bybit, with losses of over $1.4 billion, to the iPhone 16e and its uneasy tradeoffs: no MagSafe, slightly thicker bezels, a single rear camera, and Apple's case that digital zoom can cover some telephoto…
A loose hour ties OpenAI's early story, AI dating apps, and the practical oddities of tech life.
A broken keyboard key sets up a loose, technically minded hour that moves from an improvised repair into Elon Musk and Sam Altman's strained history around OpenAI.
LLM coding meets unpredictable teams, with Rust still resisting the tools.
CETIV OpenCon 2025 frames engineering culture and AI-assisted coding as parts of the same management problem: getting useful results from systems that do not always behave alike.
Apple details, software habits, and everyday technical friction.
Jason Snell and Myke Hurley debate Apple's product roadmap, leadership, and rumors weekly.
Apple decisions, examined down to the window corner.
Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" tariffs ripple through the episode as the hosts use Nintendo's Switch 2 delay and Apple's rush to fly 600 tonnes of iPhones from India to the U.S.
Waffle Byte E22 opens with 739, a social app that only unlocks from 7:39 for three hours every day Eastern time, and compares it with BeReal's rise and fade.
Dan Scarborough, Stellia's Chief Commercial Officer, says Stellia is building 'the internet for AI' so data can move 'without boundaries' across GPUs and AI assets.
Waffle Byte E21 moves from Xiaomi's €1,500 15 Ultra and a pin-mounted concept camera to Nothing's 3a phones, Apple's M4 MacBook Air, a $14,099 Mac Studio, AI funding, Discord's IPO talk, TSMC's $100 billion US plan, and Wetherspoons' history.
Chris Hadnagy, founder and CEO of Social Engineer LLC, explains how emotional manipulation drives phishing, romance scams, and pig-butchering fraud.
Suresh and Kwan examine Bybit's loss of more than $1.4 billion in Ethereum, allegedly caused by a phishing attack that tricked executives into authorizing a 30,000-Ethereum transaction.
Suresh and Kwan examine Elon Musk’s conflict with Sam Altman, including Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit and Altman’s $9.74 billion counteroffer for X.
Michael Stahnke, Flox's VP of Engineering, explains how transparency, disagreement, and LLM tooling shape engineering leadership at CETIV OpenCon 2025.
Hosts Sorish and Kwan examine MegaLag's investigation into Honey, which he says replaced creators' affiliate links and showed only 89 cents back on a NordVPN purchase made with his own affiliate code.
Quanquan tries the iPhone 16 lineup at the Cambridge Apple store on launch day and calls camera control "absolutely useless" on the Plus, Pro and Pro Max, while preferring the teal and pink finishes over ultramarine.