Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! IKEA’s smart home products are not quite there yet. NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 and faced backlash from within the gaming community. A powerful iPhone-hacking technique has been discovered to take over devices running iOS 18. And some updates on the probes into Tesla’s and hands-free driving systems.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jennifer shares her experience using IKEA’s newest smart home products utilizing the Matter-over-Thread protocol, expressing her concerns and frustrations with trying to connect them to any smart home platform.
\n\u2022 Mikah talks about Nvidia’s DLSS 5 that was unveiled at GTC 2026, and the criticism & memes it has faced since its unveiling.
\n\u2022 Andy Greenberg of WIRED joins the show to talk about a tool that has been discovered, called DarkSword, that can hack into millions of iPhones running iOS 18.
\n\u2022 And Mikah chats about hands-free driving technology in vehicles and NHTSA’s probe into Tesla and Ford’s hands-free driving systems.<\/p>\n
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