Chaos Lever Podcast

Chaos Lever Podcast

Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner

Episodes 251
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Dormant
Since Mar 2022
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.

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The End of Season One (Finally) | Chaos Lever

Jun 26, 2025 13m Transcript

Ned and Chris are back for one final ramble before they vanish into the summer ether like a Wi-Fi balloon over Cádiz. No, seriously—Ned might actually be in a balloon. This episode is one part…

Spinning Rust [Still] Ain’t Dead Yet (Redux) | Chaos Lever

Jun 19, 2025 41m Transcript

Spinning rust is still not dead. Despite what some all-flash evangelists want you to believe, hard drives have a lot of life left—and yes, we’re still talking about tape too. While Chris and I enjoy…

Can WordPress Be Saved from Its Creator? | Chaos Lever

Jun 12, 2025 39m Transcript

🔥 The world may be on fire, but at least we’ve got s’mores and dark chocolate (just not 98% cacao, thank you). In this episode, we dunk on tech billionaires with the finesse of a flaming marshmallow…

Microsoft’s OneDrive Fiasco and the FAA’s Retro Tech | Tech News of the Week

Jun 10, 2025 10m Transcript

Welcome to Tech News of the Week! Here's what caught our eye in the past seven days:Scammers are out in full force this summer with hyper-detailed (but totally fake) DMV texts warning about traffic…

Negligence as a Service | Chaos Lever

Jun 05, 2025 40m Transcript

Welcome back, fellow humans (and bots in disguise)! This week on Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned dive into the dusty archives and slap us with a two-by-four of cybersecurity déjà vu. We’re talking…

Your ASUS Router Is a Botnet Now | Tech News of the Week

Jun 02, 2025 9m Transcript

Chaos is inevitable—especially on Patch Tuesday. This week, Chris and I dive into four juicy stories that highlight just how strange, scary, and downright ridiculous the world of tech can be. Buckle…

The Legacy of LaMDA | Chaos Lever

May 29, 2025 31m Transcript

What happens when a Google engineer thinks his chatbot has developed a soul? Three years ago, we covered the LaMDA saga, and now it's back—because someone forgot to turn off the AI. In this…

Your Interview Process is a Lie | Chaos Lever

May 22, 2025 36m Transcript

Chris and Ned are joined this week by Colin Lacy, a senior software engineer at Cisco, recovering architect, and food photographer in a past life—yes, really. What starts as a detour into food…

Microsoft Layoffs Amid Record Profits- Wait, What? | Tech News of the Week

May 19, 2025 10m Transcript

Another week, more tech news chaos. This week:🧠 Students are getting salty over professors using ChatGPT while banning it in their own assignments. One Northwestern University student even tried to…

Brain Dumps, VARs, and Toiletfeet: The Certification Debate | Chaos Lever

May 15, 2025 41m Transcript

🎙️ In this episode of Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned dive deep into the murky waters of IT Certifications. Are they still relevant? Are they just money grabs? Or do they actually help you land that dream…

Apple’s Smart Glasses Chips & Clippy's AI Comeback | Tech News of the Week

May 12, 2025 8m Transcript

Welcome back to Tech News of the Week! Today, we're diving into some of the most interesting stories shaking up the tech world right now.📰 Wikipedia vs. the UK Government: Wikipedia is going…

Sparkles McTwinklefeet and the Insanity of Job Interviews | Chaos Lever

May 08, 2025 40m Transcript

In this episode, Ned and Chris dive headfirst into the chaotic world of technical interviews. From absurd coding tests to multi-hour marathons that seem more like hazing rituals, they break down just…

AI Writes Code, Judges Write Burns | Tech News of the Week

May 05, 2025 11m Transcript

Another week, another tech reckoning! In this episode of Tech News of the Week, we dive into Microsoft's AI coding claims, password security doomscrolling courtesy of Hive Systems, Meta's courtroom…

How Google and Facebook Turned You Into a Product | Chaos Lever

May 01, 2025 37m Transcript

Welcome back, fellow alleged humans 👋 In this episode of Chaos Lever, we jump headfirst into the ad-tech cesspool to answer one burning question: how did we go from banner ads to full-blown…

Perplexity’s New Browser Wants All Your Data | Tech News of the Week

Apr 29, 2025 11m Transcript

The legendary Blue Meanie is back, and so are we! 🎙️ This week on Tech News of the Week, we dive into four wild stories that you need to hear about. First up, Chris rants (in the best way) about the…

Escaping Google's Grasp: Tools for the Privacy-Minded | Chaos Lever

Apr 24, 2025 39m Transcript

If your Gmail inbox is older than your adult children and you're just now wondering if it's been reading your diary all along—congrats, this episode is for you! In part two of our “Living Life…

Google on Trial, AI Support Fails, and Krebs Fights Back | Tech News of the Week

Apr 21, 2025 11m Transcript

Here's another Tech News of the Week for y'all! Stay tuned for our weekly full episode where we'll big talking about how you can ditch Google for something better (and no the irony of publishing this…

Avoiding FAANG's Poison | Chaos Lever

Apr 17, 2025 42m Transcript

Are your bones creaking? Is your back mysteriously acquiring new joints just to ache in fresh and exciting ways? Welcome to adulthood—and welcome back to Chaos Lever. In this episode, Ned and Chris…

Oracle Breach Cover-Up and Git Turns 20 | Tech News of the Week

Apr 14, 2025 11m Transcript

In this week’s episode of *Tech News of the Week*, we’re talking about source control history, cyber cover-ups, licensing shenanigans, and encryption for the quantum future. It’s a spicy lineup, and…

Why Your AI Assistant Still Sucks (And How MCP Might Help) | Chaos Lever

Apr 10, 2025 35m Transcript

This week’s main dish? Agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). What the heck do those mean? Why are they being compared to USB-C? And why should you care unless you’re an executive with a…

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