Failover Weekly: In the Beginning, There Was RSS
This week I went down a rabbit hole on how podcasting actually started — and it's messier and more accidental than the origin story usually gets told. Twenty Thousand Hertz ran a full documentary episode on it, featuring Ira Glass, Marc Maron, and Roman Mars. If you're in this space, it's worth an hour.
Also worth knowing: GitHub had a security incident this week — SDT covers it in today's episode.
From the Network
The Enterprise AI Show
AI News of the Month — May 2026 (Ep. 1031)
Brian and Brandon run through the biggest AI announcements of May — NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — and try to separate what actually matters for enterprise teams from the noise.
Software Defined Talk
Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer (Ep. 574)
Fresh today: Cloudflare's CEO had a take, tech IPOs are thawing, and GitHub had a security moment. The crew also ranked their preferred manifestos, which went exactly as you'd expect.
The Cloud Pod
The Cloud Pod's AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick (Ep. 355)
Justin's out this week, leaving Jonathan and Ryan to cover cloud news with full creative latitude. The Philip K. Dick framing may actually be the most accurate way to cover AI in 2026.
This Week's Picks
Tech: Practical AI E358 — Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes
MCP is moving beyond chatbots into full agent infrastructure. This episode covers ToolHive, agent identity management, and what Kubernetes-based AI agent fleets actually look like in production.
Non-Tech: Twenty Thousand Hertz — Age of Audio: The Inside Story of Podcasting
From a nerdy RSS hack to billion-dollar acquisitions to mass layoffs — the full arc. Ira Glass, Marc Maron, and Roman Mars tell the story. If you're reading a podcast network newsletter, you probably want to know where this all came from.
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