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Season 2 of the Tech Overflow Podcast starts on March 3, 2026.

Join Hannah Clayton-Langton and Hugh Williams as they explore and demystify tech for curious listeners. This season, there'll be even more episodes on AI, three incredible interviews, and deep dives into how tech is changing the industries we all care about.

Whether you're looking to learn more about how tech really works, hear great stories from inside big tech, or hear from thought-leaders who are changing the world, the Tech Overflow podcast has all of that and more.

The new season begins Tuesday March 3 and there'll be a new episode every week. Join us on our socials on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and now even TikTok and Youtube Shorts.

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A single field mismatch bricked fleets of Windows machines. A simple gesture turned dating into a swipe. A major grocer is hacked and down for 45 days. A driverless car pulled up with no one inside.

As we gear up for the launch of Season Two on March 3, Hannah shares her favourite stories from Season One. We went under the hood and explained tech in an accessible way for every curious listener. In this episode, we share what you've missed and our favourite parts for our loyal listeners.

We start by pulling apart the CrowdStrike outage to show why software that runs deep in the operating system is powerful and dangerous. Then we shift to the Marks and Spencer ransomware story to examine how attackers slip in at the edges, escalate privileges over months, and force hard choices about rebuilds and business continuity. From there, we pivot to product craft with a candid story from Google Maps, where watching Apple sparked a smarter roadmap and a useful parking feature. The theme: humility, fast learning, and disciplined shipping beat ego every time.

Our AI segments tackle the bigger shift: language models trained on trillions of tokens that summarise and reason without a tidy explanation of how. We cut through the hype with grounded numbers on GPUs, training timelines, and cost, and we explain why inference feels cheap while training burns the budget.

Then the interviews bring it home. Tinder co‑founder Jonathan Badeen traces swipe right back to flashcards, illustrating how a physical metaphor became a mobile-native flow that reduced friction and changed behaviour. Waymo’s engineering leader Nick Pelly breaks down the robotaxi experience, the safety data across one hundred million autonomous miles, and the sprawling software and hardware stack that makes autonomy work today. He also paints a vivid picture of tomorrow’s cities, where fewer car parks free space and travel time becomes time to work, play, or sleep.

We wrap with practical basics—LANs, WANs, data centres by rivers—and a reminder that legacy systems like COBOL still run banks and still pays.

If you enjoy smart stories backed by clear numbers, credibility, and lessons you can act on, this highlights edition was made for you.

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Three months ago we set out to make complex tech feel simple for smart people. Today, we close Season 1 with a bonus episode that’s a candid debrief on what worked, what didn’t, and the practical concepts you told us made a difference at work and in everyday life. We answer listener questions and Hugh fails to answer Hannah’s trivia questions (in a throwback to Episode 1).

We start with reflections on learning the craft of podcasting while defining our mission and chemistry. Favourite episodes resurface—especially the outages deep dive—because they blend clear systems thinking with human stories and real fixes. Hannah share she learnt the most from our episode on LLMs (which was definitely the hardest episode for Hugh to prep for).

From there we jump into listener Q&A and tackle the acronyms that clutter meetings: VPN as an encrypted tunnel that blocks man-in-the-middle attacks, URL as these days a synonym for “web address”, and HTTP versus HTTPS as the protocol that is the backbone of the modern web. We keep the momentum with SQL and CSV as the backbone of analytics, plus LAN and WAN to map your home, office, and global networks. Along the way we bust a persistent myth: Wi‑Fi isn’t “wireless fidelity”; it’s simply a name that stuck (and one that was invented in Australia!).

Cloud computing takes centre stage as we lay out how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud grew from internal platforms into the engines of modern startups. We talk trade-offs: price, performance, managed services, and the undeniable friction of switching providers. Then we answer a deceptively simple question: how do different programming languages “talk”? The practical path is APIs and shared contracts, with compilers and files as the quiet glue that lets JavaScript front ends call Java services and microservices cooperate at scale. For fun, we tip our hats to tech lore—from YouTube’s dating-app origin to Bluetooth’s Viking name—and why trivia can be both marmite and memorable (and why a Vegemite analogy isn’t the same!).

We’re lining up more expert interviews and deeper dives into data centres, energy use, Bitcoin mining economics, quantum timelines, and chip fabrication. If season one made you a little bit smarter, help us reach tens of thousands more learners: follow, share with a friend, and leave a review so we can shape season two around your biggest questions.

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