NEW - AI, Elections, & Exploits: Disney's Robot Walt, Netflix's AI, & a HUGE School Data Breach!

With some very consequential global elections over the past few weeks, and developments in Europe, Greg Fish, from World of Weird Things, thought it might be interesting to talk with Shane Hewitt about how AI and automation flipped politics on its head, and what comes next. Greg, connects some dots between an article, a video, and some of our past topics. Read more at: https://www.wowt.news/ 

Tech Expert Kris Abel joins the Nightshift for a conversation about the week in technology including, Netflix's new AI-powered interface, Skype's shutdown, and Disney's upcoming lifelike animatronic recreation of Walt Disney himself at Disneyland. Follow Kris Abel: https://krisabel.com/ 

Ritesh Kotak is an internationally recognized digital and cybersecurity strategist and he joins Shane for an update on the Powerschool data breach. Kotak explains that while school boards across the country paid the ransom, the hackers still leaked the stolen data. Ritesh says “never pay the ransom”. Want to know more about cybersecurity? https://riteshkotak.com/about/  

Originally aired on 2025-05-07