David Bombal

David Bombal

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Feb 28, 2026 • 1h 12min

#552: Why The Matrix Was Right: 6 AI Movies Warned Us

A lively ranking of six AI films that eerily predicted modern cybersecurity and surveillance. They unpack robot hacking, poisoned models, and the danger of removing AI guardrails. The conversation links predictive policing, privacy erosion, and neural interfaces to real policy risks. Films about AI consciousness and resource competition spark debates on rights and who gets prioritized as systems scale.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 37min

#551: DNS Command & Control: Detecting Malware Traffic

Chris Greer, Wireshark expert and packet analysis educator, walks through DNS traffic as seen on the wire. He explains why 92% of malware uses DNS for command and control. Short demos break down DNS packet anatomy, the TCP vs UDP debate, recursive lookups, and a live capture of a real site lookup.
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Feb 22, 2026 • 29min

#550: Firewall Demo of Red Team vs Blue Team: Hacking Finance Apps with AI Chatbots

Ant Ducker, a network security engineer who runs red team vs blue team firewall demos, walks through attacking a finance app with an LLM chatbot and defending it. Short, punchy demos show prompt injection attempts, lateral movement in Kubernetes, Zero Day detection, AI-driven guardrails, micro-segmentation, and encrypted-traffic inspection with neural intent detection.
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Feb 21, 2026 • 23min

#549: The Apple of Networking? Cisco’s 100T Full Stack (Connects 128,000 GPUs)

Martin Lund, chip architect behind Cisco’s Silicon One, builds ultra‑fast networking silicon for massive AI clusters. He explains the 102.4Tbps G300, on‑chip intelligent agents that reroute traffic in real time, and how to link upwards of 128,000 GPUs without stalls. He also covers the 1.6T linear pluggable optics and why Ethernet is winning in large AI data centers.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 17min

#548: Stop Troubleshooting Manually. Meet Your Digital TEAMMATE

Joe Vaccaro, Cisco ThousandEyes leader focused on network observability and agentic operations. He explains agentic ops vs traditional AIOps. Demos an AI agent autonomously diagnosing DHCP and DNS outages. Discusses Views Explainability, outage learning, and how AI acts as a digital teammate to upskill engineers and speed troubleshooting.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 36min

#547: How AI Changes Network Engineering 2025

Anurag Dhingra, a Senior Cisco executive and engineer leading enterprise networking and collaboration, talks about AI reshaping network operations. He covers agentic AI automating routine tasks, Edge AI running inference closer to devices, Cisco Unified Edge hardware, and AI Defense for model and network security. Short, forward-looking, and tech-focused conversation.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 19min

#546: Is 6G Actually Real? The Truth About Future Mobile Tech

Niklas Horstmann, a Deutsche Telekom/T‑Mobile telecommunications executive, leads work on networking, security, and emerging connectivity. He dives into whether 6G is real or hype. He explains how satellites will complement mobile networks and when cellphones might use satellite links. He also recounts a massive car‑access security incident and talks about scaling networks for billions of devices.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 22min

#545: Master Networking & AI: Free Training INSIDE

Fran Katsoudas, a Cisco executive who leads global skills, education, and AI readiness programs. She describes 200+ free training courses and role-based learning paths. She discusses the Networking Academy’s scale, real-world impact in places like Africa, and why networking skills are resurging alongside AI. Practical advice on building careers and staying motivated rounds out the conversation.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 15min

#544: The 5 Pillars of The Internet of Agents

Vijoy Pandey, a technology leader at Cisco Outshift focused on agentic systems, talks about the Internet of Agents and the AGNTCY framework donation. He covers building discovery/identity/messaging for agents, a DNS-style registry with MIT, and open-source tools like CAPE plus real-world network and hospital workflows.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 21min

#543: Why We Are Drowning Servers in OIL

Denise Lee, an industry executive focused on data center power and cooling innovations, explores why modern facilities waste so much energy. She discusses fault‑managed DC power, immersion cooling that baths servers in oil, and how these shifts cut waste and change required skills. Short, technical, and future‑facing conversation about sustainability and new career opportunities.

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