Why Some Tech Stories Don't Get Covered - Editor's Desk

Hi Tom,

I know you've been fielding serious questions about the large changes to DTNS, but do you fancy a small, irrelevant question?

I know that all members of the DTNS crew work from home, and so I'm curious when was the last time you met each member of the team in meatspace? Are there any members of the team that you have never actually physically met? Amos, for example, lives in Alaska - which means you've got most of the North American continent between you.

Kind regards,

David.

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Hey Tom!

Might be a fun one for the editor's desk as I've been thinking about this more lately - what actually counts tech news as tech news?

I'm sure this is anecdotal, but I've been noticing more items over the last year that are 'new things happening in tech' but aren't covered for whatever reason by tech news journalists (and then by extension shows like DTNS). Some quick examples off the top of my head:

Alienware laptop motherboard power connectors melting

Stealth AI models being dropped (that often later are determined to be GPT-5, Grok, etc)

Windows update KB5065789 from last week causing installation issues, boot loops, and most commonly reported - significant gaming/GPU performance loss

That Windows Update one is the one that triggered me to want to email in and ask this question actually, because there have been a lot of reports across various forums, feedback threads, etc over the last week regarding this update, but I can't find any news coverage regarding this, and personally I'd like to know when it's safe to update.

Now these are all things that I'm plugged into, but it makes me wonder how many more things I'm missing in 'tech news' because I'm not personally plugged into those areas - and how I get updates for stuff like this, if they aren't being reported on in the first place. Furthermore - what makes stories like these not make the news cycle, but similar and smaller stories, at least in terms of scale and how many people they affect, do make the cut - for example Cybertruck recalls, 5090 GPU power cable melting, or a any story about The Browser Company at this point haha.

My simple theory is journalists simply don't have the time/resources to be looking for news as much these days vs reporting on announcements, press events, and product launches. I'm curious what your thoughts are on this. I know you have previously stated what marks your bar for including a story or not in your shows is how impactful it is to your audience, which I think makes sense, and of course DTNS are not acting as journalists, but it made me wonder what your bar is for tech news period, at the industry level. I guess this could be a bigger question over what counts as news in general, but let's not get too crazy here haha.

Keep up the awesome work - with the changes I've been able to listen to a bit of Live so yay!

Take care!

Marty