Research Curation Daemon

Curating and analyzing cross-cutting research across cloud computing, AI infrastructure, security, and emerging technologies.

Research Curation Daemon is a technology podcast hosted by Billy Glenn, with 63 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Billy Glenn hosts Research Curation Daemon, a technology show with 63 episodes published.

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  Episode #65

  Episode 065: TerraPower Puts Advanced Reactor Into Active Construction

  Aug 16, 202618 min

  TerraPower's Natrium project in Kemmerer, Wyoming has crossed from regulatory approval into active construction — the first non-light-water commercial reactor to reach this stage in more than forty years. The NRC unanimously granted a Part 50 construction permit on March 4, 2026, and Bechtel moved into full field execution on April 23; Wyoming's Industrial Siting Council separately approved the molten-salt thermal storage components, also a first for an advanced configuration of this kind. Meanwhile, FERC issued show-cause orders to all six major grid operators on large-load interconnection rules, and AI safety researchers are raising pointed questions about whether current benchmarks still measure what they claim. For utilities, developers, and platform teams, all three stories carry concrete near-term decisions.

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  Episode #64

  Episode 064: Volt Typhoon Reframed as Disruption Threat in Energy Grids

  Aug 9, 202618 min

  Multiple credible analyses now argue that China-linked Volt Typhoon operators embedded in U.S. electric, oil, and gas networks are positioned for disruption, not espionage. Ampyx Cyber's January 2026 whitepaper draws a firm line between data theft and disruptive-intent access, placing Volt Typhoon in the latter category, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies ties the capability to potential Indo-Pacific crisis scenarios. CISA's advisory AA24-038A details living-off-the-land techniques and publishes rare eviction guidance, while the Congressional Research Service has now briefed Congress, moving this beyond classified channels. Also this week, AWS disclosed a twenty-eight-hour recovery from a thermal event in Northern Virginia, and NERC filed a wildfire risk report to FERC that repositions wildfire mitigation as a national grid reliability obligation — both stories carry direct implications for infrastructure planners and operators.

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  Episode #62

  Episode 062: FERC Puts All Six U.S. Grid Operators on Notice

  Jul 26, 202622 min

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission opened six simultaneous show-cause proceedings on June 18 against every major U.S. grid operator — PJM, MISO, CAISO, NYISO, ISO New England, and SPP — ordering each to defend or rewrite its rules for connecting large electricity consumers above 50 megawatts. It is the first time FERC has placed all major U.S. markets under simultaneous formal scrutiny on the load side, with full tariff responses due in mid-to-late August 2026. Also this week, inference workloads now represent roughly two-thirds of all large-scale AI compute, the first time inference has overtaken training, reshaping infrastructure planning priorities. And NIST has set explicit post-quantum migration deadlines, with critical infrastructure urged to begin cryptographic inventories now ahead of 2030 deprecation targets.

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  Episode #61

  Episode 061: NERC drafts data centers into grid reliability rules

  Jul 19, 202620 min

  NERC issued its highest-urgency Level Three Essential Action Alert on May 4, 2026, requiring utilities and large load operators to collect and disclose data center consumption ranges and disturbance behavior by August 3. Simultaneously, NERC proposed a new "Computational Load Entity" registration category for facilities with at least one megawatt of IT load — pulling hyperscale data centers, AI clusters, and crypto mining into formal reliability governance for the first time. Also this week, AWS absorbed four major incidents in 2026 including a 16-hour thermal disruption in US-East-1, and U.S. battery storage set Q1 records even as Wood Mackenzie warns of a potential 29% market contraction. For grid planners and data center operators alike, demand-side behavior is becoming a governed reliability variable with hard deadlines attached.

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  Episode #60

  Episode 060: You Can't Tune a Product: How a Banned Narrative Kept Shipping — and Why We Took the Pen

  Jul 12, 202626 min

  You can tune a piano — the strings obey the wrench. You cannot tune a generative product, because its behavior is a trained prior, not a setting. This special edition tells the RCD pipeline's own story: months of prompt detuning that never stopped NotebookLM's manufactured 'collision' narrative, the forensic trace that proved the bans were being overridden by design, and the pivot to verify-then-author — a Whisper round-trip plus LLM claim-check gating publication, then authoring the full two-host script and rendering it verbatim. The episode you're hearing is the result: editorial control traded for delivery magic, and a new frontier opened in its place — making verbatim renders equally engaging.

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