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The Best Tech Podcasts (2026)

Ranked on signal per hour: original reporting or real expertise over hot takes, guests who are actually building things, and hosts willing to say they do not know. Every show here was checked for new episodes in 2026 except one clearly labelled archive. Covers tech news, security, AI and web development. Hard Fork was left out because its future after its hosts' 2026 departure was unclear.

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Decoder with Nilay Patel

The Verge editor-in-chief interviews CEOs and policy people about how their organisations actually work and decide, then pushes on the hard questions. September 2026 episodes covered AI and antitrust, Apple's leadership change and Atlassian's CEO on enterprise AI. The best business-of-tech interview show.

4 pros · 2 cons

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider tells true stories from the hidden side of the internet: hackers, penetration testers, breaches and spies, often interviewing the people involved. Episode 179 dropped in September 2026, followed by LOW, a five-part limited series. Accessible to non-technical listeners and accurate enough for professionals.

4 pros · 2 cons

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss and John Siracusa have discussed Apple, programming and the tech industry weekly since 2013, past episode 700 in 2026. Deep, opinionated and long, with real developer expertise. If you build for Apple platforms, it is required listening; if not, it may be too much.

4 pros · 2 cons

Syntax

Hamilton, Ontario's Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski teach web development in tasty episodes, from CSS and JavaScript to AI coding agents, with tips you can use the same day. Sentry produces the show; it passed episode 1,000 in April 2026. The most practical show here for working developers.

4 pros · 2 cons

Risky Business

Patrick Gray has hosted this weekly security news show from Australia since 2007, now usually with Adam Boileau and James Wilson. Sharp, funny analysis of the week's breaches, vulnerabilities and policy, plus sponsor interviews with genuinely technical substance. The security industry's favourite news show.

4 pros · 2 cons

Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel's long-form interviews are known for preparation: guests in 2026 included Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Terence Tao and Grant Sanderson. Mostly AI, with history and science episodes. Patel asks the technical follow-up most interviewers skip.

4 pros · 2 cons

The Vergecast

The Verge's flagship show covers the week's gadgets, platforms and policy, hosted by David Pierce and Nilay Patel with staff reporters. October 2026 episodes covered Alexa Plus and AI hardware. The best way to keep up with consumer tech in two to three episodes a week.

4 pros · 2 cons

Security Now

Steve Gibson explains security vulnerabilities in exhaustive technical detail with Leo Laporte on TWiT, weekly since 2005, with well over a thousand episodes. Gibson's explanations of how attacks actually work are a free education. Episodes regularly run close to three hours.

4 pros · 2 cons

Search Engine

PJ Vogt, formerly of Reply All, answers one question per episode, from tech and internet culture to "are flushable wipes actually flushable?" An independent show. Not strictly a tech show, but the internet episodes are the best since Reply All. Still publishing in October 2026.

4 pros · 2 cons

Latent Space

swyx and Alessio Fanelli host "the AI Engineer podcast": founders and builders from frontier labs and AI startups on how products are actually built, from evals to agents. Very technical, very current, with guests like Shopify's CTO in 2026. Skip it if you just want AI news; keep it if you ship AI features.

4 pros · 2 cons

Reply All (archive)

Gimlet's show about the internet ran from 2014 to 2022 and ended after a 2021 controversy over its own workplace series. The archive is still the best collection of internet stories in audio: The Case of the Missing Hit, Long Distance and the Yes Yes No segments.

4 pros · 2 cons

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