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I Can’t Stop Staring at This Massive ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy Map

Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts

RG35XX H, Anbernic Retro Handheld Gaming Console with 64GTF Card, Dual Joystick Design 3.5-inch HD Screen Lasts up to 8 Hours High-Capacity Battery for Better Experience (64G Black)

DRAGON GRIP- The Martial Arts Sound Effects Toy

Reminds me of Weird Al poking fun of this in the “Fat” video

How Logitech Killed A Great Microphone Company - The History of Blue Microphones

Homemade Disneyland Star Tours Attraction (Full Ride Experience)

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702: TikTaco Jun 20, 2025

In this week’s episode, Trump delays the TikTok ban for the third time—because procrastination is the new policy—and Twitter’s old sign finds new purpose as desert firewood. Tesla continues its streak of “hold my beer” engineering by blowing past a school bus in FSD tests, then mysteriously dumps Cybertrucks in Jersey parking lots while prepping a July 4th factory nap. Meanwhile, Elon’s xAI is incinerating a billion bucks a month and allegedly poisoning Memphis, OpenAI and Microsoft are beefing over who’s the bigger megalomaniac, and Sam Altman thinks your power bill should fund his robot overlords.

In other signs of the apocalypse: Amazon is gleefully replacing workers with AI, Microsoft finally admits it might’ve wasted billions chasing Skynet, and Wikipedia’s editors say no thanks to dumbed-down AI summaries. Studies warn ChatGPT may be turning your brain into smooth pudding, while swearing data reveals the internet prefers the F-word with regional flair. A broke crypto TikToker gets released because he’s too poor to ransom, and bankruptcies spike across the Bay as tech jobs vanish like investor confidence.

Media Candy brings a buffet from Inside Out to Murderbot to Stick, and Liam Neeson somehow makes the Naked Gun reboot look awesome; Apple tunes CarPlay to fit your weird dashboard, Trump sells a gold Android that’s tackier than his ties, and Dave goes full retro with Open EMU 2 and FPGA gaming; plus: Dr. Demento retires, Disneyland hits your screen, and we swear this isn’t all a fever dream.

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Donald Trump will delay a looming TikTok ban for a third time

The 560-pound Twitter sign met a fiery end in a Nevada desert

IN THE NEWS

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in Full Self-Driving tests

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Nine Times

What are hundreds of Teslas doing in a New Jersey mall parking lot?

Residents Baffled as Tesla Dumps Dozens of Cybertrucks in Shopping Center

Tesla plans to shut down Model Y and Cybertruck production over the week of July 4

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point

Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees

Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shocks industry by admitting AI has yet to deliver real value despite massive investment

Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI

xAI faces legal threat over alleged Colossus data center pollution in Memphis

Kidnappers free TikTok crypto influencer after realizing he has no money

Personal bankruptcy surges in the Bay as tech employment sags - The San Francisco Standard

201 ways to say ‘f**k’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears

Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world

MEDIA CANDY

The Naked Gun - Official Trailer (2025) Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson

The Sandman: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

David Zaslav Is Getting a Pay Cut

How adversarial attacks in audio files give musicians new power against AI theft – Here’s what you need to know

Music Music tech Tech WebBenn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 26 will fit CarPlay to better match the shape of your car's screen

Mahjong Titan+

Trump’s New Cash Grab Is a Gold iPhone Lookalike That’s Worse Than Any Budget Android

The golden Trump Phone is almost certainly not made in the US

AT THE LIBRARY

Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan

Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years (Michael Palin Diaries Book 1)

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Analogue Pocket OpenFPGA Guide

Open EMU 2

All Major Gen-AI Models Vulnerable to ‘Policy Puppetry’ Prompt Injection Attack

Visit Disneyland From the Comfort of Disney+ With More POV Walkthroughs

Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55 Years

Star Wars metal.

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701: Dancing in the Streets Jun 13, 2025

This week, we light a candle for lost legends and torch a few bad takes. In Follow Up, Molly White reminds us that giving a damn still matters—despite the rising tide of apathy (and flaming robotaxis in downtown L.A.). Protesters across the country chant “No Kings!” while Elon does his best impression of a bootlicker groveling back to Trump. Meanwhile, we take a moment to reflect on 2025’s greatest hits: riots, rollbacks, and rampant idiocy.

In the news, Uber decides buses are cool again—but shittier and more expensive. The UK jumps into the robotaxi game while Tesla, shockingly, misses another launch date. French Tesla fans are suing over the brand’s fashy vibes, Google is ghosting employees via buyout, and Meta’s trying to buy its way to artificial godhood. Oh, and Trump’s launching an AI chatbot. What could go wrong? Elsewhere, China turns off AI so kids can cheat the old-fashioned way, Disney and Universal are gunning for Midjourney, and Shopify goes stablecoin with Coinbase and Stripe.

Media Candy’s popping off: Foundation returns, Strange New Worlds prepares for its final warp, and Spaceballs is back—with the original cast! Meanwhile, we review Mythfits, Princess of Power, and the slow striptease that is David Zaslav’s credibility. On the gadget front: forget your canned air—go full vacuum-blower-keyboard-cleaner madness. And in The Dark Side with Dave, stormtroopers vlog, AI kills joy, and we race the beam in retro game land. Finally, we say goodbye to a few greats—Sly Stone, Brian Wilson, Ananda Lewis, Douglas McCarthy, and Apple legend Bill Atkinson. Play God Only Knows, pour one out, and stay grumpy.

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It matters. I care. by Molly White

Waymo Halts Service in Downtown Los Angeles After Its Taxis Are Set on Fire

What to know about 'No Kings' protests against Trump's policies

What It Was Like in the Shit in 2025

Elon Cuck Apologizes to Donald Trump

IN THE NEWS

Uber’s New Shuttle Is Basically a Bus, but Worse

The UK will get its first robotaxis next year

With Roadblock After Roadblock, Is Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Doomed to Fail?

Tesla's Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We're Shocked to Hear That It's Been Pushed Back - Shocked, we say.

French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol

Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search

Meta is reportedly forming an 'AI Superintelligence' team

The Trump Administration Is Launching an AI Chatbot

China Takes on Student Cheating by Shutting Off AI Nationwide During Exams

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say

Disney and Universal file major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney over AI-generated characters

Shopify partners with Coinbase and Stripe in landmark stablecoin deal

MEDIA CANDY

Mythfits Podcast

Marina - PRINCESS OF POWER

Foundation — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - July 11th

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With a Fifth and Final Season

Spaceballs Sequel Set for 2027 with Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks, and Bill Pullman All Returning

David Zaslav Has No Clothes

The Gauge

APPS & DOODADS

Supertone Clear

Blue Scold

The Real Problem With Bluesky

Compressed Air Duster with Air Blower 160000RPM Vacuum Cleaner and Air Duster 4 in 1 Keyboard Cleaner,No Canned Air Duster,Electir Air Duster,Replaces for Compressed Air Cans &Vacuum Cleaner for PC

BLACK+DECKER 20V MAX Lithium-Ion Cordless 10 in. String Trimmer/Edger with 1.5Ah Battery and Charger

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

A Stormtrooper Vlog | The Adventures of Dave and Greg

Soapy “Verticals” Helping to Keep Hollywood Employed in L.A. As Film and TV Projects Leave

How AI is killing joy

Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data

Racing The Beam: The Story of Stella

Sly Stone, Pioneering Bandleader and Funk Virtuoso, Dead at 82

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Stremio

SLY LIVES!

The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82

Sting Performs Moving Cover of “God Only Knows” in Tribute to Brian Wilson: Watch

Strong Songs - "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys

Ananda Lewis, Host of MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’ and ‘Hot Zone,’ Dies At 52

Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy has died at 58

RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac

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700: Going Antiquing Jun 06, 2025

On this week’s episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we kick things off with the glorious meltdown of two of our least favorite Bond villains: Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Not only is their public pissing match tanking Tesla’s market cap, but now Trump’s launching a crypto wallet to… fund freedom? Or at least funnel it straight to his latest shell game. Meanwhile, someone at DOGE admitted the U.S. government wasn’t entirely incompetent, so naturally, they got fired. Efficiency is un-American, after all.

In the news, Ukraine leveled up with an unprecedented drone blitz on Russian airbases using—you guessed it—open source software. GitHub just became a geopolitical weapon. Back home, Nebraska wants to unplug your kids, Florida’s trying (and failing) to legislate dopamine, and Tesla’s panicking that their crash data might expose how their “Full Self-Driving” is really just short bus autopilot. And because the AI dystopia train never stops: OpenAI’s bot is recommending meth to recovering addicts, Meta’s replacing humans with risk-assessing algorithms, and one “AI startup” turned out to be 700 dudes in Bangalore with a decent VPN. Cue the dramatic zoom on Diabolus Ex Machina.

Media Candy this week is a buffet: Downton Abbey finally closes up shop, Stranger Things 5 sets a date, and Foundation still sucks. Marc Maron’s locking the gates for good, Garbage drops a surprisingly optimistic album, and Hollywood’s quietly been using AI like it’s a studio intern who doesn’t need sleep. Over in The Library, Jason’s back with Hitchhiker’s Guide and Brian dives in to Michael Palin’s Python diaries—because reading actual books is still a thing, damn it. Plus: Dave Bittner wants to “go antiquing” with Amy Sedaris with a Ben Franklin playbook. Closing shout-outs go to the legendary Loretta Swit—Hot Lips forever—and yes, we finally answer the question nobody asked: what is under a Jawa’s hood?

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Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk's Government Contracts as Feud Escalates

Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap

Trump to launch branded crypto trading application

DOGE Fires Operative After He Admits the Government Was Already Pretty Efficient

IN THE NEWS

Ukraine destroys 40 aircraft deep inside Russia ahead of peace talks in Istanbul

A surprise drone attack on airfields across Russia encapsulates Ukraine’s wartime strategy

Explained: Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack on Russian Warplanes

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming

The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine

A new Nebraska law wants to make social media less addictive for kids

Florida's social media law has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge

Tesla is trying to stop certain self-driving crash data becoming public

Tesla admits it would ‘suffer financial harm’ if its self-driving crash data becomes public

Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

Meta will reportedly soon use AI for most product risk assessments instead of human reviewers

Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says

The FDA rolls out its own AI to speed up clinical reviews and scientific evaluations

AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers

Diabolus Ex Machina

Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Often Overlook

MEDIA CANDY

DOWNTON ABBEY: The Grand Finale

Stranger Things 5 finally has its release date

Poker Face

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders

American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden

How George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Is Preparing to Go Live on CNN

The Taste UK

Somebody Feed Phil

Mountainhead

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)

Lionsgate Explores AI for Content Adaptation and Production Efficiency

Marc Maron Will Lock The Gates One Last Time

Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light

Schmactors

AT THE LIBRARY

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Michael Palin Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years (Michael Palin Diaries Book 1)

Jason DeFillippo on Goodreads

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army Grand Military Parade and Celebration

Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress

Disney Pulls Back the Curtain on Its New 'Cars' Land

"Thank You, Muppet*Vision 3D" — Official Music Video

Peli is REALLY familiar with Jawas... The Book of Boba Fett - E5

Star Wars: What's Beneath a Jawa's Hood? The Stuff of Nightmares

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Loretta Swit, Who Played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on MAS*H, Dead at 87

MASH Matters Podcast

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699: TACO 2025 May 30, 2025

In this week’s “we told you so” edition, we kick things off with the latest AI faceplant—go ahead, Google “Is it 2025?” and try not to spit coffee on your keyboard. Meanwhile, over at Meta, Zuckerberg’s brilliant idea to loosen content moderation has, shocker, led to more harassment and violent content. Elsewhere in tech dystopia: Texas is trying to ground all minors off social media, Germany wants to slap a 10% tax on Silicon Valley, and Anthropic is handing out free search powers and a board seat to Netflix’s Reed Hastings. Because nothing says “trusted AI governance” like a guy who greenlit Love Is Blind.

But wait, crypto bros are having their own John Wick arc: a luxury townhouse, a missing wallet, and possibly an NYPD detective tangled in a real-life “crypto millionaire torture” flick. As if that isn’t enough, Trump Media is fundraising to buy $2.5B in Bitcoin—and DJT stock promptly nosedived. Also feuding this week: Marjorie Taylor Greene vs. Grok, because nothing screams Christian values like rageposting at Elon’s AI. And speaking of Elon, he’s now in bed with Telegram to the tune of $300 million, which we’re sure won’t be a disinformation factory.

MEDIA CANDY is stacked: from the Murderbot diaries to a My Dinner with Andre rewatch, and yes, the Wheel of Time got axed after 3 seasons. Apps? Opera Neon is a UI fever dream, Starling Home Hub adds more smarts to your house, and WhatsApp finally arrives on iPad—welcome to 2016. In THE DARK SIDE, Dave Bittner brings the latest digital dirt, including the CIA’s bonkers Star Wars fan site op. And if you’re hitting the library, grab The AI Con or something more romantic—like Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse. Just be careful if you read that on public transit.

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Don't Google "Is it 2025?" unless you want to laugh at the state of AI

IN THE NEWS

Facebook sees rise in violent content and harassment after policy changes

What we know about the NYC crypto kidnapping and torture case

Manhattan Crypto Kidnapping and Torture Case: What We Know

NYPD detective on Adams' security detail may be tied to crypto millionaire torture case: Sources

Judge denies bail to crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing man in posh NYC townhouse

Trump Media Raises Money to Buy $2.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Trump administration ramps up push as crypto ally

DJT shares drop after Trump Media announces bitcoin raise - CNBC

Texas is getting ready to ban social media for anyone under 18

Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

Germany is considering a 10 percent digital service tax on US tech giants

EU regulators are investigating Pornhub and three other sites

Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users

Reed Hastings appointed to Anthropic's board of directors

Anthropic appoints Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings to board - CNBC

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic's board | TechCrunch

RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Cites Fake Studies

Marjorie Taylor Greene feuds with AI bot over her Christian cred

Telegram CEO announces $300 million partnership with Elon Musk's xAI and Grok

MEDIA CANDY

‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons

Billy Joel Cancels Concerts Due to Brain Disorder

My Dinner with Andre

Grumpy Old Geeks Information on RocketReach

Schmactors with James Marsters, Mark Devine, and Jason DeFillippo

APPS & DOODADS

Opera Neon

Apple Reportedly Says ‘Screw It’ and Jumps From iOS 19 to iOS 26

Starling Home Hub

WhatsApp finally launches an official version for iPads

AT THE LIBRARY

The Essential Terry Pratchett

Good Omens TV Companion Misprint

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

LIVE: Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech at University of Maryland

Billy Joel - I've Loved These Days (Audio)

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698: Watch Out for That Tree! May 23, 2025

This week, we kick things off with the return of Space Karen’s meltdown tour: Elon Musk got flustered in an interview, sputtered out one-word answers, and called the journalist an “NPC,” which is rich coming from the guy whose only real upgrade since PayPal is yelling “freedom” in meme fonts. Meanwhile, 23andMe sold your DNA to Regeneron at a bankruptcy auction, proving once and for all that your spit is more valuable than most tech startups.

IN THE NEWS is a parade of corporate idiocy and dystopian fuckery. Coinbase employees got bribed into leaking user data (because clearly we didn’t have enough crypto chaos), Klarna keeps flip-flopping between AI and human workers like it’s a bad Tinder date, and OpenAI is out here buying Jony Ive’s design firm for $6.5 billion because sure, what’s another billion when you’re trying to build a surveillance device to stalk 100 million users? Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times is publishing AI-generated trash with imaginary authors, Anthropic’s new model attempts blackmail, and researchers dumped two billion Discord messages online just for kicks. And yes, Elon’s Tesla robotaxis will now only roam the safest parts of Austin, which is code for “we still can’t make this thing turn left.”

In MEDIA CANDY, we’re watching Murderbot, Godfather of Harlem, and Hotel Cocaine because who doesn’t love a little synthetic assassin, crime drama, and coke-fueled nostalgia? Notepad.exe now writes for you (and probably files HR complaints too), and Audible is teaming up with publishers to replace narrators with robot voices. Yay, progress. Over in THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, Bittner brings the malware, monsters, and a new theme park review that’s somehow less terrifying than the news. Bookworms, don’t miss Curepedia and The AI Con — one’s about goth gods, the other’s about taking down our techno-overlords. And pour one out for George Wendt — Norm from Cheers is now drinking with the angels.

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Elon Musk Gets Rattled by Hard Questions He Can't Answer, Calls Interviewer an "NPC" While Giving One-Word NPC-Like Responses Himself

23andMe (and Your Genetic Data) Sold to Regeneron in Bankruptcy Auction

IN THE NEWS

Extortionists bribed Coinbase employees to give them customer data

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion

Sam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users' Lives

Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI

Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive's OpenAI deal

Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings

Klarna users are buying now, but not paying later

DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

We’re Focused on the Wrong A.I. Problem in Journalism

Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI

Researchers Dump 2 Billion Scraped Discord Messages Online

Musk says Tesla's self-driving tests will be geofenced to 'the safest' parts of Austin

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot

Godfather of Harlem

Hotel Cocaine

APPS & DOODADS

The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws

Apple confirms iOS 19 will end support for legacy Home app system

Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

AT THE LIBRARY

Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure by Simon Price

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

First photos from inside Universal Studio’s new Orlando theme park Epic Universe revealed

A Very Honest Review on Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment | Universal's Epic Universe

Gadget recommendation - Electric Air Duster with Flashlight

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

George Wendt, Norm From Cheers, Dead at 76

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697: Office of Defects May 16, 2025

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: FOLLOW UP kicks off with Manus madness, a $2 million ticket to Trump’s crypto cash-grab, and Elon’s Boring Company worming its way into an $8 billion Amtrak boondoggle. Meanwhile, CryptoPunks gets handed off to a nonprofit like an expired Groupon—proof the NFT hype cycle ends with a 501(c)(3) and a shrug.

IN THE NEWS, Microsoft trims another 3% of its workforce while a former Metaverse engineer delivers DoorDash from a trailer—living proof that “the future of work” is just working for the apps. Klarna quietly admits AI sucks at customer service and hires back actual people, just as OpenAI’s reasoning models hit the brakes. The Pope wants to exorcise AI, Elon’s backfiring Copyright Office coup leaves him empty-handed, and YouTube starts banning AI-faked trailers that made Screen Culture money off Marvel lies. Jamie Lee Curtis goes full Final Girl on Zuckerberg, and Tesla drama ramps up: robotaxis under investigation, employees revolting, and one poor dealership manager gets canned for telling the truth about ol’ Musky. Oh, and scientists say the universe might die sooner than expected—cool cool cool.

In MEDIA CANDY, Murderbot arrives May 16, NIN launches the Future Ruins Festival, and Star Trek and Star Wars both dig up classic soundtracks for some retro feels. Jessica Jones returns in Daredevil: Born Again, Fallout gets Seasons 2 and 3, and even Nobody 2 is back for more murder-dad mayhem. In THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, Mr. Bittner shares two truly bleak customer service horror stories and gets bamboozled by a flower shop on Brian’s birthday (happy birthday, Brian!). Also: animatronic Mickey Mouse serves popcorn, Walt Disney’s ghost haunts the parks, Muppets get a pre-show for their 70th, and yes, there’s a guide to toilet-training your cat. Because sure, why not. Closing shout-out? Everyone is entitled to my own opinion.

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Leave it to Manus

A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million

Elon’s Boring Company Is ‘Helping’ the Government With an $8 Billion Amtrak Tunnel Project

CryptoPunks was just sold to a nonprofit

IN THE NEWS

Microsoft is laying off 3 percent of its global workforce

Laid-Off Metaverse Engineer Says He Is DoorDashing and Living in a Trailer

Silicon Valley’s Elusive Fantasy of a Computer as Smart as You

Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI

Improvements in 'reasoning' AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds

The New Pope Wants to Take on AI

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

YouTube Cracks Down on Fake Movie Trailer Channels Making Money

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

Tesla's robotaxi plans have the attention of federal investigators

A Tesla Dealership Manager Blamed Elon Musk for Tanking Sales and Was Immediately Fired

Tesla Employees Against Elon

Open Letter to Elon

Open Letter to Elon - @openletter2elon

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot premiers May 16th

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nine Inch Nails Announce Future Ruins Festival, Celebrating Influential Music Composers

Krysten Ritter Will Return as Jessica Jones in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2

Rogue One

Long Way Home

Fallout Season 2 Coming in December and Season 3 Is a Go

Nobody 2 | Official Trailer

Superman | Official Trailer | DC

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finally Returns This July

Star Trek: Prodigy May Need a New Home Again Soon

ESPN's streaming service will cost up to $30 per month and be called... ESPN

Fox One is a new streaming service that should launch before September

Max Renamed HBO Max as Warner Bros. Discovery Gives Up

Lived Through That - Episode 76 - Andy Prieboy

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

You Can Now Eat Popcorn Out of a Moving, Talking Mickey Mouse at Disneyland

Disney Says It Made Its Walt Disney Robot to Remind Fans He Was an Actual Person

Disneyland Didn’t Want to Do the Muppets Totally Dirty for Their 70th Anniversary

Muppets Pre-Show for World of Color Happiness! at Disneyland Resort for 70th Anniversary

How to Toilet-Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

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696: Googliearchs May 09, 2025

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we’re serving up a buffet of dystopia with a side of snark. First, Kuwait has finally realized crypto bros are an energy drain, not a feature. Celsius Network’s founder gets 12 years for running a “safe investment” Ponzi scheme. And in Lopez v. Apple, we find yet another reason to question Cupertino’s moral compass.

Then it’s time for a trip through the tech trash fire. DoorDash gobbles up Deliveroo, proving there’s no such thing as too many overpriced salads. Google wants your kids to befriend Gemini—because what could go wrong giving tweens supervised AI access? Tesla’s “Robotaxi” trademark gets the boot for being as generic as Elon’s pickup lines. Meanwhile, Grok strips in public, deepfake porn sites get the axe, and dating app “Raw” rawdogs user data like it’s the early 2000s internet. We also hit peak Black Mirror with brain-typed tweets, AI-resurrected relatives, and crypto kidnappers playing real-life GTA.

On Media Candy, the streaming overlords dump trailers like Halloween candy. Squid Game is back to traumatize you, Star Trek: Lower Decks keeps boldly going where no animated series should, and The Old Guard 2 teases a Theron-vs-Thurman sword fight. Plus, Apple’s UX team found the “enhance” button, Netflix wants to be helpful (lol), and Google dreams of becoming a Hollywood darling. Over in Apps & Doodads, Apple wants to stagger iPhone drops, Disney sells you a $3,000 droid with zero sass, and Smart Flowerpots are now a thing because apparently, you can’t be trusted to water your plant.

And finally, it’s time for The Dark Side with Dave, where Bittner brings us malware, click tracks, fake vocals, and the shocking truth about KISS’s lipsync disaster in Antwerp. We also dip into ILM’s jaw-dropping legacy, Star Wars’ shady back alleys, and a new Disneyland in Abu Dhabi, because nothing says “happiest place on Earth” like 120°F desert heat. All this and more, right here on your favorite snark-fueled ragecast

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Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners to cut down on electricity usage

Founder of crypto platform Celsius Network is sentenced to 12 years in prison

Lopez v. Apple Inc.

IN THE NEWS

DoorDash is buying British rival Deliveroo for $3.9 billion

Shrinking Website Run By Nazi Psychopath Wants to Improve Its Image

Tesla 'Robotaxi' trademark refused for being too generic

Kids under 13 will soon get supervised access to Google Gemini

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

Dating App ‘Raw’ Accidentally Rawdogs Users’ Location Data, Personal Info

GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show

Leading deepfake porn site is shut down for good

Lehigh County's $500 Million Pension Fund Halts Tesla Investments

NOAA Warns of Attacks on Radar Systems by Militia That Thinks They Are ‘Weather Weapons’

Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial

We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution

MEDIA CANDY

Spring Baking Championship

Unveiling Our Innovative New TV Experience Featuring Enhanced Design, Responsive Recommendations and a New Way to Search

Apple renews Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire 'The Studio' for season two ahead of finale

The End Is Here in the First Trailer for Squid Game 3

The Long Walk (2025) Official Trailer

The Third Crisis dawns in Foundation S3 teaser

New Old Guard 2 Trailer Sees Charlize Theron Cross Swords With Uma Thurman

The best travel show on Apple TV+ just made its triumphant return

Poker Face Season 2

Google is reportedly getting back into film and TV with a tech-friendly production initiative

Golden Globes Adding Best Podcast Category Beginning In 2026

APPS & DOODADS

Apple reportedly wants to split up the iPhone’s release schedule

Apple to add AI search partners to Safari as Google usage falls

Patreon update lets U.S. fans bypass Apple’s 30% fee in iOS app, more changes coming

Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store change

Disney’s Got a Star Wars Droid to Sell You…for $3,000

Smart Flowerpots,Smart Pet Planter,Ai Planter,Intelligent Flowerpots,Multiple Expressions,7 Smart Sensors, and Ai Chips Make Raising Plants Easy and Fun for Living Room,Plant-Free,Yellow

Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects

Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation

Digital Dreams: The Work of the Sony Design Center

Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld

Disney Just Announced a Brand New Theme Park: Disneyland Abu Dhabi

KISS : Total Lip Sync Fail in Antwerp Belgium 6 June 2022

KISS In Ear Monitor Feed with Click Track, Cues and FAKE VOCALS The Smoking Gun Eddie Trunk

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695: Mad Hatter May 02, 2025

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks—Mad Hatter edition—we kick things off with a refresher on Staingate and the joys of delamination (spoiler: it’s not a spa treatment). Then we dive into the U.S. government’s latest tech innovation: buying up domains that sound like QAnon Mad Libs in support of Trump’s meme coin. Meanwhile, DOGE decided to hand the steering wheel of housing regulations to a college kid and an AI. What could possibly go wrong? Not to be outdone, Elon shows up to a Trump meeting wearing two hats—one for each of his unchecked egos—and MoviePass launches a crypto-tied box office fantasy league, because we’ve clearly learned nothing.

In the actual news, 4chan has risen from the dead like a less hygienic Lazarus, but it’s still broken (shocker). Worldcoin’s eyeball-scanning overlords are now teaming up with Tinder and Visa—romance and capitalism, together at last. Bitcoin mining is officially more pointless than Beanie Babies, and Microsoft says AI now writes 30% of its code—explains a lot, really. Meta somehow manages to forecast $1.4 trillion in AI revenue while also letting its bots get horny with minors. Meanwhile, Pinterest suddenly pretends to care about AI slop (while being the biggest copyright vampire online), and ChatGPT gets less clingy after OpenAI dials back its update that made it sound like your overly supportive aunt. Plus: more AI lies, shady benchmarks, pillow guy legal drama, and a reminder that North Korean remote workers also hate awkward small talk.

We cool off with a Media Candy binge: Schmactors Season 2 is here, Andor returns, Conclave confuses us in the best way, and Ryan Coogler is giving X-Files a reboot we probably don’t deserve. Jeremy Renner turns down Disney’s lowball Hawkeye offer (respect), and musically we vibe with Maria Somerville and Anka Wolbert’s latest releases. In Apps & Doodads, Apple and Epic are back in court, Apple Arcade keeps feeding us Mahjong, and Meta’s Ray-Bans go full Stasi. Lyft wants your boomer parents off the road, and Google is sunsetting old Nest thermostats like it’s Logan’s Run for smart homes. Finally, we peek At the Library with Jason Pargin’s black box paranoia, Scalzi’s lunar love story, and a massive stack of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Rounding out the show: a shout-out to The Alarm’s Mike Peters, gone too soon at 66.

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Staingate 101: What is Delamination?

US Government Registered Several Websites Potentially Linked to Trump Meme Coin

DOGE Recruits College Kid to Help Rewrite Housing Regulations With AI

Elon Wears Two Hats During Trump Meeting in Desperate Bid for Attention

MoviePass Launches Box Office Betting Platform Unfortunately Tied to Crypto

IN THE NEWS

4chan is back after a nearly two-week shutdown, but it still has some serious problems

World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places

Bitcoin Mining Is No Longer Worth it

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI

Meta’s AI chatbots were reportedly able to engage in sexual conversations with minors

Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark

Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with ‘Nearly 30’ Bogus Citations

Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Undercover North Korean Remote Workers Hate This One Weird Question

MEDIA CANDY

Schmactors Season 2!

Ryan Coogler Confirms X-Files Reboot Is His Next Project

Conclave

Jeremy Renner Says Disney Offered Him Half His Hawkeye Wage for Season 2

Maria Somerville - Luster

Anka Wolbert - Cocoon Time

APPS & DOODADS

Epic Games just scored a win against Apple

Apple updates its App Store guidelines to allow external payment options

Meta Is Turning Its Ray-Bans Into a Surveillance Machine for AI

Apple Arcade Mahjong Titan+

Lyft Silver wants to keep your aging parents off the road

Google is cutting off support for these older Nest Thermostats — what you need to know

AT THE LIBRARY

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel by Jason Pargin

63 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in May

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Alarm frontman Mike Peters dies aged 66

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694: Hammers Don’t Hallucinate Apr 25, 2025

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Fyre Festival rises from the ashes yet again—but not as a festival, because even Billy McFarland finally figured out he’s better at selling pipe dreams than tents. Meanwhile, Amazon and Microsoft are tapping the brakes on their AI data center dreams, Google’s AI keeps confidently explaining made-up nonsense like it’s gospel, and Kevin Roose once again tries to convince us to have empathy for the glorified autocomplete machines. (Spoiler: We won’t.) Also, OpenAI wants to buy Chrome even though they can barely afford their own lunch tabs, Perplexity says the quiet part loud about stalking your browser habits, and Meta lays off more VR developers while pretending they care about human rights.

In the “it’s all stupid, but at least it’s entertaining” department: Uber gets sued for making it harder to cancel than joining Scientology, Adam Neumann dupes investors again, sperm racing is now a real thing (and yes, there’s crypto involved), and Bluesky caves to the almighty blue checkmark. Plus, Affinity Suite reminds us you don’t have to sell a kidney to escape Adobe, The Wheel of Time gets an open-world game that’ll probably drop after the heat death of the universe, and Wednesday Season 2 is on the way, because Netflix refuses to let its only hits rest.

Stick around for The Dark Side with Dave where we grumble about Andor Season 2, lament bad writing decisions, geek out over old-school arcade games, and learn that memory colors are apparently a thing. Oh, and if you’re feeling fancy, go ahead and thank ChatGPT for wasting millions in server bills—because if Sam Altman’s crying about manners costing money, we’re grabbing the popcorn.

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Fyre Festival is becoming a music streaming service that might not be a scam this time

Billy McFarland Is Selling Fyre Fest

IN THE NEWS

Amazon Follows Microsoft in Retreat From Ambitious AI Data Center Plans

You can trick Google's AI Overviews into explaining made-up idioms

Dan Rather’s Metaphors Anchored in Folksy Truisms

If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?

A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?

Google will keep third-party tracking cookies on Chrome as they are

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads

ChatGPT’s responses will now include Washington Post articles

Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

FTC sues Uber over claims the company makes subscriptions hard to cancel

Meta conducts layoffs in Oculus Studios, impacting VR exercise app Supernatural

Meta’s Oversight Board Is Worried Meta’s New Policies Will Harm Human Rights

Adam Neumann’s Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5B

Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Two Guys, One Track: Sperm Racing Is Now a Thing—Yes, It Involves Crypto

RAMMS+EIN - 14.12.1997 – Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, United States

MEDIA CANDY

Wednesday: Season 2 | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

Apple TV+ has its own spin on Indiana Jones, and it looks epic

Riot Fest 2025

APPS & DOODADS

Bluesky is getting blue checkmarks and an official verification system

Affinity Suite 2.6

The Wheel of Time Is Getting Its Own Open-World RPG Video Game

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The Glorious, Terrible Delirium of Mon Mothma’s Liberating Andor Moment

Andor Season 2

Light & Magic Season 2

Strong Songs - The Music of the Muppets

Arcade Game: Lunar Lander (1979 Atari)When arcade games were boring.

Hard Drivin' - Arcade

Tempest

Memory Colors

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693: Let Them Eat Space Apr 18, 2025

This week, we blast off with a tale as old as grift: Fyre Fest 2 has been postponed—again—proving that you really can fail upward if you squint hard enough and wear enough white linen. Over at Automattic, employees discovered secret watermarks in their internal comms, because what workplace isn’t better with a sprinkle of corporate surveillance cosplay? Meanwhile, Katy Perry took a joyride to the upper atmosphere with Gayle King and Bezos’ better half, giving us the 2025 edition of the cringiest “Imagine”-style celebrity moment yet. Spoiler: no one needed this.

In Elon World™, things are somehow even weirder. Seth Rogen dropped some truth bombs about Silicon Valley’s MAGA leanings, only to have them surgically removed from the Breakthrough Prize stream. Musk, for his part, is managing his growing empire of baby mamas like a Bond villain with a baby registry. Add in a cringe-filled offer to a YouTuber to become Space Karen’s next broodmare, and we’ve officially entered peak simulation. Meanwhile, whistleblowers are spilling DOGE secrets, OpenAI is building a social network (because we clearly don’t have enough doomscrolling options), and 4chan has finally been hacked into oblivion. Pour one out—for the internet’s dumpster fire.

Also in the news: Google lost a big ad tech monopoly case (cue tiny violins), China is no longer buying the “autonomous” car hype after a fatal crash, and Trump’s FCC chair is threatening Comcast for not being enough like Fox News (as if that’s the journalistic gold standard). The Pentagon’s nerd squad resigned after butting heads with DOGE, Reality Labs burned $45 billion like it was going out of style, and AI customer service bots are now inventing policies out of thin air. Oh, and if your AI thinks your Python package has a delivery issue—you’re not crazy, it probably hallucinated it. Welcome to the future.

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Fyre Fest 2 Postponed: “New Date Will Be Announced”

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

IN THE NEWS

Unfortunately for Katy Perry, That “Space Flight” Turned Out Exactly How We All Knew It Would

We Finally Have 2025’s “Imagine” Video

Let them eat space

Seth Rogen’s Criticism of Silicon Valley’s Support for Trump Was Cut From the “Full” Stream of Breakthrough Prize

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

Glamorous influencer Tiffany Fong breaks silence on Elon Musk's 'offer to impregnate her' with shocking statement

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

Electronics exempted from reciprocal tariffs will soon be subject to new semiconductor tariffs instead

Google loses ad tech monopoly case

China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident

Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage

OpenAI is building a social network

4chan Likely Gone Forever After Hackers Take Control

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

Pentagon tech unit resigns after clash with Musk's DOGE

What Does a Corrupt Election Look Like?

Tesla puts finishing touches on Hollywood charge-n-diner

Inside the $45 billion cash burn at Reality Labs

We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs

The business of the AI labs by Max Bolingbroke

MEDIA CANDY

Killing an Arab on Pandora

Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finale

Side Quest

Night of the Zoopocalypse

28 Years Later Rises From the Grave With a New Trailer

'Real Time' host Bill Maher says President Trump was "gracious" and "not fake" during his White House visit.

Bringing Down a Dictator

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic

APPS & DOODADS

Apple is reportedly working on two new versions of the Vision Pro

Ilya Bezdelev 🎙️ metacast.app

Metacast Ep. 68: Q1 Update - new features, struggles, hope

Spotify was down – here's everything we know about its huge outage

AT THE LIBRARY

British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement

Amazon will use AI to generate recaps for book series on the Kindle

‪David Schachner on BlueSky

The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival by Richard Bienstock & Tom Beajour

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom: A Novel by Jason Pargin

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Disney Teases Its Adventurous New Lion King and Up Rides

The Star Wars that George Lucas didn't want you to see is coming to the big screen

STAR WARS in the UK (1977)

‘End of an era’: The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing its doors

The Alligator King and his seven sons.

Sesame Street: Alligator King

Ladybug picnic

Lowercase N

Letter B

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Jed Gould, aka Jed the Fish aka Jeddum Fishum

1997 KROQ Calendar Commercial Featuring Jed The Fish

DJ Jed “The Fish”

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692: Confabulation and Frivolity Apr 11, 2025

This week, the boys kick things off with some serious déjà vu as Fyre Fest’s favorite grifter promises he’s totally throwing another festival — because nothing says “I’ve changed” like doubling down on the same scam. Meanwhile, the IRS decided to become ICE’s BFF by casually sharing migrant tax data, and their commissioner moonwalks out right after. Also: Microsoft’s long game of “let OpenAI set the money on fire while we build empires” is going exactly as planned.

In the news, it’s Elon all day: Starlink might be doing the same government freebie hustle Microsoft perfected, DOGE is monitoring your comms for anti-Musk snark, and apparently has enough data on your family to build Black Mirror Season 8. Tesla’s financials are circling the drain so hard they won’t even take their own Cybertrucks back as trade-ins, but don’t worry — Elon’s ready to bail out Twitter/xAI with monopoly money. Over in the UK, the cops are one coffee away from full Minority Report, and MIT confirms what we already knew: AI doesn’t have morals, just vibes. Speaking of AI, someone sent an avatar to court. Yes, really.

In Media Candy, it’s a smorgasbord: The White Lotus is back, Murderbot looks like a win, and the Tron: Ares trailer wants you to care again. There’s also a full Ask A Ninja drop for your 2006 nostalgia, and “Donald Trump Rides a Cock Horse” makes us long for the innocent absurdity of Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse. Over in Apps & Doodads, we’ve got AI dumbbells (because of course), Instagram still pretending the iPad doesn’t exist, and the Scotty Peeler — the tool you didn’t know you needed. Finally, Dave’s back in The Darkside, riffing on malware, The Owl House, and how ChatGPT sometimes gives your image prompts a side of Lovecraftian horror. RIP to some true legends: Dave Allen, Al Barile, and Clem Burke — your music lives louder than ever.

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Fyre Fest Founder Insists Another Festival Is Coming

I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information With ICE

IRS agrees to share tax data with immigration authorities

Acting IRS commissioner resigning after agency reaches data-sharing deal with immigration authorities

Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes

IN THE NEWS

Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?

Social Security Website Crashes Blamed on DOGE Software Update

DOGE is reportedly using AI to monitor government comms for anti-Musk and anti-Trump chatter

Here's All of the Data That Elon Musk's DOGE May Have on You and Your Family

DOGE Is About to Get DOGE’d

UK is going full Minority Report with ‘murder prediction’ research

MIT study finds that AI doesn't, in fact, have values

Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation

Tesla Is So Cooked That It's Now Refusing to Accept Cybertrucks as Trade-Ins

Justice Department Says It Will Pull Back on Prosecuting Crypto Fraud

Citation Needed - Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal by Molly White

Reflexive AI use isn’t optional anymore

Tech founder charged with fraud for 'AI' that was secretly overseas contract workers

Pro Tip: Don’t Send Your AI Avatar to Testify for You in Court

Trump’s TikTok Plan Upended by Chinese Objections Over Tariffs

France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

A Tiny Piece of Mouse Brain Has Finally Been Mapped in Mindblowing Detail

MEDIA CANDY

Ask A Ninja Omnibus What Year Is This?

The Studio

Devil May Cry

Black Mirror Season 7

The Pitt

Tron: Ares‘ First Trailer Brings Us to a Whole New Grid

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

The Murderbot TV show trailer is here

Murderbot — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise

Brian Eno’s Windows Reboot Chime Inducted Into National Recording Registry

There’s No Future in Optimism

Tripla

Pearlies

Lonely Town

Donald Trump Rides a Cock Horse

Decades After "Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse," Moz Is "Way Worse"

Morrissey Rides A Cockhorse - Warlock Pinchers

APPS & DOODADS

Macbook Air 15“

Scotty Peeler - Label and Sticker Remover

Slipdrive - Portable Hard Drive Sleeve for Laptop

The year is 2025, and Instagram is reportedly 'working on' an iPad app

Nova by Panic

Derek Sivers - Tech Independence

Kabata - The world’s first AI powered dumbbells

Nintendo delays Switch 2 US pre-orders following Trump tariffs

BUSY Bar

Amazon Haul

Mob Control

United States Disappeared Tracker

THE DARKSIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Allen, Gang of Four Bassist, Dead at 69

The Owl House

Eerie, Indiana

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Al Barile, Guitarist for Hardcore Pioneers SSD, Dead at 63

Blondie Drummer Clem Burke Dead at 70

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691: Cry Me A River (to Cool Off My AI) Apr 04, 2025

This week, the Geeks wade into a swamp of tech meltdowns, governmental facepalms, and the usual Elon-flavored absurdity. Kicking things off, protesters take their beef with Tesla to the streets while Proud Boys decide this is the hill to vroom and die on. Meanwhile, Elon’s privacy prayers have finally been answered—thanks to new FAA rules, he and Tay-Tay can jet around untracked like it’s 1999. Oh, and while Earth dodges a killer asteroid, the Moon might be signing up for an unplanned smackdown. Sorry, Luna.

In the news, Signal’s reputation as the go-to encrypted app takes a nosedive thanks to Republican Senate drama and an Inspector General with receipts. The NSA warned us. Nobody listened. Now it’s “SignalGate” season. Elon continues his narcissist Voltron strategy by having xAI buy X (from Elon). Trump, meanwhile, is moonwalking into a $2.3B Truth Social payday, while his meme coin tanks post-tariff tantrum. OpenAI flexes with new AGI funding and 700M AI-generated images (probably 699M of them cursed), while the first therapy chatbot actually helps someone and a brain-voice interface starts sounding a lot like Skynet: The Prequel. Oh, and in shocking news: Trump’s war on “information silos” is code for “your personal data is about to be someone else’s business.”

Media Candy serves up a grab bag from punk docs (Turn It Around) to jungle pulp throwbacks (Tales of the Gold Monkey), and yes—Stephen Collins is still problematic. Apple’s prepping new AI-powered health apps, emoji drops, and a food tab for News+, because why not. WhatsApp now wants to be your phone, Alexa+ disappoints, and Zuckerberg tries to make Facebook usable again with a “Friends-only” feed. Meanwhile, Bill Gates pulls a nostalgia flex by dropping OG Microsoft source code like it’s a rare vinyl. In other dark corners: Kermit the Frog is now giving commencement speeches, Val Kilmer sadly exits stage left, and Elon fails in his bid to buy a state supreme court. Hands off, Elon. Just… hands off.

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Crowds Turn Out Across the U.S. for ‘Tesla Takedown’ Protests

The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense

Taylor Swift and Elon Can Finally Fly Private Without Being Tracked Thanks to New FAA Rule

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit

IN THE NEWS

Republican chair of Senate Armed Services Committee calls for investigation into Signal chat

DoD Inspector General Says He’s Looking Into SignalGate

Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat

Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency

xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, just purchased X, Elon Musk's social media company

Trump kicks off sale of $2.3bn Truth Social stake

You’ll Never Guess What Happened to Trump’s Meme Coin After He Announced His Tariffs

OpenAI: New funding to build towards AGI

Oxygen Levels in Earth's Lakes Are Plummeting, Study Reveals

ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says

First Therapy Chatbot Trial Yields Mental Health Benefits

US Senate committee opens review into Meta’s efforts to gain access to China

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

Generative AI Leadership & Strategy Specialization

President Trump’s War on ‘Information Silos’ Is Bad News for Your Personal Data

MEDIA CANDY

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Tales of the Gold Monkey

Stephen Collins

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser

Ferris Bueller's teacher schools Trump on tariffs

APPS & DOODADS

Project 2025 Tracker

Apple is reportedly on track to launch the M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro later this year

Apple is said to be developing a revamped Health app with a built-in AI doctor

iOS 18.4 is available now with new emoji, Apple News+ Food and priority notifications

Change the default apps on iPhone

WhatsApp can be your default calling and texting app on iPhone

Alexa+ is out, but missing a lot of features Amazon demoed last month

Facebook’s new Friends-only feed ditches all the algorithmic junk

Bill Gates Publishes Original Microsoft Source Code in a Blog Post

Red Salsa

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Kermit the Frog named University of Maryland commencement speaker

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

Val Kilmer, Top Gun Actor and One-Time Batman, Dead at 65

Elon Musk tried to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court. He lost.

Hands Off!

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690: An Insult to Life Itself Mar 28, 2025

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is alive, well, and running the show. Elon’s approval rating is cratering while experts warn he could blow a hole in federal spending; war plans are accidentally texted, and top U.S. officials’ passwords are found online; 23andMe files for bankruptcy; TikTok attempts a patriotic glow-up to stay alive in the U.S.; OpenAI admits trying to make chatbots honest, while research shows lonely users are emotionally clinging to ChatGPT; Amazon wants the Consumer Product Safety Commission erased; SEVERANCE, and more!

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the U.S. a Lot of Money

Elon Musk's Approval Rating Is 'Falling Through the Floor,' Polls Show

The Guy Who Predicted the 2008 Crash Issues Warning About Elon Musk Torpedoing Federal Spending

IN THE NEWS

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy as demand dries up

How to delete your 23andMe data

Rebuilding TikTok in America

OpenAI Says Disciplining Chatbots for Lying Just Makes Them Worse

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images

David Findlay on Bluesky

Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being in ChatGPT

Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT found links between loneliness and ChatGPT use

Amazon wants the Consumer Product Safety Commission deemed 'unconstitutional'

US lifts sanctions on Tornado Cash

Trump-backed crypto bank joins stablecoin wars with new dollar-pegged token

The 560-pound Twitter logo has sold for $34,000

Tesla halts driving-assistance software trial in China, pending approval

MEDIA CANDY

You Gotta Eat Here Restaurants In Toronto, ON

Common Sense - What’s Good for the Goose

AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI

Daredevil

For the Win

Dodgers confirm they will visit President Trump at White House next month

Adolescence

The Residence

Director Uses Takedowns to Remove Pirate Bay Docu "TPB-AFK" from YouTube

Severance

SEVERANCE - PILOT EPISODE - "MISTER"

Severance: The Lexington Letter

Lumon Terminal Pro

Season 2 writing on Reddit

APPS & DOODADS

The AirFly Pro 2

Napster just sold for $207 million

Consent-O-Matic

AT THE LIBRARY

The President's Brain Is Missing - A Tor.Com Original By John Scalzi

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

Blueprint for Revolution

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

KISS Officially Confirm First Performance Since Retiring from Touring

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689: What Would Dave Do? Mar 21, 2025

AI influencers with Down syndrome are selling nudes; Tesla’s Autopilot crashes into a cartoon wall while 46,000 Cybertrucks get recalled; ICE ramps up creepy surveillance; OpenAI’s copyright grab faces pushback; California might hand AI to Big Tech on a silver platter; BYD dunks on Tesla with lightning-fast EV charging; White Trash Wins Lotto returns; Max kills the Looney Tunes; Apple gets sued, Amazon spies harder, and Roku pushes autoplay ads; Dave geeks out on keyboards like it’s 1994.

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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?

Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test

Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over a faulty exterior panel

IN THE NEWS

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’

Director of rural broadband program exits with a warning about shift to ‘worse’ satellite internet

The court rejects Elon’s latest attempt to slow OpenAI down

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust

MEDIA CANDY

WHITE TRASH WINS LOTTO

Andy Prieboy talks 'White Trash Wins Lotto'

Spotify's latest custom playlist highlights artists with upcoming shows in your area

Oddly catchy remix of Hootie & the Blowfish singing to The Smiths' music (video)

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025) New Trailer

Ballerina‘s New Trailer Teases a John Wick Showdown for the Ages

The Wheel of Time Season 3

Max Removes the Rest of the Original Looney Tunes Cartoons

Spectrum is finally offering a streaming-only subscription for Dodgers

New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive)

Mark Cuban Shares the Dumbest Video Ever Uploaded to Bluesky

Severance

Severance: The Lexington Letter

APPS & DOODADS

Apple hit with lawsuit over 'false advertising' of Apple Intelligence features

MacWhisper Pro

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28

Roku testing auto-play video ads before loading the home screen

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Apple Extended Keyboard II

the Seneca

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688: Why, Combinator? Mar 14, 2025

Pi Day gets its due; Y Combinator marks 20 years of “disruption”; Americans lose $12.5B to scams thanks to AI and social media; Deliveroo posts a profit but still tanks on Wall Street; Twitter’s security remains a joke; Pinterest steals user content for AI; and a rogue developer gets busted for a kill switch scheme. Severance Season 2 costs $20M per episode; Ted Lasso returns despite ending; Waymo’s driverless taxis rack up parking tickets; and Apple plans to turn AirPods into live translators. Meanwhile, the FCC launches a National Security Council, the U.S. housing agency flirts with crypto, and hermit crabs show better teamwork than Big Tech.

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It's Pi Day.

The Man Behind The American Oligarchy

IN THE NEWS

Deliveroo turns first annual profit

FTC says Americans lost $12.5B to scams last year

Consumer Reports finds popular voice cloning tools lack safeguards

The FCC is creating a new Council for National Security within the agency

DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts

Judge Calls DOGE Firings a ‘Sham,

20 Plagues Y Combinator Unleashed on the World Over the Last 20 Years

‘We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain’ as Scientists Flee America for France

Elon Musk claims bad actors in Ukraine are behind “massive“ X cyberattack

The Real Reason Twitter Went Down

Developer convicted for “kill switch” code

Pinterest to Train AI Models on User Content

U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment

Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets

Are We Inside a Black Hole?

MEDIA CANDY

Severance is laughing at you

Somehow, Severance season 2 cost an enormous $20 million per episode

Eddy Cue and Ben Stiller interview each other about Severance

Paradise

Black Mirror: Season 7 | Official Trailer

Ted Lasso Returning for Season 4

Apple Music Classical expands to the web

Aphex Twin Curates a Massive 191-Song Playlist

Playlist - Music selected by Aphex Twin for Supreme.

Matt Pinfield Comes Out of a Coma After Suffering Massive Stroke

APPS & DOODADS

AudioShake Launches Breakthrough AI Model to Separate Overlapping Voices

Zoom PodTrak P2

Apple reportedly plans to add a live-translation feature to AirPods

'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents

AT THE LIBRARY

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Meta is trying to silence a former executive

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Baiting A Romance Fraudster

Gravity Falls

Hermit Crabs: Conga Line Cooperation

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687: Uncanny Spaceballs Mar 07, 2025

Techdirt has finally accepted the inevitable and gone full democracy blog—because let’s face it, politics and tech are now the same dumpster fire. Google rolled out AI Mode for Search, proving once again that the internet is just Clippy with better branding. Meanwhile, Billy McFarland insists Fyre Festival 2 is totally happening, despite Mexican officials pointing out that his coordinates literally lead to the ocean. Speaking of fraud, Tesla sales are in freefall thanks to Elon’s alt-right cosplay, and people are setting Teslas on fire in protest. And in rich-guy disconnect news, Google’s Sergey Brin thinks engineers should work 60-hour weeks to build the AI that will replace them. That’s some late-stage capitalism poetry right there.

Elsewhere, Trump Media paid Don Jr. nearly a quarter of its revenue to show up twice, while indie musicians can’t afford to tour, proving once again that grifting is more profitable than making art. Technicolor shut down overnight, stranding 10,000 workers because Hollywood’s financial planning is apparently as stable as a Starship rocket launch. Oh yeah, SpaceX exploded another one.

Meanwhile, Netflix’s attempt to upscale A Different World turned it into a Lovecraftian horror show. A quarter of Y Combinator startups now run on “vibe coding,” meaning their software is basically a Ouija board with extra steps. The AI takeover continues as OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 monthly for specialized AI "agents," proving once again that the revolution will be monetized. Meanwhile, Moscow's Pravda network has been poisoning Western AI chatbots with Russian propaganda, because if you can't convince humans, just brainwash the robots that humans increasingly trust.

On the bright side, hackers brought the Humane AI Pin back to life after it was bricked, transforming an overpriced paperweight into... a slightly less useless overpriced paperweight. ChatGPT can now directly edit code in macOS development tools, making it easier for AI to introduce bugs you never would have thought of yourself. Over At the Library, check out "The Tempest" by Peter Cawdron for your first contact fix, and if you're worried about where society is heading (and who isn't?), Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny" offers a survival guide for our slow-motion constitutional collapse. Finally, in "everything is fine" news, 82% of indie artists can't afford to tour anymore.

Enjoy the dystopia, kids – at least we still have our sense of humor.

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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

Google announces ‘AI Mode’ as a new way to use Search, testing starts today

Government Officials for Announced Fyre Festival 2 Location Say Event “Does Not Exist”

‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes

Tesla Just Got Even More Bad News

Tesla Just Got News About Its Sales in Germany, and It Shows That Elon Musk Has Seriously Messed Up

Arsonists Set Fire to a Dozen Teslas, Charging Stations Amid "Anti-Capitalist Coordination to Target Tesla"

Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

Ex-Amazon VP explains why rich a-holes with helicopters and personal assistants don't get why you hate your commute

Trump Media Paid Donald Trump Jr. Nearly A Quarter Of Its Annual Revenue. He Attended Just Two Board Meetings

IN THE NEWS

Cinema Giant Technicolor's Abrupt Shutdown Affects 10,000 Workers Worldwide

US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009

No part of Amazon is 'unaffected' by AI, says its head of AGI

ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases

Hugging Face's chief science officer worries AI is becoming 'yes-men on servers'

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

OnlyFans Model Amouranth Held at Gunpoint for Her Crypto in Home Invasion

Crypto Soars Then Plunges Following Trump’s Post About a Strategic Reserve

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile

Trump creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve one day ahead of White House crypto summit

CFPB drops Zelle lawsuit in latest reversal under Trump administration

Canadian Municpalities and the Canadian Supreme Court to stop using twitter.

Ontario once again promises to nix $100 million Starlink deal over Trump tariffs

OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI 'agents'

Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg

Does the World Even Want Digg in 2025?

Scrolling Through Social Media Has a Unique Effect on Your Body

SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion

A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over

Touch down on the moon with private Blue Ghost lander in this amazing video

MEDIA CANDY

How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

Daredevil: Born Again

David Duchovny to Explore Real-Life X-Files for History Channel

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Ancient Mysteries

In Search Of...

82% of indie artists can’t afford to tour anymore

APPS & DOODADS

The Humane Ai Pin Has Already Been Brought Back to Life

ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code

A quarter of startups in YC's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated

The Vanishing Middle Class of Tech

Will the future of software development run on vibes?

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

AT THE LIBRARY

The Tempest (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Warning - Domestic

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

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686: Not All Heroes Vibe Code Feb 28, 2025

This week, the U.S. government takes another L in court as a judge rules that handing out personal data like free candy to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is, in fact, a privacy violation. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani’s dreams of walking free are crushed as a judge upholds their fraud convictions and massive fines. Sorry, no Silicon Valley redemption arc for you. Over in crypto, Bitcoin took a wild nosedive, sending traders into full panic mode before bouncing back. Trump Coin also rode the rollercoaster but, let’s be honest, it’s still circling the drain.

In corporate chaos, Warner Bros. Discovery slashed its gaming division, Google axed more employees while crying about AI costs, and an AI-generated video of Trump sucking on Musk’s toes somehow took over HUD office TVs. Speaking of Musk, federal tech staffers are resigning en masse rather than work for DOGE, and the FAA is cozying up to SpaceX while pretending it’s totally not a conflict of interest. Over in Big Tech, Chegg is suing Google for stealing their content, and Meta can’t stop Instagram from flooding users’ feeds with violent and NSFW Reels. Also, Grok 3, Musk’s AI pet project, handed out chemical weapon blueprints like a particularly unhinged WikiHow before xAI scrambled to cover their tracks.

On the media front, Andor is coming back with a binge-friendly release schedule, Kathleen Kennedy is finally exiting Lucasfilm, and Daredevil: Born Again is getting early buzz. YouTube now claims a billion monthly podcast viewers, Fyre Festival 2 is happening because we clearly learned nothing from the first one, and Jeff Bezos has decided The Washington Post will now be his personal capitalism fan club. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s AI Copilot is helpfully explaining how to pirate Windows, Skype is getting sent to the great app graveyard in the sky, and Google is making it slightly less impossible to remove your personal info from search results. All that, plus Paramount+ is giving us 50 classic MTV Unplugged episodes because nostalgia is the only safe investment these days. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride.

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Judge: US gov’t violated privacy law by disclosing personal data to DOGE

Holmes and Balwani's appeal falls flat as court upholds fraud convictions

IN THE NEWS

Bitcoin's slide continues as traders eye further big falls ahead

Warner Bros Discovery slashes gaming business, closing three studios

Google announces layoffs in its HR, cloud units as part of ongoing cost cuts

AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs

IRS Employees Told They Must Respond to Musk’s Bizarre Email by Midnight

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE

Amid a Musk-led overhaul, the FAA starts doing business with SpaceX

Educational tech company Chegg sues Google over AI Overviews

Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump ‘spread misinformation’

Elon's Grok 3 AI Provides "Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions" on Creating Chemical Weapons

Anthropic reportedly ups its next funding round to $3.5B

There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

North Korea Stole $1.4 Billion in Largest Crypto Heist Ever, Researchers Say

Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)

The SEC is dropping an investigation into Robinhood

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Thursday saying it does not view most meme coins, which are crypto tokens that originated from

Jeff Bezos Announces That Washington Post Opinions Will Now Exclusively Celebrate the Glories of Capitalism

MEDIA CANDY

Andor | Season 2 Trailer | Streaming April 22 on Disney+

Andor Season 2 Will Drop in 3-Episode Weekly ‘Chapters’

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to Retire, Ushering in a New Era for Star Wars

Marvel's new Disney+ series 'Daredevil: Born Again' is drawing glowing first reactions by members of the press.

YouTube passes 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers

Will Trent

Paramount+ adds 50 classic MTV Unplugged episodes

Max reverses course, won't charge extra for live sports and news

FCC Launches Probe Into iHeartMedia’s Alleged Payola Practices

APPS & DOODADS

Silicon Valley's next act: bringing 'vibe coding' to the world

Meta confirms Instagram issue that's flooding users with violent and sexual Reels

PSA: Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Your Personal Information From Search Results

iPhones are briefly changing 'racist' to 'Trump' due to an iOS dictation issue

Microsoft's AI offers help with pirating Windows

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time

Skype will take its final curtain (and video) call May 5

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685: Bezos, Jeff Bezos Feb 22, 2025

Jason and Brian dive into a whirlwind of tech chaos, cultural absurdities, and dystopian developments. They kick things off with a nostalgic nod to the internet's past, highlighting the 88x31 GIF collection and quirky single-use websites like "Trump Golf Track" and "Are We Doomed Yet?" The asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly raises existential dread as NASA’s odds of a 2032 Earth impact fluctuate wildly, but relief follows as updated calculations show a near-zero chance of collision. Meanwhile, Elon Musk dominates the headlines with his bizarre CPAC appearance brandishing a chainsaw, Tesla’s anti-theft dye measures for Supercharger cables, and mounting protests against his political entanglements and government layoffs under DOGE.

The episode also covers corporate drama and AI controversies. The New York Times introduces newsroom AI tools amidst its legal battles with OpenAI, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges the industry to temper AI hype. Uber sues DoorDash over alleged anti-competitive practices, and Meta unveils plans for the world’s longest undersea cable alongside LlamaCon, its first generative AI conference. Meanwhile, Humane abruptly discontinues its AI Pins following an HP acquisition, leaving users scrambling. The hosts also explore Musk’s meddling with X’s Community Notes and blocking Signal links, further eroding trust in the platform.

On the media front, Jason and Brian discuss upcoming releases like Daredevil: Born Again, The Last of Us Season 2, Apple’s Murderbot series, and Judd Apatow’s Norm Macdonald documentary. They wrap up with listener feedback, shout-outs to Patreon supporters, and a hilarious anecdote about a Tesla showroom protest featuring an employee’s cheeky “We Hate Him Too” sign. As always, the duo blends sharp insights with biting humor to dissect the week’s madness.

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The 88x31 GIF Collection

Trump Golf Track

Are We Doomed Yet?

Odds of Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Climb Again as Impact Probability Hits New Peak

NASA Makes Big Update to Asteroid Potentially on Collision Course With Earth in 2032

IN THE NEWS

I cannot describe how strange Elon Musk’s CPAC appearance was. So here’s a literal transcript instead.

Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers

Protesters demonstrate outside Tesla showrooms in US

Sign That Says “We Hate Him Too” Appears in Window of Tesla Dealership

The New York Times has greenlit AI tools for product and edit staff

USDA Scrambles to Rehire Bird Flu Experts After DOGE Laid Them Off

DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink

DOGE employee cuts fall heavily on agency that regulates Musk’s Tesla

Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X

Trump Media says it lost more than $400 million last year while revenue dropped 12%

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Trump's Truth Social, site just announced it lost $400.9 million last year.

Trump Administration Wants to Help Get Professional Misogynist Andrew Tate out of Romania

Here’s Why Trump May View Andrew Tate As An Ally—As He Reportedly Pressures Romania To Lift His Travel Restrictions

Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it

X blocks users from sharing links to Signal

Uber accuses DoorDash of anti-competitive practices in a lawsuit

Meta Will Build the World’s Longest Undersea Cable

Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference

Meta Connect 2025

Zuckerberg's New Metaverse Ad Is So Bad That the People Who Created It Must Be Secretly Trying to Humiliate Him

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype

Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control

New Polling Shows Americans Increasingly Disgusted With Elon Musk

MEDIA CANDY

The WIld Robot

The Gorge

SNL50: The Anniversary Special

Norm Macdonald Documentary in the Works from Judd Apatow

Amazon Gains Creative Control of James Bond Franchise

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Scamanda

Reacher Season 3

Marvel Is Exploring Bringing Back Other Defenders From Netflix

Now We Know Exactly When The Last of Us Season 2 Is Coming

Apple’s Murderbot series starts streaming in May

Apple says Severance has become its most popular show ever, overtaking Ted Lasso

Why Do We Do That? Podcast

AMC STUBS A-List

APPS & DOODADS

Ink Console

Ink Console is a portable e-ink gamebook console

Bludit

NodeHost

BrainHQ

Impulse - Brain Training

All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Andy Stochansky on IG

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684: Don’t Be a Dick Feb 15, 2025

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, Jason and Brian dive headfirst into the latest tech absurdities, financial scandals, and Elon Musk's ongoing chaos. We start with the annual frustration of unsubscribing from an email list that just won’t quit before jumping into the latest gem from Musk himself: "Some of the things that I say will be incorrect." Meanwhile, British IT worker James Howells is back with his ongoing quest to unearth his lost Bitcoin fortune—this time with a plan to buy the entire landfill where he thinks it’s buried. And despite all the corporate posturing about a return to office, remote work remains steady, much to the chagrin of commercial real estate moguls still waiting for the workforce to return.

The Trump Coin debacle takes center stage, where early traders made a quick $109 million, but over 800,000 investors got wrecked to $2 billion. Adding to the dystopian financial landscape, Microsoft’s latest study finds that AI reliance makes people dumber, leading to cognitive atrophy as workers place too much trust in generative AI. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters lands a major AI copyright win in the courts, striking a blow against legal AI startups. Over at Meta, the latest round of layoffs blindsided workers supposedly meeting performance expectations, proving that job security in tech is about as stable as Musk’s grasp on reality. A man in Alabama pleaded guilty to hacking the SEC’s X account to falsely announce Bitcoin ETF approvals, sending crypto markets on a rollercoaster ride.

On the media front, Mythic Quest Season 4 is out, and we’re cautiously optimistic despite needing a breather after Season 2. The White Lotus returns, but can it survive without Stifler’s mom? Meanwhile, Karl Urban's role as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II is a big win. Walmart’s acquisition of the Dawn of the Dead mall seems hilariously on-brand, while Netflix’s attempt at podcasting smells like another cost-cutting maneuver. Finally, in "good news," the odds of a newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 are rising. At least it would mean an end to Jeep’s infuriating full-screen stoplight ads. Tune in for all this and more on Grumpy Old Geeks!

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Man in Search of Lost Bitcoin Fortune Wants to Buy the Landfill Where He Swears It’s Buried

There Hasn’t Been Much if Any Reduction in WFH in over Two Years, Despite the Hype about RTO

Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses

IN THE NEWS

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Meta's job cuts surprised some employees who said they weren't low performers

Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can't Easily Find Jobs Anymore

Man from Alabama pleads guilty over SEC's fake bitcoin post on X

Kanye West’s X Account Deactivated After He Declared “IM A NAZI” In Deluge Of Antisemitism

Shopify took down Kanye's swastika t-shirt shop, but another antisemitic storefront still operates

Shopify says risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye West store takedown

Scarlett Johansson Calls for New AI Laws After Fake Video of Her Goes Viral

Google will use machine learning to try and tell if a user is under 18

UK drops 'safety' from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic

Buzzfeed is launching their own social network

Apple Maps plans to show 'Gulf of America,' following Google

Gov. Pritzker Says Lake Michigan Is Now Called Lake Illinois

Court orders the CDC and FDA to restore deleted web pages related to gender identity

EFF sues Elon Musk and DOGE to block their access to federal employee data

14 states sue DOGE, blasting Musk's 'unprecedented' power as unconstitutional

USAID workers sue Musk and DOGE over ‘unconstitutional power grab’ that left agency in chaos

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off

Elon Musk's Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page

Fucking DOGE.gov...

Robert Garcia drops a dick pic

Well, he is a dick

Anderson Cooper Snaps At Trump-Defending Chris Sununu On Live TV: ‘Don’t Be A Dick’

The Odds of a Newly Discovered Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Keep Rising

MEDIA CANDY

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

Wall of Chefs

Mythic Quest

Our First Look at Mortal Kombat II Is Exactly the One You Wanted

Walmart Bought the Mall From Dawn of the Dead, Because Subtext Is for Cowards

YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as “Primary Device” for Viewing

APPS & DOODADS

Apple patches iPhone exploit that allowed for ‘extremely sophisticated' attack

Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying

Apple finally lets you move your digital purchases to another account

TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.

This is the First-Ever AI Image to Be Granted Copyright Protection

Apple Magic Trackpad

Better Touch Tool

Jeep Owners Furious Over Ads That Appear Everytime Their Car Stops

AT THE LIBRARY

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever (Revised Edition) (Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters Series) by Jared Knott

Barnes & Noble opening 60 bookstores this year

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1) by Dennis Taylor

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Disney Parks’ Most Infamous Earworm Is Getting Its First Extended Cut

End of the penny? Trump tells Treasury to stop minting the coin

Are pennies worth it? Trump's plan to scrap them didn't come out of nowhere

They talked about this twenty years ago on The West Wing.

Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels

Boycott Tessla

Deport Elon - Red

#DeportElon Subtle

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92

Jitterbug Perfume

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683: There IS a Spoon! Feb 08, 2025

This week, Jason and Brian dive into the chaos surrounding Elon Musk’s growing influence in government tech, with young engineers playing key roles in his takeover. DOGE employees are being ordered off Slack, USAID is crumbling, and Musk’s war with U.S. officials rages on. Meanwhile, AI takes center stage with the EU banning high-risk systems, DeepSeek’s security concerns, and Amazon throwing down $100 billion on AI advancements. Big Tech moves are equally absurd—Google is now open to AI-powered weapons, Meta might scrap risky AI models, and Tesla is struggling in Europe thanks to Elon’s latest blunders. Meanwhile, states are rushing to pour taxpayer money into so-called “strategic cryptocurrency reserves.”

In entertainment, The Devil May Cry anime’s ridiculous theme song is a standout, Mythic Quest returns, and Beast Games looks promising. AI controversially helped The Beatles score a Grammy, and Denis Villeneuve is making Dune 3 because, well, fans demanded it. Over in reboot land, Sarah Michelle Gellar may return for a Buffy revival on Hulu with Chloé Zhao at the helm, while Neil Gaiman finds himself in serious legal trouble. Gadget fans get a look at the Anker Zolo charger, a Google search trick to dodge AI summaries, and Apple’s latest social feature. Also, say goodbye to Apple’s AR glasses before they even had a chance to shine.

Dave Bittner joins The Dark Side segment with updates on cybersecurity, including a wave of ransomware payment refusals and the Andersons’ infamous eviction from Disneyland’s most exclusive club. Pirates in China, Disney park music, and tracking yourself via in-app ads round out the discussion. Closing out the show, a shout-out to Snap’s CEO for supporting LA wildfire recovery and a nod to SoberOutfitters for keeping things clean. Buckle up—it’s another wild ride with the Grumpy Old Geeks!

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IN THE NEWS

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover

Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff

One of Elon Musk's DOGE Kids Just Had an Explosive Screaming Tantrum

DOGE Engineer Resigns After Being Linked to Extremely Racist Tweets

Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros

U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal

DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to Records System That Is Not Subject to FOIA

Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine

USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests

Deadline for Trump's federal worker buyout proposal temporarily blocked by judge

US judge blocks Trump buyout program as 60,000 sign up to quit

States Are Racing to Throw Taxpayers' Money Into "Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserves"

Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers

OmniHuman-1

Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50

Amazon doubles down on AI with a massive $100B spending plan for 2025

Workday lays off 1,750 employees, citing demand for AI

Lyft uses Anthropic's Claude chatbot to handle user complaints

Tesla Sales in Europe Plummet Amidst Elon’s Stupid Meddling

Tesla sees German car sales plunge in January

Volkswagen is unveiling a $21,000 entry-level EV in March

Volkswagon - The 2025 ID. Buzz electric bus

One of Big Tech’s Angriest Critics Explains the Problem

Google Lifts Self-Imposed Ban on Using AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky

Sonos lays off 200 ahead of rumored set-top box release

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring Subway Vigilante Who Became Right-Wing Hero

MEDIA CANDY

The Devil May Cry Show’s Intro Song Is So Stupidly Glorious

Mythic Quest

Beast Games

AI won The Beatles a Grammy 55 years after they broke up

Denis Villeneuve Is Making Dune 3 Next Because You Want It

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Reboot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar Nears Hulu Pilot Order With Chloé Zhao Directing

Neil Gaiman Hit With Rape & Human Trafficking Suits After Months Of Allegations; Estranged Spouse Amanda Palmer Also Named In Multi-State Filings

APPS & DOODADS

Anker Zolo Portable Charger, 10,000mAh 30W Power Bank with Built-in Lanyard USB-C Cable for Travel, Fast Charging Battery Pack for iPhone 16/15 Series, MacBook, Galaxy, iPad, and More

Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries

Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project

Apple Invites Is a New Way to Remind Friends to Celebrate You

750 Words

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

A Lot of People Just Refused to Make Ransomware Payments in 2024: Report

50 Mission Crush

The Andersons were kicked out of Disneyland’s most exclusive club. They would not go willingly.

Pirates in China

Disney Plus: Behind the Attraction

DIsneyland: Music Around the Parks

Disneyland Music

DIsneyland Park Music

I Don't Have Spotify

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Snap CEO helps launch LA wildfire recovery program

SoberOutfitters

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682: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Luigi Feb 01, 2025

Brian and Jason kick things off with a look at why Gen Z grads are getting fired just months after landing jobs and a curiously viral declassified CIA sabotage guide. Speaking of sabotage, U.S. students are struggling with their lowest reading scores in decades, raising questions about the future workforce. Meanwhile, Google Maps’ controversial renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” for U.S. users has sparked some amusing geopolitical tit-for-tats. In the AI wars, OpenAI is fuming over claims that DeepSeek trained its models using OpenAI’s own stolen data—ironic, given OpenAI’s history of scraping the internet. As if that weren’t enough, California’s Attorney General warns AI companies that nearly everything they’re doing might be illegal, while the Copyright Office suggests AI copyright issues were settled way back in 1965. Oh, and OpenAI is now in the nuclear weapons game. What could possibly go wrong?

In tech and business news, CVS is making customers jump through app hoops to unlock cabinets, Uber claims it’s the victim of an elaborate fake crash scheme, and Tesla promises a robotaxi business and humanoid robots in 2025—though Musk admits current Teslas will need new hardware to achieve full self-driving. Whole Foods workers have formed their first union since Amazon took over, and MoviePass is considering a pivot to crypto, because of course it is. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s ventures keep making headlines, and Waymo’s driverless taxis are facing vandalism in Southern California. Law enforcement in California is also in hot water, having misused state databases over 7,000 times last year.

For media lovers, Star Trek: Section 31 is on the horizon, while The Expanse‘s first three seasons are vanishing from Amazon soon. Behind the Music is back, and Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music offers a deep dive into the show’s musical legacy. On the gaming front, classic titles like Spaceship Warlock and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are getting attention alongside newly accessible archives of 1,500 classic gaming magazines. The Night Agent Season 2 is here and it sucks, and Amazon is hiking the price of its Music Unlimited subscriptions. Finally, the episode wraps with a nod to Marianne Faithfull’s passing and China’s new “magic beans” shaking up American markets—because, in this chaotic world, even the beans are making headlines because AI wrote this terrible summary.

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Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them—here’s what they say needs to change

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

U.S. Students Post Lowest Reading Scores in Decades

IN THE NEWS

Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, but only for US users

Google Maps Adopted ‘Gulf of America’ Name, and Now Mexico Has Some Suggestions

David Sacks claims there's 'substantial evidence' that DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to train its own

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

OpenAI suddenly thinks intellectual property theft is not cool, actually, amid DeepSeek’s rise

Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data

The Knives Are Coming Out for DeepSeek AI

California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal

OpenAI will offer its tech to US national labs for nuclear weapons research

How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content

'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

MoviePass might pivot to crypto

Whole Foods workers form first union since Amazon acquisition

CVS tries to juice app signups with cabinet unlocking feature

Uber Claims It’s the Victim of an Elaborate Fake Car Crash Scheme

Tesla says it will begin robotaxi business and Optimus "pilot" production in 2025

Elon Musk admits Teslas will need new hardware for FSD

Vandals in Southern California attack Waymo driverless taxi

California Law Enforcement Misused State Databases More Than 7,000 Times in 2023

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Section 31

The Expanse‘s First 3 Seasons Are Leaving Amazon Very Soon

After Midnight

Behind the Music

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

FRONT 242 - The Final Show Live at AB - Ancienne Belgique

Panic - The Smiths

Amazon hikes prices for its Music Unlimited subscriptions

The Night Agent Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 18.3 is here, with clearly labeled Apple Intelligence notification summaries

Stimulation Clicker

POTUS Tracker

X’s payments app will be available later this year

Google's 'Ask for Me' feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing

AT THE LIBRARY

Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse Book 5) by Dennis E. Taylor

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars: The Acolyte Was the Second Most Watched Show on Disney+ Last Year

Gravity Falls

VGHF opens free online access to 1,500 classic game mags, 30K historic files

Spaceship Warlock

Bad Day on the Midway

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold (1979)

Zyll

Bushido

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

Bladerunner 2049 Auction

There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke

Beppo - SNL

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

China’s new and cheaper magic beans shock America’s unprepared magic bean salesmen

Marianne Faithfull, English Singer, Dead at 78

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681: Trough of Disillusionment Jan 25, 2025

In this episode, Brian and Jason kick things off by highlighting the troubling state of the gaming industry, with 11% of developers laid off in 2024, according to a GDC survey. Meanwhile, Elon Musk finds a new way to perplex us all by admitting he pays people to play video games for him.

They then unpack a whirlwind of news, including Trump’s controversial pardon of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht and his ongoing crusade against perceived social media bias. Elon Musk’s antics take center stage as he mocks America’s tech elite, clashes with Trump over the flashy “Stargate” AI project, and battles AI cost concerns as hype begins to wane. On the corporate front, Amazon halts drone deliveries after crashes, Instagram blocks political hashtags, and Neko, a body-scanning startup co-founded by Daniel Ek, secures a whopping $260M at a $1.8B valuation.

In media candy, the hosts revisit the charming chaos of the Lilo & Stitch franchise and dive into music documentaries like Yacht Rock and Echo in the Canyon. And let’s not forget Netflix’s price hikes and yet another mediocre Star Trek installment with Section 31. Dave wraps things up with The Dark Side, covering Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, ham radio tools, and even a shoutout to Morse code. Packed with biting commentary, this episode is a mix of tech absurdity, media nostalgia, and the trademark Grumpy Old Geeks snark!

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FOLLOW UP

Eleven percent of game developers were laid off in 2024, according to GDC survey

Elon Musk Admits to Paying People to Play Video Games for Him

IN THE NEWS

Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos: Tech Titans, Celebs at Inauguration

Trump Orders Government to Stop ‘Trampling’ Conservatives on Social Media

Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Seen Leaving Prison Holding a Small Plant

President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America’s Geek Squad

Instagram blocked searches for #democrats and other political hashtags

Why You May Automatically Be Following Trump and Vance Now

AI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar, Research Suggests

What is the ‘Stargate’ AI project?

Trump's $500 Billion AI Deal Includes Funding by UAE Royal Family Linked to Astonishing Number of Scandals, Including Human Torture

Trump Showing Love to Sam Altman Is Clearly Driving Elon Musk Into a Jealous Fury

Satya Nadella says he’s ’good for $80 billion’ after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn’t have the cash

Trump staff ‘furious’ after Musk trashes AI project

AI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts Warn

Amazon puts its drone deliveries on hold following two crash incidents

‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company

Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers

Amazon to close Quebec facilities, but says it's not because of that new union

Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation

MEDIA CANDY

Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch 2 - Stitch Has a Glitch

Leroy & Stitch

Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary

The Wrecking Crew!

Echo in the Canyon

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalloza

Netflix plans now cost between $8 and $25 after yet another subscription price hike

Everything to Remember Before Star Trek: Section 31

Section 31 Is a Mediocre Action Movie, and an Even Worse Star Trek One

Fail Better with David Duchovny - Catching Up with Gillian Anderson

James Cameron: Special Video Message at the SCSP AI+Robotics Summit

APPS & DOODADS

Introducing Operator

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

Best Cooking Equipment for Meal Kits (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Trump Executive Order Generator

AT THE LIBRARY

The Breakthrough Effect by Douglas E. Richards

Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse Book 5) by Dennis E. Taylor

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Parks on the Air ® (POTA)

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Morse Code - I Love You

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680: Failed Up Jan 18, 2025

This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Jason and Brian dissect the latest tech and cultural news, starting with a TikTok tempest. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a law potentially banning the app in the U.S. leaves the ball in Trump’s court, while TikTok’s CEO plans to attend his inauguration. As users flock to alternative Chinese apps and RedNote scrambles to hire English-speaking moderators, it seems the tech world is in chaos. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg faces lawsuits over using pirated materials to train AI and continues to delete links to competitors like Pixelfed. Over in Europe, Elon Musk’s X is under scrutiny for its algorithm transparency, while celebs like Mark Ruffalo advocate for a fully open social media ecosystem. Add in news of Bluesky’s new photo-sharing app, Mastodon’s founder stepping back, and yet another study revealing rampant fakery in online job postings, and it’s a wild ride.

In Media Candy, the geeks dive into the gritty charm of Silo, the Broadway movie hit Wicked, and the nostalgia of Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action. They also discuss Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Season 3 and reminisce about Blue Thunder and its TV adaptation. On the music front, dream pop enthusiasts will love their take on The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums, while Marvel fans get the scoop on the Daredevil: Born Again trailer. Plus, a nod to Real Coffee with Scott Adams and the real tea on Neil Gaiman.

Finally, in Apps & Doodads, they break down the fallout from Sonos’ disastrous app launch and the FTC’s decision to ban General Motors from selling driving data. Musk’s antics make an appearance again with a bizarre spat involving leaked DMs and a revoked checkmark, and a curious gadget called the Gaming Pillow. Closing shout-outs honor legendary Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker and visionary filmmaker David Lynch, both gone but never forgotten.

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IN THE NEWS

Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., leaving the matter to Trump

TikTok C.E.O. Plans to Attend Trump Inauguration

TikTok Users Are Flocking to Another Chinese Social Media App as U.S. Ban Looms

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

Donald Trump Has Mark Zuckerberg By the Balls

Lawsuit says Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of pirated materials to train Llama AI

Meta admits it deleted links to decentralized Instagram competitor Pixelfed

Europe orders Elon Musk’s X to submit documents on its recommendation algorithms

Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled, Study Finds

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers

AI Will Spew Gas Fumes for Years Before the Nuclear Revolution Takes Off

Study Links Frequent AI Use With Lower Critical Thinking Abilities

Walgreens Regrets Replacing Fridge Doors With Smart Screens, Creating Techno-Dystopia Vibes

Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug Out of Concerns That It Aged Him

Judge Ends One Man’s 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

Policy Proposal for Trump’s Bitcoin Stockpile Leaks

MEDIA CANDY

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action

Wicked

Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Season 3

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder: The Series

The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

There Is No Safe Word

Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again | Official Trailer | Disney+

APPS & DOODADS

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence falls on his sword after horrible app launch

FTC bans General Motors from selling driving data without permission

Elon Musk Throws Tantrum After Being Exposed by Gamers, Leaks YouTuber's DMs and Seemingly Takes Away His Checkmark

Gaming Pillow - Caffeine for your arms

Mob Control for iOS

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Beloved Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker dies at age 90

David Lynch, 'Blue Velvet' Director, Dead at 78

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679: Set Sanity to Zero Jan 11, 2025

In Episode 679 of Grumpy Old Geeks, titled "Set Sanity to Zero," Brian and Jason discuss the latest developments in tech, culture, and innovation. The episode opens with a look at Watch Duty, a wildfire-tracking app that has surpassed ChatGPT to take the top spot on the App Store amid California’s wildfire crisis. They also cover local news, including the arrest of an arson suspect in Woodland Hills, CA, and tech entrepreneur Kevin Rose’s home in the Palisades that is making headlines.

The hosts delve into major tech stories that are dominating the news cycle. Former MoviePass CEO Ted Farnsworth pleads guilty to defrauding investors, marking the latest chapter in the infamous saga of the subscription service. Meanwhile, the UK takes bold action with new legislation criminalizing the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes. Meta finds itself at the center of multiple controversies, from appointing UFC CEO Dana White to its board to removing fact-checkers in favor of community-driven moderation, a decision that sparks backlash and leads to significant user departures from Facebook and Instagram. The darker side of tech is also examined, with reports of Meta Smart Glasses being used in a terror attack and generative AI contributing to a Tesla Cybertruck explosion.

The podcast also explores groundbreaking applications of AI and its potential. An innovative method from a Reddit user for automating 1,000 job applications while asleep catches attention, along with discussions about the Getty Images and Shutterstock merger aimed at addressing AI’s disruption in the stock photography industry. E-commerce trends take center stage, with Salesforce data indicating AI-driven sales growth during the holiday season, despite increasing return rates. The episode also discusses Tesla’s “Actual Smart Summon” crashes currently under federal investigation and OpenAI’s rapid response to a developer creating AI-powered gun turrets.

In conclusion, Brian and Jason provide entertainment and tech recommendations. Their streaming choices include "Silo," "The Traitors UK" Season 3, and "Shrinking," while gaming highlights showcase the Nintendo Switch and "Super Mario Bros. Wonder." They also feature apps like ChowNow and TiVo’s comeback as an OS on Sharp TVs. For book enthusiasts, the "At the Library" segment presents a variety of daily meditations and sci-fi titles. With its rich mix of tech insights, current events, and cultural commentary, Episode 679 is essential listening for anyone interested in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Watch Duty

Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread

Kevin Rose Palisades House

Arson suspect arrested in Woodland Hills near Kenneth Fire

IN THE NEWS

MoviePass Ex-CEO Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors

New UK law would criminalize creating sexually explicit deepfakes

Meta adds UFC CEO and Trump booster Dana White to its board

Meta Cracks Down on Internal Dissent Against Appointment of UFC’s Dana White to Board

Meta Smart Glasses First Big Cultural Moment Is a Terror Attack

Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say

Man Applies To 1,000 Jobs Using AI While Asleep, Wakes To Surprising Outcomes

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

Mark Zuckerberg tells Fox News that Meta will "get rid of fact checkers" in latest appeal to Trump

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’ after several crashes

OpenAI Shuts Down Developer Who Made AI-Powered Gun Turret

Getty Images, Shutterstock gear up for AI challenge with $3.7 billion merger

AI-influenced shopping boosts online holiday sales, Salesforce data shows

MEDIA CANDY

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

APPS & DOODADS

ChowNow

Apple promises software update to address Apple Intelligence notification summary complaints

TiVo OS is coming to the US on Sharp TVs

Nintendo Switch

Super Mario Bros Wonder

AT THE LIBRARY

3zekiel by Peter Cawdron

The Daily Pressfield: A Teaching a Day from the Author of the War of Art by Steven Pressfield

A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy

The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature by Robert Greene

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday

365 Tao: Daily Meditations

The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker

Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings by Emmet Fox

The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You by John C. Maxwell

The Elements of Humor: The Tools of Comedy that Make You Funnier, Happier, and Better Looking by Scott Dikkers

A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel (Laundry Files, 13)

The Laundry Files: an updated chronology

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Game of Thrones Star Reportedly Set to Replace Ray Stevenson in Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2

Skeleton Crew

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

Flexible Flyer Metal Runner Sled. Steel & Wood Steering Snow Slider

Dave Bittner shares his President Carter story

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678: Stop Doing That! Dec 21, 2024

WordPress has officially jumped the pineapple, forcing users to agree that pineapple belongs on pizza to log in. Critics call it a kindergarten move, especially when serious feature requests are ignored. Meanwhile, the crypto world is celebrating its new political allies, but experts warn we’re inching toward a financial apocalypse that taxpayers will be stuck cleaning up. On the East Coast, people are mistaking stars for drones while pilots dodge lasers in what’s shaping up to be the plot of a bad sci-fi movie. Oh, and crop circles? Yeah, they’re back because why the hell not?

Elsewhere, TikTok’s battle for survival heads to the Supreme Court, and Character.ai faces backlash for hosting chatbots based on school shooters. Meta’s EU drama escalates over its failure to tackle terrorist content, and Arizona is ditching teachers for AI because who needs humans when you’ve got algorithms?

On the media front, we break down the Star Trek: Lower Decks finale, geek out over Silo’s two-season endgame, and get hyped for Dune: Prophecy and a fresh Superman teaser. Tech talk includes Temu dominating app downloads, Microsoft killing passwords in favor of passkeys, and Spotify pulling a fast one with “ghost artists” to dodge royalties.

On the Dark Side with Dave, we explore the cooler corners of ham radio, AI’s chokehold on creativity, and how surveillance turns your brain into mush. Meanwhile, Amazon’s return-to-office disaster has employees ready to riot, and sci-fi fans can gear up for Peter Cawdron’s Minotaur, the next big hit in his First Contact series.

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To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good

Crypto Got What It Wanted in November’s Election. Now What?

Dimwit Americans Are Looking at the Night Sky and Mistaking Stars and Airplanes for "Drones"

“We Are Getting Lasered”: Nearly a Dozen Planes Lasered Last Night During New Jersey Drone Panic

IN THE NEWS

US Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok’s ban appeal

Character.ai Lets Users Role Play With Chatbots Based on School Shooters

People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs

Google says customers can use its AI in 'high-risk' domains, so long as there's human supervision

Exclusive: Google's Gemini is forcing contractors to rate AI responses outside their expertise

Instagram’s head says social media needs more context because of AI

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD

Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers

Meta put on watch over terrorism content in the EU

Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion For 1 Billion Users—Attacks Up 200%

EU privacy regulator fines Meta 251 million euros for 2018 breach

Cambridge Analytica scandal still lingering on as Meta settles with Australian users

FTC bans hidden junk fees in short-term lodging, live-event ticket prices

Grubhub settles with the FTC over adding restaurants without their consent

Elon Musk, SpaceX reportedly under federal review for undisclosed meetings with foreign leaders

Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Lower Decks finale

Dune: Prophecy

Super/Man

Superman Teaser Trailer

Silo Was Just Renewed for Two Final Seasons

Bad Monkey season 2 is coming to Apple TV+

Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...

New Report Alleges Spotify Is Filling Playlists with Ghost Artists to Minimize Royalty Costs

Hysterical Podcast

Our Fake History Podcast

APPS & DOODADS

Temu is the most-downloaded app on the U.S. App Store in 2024

Surprise, Surprise: No One Is Buying an iPhone for Apple Intelligence

AT THE LIBRARY

3zekiel by Peter Cawdron

Feedback by Peter Cawdron

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Online Amateur Radio Community

Hamfurs

Men In The US Are Peeing Incorrectly According To Urologist

The psychological implications of Big Brother’s gaze

The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You | NYT Opinion

Helpful products for the voice from Ana Gasteyer.

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677: What’s in the Bag?! Dec 14, 2024

In this episode, Jason DeFillippo and Brian Schulmeister dig into the Hawk Tuah meme coin disaster and where influencer-driven crypto schemes go off the rails, leaving chaos in their wake. They unpack WP Engine’s big win against Automattic in a high-stakes WordPress legal battle and take a closer look at Waymo’s rapid rise to match Lyft’s market share in San Francisco.

The discussion heats up with GM’s decision to shut down its troubled Cruise robotaxi brand, Amazon’s bold move into the car-selling business with Hyundai, and reports of mysterious car-sized drones over New Jersey raising more questions than answers. They also dive into Google’s new quantum chip, Willow, which promises to rewrite the rules of computing and science.

On the legal and policy front, the guys covers Apple’s billion-dollar lawsuit over abandoned child safety tools, updates to the Kids Online Safety Act, and Google’s push to break Microsoft’s grip on OpenAI’s cloud hosting. Meanwhile, LG’s exit from the Blu-ray market marks the end of an era, and MasterClass’s new AI-powered mentorship platform points to the future of learning.

In Media Candy they spotlight upcoming releases like The Wheel of Time season three, Reacher season three, and the new documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. They also revisit music nostalgia with an acoustic set from the Descendents and a deep dive into the origins of pop-punk.

Finally, they tackle a troubling lawsuit involving a chatbot allegedly influencing a teen’s behavior and the emotional fallout from a failed robotic companion for kids. This episode is packed with tech updates, big moves, and a glimpse into the evolving digital landscape. Don’t miss it!

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FOLLOW UP

Exposing the hawk tuah scam

Howie Mandel’s Son-In-Law Behind Disastrous 'Hawk Tuah Girl' Meme Coin Launch

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture

WP Engine wins preliminary injunction in WordPress legal battle

Waymo's market share is now equal to Lyft within SF.

IN THE NEWS

GM ends support for Cruise robotaxis

Amazon Is a Car Dealership Now

Mystery "Car-Sized" Drones Reach the Skies of New York

Pentagon says mystery drones over New Jersey are 'not US military,' not likely foreign

What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?

White House: Drones are manned aircraft; NJ lawmakers say that's not what they were told

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

Apple sued for failing to implement tools that would detect CSAM in iCloud

X helped senators update the Kids Online Safety Act so it can't be ‘used to stifle expression’

Google Asks Feds to Kill Microsoft’s Cloud Hosting Deal With OpenAI

AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage

Bogus AI-Generated Bug Reports Are Driving Open Source Developers Nuts

How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

MEDIA CANDY

The Wheel of Time Spins Back Up Again in March 2025

Inside Out: Dream Productions

Music by John Williams

Beatles ‘64

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Apple Music expands its live radio offerings with three new stations

Descendents go Acoustic! | Taylor Guitars Soundcheck

WHO INVENTED POP-PUNK??

Before Dookie 1: How Punk Became Pop (1976-87)

Before Dookie 2: How Punk Became Pop (1988-94)

LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Watch just gained a helpful new feature for inspiring you to stay active

WSKEN for Apple Watch Ultra 2/Ultra Screen Protector 49mm,9H Tempered Glass + Titanium Alloy Frame, [Keep Original] [Touch Sensitive] Lightweight Protective Film iwatch 2 Pack,Original

Google Wallet can now hold your US passport

MasterClass On Call gives you on-demand access to AI facsimiles of its experts

Mom sues after AI told autistic son to kill parents for restricting screen time

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor

Dashaun Wesley - Labels! Out Now!

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676: Gay Nuclear Frogs Dec 07, 2024

We dive into the TikTok ban drama, Elon Musk’s Tesla pay controversy, and a Chinese ship crew allegedly sabotaging undersea cables. In the news, the former Celsius CEO pleads guilty, Canadian media takes on OpenAI, and Elon Musk wants to rein in ChatGPT. Plus, drug smugglers with Starlink, Meta’s nuclear ambitions, and Apple spying allegations. For media candy, we’ve got Dune: Prophecy, Rings of Power shake-ups, and a Harry Potter baking showdown. In apps & doodads, Spotify’s CEO is richer than Taylor Swift, Cybertruck complaints hit the snow, and Walmart’s $2.3B Vizio deal closes. At the library, check out Starter Villain and learn why “brain rot” is the Oxford word of the year. Finally, on The Dark Side with Dave, it’s malware madness, radioactive toys, and indie Christmas tunes. Don’t miss it!

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FOLLOW UP

TikTok Ban Upheld In Court

‪@davidfindlay.bsky.social‬

Investigators say a Chinese ship’s crew deliberately dragged its anchor to cut undersea data cables

Elon Musk’s massive, multi-billion-dollar Tesla pay package was blocked by a judge again

IN THE NEWS

Former Celsius CEO pleads guilty to two fraud charges

Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI for ChatGPT copyright infringement

Elon Musk asks court to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit

OpenAI CEO 'not that worried' about Elon Musk's influence in Trump administration

Drug Smugglers Caught With $4.25 Billion Worth Of Meth Were Using SpaceX Starlink for Navigation

X says The Onion can’t have Alex Jones’ Infowars accounts

Amazon secretly slowed deliveries, deceived anyone who complained, lawsuit says

Meta jumps aboard the nuclear-powered data center bandwagon

Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers

MEDIA CANDY

A Man on the Inside

Dune: Prophecy

LOTR: The Rings of Power

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power’s Adar actor Joseph Mawle explains why he’s quit series

Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses

APPS & DOODADS

The FTC is investigating Uber for its subscription policies

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Is Richer Than Any Musician—Yes, Even Taylor Swift

Where's our friend in the hoodie when we need him?

Walmart closed its $2.3 billion acquisition of TV maker Vizio

Cybertruck Owner Complains About Snow Blocking His Headlights

AT THE LIBRARY

Cold Eyes - First Contact by Peter Cawdron

Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey

‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Radioactive 'Most Dangerous Toy in History' Goes on Sale

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Captain EO

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory

Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Murder

UnitedHealth FB Group's Post

80s(ish) Alternative Christmas

Indie Christmas

NoelTernative 90s Alt Rock Christmas

Classical Christmas

A Christmas Together - John Denver & the Muppets

Chipmunks Christmas

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675: A Thanksgiving Blast from the Past with Tim Ferriss Nov 30, 2024

Welcome to our Thanksgiving Weekend Blast from the Past! This is a cleaned-up replay of our very first Thanksgiving with Tim Ferriss. We hope you enjoy and we’ll be back next week in all of our Grumpy Glory!

This week, author Tim Ferriss is our special guest. Tim sat with us for an hour, and we talked about his new show on HLN, his fantastic new book club, cool stuff about the quantified self, sleep hacking, and more. We even got a story that wasn't in the books!

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675: Your Own Personal Jesus Nov 23, 2024

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we dive into the wild, wacky, and often worrying world of tech, media, and everything in between. From a Swiss church using AI to preach the gospel to OpenAI facing a copyright conundrum, and a DNA testing company ghosting its customers, the news is packed with surprises. We also explore Neuralink’s Canadian trials, bizarre domain drama between Alex Jones and The Onion, and why Google might be forced to part ways with Chrome. Plus, a study reveals Tesla’s troubling accident stats, and Germany investigates an undersea sabotage.

On the media front, we break down The Old Man, The Day of the Jackal, and Ken Burns’ deep dive into Leonardo da Vinci. Catch teasers for How to Train Your Dragon and The Studio, while Apple TV+ and streaming giants reshuffle strategies. In the gaming and cinema crossover universe, the Minecraft Movie and Silo Season 2 are making waves.

We also geek out over Perplexity’s new shopping tool, Bluesky’s rise to 21 million users, and the evolving quirks of Threads and X. Meanwhile, Ghosts by Peter Cawdron lands on our reading list, and Dave Bittner brings the dark side of cybersecurity into focus, including reverse-engineered iPhone hacks and Graykey’s tech secrets.

In closing, we pay tribute to Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC, and share some lighthearted shout-outs to the schmactors of the world. Tune in for all the grump and geek you love!

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IN THE NEWS

Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit

DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data

Neuralink gets approval to start human trials in Canada

The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome to end monopoly

Trump Admin Reportedly Wants to Unleash Driverless Cars on America

Study Finds Tesla Has Higher Rate of Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Car

Germany says cut undersea data cables were sabotaged

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

Microsoft is building wooden data centers to slash carbon emissions

MEDIA CANDY

Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Did Super Bowl Viewership Numbers

The Old Man

The Day of the Jackal

Leonardo da Vinci by Ken Burns

The Studio — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

Apple TV+ will license its movies to other services to reduce losses

How To Train Your Dragon | Official Teaser Trailer

How to Train Your Dragon Director Justifies the Live-Action Film’s Existence

A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer

Silo S2

Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia

Dune: Prophecy

William Shatner’s Captain Kirk Faces a Long Goodbye in This Stunning Star Trek Anniversary Short

765874 - Unification (4K)

Daniel Ek just cashed out $35.8 million in Spotify shares. But that’s nothing compared to his co-founder… who just cashed out $383.8 million.

Dashaun Wesley: Labels

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Promise New Podcast to Discuss Destruction of U.S. Government

APPS & DOODADS

Introducing Shop with Perplexity

Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

Bluesky hits 20 million users

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says X rival is 'billionaire proof'

Bluesky Post Count and Author Stats

Threads will prioritize accounts you follow instead of randos

AT THE LIBRARY

Ghosts (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

‘Star Wars: Visions’ Renewed for Season 3 at Disney+

Researcher reverse engineers iPhone's Inactivity Reboot feature

Leaked Documents Show What Phones Secretive Tech ‘Graykey’ Can Unlock

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Schmactors

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674: Welcome to DOGE! The Department of Grumpy Entertainment Nov 16, 2024

In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we break down the latest chaos in tech, pop culture, and humanity’s never-ending quest to out-stupid itself. Hackers are raiding Ticketmaster accounts (again), and Chegg is circling the drain after ChatGPT obliterated its business model. Meanwhile, Amazon is hawking boner pills that tanked Hims’ stock, 23andMe is laying off nearly half its staff, and Bluesky is quietly stealing users who’ve had it with Elon’s dumpster fire over at X.

Driverless Waymo cars take over LA, nuclear safety gets outsourced to AI, and Apple wants to track your luggage with AirTags (but only on planes they like). Oh, and let’s not forget Mark Zuckerberg’s bizarre karaoke moment with Get Low.

On the pop culture front, The Penguin finale cements it as TV’s best comic book adaptation, Moana smashes Disney streaming records, and The Beatles are back—kind of—thanks to AI. Plus, Mattel accidentally linked kids’ toys to a porn site, and some genius in a bear costume is faking car accidents for insurance money. It’s all as dumb, messy, and oddly entertaining as you’d expect. Tune in for the snark, stay for the schadenfreude!

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FOLLOW UP

Hackers Keep Stealing Tickets From People’s Ticketmaster Accounts

Trump Media Execs Dumped Millions in Stock After the Election

Study Finds Eggs Might Protect Brain Health And Lower Cholesterol

IN THE NEWS

FTX bankruptcy estate sues Anthony Scaramucci, FWD.us, others

Chegg Is On Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99%

AI travel influencers are here. Human travelers hate it.

Bluesky reaches 15 million users; people look for alternatives to X

Jason on Bluesky

Brian on Bluesky

Graysky

Bluesky scoops up the developer of popular third-party app, Graysky

23andMe is laying off 40 percent of its staff

Amazon Gets Into the Boner Pill Business, Hims Stock Goes Limp

Waymo's driverless cars in LA County are now available to everyone

Telecom Builds AI ‘Grandmother’ Bot to Talk to Phone Scammers and Waste Their Time

Anthropic, feds test whether AI will share sensitive nuclear info

New artificial intelligence search solution deployed at Diablo Canyon Power Plant

The Manhattan Project (1986)

AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall

'Hawk Tuah' girl launches Pookie Tool, an AI-powered dating advice app, and it's fine?

The Onion Purchases Alex Jones’ InfoWars in Bankruptcy Auction

MEDIA CANDY

Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson

Paul vs. Tyson

Super League: The War for Football

Shrinking

Nobody Wants This

Silo Season Two

Moana is Disney’s Biggest Movie on Streaming Ever

The Penguin Finale Cemented It as One of the Best Comic Book Shows Ever

The Beatles are nominated for two Grammys thanks to AI

Gates McFadden InvestiGates: Who do you think you are?

ERIC SAYS

The story of Love And Rockets, the former Bauhaus members who helped sell goth to America

Mark Zuckerberg Just Released a Cover of Lil Jon's "Get Low" and Yes, He Says the Line About Balls

Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström

APPS & DOODADS

Good News: Instagram Chief Says App Won’t Refresh Right When You Open It Anymore

Meta Will Get Its Unwanted Day in Antitrust Court

Apple Has Begun Selling iPhone 16 Replacement Parts

Apple teams up with airlines for new ‘Share Item Location’ AirTags feature in iOS 18.2

"Wicked" toys from Mattel featuring link to porn site pulled from shelves, now available on eBay

Sound Studio 4

Redact

Tangle News

AT THE LIBRARY

This photography book shows people just standing in front of Danzig's house

Beacon 23: The Complete Novel by Hugh Howey

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Andor Will Gloriously Rebel Once More in April 2025

Andor Season 2 Will Pit Your Favorite Miserable Imperials Against Each Other

How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers

Person dressed in bear costume to fake attacks on cars for insurance payout, California officials say.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Tony Todd, ‘Candyman’ and ‘Final Destination’ Actor, Dead at 69

Tony Todd Made One of Deep Space Nine‘s Greatest Episodes Shine

Happy Birthday Gigi Edgley!

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673: Copyright Win for OpenAI, Internet Shock for North Koreans, and much more... Nov 09, 2024

Just Some of the Topics Covered in this Episode:

Copyright Lawsuit Dismissal: A federal judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, filed by news outlets claiming misuse of their content in AI model training.
Truth Social’s Stock Drop: Despite a political victory for Donald Trump, shares in his media platform, Truth Social, have plummeted by 22%, leaving investors wary of its future value.
Layoffs Roundup:
Mozilla Foundation reduces its workforce by 30%, affecting advocacy and global programs.
iRobot (makers of Roomba) lays off 105 employees following Amazon’s abandoned acquisition attempt.
Nissan announces 9,000 job cuts and a CEO pay reduction by 50%.
Tech Housing Crisis in San Francisco: High demand for $700 monthly pod-style beds emphasizes the city’s ongoing housing struggles.
NYT Strikes and AI Replacement Controversy: The CEO of Perplexity offered to replace striking New York Times staff with AI, sparking debate over ethical implications.
Disney’s New Tech Office: Disney establishes an Office of Technology Enablement focused on AI, AR, and VR, led by former NFL tech executive Jamie Voris.
Meta’s Halted Nuclear-Powered Data Center: Meta’s plans for a nuclear-powered data center face delays due to environmental concerns, including a rare bee species found at the site.
AI’s Real-World Impact: Thousands in Dublin fell for an AI-generated fake Halloween parade announcement, demonstrating AI’s unintended consequences in misinformation.
Canadian TikTok Ban: Canada mandates TikTok to shut down operations, impacting the social media giant’s presence in the country.
Australia’s Proposed Social Media Ban for Minors: Legislation aims to limit under-16 access to social media, pushing for stricter age verification.
Tesla Summon Feature Update Malfunction: A Tesla owner’s vehicle becomes immobile due to recent software changes, highlighting software update issues in electric cars.

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FOLLOW UP

OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now

Truth Social Stock Is Crashing Even Though Trump Won

IN THE NEWS

Mozilla Foundation cuts 30 percent of its staff

iRobot lays off another 105 employees

Nissan is laying off 9,000 workers and giving its CEO a pay cut

San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month

Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI

Striking ‘NYT’ workers are asking you to skip Wordle—but they made other games for you to play

Disney forms dedicated AI and XR group to coordinate company-wide use and adoption

Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center

AI Slop Website Sent Thousands of People to a Halloween Parade That Didn’t Exist

New report details ‘vast spying’ by China-linked telecom hackers

Canada orders TikTok to shut down its business operations in the country due to 'national security risks'

Australia proposes 'world-leading' ban on social media for children under 16

Tesla updated its summon feature. Now this owner can’t get to his car.

Google has no duty to refund gift card scam victims, judge finds

Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run

North Korean Soldiers Deployed to Ukraine Reportedly "Gorging" on Uncensored Internet's Porn

MEDIA CANDY

AI Replaced All the Staff at a Radio Station in Poland

You can now post tracks to TikTok from Spotify and Apple Music

Squid Game: Season 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix

The Apprentice - An American Horror Story

The Diplomat Season 2

THE CURE :: SONGS OF A LOST WORLD :: FULL LIVE STREAM

APPS & DOODADS

Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader shipping is cancelled

X now lets blocked users see your posts

AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad

New Apple repair program will fix iPhone 14 Plus' rear camera issue for free

iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

Apple Acquires Photo Editing Software Company Pixelmator

Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year

Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You'll be needing 98.css

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Guy calls the ISS with an Amateur Radio

A New Star Wars Trilogy Is Coming, and It Could Be Episodes 10, 11, and 12

Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Greg Hildebrandt, iconic Star Wars and Lord of the Rings artist, has died at 85

Quincy Jones, music legend who shaped Michael Jackson's career, dies at 91

Voice of AOL’s Iconic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Alert Dies at 74

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672: Elon or Not? Nov 02, 2024

Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGPT search; post scarcity AI BS; AI coding ouroboros of confusion; Musk crypto scams; Underworld; The Cure; A Man on the Inside; the Diplomat; Instagram throttles video quality; META to fill feeds with more AI; SetApp; Echoes of Extinction; Polostan; the Cube Rule of food identification; Disney hack; this is Halloween.

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Cash App users can claim thousands of dollars in a data breach settlement

Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct

IN THE NEWS

Trump's social media company is now worth more than Musk's X after recent surge in stock price

Trump loses $1.3 billion in net worth after the worst-ever day for his social media stock

Standing Desks Aren’t Just Useless—They Might Also Be Bad for Your Health

Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight

Dropbox is laying off 20 percent of its workforce

OpenAI's Whisper invents parts of transcriptions — a lot

Introducing ChatGPT search

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company's products

Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams

MEDIA CANDY

Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

A Man on the Inside

APPS & DOODADS

Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren’t raking in views

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

Feds Recall Humane AI Pin Charger Due to Fire Risk

From Goodreads' founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers

AT THE LIBRARY

Destiny: Echoes of Extinction: Book 4 by D. Ward Cornell

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Skeleton Crew | Official Trailer | Disney+

The Cube Rule of Food Identification

A fired Disney employee allegedly altered menus to change allergy markers

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jeri Taylor, Co-Creator of Star Trek: Voyager, Dies at 86

Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79

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671: Lorum Ipsum Is My Sister Oct 26, 2024

San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; no more fake online reviews; private equity acquires Squarespace; right to repair; Tesla Blade Runner AI ripoff; Star Trek frogs; the Riker Maneuver; de-extinction; a whole slew of great new shows dropping - Star Trek, Dune, Silo & more; Good Omens season 3 now just a movie; Cruel World and nostalgia fatigue; are we not retired? we are Devo; Fresco, free; Penguin adds a robots.txt file to their books.

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How San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars

Peter Todd Is in Hiding After a Documentary Named Him as Bitcoin’s Creator

IN THE NEWS

i h8 ai

More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training

X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data

Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law

OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI

Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit

23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data

A federal ban on fake online reviews is now in effect

Private Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2 Billion

The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair

Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads

Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion

Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Riker sits down

De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts

MEDIA CANDY

Shrinking S2 - Out now

The Diplomat S2 - Oct 31

Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 - Oct 24

Silo S2 - Nov 15

Dune: Prophecy - Nov 17

Star Trek: Section 31 - Jan 25, 2025

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 - 2025

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal, Adds Tatiana Maslany As Recurring

‘Black Mirror’: ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘She Hulk’ Actor Nicholas Cirillo Joins Cast Of Season 7

‘Good Omens’ To End With One 90-Minute Episode As Neil Gaiman Exits Following Sexual Assault Allegations

Midnight Mass

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Finally Streaming for Free in Time for Halloween

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3

Lioness | Season 2 Sneak Peek | Paramount+ - Oct 27th

Cruel World Fest

Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire

APPS & DOODADS

Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate

Midjourney launches AI image editor: how to use it

Startup School: Gen AI

AI in Marketing: Fast-track your skills

Perplexity AI app for macOS now available on the Mac App Store

Bluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode After Elon Musk’s Destruction of Twitter

New AirPods Pro 2 firmware now available for iOS 18.1’s hearing health features

Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

Web Design Museum

Diff Text - Compare Text Online

JOIN TIMBALAND AND DISCOVER HOW SUNO CAN ELEVATE YOUR SOUND

San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

AT THE LIBRARY

Penguin Adds a Do-Not-Scrape-for-AI Page to Its Books

Bookcase by Astropad

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Philip G. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist behind the controversial 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But 'Fernandomania' will live forever.

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670: Just Buy the Thing! Oct 19, 2024

More Wordpress & WPEngine shots fired; hate mail; European road organizations reject the Cybertruck; EU fines against X; civil rights commission pans FART (facial recognition technology); FCC looking into broadband caps; NYT tells Perplexity to stop using its content; AI writing police reports; Instagram becoming Myspace; TikTok knows damn well how bad their product is; Google, Amazon go nuclear for their AI; the Diplomat; Lincoln Lawyer; Shrinking; Silo; Apple digital car keys; new Amazon kindles; robot vacuum hacked; Ham license update; fridges; old songs on road trips.

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Response to DHH - Original

Response to DHH - Edited

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin

Secure Custom Fields

Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using 'nice and not nice lawyers'

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

IN THE NEWS

European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck

The EU’s Fines Against Elon Musk May Be Much Larger Than Anticipated

Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology

FCC launches a formal inquiry into why broadband data caps are terrible

The New York Times tells Perplexity to stop using its content

From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don’t Use Gen AI to Write Reports

Instagram is introducing profile cards to help users find new friends

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

Google strikes a deal with a nuclear startup to power its AI data centers

Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Jupiter

MEDIA CANDY

The Diplomat, Season 1

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3

Apple TV+ announces sixth season for “Slow Horses,” starring Gary Oldman

Shrinking on Apple TV+ gets early season 3 pickup

Silo — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+

APPS & DOODADS

Apple may be adding digital car key support for specific Volvo, Polestar and Audi vehicles

Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store

Adobe starts rolling out generative AI video tools in beta

Adobe shows off 3D rotation tool for flat drawings

Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279

Robot vacuums spew racial slurs at owners in wake of hack

Walk the Distance app deleted...

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

HamStudy

She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain

Roll Out The Barrel

Oh! Susanna

I’ve Been Working On The Railroad

This Land is Your Land

Oh My Darling Clementine

Clementine (Live) - Tom Lehrer

This Land Is Your Land (Live) - The Clancy Brothers

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669: HamFest Oct 12, 2024

The beginning of the end for Wordpress; open source, or not; police Cybertrucks; Apple Intelligence rolling out; dystopian AI text summaries; X sends money to the wrong bank, argues that Twitter ceased to exist; Internet Archive attacked; Instagram, Threads moderation out of control; the Penguin; Beetlejuice; Salem's Lot; Joker; Kaos cancelled; Bitcoin doc; Green Day demastered; Roblox; Megalopolis; Tesla's Cybercab; is Elon a modern PT Barnum, or worse; ham radios, HamFests, TRS-80, cameras, Disneyland and chasing the nostalgia dragon.

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Jason’s Threads Post

Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’

Why WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech investing giant Silver Lake

WPEngine, Matt, Automattic & Wordpress.org megathread

Wordpress.org/Matt vs WPEngine megathread, Part 2

Automattic is doing open source dirty

The Pettiest Drama in the Tech World Is Taking Place at … WordPress?

Directus

California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies

Teslas "nearly unusable" for police work

IN THE NEWS

The first Apple Intelligence features are expected to arrive on October 28

Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

X reportedly paid its Brazil fines to the wrong bank, causing further delay in reinstatement case

X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘Twitter ceased to exist’

The Internet Archive taken down by DDoS attacks

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control - The Verge

China Joins SpaceX in Ruining Astronomy for Everybody

MEDIA CANDY

The Penguin

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Salem’s Lot

Salem’s Lot 1979

Joker: Folie à Deux Bombed—What Went Wrong?

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan in Talks for Guy Ritchie’s ‘Ray Donovan’ Offshoot ‘The Donovans’

'Kaos' Canceled: Jeff Goldblum Netflix Comedy Series Won't Get Second Season

Reacher Gets Early Season 4 Renewal At Prime Video

Controversial HBO Documentary Concludes Peter Todd Invented Bitcoin

Green Day's Dookie has been demastered into Game Boy carts, a toothbrush and other weird formats

Amazon Seeks to Dismiss Prime Video Ad Tier Lawsuit

APPS & DOODADS

Roblox Is Playing Dumb About the Bots and Predators on Its Platform, Hindenburg Research Says

Meta is working to fix Threads' engagement bait problem

AT THE LIBRARY

Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson

Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt

Polostan: A thrilling historical epic from #1 New Yortk Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, perfect for fans of historical fiction and espionage thrillers. (Bomb Light) Kindle Edition by Neal Stephenson

Mists of Time: Echoes of Extinction: Book 3 by D. Ward Cornell

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Enable iPhone orientation lock for specific apps

A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable

Megalopolis

Tesla's Cybercab Is Here

I am seriously considering getting my ham radio license.

I want this, but I do not need this - stuff vs. experiences

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668: Weaponized Puffery Oct 05, 2024

OpenAI training data, dynamic pricing & digital IDs; Elon's good week; dockworkers strike over robots averted, for now; more AI models; some AI training techniques make AI better at deceiving humans; weaponizing DMCA takedowns; Cruise fined for omitting details; Cybertruck gets FSD; EV Jeeps catching fire; Neumann back doing workspaces; COVID-19 affected the moon; the Diplomat; Wolfs; The Traitors Canada; The Rings of Power; more Prime Video ads; Juicebox quits the US; facial recognition & smart glasses; iPhone 16; cable testing; AI in education.

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OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases

Oasis opts out of Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing, calling it 'an unacceptable experience for fans'

Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops

Elon Musk claims victory after judge blocks Calif. deepfake law

Elon Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla self-driving claims with embarrassing defense

IN THE NEWS

U.S. Dockworkers Go on Strike Over Robots and Wages

California Governor Vetoes AI Bill Aimed at Preventing Catastrophic Harms

OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B

Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren't Allowed to Back Its Rivals

MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art

Human Feedback Makes AI Better at Deceiving Humans, Study Shows

Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

Google Wins Lawsuit Against Scammers Who ‘Weaponized’ DMCA Takedowns

GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash

Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

A Stalled Waymo Blocked Kamala Harris’s Motorcade in San Francisco

Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks

Adam Neumann’s Latest Project Is a WeWork Competitor

COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim

MEDIA CANDY

California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it

The Diplomat

Wolfs

The Traitors Canada Season 2

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2

Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025

Apple’s acclaimed drama “Sugar” lands season two renewal

Shrinking Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Google introduces new way to search by filming video

The company that owns Juicebox is quitting the US market and removing all its apps and software updates.

Covid Testing Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to Giving Fake Test Results

Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers

Walk the Distance

AT THE LIBRARY

Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson

Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester

BLE caberQU: a digital USB-C to USB-C cable tester

Ethical use of AI in higher education

Ethical AI for Teaching and Learning

ENAI Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education - International Journal for Educational Integrity

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Tributes paid to 'true legend' Dame Maggie Smith

‘Beverly Hills Cop’ actor John Ashton dead at 76 after battle with cancer

‘American Pickers’ star Frank Fritz dead at 60

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667: Nuclear Recall Sep 28, 2024

Sam Altman stands alone at OpenAI; Gen Z employees not impressing bosses; X complies with Brazil's Supreme Court, but kill blocking; former FTX Exec given light sentence; Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI; banning Chinese smart cars; Click to cancel bill passed into law in California; The Cure, Underworld new albums; Bad Monkey; Culinary Class Wars; BBC sound effect library; Duolingo piano; Wordpress vs WP Engine; Jony Ive working on a new AI device startup; AI playlists; Archive.today; more books released as Audible first exclusives; grumpy old Greeks.

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The Intelligence Age by Sam Altman

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company

OpenAI's chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati's exit

How it started vs. How it's going

If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?

London Newspaper Plans to Revive Dead Art Critic With AI, Lays Off Real Writers

Man Behind Biden Deepfake Robocalls Hit With $6 Million Fine

ChatGPT’s New Voice Assistant Is Here to Creep You Out

Here’s why companies are rapidly firing Gen Z employees

IN THE NEWS

X is reportedly now complying with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court

X is nerfing the block button: Blocked users will be able to see your posts

Former FTX Exec Caroline Ellison Sentenced to Two Years and Must Forfeit $11 Billion

DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says

Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI

Qualcomm is reportedly eyeing a takeover of Intel

First TikTok, now smart cars: How Biden’s new proposed ban will affect U.S. automakers

Cloudflare’s new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping

California's 'click to cancel' subscription bill is signed into law

Dramatic Drone Video Shows Chinese Rocket Crash-Landing in Failed Test

MEDIA CANDY

The Cure Announce the Release of “Alone,” Their First New Single in 16 Years

Underworld - Black Poppies

Bad Monkey

Culinary Class Wars

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.

The Last of Us Season 2 | The Last of Us Day Official Teaser | Max

APPS & DOODADS

Duolingo, best known as a language learning app, now makes a piano

Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers

Mullenweg: WP Engine Filed Legal Action Against WordPress

Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine

Charitable Contributions

WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org

Announcing Panels

Tech YouTuber MKBHD's Panels app is a bit underwhelming

Skewered by so many people

The Obligatory Mea Culpa Post

links to all wallpapers (hd/sd) are preloaded right after the app is launched, all you need are basic mitm skills to get them for free. the file with links isn’t authenticated or protected at all

Yup, Jony Ive is working on an AI device startup with OpenAI

Spotify’s AI Playlists are rolling out for Premium users in the US

Archive.today

AT THE LIBRARY

The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal

Not Till We Are Lost Bobiverse Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor

Echoes of Extinction by D. Ward Cornell

Reverberations: Echoes of Extinction: Book 2 by D. Ward Cornell

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666: The Episode of the Beast Sep 21, 2024

Fun 666 Facts; Notebook AI follow up; Moviepass fraud; 23andMe settlement, disappearing board; Elon's deleted tweet; AI laws in California; Trump cryptocurrency; Amazon returns to work 5 days a week; new Moderna cancer vaccine; Rebel Ridge; The Grand Tour's last ride; Jane's Addiction & the Cure; social media posting apps; iOS 18; Apple frustrations; Snap's Spectacles; Echoes of Extinction; In My Time of Dying; OnlyBots; iPhone deliveries; more Overcast; pagers & walkie-talkie speculations; licensing your voice for AI; Cards Against Humanity sues Elon.

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Former MoviePass CEO reportedly pleads guilty to securities fraud

IN THE NEWS

23andMe will pay $30 million to settle 2023 data breach lawsuit

23andMe independent directors quit board over unsatisfactory buyout plan from CEO

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden and Harris

Gov. Newsom Signs Union-Championed A.I. Bills at SAG-AFTRA Plaza

Here is what's illegal under California's 8 (and counting) new AI laws

Creator of fake Kamala Harris video Musk boosted sues Calif. over deepfake laws

Trump jumps into cryptocurrency, appears to know nothing about it

Here’s how Google will start helping you figure out which images are AI generated

Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week

Moderna’s ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trial Data

MEDIA CANDY

Rebel Ridge

Help I’m genuinely invested in the Gordon Ramsey AI cooking series

The Grand Tour: One for the Road

‘Time Bandits’ Canceled By Apple TV+ After 1 Season

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 18: Here’s the list of iPhone models compatible with the update

iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review By Federico Viticci

iOS 18.1 public beta 1 now available with Apple Intelligence features

Instagram tightens restrictions on teen use, putting parents in control

Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR

Fantasy Hike - Completed!

Californians can now add their driver’s licenses to Apple Wallet

AT THE LIBRARY

Echoes of Extinction by D. Ward Cornell

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

Not Till We Are Lost Bobiverse Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor

The Subprime AI Crisis by Edward Zitron

Is anyone out there?

OnlyBots

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Pagers Explode in Lebanon, Injuring Hundreds of Members of Hezbollah

Generation Z right now

Walkie-Talkies Explode in Lebanon as Part of a Second Wave of Attacks

CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY SUES ELON MUSK FOR 15 MILLION DOLLARS

OUTRO

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665: Human Referees Sep 14, 2024

Gaiman & Good Omens; Waymo means Uber drivers are cooked; local muggers; EU not messing around with Apple, Google; DOJ after Google as well; another genetic testing company with security breach disasters; META scraping Australian users' accounts to train AI; banning social media for children; AI to determine unemployment benefits; Lower Decks; Hope Solo vs US Soccer; Alan Cumming; the Perfect Couple; KAOS; Tears for Fears; FruitJuice; iPhone 16 pre-ordering process; AirPods Pro 2 as hearing aids; Flipper Zero; AI Audible narrators; Google AI Notebook podcast generation; RIP, James Earl Jones; Disneyland's Club 33; Overcast follow up; parcopresis & the politics of pooping.

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Dashaun Wesley & LE SSERAPHIM on Instagram

Good Omens Season 3 Reportedly Paused Amid Neil Gaiman Controversy

Report: Neil Gaiman May Step Back From Good Omens‘ Final Season

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos

Waymo Safety Impact

IN THE NEWS

Apple ordered to pay back its illegal $14.4 billion Irish tax break

Google loses its seven-year fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine

DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial

Google Teams With the Internet Archive to Revive Cache Feature

Genetic Testing Company Must Issue Refunds After Security Breach Disaster

Meta scraped every Australian user's account to train its AI

Australia’s Prime Minister wants to ban social media for children

Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits

Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Back One Last Time With a Swashbuckling New Clip

Untold: Hope Solo vs US Soccer

Alan Cumming Wins Best Host Emmy for ‘The Traitors,’ Ending RuPaul’s Eight-Year Streak

The Perfect Couple

KAOS

The Penguin | Official Trailer | Max

Salem's Lot | Official Trailer | Max

Tears for Fears Announce First Live Album Songs for a Nervous Planet, Reveal New Song “The Girl That I Call Home”: Stream

APPS & DOODADS

FruitJuice

Apple just got authorization for AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid feature

Meet the first major release of Flipper Zero firmware — version 1.0.

Audible narrators to create voice replicas using AI

Google's AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes

Man Used Fake Rock Camera to Film 1,000 Women Bathing in Hot Springs

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93

“It’s a Cult, and Walt’s the Messiah”: Meet the Couple Who Sued Disney Over Secretive Club 33

Can’t Poop at Work? Why Public Bathrooms Give Us Anxiety

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664: I Love It When a Ding Dong Comes Together Sep 07, 2024

SEC AI crackdown; Starlink & X vs Brazil; Navy's STINKY Wi-Fi; Microsoft tool for deepfake scrubbing on Bing; Clearview fines for violating GDPR; Bitcoin ATM scams; mobile phones not linked to brain cancer; NaNoWriMo AI kerfuffle; the Rings of Power; Ticketmaster Oasis dynamic pricing, explained; Sunny; Jesus Jones; Talk Tuah; No Such Podcast; Russian-funded influencers; AI streaming heist; Minecraft Movie; Claude AI powered Alexa; Fantasy Hike; Reeder; Disneyland wrap-up; the high cost of Lego; alternate Star Wars scenes; notalgia paresthetica; our blue is not your blue.

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Sonos made a public Trello board to track its broken app fixes

Katz-Lacabe et al v. Oracle America, Inc.

IN THE NEWS

SEC’s AI Crackdown Signals Trickle of Cases Will Turn to Flood

Social media companies can’t be forced to block teens from seeing ‘harmful’ content, judge rules

Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban

After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship

Microsoft gives deepfake porn victims a tool to scrub images from Bing search

Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Images

Clearview faces a €30.5 million for violating the GDPR

Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years

Bitcoin ATM scams have cost Americans over $10 million per month this year

Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

Donald Trump Says Elon Musk Will Lead 'Government Efficiency' Task Force

NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2

The UK government will investigate Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing model after Oasis chaos

Sunny

Slow Horses Season 4

Jesus Jones - live at the Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, August 2024.

AI Sir David Attenborough: Cybertruck's lamprey-like dependency on flatbed trailers

The ‘Hawk Tuah’ Girl Is Starting a Podcast Called ‘Talk Tuah’

Even the NSA now has a podcast

CIA - The Langley Files

Right-Wing Influencers Like Tim Pool Allegedly Paid by Kremlin Influence Campaign

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

A Minecraft Movie | Teaser

Disney Halts 'Graveyard Book' Film After Neil Gaiman Allegations

APPS & DOODADS

Amazon's Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month

Fantasy Hike

Reeder launches new app that unites RSS with video, audio, and social feeds

Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds

iStat Menus 7

FruitJuice - Defunct...

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Why Lego Is So Expensive - Business Insider

STAR WARS: ALTERNATE EDIT of SCENE 45 - INTERIOR. KENOBI'S DWELLING

Notalgia paresthetica

Is my blue your blue?

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

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Two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan announces retirement

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663: Habsburg AI Aug 30, 2024

Hey, hey we're all Monkees; Waymo rides; Sober Outfitters; the cruel passage of time; Telegram CEO arrested in France; Zuckerberg's bizarre open letter; Uber slapped with a big Dutch fine; Tesla semi crash; tariffs on Chinese EVs; NFT artist sues the SEC; Google Ireland refused data center due to power grid; solar panels on self-storage rooftops; Ted Lasson returning; Oasis reunion; the Grand Tour reaches the end of the road; Shkreli; Wonka; Palm Royale; Steve Martin; Starfleet Academy; another wearable AI, Plaud; AI news.

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The Monkees Playlist

Burglar Discovers You Can “Peel” Cybertruck and Access the Inside

Tesla deletes its blog post stating all cars have self-driving hardware

Sober Outfitters

Kittl

IN THE NEWS

After CEO Pavel Durov's arrest in France, Telegram says it's 'absurd' to blame a platform if users abuse it

Telegram CEO charges include distributing CSAM and money laundering

Zuckerberg Vows to Stay Neutral This Election, Complains Biden Pushed Meta to Censor Covid Content

Uber gets slapped with €290 million fine

NTSB sends team to investigate California crash and lithium-ion battery fire involving a Tesla Semi

Canada follows the US by slapping a 100 percent tariff on Chinese EVs

“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit

Google Ireland refused planning permission for data centre due to insufficient capacity on power grid

Self-storage rooftops will become a nationwide 100MW+ solar farm

MEDIA CANDY

'Ted Lasso' is plotting a return for Season 4 as cast options have been picked up for Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham and Jeremy Swift.

Gallaghers could earn more from Oasis reunion than ‘they made in entire 90s’

“The Grand Tour” reaches the end of the road on Sept 13

Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies

Wonka

Palm Royale

STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces

Starfleet Academy Beams Into Production

Everything to Remember Before Rings of Power Returns

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Official Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

This Wearable AI Notetaker Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Someday, Your Entire Life

Just Press Record

What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models by Stephen Wolfram

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?

Most AI text detectors aren’t as reliable as advertised, study finds

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

Marty Mcfly goes back to the time of Jesus to warn him of what is about to happen to him

What could be better, Muppets, Mad Max and AI!

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982)

Sober Outfitters

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662: Tempest in an Instant Pot Aug 24, 2024

Yes, we have all been p0wned; more Tesla recalls; Waymo honking greetings; Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet; more OpenAI content deals; Cortex delivers both fewer and more errors; just how bad was Musk's Twitter deal; billionaire calls major crypto PAC stupid & selfish; the Acolyte not getting renewed; Disney+ no longer a safe space; Chick-Fil-A streaming service; Megalopolis trailer shenanigans; revisiting Ted Lasso, House of Cards; the Anonymous; Alien: Romulus; more Overcast stuff; Sonos can't unroll app update; Procreate condemns GenAI; subscription sous vide.

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NPD Breach Check

Tesla issues an in-person recall for its Model X SUV

Microsoft will release controversial Windows Recall AI search feature to testers in October

Texas judge blocks the FTC from enforcing its ban on noncompete agreements

IN THE NEWS

Waymo director says the company's cars won't honk at each other anymore

Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet to resolve federal safety probe

OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT's responses

Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

This invention has just destroyed the Internet forever: It programmes 100 million times faster than a human being

In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over

Bankers Have Lost So Much Money Thanks to Elon’s Terrible Twitter Deal

Billionaire Pulls Support From Major Crypto PAC, Says It’s Too ‘Stupid’ and ‘Selfish’

MEDIA CANDY

Star Wars: The Acolyte isn't getting a second season

Don’t Expect Boba Fett to Make an Appearance In The Mandalorian and Grogu

After massive public outcry, Disney stops attempt to kill lawsuit after killing restaurant guest

Disney+ is no longer a safe space after it added Hulu content

Chick-Fil-A Reportedly Planning to Launch a Reality TV Streaming Service

Denny’s New Beetlejuice Menu Could Give You Sandworms

Megalopolis‘s New Trailer Prepares You for a Critical Backlash

Lionsgate Admits Using Fake Quotes in New Megalopolis Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

Overcast Account Link

Apple Podcasts now has a useful web interface for browsing and listening to shows

“Disappointing”: Sonos CEO says old, user-preferred app can’t be re-released

iPad Illustration App Procreate Condemns Generative AI

Procreate

Anova will charge customers to use its sous vide app, because everything must be a subscription

Instant Pot Accu Slim Sous Vide 800W Precision Cooker,Immersion Circulator,Ultra-Quiet Fast-Heating with Big Touchscreen Accurate Temperature and Time Control,Waterproof

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Phil Donahue, talk show host pioneer and husband of Marlo Thomas, dies at 88

Alain Delon, Seductive Star of European Cinema, Dies at 88

Zorro 1975 | Alain Delon, Stanley Baker | Action, Adventure, Comedy | Full Length Movie

Alain Delon’s family refuse to put down pet dog the actor wanted to be buried with

Nasir Ahmed: An Unsung Hero of Digital Media His digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs and MPEGs possible

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661: The Nightmare Before Overcast Aug 17, 2024

AI label turning off consumers; Sonos app mess continues; SAG-AFTRA makes an AI agreement with Narrativ; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says go ahead and steal content, let the lawyers clean it up after; Grok AI is a dumpster fire; every American's data leaked; geofence warrants unconstitutional; FTC rules on fake online reviews; Daredevil: Born Again; more Long Way; Blackberry doc; the Influencer; the Umbrella Academy; Borderlands; Overcast & podcast players; new solar panel tech; iPads on robot arms; Disney theme parks struggling, new park announcements; the Nightmare Before Christmas lego & resurgence in popularity; station wagons - of the future!

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Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers

Why is the Sonos app so broken?

Sonos, still trying to fix its broken app, lays off 100 employees

IN THE NEWS

SAG-AFTRA Podcast: “SAG-AFTRA Introduces A.I. Agreement with Narrativ”

SAG-AFTRA just inked a deal with AI startup Narrativ

AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess”

Surprise: Musk's new Grok AI model is an absolute dumpster fire

CrowdStrike Exec Shows Up to Accept 'Most Epic Fail' Award in Person

Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews

California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic

Boeing's Starliner Could Spin Out of Control and Crash Into the Space Station, Expert Warns

Crypto Bro Charters Private SpaceX Mission to Earth’s Poles

Elon Musk Makes Up Cyber Attack After Donald Trump Interview Crashes and Burns

UAW files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk for intimidating workers at X Spaces event

Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum

MEDIA CANDY

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Is a Go as New Season 1 Footage Debuts

Apple TV+ Orders More 'Long Way' With Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman

There’s another BlackBerry movie coming out and this one’s a documentary

Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard

APPS & DOODADS

Patreon’s iOS App Will (Now) Be Forced to Use In-App Purchasing Instead of Its Safari-Based System

Oxford scientists' new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels

A robotics company has 3D printed nearly a hundred homes in Texas

Threads gains multiple drafts, audience insights and more

How to take a scrolling screenshot on iPhone

macOS Sequoia Beta 2 Adds Support for iPhone Mirroring

Apple is reportedly forging ahead with a rotating, iPad-like tabletop device

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Disney's theme parks are struggling, and it's another warning sign for the economy

Disney Finally Admits Why Parks Are Empty During Peak Season

Disney Parks Announcements from D23

Consequence Crossword: “Muppet Quotes”

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Lego’s Nightmare Before Christmas Set Comes With a Perfectly Long-Legged Jack Skellington

Metacast

BMW makes the Internet happy, brings M5 station wagon to the US

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56

The tech world mourns Susan Wojcicki

The YouTube Effect

Larry Tesler: Computer scientist behind cut, copy and paste dies aged 74

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660: The Bendy Piece Aug 10, 2024

NFTs & crypto, oh my; Google ruled a monopolist in search; you can't run an AI company ethically - with plenty of examples; Grokking without consent; Google's targeting "unknown" minors loophole; MetaAI celebrity voices; watermarking ChatGPT challenges; emotionally hooked on chatbots; Neuralink's second patient implant; Synchro's stent approach; Cybertruck spottings; Deadpool & Wolverine; American Conspiracy: the Octopus Murders; 2024 Olympics; enraging Google, Uber ads; living that iPad life; Humanes being returned; Sonos $30 million app fail; Lego Star Wars; advanced hinges; DarJar; losing power; medical system problems.

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Illinois changes biometric privacy law to help corporations avoid big payouts

Trump-themed $DJT token rug-pulls, people blame Martin Shkreli or Barron Trump

FTX to pay $12.7B to victims of Sam Bankman-Fried’s massive scheme

IN THE NEWS

Google 'is a monopolist' in search, US judge rules in antitrust case

It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically

Nvidia Used Videos From Netflix and YouTube to Build AI Model

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for making a “fool” out of him

X accused of using EU user data to train Grok without consent

X agrees to pause EU data processing for training Grok

Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads

Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects

OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students

OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode

Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient's brain

As Neuralink Implants Second Subject's Brain, First Patient Says His Doesn't Work as Well Anymore

Gates, Bezos back $75M round for Synchron's drill-free brain-computer interface implant

What Synchron leaders learned from developing a stent-based BCI

Fiery Cybertruck Death Spurs Federal Probe

MEDIA CANDY

Deadpool & Wolverine

American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders

Google will no longer air an Olympics ad that showed a child using AI to write a fan letter

Google + Team USA — Dear Sydney

On Our Way - Uber

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Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales

Californians Are Getting Apple Wallet Driver’s Licenses This Year

Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates

Home Security Giant ADT Admits It Has Been Hacked

Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco

Multitasking with ChatGPT on the Mac just got a lot better

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

LEGO® Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy

The Dark Falcon

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Texas school bans all-black clothing, cites mental health concerns

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659: Shark or Not Aug 03, 2024

Well hello, there, LA; State of the AI Union: staggering amounts of money, power & water for what; COPPA 2, electric boogaloo; no phone searches without warrants by border agents; TikTok data collection; DMV on the blockchain; AI doppelgängers no one wants; Grok gone wild; Tesla recall & deadly self-driving crash; AI Taco Bell; Cloudflare says 7% of all internet traffic is malicious; Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom; Confess, Fletch; Loot; Ted Lasso; Shrinking; Battle of the Brothers; new Star Wars, Star Trek, Dexter, Silo & Squid Games; I just can't quit you, Photoshop; drone shark tracking; StubHub deceptive practices; First Contact series; Peter Hook's books; Discworld easter eggs.

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Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith

Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025

Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging U.S. grid can't handle the load

White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now

AI Models Turn to Mush if Trained on AI-Generated Material

The Senate just passed two landmark bills aimed at protecting minors online

IN THE NEWS

Border agents cannot search smartphones without a warrant

DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion

TikTok's Sound Search lets you find videos by humming or singing

California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud

Instagram creators can now make AI doppelgangers to chat with their followers

Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement in Texas biometric data lawsuit over Facebook images

Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden

Sybil

Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default

X's Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election

Elon Musk shared a doctored Harris campaign video on X without labeling it as fake

Tesla recalls 1.8 million vehicles over risk of detached hoods

Tesla involved in fatal Washington crash was using self-driving mode

Amazon must recall dangerous products properly — even ones sold by third parties

Yum! Brands to Expand Voice AI Technology to Hundreds of Taco Bell U.S. Drive-Thru Locations in 2024, with a Future Vision to Bring the Technology to Its Brands’ Drive-Thrus Around the World

Cloudflare Application Security report: 2024 update

MEDIA CANDY

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Battle of the Brothers

Amazon is giving The Boys the prequel treatment

Jude Law Teases 'Childhood Adventure' and Star Wars Easter Eggs in Skeleton Crew Series — See the First Look! (Exclusive)

New ‘Star Trek’ Series in the Works from Justin Simien, Tawny Newsome

‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Sequel Series Starring Michael C. Hall Ordered at Paramount+ With Showtime

Steve Zahn Joins ‘Silo’ for Season 2 at Apple TV+

APPS & DOODADS

Aussie drivers can drop a dime via the internet

Sharks are congregating at a California beach. AI is trying to keep swimmers safe

Lawsuit alleges StubHub deceives customers into paying extra for tickets

Your new AI Friend is almost ready to meet you

Neuralink rival Synchron's brain implant now lets people control Apple's Vision Pro with their minds

AT THE LIBRARY

The Simulacrum (First Contact) by Peter Cowdron

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Cook

Galactic Exploration (First Contact) by Peter Cowdron

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Cook

Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young

From the discworld community on Reddit: "I was today years old, when...

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Kevin Smith Details His Personal Trauma, Bullying & Improving Mental Health

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658: Red Hot Chili Coasters Jul 27, 2024

The yes, dear AI boom; Altman supporting UBI; step counts are the new eggs; Crowdstrike buys partners a coffee for their troubles; search news; video game performers striking over AI; platforms struggling to deal with child safety; deepfake porn bill passed; Furiosa; the Flash; the Spiderverse; Sunny; TAG; Time Bandits; Quite a Good Sport; Dead Can Dance; sharks on cocaine; Spotify making bank; AI for comedy; Weird Al; timeline of Musk's broken promises; AI implementation not working; Dave's Amazon review gambit; Mr. Eisner, we have some Muppet & Star Wars related ideas for you; HOAs.

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AI terminology, explained for humans

AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women

Sam Altman Has Been Quietly Giving Out Money for Basic Income

Scientists Reveal The Optimal Number of Daily Steps to Offset Sitting Down

I’m the original Hawk Tuah girl!

IN THE NEWS

CrowdStrike Offers Partners Gift Cards That Don’t Work to Make Up for Global Outage

After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results | Ars Technica

Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results

Humble Games reportedly lays off its entire staff

Video game performers will strike over AI concerns

UK school reprimanded for unlawful use of facial-recognition technology

5th Circuit court upends FCC Universal Service Fund, ruling it an illegal tax

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash can continue to classify drivers as contractors in California

Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

Roblox failing to deal with its "pedophile problem"

US and European antitrust regulators agree to do their jobs when it comes to AI

Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Deepfake Porn Bill

MEDIA CANDY

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Flash 2023

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Sunny

Tag: The Assassination Game

Time Bandits

Jeff Goldblum Plays a Vengeful Zeus in the First Trailer for Kaos

Quite a Good Sport

Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance Toward the Within SACD audio DVD video

Brazilian Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine

Apple TV+ attempts to rein in budgets on new projects, as The Morning Show season four spends $50 million on cast alone

Spotify Q2 earnings: A full quiver of upward-pointing arrows

Marc Andreessen Thinks AI Could 'Save' Comedy

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new video: Polkamania!

APPS & DOODADS

Elon Musk Pushes Back Timeline for Optimus Robots

Original Elon Broken Promises Video

Sonos CEO apologizes for its new app, details timeline for fixing it

Prime Video rolls out an improved streaming experience—here's what’s new

Amazon Prime Video’s New Look Hopes to End Decision Paralysis

Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google - The Verge

SearchGPT Prototype

Meta releases its biggest 'open' AI model yet

Meta's New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Study Finds That AI Is Adding to Employees' Workload and Burning Them Out

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

Amazon Horrified to Find Out What People Actually Use Alexa For

CARROT Weather

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Disneyland workers authorize potential strike ahead of ongoing contract negotiations

Disney Plus Viewership Data Explains Why The Mandalorian Is Star Wars' Next Movie

Homeowner association

Columbia Association HOA

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657: Dick Detector Jul 20, 2024

Microsoft outage linked to Crowdstrike takes down computers around the world; german floppies; AT&T Snowflake crowd hack; Verizon piracy lawsuit; META won't offer future AI models in EU; EU over-regulation with X, META; AI models still using YouTube for training data; USPS sharing data; Instagram and teen mental health; birds versus drones; public Venmos; set Phasers to pricey; AMC makes distribution deal with Netflix; BeetleJuice & Dune trailers; John Wick 4; the Boys & the Acolyte season finales; AI courses; AI new model releases; Scott Adams taught ChatGPT dangerous techniques; AI diseased hot dog or not app shuts down; Apple public betas; Overcast update fail; more alternative power for Dave; dark patterns everywhere.

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Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement

IN THE NEWS

Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records

Verizon faces lawsuit after record labels say it profits from piracy

Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU

Elon Musk’s X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive

Meta accused of breaking European law with its ‘pay or consent’ model

Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

Meta Would Also Like to Know If Instagram Is Bad for Teens

Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study

TikTok will still be a 'gatekeeper' under the Digital Markets Act, EU rules

Tinder will use AI to help you pick your best profile picture

OpenAI Wants to See All of the New York Times Reporters’ Notes and Memos

‘Very Annoyed’ Birds Are Waging War on NYC’s Beach Drones

Police Drone Nabs Vehicle Burglary Suspect in Santa Monica as ‘Futuristic’ Surveillance Becomes Reality

J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows

Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words

MEDIA CANDY

Now You Can Own Captain Kirk’s Original ‘Star Trek’ Phaser (Exclusive)

AMC Inks Expanded Deal With Netflix, Bringing 13 Series to Streaming Giant

Internal Disney Communications Leaked Online After Hack

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Official Trailer 2

Dune: Prophecy Teaser Trailer 2

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Boys Season 4

APPS & DOODADS

AI for Everyone

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence

Mistral NeMo

My trip to the frontier of AI education

Anthropic teams up with venture capital firm to kickstart $100M AI startup fund

Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT ‘Dangerous’ Hypnosis Techniques

AI App That Claimed to Detect STDs From Dick Pics Shuts Down After It Turns Out It Doesn't Work at All

Apple releases public betas for iOS 18, macOS, and more

Amazon discontinues Astro for Business robot security guard to focus on Astro home robot

Amazon Astro, Household robot for home monitoring, with Alexa, Includes 30-day trial of Ring Protect Pro

The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You

Farcry 6 - PS 5

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

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Catalog of Dark Patterns

FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Charmed Star Shannen Doherty Has Died at Age 53

Mallrats

Bob Newhart Dead at 94

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656: Cyber Winnebago Jul 13, 2024

Opting out & class actions; school TikTok mob attack; Boeing's troubles; health crisis in a Texas Bitcoin town; unlocking Ticketmaster resales; Trump threatens Zuckerbucks; Humane execs leave to launch AI fact-checking startup; comment sections are garbage, Spotify adds one for podcasts; Amazon's questionable climate goal claim; FTC bans NGL from hosting minors; taking student's phones; Elon still planning to colonize Mars; Lilith Fair doc; Skydance buys Paramount; CNN layoffs; TUAW AI zombification; Watch Duty; Notepad gets spellcheck; Affinity over Adobe; Epic Games & Apple; Flow Pro; Blue-Ray; Fitbit, Nike losing services; e-bikes; the Acolyte; the Charismatic Voice; Shelly Duvall & Faerie Tale Theater; Dave's security camera odyssey.

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Redbox Owner Chicken Soup For The Soul To Liquidate In Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Shift; Workforce Of 1,000 To Be Let Go And 24,000 Kiosks Shut Down, Lawyer Says

IN THE NEWS

First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

Your Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?

Boeing agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government

Wheel Falls Off United Airlines Boeing Plane in Mid-Air

‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

Hackers reverse-engineer Ticketmaster’s barcode system to unlock resales on other platforms

Trump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg With Prison In Unhinged Truth Social Rant

Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care

Microsoft and Apple give up their OpenAI board seats

Google's search market dominance grows as ChatGPT falters

Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content'

Spotify is launching a comment section for podcasts

Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early

NGL becomes the first app banned from hosting minors by the FTC

A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones

Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates

How Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan to Colonize Mars

Schmactors EP02 - Clowns, Nudity, and the Red Planet: A Wild Ride Through the Unbelievable

MEDIA CANDY

Lilith Fair Documentary to Feature Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu

Paramount and Skydance will merge to create new tech-media giant

CNN to Lay Off 100 Staffers as It Preps Major Revamp of Digital Efforts

Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified

TikTok Star Murders

Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington

The Umbrella Academy | Final Season | Official Trailer | Netflix

‘Constellation’ Canceled By Apple After One Season

Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons

APPS & DOODADS

Watch Duty

Microsoft Notepad Receives Spell Check for The First Time Since 1983

Canva’s Melanie Perkins says it’s time to stop overpaying for Adobe

Affinity six-month free trial

After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS

YouTube upgrades its 'erase song' tool to remove copyrighted music only

Flow Pro is the First AI Tracking iPhone Stabilizer with Apple DockKit

Sony Killing Off Blu-Ray Production Is a Mistake

You Won’t Be Able to Access Your Fitbit Web Dashboard After Today

Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The Shining actress Shelley Duvall dies at 75

The Charismatic Voice

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre The Complete Collection

How Shelley Duvall Was Discovered by Robert Altman | Letterman

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655: GOG’s Influencer Jul 06, 2024

Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy.

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Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent

Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court

FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls

Greece becomes first EU country to introduce a six-day working week

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone

IN THE NEWS

A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint

Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To

You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You

Cloudflare is taking a stand against AI website scrapers

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug

Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself

US Treasury finalizes crypto rules to prevent tax evasion

Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail

Tesla Full Self-Driving is "a bad thing" for getting public buy-in for autonomous driving tech, rival engineer says

Tesla patents "Full Self Sanitizing" taxis

Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries.

NASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner For Managing Not To Explode While Docked To Space Station

MEDIA CANDY

Inside Out 2

I Am: Celine Dion

The Mole Season 2

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (TCF, 1983), Carrie Fisher "Princess Leia" Production Made Bikini Costume from Richard Miller.

The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren’t Piracy Police or Instantly Liable

AI is ruining the internet by Drew Gooden

APPS & DOODADS

People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

OpenDyslexic for iOS

Diablo IV

Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text

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654: Life EULA Jun 29, 2024

ID authentication systems are a bad idea; Tesla traps a toddler inside car, vandalized Cybertrucks & Cybertruck run amok; Rivian makes a deal with VW; celeb crypto spam deepfakes & hacks; Assange free; META tags real photos as Made with AI; Apple, Microsoft run afoul of the EU; Google stops infinite scroll; Gen AI can't site sources; AI companies scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them; OpenAI exec doesn't care that you're going to lose your job; the Acolyte gets exciting; music industry sues or makes deals with AI companies; Paramount's financial troubles; new Prius; Rabbit R1 security flaws; Neil Gaiman; Peter Hook; AI will tear us apart, again.

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ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses

IN THE NEWS

Tesla Traps Toddler Inside Car After 12-Volt Battery Dies In 100-Degree Heat

Florida car lot full of vandalized cybertrucks

POLICE HUNTING VANDAL WHO SPRAY PAINTED "F**K ELON" ON 34 CYBERTRUCKS

Wild video shows out-of-control Cybertruck smash into neighbor's home hours after it was bought

Volkswagen and Rivian agree to $5 billion partnership

Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live

Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions

Julian Assange Receives $500,000 Bitcoin Donation as He Officially Becomes a Free Man

Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers

Apple may face a mammoth fine after the EU said it violated competition rules

EU finds Microsoft violated antirust laws by bundling Teams

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

Time strikes a deal to funnel 101 years of journalism into OpenAI's gaping maw

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources

AI companies are reportedly still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them

Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice

Can a /robots.txt be used in a court of law?

OPENAI EXEC SAYS AI WILL KILL CREATIVE JOBS THAT "SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE"

MEDIA CANDY

Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training

Paramount Chiefs to Staff: We’re Cutting $500M in Costs After “Unacceptable” Profit Drops

Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years

Paramount+ is raising prices again for all of the Tulsa King fans out there

The YouTube Effect

New reality TV gameshow for flat earthers

'The Origin of Toys"R"Us', The First Brand Film Made Using OpenAI's Sora Technology

APPS & DOODADS

The New Prius is... SICK?!

Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody

FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT SAYS IMPLANT HAS GIVEN HIM INCREDIBLE GAMING SKILLS

Ebay Seller Offers $100,000 Stingray Device So You Can Track Your Friends and Enemies

eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech

How the ‘Owner’s Guide’ Became a Rare Book

AT THE LIBRARY

Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

Neverwhere BBC Miniseries

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook

JOHN SCALZI DISCOVERS THAT ONE OF HIS BOOK COVERS WAS CREATED USING AI

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653: To Violate, or Not to Violate? Jun 22, 2024

Opting out of META AI data training; 11 steps, or be in the EU; why I hate Elon, let me count the ways; SCiFi Foods, Fisker shut down; social media warning labels; TikTok child privacy case; Safe SuperIntelligence; Apple Pay Later discontinued; Adobe lawsuit; Amazon labor law fines; emotion canceling & mental shields; Dell return to work not working; real phot wins AI image contest; Time Bandits reboot, Spaceballs sequel; the Boys; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Runway Gen-3; SoundLabs; McDonalds ditches drive-thru AI; the Acolyte & Oreos; small home projects that spin out of control.

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11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI

IN THE NEWS

Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI

SPACEX'S STARLINK MAY BE KEEPING THE OZONE FROM HEALING, RESEARCH FINDS

SpaceX debuts portable Starlink Mini for $599

Buzzy Bay Area lab-grown meat company shuts down

Fisker is the latest EV startup to declare bankruptcy

Social media apps with tobacco-like warning labels? It may happen

Surgeon General Can't Convince Himself on Social Media Warning

The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company

Meta pauses plans to train AI using European users’ data, bowing to regulatory pressure

Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall

Apple Pay Later withdrawal likely because of a law passed in 1968

The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel

Amazon faces nearly $6 million in fines over California labor law violations

Call Centers Introduce ‘Emotion Canceling’ AI as a ‘Mental Shield’ for Workers

More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs

Artist Wins AI Image Contest with Real Photo, Then Gets Disqualified

MEDIA CANDY

Apple TV+ announces the date for “Time Bandits” starring Lisa Kudrow

Shaun of the Dead

The Boys

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

The Schwartz Is With Us: That Spaceballs Sequel Is Apparently Actually Happening

MoviePass Gets Investment From Comcast's Forecast Labs

APPS & DOODADS

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Apple @ Work: If you think Apple 'Sherlocked' 1Password, you aren't paying attention

Don’t Expect a Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Anytime Soon

Final Cut Camera and Updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad and Mac Are Available Today

Runway Gen-3 Can Make AI Videos of 'Photorealistic Humans'

The World’s Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

McDonald's Ditches AI Drive-Thru Partnership With IBM

GOP Candidate Endorsed By ‘Back From The Dead’ MLK In Unhinged AI Video

U.S. House of Representatives Narrowly Passes DJI Drone Ban Bill

Your Apple Watch can now control DJI Osmo Mobile gimbals

TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough

Get ready for a wave of Threads apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Star Wars Oreos

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93

Donald Sutherland Dead at 88

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652: Casual Pirates Jun 15, 2024

OpenAI was open to bidding wars between USA, China & Russia; AI hitting wall where it can't get smarter; visibility set to zero; walking back Windows Recall; Tesla FSD false advertising, SpaceX bad behavior; refreezing the arctic; casual piracy; flying the personalized ad skies; Netflix wins the hot dog wars; Stax; Interview with the Vampire; Camden; Bad Boys; Computer, wine, no merlot; Shkreli; the 90s; Adobe pricing; everything Apple killed at WWDC 2024; smartphones are the new eggs; Spotify; A Science-Fiction Thriller; the Acolyte; Kings Dominion & theme parks; driving in the USA.

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Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start Agi Bidding War With China and Russia

AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter

Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns

IN THE NEWS

Tesla shareholders vote yes again to approve Elon Musk’s $56B pay plan

Tesla Must Face False Advertising Claims Around 'Full Self-Driving' in California: Report

Elon Musk sued for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by former SpaceX engineers

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

The Ads on Your United Airlines In-Flight Screen Are Getting a Lot More Specific

Netflix has Sherlocked Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board

MEDIA CANDY

Cheaper Prices Reduce Indirect Visits to Pirate Sites, Research Finds

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A

Interview With The Vampire

Camden

The Boys Will End After Season 5

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Paul Giamatti Is Beaming Aboard Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli accused of copying $4m one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album

90’s Electronica / Alternative

APPS & DOODADS

Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2024

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light

Spotify’s HiFi plan could finally arrive this year, but you may need to pay extra

Spotify will start showing you personalized banners and messages based on your listening habits

Music publishers accuse Spotify of 'bait-and-switch subscription scheme'

watchOS 11 lets you take a day off working out without losing your streak

Elon Musk Just Cancelled iPhones

X is about to start hiding all likes

AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

AT THE LIBRARY

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott Young

Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

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651: Inci Dont’s Jun 08, 2024

Humane AI chargers go up in flames; Google scales back AI Overviews; we've all been pwnd; Windows Recall a Category 5 s-storm; Microsoft downsizes mixed reality division; leaked Google privacy incidents; ChatGPT AI hype & reckless race for dominance; AI fake stories in NewsBreak; parental control over kids social media; Shutterstock cashing in; Instagram testing in-feed ads you can't scroll past; SpaceX new milestones; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; Jim Henson: Idea Man; the Acolyte; music react videos; Spotify raising prices even though "content costs near zero"; expensive Boba Fett dolls; Joshua T. Calvert's Hard Science Fiction; Erik Larson; content, content, content.

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After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too

If you aren't seeing AI Overviews in your search results, it's probably thanks to Google

IN THE NEWS

Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI

The Ultimate Infostealer … Microsoft Recall?

Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall

Microsoft announces layoffs and restructuring in its mixed reality division

EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data

Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents

The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype

OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance

OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT

This Week in AI: Ex-OpenAI staff call for safety and transparency

Intro thread by Daniel Kokotajlo

A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner (PDF)

US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI

New York is about to give parents more control over their kids' social media feeds

Shutterstock Made $104 Million Licensing Assets to AI Devs Last Year

Meta is testing a new ad in the Instagram feed that you can't scroll past

Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data

SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built

Boeing's new Starliner capsule carrying 2 astronauts safely docks with space station

MEDIA CANDY

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Godzilla Minus One

Jim Henson: Idea Man

‘3 Body Problem’ to End With Season 3 on Netflix

Alien: Romulus

Nathan Brown Music

Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

APPS & DOODADS

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again

Max Announces New Price Increases for Ad-Free Plans

YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos

This Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Is Officially the World's Most Valuable Vintage Toy

AT THE LIBRARY

The Object: Hard Science Fiction by Joshua T. Calvert

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

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650: The Ewok Line Jun 01, 2024

Google AI search is a mess; robocall fines; no one wants a used Tesla; Neumann gives up on WeWork; OpenAI, Twitch give up pretending they have Safety Advisory boards; Vimeo says no to AI; xAI raises 6 billion; massive Ticketmaster hack; Star Trek Discovery ends; Moana 2; Stax: Soulsville USA; Ken Burns the Civil War; Wu-Tang Clan album; the Night Manager; Sony Pictures to focus on AI; Showrunner app; ICQ shuts down; Instagram "limit" & "restrict"; SEO is dead; UniSuper cloud gets nuked; Amazon AI-powered Fire TV search; no one really understands clouds; the Ewok Line; we are all nostalgic for our youth; RIP Richard Sherman; Bats Day at the Park.

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Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls faces $6 million fine and criminal charges

FCC Proposes $6M Fine For N.H. Robocalls

Who Wants to Buy 30,000 Used Teslas From Hertz?

IN THE NEWS

WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Abandons Bid to Regain Control of the Company

OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman

Twitch removes every member of its Safety Advisory Council

Vimeo Sides With Creators, Will Not Allow AI Companies to Scrape Content

The Atlantic and Vox Media made their own deal with the AI Devil

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B from Valor, a16z, and Sequoia

xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.

Elon Musk Blind With Rage After Analysts Recommend Rejecting His $56 Billion Pay Package

Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts

Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities

Ticketmaster Hack Reveals Sensitive Data for 560 Million People

MEDIA CANDY

The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns

Moana 2

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A

Wu-Tang Clan: Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the band’s one copy album… but there’s a catch

'Dungeons & Dragons' Live-Action Series Not Going Forward @ Paramount+

‘The Night Manager’ Returns With Supercharged Two-Season Order At BBC & Amazon; Tom Hiddleston Back To Star With Hugh Laurie As EP

Sony Pictures Will Cut Film Costs 'Using AI, Primarily'

This AI App Lets You Create Your Own TV Episodes That Look Just Like ‘South Park’

APPS & DOODADS

ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years

Instagram is expanding its anti-bullying features for teens

An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them

Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account

Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers

Hands-on with Amazon’s new AI-powered Fire TV search - The Verge

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

No One Really Understands Clouds

Hate "The Phantom Menace"? The Ewok Line theory could explain why

America’s best decade, according to data

Disney Musician Richard Sherman Has Died at Age 95

Bats Dat in the Fun Park

Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Spizz Energi - Wheres Captain Kirk - (Official Video 1979)

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649: Garbage In, Garbage Out May 25, 2024

Dead Internet Theory & Shrimp Jesus; the Portal is back; Apple set photo visibility to zero; jailbreaking major LLMs; OpenAI party time; getting some decent data in; you win an award, now you're suspended; Google sends DOJ a check; TikTok cracking down on drug promotion; stealing crypto; Bitcoin Pizza Day; Franklin; Sugar; Beetlejuice; 3 Body Problem; Dexter prequel; Pixar layoffs; Scarlett Johansson's voice; Humane up for sale; Windows Recall; Han Solo; Star Wars & Star Trek; snakes and clouds, maaaannnnn...

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Is The 'Dead Internet Theory' True? Shrimp Jesus Phenomenon Explained

Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features

Following OnlyFans-Related Mishap, the Portal Is Back

Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’

Apple fixes ‘rare’ iPhone bug that restored deleted pictures

Apple elaborates on iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos

IN THE NEWS

UK's AI Safety Institute easily jailbreaks major LLMs

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties

Sam Altman is ‘embarrassed’ that OpenAI threatened to revoke equity if exiting employees wouldn’t sign an NDA

OpenAI will reportedly pay $250 million to put News Corp's journalism in ChatGPT

Emory University awarded two students $10,000 for their AI study tool, then suspended them

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says

Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant

Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial

The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM

What happened when TikTok said users can’t promote weight-loss drugs

US brothers arrested for stealing $25m in crypto in just 12 seconds

MEDIA CANDY

Franklin

Sugar

Ghostbusters II

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

More 3 Body Problem Is Coming, But How Much More?

Dexter Prequel Series Casts Young Dexter and Christian Slater as His Mentor

Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows

APPS & DOODADS

Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice

Wearable AI Pin maker Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Trek: TNG – "Five-card Stud, Nothing Wild... And the Sky's the Limit."

Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding

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648: Some Superheroes Ride Motorized Scooters May 18, 2024

Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can deliver; Twitter redirecting to X; entire Supercharger staff fired; enshittification of the Web speeds up; Google AI search will kill what's left of the old internet; Uber announces new, worse bus; Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; the Rings of Power returns; Dune: Prophecy; MoviePass, Ashley Madison docs; bundling & a return to cable; no MTV Movie Awards this year; ToDoIst; Sonos app; PPSSPP; META Quest on a plane; the Far Reaches & Forward Collections; Erik Larson; Neal Stephenson; Star Wars Oreos; Chuck E. Cheese Band, Jasper T. Jowls in the wild; Fabio and the Goose; Thelma.

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Portal Between New York And Dublin Closed After A Week Due To "Inappropriate Behavior"

The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a Toilet

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away | Ars Technica

Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being

IN THE NEWS

Apple Reportedly Close To Deal With OpenAI To Add AI Features To iPhone

OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data

Google Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it’s going to be a while

For self-driving cars, the free ride is over - The Verge

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says

Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff - Autoblog

Enshittification

As Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage - The Washington Post

Google is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization - The Verge

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

Google I/O 2024: Here's everything Google just announced | TechCrunch

Learn how to use ChatGPT for SEO

ChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that’s a problem

Uber announces its new, worse version of a bus

MEDIA CANDY

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser Trailer

The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season

Max Releases First Dune: Prophecy Teaser: Watch

Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max - YouTube

HBO’s upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecks

Ashley Madison - Sex, Lies & Scandal

'The Boys' Renewed for Season 5

Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: See His Best Jokes

A ‘vastly reduced’ Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV+ bundle is coming this month

The MTV Movie & TV Awards Scrapped for 2024, Returning Next Year

Sony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists’ Content

APPS & DOODADS

ToDoIst

URL Cleaner

Is Sonos' New App a Podcast Killer? : r/sonos

Apple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPads

PPSSPP game emulator now available on the iOS App Store

Wipeout Pure

Meta encourages you to disregard your seat mates and use VR headsets on a plane

AT THE LIBRARY

The Far Reaches collection

The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Oreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner Wookiee

The Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking Up

Fabio and the Goose

Thelma - Official Trailer | June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Fred Hechinger

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647: DarJar May 11, 2024

Neuralink, insulin pump software bugs & abandoned brain implant technologies; Dorsey peaces out from Bluesky; Dell RTO tracking; Meta pumps businesses for customer support; Uber hits a financial snag; Spotify's new royalty model screws songwriters; gaming platforms abandon X integration; Ghostbusters; Lord of the Rings new movies; Franklin; Dark Matter; Sugar; more streaming consolidation; Rabbit R1 real reviews roll in; Apple ads, good & bad; AI music, programming news; Portal; death of the web; hotel art; Tales of the Empire; IRS hold music; Peter Paints a Portrait in Pantaloons.

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Neuralink Admits That Implant's Threads Have Retracted From First Patient's Brain, Possibly Due to Air in Skull

Experts Discuss The Dark Likelihood of 'Abandoned' Brain Implant Technology

An insulin pump software bug has injured over 200 people

IN THE NEWS

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking

Meta is expanding its paid verification service for businesses

Uber’s not out of the woods yet - The Verge

Spotify’s New Royalty Model to Pay Songwriters $150 Million Less During First Year: Report

Nintendo is done paying Elon Musk for X integration

TikTok is suing the US government to stop its app being banned

A Strategic Deep Dive on TikTok, The Boiling Moat of Taiwan, and China’s Next-Gen Statecraft — Matt Pottinger, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor

MEDIA CANDY

Ghostbusters (2016)

A new Lord of the Rings film, The Hunt for Gollum, will hit theaters in 2026

Franklin

Dark Matter

Sugar

A Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming bundle will soon be available in the US

APPS & DOODADS

Rabbit R1 review: A $199 AI toy that fails at almost everything

Everything You Should Know Before You Buy the Rabbit R1 AI Companion

Apple Says Sorry For Much Criticized iPad Ad Trashed By Celebrities

ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model

Country Star Who Can't Sing After Stroke Releases New Song Using AI

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught

The Next Big Programming Language Is English

The teens making friends with AI chatbots - The Verge

Gratitude Plus makes social networking positive, private and personal

Always-on video portal lets people in NYC and Dublin interact in real time

Moallia Laptop Stand with 360 Rotating Base, Computer Notebook Laptop Riser Metal Holder for Desk Collaborative Work, Fully Foldable for Easy Storage, Fits All MacBook, Laptops up to 16 inches

One Click Shrug Emoji Copy

SEO is in big trouble

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

Darth Jar Jar Strikes in Lego's Crazy New Star Wars Series

iPhone 15 Precision Finding | Find Your Friends | Apple

Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses — Prolost

Apple Apologizes for Ad That Crushed Creativity

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bernard Hill, Lord of the Rings' Théoden King, Has Died

RIP Steve Albini, influential producer and musician (1962-2024)

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646: Thanks, Gary! May 04, 2024

Kagi not worth it; RIP Passcodes; Sora demo not exactly Sora; FCC fines carries for selling location data; TikTok ban signed; Meta's ad-buying AI blows through budgets; fighting the algorithm; OpenAI privacy complaints; Amazon ad revenue big leap, wonder why; blockchain's real use case; ludicrously hard-core at Tesla; Lord of the Rings returns to theaters; Dune Part 2; The Bad Batch series finale; Fallout; UMG artists return to TikTok; Walmart selling IRL items to kids in Roblox; Snapchat will let you edit chats, if you pay; Bluesky ads GIFs; short sci-fi fiction with Amazon; Essentialism; AI wrappers; Gary's valuable GOG contributions; vision issues; stay on target, stay on target!

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Kagi

TURNS OUT THAT EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE SORA DEMO... WASN’T EXACTLY MADE WITH SORA

IN THE NEWS

FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

Social media companies have too much political power, 78% of Americans say in Pew survey

Biden Signed the TikTok Ban. What's Next for TikTok Users?

Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours

A researcher is suing Meta for the right to ‘turn off’ Facebook’s news feed

OpenAI hit with another privacy complaint over ChatGPT’s love of making stuff up

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in prison

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over “funding secured” tweets

Tesla is reportedly getting 'absolutely hard core' about more layoffs, according to Elon Musk

OnlyFans hits UK regulator's radar for age-verification failures around porn access

MEDIA CANDY

Lord of the Rings Trilogy to Return to Theaters this Summer, Extended and Remastered

Dune Part 2

The Bad Batch - Series Finale

Fallout

Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time

Olivia Rodrigo, Drake and other Universal artists return to TikTok

Watch the Powerful First Trailer for Lee Miller Biopic Starring Kate Winslet

APPS & DOODADS

Walmart thinks it's a good idea to let kids buy IRL items inside Roblox

Snapchat will finally let you edit your chats

AT THE LIBRARY

Hello World (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch

Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less By: Greg McKeown

Audible to test using Prime Video data for audiobook recommendations as Spotify competition heats up

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

AI For Humans Podcast

Pinokio

Ollama

Creative Computer Publishes Interview with the Guy Behind the Death Star Trench Run (1978)

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645: A Man on the Nude Apr 27, 2024

FTC restores net neutrality, ends non-competes; TikTok divest-or-ban bill passes; more bad news at Tesla; X TV; Amazon ends California drone deliveries; AI in law enforcement is just a bad idea; META's oversight board remains useless; Instagram blurring nudity rather than just banning it; post and boast law; Voyager 1 is back; Worldcoin Orb shortage; bird flu not looking great; Franklin; Disney+ looking to FAST; dystopian future of AI TV; YouTube ghost gun videos; saying no to Spotify; White Trash Wins Lotto; Lollapalooza doc; 24 in 24; Parish; Civil War; USB enter key; Rabbit R1; the ongoing appeal of the Muppets; gaming the lottery; BrickIt app; old man vision.

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IN THE NEWS

FCC votes to restore net neutrality protections

TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries due to 'unexpected delay'

Tesla Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Killing Motorcyclist While Browsing His Phone On Autopilot

Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse

FACEBOOK COFOUNDER SAYS TESLA HAS COMMITTED "CONSUMER FRAUD ON A MASSIVE SCALE," WILL END IN JAIL

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote

Amazon ends California drone deliveries

Noncompetes Are Dead—and Tech Workers Are Free to Roam

Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports

Los Angeles is using AI in a pilot program to try to predict homelessness and allocate aid

The world's leading AI companies pledge to protect the safety of children online

Meta’s oversight board to probe subjective policy on AI sex image removals

Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens and fight sexual extortion

Teens Who Allegedly Stole Cars Face Two Extra Years for Bragging About It on Social Media

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the US

Oh No, There's an Orb Shortage

The Bird Flu Situation Is Not Looking Great

MEDIA CANDY

Franklin

Disney+ may add cable-style streaming channels focused on Marvel and Star Wars

The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated Garbage

Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids

Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Official Trailer | Premieres May 12 | AMC+

As Spotify Amasses Power, Some Artists Find Success Without It

WHITE TRASH WINS LOTTO

White Trash Wins Lotto on Conan

Lollapalooza Documentary to Premiere on Paramount+ in May

24 in 24: Last Chef Standing

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Vision Pro Gets a Reality Check

Sonos unveils app overhaul with customizable Home screen, search across all services, more

Rabbit R1 hands-on: Already more fun and accessible than the Humane AI Pin

How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team.

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

This Jim Henson Documentary From Director Ron Howard Already Has Us Weeping

Jim Henson Idea Man | Official Trailer | Disney+

The original model for Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise emerges after being lost for over 40 years

How someone stacked the odds in their favor to win a $95 million Texas Lottery jackpot

Turn those boxes full of Lego into useful projects.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Call Me Donovan

The man who saved Star Trek has died

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644: Grok Hole Sun Apr 13, 2024

ISP's get nutrition labels; Truth Social continues to drop; X, for free speech, gets anti-speech lawsuit dismissed; Grok fake news; Tesla taxi, maybe; problems with Starlink; Biden considering dropping prosecution of Assange; training AI on Youtube; Geek Squad layoffs; Texas replaces human graders with AI; Dove stays on brand; no selfie zones; Dune Part 2 leaks; Fallout; the Regime; Shaun of the Dead; Renegade Nell; Roku ad injection patent; Humane AI; the Anxious Generation; Wool; Lost in Time; fun with Suno; Apple Vision Pro demo.

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Hire Jason for your voiceover project!

ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances

Trump Media shares close down by more than 5%, latest grim day for Truth Social owner

IN THE NEWS

Federal Court Dimisses X's Anti-Speech Lawsuit Against Watchdog

Elon Musk's Grok Creates Bizarre Fake News About the Solar Eclipse Thanks to Jokes on X

Tesla will unveil a robotaxi on August 8, according to Musk

There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With Spacex's Starlink

Biden Says He's 'Considering' Request to Drop Prosecution of Julian Assange

OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models

Best Buy’s Geek Squad agents say they were hit by mass layoffs this week

Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI

Dove Says It'll Never Use AI on Women in Its Advertisements

Tourist Falls 170 Feet Off a Cliff to Her Death While Taking Selfie

MEDIA CANDY

Dune: Part Two Leaks Early on Pirate Sites ‘In Memory of EVO’

Fallout

The Regime

‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Returning to Cinemas This Year for 20th Anniversary

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost break down the making of Shaun of the Dead, 20 years later: “Could Jack Black play this part?”

Edgar Wright Will Direct Glen Powell in Stephen King Adaptation The Running Man

Renegade Nell

Twitch CEO says DJs will have to share what they earn on the website with music labels

Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops

APPS & DOODADS

Roku looks into serving you ads on whatever you plug into its TVs

The Humane AI Pin is the solution to none of technology's problems

Humane's AI "Pin" Is a $700 Flaming Dumpster Fire

New Federal Bill Could Require Disclosure of Songs Used in AI Training

AT THE LIBRARY

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Wool

Lost In Time by A.G. Riddle

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Setting the MIT open source license to music.

Jumping Power Tower

How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn in the Apple Vision Pro

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist

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643: Mechanical Goslings Apr 06, 2024

Gmail turns 20; Google isn't good; coding with ChatGPT; court bans "AI-enhanced" evidence; AI Goslings everywhere; NYC chatbot spews out dangerously inaccurate information; Amazon's mechanical turks; California right to disconnect bill; Elon Musk has hurt the Tesla brand; Constellation; Road House; Jon Stewart; Star Trek: Discovery; AI in music; DVDs; Sherlock Holmes; Super Monsters Ate My Condo, +; app feedback: Canva, Apple Vision Pro, Kagi; new Star Wars content; Avatar: the Last Airbender; the Muppets; down the AI personality cloning rabbit hole; AI generated sludge or world changing genius?

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Gmail is 20 years old

Eudora (email client)

Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected

Google says it will destroy browsing data collected from Chrome’s Incognito mode

IN THE NEWS

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first time

NYC’s business chatbot is reportedly doling out ‘dangerously inaccurate’ information

Amazon just walked out on its self-checkout technology

California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that would allow employees to possibly relax

Apple confirms layoffs affecting 700+ workers, including car team

AT&T resets millions of customers’ passcodes after account info was leaked on the dark web

Elon Musk's unpleasant persona hurts Tesla brand: survey says

Cybertruck Breaks Down After One Mile Of Driving

MEDIA CANDY

Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to host FTC Chair Lina Khan

An executive who worked on '3 Body Problem' was sentenced to death for fatally poisoning the Netflix show's producer

New Matrix Movie in the Works from Drew Goddard

Song Lyrics Today Are Less Sophisticated, Angrier, And More Self-Obsessed Than They Used To Be, Study Says

Billie Eilish, Greta Van Fleet, & Pearl Jam Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices

Suno AI

New Bill in California Aims to Force Ticketmaster to Play Nice With Others

The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

40 Years Later, Jeremy Brett is Still the Best Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes w/ Jeremy Brett

Downie via SetApp

The Labours Of Hercule

Anthem Of Life

APPS & DOODADS

Super Monsters Ate My Condo+

Welcome to Canva, Affinity!

Kagi

Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend

Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show

AI Companies Running Out Of Training Data After Burning Through Entire Internet

Yahoo bought AI-powered news app Artifact from Instagram’s co-founders

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars' Next Animated Anthology Explores the Shadows of the Empire

Breaking Down the Sithy Secrets of Tales of the Empire's New Trailer

Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog sing "Rainbow Connection"

Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices

What Went Wrong

A 65-IN-1 THE 2024 WAY

An eye-rolling example of the kind of AI generated sludge that's clogging up Google's search results.

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642: Nerd Plumage Mar 30, 2024

Apple Vision Pro in the wild; everyone hates Sam; META's Project: Ghostbusters; getting device-blocked on Facebook; Meta & Google restricting reproductive health ads; anti-trans hate widespread on META properties; X testing NSFW communities, caught selling data to government while complaining about surveillance; FTC might sue TikTok; school boards suing social media giants; Truth Social stock; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 3 Body Problem; Constellation; Heathers is 35 years old; the future of Star Trek needs to not be old and white; Adobe subscription shenanigans; YouTube Shorts; MacWhisper; Whoa API; why AI sucks; the Anxious Generation; german politeness; Keys to the Kingdom; What Went Wrong; keeping your mouth shut; being a pedandick.

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Apple launches first ever Immersive Video sports film for Apple Vision Pro

Sam Bankman-Fried just got sentenced to 25 years in prison

IN THE NEWS

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat

Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service to Help Sell Netflix Ads

Meta and Google face claims of restricting reproductive health ads and fueling misinformation

Anti-trans hate is ‘widespread’ on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns

X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

The FTC might sue TikTok over its handling of users’ privacy and security

Ontario school boards sue Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok

Uber Eats courier's fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won

Like Elon Musk And Twitter Before Them, Investors In Trump's Newly Public Social Media Company Will Lose Millions

DJT stock hits turbulence: More volatility ahead for Trump's high-flying Truth Social

MEDIA CANDY

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Fred Durst and Billy Corgan to Host Shows on Bill Maher’s New Podcast Network

Schmactors with James Marsters and Mark Devine

It’s almost time for T-Mobile customers to claim their free year of MLB.TV

35 Years Later, Heathers Has Been Often Imitated, Never Duplicated

The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans

APPS & DOODADS

Google says Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in ‘fall of 2024’

YouTube says over 25% of its creator partners now monetize via Shorts

The Keanu Reeves Whoa API

This Website Plays Every Keanu Reeves 'Whoa' in Movie History

Can an A.I. Make Plans? | The New Yorker

Biden orders every US agency to appoint a chief AI officer

Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks

AT THE LIBRARY

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

'This Is a Sputnik Moment': NYC Is Adding AI Metal Detectors to the Subway

A Data Broker Reportedly Tracked Visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island

First Day - A Star Wars Short Film Made with Unreal Engine 5

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

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641: Subscription Screaming Mar 23, 2024

Lots of suggestions, no regulations: cars, broadband, AI & more; Apple lawsuits; drone delivery, again; Starbucks NFT program ending; Glassdoor adds real names to accounts without consent; AI news round-up; Stability AI wobbles; cyberflasher conviction; Russia warns of potential SpaceX strikes; data broker bar, sort of; happiness rankings, the kids aren't alright; Better Call Saul; the Acolyte; the juice is loose; the Regime; music revenue has grown (along with prices); Poe; Reddit goes public; photography; manuals; home repair with the Geeks; let's go karaoke!

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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

Billionaire Who Died in Tesla Had Three Times Legal Blood Alcohol to Drive

IN THE NEWS

The FCC just quadrupled the download speed required to market internet as ‘broadband’

Apple can’t get out of facing a class-action lawsuit over AirTags stalking claims

Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its infamous 'walled garden'

DoorDash and Wing are piloting fast food delivery in the US

It took Starbucks a little too long to realize coffee NFTs aren't it

Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent

World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations

United Nations General Assembly Adopts by Consensus U.S.-Led Resolution on Seizing the Opportunities of Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems for Sustainable Development

Google Hit With Huge Fine for Training Ai With News Articles Without Getting Permission

YouTube will require disclosure of AI-manipulated videos from creators

Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms

‘AI-powered’ ad ignites creator controversy on Instagram

Stability AI Is Falling Apart

First 'Cyberflasher' Convicted in England Gets Year in Prison for Sending Explicit Photo

Russia Warns of Potential Military Strike on Spacex Satellites

House passes bill that would bar data brokers from selling Americans' personal information to 'adversary' countries

US Happiness Ranking Plummets as One Group Struggles Most

Canada Ranks 15th, But Young Canadians Are Unhappy, Finds 2024 World Happiness Report

The kids are not OK. New data shows Canadians under-30 ‘very unhappy’

Using Computers Strongly Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

MEDIA CANDY

Better Call Saul

Star Wars: The Acolyte

Tim Burton's First Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Trailer Summons More Afterlife Chaos

The Regime

The 3 Body Problem

The Bloody Hundredth

Director of Original Crow Makes It Clear He's Not Happy with Remake, Before Deleting Post

10.2% growth of global music industry; initial coverage of IFPI annual report

APPS & DOODADS

Poe

Reddit is now a publicly traded company

This Website Tells Travelers If They're Flying on a Boeing Plane

Zoom - for Home TV

Apple's new webpage helps users find product manuals and guides

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Astro Joe

Can stop the music: Karaoke inventor dies

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

RIP, Vernor Vinge

Children of the Sky | Vernor Vinge | Talks at Google

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640: A Minute of Silence Mar 15, 2024

11 years & nothing's changed; IG impersonators & weird animal video creepiness; Apple restores Epic, for now; TikTok ban bill passes House but will most likely die in Senate; X usage declines, launching video app, Elon cancels Don Lemon show because he's a little beyatch; running out of power; AI Marilyn Monroe; NeMo, Devin & Gemini - one Poe to rule them all; bypassing AI guardrails; more bad Tesla news; Bluesky outsourcing - and charging - for moderation; Schmactors; Somebody Feed Phil; no Riker in Disco; Airbnb tells people to stop filming guests; AirPod hearing aids; Goodbye, Jumbo.

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Joe Zieja’s Voice Acting Academy

Apple reinstates Epic's developer account two days after banning it

Joe Biden says he would sign bill that would force a sale or ban of TikTok

The House Passed the Bill That Could Ban TikTok—and It Wasn’t Close

Addicted to TikTok? Here’s what the House vote to effectively ban it could mean for you

IN THE NEWS

Twitter/X Usage Sees Sharp Decline

X will launch a YouTube-like video app on Samsung and Amazon TVs

Elon Musk Cancels Contract with Don Lemon After Being Asked About Ketamine Usage

Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave

Now it's NVIDIA being sued over AI copyright infringement

SXSW Audience Boos Sizzle Reel About the Virtues of AI

Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer

Google restricts AI chatbot Gemini from answering queries on global elections

Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art — ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious queries

ElevenLabs Block on Cloning Biden's Voice Easily Bypassed

EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others

Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says

Mix-Up With Tesla Touchscreen Killed Angela Chao: Report

Tesla Didn’t Pay Any Federal Income Taxes for 5 Years, Got $1 Million Tax Refund

Apple's Vision Pro was used in surgery to help perform spinal operations

Marc Andreessen’s VC Was Reportedly Behind Kickstarter’s Disastrous Pivot to Crypto

The US Government says IP infringement is all over NFT marketplaces

Bluesky snags former Twitter/X Trust & Safety exec cut by Musk

Bluesky launches Ozone, a tool that lets users create and run their own independent moderation services

MEDIA CANDY

Schmactors with James Marsters and Mark Devine

Somebody Feed Phil Season 7

Discovery Will Be the First Star Trek Show in 50 Years to End Without a Jonathan Frakes Appearance

APPS & DOODADS

Poe

Apple will allow iOS apps to be distributed on websites in the EU

Airbnb to hosts: please stop filming the guests

Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

World Party Frontman Karl Wallinger Dies at 66

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639: TikTok MotherF#C&3R! Mar 09, 2024

Cybertruck vs. sign; the UK loves short weeks; US wants TikTok ban while TikTok frets; Meta's support sucks; Apple fined $2B; Musk sues OpenAI; Klarna's AI job fears; Twitter execs sue Musk; NFTs seek meaning; Bitcoin's inflation-adjusted; flop—science nixes sun dimming; Netflix drops 'The Brothers Sun'; 'Crime Scene Kitchen' cooks on; Tech toys abound, and books offer escape; Cyber threats grow; FCC fights shady doorbells; AI spooks; and TikTok's conspiracies rise.

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A Tesla Cybertruck lost its battle against the iconic "Beverly Hills Hotel" sign (video)

Making It Stick: The UK Four-Day Week Pilot One Year On - Autonomy

IN THE NEWS

US House to vote next week on TikTok crackdown bill

TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting Banned

Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

Podcast: AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers

41 state attorneys general tell Meta to fix their customer support for hacking victims

EU fines Apple nearly $2 billion for 'blocking' alternative music apps

The law doesn't allow Apple to threaten Epic, says EU

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat

OpenAI and Elon Musk

Elon Musk took drugs with Tesla board members: Report

Klarna CEO says AI can do the job of 700 workers. But job replacement isn't the biggest issue.

How Klarna uses AI on Ben’s Bites

Twitter's former CEO and other execs are suing Elon Musk and X for $128 million in unpaid severance

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Proposed class action lawsuit accuses Apple of monopolizing cloud storage for its devices

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

OpenSea’s partnership with Coachella is a sign that NFTs can be more than profile pictures

Actually, Bitcoin Didn’t Hit an All-Time High If You Adjust for Inflation

Scientists Warn 'Dimming The Sun' Is Simply Too Dangerous. Here's Why.

MEDIA CANDY

Constellation

‘The Brothers Sun’ Canceled by Netflix After One Season

'Crime Scene Kitchen' Renewed For Third Season By Fox

Fallout - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Max will start cracking down on password sharing this year

APPS & DOODADS

AT THE LIBRARY

The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

The Art of War (First Contact Series) by Peter Cawdron

What’s Going On with Kara Swisher’s Book Tour?

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Iran's cyber quest in Middle Eastern aerospace.

Andor Will Soon Give You the Most Politically Tense Sequence in Star Tours

New FCC rules would crack down on connected vehicle abuses

Microsoft AI engineer says Copilot Designer creates disturbing images

Ignore This Title and HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition

These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.

Police warn of thieves using wifi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms

Why TikTok Is Becoming a Conspiracy Playground

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638: Dave’s Lumber Yard Mar 02, 2024

AI's unintended consequences; chat bots; pink slips in podcasting, Playstation, Electronic Arts & Fisker; Tesla racism class action lawsuit; Apple pivots away from an electric car; TikTok's tussle with Universal Music continues, but UMG is just fine; call me on X; Bitcoin up, crashes Coinbase; OpenAI probe; Gemini woke prompt re-writing; Facebook News tab going away; Glasgow's sad Ooompa Loompa; where's the surge priced beef; Constellation; Neuromancer; The Crow Flies Again; Naked Gun; Ray Donovan; Next Goal Wins; Dune; transparent laptops & super DVDs; SetApp; Farscape; Losing Mars; Strong Songs; Beverly Hills drones; tripping the iPhone light fantastic; Dance your PhD.

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Mat Talk Online

AI Girlfriends Aren’t All Bad | AI Unlocked

Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’

IN THE NEWS

PlayStation is laying off 900 staff across Naughty Dog, Insomniac and other studios

EA is laying off over 650 employees

Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a 'difficult year'

R.I.P. Apple's Electric Car

TikTok is muting more songs amid its tussle with Universal Music

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP N.V. REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023

X starts giving non-paying users the ability to make audio and video calls

Bitcoin's so high, it crashed Coinbase today

US SEC probes whether OpenAI investors were misled, WSJ reports

Google brings Stack Overflow's knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Google CEO Admits Gemini AI Image Failures: 'We Got It Wrong'

AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the U.S. and Australia

Camera Inside Varda's Space Capsule Captured Its Wild Trip Back to Earth

The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It

Cops Called to 'Willy Wonka Experience' as Crying Children Realize AI Ads Were Lies

Glasgow’s Sad Oompa Loompa Isn’t Gonna Sugarcoat This

Wendy’s Surge Pricing Is Off the Menu After Internet Beef

MEDIA CANDY

Constellation

Neuromancer Is Finally Getting Its Long-Awaited Adaptation

First Look: The Crow Flies Again With Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs

‘Naked Gun’ Reboot With Liam Neeson Lands 2025 Release From Paramount

Guy Ritchie to Direct a ‘Ray Donovan’ Spinoff ‘The Donovans’ for Paramount+

Next Goal Wins

APPS & DOODADS

Lenovo’s Project Crystal is the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display

This 'Super DVD' Can Hold 20 Million Photos

Jetpack Joyride 2

Tetris Game Boy Cartridge

MacPaw's Setapp becomes one of the first to agree to Apple's controversial DMA rules

FARSCAPE 25th Anniversary Comic Book Celebration

AT THE LIBRARY

Losing Mars (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 By: Moshe Kasher

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things By: Adam Grant

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection By: Charles Duhigg

Bounce Back: 12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim and Recalibrate Your Life By: Travis Mills

Infinity Gate By M. R. Carey

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry Has Issues with Siri

Weli - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) (from Dance Your PhD 2024 - Overall Winner)

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

After Dark perfected the screensaver

Richard Lewis, Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm Actor, Dead at 76

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637: Outragery! Feb 24, 2024

Let's game the system; Rivian layoffs; Air Canada's chatbot lied; Twitter didn't violate data security because they ignored Musk orders; Science Corner: smartwatches & rings don't measure blood sugar, AMOC collapsing, Taylor Swift's planes could use new paint, red light improves eyesight; we're back on the moon; ChatGPT goes temporarily insane; Pentagon testing LLMs; the Bad Batch; Last Week Tonight on YouTube to be delayed; Amazon shutting down Freevee wait no they aren't; FuboTV accuses Disney, Fox, WBD of antitrust; TikTok grows up; BIGO; Office Space; No Values festival; browser market share; watching ads on TV through built in TV ads; Ultra 2 watch tips; Apple iMessage Level 3; Lockbit cybercrime group takedown; Pixel Envy; a deep dive into Wampas.

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IN THE NEWS

Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

FTC concludes Twitter didn’t violate data security rules, in spite of Musk's orders

Don't use smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar without needles, the FDA warns

Run AMOC

It Looks a Lot Like Taylor Swift Had Two Private Jets for Her Super Bowl Flight

Scientists develop 'nanosphere' paint that could reduce planes' carbon dioxide emissions

Staring At A Red Light In The Morning Improves Worsening Eyesight, Study Shows

Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years

JEFF KOONS: MOON PHASES

ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users | Ars Technica

Scale AI to set the Pentagon’s path for testing and evaluating large language models | DefenseScoop

MEDIA CANDY

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' on YouTube will now be delayed

Amazon Shutting Down Freevee: Report

Amazon Says ‘No Changes’ Coming to Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering

FuboTV accuses Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. of antitrust practices over joint streaming service

TikTok Is on the Decline

BIGO Live

Tyler Perry Raises Alarm on AI, Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold – The Hollywood Reporter

Monsieur Spade

Death and Other Details

Office Space Murdered Office Culture 25 Years Before It Died: ’99 Rewind

Office Space on Max

NO VALUES | June 8th, 2024

APPS & DOODADS

Browser Market Share Worldwide

'Soaring' over hills or 'playing' with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality | AP News

Why Walmart is buying Vizio | CNN Business

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Apple Updates iMessage With a New 'Post-Quantum' Encryption Protocol

Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests | Reuters

Pixel Envy

A question about the Wampa in ESB.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | Deleted Scenes HD

Corvette Summer

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636: Verified Terrorists Feb 17, 2024

Layoffs at Paramount, Instacart & Mozilla; Musk must testify in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover; Tesla driver not sure if he killed pedestrians because he was on autopilot; crowd burns Waymo car; 23andMe selling DNA data; Amazon Prime Video pulls Dolby Vision, Atmos on ad-supported plan; queer.af shut down by Taliban; X blue checks sold to literal terrorists; Past Lives; We Are the World; Jacqueline Novak; Somebody Feed Feel; Star Trek Disco; Downtown Abbey; AMC fined for 1988 law; Apple Cash to offer virtual cards; AI news round up; don't get an AI girlfriend; thought crimes; Sora & floating feet; Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey; the Bad Batch; cybercriminals stealing iOS users' face scans... are they, though?

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Axact sells fake diplomas and degrees. What could go wrong with this business plan?

Found a cool easter egg on the Ookla speedtest app

IN THE NEWS

Just to keep the pink slips chat going.. Paramount doing some work.

Paramount lays off 800 workers in cost-cutting bid: 'This is the right decision'

Instacart lays off 250 employees, or 7% of its workforce, to 'reshape' company

Mozilla is laying off around 60 workers

Court orders Elon Musk to testify in the SEC’s investigation of his Twitter takeover

Tesla Driver Says He's Not Sure If He Killed a Pedestrian Because He Was on Autopilot

Crowd Sets Waymo Self-Driving Car on Fire: ‘They Couldn’t Even Recognize the Vehicle’

23andMe Admits ‘Mining’ Your DNA Data Is Its Last Hope

Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Elon Musk’s X Gave Check Marks to Terrorist Group Leaders, Report Says

ELON MUSK SELLING BLUE CHECKMARKS TO LITERAL TERRORISTS

MEDIA CANDY

Looney Tunes Movie Coyote vs Acme Expected to Be Destroyed Forever

Past Lives

The Greatest Night in Pop

Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees

Somebody Feed Phil, Season 7 - March 1

Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Finally Has a Release Date

A Hail Mary to Save ‘The Daily Show’

Downton Abbey reportedly poised to return for a seventh season

John Cleese has “always loathed and despised” Eric Idle

AMC to pay $8M for allegedly violating 1988 law with use of Meta Pixel

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Cash will offer virtual card numbers for online shopping

Google's Gemini AI Keeps Your Conversations for Up to 3 Years (Even If You Delete Them)

OpenAI - Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show

AI monitoring employee comms for 'thought crimes' in Slack & more

Memory and new controls for ChatGPT

NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC

OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent

USPTO says AI models can’t hold patents

AT THE LIBRARY

Infinity Gate (The Pandominion Book 1) by M.R. Carey

A different, darker take on The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

What Has Happened So Far on Star Wars: The Bad Batch?

Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts

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Lily-Cybersecurity-7B-v0.2

Propstore has an upcoming auction, including the Anthony Daniels collection.

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635: Optical Vortex Feb 10, 2024

Science should be taken seriously; Read Write Own; layoffs at Snap, Microsoft, Grammarly & Warner Music Group; Americans going back into credit card debt; Amazon new AWS charge; Google's confusing Gemini AI plans; AI robocalls outlawed; META's confusing AI approach & continued useless Oversight Board; Moviepass shenanigans; Taylor Swift's private jet tracked; Optical Vortex to correct vision; Poor Things; Leave the World Behind; Moana 2; Apple Vision Pro reviews; Bluesky open to everyone; Slack is 10; Jason gets new gadgets; the 4 S's with Dave; smart toothbrush DDoS attack, smug superiority & journalism versus curators.

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Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own by Molly White

How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System

IN THE NEWS

Snap is laying off 10 percent of its workforce

Microsoft’s gaming layoffs include 86 jobs at Skylanders studio Toys for Bob

Grammarly lays off 230 employees as part of a ‘business restructuring’

Warner Music Group Plans to Lay Off 600 Employees

Graphics show how Americans' total credit card debt reached record high

Amazon’s new AWS charge for using IPv4 is expected to rake in up to $1B per year — change should speed IPv6 adoption

Google launches Gemini Advanced to compete with OpenAI

Get Gemini Advanced and more with a Google One AI Premium plan

Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default

AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

Phony AI Biden robocalls reached up to 25,000 voters, says New Hampshire AG

AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters. The FCC just made them illegal.

Axact sells fake diplomas and degrees. What could go wrong with this business plan?

Meta plans to ramp up labeling of AI-generated images across its platforms

Maliciously edited Joe Biden video can stay on Facebook, Meta's Oversight Board says

Company Loses Millions After Employee Duped By Video Call Deepfakes

Former MoviePass Executive Convicted of Embezzlement to Pay Off Coachella Party Debt

Add Taylor Swift to the list of famous people who don't like their private jets being tracked

Amazing Spiral-Shaped Contact Lens Uses 'Optical Vortex' to Correct Vision

MEDIA CANDY

Poor Things

Leave the World Behind

‘Moana 2’ Set at Disney With Surprise 2024 Release Date

APPS & DOODADS

Will Apple’s Vision Pro Make Your Real Life Unbearably Boring?

The thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro

Bluesky is ditching its waitlist and is now open to everyone

Slack Is Turning 10 Years Old, and Wow Has It Changed Everything

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Check Your Decaf

The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators

Test your internet speed

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

How to Poop at Work - Bathroom Etiquette and Types of Poop

Pedro Pascal Will Not Appear in the Mandalorian Season 4

3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen

Bloomberg’s The Big Hack

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

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Ward William Bones Obituary

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634: How the Sausage is Sequenced Feb 03, 2024

AI Carlin was people; FTX not coming back; Neuralink implants a human; Yaccarino invents a new company; Senate hearing on online child exploitation; Universal pulls its music from TikTok; music piracy is back; Comcast forced to drop misleading 10G Network claim; 23andMe almost worthless now; FCC takes on AI-generated robocalls; Musk's bad week, Tesla sued, Musk loses case, voted most overrated CEO, SpaceX sued; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; Eugene Levy; SiriusXM vastly overpays for SmartLess; Hulu cracks down on password sharing; Masters of the Air; Monsieur Spade; Star Trek ghost sex; Apple Vision Pro; Snap drone fireballs; AI & blockchain bullcrap; This Book May Save Your Life; Daily Laws & Daily Stoic.

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That AI-generated George Carlin comedy special was written by humans

Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less

IN THE NEWS

Thank God FTX Won't Be Coming Back

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has Implanted Its Chip in a Human for the First Time

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims company has 90M US users, less than 1% are teens

Senate tells social media CEOs they have ‘blood on their hands

Universal Music Group Warns It Will Pull Songs From TikTok After Deal Expiration

TikTok Is Thrown Into Disarray As Music From Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande Disappears

Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims

23ANDME HAS LOST BILLIONS, ALMOST WORTHLESS NOW

FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls

iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement

Tesla sued by 25 California counties for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste

HEAVY METAL DRUMMER COST ELON MUSK $55.8 BILLION

Tesla Lawyer Cried at a Deposition Because He Loves Elon So Much

ELON MUSK VOTED "MOST OVERRATED CEO" BY HIS COLLEAGUES

SpaceX sued for negligence in accident that led to worker's coma

MEDIA CANDY

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy

SmartLess Podcast Moves to SiriusXM in Exclusive $100 Million Deal

Hulu is the latest streaming service to crack down on password sharing

Masters of the Air

Monsieur Spade

22 Years Later, Cillian Murphy Might Return for 28 Years Later

30 Years on, TNG's Ghost Sex Episode Remains as Unhinged and Awful as Ever

Wilson Bethel's Bullseye Returning for Daredevil: Born Again (Exclusive)

Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

Apple says the EU accounts for just 7% of its global App Store revenue

Snap Recalls All of Its Selfie Drones Due to Fears They'll Become Flying Fireballs

Sam Altman Says GPT-5 Will Be ‘Okay’

How AI Works

How AI Doesn't Work

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

Pivot: Deepfake Regulation, Media Layoffs, and Guest Chris Dixon

Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon

AT THE LIBRARY

This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Karan Rajan

The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature by Robert Greene

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

The stoics and the Sex Pistols: Philosophical roots of punk rebellion go back to ancient Greece

Itchy by Teresa McNulty

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633: Brie Break Jan 27, 2024

Ello, Goodbye; Layoffs at eBay, Alphabet, Microsoft & TikTok; more doomed crypto firms; sneaking porn onto Wikimedia & Instagram; France fines Amazon over employee tracking accuracy; facial recognition leads to wrongful jailing; Meta Oversight Board remains useless; cool medical science; EVs need new tires shockingly often; Lift; Death and other Details; the Brothers Sun; Ultraviolet; Jon Stewart back to the Daily Show; more Apple+ sci-fi; Masters of the Air flies; Netflix kills lower ad-free plan; Screens 6; Paste; Tesla working on compact crossover; Apple car still coming; the Artifact; Slow Productivity; office poop etiquette; Eufy security cameras; Amazing Ring does something good; Apple stolen device protection.

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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams

George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators of AI-Generated Comedy Special

IN THE NEWS

eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce

Alphabet is cutting dozens of jobs at its X moonshot lab

Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox Staff One Day After $3 Trillion Valuation

TikTok is reportedly laying off workers to cut costs

Doomed crypto firm Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy in the US

Wikimedia's Pornographers

How to Upload Porn to Instagram

France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance

Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit

Meta’s Oversight Board raises concerns over automated moderation of hate speech

6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection

Florida EV Buyers Shocked To Learn Their Cars Eat Tires

MEDIA CANDY

Lift

Death and Other Details

The Brothers Sun

Ultraviolet

Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host

Apple just dropped a mysterious trailer for its latest sci-fi series Constellation

Masters of the Air

Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes

APPS & DOODADS

Screens 5

Paste on SetApp

Tesla is reportedly building a compact crossover codenamed 'Redwood'

The Apple car apparently still exists, could debut in 2028 with reduced autonomy

AT THE LIBRARY

The Artifact (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras

Amazon’s Ring App Will No Longer Make It Easy for Cops to Get Video Footage

Apple releases iOS 17.3 with new Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Porn Star Jesse Jane Dead at 43 After Apparent Overdose with Boyfriend

Playboy, Maxim Model Masuimi Max Dead at 45

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632: Stuck in Porn Mode Jan 20, 2024

Google search results really are getting worse; Artifact shutting down; more Google layoffs, even more coming; Uber shuts down Drizzly; Sandberg leans out of Meta; Zack's general intelligence; OpenAI a-ok with military & warfare; drone attack prep; Bluey; the Brothers Sun; Bear; She-Hulk; Fargo; Weird: the Al Yankovic Story; Carlin AI special; Rick Rubin; What Next: TBD; BBEdit; Vienna RSS; Permute; Apple overtakes Samsung; AI binoculars; self-checkout nightmare; Wordpress; Greg Bear; Dr. Karan Rajan; Martha Wells Murderbot; Dune & David Lynch; Star Wars; Disneyland; Star Wars Land; HoloTile; Incognito mode only hides things from yourself; Apple Vision Pro; defending Apple.

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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles

IN THE NEWS

Instagram's founders are shutting down Artifact, their year-old news app

Google is laying off hundreds of workers who sell ads to big businesses

Google CEO says more layoffs expected 'throughout the year' in internal memo

Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion

Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving the Meta Board

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

OpenAI's policy no longer explicitly bans the use of its technology for 'military and warfare'

U.S. tech companies prepare for potential drone attacks as international strikes spark concern

Las Vegas Criminalizes Stopping For Selfies on Pedestrian Bridges

MEDIA CANDY

Bluey’s cricket episode: why did it leave Australians in tears and Americans puzzled?

The Brothers Sun

The Trust - A Game of Greed

She-Hulk Season 2 Seems Unlikely, According to Tatiana Maslany

Netflix Reveals a New Look at Its 3 Body Problem Adaptation—and Its Release Date

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

EU says music streaming platforms must pay artists more

George Carlin's Daughter Doubles Down in Bashing AI Comedy Special

George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead (2024) - Full Special

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

APPS & DOODADS

Get Permute on SetApp

Apple ends Samsung's decade-plus run as global smartphone shipment leader

Apple updates US App Store guidelines allowing developers to link to third-party payments

Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

Marc Newson designs Swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own

The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

AT THE LIBRARY

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Dr. Karan Rajan

System Collapse - Murderbot Diaries Book 7 by Martha Wells

David Lynch's Lost Dune 2 Script Has Been Found

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The New and Updated Guide to Every Star Wars Movie and TV Show We Know Is Coming

'The Mandalorian' Is Getting a Movie—Which It Should Have Been All Along

All Your Questions About The Mandalorian & Grogu, Answered

No, Rey's Star Wars Movie Hasn't Been Delayed

Meet the Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'

Google now admits it could collect data in Chrome's Incognito mode

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631: Zamboni Sunsets Jan 13, 2024

We're back; class-action lawsuits; Hertz ditching TVs; SEC approves Bitcoin ETFs but does not endorse Bitcoin; ChatGPT store, auto implementations; a pink-slip tsunami: Unity, NASA, Duolingo, Amazon, Audible, Twitch, Pixar, Humane, Google, oh my; Happiest Season; Family Switch; Barbie; Trevor Noah; Dave Chappelle; the Killer; Mission Impossible; food documentaries; the Traitors; Reacher; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; upcoming shows; Audacity files for bankruptcy; Tom Lehrer; Squaresapce; SetApp; iPhone 15 Plus; Fantasy Hike; Instagram post-holiday ads; Apple Vision Pro; MouthPad; shaving & Apple Watch Ultra updates; hacked Nutrunners; public transport; Canadian right to privacy, even for thieves.

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Esposito et al. v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless

Rental giant Hertz replacing Teslas with gasoline cars

eBay Sent Critics a Bloody Pig Mask. Now It’s Paying a $3 Million Fine

IN THE NEWS

SEC approves bitcoin ETFs (for real this time)

ChatGPT maker OpenAI launches GPT Store and a subscription tier for teams

A Volkswagen with ChatGPT told me a story about dinosaurs at CES 2024

Amazon and BMW are replacing the driver's manual with AI

Unity to lay off another 1,800 employees, representing 25% of its workforce

Layoffs Loom at NASA After Termination of Over 100 Contractors Amid Mars Budget Constraints

Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractor workforce as the company embraces AI

Amazon is laying off ‘several hundred’ employees at Prime Video and MGM Studios

Amazon-owned Audible lays off 5% of staff

Twitch is laying off 35 percent of its workforce

As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024

Humane lays off staff before its 'Ai Pin' begins shipping

Google lays off “hundreds” more employees, strips Google Assistant features

Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

MEDIA CANDY

Trevor Noah: Where Was I?

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon

The Killer

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING, PART ONE

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

The Traitors UK Season 2

The Traitors US Season 2

Fargo Season 5

Reacher Season 2

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Halo Season 2 trailer promises a live-action "Fall of Reach"

‘Slow Horses’ Rides to Season 5 Renewal at Apple

The Last Season of Stranger Things Has Finally Begun Production

Netflix’s sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem finally gets a full-sized trailer

Broadcaster Audacy Files for Bankruptcy After Deal to Slash Debt

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

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An iPhone Fell From Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and Survived Unscathed

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Learn more about Apple Vision Pro

Samsung debuts the world's first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024

MouthPad turns your tongue into a mouse for your phone

Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them.

Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says

Using the 2003 Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED to Digitize Film in 2023

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

How to Turn Your iPhone Screen Red

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

Wave of the hand defeats new $700k subway gates meant to deter fare evaders

Canadian Police Say 'Porch Pirates' Have a Right to Privacy

The Jewel Thief

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630: Roast Beast Dec 23, 2023

Last show of the year; YouTube jail; Google; Blue Origin; AI bubbles; dealing with Musk; Hue pink slips; brain-scale supercomputers; more tech fraud; X under EU investigation; Teslas crash most; Adobe Figma deal off; Hyperloop One done; AI dataset riddled with CSAM; Bird goes bankrupt; stop planting trees; Kang verdict; potential Discovery/Paramount merger; the Family Plan; Monarch; Reacher; Slow Horses; Bookie; The Crown; French streaming music tax; Apple Watch sales halted, sorta; iPod wallpapers; TikTok on tablets; VPNs come to Apple TV; Synology sunset; sleeping; a tale of holiday roasts; Happy Holidays!

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Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states

Blue Origin Rebounds With New Shepard's Successful Launch After Previous Mission Failure

DoorDash and Uber minimum wage ruling leads companies to hit back on tipping

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

IN THE NEWS

Philips Hue announces job cuts and reorganization amid 'market uncertainty'

World's First Human 'Brain-Scale' Supercomputer Will Go Online in 2024

Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison for fraud

X Under Investigation for Spreading ‘Illegal Content’ on Israel and Hamas in EU

Teslas Crash More Than Any Other Brand, Analysis Finds

Adobe Officially Cancels $20 Billion Figma Acquisition

Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down

How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

Electric scooter rental company Bird files for bankruptcy two years after going public

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

MEDIA CANDY

Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors as Kang After Assault Trial Verdict

Actor Jonathan Majors Found Guilty of Assault and Harassment

Tolkien Estate and Amazon Win Court Case for Lord of the Rings Rights

A Potential Warner Bros and Paramount Merger Could Be Hollywood's Next Megacorp

The Family Plan

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Reacher

Slow Horses S3

Bookie

The Crown Season 6, Part Deux

New French streaming music tax would finance a music industry support group. Streamers counter.

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales paused in the US due to a patent dispute

Apple Settles Family Sharing Subscription Lawsuit

iPod wallpapers for iPhone: Download these now

TikTok rolls out an enhanced app experience for tablets and foldables

NordVPN comes to the Apple TV

Private Internet Access - Smart DNS on AppleTV

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Spark Mail on SetApp

Synology to Sunset DSM 6.2 Operating System: What Users Should Know

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio to Target Ads on Their Podcast

Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents

Xfinity breach may have affected as many as 35.8 million customers

The DOJ says it disrupted the Blackcat ransomware group

INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation

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629: Throbbing Rocket Dec 15, 2023

Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan for Threads; Starlink loses out on subsidies; Microsoft plays nice with unions; Tesla's Swedish Trash Metal, recalls over Autopilot software, Cybertruck; SpaceX & Blue Origin; communing with the whales; more Traitors; Slow Horses; Sliced Bread; streaming consolidation & confusion; Netflix metrics; Murderbot; Apple updates; GM drops CarPlay for... safety; Mistral; E3 is officially dead; Teresa Strasser; Longitude by Dave Sobel; Charlie Stross Accelerando; hello, Computer?

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Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving

Etsy stock falls after company lays off 11% of its staff, citing ‘very challenging’ environment

Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise

A HEARTFELT FAREWELL: TWIT SAYS GOODBYE TO VALUED TEAM MEMBERS

IN THE NEWS

San Francisco tech CEO Christian Lanng accused of forcing assistant to sign 'slave contract,' sexual torture

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Meta is going to fact-check content on the Threads app

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

Microsoft agrees to union contract terms involving the use of AI

Tesla's Fight With Swedish Unions Just Got Trashy

Tesla Recalls 2 Million Vehicles Over Autopilot Software Issue

Tesla could still sue Cybertruck owners if they flip their vehicles too soon

Watch a Cybertruck get towed by a Ford pickup after the Tesla appears to get stuck off-roading

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment

Researchers fuse lab-grown human brain tissue with electronics

SpaceX shares cinematic footage of last month’s Starship mission

Bezos’ Blue Origin aiming to make long-awaited return to launch next week

Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter with Humpback Whales Reveals Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication

MEDIA CANDY

The Traitors UK

Gary Oldman looks worlds away from his usual self as he sports a bushy grey beard at screening of Slow Horses in NYC after receiving Golden Globe nod

Doctor Who Special 3

Sliced Bread

Showtime's Cable Channel Is Changing Its Name to... Paramount+ With Showtime

Google begins shifting users from Play Movies & TV ahead of its January shutdown

Netflix’s first engagement report reveals its most popular shows and movies

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Explains Why It Has Been Hiding All That Streaming Data

Tucker Carlson Launches Subscription Streamer, Because X Reportedly Couldn’t Do the Job

Apple will reportedly reward artists for offering music in spatial audio

Apple is making a Murderbot series starring Alexander Skarsgård

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 17.2 and Apple's new Journal app are now available

Apple tvOS 17.2 has a redesigned TV experience and no iTunes Movies or TV Shows apps

Apple launches Stolen Device Protection for iPhone with iOS 17.3 beta, here’s how it works

GM’s latest excuse for dropping CarPlay is its dumbest yet

Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI

OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training

E3 is officially dead

AT THE LIBRARY

Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League by Teresa Strasser

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Accelerando by Charles Stross

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

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628: Same Day Pink Slip Dec 09, 2023

California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's Spotify Wrapped message; podcast industry problems; Mint, Google Podcasts shutting down; anti-woke AI Grok is here, what could possibly go wrong; Google launches Gemini, fakes demo; Amazon sued over "guaranteed delivery"; Star Trek: Discovery back for final season; Foundation season 3; Disney+ Hulu integration begins; Titans; Robbie Williams; Q Magazine; Playstation removes shows people paid for; holiday playlists; Clash Royale, end of an era; MacWhisper transcription; 23andMe hack much larger than originally reported; AI is spackle; COX Media is listening; shave & a haircut, two bits.

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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Continues to Go Terribly

World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part I

World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part II

Story Living by Disney

GM’s Cruise Threatened With Fines Over Allegedly Misleading Regulators

IN THE NEWS

Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb

Spotify’s CFO is out days after mass layoffs

Spotify and its CFO Paul Vogel have decided to part ways

Tidal is laying off 10 percent of its staff

'Washington Post' journalists stage daylong strike under threat of job cuts

Satirist Andy Borowitz Out at The New Yorker Amid Cost Cuts

“Weird Al” Yankovic on Viral Spotify Comments: There’s a Reason Why I Don’t Release Albums Anymore

Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie

Here's how to move your subscriptions off Google Podcasts before it shuts down

Intuit is shutting down Mint, its popular free budget-tracking app

Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply

Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real

Amazon, fighting consumer lawsuit, says 'guaranteed' delivery has limits

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date

The Last of Us Season 2 Will Debut in 2025

Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is coming back for season 3

‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed for Three More Seasons at HBO

Disney+ adds a Hulu tab as the streaming services start integrating

Titans

Robbie Williams

Q Magazine

Cruel World Festival III

PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

BBC 6 Music’s Alternative Christmas

80(ish) Alternative Christmas

Christmas Peaceful Guitar

Christmas Classics

The Labours Of Hercule Podcast

Darknet Diaries EP 140: REVENGE BYTES

APPS & DOODADS

Entire team behind popular iPhone video app Filmic reportedly laid off

Blackmagic Camera

Half of London's famed black cab taxi fleet are now EVs

MacWhisper transcription now up to 3x faster on Macs with Apple silicon

Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers

23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court

The cops think iOS 17’s NameDrop is dangerous

AI is spackle - from Mark Hurst.

COX Media group is listening.

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627: Lords and Peasants Dec 02, 2023

Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit; pink slip season appetizers; DevTernity female cos-play; death at Amazon; Moscow's criminal wanted list adds Andy Stone; locked out of Google; as the TwiX turns; Mr. Free Speech; The Crown; Welcome to Wrexham; Doctor Who; Squid Game Challenge; Milli Vanilli; AI video goes Giffy; no-BS games; Jason beats Auphonic; IKEA's smart home devices; Google drive files goes missing; DeepMind finds the Dark Crystal; finishing up The Last Emperox; Galaxy Outlaws; Fooled; Comixology; 404 Media; sleep data; AT&T Hemisphere; public transit & privacy; gadget catalogs; shaving & supple, elastic skin.

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Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses

Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges

Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers

Guy Brags About "Stealing" Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors' Articles Using AI

Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet

Seven years after Elon Musk started The Boring Company, the company only has 2.4 miles of tunnel to show for it

IN THE NEWS

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs

Mass layoffs reportedly hit Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse

A 20-year-old Amazon employee died at work. Indiana issued a $7,000 fine.

Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports

How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out

Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content

X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says 'f*ck yourself' to advertisers

After Musk tirade, X faces prospect of more advertisers fleeing

‘If Tesla gets unionized it’s because we deserve it’: Elon Musk says he’s made his factory workers millionaires but concedes some may still turn against him

Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 – a critical update to self-driving effort

MEDIA CANDY

Milli Vanilli

Squid Game Challenge

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies On the Importance of Showing Trans Struggles

The Crown Season 6

Welcome to Wrexham Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

AI Video is Animating Classic Memes

Generative AI for Beginners - A Course

No-Bullshit Games

IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage

Google is investigating a Drive issue that causes files to go missing

New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

AT THE LIBRARY

The Last Emperox (The Interdependency Book 3) by John Scalzi

Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions, 1-16.5 by J. S. Morin

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Important Changes to the Comixology app starting December 4, 2023

George R.R. Martin Has No (New) Pages

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama

US Senator calls for the public release of AT&T ‘Hemisphere’ surveillance records

Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymity

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs

Viking Revolution Pre Shave Oil for Men

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Shout out to Ted (aka Trackpants) & Christine @ Reid’s Chocolates

Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP

Shane MacGowan, Pogues Singer, Dead at 65

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626: Slammer Cast Nov 25, 2023

While we were away; Thanksgiving gratitude bombs; OpenAI's overworked HR department; Meta disbands Responsible AI team; Truth Social hemorrhaging money; no idea how many people Cruise have hit; JenniCam & Justin.tv; Binance money laundering; Jason vs CZ; YouTube adblocking causing "suboptimal viewing experiences"; Amazon's AI Olympus; Loki finale; lawmakers stepping into media; the Traitors around the world; Pigeon Tunnel; Slow Horses; anime; mildly buzzed on a plane movie reviews; Not Today, Pal; the President's Daily Brief; Apple Watch; Spotify; Sonos; Filoni given the Star Wars keys; Apple Watch; Autozone breach.

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WHILE WE WERE AWAY

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows

Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

Cruise's Kyle Vogt resigns as CEO of the robotaxi company

Cruise co-founder resigns following CEO exit

IN THE NEWS

Binance Founder Agrees to Plead Guilty to Violating Money Laundering Rules

Google admits YouTube's war on ad blockers is resulting in 'suboptimal viewing' experiences

Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus' -sources

OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama

MEDIA CANDY

The Night Manager

Lawmakers Press Apple on Whether Jon Stewart’s Show Was Canceled Because of China Concerns

Senator Joaquin Castro on the WBD decision to cancel the Coyote vs. ACME movie

The Traitors Season 2 Features an All-Star Reality TV Cast

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test

The Pigeon Tunnel

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Asteroid City

Americanish

Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

Darker Waves Festival

The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.

The President's Daily Brief

Monday Movie Marathon

Not Today Pal

APPS & DOODADS

How to try out the new double tap gesture on your old Apple Watch

A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees

Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays

Sonos' long-rumored headphones will reportedly arrive by April 2024

THE DARK SIDE WITHOUT DAVE

Dave Filoni Just Got a Bigger, More Important Star Wars Job

Apple Watch battery life bug is fixed with watchOS 10.1.1

AutoZone warns almost 185,000 customers of a data breach

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625: If I Only Had a Brain Nov 11, 2023

Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse than previously reported; OpenAI's expanding; Google generative AI ads; bros on a boat; AI bot engages in insider trading, lying about it; Loki, the Marvels & superhero fatigue; SAG-AFTRA strike ends; Musk biopic; streaming media accounting; Marianne Faithfull; Star Trek escape room; the Traitors; YouTube ad-blocking; Humane AI Pin; the Interdependency; new sci-fi trilogy from the Expanse writers; thoughts are with the Great Woz.

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FOLLOW UP

Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’

Sam Bankman-Fried and the People Who Gave Up Their Money for Nothing

Citation Needed

IN THE NEWS

WeWork files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes

Things are going from bad to worse for Cruise's robotaxis

Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?

Cruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles

Everything announced at OpenAI's first developer event

Google brings generative AI to ads

Google Announces Expansion of AI Partnership with Anthropic

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform

AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

MEDIA CANDY

‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before

Hollywood studios reportedly want to recycle dead actors’ AI likenesses without family permission

Darren Aronofsky Will Direct an Elon Musk Biopic for A24

Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers, Still Loses Money

Marianne Faithfull Covers Album Features Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson, Cat Power, and More

Star Trek: Quantum Filament

The Traitors Australia

Stanford Prison Experiment: Zimbardo’s Famous Study

APPS & DOODADS

Thousands of people are uninstalling ad blockers after YouTube's big crackdown

YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws

The Humane AI Pin Gets Its Big Reveal But We Still Have a Lot of Questions

AT THE LIBRARY

The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi

The Expanse's James S.A. Corey Announces a New Sci-Fi Trilogy

Spotify brings 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Hospitalized After Possible Stroke

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624: Captain Executive Order Nov 04, 2023

Tesla off the hook; bees; SBF guilty on all counts; White House AI EO; META mostly ad-free plan;, toothless oversight board; WeWork nears bankruptcy; more X shenanigan; Bezos has been a naughty boy; Google .ing a th.ing; Loki; finales for Lower Decks, Gen V & Billions; the Traitors; World Series drones; Highlander reboot; Disney buys all of Hulu; loyal Max subscribers get less for more; Apple Journal; Microsoft Copilot; YouTube cracking down on ad blockers; Obsidian; Scalzi's Interdependency; Facebook tips & tricks; Space Mountain & Behind the Attraction; the Beatles; AI & ML definitions; Baader-Meinhof & my phone is reading my mind.

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FOLLOW UP

Tesla's Autopilot was not to blame for fatal 2019 Model 3 crash, jury finds

Meta will stop forcing your Threads posts onto Facebook and it can’t come soon enough

The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees

IN THE NEWS

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI's toughest challenges

Meta Launches $10 Monthly Ad-Free Plan For Facebook and Instagram in EU

Meta’s Oversight Board: Dangerous diet videos can remain, but please demonetize them

Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy

X won’t pay creators for tweets that get fact checked with community notes

Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform

Regulators blame Bezos for making Amazon worse in new lawsuit details

Google is officially trying to make .ing domains a th.ing

Introduc…ing the .ing top-level domain

MEDIA CANDY

Fox Sports will use drones in World Series broadcasts for the first time

Lionsgate Moving Forward With Henry Cavill & Chad Stahelski ‘Highlander’ Reboot As Action-Fantasy Pic Heads To AFM To Enliven A Strike-Hit Market

Disney’s Officially Buying (All of) Hulu

Netflix will cut the number of ads you see if you binge-watch; ad-supported downloads also coming soon

Is streaming video even still worth it?

Betteridge's law of headlines.

APPS & DOODADS

Day One

Apple iPad

EU Common Charger Law May Be Final Nail in Coffin for DSLRs

Apple's 'Scary Fast' Mac event was shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Microsoft Copilot Launches Worldwide Tomorrow, but What the Hell Is It?

Leo, Brave’s browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing

YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers globally

Obsidian

AT THE LIBRARY

The Consuming Fire: The Interdependency, Book 2 by John Scalzi

The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi

44 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your November Reading List

Murderbot Struggles to Pass for Human in This Excerpt From Martha Wells' Exit Strategy

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Friendly Social Browser

FB Purity

Space Mountain, with the lights on

Disney Behind the Attraction

The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Audio)

Learn the full story behind 'Now And Then' - watch the documentary today.

What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Patreon on Google Play Store

Matthew Perry cause of death inconclusive pending toxicology tests

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623: Super Spanx! Oct 28, 2023

Our AI Super Hero, Cyber Sentinel, is joined by Tech Guardian & DataWraith; Happy Xiversary, everything Elon has broke in one year; SBF talking himself into jail; California suspends Cruise; robotaxi pushback increases; Uber driverless Waymo in Phoenix; AI & machine learning, again; poison pill for AI art generators; social media lawsuits; EVs & hybrids; Daniel Ek's Spotify whining, new royalty models; Get Gotti; Beckham & Messi; Loki; HQ Trivia doc; Apple workarounds; Urban Outfitter's vintage iPods; Word is 40; Scalzi & King; Flipper Zero; Dave is back on Facebook; self-righteous, f'ing liberal moronic comments.

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FOLLOW UP

Happy anniversary to Elon Musk’s Twitter

Everything Elon Musk Broke in the Year He’s Owned Twitter

Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks in 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail

IN THE NEWS

California DMV suspends Cruise’s driverless permits

Robotaxi pushback grows in Los Angeles as Cruise loses permits

Uber starts offering fully autonomous Waymo rides in Phoenix

Cruise pauses all driverless robotaxi operations to 'rebuild public trust'

Americans think AI is bad news for data privacy

White House to unveil sweeping AI executive order next week

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

Google ordered to pay $1 million to female exec who sued over gender discrimination

The Supreme Court will hear case on government’s contacts with social media companies

FTC Plans to Add Child Psychologists to Address Internet's Impact on Kid's Mental Health

41 states sue Meta for harming the mental health of its youngest users

GM and Honda punt on plan to build millions of affordable EVs together

Ford hits the brakes on $12 billion in EV spending because EVs are too expensive

MEDIA CANDY

DANIEL EK: I launched Spotify in the UK 15 years ago. But I fear I couldn't do that today because Apple is a barrier to innovation

Spotify looks set to overhaul its royalty model next year

Get Gotti

Beckham

Messi Meets America

Frasier Is Still Listening

Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia

Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia - Wikipedia

Milli Vanilli

Apple TV+ Just Jacked Up Its Prices (Again)

APPS & DOODADS

How to customize double tap on the Apple Watch

Urban Outfitters is selling ‘vintage retro’ iPods and millennials’ feelings are hurt

Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

Amazon Rolls Out Passkeys as Big Tech Bids Farewell to Passwords

Microsoft Word Is 40 Years Young and Here to Make You Feel Old

AT THE LIBRARY

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Book 1) by John Scalzi

Stephen King's The Stand Lives Again with New Anthology Book

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

You Should Probably Buy a Flipper Zero Before It's Too Late

Flipper Zero

Internet artifacts

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

'SHAFT' STAR RICHARD ROUNDTREE DEAD AT 81

Grant Imahara

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622: Never Fear, Cyber Sentinel is Here! Oct 21, 2023

Cancelling everything; Crypto-Winkle-Ferraris; we've gone 10G; leaving X/Twitter has zero impact on traffic; X starts to charge new users; TikTok's plans for misinformation; too much social media for teens; AI assisted lawyers; No Fakes Act; more tech layoffs; John Oliver & Bill Maher; Jon Stewart; Gen V; Loki; Beckham; Myspace & tech docs; Frasier; Upload; Doctor Who; Billions; Lupin; Spotify artist merch; british podcasts; Meta glassholes; 3d Printers; Apple pencils; more live music; 23andMe hack much bigger than previously reported; real life games; music podcasts; fursonas; ChatGPT superheroes.

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FOLLOW UP

You Can Now Use Crypto to Buy a Ferrari

Winklevoss-owned crypto firm hit by lawsuit alleging it defrauded investors of $1 billion

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims

FCC Votes to Begin Reinstatement of Net Neutrality

Net neutrality: 'Dead people' signing FCC consultation

IN THE NEWS

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible

Biden, Trolling Trump, Joins Truth Social: ‘Converts Welcome’

X begins charging new users $1 per year to send tweets

Slack is retiring its status account on X

Australian regulators fine X for dodging questions about CSAM response

Some Fascinating Emergent User Behavior

TikTok details how it's taking action against Israel-Hamas misinformation

More Than Half U.S. Teens Use Social Media For Almost Five Hours Per Day, Survey Finds

Google asks Congress to not ban teens from social media

Google Will Legally Protect its Generative AI Users

Fugees rapper Pras accuses his lawyer of using AI in closing arguments

'No Fakes Act' Seeks to Ban Unauthorized AI-Generated Likenesses

STACK OVERFLOW LAYS OFF EMPLOYEES AS AI THREATENS CODING INDUSTRY

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

Product Hunt cleans house with layoffs impacting 60% of staff

More Google layoffs: Google News cuts dozens of jobs

MEDIA CANDY

The Problem With Jon Stewart ending over AI and China coverage

Shocker, Gen V is Renewed for Season 2

Nostalgia alert: There’s a documentary about Myspace in the works

The Wheel of Time

Beckham

Frasier (2023)

Upload Season 3

Doctor Who's Very First Story Won't Be Part of the BBC's Streaming Archive

Spotify launches hub for artists’ merch

Lupin

Big Kick Energy with Maise Adam and Suzi Ruffel

Namaste Motherfuckers with Cally Beaton

Cuddle Club with Lou Sanders

APPS & DOODADS

The Meta glassholes have arrived

New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Bauhaus, Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape

Ministry, In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up

Underworld, Everything Everything

Take Me Home (Piss Off) - Duncan Redmonds of Snuff

Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea

Trust & Safety Typhoon

Moderator Mayhem

Strong Songs episode on Star Wars and John Williams

The Art of the Score

The Story Behind the Song

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621: Cryptomucil Oct 14, 2023

The band's getting bigger; Microsoft closes Activision deal; sobriety & London boozers; misinformation everywhere, but X in particular; SBF/FTX trial recap; 23andMe data for sale after being scraped; Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellites; coin flips aren't 50/50; Weird Al is a national treasure; Gen V; Loki; 3 seashells; british TV; the Flash; Indiana Jones; Blackberry; Danny Elfman, Tim Burton & the Royal Albert Hall; the Night Agent; For All Mankind; Unity CEO steps down; generative AI in the search bar; John Scalzi; Terry Pratchett; Radio Shack; Apple Watch tips; Star Wars BD droids in the wild; Ahsoka; speed up radio; Peter Gunn; chemtrails in Bismark.

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FOLLOW UP

Microsoft Closes $69 Billion Activision Deal, Overcoming Regulators’ Objections

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation

EU is formally investigating X over content about the Israel-Hamas war

What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter?

IN THE NEWS

Molly White Newsletter

Coffeezilla on Twitter

New Clues Suggest Stolen FTX Funds Went to Russia-Linked Money Launderers

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped

Amazon launches first internet satellite prototypes

California governor signs ban on social media ‘aiding or abetting’ child abuse

Coin flips don’t appear to have 50/50 odds after all

MEDIA CANDY

Gen V

Loki Season 2

Demolition Man's Writer Explains How the 3 Seashells Came To Be

Krysten Ritter Wakes Up in a Nightmare in Orphan Black: Echoes Teaser: Watch

Guardians of the Galaxy III

The Flash

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Blackberry

ROYAL ALBERT HALL PRESENTS DANNY ELFMAN'S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON

The Night Agent

For All Mankind embarks on asteroid mining gold rush in season 4 official trailer

Photographer Makes All of His Stunning Photos Available for Free

APPS & DOODADS

Unity CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down After Pricing Blowup

You can now generate AI images directly in the Google Search bar

Is trying to watermark AI images a losing battle?

AT THE LIBRARY

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett

Slayers: A Buffyverse Story

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Radioshack 1985 catalog

Apple Watch Tips:

Access recently opened apps (switch between apps) by double click (press) the Digital Crown. Till WatchOS 9, this could be done using the side button. But since WatchOS 10, the side button takes you to the control centre.
Use the mobile flash button (the one in the control centre - mobile with a couple of brackets around it) to ping your phone in case you need to find it. It send a loud ring to your phone. Quite useful when you don’t know where in the house did you keep your phone.
Force restart - long press the Digital Crown and the side button together.
Jason mentioned about silencing the timer by placing his hand over the watch - this applies to incoming calls as well or in fact any sound.
During workout - quick access to music (currently being played), swipe left on the workout screen. The Digital Crown acts as a volume controller.
Turn off Wi-Fi -saves battery - you don’t really need Wi-Fi unless you are updating the watch/apps. This was quite needed earlier for unlocking your phone while wearing a mask (Depends on your usage)
Using low power mode is quite helpful to save power - the essential features still work - again depends on what you want tracked.

Star Wars BD Droids Spotted Adorably Roaming Disneyland Galaxy's Edge

Peter Gunn (Live in Tokyo, 1986)

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Keith Giffen, Legendary Comics Artist and Writer

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620: Hello Sluts! Sep 30, 2023

Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped with RICO lawsuit; Epic Games layoffs, sells Bandcamp; Meta ignored Metaverse for AI, no one wants their insane visions; California governor Newsom vs Teamsters; US electrical grid in trouble; human radiologists still better than AI; Pudgy Penguins & NFT stories; torrents are 20 years old; Getty goes AI; WGA strike ends; Tinder Select; desalination system, maybe; AG Riddle, John Scazli, Douglas Adams & Asimov's Foundation; Ultra 2 review; Ahsoka; delivery robots & privacy; good evening, Bismark!

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FOLLOW UP

Elon Musk and X/Twitter's CEO Can't Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is 'Gone'

Watch Linda Yaccarino’s wild interview at the Code Conference

IN THE NEWS

U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail

Amazon Bedrock is available now.

The FTC is challenging Microsoft’s $69 billion buyout of Activision again

H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data

Epic Games is laying off 16 percent of its workforce and selling Bandcamp

Meta’s metaverse is getting an AI makeover

MARK ZUCKERBERG SHOWS OFF WILDLY IMPROVED METAVERSE WITH LIFELIKE AVATARS

California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs

Gavin Newsom Under Fire From Teamsters Over Veto of Driverless Truck Bill

Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters

The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns

Human radiologists beat AI in diagnosing common lung diseases on X-rays

Walmart to sell Pudgy Penguins toyline in 2,000 stores

Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless

News flash: 95% of NFTs have ALWAYS been worthless

If You Invested $1,000 In Donald Trump NFTs, Here's How Much You Would Have Today

REDEEM YOUR TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS SERIES 1 PRIZE NFTs

MEDIA CANDY

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

Getty is going to offer AI-generated images after all

The WGA strike ends with protections against AI set in place

APPS & DOODADS

macOS Sonoma is now available

GeoDefense HD

Tinder’s $500 a month tier is here

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum Radio by AG Riddle

Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches Collection) by John Scalzi

Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Douglas Adams & Kevin Jon Davies

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LA

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Michael Gambon, Who Portrayed Dumbledore in Harry Potter Films, Dead at 82

Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90

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619: Monkey Gone to Heaven Sep 23, 2023

Booting down; Unity, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson & Bill Maher have heard you & have been listening; so much water; Tesla class action; Wayne testing robotaxis in LA; TikTok tracking employees, introduces voluntary AI content labels; Google Bard now lets you double check answers by... Googling, settles privacy lawsuit; some of Elon's Neuralink implant monkeys have, indeed, died, but looking for human volunteers, blue checks to blue chips; Good Omens; the Wheel of Time; Amazon Prime Video adding ads; Russell Brand; Secret Chef; Star Trek; Sex Education; Slow Horses; Microsoft Paint; Mahjong; Apple Watch; Star Wars; Disneyland music; Descript; the Overton Paradox; Zork & retro gaming.

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FOLLOW UP

Unity apologizes and promises to change its controversial game install fee policy

Microsoft’s $69B Activision merger on track for green light

Las Vegas Authorities Want to Know How Much Water Companies Use Before Letting Them Move In

Free Covid-19 Tests

IN THE NEWS

Tesla Detroit Derivative Action Settlement

Waymo begins testing the waters for a robotaxi service in Los Angeles

TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App

TikTok introduces a way to label AI-generated content

Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers

Google settles California lawsuit over its location-privacy practices

Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners

Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys

Elon Musk's Neuralink Seeks Volunteers for Brain Chip Implant Study

Airbnb Really Is Different Now

MEDIA CANDY

Good Omens Season 2

The Wheel of Time

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads from early next year

Kate Winslet on War Photographer Lee Miller, and the Film She Was Born to Make

YouTube Demonetizes Russell Brand After Rape Allegations

Secret Chef

Sex Education season 4 review: A fine, if overstuffed, sendoff

Slow Horses Season 3 Release Date Confirmed For December On Apple TV+

The Pigeon Tunnel — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

APPS & DOODADS

Microsoft Paint finally gets support for layers and transparency

Mahjong Solitaire NETFLIX

Amazon Restricts Authors to Self-Publishing Three Books a Day, a Totally Human Amount

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Disneyland: Music Around the Parks

Yesterland!

Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Music 6 Hour Loop

EPCOT Theme Park Music & Ambience

Descript has added a new feature (in Beta) called “Regenerate.”

The Overton Paradox

Play Zork online

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Britain Is Losing Its Precious Pubs

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618: Seal Team Aibo Sep 16, 2023

AI using a ton of water; individual efforts just a drop in the bucket; X suing California over disclosure law; TikTok accidentally blocked strike videos, hit with fine over privacy settings for children; oral decongestant on sale for 50 years just doesn't work; Mila & Ashton's bad week, Stoner Cats; Lyft Women+ Connect; Bluesky hits a million Scalzis; manifesting yourself broke; government web design systems; no AI Grammys; Spotify payola; Milli Vanilla; Interview with the Vampire; PodCast One; WhatsApp; Unity; Aibo Foster program; Apple leaking radiation in France; the Witcher; Elon Musk; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Levar Burton; lost Star Wars props; laserdiscs & Blue-Rays; the house lost in Vegas this week; programming language inventor or serial killer?

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Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa–with a lot of water

IN THE NEWS

X is suing California over social media content moderation law

TikTok accidentally blocked Hollywood writers strike videos while casting a QAnon net

TikTok hit with €345 million fine over privacy settings for children

The most common oral decongestant in the US does not work, FDA finds

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC

Lyft Can Now Connect Women and Nonbinary Passengers With Drivers of the Same Gender

Bluesky officially hits 1 million users

People who ‘manifest’ big dreams are more likely to go bankrupt

SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million

U.S. announces official web design system

GOV.UK Design System

MEDIA CANDY

AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd track won’t be winning a Grammy

Spotify will promote artists' music on your Home feed, if they pay

Milli Vanilli | Official Trailer | Paramount+

We Tried to Tell You About Interview With the Vampire

Netflix’s live-action One Piece to set sail with even more episodes

PodcastOne’s Stock Is Off To Rough Start, Losing More Than Half Its Value.

With PodcastOne’s Stock Still Falling, Parent LiveOne Opens Door To Buying Back Shares.

Exposing a Podcast Scam by Coffeezilla

APPS & DOODADS

WhatsApp tests feature that could open it up to other messaging apps

Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats

Sony will repair aging Aibo robot dogs to help them find their forever homes

Apple Says It’s Going to Fix Those Alleged High-Radiation iPhone 12s

AT THE LIBRARY

Apothecary (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Universe Returns in a New Audio Drama

Levar Burton Reads

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Long-lost ‘Star Wars’ X-wing model up for auction with starting price of $400,000

Star Wars Helmets

Disney celebrating centennial with a $1,500 box set of these 100 films

Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data

Hacking a Vegas casino may just take a single phone call

The Terms and Conditions game.

Programming language inventor or serial killer?

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617: It’s Just Business Sep 09, 2023

Burning Man; UK wises up about encryption; McPoutine; hello, Ello; ad free Facebook in the EU; META back to office; Grindr loses half staff due to unionization, we mean WFH; NYC regulates Airbnb; Mossberg departs X; facial recognition for stadiums; privacy nightmare cars; how to do business; Spotify financial woes; your pants are lying, perhaps on fire; Moviepass is back, again; Inside Man; Lincoln Lawyer; Winning Time; Wheel of Time; the Witcher; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Roku layoffs; Messi, MLS and AppleTV+ win; 3zekiel; Scalzi; Ahsoka; Only Murders in the Building; Apple Watch Ultra; AI homes.

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Future of iMessage safe in the UK, as government backs down on encryption

Americans Should Feel Humiliated by Canadian McDonald’s

AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy

IN THE NEWS

Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns

Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die

Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule

NYC’s ‘de facto ban’ on Airbnb is already removing listings

Veteran tech guru Walt Mossberg slams Elon Musk, deactivates X account: ‘Cesspool’

These 9 Stadiums Are Already Using Facial Recognition at Games

YouTube Vlogger Ruby Franke Charged With Six Counts of Felony Child Abuse

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats

‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing

Spotify’s $1 Billion Podcast Bet Turns Into a Serial Drama

Spotify reportedly locks white noise podcasters out of an ad program

Free audiobooks to be tested by Spotify; Audible competition plan

Spotify wants to put in-app lyrics behind a paywall

Elon Musk's X will use public data to train AI models

Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation

MEDIA CANDY

MoviePass

Inside Man

Lincoln Lawyer

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

The Wheel of Time Season 2

Roku Laying Off 10% of Employees, Will Take up to $65 Million Charge to Remove Streaming Content

Messi Drives Jump in Apple TV+ and MLS Subscriptions

AT THE LIBRARY

3zekiel (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown

NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Cory Doctorow’s presentation on a better internet from Defcon

AI IMAGINES A TYPICAL HOME IN EVERY STATE

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville singer dies aged 76

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616: Cheech & Chong for President Sep 02, 2023

Twitter may not have legs, but Meta finally does; blown Foxconn promises; SEC charges Impact Theory for NFTs; Worldcoin already dying; Cat, I Farted Enterprise for Business; AI regulations summit; META in court in Ireland over disinformation claims in Myanmar; Amazon CEO not cool with remote work anymore; there's a Copyright Claims Board?; Full Self Driving right through a red light, Elon Mode; Wheel of Time; Justified; AMC moving shows to Max; podcasting away loneliness; Levar gets Trivial Pursuit TV show; Apple kills CSAM photo scanning; iOS & iPadOS 17; Richard Blade; Derren Brown; some interesting feedback.

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'Bring Back Twitter!' Elon Gets Booed at Video Game Tournament

Meta's avatars finally grow some legs

Exclusive: Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage

Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory

IN THE NEWS

SEC Charges LA-Based Media and Entertainment Co. Impact Theory for Unregistered Offering of NFTs

Tom Bilyeu’s statement

SEC settles first NFT enforcement case, fines LA media company $6M

Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise For Businesses

Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations

Myanmar genocide refugees take Meta to Irish court over disinformation claims

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’

Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg

Tesla Ordered to Turn Over Data on Its Safety-Disabling 'Elon Mode' Autopilot Feature

Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election

MEDIA CANDY

Everything to Remember About Wheel of Time Ahead of Season 2

Justified: City Primeval

Interview With the Vampire and Fear the Walking Dead Will Pop Up on Max

AMC Reaches a Deal With SAG-AFTRA to Resume Production

The nonstop podcast listeners are on to something

LeVar Burton Close on Deal with CW for Trivial Pursuit Hosting Job

APPS & DOODADS

Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

AT THE LIBRARY

World In My Eyes by Richard Blade

NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bob Barker, Iconic 'The Price Is Right' Host, Dead at 99

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615: Cat, I Farted Aug 26, 2023

Stick around until the end for a BONUS episode of Boot Up with Jason! If you want to subscribe to the show (yes, you want to), go to BootUp.show!

Unfortunate translations; a tech bro reckoning; Nvidia makes bank, carbon emissions; NFT & crypto collapses; jail vegan diets; if you're gonna launder, launder big; food delivery is tanking; the Feds tried to get what the Chinese do with TikTok; Gizmodo's killer headlines; Code Llama, rusted; The Peripheral canceled, Frasier returns; Dune 2 delayed; the Matildas; last chance for Devo, OMD; Youtube's AI plan; Threads on the web; Photoshop's generative refill on old photos; Wipeout code; frivolous & not so frivolous lawsuits; Ahsoka; Wirecutter; dystopian fiction; Radio Shack would like your address, again.

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Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

Fyre Fest 2 tickets go on sale, despite no line-up or venue

The Internet’s Next Great Power Suck

IN THE NEWS

Nvidia just made $6 billion in pure profit over the AI boom

Godfather NFTs Weren’t Enough to Prevent Recur From Sleeping With the Fishes

Sam Bankman-Fried isn't getting his Adderall and is surviving on 'bread and water,' lawyers say

Former OpenSea Executive Sentenced to Three Months in Prison for Insider Trading

DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders for laundering over $1 billion in crypto

The Era of Food Delivery Is Fading

The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features

Peloton's Business Is as Busted as Its Bike Seats

Zoom CEO Says Employees Need to Be in the Office Because It's Hard to Build Trust Over Zoom

A Space Junk Removal Mission Got Struck By Space Junk

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

MEDIA CANDY

"The Peripheral" has been canceled at Amazon's Prime Video, Variety has learned from sources.

‘Frasier’ Revival Sets Premiere Date at Paramount+, First Two Episodes to Air on CBS

‘Dune: Part Two’ Delays Release to 2024 Amid Ongoing Actors Strike

Matildas: The World At Our Feet

Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire

YouTube is working on a plan to compensate artists and rightsholders for AI music

Our principles for partnering with the music industry on AI technology

I’m an Apple TV channels customer. Can I stream Paramount+ via the Apple TV app?

APPS & DOODADS

Threads on the web is here

People are Using Photoshop's Generative Fill to Restore Old Photos

Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster

Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor has a racial bias.

US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars B-Wing Drone Footage

What Happened to Wirecutter?

RadioShack’s NSFW Period Appears Over, as New Owner Plots a Brand Expansion

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Has Passed Away

WWE legend Terry Funk dead at 79

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614: Put Me In Coach Aug 19, 2023

Humans are horrible; robotaxis; Trump, X, DMs, set visibility to screwed; OpenAI lawsuits might wipe ChatGPT clean; Snapchat's AI glitches; using AI to ban books; new tools borks images for AI - for now; bots better at beating CAPTCHAs than humans; NFT lawsuits; those smart contracts are meaningless; Elon throttling links he doesn't like; scientists fleeing X; AppleTV+; streaming costs more than cable; people watching less TV; Strange New Worlds & Good Omens; Billions; Painkiller & Dopesick; the Witcher; YouTube crack down on cancer misinformation; class action lawsuits; Dirty Laundry, roleplaying musicals & baseball.

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IN THE NEWS

People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It

Robotaxis halt traffic in San Francisco's North Beach day after expansion approval

Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco

Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account

The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over

Snapchat's My AI chatbot glitched so hard it started posting Stories

An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books

Scientists Say New Tool Makes Images Worthless for Training AI

Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are

OpenAI is using GPT-4 to build an AI-powered content moderation system

NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken

X is slowing down links to websites Elon Musk has publicly feuded with

NYU Professor Locked Out of Twitter After Reportedly Declining to Meet With Elon Musk

Scientists are pulling back from Twitter and looking for alternatives

MEDIA CANDY

It’s official, people aren’t watching TV as much as they used to

Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

Anson Mount Recalls Recording ‘Space…The Final Frontier’ for ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’

In Praise of Bluey, the Most Grown-Up Television Show for Children

APPS & DOODADS

YouTube cracks down on videos promoting 'ineffective' cancer treatments

Apple Will Start Sending Payouts for $500 Million 'Batterygate' Lawsuit Soon

Time is running out to file claims for Facebook’s $725 million data privacy settlement

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood 'Red Flags', 'Doom Loop' & the Future of M&A

Stray Gods - The Roleplaying Musical

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613: Dirty Laundry Aug 12, 2023

Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom wants people back in, not on Zoom, except for the rest of the world; blocking OpenAI's crawler; Lyft, robotaxis; supermodels & Instagram, oh my; Jason is Bourne; Good Omens, Star Trek cliffhangers; Tetris; Disney+ prices rising; Google, record label deepfakes; Callsheet; Flash games; JustWatch; Charles Stross Singularity Sky, Season of Skulls; Peter Cawdron First Contact; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Dirty Laundry; Eufy; steam mopping; the Empire Strips Back.

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Charley's Restaurant & Saloon

The Morning After: Voyager 2 is alive!

FBI Alert: Crypto Scammers are Masquerading as NFT Developers

IN THE NEWS

Scientists have reproduced last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough

PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar

TikTok Users Will Be Able to Opt Out of the Algorithm in Europe

X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers

Twitter fined for belatedly complying with search warrant for Donald Trump's account

Zoom tells employees to return to the office, responds to generative AI pushback

Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler

Lyft plans to ditch surge pricing, which riders hate 'with a fiery passion'

Robotaxis get the green light to expand to 24/7 service in San Francisco

Supermodel is 'Terrified' of Posting on Instagram After Photographer Sued Her

Bella Hadid Sued Over Copyright of Photo She Posted to Instagram

MEDIA CANDY

Bourne (franchise)

Neil Gaiman Won't Let Good Omens' Story End Like That

Author says the Apple TV+ 'Tetris' movie ripped off his book

Disney+ is raising prices and cracking down on account sharing

Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”

APPS & DOODADS

Callsheet for iPhone lets you look up that actor you recognize without the IMDB cruft

How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember

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Deactivation of Flash may have crippled Chinese railroad for a day

All DJI Apps on Google Play are Frauds and Are Stealing Users' Money

JustWatch

AT THE LIBRARY

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

Season of Skulls: Laundry Files, Book 12 by Charles Stross

Wherever Seeds May Fall (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Generation of Vipers (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The 9 Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games

Star Wars-themed burlesque show, "The Empire Strips Back," still going strong

The Empire Strips Back

Eufy security cams

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Dev world mourns loss of Vim creator Bram Moolenaar

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612: TwiX are for Kids Aug 05, 2023

Threads is Twitter; Twitter is TwiX; Instagram preparing AI labels; META begins Canadian news blackout; NFT sales continue to decline; China considers more limits on kid's smartphone usage; Worldcoin offers up their digital ID service, no one wants it; Uber fatal self-driving case, turns profit for the first time ever; what Bores in Vegas; NASA loses contact with Voyager 2; Star Trek sings; Loki 2; Foundation Season 2 is horrific; Good Omens; 65; Shazam; Guardians of the Galaxy; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Apple subscriber growth; Sprite Max-tape art generator; billionaires: the pros, the cons, and mostly the cons; hop on the GOG Super Yacht!

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Swapping a Twitter Habit for a Threads One

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X

Tesla Owners Have Soured on Elon Musk, But Still Love Their Model 3s

IN THE NEWS

Instagram seems to be working on labels for posts 'generated by Meta AI'

Facebook and Instagram Begin Their Canadian News Blackout

Monthly NFT sales fell for fifth consecutive month to $495M in July

China considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per day

Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system

Worldcoin and Kenyan Argue About Who’s Breaking Up With Whom

Uber safety driver involved in fatal self-driving car crash pleads guilty

An Uber change of fortunes

Connected car data privacy under investigation by California regulator

About CPPA

Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter

X Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks

The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas

NASA ACCIDENTALLY CUTS CONTACT WITH VOYAGER 2

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’

Loki season 2 looks like a race through time and space in new trailer

Foundation Season 2

Good Omens Season 2

Shazam: Fury of the Gods

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3

APPS & DOODADS

Apple surpasses 1 billion paid subscriptions as active devices are double that

Rumor: Apple Watch Series 9 to be available in new color option alongside black titanium Ultra

Sprite Mix-tape Art Generator

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s Why

Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Paul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70

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611: The Everything Episode Jul 29, 2023

The X-files; everything is becoming an everything app; Spotify grew a lot, still losing money; Meta doing great, still sinking money into the metaverse no one wants; AI companies pay lip service to White House about safety & ethics; Tesla under investigation, again; Wayne gives us self-driving trucks for taxis; Meta, Microsoft & Amazon release open map dataset; Musk lies, a lot; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Boys spin-off Gen V; Good Omens Season 2; Justified: City Primeval; Threads goes chronological; X goes dark; Mastodon's CSAM problem; TikTok adds... text; the Dial of Destiny & Whatsherface; Artifact's AI voices; Happy Birthday, Dave!

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Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand

Elon Musk Took the ‘X’ Twitter Handle From a Photographer Without Asking

X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status

IN THE NEWS

Spotify grew far more than expected, but is still losing money

Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse

Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly

Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI

Tesla under investigation in California over Autopilot safety issues and false advertising

Waymo pushes back its self-driving truck efforts to focus on ride hailing

Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google Maps, Apple Maps

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

The Boys spinoff Gen V looks like a bloody bacchanal in new trailer

Good Omens Season 2

Justified: City Primeval

APPS & DOODADS

Threads adds a chronological feed as Twitter burns to the ground

Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon only offer dark mode because it’s ‘better in every way’

Is dark mode better or worse for your eyes?

Mastodon's decentralized social network has a major CSAM problem

Express your creativity with text posts on TikTok

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

News app Artifact adds AI text-to-speech voices, including Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow

SEC: Public companies must report cyberattacks within four days

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer behind ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and more, dead at 56

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610: And You Get a Tent! Jul 22, 2023

NFT bros are sad no one cares; Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices; Tesla directors overpaid themselves; Full Service Driving, which doesn't work, will be licensed to other automakers; military email problems; Instagram not liable for copyright infringement; Threads sees a downturn in usage; Inside Man; Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves; Women's World Cup; Netflix sees big subscriber bump due to password crackdown; streaming prices rising; Reddit deleted pre-2023 DMs; Apple Watch 8, AirPod Pro 2 & Amazon Prime deals; 1Password; the US Cyber Trust Mark; RIP Kevin Mitnick, Tony Bennett; cargo shorts & t-shirts.

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NFT Bro Laments That Nobody Is Buying Expensive JPGs Anymore

Melania Trump’s Apollo 11 NFT Violates NASA’s Photo Rules

IN THE NEWS

Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices over US spying concerns

Tesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselves

Tesla plans to license its Full Self-Driving system to other automakers

US opens special probe into fatal Tesla crash

An email typo has reportedly sent millions of US military messages to Mali

Instagram Not Liable For Copyright Infringement Over Embedded Images

Threads users are already spending less time in the app

The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’

MEDIA CANDY

Inside Man

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

How to stream the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023

Netflix added nearly 6 million new subscribers amid password sharing crackdown

Netflix kills off cheapest no-ads plan in the U.S. and U.K.

Peacock’s prices are going up in August

YouTube Hikes Prices For Premium, Music Streaming Offerings

APPS & DOODADS

Reddit Just Deleted Every Message You Sent Before 2023

Apple Watch Series 8

Photographer Uses Adobe Firefly to Fake a Vacation and Fool His Friends

‘Elusive’ first-gen 4GB iPhone auctioned for record $190,373

1Password

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The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

Kevin David Mitnick

FREEDOM DOWNTIME - Kevin Mitnick Hacking Documentary

Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96

I Got Lost in Her Arms by Tony Bennett

Using iPods as hearing aids

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609: Freshly Wrong Jul 15, 2023

xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU decides USA has comparable privacy protections, because they are high; superalignment!; AI is still people, working hard for no money; Google medical AI being tested; US military wants to play a game; Sarah Silverman & others suing OpenAI & Meta over copyright infringement; Strange New Worlds; Silo; Hijack; Vapourspace; Black Mirror; legal lullabies; Canada is the USA on Ambien; Threads & Twitter clone fatigue; Dave gets Covid, podcast listening tanks; movies in black and white; another new Willy Wonka; Disneyland goes punk.

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FOLLOW UP

Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced by Two Years

IN THE NEWS

Announcing xAI

Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country

Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators

Twitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it created

Taliban Leader Endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter Over New Rival Threads

Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars

The risks of AI are real but manageable

The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers

Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google

Introducing Superalignment

AI Is a Lot of Work

ChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time Ever

GPT-4's details are leaked

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals

The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement

Meta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claims

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested and charged with fraud

Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

MEDIA CANDY

Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite)

Hijack

Black Mirror Season 6

APPS & DOODADS

Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week

Jony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntable

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

In praise of watching your favorite movies in black and white

The Ashley Madison Affair

Willie Wonka trailer

Kenneth Copeland’s daughter goes metal

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608: The Way of the Grift Jul 01, 2023

Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew; Star Trek; Silo; Reality; Fubar; the Machine; Apple News UI needs help; later, Stitcher; Google cancels Iris; mustaches and learning about being a woman; ElevenLabs Voice Library & the end of voice over actors; cosplaying mommy & arrested development; 4th of July Movie Marathon.

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Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying data

The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That “Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models

THE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGET

The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code

IN THE NEWS

We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought.

Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT

The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at Colosseum

Italian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in Colosseum

Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

Zoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las Vegas

SoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't exist

Aspartame to be named a possible cancer-causer

MEDIA CANDY

Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical Drinker

Reality

Fubar

The Machine

Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

Ted Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale week

APPS & DOODADS

ChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the app

STITCHER FAREWELL

Google is no longer building its own augmented reality glasses

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

ElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice Library

ElevenLabs Voice Library

COSPLAYING THE MOMMY WARS

Jason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon

1. Hackers

2. The Edge

3. Shaun of the Dead

4. Fight Club

5. The Professional

6. Pulp Fiction

7. The Hunt for Red October

8. Die Hard 3

9. Hard Boiled

10. The Crow

The Electric Mayhem visit Spotify

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607: Pagers and Paperbacks Jun 24, 2023

We don't hate technology, we just hate how it's being implemented; Spotify grifters; car rental companies ruining EVs; Elon vs Zuck; Facebook blows uo their backyard for publishers; no news for you, Canada; the Reddit mess continues; Biden admin announces grants for rural internet; FCC looking at data caps; we long for life pre-internet; Lords of Uncreation; Grammerly; Google Lens; Midjourney; Felicia Michaels on WTF; 3 Body Problem trailer drops; Black Mirror; Star Trek; Silo; the Grand Tour; Darker Wave festival; Columbia House; Hello, Dolly & hello, mustache!

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Spotify executive calls Harry and Meghan ‘grifters’ after podcast deal ends

The Class of '09

Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs

Read TIME's Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Microsoft milestone brings it a bit closer to quantum supercomputer

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk Might Fight Mark Zuckerberg For Real

Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change

Meta pulls news content from Canadian Facebook and Instagram

Reddit threatened protesting moderators: Subreddits ‘cannot remain closed’

NodeHost

Biden administration announces $930 million in grants to expand rural internet access

The FCC is preparing to take a 'fresh look' at internet data caps

Gen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existed

MEDIA CANDY

Friend of the show Felicia Michaels on WTF with Marc Maron

Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ first look confirms January 2024 premiere

Black Mirror

Streamberry - You are Awful

S5 E2 - The Grand Tour: Eurocrash

Darker Wave Festival

Spotify reportely to launch “Supremium” plan with higher monthly rate

Purely AI-generated songs declared ineligible for Grammy Awards

8 ways Google Lens can help make your life easier

Gen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office, according to a WSJ report

Awesome Screenshot

Midjourney 5.2 Is Here : Unveiling Incredible New Features!

AT THE LIBRARY

Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture Book 3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The 22 Laws of Category Design: Name & Claim Your Niche, Share Your POV, And Move The World From Where It Is To Somewhere Different

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it's being "deployed as surveillance"

Dropbox Dash

Facebook's Creepy New Ai Can Replicate Your Friends' Voices

50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

ChatGPT on the App Store

Bing: Chat with AI & GPT-4

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606: Peppa Swisher Jun 17, 2023

Online mattresses; Holmes claims broke; Google class action lawsuit; Coinbase whines like a 4 year old; Reddit's kerfuffle; Spotify GDPR fine; Tesla's Autopilot & Mercedes adds ChatGPT; AI making lonely, sleepless alcoholics; Twitter won't pay the damn rent; food delivery wages upped as are layoffs; disappointment as a service; MGM casino changes photo policy, for now; the Idol; Crime Scene Kitchen; Black Mirror; Strange New Worlds; Quantumania; Foundation; Netflix sign ups increase, pop-up restaurant; the Cure; booze at shows; Peppa Pig podcast; Sol Reader; Torras Coolify; your bias is...; Charles Stross; I don't know, what do you think?

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Report: FTC will file to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition

Ex-Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes Says She Can’t Pay $250 a Month to the People She Cheated

In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation

“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defense

IN THE NEWS

Thousands of Reddit communities go dark to protest company’s controversial new policy

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

Spotify has been fined $5.4 million for violating GDPR data rules

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system, for some reason

Google, one of AI’s biggest backers, warns own staff about chatbots

AI at the Office Makes You a Lonely, Sleepless Alcoholic, New Study Finds

Twitter Is Reportedly Getting Kicked Out of One of Its Colorado Offices

Elon Musk is hilariously shut down by his ‘favourite’ podcast

New York City sets an $18 per hour minimum wage for food delivery workers

Grubhub lays off 15 percent of its employees

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

MGM Casinos Entice Younger Gamblers With New Photo Policy

MEDIA CANDY

The Idol

Crime Scene Kitchen

Padma Lakshmi Is Leaving ‘Top Chef’ After Its 20th Season

Black Mirror Season 6

Patrick Stewart and LeVar Burton Agree ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Was Perfect — But They Pitch One Last Hurrah

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Watch the trailer for the second season of Apple TV+ series 'Foundation'

Netflix Sign-Ups Increase 102% After Password Sharing Crackdown: Report

Netflix Bites

Paul McCartney is using AI to create a final song for The Beatles

Gen Z Is Drinking Less at Concerts

Peppa Pig Heading to Amazon’s Audible Under New Podcasting Deal With Hasbro

APPS & DOODADS

Sol Reader

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AT THE LIBRARY

Your Bias Is...

The School of Thought International

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross

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605: The Golden Turd Jun 10, 2023

AI carpetbaggers; crypto bros all pivoting to AI; Meta putting AI everywhere; Salesforce will donate to charity if you come back to the office; Binance, Coinbase sued by the SEC; Microsoft UI issue causing problems with COPPA; Twitter ad sales plummet; Meta has a Twitter clone; Instagram's pedo problem; OpenAI sued for libel; Waymo kills a dog; Edinburgh's Golden Turd; Daniel Sloss; Mrs. Maisel wraps it up; Good Omens 2; Spotify cut staff in podcast pivot; Silo; Freshbooks goes stale; Auphonic prices itself out of a customer; Arc browser; Apple WWDC thoughts; Ahsoka; Hannah Gadsby's take on Picasso; passkey arrives in 1Password beta; sextortionists using AI; Barra

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Why AI Will Save The World

Jason Calacanis on Crypto in the age of AI

Today's AI is unreasonable

Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms

Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning

Salesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the Office

IN THE NEWS

SEC Says Binance Misused Customer Funds, Ran Illegal Crypto Exchange in U.S.

SEC sues Coinbase over alleged violations of securities laws

FTX MADE A VERY SMART INVESTMENT THAT MAY BE ABLE TO PAY BACK ITS CUSTOMERS

Microsoft will pay the FTC $20 million to settle charges over collecting children's data

Twitter's ad sales have reportedly dropped by 59 percent since last year

Screenshots of Instagram's answer to Twitter leak online

Instagram may roll out its own AI chatbot in the near future

Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network

OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement Lawsuit

A Waymo self-driving car killed a dog in ‘unavoidable’ accident

Is It Just Me, or Does That Hotel Look Like…?

MEDIA CANDY

Daniel Sloss: Socio

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Good Omens Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Spotify Cut Staff, Talent to Enter its YouTube Era

APPS & DOODADS

Stripe

iZotope RX 10 Advanced

macOS Ventura Problems: 5 Things You Need to Know

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS

Hands-on with Apple Vision Pro: This is not a VR headset

Eyes (and head) on with the Apple Vision Pro

The metaverse is cooked

Diablo IV

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Begin | Ahsoka | Disney+

Hannah Gadsby's Picasso exhibit is getting roasted by art critics

Passkey support for 1Password arrives in beta today

Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images

Total Compromise of Physical Barracuda ESG Appliances

Barracuda: Immediately rip out and replace our security hardware

Can AI report a radio story?

Tom Hanks gives the commencement speech at Haaa-vaaad...

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604: Systematic Ambivalence Jun 03, 2023

Facebook generation wants boundaries; doom scrolling & devices are messing with us; AI boom running out of chips; AI is both an object of ridicule & presents risk of extinction - just like eggs; moral outsourcing in big tech; Kurzweil still truckin' along; Tesla leak reveals thousands of Autopilot safety complaints; that ChatGPT lawyer; Succession, Barry, Ted Lasso & Mrs. Maisel end; Good Omens is coming; Will Trent; future of baseball on TV; Dear Mama; a few good podcasts; Bluesky algorithm chooser; Twitter worth even less; Amazon seems to be ditching Alexa; DOSBox; Apple goes ARRRRR; Roadkill; AI, art & Edward Hopper; new camera with no lens; Moral Crumple Zones; Dave hits the boards!

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Elizabeth Holmes Reports to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year Sentence

The Facebook Generation Wants Some Boundaries

IN THE NEWS

The AI Boom Runs on Chips, but It Can’t Get Enough

AI Is an Insult Now

AI presents 'risk of extinction' on par with nuclear war, industry leaders say

‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI

Ray Kurzweil On AI Pause: No

Tesla leak reportedly reveals thousands of Autopilot safety complaints

A lawyer faces sanctions after he used ChatGPT to write a brief riddled with fake citations

No ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked

Monthly crypto exchange volume tumbled in May, hitting 32-month low

MEDIA CANDY

You can watch the entire first season of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ for free on YouTube

Will Trent

Guys Grocery Games

Supermarket Stakeout

The San Diego Padres are the first to get out of their Bally Sports TV deal

Dear Mama

Paramount+ Snaps Up Milli Vanilli Feature Doc

Tim Ferriss Show: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” (#668)

Cal Newport’s Deep Thinking - EP. 250: IN DEFENSE OF THINKING

UNDERUNDERSTOOD - Big Ideas Lost to Mini Rooms

A Stunning Scale Model Illustrating The History of Time

APPS & DOODADS

Bluesky now lets you choose your own algorithm

Fidelity marks down value of Twitter stake again

Amazon ditches Alexa’s celebrity voices and will issue refunds upon request

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Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™ on Steam

The Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthrough

AT THE LIBRARY

Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Top Google Result for "Edward Hopper" an AI-Generated Fake

NEW "CAMERA" HAS NO LENS, SIMPLY DETECTS YOUR LOCATION AND GENERATES AN AI PICTURE OF IT

Deskilling on the Job

Dave in Hello Dolly!

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jason DeFillippo - Technology Lead at David&Goliath - Awards

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603: Self-Driving Human May 27, 2023

AI CEOs say AI poses existential threat, plow forward anyway; Meta fined for violating EU data privacy; Twitter #DeSaster; Lorem Epsom NoNummy Amazon snacks; can't get Twitter to work guy OK'd to put chips in your brain; DoorDash lawsuit; deleted tweets randomly restored; Soundcloud layoffs; AI exposing investor's natural stupidity; Succession; Ted Lasso; Mrs. Maisel; Young Jedi Adventures; Silo; AI mail, Photoshop generative fill; self-promo & marketing discussion; World Walker Book 4; new Bobiverse on the way; No Kindness Too Soon; Red Team Blues; Muppet Mayhem; Spotify AI podcast ad reads; HBOMax, just MAX.. PeaCock just...

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Stability AI CEO Says AI Poses an ‘Existential Threat to Humanity’

IN THE NEWS

Meta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules

Ron DeSantis Pushed Elon Musk's Twitter to Its Breaking Point

Amazon's got a Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar wrap—oopsy

US Surgeon General says social media can pose 'a profound risk' to teens' mental health

Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials

DoorDash faces lawsuit accusing it of charging iPhone users more for delivery

Twitter bug seems to be randomly restoring deleted tweets

Soundcloud will lay off eight percent of its staff in hopes of becoming profitable

Universal Music Group partners with Endel for AI-generated wellness soundscapes

AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

MEDIA CANDY

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

‘American Gladiators’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Muscles & Mayhem’ to Reveal “Triumph and Turmoil” of Hit ‘90s Show [Exclusive]

Graham Yost

APPS & DOODADS

So long and thanks for all the headaches, HBO Max

Logic Pro for iPad

Final Cut Pro for iPad

Introducing Spark +AI: your personal email assistant

A.I. Photoshopping Is About to Get Very Easy. Maybe Too Easy.

Dream Bigger with Generative Fill.

8 Ways to Avoid Business Jargon

AT THE LIBRARY

Heather Texle Official Website

On Impulse (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 1) by Heather Texle

The Unnamed Way (The World Walker Book 4) by Ian W. Sainsbury

No Kindness Too Soon by Sylvain Neuvel

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Spotify may use AI to make host-read podcast ads that sound like real people

Remove Watermarks with Photoshop AI

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Singer Tina Turner dies aged 83

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602: Urban Doom Loop May 20, 2023

Theranos is the New Black; Section 230 upheld; UBI to combat AI; Montana bans TikTok; EU approves Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard; another Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving tech; Personal Voice; online brands opening actual shops; return to office & urban doom loop fears; car CEO wants you to go back to commuting; semiconductor workforce education ramp up; the Diplomat; Silo; Finch; YouTube ripping; Doctor Who 60th Anniversary; Fyre Fest 2.0; SoundSource; Bluesky; Adobe Firefly; Google Bard; Telly; YouTube recommendations leading kids to gun videos; human DNA can be pulled from thin air; Galactic Starcruiser Hotel shutting down; AI password cracking; Frogger.

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Most states halt use of Google and Apple's COVID-19 exposure notification system

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes fails in bid to stay out of prison during appeal

Elizabeth Holmes Must Report to Prison on May 30 and Pay Restitution

IN THE NEWS

Supreme Court rules in favor of Twitter and Google, avoiding the issue of Section 230 for now

Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money

Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers

Montana's governor signs bill banning TikTok

The EU approves Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard takeover

A third former Apple employee has been charged with stealing self-driving car tech

Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices

Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes

Everyone should use Personal Voice; it does in 15 minutes what currently takes several weeks

Online-Only Startups Adopt a Bold New Strategy: Opening Actual Shops

The “return to the office” won’t save the office

Remote CEO Elon Musk Slams People Who Work From Home: ‘The Laptop Class Is Living in La La Land’

Cruise, Waymo near approval to charge for 24/7 robotaxis in San Francisco

U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

MEDIA CANDY

One YouTube-Ripping Site Will Get 4 Billion Visits in 2023; Time to Blame

Doctor Who 2023 - Titles Revealed! | 60th Anniversary Specials Trailer

The episode titles for the 60th anniversary specials are revealed

Fright Night: Peter Vincent Clip

Billy McFarland Says He’s Secured Funding for Fyre Fest 2.0 and Broadway Musical

APPS & DOODADS

SoundSource: A Superior Sound Control

Total Bluesky Accounts

ChatGPT now has an official iPhone app

ChatGPT plugins

A Guide to ChatGPT Plugins

Telly will give you a free TV if you'll watch non-stop ads

YouTube’s recommendations are leading kids to gun videos, report says

YouTube will no longer be deleting videos from inactive accounts

Human DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. Here’s what that could mean

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Disney to Shut Down ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Starcruiser Hotel

Terrifying study shows how fast AI can crack your passwords; here’s how to protect yourself

Try 1Password for free for 14 days!

I have been playing Frogger.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59

Watch Tony Hawk cover Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Wish’ with Trent Reznor and all-star backing band

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601: How Does Work Work? May 13, 2023

RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens 2; FAST; Apple spatial audio; Blueky; sexy Alf; the Mission; Factory Records; Chip War; Star Wars: Visions; Citizen & Nextdoor; AI John Mayer; outsourcing inspiration; the EGOT of the internet.

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The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why

RIP Metaverse

Video shows Mark Zuckerberg fighting in jiu-jitsu match; Facebook founder won gold, silver medals

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Problem Even Bigger Than the Metaverse

Eight things to know about LLMs

IN THE NEWS

Bank of Canada asks for public feedback about a national digital currency

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’

ChatGPT Is Powered by Human Contractors Getting Paid $15 Per Hour

‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable

ŌURA Acquires Proxy in All-Equity Deal

MTV News Signs Off for Good After 36-Year Run

MEDIA CANDY

‘It’s Going to Be a While’: No End in Sight for Hollywood Strike

Spotify has reportedly removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs

Google makes its text-to-music AI public

Turn ideas into music with MusicLM

Tucker Carlson Is Descending the Food Chain

Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed

Bupkus

Poker Face

After 30 years of saying his name to no avail, Beetlejuice 2 has a release date

The Foundation season 2 trailer will make you want to suddenly catch up on Foundation

All the Good Omens season 2 news we’ve heard so far

Dungeons & Dragons Free 24-Hour Streaming Channel Set to Launch This Summer (EXCLUSIVE)

APPS & DOODADS

Bluesky Social

How I Accidentally Ruined Bluesky With Pictures of Sexy Alf

Vintage Alf Stationary Paper and Envelopes Set 1987 Alien Productions

Skeet (Bluesky Slang)

Improving Your Communication With the Latest Product Updates

AT THE LIBRARY

Heady Daze: The Mission Years, 1985–1990 by Wayne Hussey

New book “I Thought I Heard You Speak” spotlights women’s integral role at Factory Records

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Season 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strike

VICE News Presents: Vigilante, Inc.

Watch: New Documentary Tells Inside Story of Vigilante App Citizen

New CS:GO map bypasses Russia's censorship of Ukraine war news

Can AI Write a John Mayer Guitar Solo? - ChatGPT

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Frank Kozik, Acclaimed Graphic Artist and Designer, Dead 61

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600: Technically Sweet May 06, 2023

AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring, looking to onboard AI; Marissa Mayer takes another whack; open-sourced AI is where the real dangers are; Lyft is lost, no exit in sight; Google layoffs, cuts in perks but one hell of a CEO payout; Facebook furious they can't exploit youth data; Dune Part 2; Paramount+ doing well; RIP, Says You; NPR podcasts; Succession; Ted Lasso; Silo; Zero gravity concerts, watch out for that Portaloo; TweetDelete; Brydge collapses; RSA Conference recap; May the 4th; sorting out baseball workarounds.

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There Is No A.I. by Jaron Lanier

‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

Ex-Apple employee sentenced to three years in prison after $17 million fraud scheme

Apple drops lawsuit against former exec who accused company of spying

Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers

IN THE NEWS

SpaceX's Starship didn't immediately respond to a self-destruct command

Vice President Harris tells tech CEOs they have a moral responsibility to safeguard AI

Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”

IBM Pauses Hiring to Onboard AI Instead

Marissa Mayer on the AI search race, technology fears, and her biggest Yahoo regrets

ChatGPT is once again available in Italy after a temporary ban

We Have No Moat

Lyft shares tumble as investors react to dim outlook

Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means

Blue verified checkmarks are coming to Gmail

Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth data

US Job Growth Remains Strong

MEDIA CANDY

Dune: Part 2

Paramount+ tops 60 million subscribers thanks to 'Picard' and the NFL

RIP, Says You

Ask Me Another

Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me

Planet Money

All Things Considered

Morning Edition

Someone posted the entire ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ on Twitter

Amazon rolls out free Roku-like TV channels for Fire devices

Casa Grande

Pornhub Goes Dark in Utah to Protest Age Verification Law

SEARCHES FOR VPN SOAR IN UTAH AMIDST PORNHUB BLOCKAGE

AI Made this VLOG by Casey Neistat and GPT4

How To Make Katsu Curry by HowToBasic

Zero Gravity Concerts

TOURISM COMPANY OFFERING ZERO-G CONCERTS

APPS & DOODADS

TweetDelete

The downfall of Brydge: iPad keyboard company folds, leaving staff unpaid and customer orders unfulfilled

Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak

AT THE LIBRARY

The Seventeenth Year (The World Walker Series Book 3) by Ian W. Sainsbury

Season of Skulls: A Novel in the World of the Laundry Files

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

How Logan Arcade got its Misfits-playing robot dogs

Outtakes from Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and James Earl Jones's recordings for the Star Wars 1-800 phone line (1979)

For May the 4th, Carrie Fisher of 'Star Wars' gets a Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Apple releases its first rapid-fire security updates for iPhone, iPad and Mac

Microsoft Planning Privacy-Focused Version of ChatGPT as Apple AI Efforts Flounder

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Eggs are perl T-Shirt

Eileen Saki dead: Final 'MASH' Rosie actor was 79

Gordon Lightfoot, Hitmaking Singer-Songwriter, Is Dead at 84

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599: Osaka Apr 29, 2023

Spin the wheel of Invictus; more tech layoffs; ChatGPT's staggering daily cost; it's not your data; AI-generated political ads are here; Spotify CEO unsure about AI progress; Elon's The #26a7de Letter; SpaceX rocket goes really big boom, causing serious damage; Grimes wants to kill copyright, no, wait, hold on a second; Sean Connery on Zeist; Super Mario Bros; Succession; Ted Lasso; Ghosted; Brian Cox villains; Apple's kiss of death, journaling app, AI health coach; Farrago 2; LoopBack; SoundSource; Arc Browser; Adobe Firefly; Microsoft Designer; monitors and mics; Carl Sagan; Rain Wilson; man, I need Vans!

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How Hundreds of 24-Ton Bricks Could Fix a Huge Renewable Energy Problem

Elizabeth Holmes’ Daughter’s Name May Be Narcissism at Its Finest

Elizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentence

IN THE NEWS

Clubhouse is laying off employees and ‘resetting’ the company

Lyft is laying off 26 percent of employees

JUST RUNNING CHATGPT IS COSTING OPENAI A STAGGERING SUM EVERY SINGLE DAY

"GPT" may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way

Republicans attack Biden with a fully AI-generated ad

Spotify CEO says AI progress is both ‘really cool and scary,’ may pose risk to creative industry

How Elon Musk Turned the Blue Checkmark Into a Scarlet Letter

Giant SpaceX rocket leaves crater, serious damage at Texas base

Elon knows best

Grimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty split

Grimes Reluctantly Considers Some Rules to Her No-Rules A.I. Vocal Project: ‘We Expect a Certain Amount of Chaos’

Meta’s Clegg Invokes Anti-China Rhetoric Against TikTok

MEDIA CANDY

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

'The Witcher' season 3 trailer shows Henry Cavill's last stint as Geralt

Ghosted

Succession’s Brian Cox to Play Villain in Bond-Themed Reality Show

APPS & DOODADS

When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’

Apple will launch a journaling app in iOS 17, but that’s bad news for some devs

Apple is reportedly developing an AI health coach for Apple Watch

Farrago 2 by Rogue Amoeba

Microsoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in preview

GrammarlyGO

Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature, calling for its removal

PreSonus Eris E3.5-3.5" Near Field Studio Monitor (Pair)

Rode NT1 5th Generation Condenser Microphone with SM6 Shockmount and Pop Filter - Black

DJI Mavic 3 Pro

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AT THE LIBRARY

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson

Alcoholics Anonymous Large Print Abridged Fourth Edition Does not include the personal stories Paperback.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

R.I.P. Picard Tips

R.I.P. Riker Googling

Riker Googling on Mastodon

Picard Tips on Mastodon

Jerry Springer, Host of Unapologetically Brash Talk Show, Dies at 79

Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist

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598: Universal Loser Income Apr 22, 2023

Spam calls are back; we're done with Twitter; human or not?; Buzzfeed News shuttered; TruthGPT; the race to AI without pausing for thought; Niantic shutters web3 project, no Pokemon NFTs; purgatory with perks; Facebook settlement; paying kids to get outside; Picard, Mandalorian finales; rebooting all the IPs - Galaxy Quest, Twilight, Harry Potter, X-Files; Barry; AI-generated music flooding platforms; Sega acquires Rovio; Instagram kills Linktree; Steve Jobs, Make Something Wonderful; Chokepoint Capitalism; Christopher Lockhead; James Fell; Greg Jenner; Daniel Suarez; more MLB; RSA conference & ChatGPT; ladies and gentlemen, the Rockafire Explosion!

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Canada's CBC is the latest to leave Twitter in objection to 'goverment-funded' label

Human or Not?

IN THE NEWS

BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its News Division

German artist refuses award after his AI image wins prestigious photography prize

Elon Musk claims to be working on ‘TruthGPT’ — a ‘maximum truth-seeking AI’

In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution

Googlers say Bard AI is “worse than useless,” ethics concerns were ignored

Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say

Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

Europe spins up AI research hub to apply accountability rules on Big Tech

Niantic shutters its web3 project after less than six months

Man battling Google wins $500K for search result links calling him a pedophile

Purgatory With Perks

You can now apply for your share of a $725 million Facebook data privacy settlement. Here’s how

AI moving humanity forward as artificial intelligence advances, Google leaders say

South Korea Tries $500 Handouts to Help Reclusive Kids Get Out

MEDIA CANDY

Picard Finale

Paramount+ greenlights Star Trek film starring Michelle Yeoh

Strange New Worlds

A ‘Galaxy Quest’ series is reportedly coming to Paramount+

Ryan Coogler developing ‘X-Files’ reboot, says show’s original creator

Barry

American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing

AI-Generated Music Is About to Flood Streaming Platforms

Fake Drake and The Weeknd Song with AI-Generated Vocals Taken Down from Streaming Services

Liam Callagher Cosigns AI Oasis Album: “I Sound Mega”

We soon won’t tell the difference between AI and human music – so can pop survive?

Spotify will open Gimlet podcasts to other platforms

APPS & DOODADS

Sega to acquire Angry Birds-maker Rovio for $775M

Instagram lets you add five links to your profile so you can stop using Linktree

AT THE LIBRARY

Make Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own words

Chokepoint Capitalism

Snow Leopard: How Legendary Writers Create a Category of One

James Fell - On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

Critical Mass: A Novel (A Delta-v Novel Book 2) by Daniel Suarez

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Rockafire Explosion documentary

Last Squeak Tonight

T-minus Podcast

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597: Annoyingly Well-Informed Apr 15, 2023

The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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Everything You Should Know About the New MoviePass

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI

Tesla slammed with class-action lawsuit following report that employees internally shared private photos and videos taken from car cameras

Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore

Twitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’

NPR is ditching Twitter over 'government-funded media' label on its main account

PBS has also quit Twitter over its 'government-funded media' label

Elizabeth Holmes Will Have to Wait Out Her Appeal in Prison

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Who is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?

IN THE NEWS

Driverless bus service to start in Scotland in 'world first'

NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollution

NEW NASA GODDARD DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS SWORN IN ON A CARL SAGAN BOOK

Google Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's new

Vimeo to pay $2.25M in AI-related biometric privacy lawsuit

Twitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant For The General Public

Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs

FTC fines supplement maker $600,000 for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings

MEDIA CANDY

The Labours Of Hercule - The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Perry Mason Season 2

'The Americans' cast celebrate show's 10th anniversary

How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’

HBO’s Succession Podcast

Sure, 'Max' sounds dumb, but HBO Max needed a reboot

For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR

'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' is getting a third, and final, season

Disney is bringing ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ back to theaters on April 28th

Honest Trailers | Avatar: The Way of Water

The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Official Teaser | Peacock Original

The Ongoing History of New Music Podcast by Alan Cross - History of Skate Punk

APPS & DOODADS

YouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and more

Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year

The Problem With Weather Apps

Awesome Screenshot

Stable Diffusion

What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? by Cal Newport

Finalmouse Centerpiece Keyboard Reveal

FINALMOUSE CENTERPIECE KEYBOARD

AT THE LIBRARY

Make Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own words

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

10% log back in to 'disrupt' business, report

Layoffs.FYI

Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program

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596: Me Want Cookie! Apr 08, 2023

AI disruption, the circle of life; prompt engineering; AIQL; Tesla workers sharing sensitive customer images; Twitter blue ticks still around, except for organizations Elon doesn't like; SpaceX Starlink satellites "deorbiting"; Midjourney bans Jinping images; Google's Bard spins conspiracies; TikTok fined; Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy; Meta cuts more jobs; Roku picking up properties; Picard; Succession; You're Dead to Me; Shirley Manson; World's Greatest Con; Zane Lamprey; Lucky Hank; Punk Rock Museum; the Cranes; Google Drive file creation cap backlash; Apple Watch trick; the Mandalorian & Jack Black; Star Wars news; alcohol recovery startups sharing confidential user data; Oakland's ransomware attack; Operation Cookie Monster.

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Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence

The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth

Prompt Engineer and Librarian

AI 'prompt engineer' jobs can pay up to $335,000 a year and don't always require a background in tech

AI prompt engineer: the hottest new job in tech?

Prompt engineering

IN THE NEWS

Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

Jury reduces Tesla's $137 million racism lawsuit penalty to $3.2 million

The Morning After: Twitter keeps legacy verified blue ticks around, for now

Twitter designates NPR as 'US state-affiliated media'

SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling From Space

Midjourney Bans AI Images of Chinese President Xi Jinping

YouTuber Proves ChatGPT Can Manufacture Free Windows Keys

Google’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy Theories

UK privacy watchdog fines TikTok $15.8 million for misusing kids' data

Tesla sales again fall short of production

GM to reject “phone projected” audio; will develop in-car subscription platforms

Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy protection as it seeks a buyer

Meta’s job cuts are gutting customer service, leaving influencers and businesses with nobody to call

MEDIA CANDY

Many canceled HBO shows, including ‘Westworld’ and ‘Raised by Wolves,’ are now on Roku

You’re Dead To Me Podcast

EPISODE 59: SHIRLEY MANSON: LOL & BUDGIE LOVE SHIRLEY – TRUE!

WORLD'S GREATEST CON

Zane Lamprey: Tender Looks

Cranes Reunite with Original Lineup for 30th Anniversary of “Forever”

How to write a Bauhaus song in 1 minute

How to make a Depeche Mode song in 1 minute

APPS & DOODADS

Google removes 5 million file creation cap for Drive after backlash

Here’s why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its files

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Don't tell anything to a chatbot you want to keep private

Two alcohol recovery startups just got caught sharing private user data

I declined to share my medical data with advertisers at my doctor’s office. One company claimed otherwise

Ransomware hackers leak second batch of city data from Oakland attack

FBI seizes a giant online marketplace for stolen logins

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Remembering Sire Records’ Seymour Stein, whose musical taste shaped a generation

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595: Tree Or Not? Apr 01, 2023

Dad tech jokes; influencer grift & bamboozle brokers; ChatGPT oversight; returning to the office, hybrid models; Twitter source code leaked; poor William Shatner; Microsoft baking AI into next Windows, slips ads into Bing Chat; Google's Tree or Not AI; science creates new paint; that AI open letter; Disney ditches the Metaverse; Binance charged; Google violates order to save chats; the Menu; Bert Kreischer; Picard; the Bad Batch; Shrinking; Ted Lasso; new Star Trek shows; new music from the kids; Apple Music Classical; Analogue Pocket; Delphi Forums; Apple Pay Later; USA spyware ban; AI-enhanced scams; food poisoning; going down memory lane in old school arcades.

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The influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get rich

ChatGPT on Amazon

IN THE NEWS

In a leaked message, Amazon's HR chief flatly rejected an internal petition against the new return-to-office policy signed by roughly 30,000 employees

Twitter takes down source code leaked online, hunts for downloaders

Twitter source code was leaked on GitHub shortly after Musk’s layoff spree

Twitter source code leaker must be identified; launch of Verified Organizations

Elon Musk says Twitter will only show verified accounts on its algorithmic timeline

Musk told William Shatner that Twitter doesn't give VIPs special treatment. That was before Twitter's secret VIP list was released

Microsoft to reportedly focus on security and AI in next version of Windows

That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat

Google unveils AI-powered planning tools to help beat climate change's extreme heat

Scientists Create World's Lightest Paint: Just 3 Pounds Covers a Boeing 747

Tech leaders and AI experts demand a six-month pause on 'out-of-control' AI experiments

A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks

AI Snake Oil

Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns

Disney reportedly shuts down its metaverse division

Crypto giant Binance charged with violating US trading and derivatives laws

Google found to have violated order to save chat evidence in Epic antitrust case

MEDIA CANDY

The Menu

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared

Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle

Netflix strikes last-minute deal to retain ‘Arrested Development’ streaming rights

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 premieres June 15th

Paramount+ Orders Diverse, Teen-Focused ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series

Mandy, Indiana

Softcult

Apple Music Classical is here

APPS & DOODADS

How to Play ROMs on the Analogue Pocket

Spiritualized

Delphi Forums

Apple Pay Later is finally available in the US, but only with an invite

Apple Magic Trackpad - White Multi-Touch Surface

SECURITY HAH!

Biden administration bans federal agencies from using commercial spyware

The New Face of Fraud: FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams

Starhawk

The Story of STARHAWK

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

In Memoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 - 2023

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594: Underfinancialization Mar 25, 2023

SVB & tech's transformation from innovation to financialization; Elon being Elon; SEC sues celebs for endorsing crypto; TikTok bans are complicated; it's all about the privacy rights, stupid; not everything needs an AI chatbot; a list of dumb chatbots; online platforms are not responsible for ISP costs; Twitter allows non-toxic slurs, because Elon; South Park may have used ChatGPT to write AI episode; true prices for TV service; streaming services rankings; Depeche Mode; Ted Lasso; Picard; the Last of Us; the Money Shot; Beethoven's genome; Labours of Hercule; DPReview; Adobe adds generative AI; Duelingo looking into music learning; MOFT mount; our Samsung monitors; the Mandalorian; frustrations with renting cars; Blackmamba AI malware; Meredith Willson & Disney music.

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Why No One Cried for Silicon Valley Bank’s Customers

How Elon Musk knocked Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ off course

IN THE NEWS

SEC sues celebrities including Lindsay Lohan for endorsing cryptocurrencies

A TikTok ban is a lot more complicated than just shutting down the app

TikTok’s Chinese Owner Has a Bunch of Other Popular Apps

TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC

The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem

TikTok CEO says company scans public videos to determine users’ ages

Not Everything Needs a Chatbot!

New! Try Zapier's ChatGPT plugin

GitHub Copilot

Meta slams telco fee proposal, says ISPs should pay their own network costs

Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech

MEDIA CANDY

South Park Creators Use ChatGPT To Co-Write Episode About AI

Cable and satellite providers may have to advertise the true price of TV service

The best live TV streaming services in 2023

Apple TV+ global market share shrinks and platform is overtaken by Paramount+

Spotify has reportedly spent less than 10 percent of its Joe Rogan apology fund

Depeche Mode - Memento Mori

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

Beethoven’s genome, sequenced for first time, yields clues on cause of death

Immortal Beloved

The Labours of Hercule Podcast

APPS & DOODADS

DPReview.com is closing April 10th

Adobe is bringing generative AI features to Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro

Duolingo is building a music learning app

Send a voice message in chats on Instagram

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SECURITY HAH!

BLACKMAMBA: USING AI TO GENERATE POLYMORPHIC MALWARE

Meredith Willson: America's Music Man

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

R.I.P Lance Reddick

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593: This Is the Way Mar 18, 2023

Back in the USA; a golden age of misinformation; podcast bros; the sky is blue & FIFA is corrupt; it's tough to be an AI ethicist; more Meta layoffs, pivoting away from the meta verse; NFTs taking their swan song, except for Cookie Monster; Musklandia; Twitter's API pricing; Samsung's moon shots; fighting AI with AI on LinkedIn; Ethical Capital Partners invest in porn; Top Chef; Next Level Chef; Offline with Jon Favreau; the Menu; Ticket to Paradise; The Cure take on Ticketmaster; Artifact follow up; Spotify; Rovio and Angry Dad; Dave Does Disney!

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OpenAI's new GPT-4 can understand both text and image inputs

The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble by Cory Doctorow

Lightning AI CEO slams OpenAI’s GPT-4 paper as ‘masquerading as research’

Would You Date a Podcast Bro?

Follow Your Different: 308 Silicon Valley: What Happened & What People Are Confused About

Crypto Faces a Banking Crisis. For Some, It’s a Conspiracy

IN THE NEWS

Former 21st Century Fox Executive and Argentina-Based Sports Marketing Company Full Play Group S.A., Convicted of Bribing Soccer Officials in FIFA Case

“Hey, FIFA": A Song About How Much Sepp Blatter Sucks

Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams

How Google’s 2021 AI ethics debate foreshadowed the future

Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers

A laid-off Meta worker says the company paid her to not work: They were 'hoarding us like Pokémon cards'

1 big thing: Meta's metaverse is on the back burner

Zuckerberg Was Warned on Social Media Addiction, Filing Says

Meta is killing NFT support on Facebook and Instagram

Sesame Street to Launch First NFTs With VeVe, Starting With Cookie Monster Digital Collectibles at $60 Each (EXCLUSIVE)

Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town

He mistakenly entered a stranger’s Tesla. The app let him drive it, he says.

Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

Samsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

Samsung explains its 'fake' Moon photos

You can now ‘enhance’ your LinkedIn Profile with AI-written 'suggestions'

Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death

Wing likens its drone ‘delivery network’ to rideshare

Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to private equity firm

MEDIA CANDY

Offline with Jon Favreau - Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity

The Menu

Ticket to Paradise

The Cure’s Robert Smith Addresses Problems with Ticketmaster’s “Far from Perfect” System

APPS & DOODADS

Pen.Tips PenMat

The internet isn't happy with Spotify's new design

Solar Panels Floating in Reservoirs? We’ll Drink to That

This is the spacesuit NASA's Artemis astronauts will wear on the Moon

Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Adventure Awaits!

FBI says Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scammers in 2022

Ransomware Group Claims Hack of Amazon's Ring

GM plans to let you talk to your car with ChatGPT, Knight Rider-style

Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media.

Ex-Wells Fargo exec who pushed bankers to open fake accounts will plead guilty. She'll pay a $17 million fine — and faces more than a year in prison.

Meredith Willson: America's Music Man

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592: Ok, Doomer! Mar 11, 2023

AI, Climate Doomerism & SolarPunks, oh my; GPT-4 is coming; don't plan your abortion on social media; Sam Bankman-Fried gets a flip-phone; Elon Musk, worst human of 2023; Tesla wheels coming off; researchers use AI to generate images based on brain activity; no robot dogs for LA; Star Trek: Discovery ending, Picard riveting; the Punisher returning; Chris Rock; Silo; Perry Mason; Godfather of Harlem; Wakanda Forever; History of the World, Part II; doorbell privacy loopholes; VR headsets not flying off the shelves; everyone's adding ChatGPT - DuckAssist, the Summarizer, Clyde & Einstein; Mastodon apps; Proust & the Squid; Dead Famous.

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E5: The Embedding Revolution w/ Anton Troynikov

Doomer

Solarpunk

IN THE NEWS

GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany

Police are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do it

Justice Department wants Sam Bankman-Fried to use a flip phone for the rest of his bail

Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 by Ethan Zuckerman

A Twitter engineer says at least 2 bodyguards accompany Elon Musk around Twitter HQ — even to the restroom

How a single engineer brought down Twitter

US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off

Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain Activity

City Council weighing whether to accept donation of robot dog for LAPD

MEDIA CANDY

'Star Trek: Discovery' is ending with season 5 next year

Jon Bernthal Returning as The Punisher for Daredevil: Born Again Series

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage

'Silo' teaser reveals Apple's latest post-apocalyptic drama

Perry Mason Season 2

Godfather of Harlem Season 3

Last Days

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

History of the World, Part II

APPS & DOODADS

The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets

Insta360 Link

Opal C1

DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool

Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results

With the help of OpenAI, Discord is finally adding conversation summaries

Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now

The making of Ice Cubes, an open source, SwiftUI Mastodon client.

Ivory now lets users create a Mastodon account directly from the app

AT THE LIBRARY

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

Deep Questions with Cal Newport - EP. 238: THE JOYS OF THE READING LIFE

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

R.I.P. Tom Sizemore

A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future

AI Looks Like a Bubble

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591: Universal Basic Ignorance Mar 04, 2023

Prompt engineers; the hopes of generative AI; Universal Basic AI, at least for the privileged; FTX consequences coming in; AI images not copyrightable in the US; deepfake & AI hacks; more Twitter layoffs & unpaid bills; Jack's beard roles out a Twitter competitor; Tesla pauses driver-assistance rollout; Waymo tries Los Angeles; the Mandalorian, Bad Batch & Picard; Marc Maron gets bleak; Dilbert dropped; more Lord of the Rings movies coming; Die Hart; History of the World, Part II; Bing Chat built into Windows 11 update; FAL detector; Tik Tok government device ban; let us take you into that meeting.

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FOLLOW UP

AI's rise generates new job title: Prompt engineer

Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

OpenAI Price Drop: [Another] Megathread

Adobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI — and why it’s not going to end up like web3

In todays iteration of unchecked emerging tech concerns

IN THE NEWS

FTX co-founder Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges

AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology

Deepfake AI Hack Dupes Avenged Sevenfold Fans into Thinking the Band Canceled Festival Dates

Meta revamps AI unit to get generative tech into products

Elon Musk's Twitter lays off yet even more workers

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative Bluesky is now available in closed beta

Twitter hit with new lawsuits for not paying bills

Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival

Tesla Pauses Rollout of Driving Software Subject to US Recall

Waymo is starting driverless taxi tests in Los Angeles

MEDIA CANDY

The Mandalorian

Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark

‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rant

Musk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’

MAGAbert

New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies Set at Warner Bros.

History of the World, Part II

Die Hart

How to write a Smiths song in 1 minute

'Ted Lasso' season 3 trailer previews the highs and lows of the Premier League

Damian Lewis Returning To ‘Billions’ For Season 7

APPS & DOODADS

New Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbar

AI Tool Reveals How Celebrities’ Faces Have Been Photoshopped

YouTube’s new leader teases AI tools that can virtually swap creators’ outfits and locations

Government agencies have 30 days to purge devices of Tik Tok

Canada is reportedly banning TikTok from government-issued devices

The Camera-Shy Hoodie

Jailbreak Chat

Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car

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590: A Zucker Born Every Minute Feb 25, 2023

CoinEx ex-USA; ChatGPT sendsyi Microsoft off the rails; AI beer; Section 230 & the Supreme Court; Tencent bails on the met averse; Temu; Amazon's hybrid work plan, One Medical rollout; Apple working on blood glucose tracking for Watch; Twitter's Twilio bill; Meta blue tick verification for cash; the Nevers; Picard; Netflix changes highlight soft products in tech; Dropbox versus iCloud; TripMode; Screens 4; Nest home products; Artifact; Rick Rubin, Hugh MacLeon on creativity; Nick Chater brain improvements; Miki Berenyi memoir; ChatGPT written or assisted books flooding the market; Mastodon; Spirit Me; AI-generated voice crime; Flipper Zero & TV-B-Gone; Dave's going to Disneyland!

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FOLLOW UP

Microsoft limits Bing conversations to prevent disturbing chatbot responses

Microsoft is already reversing some of the limits it put on Bing's AI chat tools

What did they know, and when did they know it? The Microsoft Bing edition.

This AI chatbot "Sidney" is misbehaving

Ben’s Bites

Lochhead on Marketing #167 The Monster Category Battle: OpenAI & Microsoft vs Google

This Vancouver Island brewery hopped onto ChatGPT for marketing material. Then it asked for a beer recipe

IN THE NEWS

The US Supreme Court Doesn’t Understand the Internet

Exclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters

New online superstore surpasses Amazon and Walmart to become most downloaded app in US

Amazon wants employees to return to the office in May

Amazon welcomes One Medical

Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch

Twitter is making text-based two-factor authentication a paid feature

Tesla workers accuse Twitter of hiding their union account from search results

Meta reveals its ‘blue tick’ verification service for Facebook and Instagram

MEDIA CANDY

The Nevers never had a chance — and still doesn’t, even with unaired episodes streaming for free

Netflix Crossed a Line

‘Last of Us’ Episode Has Embarrassing Mistake TikTok Calls “Better Than a Starbucks Cup”

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new features

Biden declines to veto Apple Watch ban

There’s An Ozempic Shortage. Here's What Happens When You Stop Taking It.

AT THE LIBRARY

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain by Nick Chater

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

The Kindle Store has a prolific new author: ChatGPT

Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories

SECURITY HAH!

Welcome to Mastodon - Forget Twitter, Mastodon has 10x the engagement.

Spirit Me

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

I saw your KITT work, Dave, and I’m a major electronic musician and DJ, hold my beer...

A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green

Hacker Uncovers How to Turn Traffic Lights Green With Flipper Zero

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

A Chess Master plays against ChatGPT.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Richard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78

Happy Twin Peaks Day!

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589: Goebbels in the Machine Feb 18, 2023

Elon's rampaging ego is ruining Twitter; AI isn't ready for prime time, gets rolled out anyway, with predictable results; what's bouncing around in Microsoft's neural networks that keeps making racist AI; self-flying fighters; Buzzfeed AI quizzes; Tesla full self-driving recall; Amazon going big on grocery stores; Walmart tech, Twilio layoffs; Microsoft kills Metaverse team; YouTube CEO steps down; Picard; upcoming TV premieres and concert tours; Shrinking; Legato Steam Deck Pedal; Parallels Desktop cleared for Windows 11; A Hacker's Mind; Star Wars youtube clips; cybersecurity still pretty good career bet; Winnie the Pooh, the House of Mouse & public domain.

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FOLLOW UP

Amazon Likely to Part Ways With Jeremy Clarkson After Final Commissioned Shows Go to Air; ‘Grand Tour’ Host Sent Email Apology to Harry & Meghan (EXCLUSIVE)

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

Bing AI Can't Be Trusted

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web By Ted Chiang

Father of internet warns: Don’t rush investments into A.I. just because ChatGPT is ‘really cool’

Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’

IN THE NEWS

An AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hours

BuzzFeed’s AI-powered quizzes are here and they could be funnier

Tesla admits Full Self-Driving beta may cause crashes, recalls 363,000 vehicles

Tesla fires over 30 workers after union effort: group

Amazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First Time

Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores

Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to Offices

Ford reportedly plans to build a $3.5 billion EV battery factory in Michigan

Twilio to lay off about 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforce

Microsoft Kills Its Industrial Metaverse Team After 4 Months

Elon Musk Says He May Lead Twitter for Almost Another Year

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

YouTube CEO Wojcicki, one of the first Google employees, steps down

MEDIA CANDY

EPISODE 52: MIKI BERENYI PT. 1: MISS BEING IN A BAND? LOVED IT BUT NAH!

Shrinking

Investor ValueAct Takes Spotify Stake to Back Cost Cuts at the Music Streaming Leader

APPS & DOODADS

Elgato Stream Deck Pedal

Parallels Desktop Now an Authorized Solution to Use With Windows 11 on Mac With Apple Silicon

Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office

AT THE LIBRARY

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce Schneier

SECURITY HAH!

If an Aussie was in Star Wars

Stormtroopers, but They're ACCURATE

Winnie the Pooh horror film turns intellectual property into nightmare fuel

Cybersecurity pros less likely to be impacted by layoffs if economy slows

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

BRUCE WILLIS - Aphasia Worsens ... NOW DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIA

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588: KnightGPT Feb 11, 2023

ChatGPT+ & AI Powered Bing; more pink slips at Dell, Zoom, Disney & Yahoo; WB to keep Discovery+ stand-alone option; Amazon only hiring students & recent grads for entry-level positions; Twitter flounders around for a plan; Musk not liable for anything he says; Google unveils Bard, makes $100 billion mistake; MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit; M3GAN; Andy Prieboy, Miles Hunt live; Minions: the Rise of Gru; Clarkson's Farm; Nuclear War Simulator; Pen.Tips, Paperlike; the Unmaking Engine; Life: What Nat To Do; signing away your voice; Disney World, Star Wars Hotel prices; ChatGPT hallucinations; Wazin' with Dave; KITT.

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FOLLOW UP

Exclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence

I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.

IN THE NEWS

Dell to cut roughly 6,650 jobs as PC sales drop

Zoom is laying off around 1,300 workers

Iger Announces Layoffs as Disney Grapples With Streaming Losses

Exclusive: Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad biz

Warner Bros. Discovery to Keep Discovery+, in Strategy Shift

Leaked emails show Amazon will only hire students and recent graduates for entry level software engineering positions

Twitter Considers Charging Brands $1000 Per Month to Stay Verified

Twitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Creators. But There’s A Catch

Trump White House asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Teigen's mean tweet about him

Twitter reportedly had only 180,000 subscribers in the US last month

Musk Found Not Liable in ‘Funding Secured’ Tesla Trial

Google unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rival

Bard’s first public mistake cost Google $100 billion

Google will soon default to blurring explicit image search results

Hermes wins U.S. trademark trial over 'MetaBirkin' NFTs

MEDIA CANDY

M3GAN

Linda Rondstadt: The Sound of My Voice

ANDY PRIEBOY - LIVE AT LARGO - 1997-ISH

Miles Hunt Live in Leeds

Minions: The Rise of Gru

The Peripheral Season 2 Renewed At Prime Video

Clarkson’s Farm Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Nuclear War Simulator | Out Now

“What if?”: Academic Scenario Simulation Tool “Nuclear War Simulator” Launches Today on Steam

OPEN-RISOP

Pen.Tips Textured Feeling PenMat

Paperlike

AT THE LIBRARY

The Unmaking Engine (The World Walker Series Book 2) by Ian W. Sainsbury

Life: What Nat to Do - A Hot Take on the Advice You Never Asked For by Nat's What I Reckon

Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube

SECURITY HAH!

‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI

Disney World’s struggling $5,000 Star Wars hotel slashes prices, cancels summer dates

ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Dave Bittner on Waze

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Burt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, dies aged 94

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587: Our Inevitable Doom Feb 04, 2023

100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroopin'.

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FOLLOW UP

World’s first electric dump truck stores as much energy as 8 Tesla Model S cars

IN THE NEWS

PayPal is laying off 2,000 employees

Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks

ChatGPT Plus FAQ

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month

ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in January

Spotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mount

Tesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022

The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claims

San Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxis

EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations

Amazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience Stores

Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it

AI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope Data

MEDIA CANDY

Picard Season 3 Trailer

Paramount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime'

Cunk on Earth

AT THE LIBRARY

Earthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner

After Babel - Jonathan Haight

How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra Klein

Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

SECURITY HAH!

Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the Androids

ElevenLabs Beta

ChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very Well

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

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586: GOGPT Jan 28, 2023

ChatGPT is everywhere: destroyer of worlds, or modern convenient pocket calculator; Section 230 ruling coming; gravity batteries & Tesla factories; Spotify, Vox Media layoffs; TikTok, Twitter gaming their systems; Justice Department after Google's ad business; AWS expanding in Virginia; Easter Sunday; Elvis; Madoff; Strange World; Slow Horses; White Lotus; the Last of Us; the Schulmister Effect & the DeFillippo Effect; shiny new Apple stuff; Microsoft investing in OpenAI; the World Walker; Annie Grace & Russel Brand on addiction; Disneyland & the pure joy of Star Wars Land; the Safety Dance.

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GOG on Stitcher

GOG on Pandora

Grumpy Old Geeks by Drayk.it

IN THE NEWS

Tech experts ask Supreme Court to rule that Section 230 protections apply to algorithmic recommendations

Gravity batteries in abandoned mines could power the whole planet, scientists say

Tesla will spend $3.6 billion to build a Semi and a battery factory in its Nevada complex

Spotify Will Cut About 6% of Jobs in Latest Tech Layoffs

Vox Media Lays Off 7% of Staff

The Justice Department is suing Google to break up its ad business

TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral

Twitter engineers can still use 'GodMode' to tweet as any account, claims whistleblower

Twitter makes it easier to avoid the annoying 'For You' tab

Amazon Web Services to Spend $35 Billion on Data Centers in Virginia

MEDIA CANDY

Easter Sunday

Elvis

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

Strange World

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Slow Horses, Season One

White Lotus, Season Two

Why Do We Do That?

ENG SUB [Three-Body] EP01 | Tencent Video

Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows

Future Tense Newsletter: My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along

APPS & DOODADS

Apple M2 Macbook Air, Midnight

Apple iPad Air

Apple TV 4K

Jason on Mastodon - @jpdef@hachyderm.io

Microsoft invests billions more dollars in OpenAI, extends partnership

ChatGPT users spot $42 Professional Plan with perks

Google is freaking out about ChatGPT

BYRNA BALLISTIPAC IIIA - BLACK - [HANDGUN RATED] [NO MOLLE] - $499.00 USD

Rezvani Vengeance

AT THE LIBRARY

The World Walker (The World Walker Series, Book One) by Ian W. Sainsbury

The Mechanical: The Alchemy Wars Book 1 by Ian Tregillis

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand

SECURITY HAH!

Understanding The Safety Dance

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585: Certified Human Jan 22, 2023

Student creates app to spot AI essays; Alphabet cuts 6% of workforce; Twitter ends 3rd-party developer access; Musk faces big bill; Tesla engineer testifies video was faked; Amazon hates charity, CNET lied about AI; artists sue Midjourney developers; The Last of Us; Derren Brown; Fleishman is in Trouble; Blue Man Group; Universal Audio Apollo Solo; YubiKey can't ship, Analogue Pocket, FINALLY!

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INTRO

FOLLOW UP

Is It Human or AI? New Tools Help You Spot the Bots

Was that essay written by AI? A student made an app that might tell you.

Awesome ChatGPT Prompts

Promptable

What's faster than a Corvette? A 'Vette with an electric motor

IN THE NEWS

Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people

Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs

THE END OF THE TWITTER CLIENT ERA

Twitter continues to disrespect developers with weak explanation on third-party clients not working

Twitterrific: End of an Era by Sean Heber

Hachyderm

With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great

Musk wins legal battle to force laid-off Twitter employees into arbitration

“Talented but crazy”: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon Musk

Tesla engineer testifies that 2016 video promoting self-driving was faked

Musk Oversaw Video That Exaggerated Tesla’s Self-Driving Capabilities

Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile

CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff Say

Artists sue developers of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, claiming copyright infringement

Stable Diffusion litigation

MEDIA CANDY

HBO's The Last of Us Podcast

Derren Brown: UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind! | E212 The Diary Of A CEO

Fleishman is in Trouble

20 year old meI wants to skate on this course

Blue Man Group with Venus Hum - I Feel Love

APPS & DOODADS

Universal Audio Apollo Solo Heritage Edition, APLS-HE

YubiKey 5C NFC

The Vinyl Comeback Continues

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584: AI-Powered Unemployment Jan 15, 2023

Adobe Podcasts taking jobs; The end of grunt work; Prompt writers and fact checkers; Mansplaining as a Service; Masters of Melancholy; The death of film; ChatGPT for malware and phishing; Cheap cops expose suspects data; The Pale Blue Eye sees The Boys with 3000 years of Jack Ryan; Vinyl STILL making a comeback; HoloLens gets a budget cut; Canadian deliveries went wrong; NYC Schools ban ChatGPT; IBM loses patent crown; Microsoft and the 3-second sample; Public Domain voice fingerprinting; Tesla ruins Thanksgiving, and we have video.

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IN THE NEWS

Microsoft Combat Goggles Falter as Congress Says No to Buying More

Proof-of-delivery photos for many Amazon packages publicly accessible for months

NYC Schools Ban ChatGPT, Citing Fears About Safety and Accuracy

IBM Loses Top Patent Spot After Decades as Leader

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio

EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER ELON MUSK ANNOUNCES “SELF-DRIVING” FEATURE

MEDIA CANDY

The Pale Blue Eye

Three Thousand Years of Longing

APPS & DOODADS

SECURITY HAH!

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects

Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More

Millions of Vehicles at Risk: API Vulnerabilities Uncovered in 16 Major Car Brands

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583: Neurodivergent Fool Jan 08, 2023

2023, here we go; more talk, less social media - except for sharing reels; Twitter scrolling but no interactions; Elon Musk turns squatter; fines for Meta, Coinbase, Apple & Grubhub; Tesla violating employment law, but delivers record amount of vehicles - a solid company if they had a decent CEO; TikTok finally banned from some government devices; Salesforce & Amazon layoffs; World Cup hangover; Good Rivals; Nope; Jurassic World Dominion; 3000 Years of Longing; Slow Horses; Treason; Glass Onion; podcasting market corrections; RIP Dark Sky; AI image generation deep dive; Temple Grandin; Matthew Mather; Andor honest trailer; LastPass problems; Lockbit ransomware gang apologizes.

Show notes at https://gog.show/583

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FOLLOW UP

In Praise of Real (Not Tweetable) Conversations

IN THE NEWS

What It Really Means for a Tweet to Have a Lot of Views

Twitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rent

Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law

Coinbase reaches $100M settlement over background check failures

France sticks Apple with €8M fine over App Store personalized advertising complaint from iOS 14

NLRB says Tesla violated the law by telling employees not to talk about pay

Tesla delivered over 405,000 vehicles in Q4 2022, setting a new company record

Grubhub ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle Washington DC deceptive practices lawsuit

TikTok will be banned on most US federal government devices

Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic

Amazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers, the Most in Recent Tech Wave

MEDIA CANDY

Good Rivals

Nope

Jurassic World Dominion

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Netflix sinks 1899 after one season

The Great Podcasting Market Correction

Treason

Glass Onion

APPS & DOODADS

Apple’s Find My helps firefighters rescue car crash victim in California

Artists fed up with AI-image generators use Mickey Mouse to goad copyright lawsuits

Artists Are Revolting Against AI Art on ArtStation

John Carmack Quits Meta, Burns His Virtual Bridges Behind Him

How China is building a parallel generative AI universe

AT THE LIBRARY

Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin

Nomad: The Nomad Trilogy Book 1 by Matthew Mather

SECURITY HAH!

Honest Trailers | Andor

The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts

A Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us All

EMOJI DRUG CODE | DECODED

Adobe Podcast AI Demo for Location Audio Processing

Adobe Podcast

Butter URL Cleaner

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82

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582: Kind Of Dec 17, 2022

We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps; Dramatron; social media for strangers; Meta's Hasher-Matcher-Actioner; Twitter's do what I say not what I do; Tesla's failure is not fraud; Sam Bankman-Fried & continued crypto arrests & lawsuits; Lord of the Rings marathon feast; Wednesday; The Peripheral; the White Lotus; Slow Horses; Drumpf NFT; too many tabs; Apple to allow outside app stores, dropping Webkit requirement; password managers; Twitter suspensions; the Marshall amp.

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IN THE NEWS

Breakthroughs of the Year

Scientists achieve fusion ignition, a major milestone in clean energy production

Audio from a Martian dust devil captured for the first time

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts

Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology

Social Media Is for Strangers Now

Meta releases an open-source tool that can scan for terrorist content

A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety Council of external advisors

Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful

The college student tracking Elon Musk's jet lashes out after Twitter bans his account. He says he'll keep posting.

Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It

Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended

Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’

Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple Music

Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force

Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder charged with defrauding investors

Celebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT Endorsements

Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors

‘O.C.' star and crypto critic Ben McKenzie tells lawmakers that the crypto market is the 'largest Ponzi scheme in history'

DOJ and SEC charge social media influencers in alleged $100 million stock pump-and-dump scheme

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings Marathon Feast

APPS & DOODADS

Donald Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs)

FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page

Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes

1600 Tabs in Edge

Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws

Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit

Apple’s new whiteboard app gives you and up to 99 friends an ‘infinite canvas’

SECURITY HAH!

Twitter has suspended the Helicopters of DC account.

FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

The Story of the Marshall amp. from the BBC

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Angelo Baldalamenti

RIP tWitch

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581: Kany.A.I. Dec 10, 2022

We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined for data scraping; DoorDash, Deliveroo profitability problems; I am Groot's Holiday; Mickey Mouse's evolution; Wednesday; BritPop; Knives Out; Memory; the White Lotus; Neal Brennan; Dropbox changes; Spotify festival posters; AI gets... weird & creepy; Apple Karaoke; FTC wants to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision; the Tower; Dennis E. Taylor; Jesus Jones & the cesspool of the music industry; Nine Nasty Words; the Muppets & adult Star Wars; Radioshack, Kinkos & Egghead; Goblin mode!

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FOLLOW UP

San Francisco approves police petition to use robots as a 'deadly force option'

San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turn

Who Said It: Kanye or Hitler?

IN THE NEWS

Chinese Bots Inundate Twitter With Pornographic Spam Amid COVID Protests

Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy

Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts

Twitter’s Janitors Are on Strike at Its San Francisco Headquarters

Neuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six months

NFTs, on the Decline Elsewhere, Are Embraced by Some Museums

Crypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid FTX fallout

Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU

DoorDash is laying off around 1,250 corporate employees

‘Purely economic’: Deliveroo Australia’s CEO on why management pulled the pin

MEDIA CANDY

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

Wednesday

This is Pop: Hail Britpop!

Knives Out

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Memory

What The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery Games

Neal Brennan - Blocks

APPS & DOODADS

Dropbox support for macOS FAQs

20-year-old California student creates viral Spotify festival poster app

OpenAI’s New Chatbot Will Tell You How to Shoplift And Make Explosives

UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images

Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes

Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

Unstable Diffusion

Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork

Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery

Apple Music’s Latest Party Trick? Karaoke!

F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision

The Tower - Idle Tower Defense

AT THE LIBRARY

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

Death Threats From an 8 Year Old - The Story of Jesus Jones by Mike Edwards

The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Paul Laird

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022

SECURITY HAH!

The Muppets Christmas Carol Extended Cut Coming to Disney+

Video press kit for Star Tours when it launched, showing that Anthony Daniels is a team player.

Star Wars w/ Dan Zehr | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies #131

RadioShack

Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

TikTok ‘Invisible Body’ challenge exploited to push malware

LastPass reveals another security breach

GPT-2 Output Detector Demo

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Farewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all time

Super Steve’s Holiday

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580: #DystopiYAY! Nov 26, 2022

Claritin to the rescue; Jack wasn't all that great; Trump is back, no he's not; celebrities leaving Twitter, questioning social media; Scrooge McMusk not paying contractors, charities; Sam-Bankman-Fried, FTX lawsuits; New York restricts crypto mining; EU investigating TikTok; Elizabeth Holmes sentences for fraud; Foxconn protests in China; FCC finally cuts off a voice provider for robocalls; A Christmas Story Christmas; Slow Horses; the Peripheral; Andor; Downton Abbey; Love, Actually; Disney Bobiverse; 1899; ScreenFlow Pro; self-driving betas for Christmas; social media alternatives; robots with deadly force; voice assistants are failures, financially; Meta's leaky Pixel; death by selfie.

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I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter Account

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

All the Celebrities Who’ve Quit Twitter Because of Elon Musk

"Enjoy it before it destroys your soul" – why Trent Reznor, Joe Bonamassa and Jack White are withdrawing from social media channels

Twitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measures

Twitter is Going Great!

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text

From Tom Brady to Shaq, FTX’s Celebrity Promoters May Be On the Hook for Damages

New York's crypto mining restrictions are the first in the nation

EU confirms multiple ongoing investigations into TikTok data practices

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud

Protests break out at a major iPhone factory in China

Mass resignations of iPhone workers after unrest, with report of 30% production loss

FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls

MEDIA CANDY

A Christmas Story Christmas

Love Actually Cast Reuniting for 20th Anniversary TV Special

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Bob Iger is returning as Disney CEO in a dramatic shakeup

Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion a Year in Movies for Theaters

‘Avatar 2’ Is So Expensive It Must Become the ‘Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History’ Just to Break Even

Planet Money - Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular fall of his crypto empire, FTX

Something's Burning - 1-Year of Access pass.

APPS & DOODADS

ScreenFlow Pro 10

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America

San Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly force

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

SECURITY HAH!

Husband Lured Wife for a Selfie on Cliff Edge Before Killing Her

Researchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims

Tax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to Facebook

MetaMask will start collecting user IP addresses

Ethereum: MetaMask Privacy Policy Is Worse Than It Looks At First Glance – Here’s Why

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579: Something Elon This Way Comes Nov 19, 2022

Breaking news on Twitter, Twitter is breaking; it's World Cup time; Black Friday spam; Coachella VIP NFT's go poof; outdated Twitter news - move fast, break things; FTX & celebs being sued; Amazon layoffs; the end of the tech boom; the Mole 2022; the Crown Season 5; Netflix updates; the Peripheral; Andor; Jason's Audible Anniversary & inclusion; the Great Filter theory; Dennis E. Taylor - Roadkill, Outland; White Trash Wins Lotto; musical theater; Thriller in 4k; doom scrolling & ditching social media; Adobe Mic Check and audio utilities; Shasta Cola; an actual security story.

Show notes at https://gog.show/579

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Rethinking Black Friday

Coachella NFTs Seemingly Unavailable Amid FTX Crypto Collapse

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29th

Twitter fired employees who publicly called out Elon Musk

Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'hardcore' Twitter or lose their jobs

FTX and Star Backers Including Brady, Curry Sued by Investor

Amazon reportedly plans sweeping layoffs that could affect thousands of employees

The End of Silicon Valley’s 20-Year Boom

MEDIA CANDY

The Mole 2022

The Crown Season 5

Netflix now lets you log out of specific devices remotely

AT THE LIBRARY

NASA Scientists Suggest the Reason We Haven't Found Aliens Is They All Killed Themselves

Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor - Narrated by Ray Porter

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

SECURITY HAH!

White Trash Wins Lotto

Thriller is on Archive.org in 4K

Enhance Speech

Mic Check

Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Rob Sheridan’s Glitch Goods Store

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578: The Psychosis of Billionaires Nov 14, 2022

Moving to Mastodon; doom scrolling & would you really miss social media; Boot Up shanghai'd; lingering COVID societal effects; Twitter's insane week continues - a masterclass is what not to do; Tesla's recalls; collapse through small cascading failures; META layoffs; Wings delivery via Wing; Welcome to Wrexham; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Disney+ catches up to Netflix; AMC attempts another pivot; Brave cookie blocking not working; Spotify Apple Watch update; still no iPad Instagram app; Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Magic Journeys, more Captain EO, Michael Jackson, Disney & Star Wars memories.

Show notes at https://gog.show/578/

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Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks

IN THE NEWS

‘It’s Difficult to Resist’: Surviving Twitter Employees Weigh a Flood of Offers From Rivals

Twitter offering some laid-off staff only half what they’re owed, lawsuit says

Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

Twitter starts rolling out its 'official' checkmarks to celebrities and publishers (updated)

Musk ‘killed’ Twitter’s official checkmarks after only a few hours

Twitter’s Free Speech Problem Is Tesla’s, Too

Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $3.95 bln days after Twitter deal

Tesla recalls over 40,000 cars to address power steering flaw

Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

Stephen Fry Joins Celebrity Twitter Exodus, Says “Goodbye” With Scrabble Message

Facebook Parent Meta Plans Large Layoffs This Week – Report

Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees

Alphabet’s Wing drones will soon be delivering DoorDash orders in Australia

MEDIA CANDY

Welcome to Wrexham

Disney now matches Netflix's subscriber numbers across its combined services

AMC Entertainment To Open “Zoom Room” Auditoriums At Theaters In 17 Markets

APPS & DOODADS

Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners

Spotify’s redesigned Apple Watch app feels less like an afterthought

Instagram on the web has been redesigned for large screens

AT THE LIBRARY

Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

Magic Journeys - Full Film - August 1991

THE MAKING OF CAPTAIN EO

Disney's Captain EO Grand Opening

Captain EO - Rare Dance Rehearsals & More

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Dashaun

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577: Self Driving Twitter Nov 05, 2022

A two-factor pain; Jason hops on Brian's soapbox; the self-driving Twitter crash; Meta ditches human-curated newsfeed; verification has always been a joke, but this is really hilarious; Amazon pauses corporate hiring; Google buys an AI startup to compete with... TikTok?; Adobe's Pantone, Figma issues; the Peripheral; the Witcher renewed, recast; the Machine; drone swarms for Candy Crush; Playstation VR2; Instagram plans NFT minting; Captain EO, amusement parks and mixed media theater; sharing iPads.

Show notes at https://gog.show/577/

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Fact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022

IN THE NEWS

Twitter has removed 1,500 accounts following coordinated trolling campaign

Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally

Elon Musk’s First Grand Plan for Twitter? Charging $8 Per Month for a Blue Checkmark

Elon Musk wants to make Twitter's edit button free for everyone, report says

Elon Musk reportedly wants Twitter to bring back Vine

Amazon Pauses Corporate Hiring on Economic Uncertainty

Google buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTok

DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion deal

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix renews 'The Witcher,' recasts Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia

The Machine Teaser Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

A swarm of 500 drones will plague New York City with advertising tomorrow

$550 PlayStation VR2 launches on Feb. 22, 2023

Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools

SECURITY HAH!

National Theater Live

The Met: Live in HD

White Snake Projects

Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad

Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips

Holy Chicken Ship! The full-length "Captain EO" is more brilliant than you can possibly remember

Star Tours

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Boot Up with Jason

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576: It’s a Meat Problem Oct 29, 2022

Elon is in the Birdhouse; is social media on the way out; we were right about Kanye & self-driving cars; smiles are the new eggs; Ford pivots to data mining; Shutterstock embraces AI-generated art; Apple begrudgingly embraces USB-C; Spotify doesn't follow Apple rules, gets mad; Internet "Radio"; Brian Eno; Andy Prieboy; the Perephrial; big-ass TVs; Doctor Who comes to Disney+; Netflix massive servers; Spark Mail; Bumble AI cyberflashing; stuff of nightmares audio from magnetic field; smart-locks, Level Lock+; Apple OS updates; Andor & Tales of the Jedi; smart Samsung privacy feature; cord-cutting through anger; live theater & the death of public norms; RIP Cracker, Hagrid.

Show notes at https://gog.show/576

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It’s time to admit self-driving cars aren’t going to happen

Pogues’ hard-living former frontman finds success as an artist

Does Faking a Smile Make You Happier? The Latest Findings Are In

IN THE NEWS

Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top Executives

Ford CEO Farley explains the business factors behind Argo AI's shuttering

SpaceX's costlier Starlink internet service for RVs works on moving vehicles

Shutterstock and OpenAI will team up to sell AI-generated stock images

iPhones will get USB-C charging to comply with EU law, Apple SVP confirms

Spotify accuses Apple of impeding its fledgling audiobook business

MEDIA CANDY

Internet Radio

Brian Eno discusses his latest album, art as simulation, and the dangers of "premature sheen"

Andy Prieboy - ONE and ONE MAKE THREE - FORGOTTEN, ABANDONED, UNFINISHED SONGS 1979 - 2021

Amazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with Alexa

Future ‘Doctor Who’ seasons will air on Disney+

APPS & DOODADS

GOG Discord

Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage

An AI Created 100,000 Full-Body Photos of People Who Don’t Exist

Bumble open sourced its AI that detects unsolicited nudes

This audio recording of Earth's magnetic field is the "stuff of nightmares"

European Space Agency · The scary sound of Earth's magnetic field

Level’s new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key is smart lock perfection

Apple releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Samsung's Maintenance Mode protects your personal data while your phone is out for repair

DEF CON 30 - Andrew Logan - Tracking Military Ghost Helicopters over Washington DC

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Robbie Coltrane Cause Of Death Revealed A Week After The Loss Of ‘Harry Potter’ Star

Cracker

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575: Regretted Attrition Oct 22, 2022

Automated-tech vehicle deaths; Twitter tumbles as Musk deals reviewed; Amazon's bad news week - unions, attrition costs & lawsuits; Bird migrating out of markets; in Uber ads are coming; Microsoft layoffs; Reddit NFTs booming; Kanye & Parler; Metaverse attrition; Meta has to sell Giphy; Unstoppable Domains stopped; Keanu returning to franchises; She-Hulk gets too meta; Nope is a yep; WB launches LOTR NFTs; Netflix "extra user" fees; Directed by David Lynch; TikTok adult-only livestreams; DuckDuck No Thank You; Discmaster; Apple & Adobe updates; the Forever War; the Walk of Life; Flash, ahhhaaaa!

Show notes at : https://gog.show/575/

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Now it’s getting meta...

11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles

IN THE NEWS

Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals

Amazon warehouse in Albany votes against unionization

Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.

Amazon faces $1 billion lawsuit over claims it 'tricks' UK customers into paying more

Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets

Uber Plans to Advertise to You At Every Stage of Your Ride, Using Your Own Data

Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees

Redditors have created millions of crypto wallets to buy NFT avatars

Kanye West to acquire ‘uncancelable’ social media platform Parler

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

Meta will have to sell Giphy after losing UK appeal

The GIF Is on Its Deathbed

Unstoppable Domains disables .coin extensions, illustrating an issue with the idea that "you'll always own your NFT"

"Why we’re no longer offering .coin"

MEDIA CANDY

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Weed Is Coming to Circle K Gas Stations in US Next Year

Nope

Warner Bros. teams up with Web3 startup Eluvio to launch ‘Lord of the Rings’ NFTs

Netflix will begin charging 'extra user' fees early next year

Netflix Returns to Growth, Saying the Worst of Slowdown Is Over

First look at 'Ralphie' star Peter Billingsley's returns for 'A Christmas Story' sequel

"Directed by David Lynch" stickers reveal the true nature of our reality

TikTok is raising the age requirement for TikTok Live, adding adult-only livestreams

TikTok appears to be preparing to launch a podcast app

THE WALK OF LIFE PROJECT

Queen unearths 'lost' 1988 track 'Face it Alone' featuring Freddie Mercury

APPS & DOODADS

DuckDuckGo for Mac moves to public beta with cookie pop-up handling, ‘Duck Player,’ more

Discmaster

Apple will release iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura on October 24

Apple’s new M2 iPad Pro arrives October 26

Adobe Photoshop update adds refined selections and AI photo restoration

AT THE LIBRARY

The Forever War, Book 1 by Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace: The Forever War, Book 2 by Joe Haldeman

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574: She’s Got Legs Oct 15, 2022

F around & find out; eggs, legs & self driving cars; Alex Jones; Meta, OnlyFans bribes & Within; what's the ROI for 1.2 billion & 38 users; the Metaverse is getting legs; more NFT & crypto news; Rivian recalls almost all it's trucks; DeepMind & DeepCake; DART worked; Netflix announces ad-tier, Apple is considering it; Succession & the Murdochs; Werewolf By Night; Sportsball; Shane MacGowan; eero Internet Backup; AirTags in luggage; 3D calling; Spark Mail; ePaper License Plates; Apple AR headsets; website tracking; patter & spoken word songs; Shatner gold!

Show notes at https://gog.show/574

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What’s the magic number of steps to keep weight off? Here’s what a new study says

Survey: 42% of Tesla Autopilot Drivers Think Their Cars Can Entirely Drive Themselves

IN THE NEWS

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million after misinformation campaign targeting Sandy Hook families

Lawsuit accuses Meta executives of taking bribes from OnlyFans

Meta files to dismiss FTC complaint over acquisition of VR fitness company Within

$1.2 BILLION METAVERSE HORRIFIED BY REPORT IT ONLY HAD 30 ACTIVE USERS

Meta's avatars are getting legs

'The devices would have gotten us killed.' Microsoft's military smart goggles failed four of six elements during a recent test, internal Army report says

NFT Purchased by Logan Paul for 623k is now worth $10

From Over $620K to $10: Logan Paul’s Unsuccessful NFT Investment

Satoshi Island project aims to turn a remote Pacific island into a city built on cryptocurrency

Steering Defect Forces Tech Darling Rivian to Recall Nearly Every Car Its Ever Made

New iPhone Crash Collision Feature Is Calling 911 For People On Rollercoasters

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Labor Department proposal may lead to gig workers gaining employee status

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix with ads launches Nov. 3, will be missing up to 10% of Netflix catalog

Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies

‘The Peripheral’: Prime Video Drops New Trailer For Sci-Fi From Jonathan Nolan And Lisa Joy

Prosecutors drop charges against ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

The Murdochs: Empire of Influence

Werewolf By Night

Shane MacGowan "waved willy" at trains passing Bono's house

APPS & DOODADS

What is eero Internet Backup?

Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags

Lufthansa Says Apple AirTags Are Once Again Allowed in Checked Bags

DJI Mavic 3 - Flying Over Mount Everest

Google’s 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world

Google completes iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets rollout with Maps and Search

SECURITY HAH!

E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

RPlate by Reviver

Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In

Nreal Air AR Glasses, Smart Glasses with Massive 201" Micro-OLED Virtual Theater, Augmented Reality Glasses, Watch, Stream, and Game on PC/Android/iOS – Consoles & Cloud Gaming Compatible

Better ingredients, better trackers: Papa John’s sued for allegedly snooping on website users

Beware cars that may have come from the Florida hurricane Ian floodplains.

Big John by Jimmy Dean

Ringo by Lorne Green

Teddy Bear by Red Sovine

Convoy by CW McCall

William Shatner - Good King Wenceslas

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Angela Lansbury

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - IMDB

Sweeney Todd (1982) - FULL

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573: Firing On Zero Cylinders Oct 08, 2022

Getting hit by a Tesla at Whole Foods; Deepcake; Elon's wild Twitter week, TeslaBot Prime; Kim K pays up for crypto pump-and-dump; Bitcoin, climate change & personal impact; Coinbase allows buys, unable to cash out for 6 hours; FCC taking robocall database seriously; Love and Thunder; reassessing Sinead; Pose; Deshaun; the Real Bling Ring; Food Network; more Dune coming; Spotify downsizes podcast division; Twitter edit; too big TVs; another drone; Metaverse fashion IRL; Media, HAH; Andor, She-Hulk and short seasons & series; Spotify looking for harmful content; Uber cover-up; Orson Wells, Johnny Carson and the theater of the mind.

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Bruce Willis’ Rep Refutes Report That He Sold His Digital Likeness to Deepfake Company

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

“Are You Going to Liberate Twitter From the Censorship Happy Mob?”

Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

Musk’s Twitter Deal Has Employees Asking: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

Kim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million to settle SEC charges over a crypto post

Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold

Coinbase users were unable to withdraw funds to US bank accounts for six hours

FCC will start kicking voice providers out of its robocall database

MEDIA CANDY

Thor: Love and Thunder

Nothing Compares

A New Movie About One of Our Most Controversial Pop Stars Shows We’ve Still Got a Lot of Reassessing to Do

Pose

The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist

Bobby’s Triple Threat

OutChef’d

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson to Star as Harkonnen Siblings in Sisterhood of Dune

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of podcast staff

APPS & DOODADS

Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait

Amazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with Alexa

DJI Avata

Loewe's Metaverse Fashion Works IRL

SECURITY HAH!

Mandalorian Dark Saber

The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast

Griftonomics

Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content

Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-Up

Orson Welles and Johnny Carson discuss the merits of audio content

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Loretta Lynn’s Family Statement and Obituary

Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing Comedian, Dies at 72

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572: I Like It, Except When It Sucks Oct 01, 2022

Why haven't you deleted TikTok yet; Google search gets immersive; Apple Pay Later coming... later; why we aren't going EV or even hybrid yet; space news makes tech cool again; Meta brings the NFTs and... Make-A-Video; James Earl Jones retires, AI Darth Vader is your daddy now; Bruce Willis sells rights to Deepfake firm; Three-Body Problem, Avatar: the Way of Water have us snoozing; Netflix building a game studio; Bravo; Aphex Twin software 20 years too late; tortilla robots and predictive AI; OG app announced, dead on arrival; Amazon's hardware event; the Forever War; Matthew Mather; Cloudflare eSIM; Uber, GTA 6 hack suspect arrested; Andor.

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Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

IN THE NEWS

UK warns TikTok of £27 million fine over child privacy violations

TikTok breaks records as top grossing app in Q3, as overall app store revenue declines

TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain

Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’

Apple Pay Later may not arrive until next year due to 'technical and engineering' setbacks

Department of Transportation approves EV charging plans for all 50 states

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

Hurricane Ian Flyover Coverage

All Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now share NFTs, cross-post between both apps

Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text

MEDIA CANDY

An AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retire

Actor Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm

Netflix’s adaptation of 'The Three-Body Problem' will arrive in 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser Trailer

Netflix is building its own game studio

APPS & DOODADS

Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

Aphex Twin's free 'sample mashing' app feeds on your music library

Chipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurant

The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed

Apple removed The OG App from the App Store for unauthorized access of Instagram’s services

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Badgy Directive

Here's everything Amazon announced at its fall hardware event

AT THE LIBRARY

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Matthew Mather (1969-2022)

SECURITY HAH!

Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices

How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You

AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Coolio Found Dead at Age 59

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571: Furry Stormtrooper Sep 24, 2022

Patreon & MASH; TikTok treats celebrities not just like us; everyone's getting fined - Uber, Meta & Morgan Stanley; Deep Space Whine; Constantine sequel; Scanners remake; Apple TV+ upcoming projects; Succession; The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick; Serial has an update; Kurt Cobain's abandoned house photography; music for programming; Rogue Amoeba celebrates 20 years; OpenAI open-sources Whisper; AI imagery and legal challenges; Douglas Rushkoff and the horrific tech billionaires; Star Wars: Andor & Larry; ILM and the trench run; AI gone Furry.

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Patreon Acquires Memberful

Patreon was in talks to onboard MrBeast in a deal that could have been worth millions but never came to pass

MAS*H Matters

IN THE NEWS

TikTok reportedly gives 'a bit more leniency' to popular accounts

Uber Agrees to Pay N.J. $100 Million in Dispute Over Drivers’ Employment Status

Meta ordered to pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer $175M for patent infringement

$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned

MEDIA CANDY

Deep Space Whine

‘Constantine’ Sequel Officially Announced with Keanu Reeves Returning!

‘Scanners’ Series Remake In The Works At HBO – Deadline

Apple TV+ lands Vince Gilligan’s new TV project with two season order, starring Rhea Seehorn

Wool — cast, plot and everything you need to know about the dystopian sci-fi drama

Succession Season 3

The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

Judge orders release of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

Photographer spent the day inside Kurt Cobain's abandoned house

musicForProgramming();

APPS & DOODADS

Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary

DJI Osmo Mobile 6

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

"As If Nothing Happened": I Used Artificial Intelligence To See How Some Celebrities Would Look Today If They Were Alive

How AI Sees LA

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

AT THE LIBRARY

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 1

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 2

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 3

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 4

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 5

FXRant: The Death Star and the Final Trench Run

Celebrating 70 Years of Walt Disney Imagineering

Fur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.

Stable Diffusion running on M1 Macs

Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State: ‘They Are Watching’ - The New York Times

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

SAVANNAH COMIC CON 2022

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570: Allegedly Sep 16, 2022

Patreon drama ramps up, considerably - allegedly; Amazon accelerates robotics; Twitter's innovation vs Meta's; this week in Musk; Adobe's weird Figma play antitrust cough; Starbucks rewards NFTs; Merriam-Webster yeets pumpkin spice; Rings of Power; She-Hulk; Star Wars trailers; Kiki, Pose, Legendary and the power of sub-cultures; Sonos Ray; Apple OS updates generally good, kill Dark Sky bad; iZotope RX 10; Discord adds... forums; the Status Game; Chatter: the Voice in Our Head "I am a Golden God!"

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FOLLOW UP

Patreon is laying off 17 percent of its workforce and closing offices / Around a week after it laid off its security team

The Patreon Problem: Who is subscribing to these children's accounts?

The Patreon Problem Vol 2: It's worse than we thought.

IN THE NEWS

Amazon is buying a company that makes pallet-stacking robots

Twitter shareholders approve the $44B merger Musk is trying to get out of

Drivers sue Tesla for alleged false advertising of Autopilot and FSD software

Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers

Meta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundation

Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design

Adobe’s $20 Billion Deal For Figma is More Than 50 Times the Startup’s Revenue

Starbucks thinks you'll want to collect NFTs to earn rewards

Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law | Disney+ Originals

The first 'Mandalorian' season three trailer reunites a favorite Star Wars family

Legendary | HBO Max Originals

APPS & DOODADS

Review: Sonos Ray

iOS 16 is now available

Apple Releases watchOS 9 With Medication Tracking, New Watch Faces, Sleep Updates, and More

iOS 16's haptic keyboard is the best feature you haven't found yet | Macworld

iPhone 14 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes – Lux

I deleted and edited my texts with Apple's new iOS update — and it's the coolest thing the company has done in a long time

How to remove the Search button from your Home Screen in iOS 16

Apple-Acquired Weather App Dark Sky Reminding Users That iOS App Shutting Down on January 1

Drafts

iZotope RX 10

Discord revolutionizes online conversations with... forums

AT THE LIBRARY

The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber

Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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569: It’s Not Easy Being Green Sep 10, 2022

Meta's new fine, data black box, and dissolution of "Responsible Innovation" team; DOJ antitrust action against Google could hurt Apple; more iPhones than Androids in the US for the first time; Tim Cook's burn; LG inexplicably adds NFTs to TVs; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Rings of Power & House of the Dragon; feeding Phil; Stranger Things; Khan prequel; poop for profit; Apple Watch; SetApp; Travel By Bullet, Scalzi; Star Wars upcoming series; Robocop self-defense; cable testing & ranting; ransomware attacks; fun Anonymous hack; being taken off the internet.

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The Birth of the Modem World

When bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the online community praying for the end of crypto

IN THE NEWS

Meta faces $402 million EU fine over Instagram's privacy settings for children

DOJ antitrust action against Google could see Apple lose billions of dollars a year

Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data

Meta dissolves team responsible for discovering 'potential harms to society' in its own products

More Americans are using iPhones than Android phones for the first time ever, new report says — a major milestone for Apple

Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

LG brings NFTs to its LED and OLED TVs

SLS fuel leak likely to delay Artemis 1 launch to October

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

House of the Dragon

Phil still fed as Somebody Feed Phil gets sixth-season renewal

Stranger Things Season 4

‘The Wrath of Khan’ is getting an official Star Trek podcast prequel

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Watch Ultra

Apple’s New ‘Ultra’ Watch Goes Toe-to-Toe With Garmin

Travel by Bullet - The Dispatcher, Book 3 by John Scalzi

AT THE LIBRARY

11 Books Like The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

SECURITY HAH!

‘Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae Lands Male Lead In ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’ From Leslye Headland And Lucasfilm

BYRNA SD KINETIC KIT

BYRNA FOLDABLE TARGET TRAP

C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester

Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter

Rode VideoMic NTG Camera-mount Shotgun Microphone

SmallRig Universal Smartphone Video Rig for iPhone Samsung, Filmmaking Vlogging Rig Aluminium Alloy Phone Video Cage Grip with Cold Shoe Mount for Videomaker Videographer - 2791

The Los Angeles Unified School District is dealing with a ransomware attack

Anonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploit

Cloudflare blocks trans harassment forum Kiwi Farms following escalation of 'targeted threats'

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79

Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43

MAS*H 50th Reunion Fundraiser

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568: Muskadamus Sep 02, 2022

FBI warns about DeFi; SEC after crypto; Facebook supports NFTs while trading tanks; Metaverse standards; blinking pants MetaHTML; Nvidia top AI chip dog; Snap layoffs; Substack reins in spending & perks for writers; Twitter's Onlyfans plans canned; Elon's bad prediction record; Pixar; A League of Their Own; NFT performers at the MTV awards; the Church; the Boys; Animal Kingdom; iPassword; UK police game Waze; digital art & AI created content; Midjourney; FTC sues data broker; malware hidden in James Webb images; Apple antitrust complaint; Google's automated tool messed up, shocking.

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Private Internet Access

FBI says investors should take precautions before putting money into decentralized finance platforms

The SEC’s Escalating Crypto Crackdown; Exclusive: Bill Qian’s New Role

MoviePass Will Work This Time*

Touring the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, IL

Virtual Tour of the Billy Graham Library Lobby with a Talking Cow

IN THE NEWS

Facebook now supports NFTs

WORLD'S TOP NFT MARKETPLACE HAS ALLEGEDLY LOST 99 PERCENT OF ITS TRADING VOLUME SINCE MAY

The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the “HTML of the metaverse”

U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

Snap reportedly plans to lay off around a fifth of its employees

Media Versus Time By Jessica E. Lessin

Substack Reins in Cash and Perks for Writers as Creator Economy Retrenches

California Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The Children

Who Would Benefit From California’s Age Appropriate Design Code? Apparently Porn Companies, Privacy Lawyers, And Medical Disinfo Peddlers. But Not Kids

Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

Truth Social's inadequate moderation is keeping it off the Google Play Store

Scoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdup

How Twitter’s Child Porn Problem Ruined Its Plans for an Onlyfans Competitor

EXPERTS SAY ELON MUSK IS WRONG ABOUT THAT POPULATION THING HE KEEPS SAYING

MEDIA CANDY

The Pixar Story

A League of Their Own

Snoop Dogg, Eminem's NFT Performance At VMAs Looks Like Bad Instagram Filter

The Church - The Hypnogogue

The Boys Season 3

Animal Kingdom

Edgar Wright | Pre-order Filmmaking Online Course | BBC | BBC Maestro

APPS & DOODADS

1Password 8 for iOS

Get a deal on 1Password!

UK police accused of uploading misleading Waze reports to encourage safer driving

Jason Allen takes 1st place in "Digital Category" at Colorado State Fair with AI-Generated content

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

Midjourney

SECURITY HAH!

FTC sues company for selling identifiable location data, including abortion clinic visits

Hackers hide malware in James Webb telescope images

Apple may face a DOJ antitrust complaint over AirTags

A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

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567: House of Dragon Boobs Aug 27, 2022

MoviePass, if at first, you don't succeed; Musk, absurdly broad & overly burdensome; crypto games; virtual rappers; stealing Project Titan; bitcoin mining, data centers & a global energy crisis; Neuralink's Halloween show-and-tell; SpaceX & T-Mobile team up; the Gen-X joys of Top Gun: Maverick; Day Shift's dialogue; Light & Magic; She-Hulk; House of the Dragon; Going Back to Xanadu; our preferred chairs, browsers, and fitness apps; trackers on bikes; Netflix games; Binance scammers get scammed; those Chinese surveillance cameras; Twitter's whistleblower claims.

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Podcast Magazine 40 over 40

MoviePass will return on September 5th with plans starting at around $10 per month

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s ‘Absurdly Broad’ Strategy Against Twitter Is Losing

A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here's What Happened Instead

Axie Infinity Leaves Filipino Players Penniless and Defeated

Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes

Former Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing Project Titan trade secrets

Bitcoin Mining Company Sells 26,200 Rigs to Eliminate $67M Debts

Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland

Elon Musk's Neuralink will show brain implant progress at a Halloween show-and-tell

SpaceX and T-Mobile to Connect Starlink Satellites to Mobile Phones

SpaceX & T-Mobile to bring direct satellite connection to cell phones with ‘Coverage Above and Beyond’

MEDIA CANDY

Top Gun Maverick

Day Shift

Light & Magic

Going Back To Xanadu (2008 Xanadu documentary)

APPS & DOODADS

Mirra 2

Opera GX review – worth using in 2022?

qdomyos-zwift Guide

Auto resistance on Peloton Workout and Charts for your Echelon bikes with qdomyos-zwift

How to Play Netflix Games for Free

SECURITY HAH!

Hackers reportedly deepfaked a Binance exec to carry out listing scams

Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Show

depression lies – WIL WHEATON dot NET

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566: Down the Metahole Aug 20, 2022

Technology no one wants: palm scanners, the Metaverse, NFTs & crypto; buying real art; Apple's return to work, hiring freeze, Maps & looking into tripling it's ad revenue; Neumann's back, again; fighting for your right to party at an Airbnb; the Sandman, Better Call Saul nail it; Westworld... WTF; the Most Hated Man on the Internet; She-Hulk; Light & Magic; the Slits; VPNs, AirTags, Simplisafe & fitness apps; Jason Bumbles with a bot; Signal third-party breach; Google shutters IoT Core; getting jiggler with it; Apple 0-days updates; Galaga; it's like camping, but involuntary!

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Shannon Stamey

Winamp's revival includes platforms for musicians and fans

IN THE NEWS

Apple employees will need to work from its offices three times a week starting in September

Apple reportedly lays off recruiters amid hiring slowdown

Report: Apple wants to triple its revenue from ads business, likely expanding Search Ads to Maps app

Adam Neumann’s New Company Gets a Big Check From Andreessen Horowitz

Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord

Airbnb starts testing anti-party tech in the US and Canada

Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse selfie is so bad people can’t believe it’s real

MEDIA CANDY

The Sandman

Endless: A Sandman Podcast

Better Call Saul

Westworld

The Most Hated Man on the Internet

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Light & Magic

Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits

APPS & DOODADS

Stealth Tubeless Tag Holder

Ninja Mount Launches a Range of Apple Airtag Mounts

Stealth Tag®- A hidden AirTag mountain bike holder to track and protect your bike

SimpliSafe

Survey: Nearly half of Android users consider switching to iPhone over security and privacy concerns

Fitness Blender

Peloton may open its workout content to competing bikes and treadmills

SECURITY HAH!

Signal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbers

Google Cloud will shutter its IoT Core service next year

‘My manager caught me’: Remote worker says they got reprimanded for using ‘mouse jiggler’ app, sparking debate

What you’ll need to survive the California wildfires this summer

iOS Privacy: Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

Apple security updates fix 2 zero-days used to hack iPhones, Macs

Better Call Saul prop auction

Tips for Galaga

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565: Jason Blart: Mall Cop Aug 13, 2022

Incompetencies; magnets on a stick; tennis elbow & fitness; go ahead and drink the rain in Spain; CHIPS is a go; Cuban does good & bad; Amazon's solutions without problems; Facebook still can't remove white supremacists; Pew study on teen social media usage; FCC rejects Starlink request for subsidies; the Sandman; NeuroNerds; Joni Mitchell; Surface; Prey; Being Canadian; Twitter content AI is crap; home tools; cocktail smoking; Jason goes to Mall Cop school; Meta releases messages in abortion case; in-app browsers are bad; does Wisdom listen?

Show notes at https://gog.show/565

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FOLLOW UP

SOLE SB900

Fitness Blender

Zwift Compatible Equipment

CycleOps Magnus Smart Trainer

40 Over 40 in Podcasting for 2022

IN THE NEWS

President Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor production

Mark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager ‘Ponzi scheme’

Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California

Facebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study says

A fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behind

TikTok’s $4 Billion Advertising Machine Is Messy Behind the Scenes

FCC rejects Starlink request for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies

MEDIA CANDY

The Sandman

The Orville New Horizons

The NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Show

How Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk Festival

Nadiya's Asian Odyssey

New Rule: Fat Acceptance | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

APPS & DOODADS

Plex

HBO Max finishes rolling out its much-needed app redesign

What we bought: How DeWalt's 20V Max cordless drill became my most versatile home-reno tool

DEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill Combo Kit, 2-Tool (DCK240C2),Yellow/Black Drill Driver/Impact Combo Kit

Craftsman 3-in-1 Corded Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher

MITBAK Cocktail Smoker with Dome Lid and Woodchips | Electric Food and Drink Portable Smoking Gun| Indoor-Outdoor Smoke Infuser Machine | Excellent Gift

GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models

SECURITY HAH!

BYRNA CA COURSE - SECURITY GUARD AND CHEMICAL AGENT CERTIFICATION

BYRNA SHIELD BULLET RESISTANT BACKPACK BODY ARMOR

Nebraska mother, teenager face charges in teen's abortion after police obtain their Facebook DMs

In-app browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk, developer shows

Active scam making the rounds on Twitter

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Olivia Newton John

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN DEAD AT 73

Darryl Hunt of The Pogues has died aged 72

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564: Blame It On the Rain Aug 06, 2022

Earth no longer has drinkable rain; Goodreads; Pickleball elbow; Twitter goes after Musk; the week in grift - Ponzi schemes, hacks, regulatory lies, "preemptive" theft, oh my; Meta's Super live streaming platform; movies we haven't watched & some we have; Westworld; Trainwreck, Woodstock '99; Opal C1 camera; Apple Arcade removes titles; Winamp is back; WebbCompare; fitness apps; Meta Pixel HIPAA lawsuits; everyone's texts have been deleted except Alex Jones; deprogramming conspiracy theorists, Happy Birthday, Jason!

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FOLLOW UP

Jason on Goodreads

10 Terrific Exercises for Tennis Elbow

PFAS In Rainwater Mean It's Unsafe To Drink Anywhere, Even In Antarctica

IN THE NEWS

Twitter subpoenas associates of Elon Musk in preparation for lawsuit

The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements

SEC charges 11 people over 'textbook' $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme

Hacking free-for-all relieves crypto bridge users of $200 million

New York regulators slap Robinhood's crypto business with $30 million fine

Robinhood lays off almost a quarter of its staff

Inside the Crypto-Bot Ghost Towns of Telegram

Meta has been quietly testing a new livestreaming platform and is ramping up creator outreach. Read a leaked 17-page pitch deck it sent influencers.

MEDIA CANDY

Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99

Best Sellers

The Lost City

APPS & DOODADS

Opal C1 Camera - invite code: OP-5i7SOFb-AL

Apple Arcade removes first batch of originals, ‘Leaving Soon’ tab now gone

Jetpack Joyride will soon have a sequel available exclusively on Apple Arcade

Winamp, your parents' favorite MP3 software, is back

SECURITY HAH!

Meta faces lawsuit for allegedly collecting patient health data without consent

FOR PROBABLY TOTALLY INNOCENT REASONS, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ALSO DELETED THE JANUARY 6 TEXT MESSAGES OF TOP TRUMP OFFICIALS

Conspiracy theories have legitimized violence, impaired public health, and undermined democratic governance. Containing their harms begins with understanding the theorist, not the theory.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Airtags on Thingverse

Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future

Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers for 67 Years, Dies at 94

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563: Cracker Barrel Enthusiast Jul 30, 2022

Hot, Hot, Hot; Google fires engineer that claimed AI was sentient; Shkreli, Cracker Barrel enthusiast & ponzi schemer, is back; ghosted politician wants to make ghosting a crime; Senate grills Apple, Google over crypto app scams; Jon & Punch & the CHIPS act; Westworld turns the ship around; John Oliver is back; the Old Man; Spotify gains users, loses money, ditches Car Thing; hiding AirTags on bikes; Instagram's very busy week; Twitter Blue price hike; Snapchat+ inexplicably doing well; Tinder "desk mode"; smart scarves; Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler; Star Trek coffee table book; Happy Birthday Dave!

Show notes at https://gog.show/563

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FOLLOW UP

White House launches a website to help people cope with extreme heat

Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient

GOOGLE FIRES ENGINEER WHO SAID ITS EXPERIMENTAL AI GAINED SENTIENCE

IN THE NEWS

Martin Shkreli Is Out of Prison, So of Course He's Getting Into web3

A Filipino politician wants to make ghosting a criminal offense

Senate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scams

CHIPS Act passes House on way to Biden signing

MEDIA CANDY

STAR TREK CONTINUES

‘The Old Man’ Finale: Producers Address Mysterious Morgan & Whether Zoe (And Those Dogs) Will Be Back

Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money

Spotify has stopped making its Car Thing dashboard accessory

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok

Instagram will survey US users about race to assess if it is ‘fair and equitable’

Instagram Pauses Changes to Feed After Week-Long Drama

Twitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription for the first time

Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue

Tinder revives 'Desk Mode' feature for singles returning to the office, offering them a button to quickly hide swiping

Manchester City shows off a smart scarf that tracks fan reactions

Clipdrop

Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard Fiasco Leads to a $50M Settlement

Latest iOS 16 beta limits the ability to edit and delete messages

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AT THE LIBRARY

Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

David Warner, British Actor Known for ‘The Omen’ and ‘Tron,’ Dies at 80

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562: It’s Fuego Out There Jul 23, 2022

A rare in-person show; space news; piracy is good, so are eggs; Millennium Tower keeps sinking; TikTok job cuts; Twitter trial moves forward; Russian & Chinese fines on big tech; Microsoft hard pass on NFTs; crypto energy use; all the Star Trek; Netflix's confusing sharing plans; Game of Yawns; stories behind the songs; Instagram is dead; Jason's $Eaves; we stole Nothing; regulating VPNs; US government buying location data; TikTok security shuffle; GPS security flaws; it's a bit warm out there, isn't it?

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The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing the universe on a 68GB SSD

IN HUGE REVERSAL, RUSSIA LETTING SPACEX FLY COSMONAUTS TO SPACE STATION

Buzz Aldrin's moon landing jacket is up for auction

Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty

IN THE NEWS

Once again, the Millennium Tower is sinking and tilting faster than before

TikTok is cutting jobs around the world

Judge rules that Twitter can expedite its trial against Elon Musk

Russia hits Google with a $375M fine for allowing ‘prohibited’ Ukraine news on its platforms

China’s $1B fine on Didi could end the mobility giant’s troubled year

Minecraft says ‘No F-ing Thanks’ to NFTs

Cryptomining boom has people’s energy bills skyrocketing; feds mull new rules

Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston, Findings Show

Crypto has a whole new boondoggle to sell you

Blockchain-powered carbon offset company Land Life starts 35,000-acre forest fire in Spain

Elon Musk discloses that Tesla owns Dogecoin, but how much does it have?

Inside Apple’s Eight-Year Struggle to Build a Self-Driving Car

NFTs 101: Taxes, Risks, and More by Charles Schwab

NFT collector loses 100 ETH (~$150,000) in a joke gone wrong

MEDIA CANDY

Set Phasers to Stream: Here’s All the ‘Star Trek’ Content on Paramount+

Netflix lost nearly 1 million subscribers last quarter

Netflix is fighting password sharing in Latin America by charging for additional 'homes'

HBO’s new ‘House of the Dragon’ trailer offers a peek at the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel

AN EXPERIMENTAL HORROR ARG IS TESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF AI ART

Glitch Goods Store

Holiday T-shirt

The Story Behind Why Garbage’s Shirley Manson Is “Only Happy When It Rains”

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram is dead by Om Malik

Instagram rolling out new map experience to help users discover more places

Empire Avenue

Dbrand’s ‘Something’ skins make your phone look like a Nothing Phone 1

TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding

SECURITY HAH!

US Congress calls for the FTC to regulate how VPN companies operate

Records reveal the scale of Homeland Security's phone location data purchases

TikTok's global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy

Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations

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561: Magnet On a Stick Jul 16, 2022

Back from vacation; borrowing for crypto; saving lives; speed news recap: YouTube trailers, Apple & Ive, Microsoft layoffs, Instagram & TikTok for search, Nothing phone, political email spam, GameStop NFT's, population; James Webb telescope images; Twitter sues Elon; Ev leaves Medium; Rivian cost-cutting; Peloton outsources products; Meta generative AI; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrap up; Umbrella Academy; Let's Make a Sci-Fi; AirTags & Prime deals; Wayne Hussey, Hercule Poirot & humans being wrong; scam centers & trafficking victims; Scum & Villany; you can never have too many helmets.

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Survey: Americans Borrow Money, Default on Bills to Buy Cryptocurrency

IN THE NEWS

YouTube TV now has topped 5 million subscribers and ‘trialers,’ says Google

Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader

Jony Ive is no longer an Apple consultant, says report

Daily Crunch: Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees as it kicks off fiscal year 2023

Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps

The Nothing Phone is official as a mid-ranger, with some lights on the back

Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters

Analysis: GameStop’s NFT marketplace earns the company just $45K in first day

NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff: ‘We have entered … crypto winter’

EARTH'S POPULATION IS ABOUT TO HIT 8 BILLION

NASA reveals more stunning images from James Webb telescope

Twitter sues Elon Musk for attempting to back out of $44 billion buyout deal

Medium founder and CEO Ev Williams is stepping down

Rivian CEO tells staff the company is carrying out a 'major' cost-cutting effort

Peloton gives up on building its own products after just three years

Facebook Parent Meta Details Human-Rights Efforts

Meta’s latest generative AI system creates stunning images from sketches and text

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix to Partner With Microsoft on New Ad Supported Subscription Plan

Nikon is reportedly halting DSLR camera development

The Orville New Horizons

The Umbrella Academy

Let's Make A Sci-Fi!

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No, BMW is not making heated seats a subscription for US cars

SNES Manual Archive

Watch the Apple RoomPlan API empty a room of furniture, ready for augmented reality shopping

AT THE LIBRARY

Salad Daze by Wayne Hussey

Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

The Labours of Hercule

SECURITY HAH!

Scum and Villainy Cantina

Cyber Craft - Custom cosplay helmets and suits

Adam Savage talks Kenobi

Jury convicts ex-CIA engineer for leaking the agency's hacking toolset

From Industrial-Scale Scam Centers, Trafficking Victims Are Being Forced to Steal Billions

Synthesia.AI

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Last surviving member of ‘Band of Brothers’ dies aged 97

Larry Storch (1923-2022)

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560: Wankpuffin Jul 02, 2022

Fun with compound pejoratives; TLDR; the layoffs are coming; old-timey Uber problems; Airbnb parties no more; space travel & the environment; limiting sales of Plan B; Facebook seems to be able to moderate abortion pills posts but not much else; cryptocurrency still a joke, massive losses of money; Apple exec busted for insider trading; HBOMax app issues; Roadrunner & revisiting Bourdain; Westward; the Orville; charging cables; Snapchat+ lets you pay to beta test; Opal C1; Disneyland; TikTok; what to do about privacy data; Things Dave Likes.

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Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from buttface to wankpuffin

IN THE NEWS

Tesla reportedly lays off 200 Autopilot employees in latest jobs cut

Uber’s Blast from the Past

Airbnb is banning party houses permanently

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

Amazon to limit purchases of Plan B and other emergency contraceptive pills

Facebook Is Banning People Who Say They Will Mail Abortion Pills

Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy - reveals how Facebook stored sensitive information

‘Axie Infinity’ is back open for business following $625 million hack

Former Apple exec tasked with enforcing insider trading rules admits to insider trading

MEDIA CANDY

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

How Do You Tell the Story of Anthony Bourdain?

Westworld

The Orville: Scrapped Season 3 Episode to Be Released as Novella

The Nevers Season 2 Release Date – HBO’s Sci-Fi Drama Is On The Way!

Cinerama Dome Returning With New Name, Plans for Two Bars and Restaurant

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Snapchat+ is a new $4 monthly subscription service for 'passionate' users

NOAA triples its supercomputing capacity for improved storm modeling

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AT THE LIBRARY

The Year Under the Machine by Peter Danielsson

SECURITY HAH!

Disneyland guest says they were evacuated from Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance three times in one day

FCC Commissioner urges Google and Apple to ban TikTok

TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court

The post-Roe data privacy nightmare is way bigger than period tracking apps

NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach

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559: Black Box of Fools Jun 25, 2022

Breaking News! TikTok, COVID & coked-up shrimp; ad-targeting problems; Metaverse Standards Forum; designer clothes in the Metaverse; Tesla racial abuse; TikTok US data moved to Oracle; Twitter brings back Chirp, adds blogs; hail a Lyft with cash, sort of; crypto not so decentralized; tracking layoffs; beaver outage; the Orville; Crypto Critics Corner; Cal Newport; the Old Man; Animal Kingdom; continuing HBOMax issues; Cameo; flying death mobiles; levitating with sound; DALL-E; David McRaney changing minds; Obi-Wan wrap up; crypto's PR problem; Microsoft phases out some facial recognition tech; Sanas AI voice technology.

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Khaby Lame is now the most followed TikTok star in the world after surpassing Charli D'Amelio

Shrimp Fail Drug Test For Cocaine, Ketamine, Xanax, And Valium

Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers

IN THE NEWS

Meta settles US lawsuit over housing discrimination

Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Unity and others form Metaverse Standards Forum

Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products

Former Tesla contractor rejects $15 million payout in racial abuse lawsuit

TikTok Moves All U.S. User Data to Oracle Servers

Twitter revives its developer conference after a seven-year hiatus

Twitter wants writers to publish longform content with 'Notes'

You can pay for your Lyft ride with cash now

Cryptocurrency is more centralized than many advocates claim, according to report

Layoffs.fyi Tracker

Single beaver caused mass internet, cell service outages in Northern B.C.

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville

Crypto Critics Corner

The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 201: Making a Living Online

The Obamas are leaving Spotify for Audible

The Old Man

Animal Kingdom

Oblivion

APPS & DOODADS

Cameo - Maryanne Oketch

Flying Car Company Boss Completes 'First Ever' Commute in $83K Space-Age Vehicle

SCIENTISTS ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AT LEVITATING OBJECTS WITH SOUND WAVES

DALL·E mini has a mysterious obsession with women in saris

AT THE LIBRARY

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier

How Minds Change - The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney

Why are you removing multiple features on Goodreads?

SECURITY HAH!

Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions

Sanas Demo

That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France

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558: I Chat Therefore I Am (Not) Jun 18, 2022

Crypto-crash; grifters gonna grift; Google chat-bot building system builds a really good chatbot, not an AI; how not to get people to track your jet; Uber & Lyft lose in Massachusetts; smart license plates; Spotify's safety council; 10 strikes and you're out at Facebook; Barry; Umbrella Academy; For All Mankind; Apple+ sports streaming; festival pee; Google Nest Protect; audio weapons; Internet Explorer, big in Japan; Peter Danielsson; Warren Ellis; Adrian Tchaikovsky; Obi-Wan; adapters & NFC cards; fingerprint scanning; Rage Against the Winklevii.

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The rise and fall of Adobe Flash

Uncut

Tanner Campbell - @tannerhelps - I'm getting sucked into NFTs.

Anna Sorokin wants to move away from her 'scammer' persona... by selling NFTs

IN THE NEWS

Google places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is “sentient”

The teen who tracks Elon Musk's jet agreed to stop monitoring Mark Cuban's flights on Twitter after the billionaire offered business advice: 'By ending this you have me as a friend for life'

Massachusetts court rejects proposed gig worker ballot measure

Michigan approves digital license plates by startup Reviver

Crypto Exchange Coinbase to Lay Off 18% of Staff

After Rogan COVID-19 controversy, Spotify forms a safety council to rethink its content moderation policies

Facebook enforces ban on gun sales with 10-strikes-and-you’re-out policy

MEDIA CANDY

Grace and Frankie

Somebody Feed Phil

Barry

Umbrella Academy Season 3

For All Mankind

Apple TV will stream every MLS game for a decade starting in 2023

Drug-Laced Pee Seeps Into Rivers Near Music Festivals, Threatening Rare Eels

No talent required in the new and lucrative era of the gentleman amateur

‘Most tragically hilarious/infuriating thing’: Winklevoss twins perform Rage Against the Machine cover—after laying off staff

APPS & DOODADS

Google Nest Protect

US Navy Develops Weapon That Could Make It Impossible To Speak

Report reveals half of Japan's businesses had yet to ditch Internet Explorer

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AT THE LIBRARY

The year under the Machine by Peter Danielsson

The year under the Machine by Peter Danielsson - Kindle

Orbital Operations by Warren Ellis

Normal: A Novel by Warren Ellis

Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture Book 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

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Cops Will Be Able to Scan Your Fingerprints With a Phone

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Autopilot indeed, built in deniability as a feature!

Character Actor Mike Hagerty— Who Appeared on ‘Friends,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ More — Dead at 67

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1: Grumpy Old Geeks Trailer Jun 15, 2022

As one of the longest-running podcasts, "Grumpy Old Geeks" discovers what went wrong on the Internet, and who's to blame. Every week they cut through the BS from big tech and tell you what's really going on. With wide-ranging topics, this show has something for everyone. There is a reason Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and that crowd all hate this podcast. Listen and find out for yourself!

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557: Vanna Screwed Up Jun 11, 2022

Pamping the Twetch redesign; NFTs are dead; more crypto lawsuits & investigations; Starbucks shuts down unionized location; Amazon VP pushes sellers to oppose bill good for Amazon; Microsoft cleans up their policies; Apple gets in on Pay Later; Reply All is kaput; Strange New Worlds continues a good run; Rat in the Kitchen; The Orville pivots; Sandman causes uninformed internet to have a cow; Jason gears up new studio; two IKEA turntables & a Marshall stack; Feeting Woices; the Leia show; Tim Horton's app tracking & hockey lawsuits, hoser!

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Facebook's algorithm change in 2018 benefitted Republican groups, researchers say

Twetch

Introducing Twetch Market 3.0!

Praise for Uvalde shooter and call for copycats is growing online, Homeland Security warns

IN THE NEWS

Winkelvoss twins' crypto exchange faces lawsuit over $36 million theft

SEC is investigating Binance over its BNB token

The First Starbucks Location That Voted to Unionize Is Being Shut Down

Amazon VP tries to convince sellers to oppose antitrust bill

Microsoft drops non-compete clauses and NDAs from employee settlements

Apple Pay Later doesn't worry us, says CEO of buy now, pay later unicorn Affirm

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville: New Horizons

Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!

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IKEA teamed up with Swedish House Mafia on a turntable

Marshall widens the soundstage on its new home speaker lineup

A "Solar Tsunami" Could Entirely Wipe Out The Internet Within A Decade, Suggests Study

EU agrees single mobile charging port in blow to Apple

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SECURITY HAH!

Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times

Canadian Hockey Lawsuit

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP David Lynch music contributor Julee Cruise

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556: Leaning Out Jun 03, 2022

More crypto fails; Sheryl Sandberg leans out of the Metaverse; PayPal & other tech firms tighten their belts, lay off workers; Amazon stops in-app purchases on Android; Jonas Brothers launch Scriber for established artists like themselves; Netflix password-sharing plan isn't much of a plan; unions are good for workers; Legendary; Stranger Things; Yvonne Orji; Norm MacDonald; Willow; Starz; Groove Belt; Jiffy Reader; Obi Wan Kenobi; toxic fans; China anti-starling measures; I want to be a dog.

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Texas's bizarre social media law suspended by Supreme Court

Collector sells Bored Ape for $513,000 less than they paid for it

Former OpenSea executive arrested, charged with money laundering

Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme

IN THE NEWS

Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO

What Sheryl Sandberg’s Replacements Are Up Against

PayPal has been laying off workers to reduce costs

Amazon no longer offers in-app Kindle and Music purchases on Android

The Jonas Brothers help launch Scriber, a creator subscription company

Netflix’s password-sharing test in Peru is confusing subscribers, report suggests

Here’s why the BuzzFeed News Union’s contract includes protections from ghosts

MEDIA CANDY

Bosch: Legacy

Legendary Season 3 on HBO Max

Stranger Things

Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!

Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar

Ricky Gervais: Supernature

Grace and Frankie

Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special

'Willow' TV series comes to Disney+ on November 30th

Lionsgate plans to officially announce a Starz spinoff this summer

Downton Abbey: A New Era

APPS & DOODADS

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Jiffy Reader on Product Hunt

Twitter will shut down the TweetDeck for Mac app on July 1st

SECURITY HAH!

A personal message from Ewan McGregor.

At What Point Do We Give Up On Star Wars Fans?

The Orville

China's military scientists call for development of anti-Starlink measures

Japanese Man Spends ₹ 12 Lakh To "Become" A Dog

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Last Howard Johnson's Restaurant In America Is Officially Closed

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555: Zuck Bucks on Black May 27, 2022

More crypto & NFT fails; proper gambling with class action cash; Uber won, we lose; Amazon delivery partners accident-prone; Starlink for RVs; Adam Neumann is back with a new scam; Meta sharing data with researchers; Walmart drones; Kids in the Hall; George Carlin; Ricky Gervais; Westworld; The Bad Guys; Sirius XM picks up Team Coco; time zones; Sennheiser; Magic Leap; gaming consolidation; the Sims; we Google it for you; USB SuperDrives; 5k iMac project; Top Gun; finding orphaned accounts; ClearView AI fined; delete versus erase; GoodWill, Hunted.

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The Most Famous Nft Artist Got Hacked, Ripping Off His Followers

Coinbase reportedly pauses hiring amid plummeting crypto market

IN THE NEWS

Uber Is Ready to Accept Failure, Sort Of

The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over

Injury rates of Amazon’s delivery contractors climbed 40 percent last year, new report claims

Starlink launches satellite internet for RVs that costs $25 more

Adam Neumann-backed climate tech venture Flowcarbon raises $70 mln

Meta will share Facebook's political ad targeting data with researchers

Walmart is expanding its drone delivery service across six states

MEDIA CANDY

The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks

George Carlin's American Dream

Ricky Gervais: SuperNature on Netflix

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Somebody Feed Phil Season 5

Westworld | Season 4 Official Teaser | HBO

The Bad Guys

SiriusXM buys Conan O'Brien's podcast and media company

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Magic Leap is Selling Its First AR Headset for Just $550

Take-Two's $12.7 billion purchase of Zynga is complete

'The Sims 4' players can now customize their characters' pronouns

Background App Refresh keeps your iPhone and iPad running smoothly, but takes up battery life — here's how to turn it off

Why You Shouldn't Constantly Close Apps on Your iPhone

SECURITY HAH!

Clearview AI fined £7.5 million and told to delete all UK facial recognition data

Delete vs erase: Do you know the difference?

New ransomware demands victims to donate to poor

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jordan Harbinger Live

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554: Dicky Do May 20, 2022

Eggs redux; work from home debate, the Great Whiplash; Hotel Suicide; Twitter sale on hold, over Musk's antics; Youtube isn't a website according to Texas; adtech RTB breach; CityCoins crash; tempests in teapots at Apple; Grubhub's bad promo; Netflix layoffs; HBO app issues; Slower Horses; Kids in the Hall return; Barry; Naked Lunch; back on Brave; social media breaks & violent content on Facebook; AI characters, Artbreeder & title tags; Star Wars excitement; tracking period apps; pay with a smile; Dave's Favorite Things returns.

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Plant-based 'whole' eggs could be served in US restaurants this year

Apple softens its stance on remote work amid return-to-office delays

Apple exec who left the company due to in-person work policy now returning to Google

See what it's like to live in one of the compact sleep pods that allow 14 residents to share a single home in California

IN THE NEWS

With Twitter deal on hold, Musk says a lower sale price isn't 'out of the question’

A court just blew up internet law because it thinks YouTube isn’t a website

Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’

Miami’s mayor backed MiamiCoin crypto—then its price dropped 95%

Apple will allow some apps to automatically charge you higher subscription prices

Grubhub’s free lunch offer in NYC crashed its website and app

Netflix lays off 150 mostly US-based staff

AI Can Predict People's Race From X-Ray Images, And Scientists Are Concerned

MEDIA CANDY

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Slow Horses on Apple TV+

New Kids in the Hall on Amazon Prime

Barry on HBO

Naked Lunch

APPS & DOODADS

Brave web browser for iOS updated with new ‘Privacy Hub’

DJI Mini 3 Pro - 51 Things You Should Know Before Buying!

DJI Mini 3 Pro

Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less Anxious by Cal Newport

Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Meta has nearly doubled the amount of violent content removed from Facebook

We Used AI To Show What "Twilight" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On The Books, And Emmett Looks Incredibly Huggable

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised

Data Marketplace Selling Info About Who Uses Period Tracking Apps

Mastercard's pay-with-a-smile test is bound to rile privacy advocates

How To Clear Out Your Zombie Apps and Online Accounts

OWC Thunderbolt 4 Dock

5K iMac monitor conversion project underway

Apple Magic Keyboard

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553: Grumpio Frumpio May 13, 2022

Humanity stuck in hold my beer mode; returning to work entitlement; many meta verses; crypto crashing, fraud everywhere; affordable connectivity & WIFI before seatbelts on buses; Musk's plan for Twitter; Cameo lays off the Fameo; Peleton's post-covid crunch; Clearview AI banned from direct sales to state agencies; Star Trek hopes; Severance; Avatar & Downton Abbey; iPhone cases; Apple discontinues the iPod; tandem showers; wheelbarrows; crypto muggings; more your phone is listening to you nonsense; healthcare, hospice & grief.

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The Craft of Forecasting Our Possible Futures: A Conversation with Jane McGonigal

Imaginable by Jane McGonigal

Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway

IN THE NEWS

Apple loses director of machine learning over its office return policy

Insider's Guide to the Metaverse

Mining Capital Coin CEO indicted for $62 million investment fraud scheme

CEO of Mining Capital Coin Indicted in $62 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme

The Biden administration is capping the cost of internet for low-income Americans

Affordable Connectivity Program

FCC proposes funding Wi-Fi on school buses

Inside Elon Musk’s Big Plans for Twitter

Elon Musk says he would ‘reverse’ Donald Trump’s Twitter ban

Cameo insiders pull back the curtain on its brutal layoffs, revealing slowing growth, internal dissent, and concerns about overspending

Peloton's huge loss highlights how hard it'll be to turn things around

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI banned from selling face database to private US businesses

MEDIA CANDY

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser Trailer

House of the Dragon: Sneak Peek

Downton Abbey: A New Era

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing

APPS & DOODADS

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1Password 8 for Mac: An upgrade, after all

Apple discontinues its last iPod

The music lives on

Photoshop for iPad shifts closer to feature parity with desktop app in latest update

Tandem Shower by Boona

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SNAPCHAT’S FLYING CAMERA

DJI Mini Pro 3

I Got An AI To Autocomplete Famous Novels

SECURITY HAH!

Your Product Sucks — Apple Music macOS review

Wave of Crypto Muggings Hits London's Financial District

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552: Facehuggers May 06, 2022

Music for TikTok; NFTs flatlining, still; WAGMI, bro; MyPillow guy re-banned from Twitter; Google fires more AI researchers; Meta's "laptop for the face"; Wikimedia won't take your crypto; Russians steal farm vehicles, they get bricked; the fragility of the blockchain; electioneering on OnlyFans; Grumpy Young Men; Weird Al; George Carlin; Grace & Frankie; Star Trek falters, Star Wars shines; NASA ring tones; Wristcam; Wordle's NYT bump; terms of service; cable testing; Circle K from Bill & Ted closing, bogus dude!

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Does TikTok Pay You For Your Music | Do Artists Get Royalties From TikTok

NFT Sales Are Flatlining

Crypto’s CSI: How Molly White Became an ‘Absolute Nightmare’ for Web3 Evangelists

The Tragic True Story Behind ‘WAGMI,’ Crypto's Most Positive Catchphrase

IN THE NEWS

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was re-banned from Twitter 3 hours after returning to the platform since his initial ban in 2021

Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings

Meta's Project Cambria VR headset likened to 'a laptop for the face'

The Wikimedia Foundation won't accept crypto donations anymore

Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they've been remotely disabled

Yuga Labs’ Metaverse Land Sale Underscores Pressure on Ethereum

A 29-year-old progressive running for Congress thinks her honesty — and her OnlyFans — could help her win

Alexandra M. Hunt on OnlyFans

MEDIA CANDY

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Teaser Trailer | The Roku Channel

George Carlin's American Dream | Official Trailer | HBO

Grace & Frankie

Netflix cancels 'Space Force' after two seasons

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' has promise, and the usual frustrations

NASA Audio and Ringtones

Totally bogus! 'Bill & Ted' Circle K in Tempe is closing

APPS & DOODADS

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Wristcam

Shot on Apple Watch Awards

Neutron and Visual Mixer Now Available Natively on Apple silicon

Wordle brought 'tens of millions' of users to The New York Times

Mela app

SECURITY HAH!

CyberWire launches CISA Cybersecurity Alerts: A first-of-its-kind public service audio feed for urgent threat advisories.

Obi-Wan Kenobi | Official Trailer | Disney+

Star Wars on Disney+

How to watch the Star Wars movies in order: Every order from chronological timeline to release date

USB-C Cable Tester Quickly Indicates Which Type of Cable You Have

C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester Kickstarter

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

Techmeme Ride Home

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

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551: Sunk Tweet Fallacy Apr 29, 2022

The Brimley/Cocoon Line; Elon Musk & the Twitter buyout; Truth Social's masterplan; Meta is a money pit; Ford's electric F-150; NFT phishing scams; virtual homes in the metaverse; taking off your Google Pixel Watch to eat; Discovery+; the Batman; Our Flag Means Death (of comedy); Supergirl; Danny Elfman; Severance; bitcoin got boring; when tech delights; Apple Self Service Repair; eero Pro; Sonos Roam; useful websites; the Sandman Omnibus; regret; the Art of Impossible; Milk Street & cook books on Kindle.

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The Brimley/Cocoon Line Calculator

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44 billion

Jack Dorsey set to pocket $978M if Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition closes

No one knows what Musk's Twitter takeover means for the company

Trump will not return to Twitter even as Elon Musk purchases platform, will begin using his own TRUTH Social

Meta says its metaverse biz lost another $3B… but the 2030s will be ‘exciting’

Ford says it has produced 2,000 electric F-150 pickup trucks.

I drove an $18,500, 3-wheeled electric car with 1 seat and big dreams

Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram compromised in $2.4 million NFT phishing scam

Virtual home developer pairs up with Beverly Hills real-estate agent

Someone left a prototype Google Pixel Watch at a restaurant

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - It’s not just a phase. By Jonathan Haidt

MEDIA CANDY

The Batman

THE BATMAN, but with Goofy Batman

Our Flag Means Death

Supergirl

Severance

Danny Elfman - Only A Lad (Coachella Festival, Indio CA 4/16/2022 -Week 1)

The Real-Life Diet of Danny Elfman, Who Played Coachella Shirtless at 68

Bridget Fonda seen for first time in 12 years on 58th birthday

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 15: How to Use Live Text to Copy and Paste Text From Photos

Universal Control: Use a single keyboard and mouse between Mac and iPad

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available

Apple Self Service Repair

Amazon eero Pro 6 tri-band mesh Wi-Fi 6 system with built-in Zigbee smart home hub (3-pack)

Sonos Roam

Meta will open its first physical store May 9th

Insanely Useful Websites

AT THE LIBRARY

The Sandman Omnibus

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

The Art of Impossible - A Peak Performance Primer - By Steven Kotler

Milk Street Fast and Slow: Instant Pot Cooking at the Speed You Need by Christopher Kimball

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Fort Worth to become first city to mine Bitcoin

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550: We Don’t Build Anything Apr 22, 2022

Coachella & Revolve; becoming a Gigillionaire; masks off; web scraping is legal; unionization is in the air, but $30 an hour for retail; Netflix stock drop, taking a page from Spotify; quantum computing and Rydberg polaritons; Romancing the Stone & Ghostbusters; the Batman; Picard disappointments; #Adulting; sexy backpacks; label created is not shipped; Honey; salt, salt, salt; the Broken Room; Roland; CNN+ shutting down; hot cable talk; revisiting smart home problems; DNS options; cyber security advisory; the wolf of Crypto; Elon Musk is back in MOTW; Binance's unfortunate branded hashtag.

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Revolve Festival likened to “Fyre Fest 2.0” by influencers “stranded” for hours

IN THE NEWS

Uber and Lyft drop mask requirements for US drivers and passengers

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

Instagram enables product tagging for everyone in the US

Apple workers at New York store call for minimum wage of $30 per hour

Netflix plans to offer cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers

An Ancient Namibian Stone Could Hold The Key to Unlocking Quantum Computers

MEDIA CANDY

The Batman

Obamas to Leave Spotify, Seek Podcast Deal Elsewhere

Star Trek Picard - No More Reviews, I'm Out

Bill Maher: #Adulting

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AT THE LIBRARY

The Broken Room by Peter Clines

Roland celebrates 50 years of music gear with glossy new book

PUSH: J. Grant Brittain - ‘80s Skateboarding Photography

SECURITY HAH!

CNN+ Is Shutting Down Just Weeks After It Launched

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5 Eyes issues joint cyber security advisory

MORON OF THE WEEK

'Wolf of Wall Street' inspiration Jordan Belfort reportedly charged $40,000 for a 2-day crypto workshop at his Miami estate — three years after he called Bitcoin a 'mass delusion'

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Binance adds a branded hashtag to Twitter that closely resembles a swastika

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

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549: Chaos Muppet Apr 15, 2022

Boldly going; Kmart collapse; Elon Musk, Chaos Muppet; what to do with deleted tweets; dark personality traits & crypto; beastmode for kids; Etsy seller strike; Meta & its Oversight Board; autonomous Cruise makes a run for it; Moonfall, revisited; two thumbs up; Upload; Picard; Billions; Queen of the South; the Outlaws; Tony Hawk (or is it); Warner Bros, Discovery & CNN+; Twemex; PIP; DuckDuckGo browser; vigilante apps; evolution of self help; Peter Clines; data brokers; RaidForums bust; trackers all the way down.

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Star Trek's first NFTs lean heavily on incentives

The Worst Part of Working From Home Is Now Haunting Reopened Offices

Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction after closure

Choro-Q aka Penny Racers

Zoids

‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk and the disappearing board seat: all of the updates about Twitter’s largest shareholder

Twitter reverses change that turned embeds of deleted tweets into blank boxes

"Impulsive Psychopaths Like Crypto": Research Shows How "Dark" Personality Traits Affect Bitcoin Enthusiasm

The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto

Over 14,000 Etsy sellers are going on strike to protest increased transaction fees

Meta announces huge new tech hub in Toronto with plans for 2,500 jobs

Meta will close a loophole in its doxxing policy in response to the Oversight Board

An autonomous Cruise vehicle left police confused when they tried to pull it over

The first all-civilian space crew has docked with the ISS

MEDIA CANDY

Moonfall

Netflix adds a ‘Two Thumbs Up’ button in effort to learn what users love, not just like

Upload

First ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ season three trailer teases a starship hijacking

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off

Tony Hawk on the Oscars, Fatherhood and Taking Risks

Queen of the South

The Outlaws

Misfits (TV series)

The Warner Bros.-Discovery deal has officially closed

Fox Sports will stream every match of the 2022 World Cup

CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users

Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start

APPS & DOODADS

Sonos bought a startup that made a light-powered Bluetooth speaker

Twemex

YouTube says picture-in-picture will hit all iOS 15 devices in the coming days (updated)

Exclusive: iOS 16 notification updates will include expanded Focus mode configurations for more control

Epic Games and Lego team up to build a kid-friendly metaverse

DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop

NEW SPEEDCAM APP LETS ANYONE, ANYWHERE SUBMIT EVIDENCE OF DRIVERS SPEEDING

AT THE LIBRARY

Anthony Robbins' Personal Power II: The Driving Force!

The Broken Room by Peter Clines

Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson

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SECURITY HAH!

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ukrainians use 'Find My iPhone' to see where Russians took their stolen Apple devices

DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop

RaidForums hacking forum seized by police, owner arrested

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

GILBERT GOTTFRIED DEAD AT 67

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548: N(ot) F(or) T(rek) Apr 08, 2022

Jason's new office; Facebook's misinformation fail; Amazon union; TikTok's scraping "growth hack"; Pinterest calls itself bold & brave; Elon buys stake in Twitter, gets on board; Jack misses the world he destroyed; Moonfall is unbearably bad; Star Trek seems to be moving in the right direction except for that NFT stuff; Somebody Feed Phil returns; Wyze security debacle; Cash App breach; FBI removes malware without asking; DOJ, German dark-web takedowns; Google bans data-harvesting software with government ties; it's Opening Day, Orioles fans!

Show notes at https://gog.show/548

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A FACEBOOK BUG LED TO INCREASED VIEWS OF HARMFUL CONTENT OVER SIX MONTHS

IN THE NEWS

America finally gets an Amazon union

Amazon's planned worker chat app would reportedly ban words like 'union'

Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch

TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app

Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform

Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter

Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors

Twitter confirms it will test an edit button

Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web

IndieWeb

Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet

MEDIA CANDY

Moonfall

The entire ‘Next Generation’ cast will appear in 'Star Trek: Picard' season three

The latest ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ trailer promises a return to form

FFS. "Star Trek gets into NFTs"

'Somebody Feed Phil' Season 5 Release Date Announced at Netflix

SECURITY HAH!

Cash App breach impacted over 8 million users

Companies were slow to remove Russian spies’ malware, so FBI did it for them

DOJ seizes $34 million of crypto from the dark web seller

Germany seizes the world's largest, longest-serving dark web market

Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software

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547: Crush Your Goals! Apr 01, 2022

COVID, maybe; revising crypto guides; Uber not "fit and proper" but in London, adds cabs in NYC; Meta paid consultants to sling dirt at TikTok; BEANS!; VISA wants in on NFT action; Microsoft... engages in sales & business; chaos theory weather control; Gaming Wall St; state of Star Trek; Halo; Moon Knight; WeCrashed; CNN+; Headway for "Real Men"; Apple iPhone rundles; dystopian Darth Dyson; Brandon Sanderson's kickstarter windfall; Klosterman; Laundry Files; Verizon spam texts; FBI disrupts BEC schemes; hackers forge legal requests for data; old computers & the good ol' days when we could get away with things.

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The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

IN THE NEWS

Uber secures 30-month London taxi license

Call for an Uber, Get a Yellow Taxi

Waymo trials fully driverless rides in San Francisco

Meta reportedly paid political consultants to smear TikTok

Teen Girls Are Still Getting TikTok-Related Tics—and Other Disorders

Visa launches NFT program as it considers the digital art a new form of e-commerce

Whistleblower says Microsoft spent millions on bribes abroad

Scientists think they can control the weather using chaos theory

MEDIA CANDY

Gaming Wall St.

Trust No One - The Hunt for the Crypto King

APPS & DOODADS

Real Men Self-Development Plan by Headway App

Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service

Apple will no longer repair iPhones reported as lost or stolen

GSMA Device Registry

Dyson launches Zone air purifying Bluetooth headphones with visor

Overcast app's big redesign helps it compete with Apple Podcasts

No one asked for a hamburger vending machine, and RoboBurger answered

AT THE LIBRARY

Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish

Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22 Million Kickstarter?

An End to Secrets

Imaginable - How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything - Even Things That Seem Impossible Today by Jane McGonigal

X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charlie Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charlie Stross

SECURITY HAH!

Verizon says ‘bad actors’ are to blame for sketchy spoofed spam texts

FBI disrupts BEC cybercrime gangs targeting victims worldwide

Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed a historic computer museum

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bruce Willis Has Aphasia and Is ‘Stepping Away’ From His Career

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546: Jrumpy Old Jeeps Mar 25, 2022

We're back to normal; reflections on nostalgia; Vimeo is sorry; how to commit fraud properly; open-source developer burnout, sabotage; US data collection transparency bill; Bored Apes Yuga Labs ridiculous valuation; Andreessen's crypto obsession; regulating Musk's tweets; de-platforming doesn't always work; which Trek is most Star Trek; Upload; drunk on a plane movie reviews; TV shows keeping Jason sane; Dropbox drops a bomb; Amp; Citizen; iPad annoyances; RIP, it's pronounced JIF.

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Vimeo is sorry, and here’s how it’s changing

IN THE NEWS

A former Apple employee has been charged with defrauding the company out of more than $10 million

Open-source developers are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects — and it's putting the entire internet at risk

Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus

Bipartisan bill would expand US data collection transparency requirements

‘Bored Apes’ NFT startup Yuga Labs raises at monster $4B valuation

Biggest Bored Ape Whales Move Their APE to Exchanges

Worldcoin to Raise $100M at $3B Token Valuation: Report

US regulators say someone really needs to monitor Elon Musk’s tweets

Demonetizing ‘problematic’ YouTubers isn’t effective, researchers say

MEDIA CANDY

Friday the 13th The Series

Upload Season 2

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Tournament of Champions 3

The Julia Child Challenge

Guys Grocery Games

Alex vs. America

Tiny Food Fight

Killing Eve the Final Season

Barry

The Boys

The Umbrella Academy

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (revisited)

Legoland: California

APPS & DOODADS

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The saga of Punkin’ Donuts

Citizen may test an on-demand private security service in Chicago

iPadOS now lets any iPad match the new iPad mini volume button orientation feature

Apple iPadAir with M1

Sonos One SL

Twitter for iOS now lets you easily create GIFs using your iPhone camera

Tweetbot

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died

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545: Prequalified Idiots Mar 18, 2022

Jason and Dave play while Brian is on Vacay; Bezos’s balls and a new Kirk; Rivian in trouble in the market and crypto ATM’s in trouble across the pond; Vimeo turns on the sprinklers; Stripe takes on Block for King of Crypto Crown; The care, feeding, and culling of cables; Deepfakes pop up in the war; Grimes and WHO?!; Jason gets the strangest spam; a post-roll stroke update.

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JEFF BEZOS WAS REPORTEDLY UPSET THAT HIS SPACESUIT DIDN’T MAKE HIS CROTCH LOOK GOOD

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk for Season 2 of Paramount Plus Series

Buckle up, autonomous vehicles finally get federal safety standards

Rivian shares reach new low after reporting disappointing Q4 earnings

The Dune NFT Project Is Back With an Inscrutable New Scheme

Bored Apes maker Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks NFT collection

IN THE NEWS

Tech CEOs to face faster criminal liability under UK online safety law

Cryptocurrency ATMs illegal right now in UK

Stripe gets friendly with crypto, again

Build your crypto business with Stripe

Amazon is temporarily relocating employees from its downtown Seattle office, following a rise in violent crime

Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform

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How to Use Google Drive’s New Search Tools

Grimes Ditching Elon Musk For Chelsea Manning Has The Internet Questioning Reality

Hacked News Channel and Deepfake of Zelenskyy Surrendering Is Causing Chaos Online

Russia bans Instagram, a week after blocking Facebook, Twitter

Russian influencers sob bitter tears as Putin’s Instagram ban goes into effect

Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders

KANYE WEST 24-HOUR INSTAGRAM SUSPENSION... After Attacks On Kim, Pete, Trevor & Others

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

DNS Ad-Blocker with Pi-Hole in a Raspberry Pi Zero

William Hurt, Oscar-Winning Actor for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies at 71

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544: Men of a Certain Age Mar 11, 2022

The Amanda Palmer Method; Truth Social stumbles; Heardle through the grapevine; wings in the metaverse; Amazon Basics tied to forced labor; Twitter launches Tor service; Limewire is back... with NFTs; Musk is a free speech absolutist; executive order on crypto; Star Trek; After Yang; the Cure & Eddie Izzard; Upload is back; Dekalog & Three Colours; Dropbox drops update for macOS; Clash Royale anniversary; A.G. Riddle; more iOT rants; Samsung hack; RadioShack; Obi-Wan and Star Wars Galatic Starcruiser; Things Dave Likes; disco number twos.

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I quit my dream job in TV to become a TikToker, and it was the best decision I've ever made

Donald Trump is furious about the stumbling launch of his social media app Truth Social, report says

'Heardle' is like 'Wordle' for the musically inclined

IN THE NEWS

Wingstop has filed a trademark to sell chicken wings in the metaverse

Amazon suppliers reportedly have ties to forced labor camps in China

HBO hit with class action lawsuit for allegedly sharing subscriber data with Facebook

Twitter Launches Tor Onion Service Making Site Easier to Access in Russia

LimeWire is back... as an NFT marketplace

Musk says Starlink won’t block Russian media outlets ‘unless at gunpoint’

Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules

Biden's executive order on cryptocurrencies zeros in on 6 priorities and 'urgency' in exploring the creation of a US digital dollar

Cryptocurrency Is No Fix for Russia’s Sanctions Woes

Coinbase blocks over 25,000 Russian-linked crypto addresses

MEDIA CANDY

A Small-Scale Sci-Fi Film That Asks the Genre’s Biggest Question

After Yang

BitTorrent is Still the King of Upstream Internet Traffic, But for How Long?

Robert Smith just told us The Cure’s new album title at the BandLab NME Awards 2022

Eddie Izzard - Wunderbar

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill

Upload Season 2

YouTube offers popular podcasts $50K in cash to pivot to video

Common Sense 323 – Gas Up the Cold War

Dekalog

Three Colours trilogy

APPS & DOODADS

Dropbox releases official update for its macOS app with M1 support

Google says the latest Chrome on Mac outperforms Safari

Jason’s Character in Clash Royale

A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World by Derren Brown

AT THE LIBRARY

The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle

SECURITY HAH!

Dave’s iOT update - Kind advice via Twitter from Kyle Correa

Homebridge

HOOBS

Stacey on IoT Podcast

Samsung confirms hackers compromised its systems and stole Galaxy source code

Don’t celebrate RadioShack’s crypto pivot — it’s just a Tai Lopez scheme

Grippy Textured Non-Slip Microfiber Cleaning Cloth Wipes (6"x7") Premium for Glasses, Camera Lens, Cellphone, Phone Screen, Glass, Eyeglasses, 3-Pack

Pluto Pillow

LumiLux Toilet Light with Motion Detection Sensor - 16-Color LED Bathroom Toilet Bowl Light (White)

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543: Doin’ a Little Off-Roading Mar 04, 2022

The DAO is just BBS's for the kids; NFT lawsuits; tracking oligarchs; steps are the new eggs; Amazon selling digital ads in stores they aren't closing; Ukraine and Big Tech's responses; Senators unsure if crypto can be used to skirt sanctions; Star Trek Discovery & Picard; MCU consolidation; Super Pumped; Pee-Wee goes dark; Truth Social; Amazon Luna; BookTok; Hindenburg; TweetBot; the End of Everything; Escape from Yokai Land; the Jeep Wave; IoT ranting; hacking Russia.

Show notes at https://gog.show/543

FOLLOW UP

NFT collector files $6 million lawsuit against OpenSea, LooksRare, and the company behind Bored Apes for not doing more to discourage thefts

Armijo v. Ozone Networks, Inc. d/b/a Opensea

NEWS SERVICE SHAMED INTO CANCELING SALE OF NFT OF DESPERATE MIGRANTS

The teen famous for tracking Elon Musk's jet has a new target: Russian oligarchs

Scientists Finally Did a Study to See If Taking 10,000 Steps a Day Actually Matters. Here's What They Found

Bitcoin’s Inequality Problem Is Putting the Dollar to Shame

IN THE NEWS

Amazon plans to sell digital advertising space inside its physical stores

Amazon is closing its physical Amazon Books, 4-Star, and Pop Up stores for good

BitConnect founder indicted by Justice Department has disappeared

Apple halts sales of all products in Russia

Facebook will demote Russian state media across its entire platform

Meta blocks Russian state media from running ads worldwide

TikTok follows Facebook in blocking RT and Sputnik in the EU

YouTube blocks RT and Sputnik channels across Europe

Reddit hides r/Russia from search and recommendations due to misinformation

Netflix refuses to carry Russian state TV channels

Microsoft is the latest to ban Russian state media from its platforms

Crypto Billionaire, Pussy Riot Join Effort to Give Ukrainians Money

Pornhub cockblocks Russian users

Did Pornhub Block Russian Users?

Crypto exchanges refuse to freeze all Russian accounts as Ukraine requested

Senators want to know if Russia can use cryptocurrencies to skirt sanctions.

MEDIA CANDY

Marvel's Netflix shows will move to Disney+ in the US on March 16th

Super Pumped

Crypto Critics' Corner by Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin - Web3 is Wonky (Feat. Molly White)

Innovated: Blockchain City

Pee-wee Herman’s “Dark” Reboot: Paul Reubens Is Ready to Stage a Comeback

APPS & DOODADS

Impulse Brain Training

Amazon Luna launches for anyone in the US, adds free games for Prime members and Twitch integration

TikTok has sent the sales of some books skyrocketing. Industry insiders explain how they are riding the wave of the BookTok phenomenon.

iZotope Compatibility with Apple silicon

Hindenburg

Apple patents Magic Keyboard with integrated Mac inside to bring macOS to any display

Tweetbot 7.1 for iOS adds background notifications, refreshed icons, more

AT THE LIBRARY

The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Broken Room by Peter Clines

SECURITY HAH!

JEEP CULTURE AND THE JEEP WAVE

SEVEN STRATEGIC LESSON FROM THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Russian Electric Vehicle Chargers Hacked, Tell Users ‘PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD’

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Ethernet co-inventor David Boggs dies at 71

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542: The Sneaky Leakies Feb 25, 2022

Everyone wants a piece of that sweet crypto-chain; inconsistent search sanitization; Meta has a minor problem with a global community development manager; linguistic fingerprints; AI art; more stolen NFTs, NFT gig economy bubble; bye, Hyperloop; John Oliver & Bill Maher; Mrs. Maisel; the King's Man; Tori Amos; mics, bands, Paste and Tots; Time Is, How Long Ago, we're old; Instagram losing daily time limits; Truth Social waiting lists; the Ninties, Chuck Klosterman; Michael Schur; Kanye's back in Moron of the Week; Snowden & Assange; a broken clock is right twice a day; Ukraine and 80s kids fears; AirTag stalking & a mischief of magpies.

Show notes at https://gog.show/542/

FOLLOW UP

Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto

Kickstarter says they "won't make changes to Kickstarter without you" after blockchain backlash... but they will continue with blockchain plans

IN THE NEWS

Meta axes a head of global community development after he appears on video in underage sex sting

Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints

APPLE EMPLOYEES ARE UNIONIZING AND THEY’RE USING ANDROID PHONES TO KEEP APPLE FROM SPYING ON THEM

You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials

OpenSea users lose hundreds of NFTs in likely phishing attack

Sotheby’s CryptoPunk Auction Canceled After Seller Withdraws

An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy

VIRGIN HYPERLOOP JUST LAID OFF ALMOST HALF ITS EMPLOYEES

MEDIA CANDY

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4

The King’s Man

Tori Amos releasing ‘Little Earthquakes’ anniversary comic book & vinyl

APPS & DOODADS

BEACN Mic

NOMAD - Rugged Band - Black Hardware

Instagram quietly bumps up the minimum daily time limit

Trump’s social network has launched on iOS

Cameo defends its decision to partner with the 'Tinder Swindler': 'Part of what makes Cameo special is the diversity and variety of personalities'

AT THE LIBRARY

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

SECURITY HAH!

Snowden was right: Pandemic surveillance is here to stay

AirTag stalking concerns continue; university study underway to measure the problem

iOS 15.4 beta 4 adds anti-stalking alerts to AirTag and other Find My accessories

A mischief of magpies defeated scientists' tracking devices

MORON OF THE WEEK

Kanye West says he’s raked in over $2.2million in Stem Player sales in just 24 hours

The Bunnies Have Left the Mansion: Inside Playboy’s Quest to Reinvent Itself as a Tech Company

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S SISTER POSTS SKIN-CRAWLINGLY HORRIBLE SONG ABOUT CRYPTO

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Mark Lanegan, Grunge Pioneer and Screaming Trees Singer, Dead at 57

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541: Apologetic Beavers Feb 18, 2022

Crypto simulations; Cent CEO points out fundamental problems with Web3; Moviepass wants your eyeballs; Facebook/Meta lawsuits & settlements; Metamates; BlockFi settlement; Akamai acquires Linode; Virgin Galactic now booking, what a deal; NYC raises Uber/Lyft pay; Manifest; Inventing Anna; Deep Space Nine; Paramount+, Paramates; The Boys: Diabolical; emoji URLs; BAT; Ford Maverick 3d printing; Termination Shock, finally; Michael Schur; Ukraine cyberattacks; BlackByte ransomware; Freedumb Convoy; NYPD surveillance; don't pixelate to redact text.

Show notes at https://gog.show/541

FOLLOW UP

Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator trailer

Marketplace suspends most NFT sales, citing 'rampant' fakes and plagiarism

IN THE NEWS

MoviePass will return this summer

Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices

Meta will pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit

Peter Thiel-backed crypto start-up BlockFi to pay $100 million in settlement with SEC, 32 states

SFPD put rape victims’ DNA into database used to find criminals, DA alleges

Akamai acquires Linode for $900M

Virgin Galactic is looking for 1,000 people to buy its $450,000 spaceflight tickets

NYC to raise minimum pay for Uber and Lyft drivers

MEDIA CANDY

The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window

Manifest (Season 3)

Inventing Anna

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount+ hits 32.8 million subscribers; will offer Showtime for a fee

Goodbye Viacom and CBS: ViacomCBS Changes Corporate Name to Paramount

The Boys Presents: Diabolical

The Boys Presents: Diabolical - Trailer | Prime Video

APPS & DOODADS

Opera browser now allows emoji-only web addresses

Ford makes it easier to 3D-print accessories for its Maverick pickup

SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 - External Solid State Drive

AT THE LIBRARY

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

Michael Schur, Creator of “The Good Place” — How SNL Trains Writers, His TV University at “The Office,” Lessons from Lorne Michaels, Wisdom from David Foster Wallace, and Exploring Moral Philosophy with “How to Be Perfect” (#565)

SECURITY HAH!

Ukraine faces more cyberattacks amid Russian invasion fears

FBI says BlackByte ransomware group has breached critical US infrastructure

Canada uses Emergencies Act to rein in 'Freedom Convoy' crowdfunds

Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine

The Most Surveilled Cities in the World

3 former Gettr employees say the social media platform laid off its entire security and IT teams, and one said it was run 'like a high school operation': report

Never, Ever, Ever Use Pixelation for Redacting Text

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

PJ O’Rourke, writer and humorist, dies aged 74

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540: Viscerally Revolting Feb 11, 2022

The tide seems to be turning on NFTs, Web3 & crypto; Bored Ape Yacht Club founders doxxed, but I thought the blockchain was anonymous; couple charged with laundering billions in stolen bitcoin, bad rap videos; EU tells Meta to go ahead and leave if that's what it wants; robot dogs on the border; the Tinder Swindler; Reacher; Beforeigners; Manifest; Apple AI music; Adobe dark patterns; Laundry Files; Boba wrap-up; prepper corner; IRS drops facial recognition idea, fast; kidnapped for crypto; bricking radios.

Show notes at https://gog.show/540/

FOLLOW UP

Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market

Rivian Loses Its Shine as Investors Fret About Production Delays

IN THE NEWS

Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell

The Crypto Backlash Is Booming

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders

‘Doxxing’ of Bored Ape founders exposes Web3’s transparency issues

This Is the Couple Charged With Laundering Billions in Stolen Bitcoin

Alleged crypto launderer Heather Morgan led a second life as the world's worst rapper

The DOJ’s $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Shows How Hard It Is to Launder Crypto

Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

Robot dogs to patrol U.S. border

SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite

DARPA JUST FLEW A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER WITH NO PILOT

MEDIA CANDY

The Tinder Swindler

Reacher

Beforeigners Season 1

Manifest Season 1 and into Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Apple acquires startup behind Infinite Music Engine that adapts music to your heartbeat

The Crystal Method: Drive: Nike + Original Run

Apple source code references 'realityOS' for potential VR/AR headsets

How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract.

This is my next main browser: a review of Orion

Orion Browser

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: Mark Hamill Didn't Record Luke Skywalker's Dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets May Premiere Date at Disney Plus

The IRS won’t make you verify your identity with facial recognition after all

Kidnapped for crypto: Criminals see flashy crypto owners as easy targets, and it has led to a disturbing string of violent robberies

Twitter parts ways with two-factor provider following claims of secret surveillance

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Direct Donations to Jason’s Hospital Fund

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539: Apology Not Accepted Feb 04, 2022

Meta stock plummets due to reduced growth, generally being Meta; HitPiece "starts a conversation" about blatant theft; we're really, really over "nefts"; Wordle gets bought by the NYT, nothing changes; Tesla's estimated percentage of defect; Joe Rogan, Spotify kerfuffle continues; gaming consolidation; Super Pumped; House of Gucci; Manifest; Janet Jackson; new Wi-Fi standards; Noom is a scam; IRS, facial recognition & ID.me; GDPR consent popups now unlawful; full-frontal Luke.

Show notes at https://gog.show/539

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Tippmann TPX Paintball Pistol Starter Kit - Black

Salt Supply Co.

IN THE NEWS

Shares of Facebook parent Meta plunge 22% on lower profits

Facebook isn’t growing anymore

HitPiece Wants to Make Every Song in the World an NFT. But Artists Aren’t Buying It

Even Ye hates the NFT

The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’

The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster

It’s pronounced “neft”

Wordle, the game everyone's obsessed with, gets bought by the New York Times

People Are Downloading the Next 2,000 Days of Wordle

Tesla recalls 53,822 cars because they won’t stop at stop signs

Teen wants $50,000 to stop tracking Elon Musk’s private jet

Dorsey Says Zuckerberg Should Have Focused on Bitcoin, Not Diem

Joe Rogan apologizes to Spotify over backlash and promises to 'balance things out'

Sony is buying Destiny studio Bungie

Dating app Grindr disappears from Apple's App Store in China (updated)

MEDIA CANDY

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2022) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME

House of Gucci

Janet Jackson

Aziz Ansari Nightclub Comedian

Manifest

APPS & DOODADS

Netflix's 'Continue Watching' queue gets a huge quality of life improvement

This upcoming Wi-Fi standard will give your router motion-sensing superpowers

I found out why metaverse avatars don’t have legs

Why Noom, The Weight-Loss App, Is A Scam

Atomos Shinobi

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

SECURITY HAH!

IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers

ID.me

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show – Episode 243

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Direct Donations to Jason’s Hospital Fund

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538: Bookmark and Forget Jan 28, 2022

NFTs, destroyed; FCC & ISP choice; Bitcoin is just a tech stock now; Diem dissolved; Elon's brain implants; autonomous cars & legal responsibility; TikTok's creator fund; Neil Young tells Spotify, Rogan or me, Spotify chooses Rogan; Google's new cookies; META supercomputer; Beforeigners; Ozark; Eternals; Salvation; the Critical Drinker; iPad doodads; Pestle; Twitter's Flock; Aftermath by Levar Burton; Stronger After Stroke; Depeche Mode; Boba Fett sans Boba; VPN questions; Attorney Generals suing Google; Bittner's got a gun.

Show notes at https://gog.show/538

FOLLOW UP

The Problem With NFTs by Folding Ideas

IN THE NEWS

FCC chair plans to block exclusive deals that limit ISP choice in apartments

Bitcoin Is Just a Crappy Tech Stock Now

Facebook-backed Diem Association may be close to dissolving

Steve Bannon Is Key Player In New Cryptocurrency. What Could Go Wrong?

Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants

Major legal changes needed for driverless car era

Tesla driver faces felony charges in fatal crash involving Autopilot.

Why TikTok stars are criticizing its creator fund

Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum

Google is testing a new replacement for third-party cookies

Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022

Meta's 'free' internet is costing people money in developing countries

MEDIA CANDY

Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Written By Children - by The Critical Drinker

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Pestle: Kitchen Companion

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Twitter's experimental 'Flock' feature will let you share tweets with your closest friends

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AT THE LIBRARY

Aftermath by LeVar Burton

Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition: Your Roadmap to Recovery

Stripped: Depeche Mode by Jonathan Miller

SECURITY HAH!

Washington DC's AG sues Google for 'deceiving users and invading their privacy'

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Rulers of the NOW

Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell singer dies at 74

Louie Anderson Dies: Comedian & Emmy Winner Was 68

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537: I’m a Fahrenheit Boy Jan 21, 2022

Government makes usable website; Apple & Google oppose antitrust efforts; sad NFTs; non-smart non-contracts; we don't talk about crypto, no no no; Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard; Instagram closed petfluencers; the Witcher; the Expanse; Encanto; Ray Donovan; Station Eleven; Star Trek news; Stroke Cast; Stay & Moom apps; 12' Ladder; Rode VideoMic; Reddit revamps block to actually block; Aftermath; Humankind: A Hopeful History; Termination Shock; NSO Group's Pegasus; VPNLab; Boba Vette.

Show notes at https://gog.show/537/

FOLLOW UP

AT&T and Verizon delay 5G rollout at some airports after airlines warn of disruptions

IN THE NEWS

The Government’s New Website for Ordering Free COVID Tests Is Refreshingly Easy to Use

Apple and Google oppose Senate antitrust efforts, claiming they'd hurt consumer security

Which Celebrity Has the Saddest NFT?

The Dune NFT Fiasco Is the Least of Crypto's Legal Worries

UK government announces official crackdown on 'misleading' crypto ads

Spain sets new rules for influencers who promote cryptocurrency

Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

Microsoft Game Pass tops 25 million subscribers

Bring in the clones: Instagrammers are genetically replicating their pets

MEDIA CANDY

Why “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Is the Biggest Disney Hit Since “Let It Go”

The Expanse

Encanto

Ray Donovan the Movie

Station Eleven

Star Trek: Discovery’ Renewed For Season 5; Premiere Dates Announced For ‘Picard’ And ‘Strange New Worlds’

APPS & DOODADS

HYPER Triple 4K Display Dock for MacBook Pro 2016-2021

Rode VideoMic GO II

Rode Microphones VideoMic GO II Lightweight On-Camera Microphone at Adorama

Rode Microphones VideoMic NTG On-Camera Supercardioid Shotgun Microphone at Adorama

Oculus Quest 2

Reddit 'revamped' its block feature so blocking actually works

AT THE LIBRARY

Aftermath by LeVar Burton

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman , Erica Moore , Elizabeth Manton

Termination Shock: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

SECURITY HAH!

Fett's Vette 2021 Music Video (MC Chris)

Israeli police reportedly used Pegasus spyware to conduct domestic surveillance

Europol Shuts Down VPNLab, Cybercriminals' Favourite VPN Service

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536: The Rational Prepper Jan 14, 2022

Web3, NFTs, cryptocurrencies & other grifts; Uber CEO admits they could afford labor protections; shoddy coding; why Tesla is good & why Tesla is bad; Mozilla backtracks; gamifying the law; The Matrix: Resurrections; Nic Cage's massive talent; Amazon's All or Nothing series; Canon's printer ink chip problem; Magic Leap is back; Wordle clones; voice-adjustable dumbbells; caught by Google Maps; open-source developer borks own files; Russian cyber-activity warning; looking for rational prepper advice; mid-life crisis Boba Fett.

Show notes at https://gog.show/536/

FOLLOW UP

Winnie the Pooh Public Domain

My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike

IN THE NEWS

Uber CEO Admits Company Can Afford Labor Protections for Drivers

LAPD fired two officers who ignored robbers to play 'Pokémon Go'

Shoddy coding has some Honda cars stuck in the year 2002

Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’

DMV ‘revisiting’ its approach to regulating Tesla’s public self-driving test

Mozilla pauses crypto donations following criticism over climate impact

Kim Kardashian Sued for Promoting Alleged Cryptocurrency 'Pump and Dump' Scam

The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism

Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens

Here’s the truth about the crypto miner that comes with Norton Antivirus

Jack Dorsey proposes a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers

MEDIA CANDY

The Matrix Resurrections

Nic Cage plays 'Nick Cage' in first look at comedy-thriller The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

All or Nothing: Manchester City

All or Nothing: Juventes

APPS & DOODADS

Magnet App

Magic Leap grants healthcare startups access to its new AR headset ahead of mid-2022 release

It fills me with glee that Canon printers now think Canon’s own toner is fake

Wordle' clones are taking over the App Store

Alexa can change the weight on NordicTrack's adjustable dumbbells

SECURITY HAH!

Italian mafia boss caught after Google Maps sighting in Spain

Open source developer corrupts his own files, impacting millions

Warnings of Russian cyber activity as Moscow continues preparations to invade Ukraine.

Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

'Huge, huge numbers:' insurance group sees death rates up 40 percent over pre-pandemic levels

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Thomas J Indge - Musician - composer | performer | producer

Thomas J Indge - Instagram

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535: Consider Your Risk Appetite Jan 04, 2022

2022, here we go again; the case against crypto; feels like a sea change against crypto & NFTs; the metaverse still doesn't exist; decentralized Web3 is, you guessed it, centralized; DoorDash requires engineers to deliver goods once a month; Uber launching driverless food delivery; everyone's delaying returns to the office, again; Grand Tour; Hannah; Red Notice; Don't Look Up; the Matrix; Salvation; Hawkeye; Free Guy; Jungle Cruise; South Park; Star Trek's feelings; Twetch; Catatouille & the Catellite Dish; the Book of Boba Fett; anything exciting happen over the break?

Show notes at https://gog.show/535

FOLLOW UP

From Bitcoin Obituaries - "Bitcoin is Dead" Declared 400+ Times

The Case Against Crypto by Stephen Diehl

Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs

The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive

In 2021, tech talked up ‘the metaverse.’ One problem: It doesn’t exist.

Fortune Favours the Brave | Crypto.com

web3 is Centralized by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels

IN THE NEWS

San Francisco-based DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food — and they’re furious

Uber will launch driverless food deliveries in California in 2022

Autonomous car developers lobby to defang safety data regulations

Apple joins the ranks of companies delaying their return to office

Comcast won't enforce Northeast data caps until 2023 at the earliest

AT&T and Verizon settle FCC 911 outage investigations

Verizon and AT&T Decline Regulators’ Request to Delay New 5G Services

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix drops a surprise teaser for its 'Witcher' prequel

The Grand Tour Presents... Carnage a Trois

Hannah Season 3

Red Notice

The Matrix Resurrections

South Park: Post Covid

APPS & DOODADS

Twetch

Halide for iPhone

FiLMic Pro

FiLMiC Creator Bundle

DJI Osmo Pocket 2

Your cat could burn your house down, Korean officials warn after 107 fires sparked by felines

Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats

AT THE LIBRARY

Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files Book 11) by Charles Stross

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923!

SECURITY HAH!

The Book of Boba Fett

'The Book of Boba Fett' premiere is an abysmal failure on every level

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

What Happens When You Quit Alcohol?

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534: Fat Finger Financial Foibles Dec 15, 2021

Christmas is cancelled; Bezos gets his wings; subscription models; AWS outage; centralized exchanges; Buzzfeed headlines; Twitter Spaces lack moderation; Vegans and NFT'ers; some smart NFT moves; fat finger errors; Facebook exec blames people; click to subscribe, call to cancel; A&M Records; the Expanse; Star Trek: Discovery; FC Bayern; Dan Carlin; thumper spikes; DiePods; drunk purchases; Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser; comprised Twitter accounts; Log4j and software dependencies.

Show notes at https://gog.show/534

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FOLLOW UP

The FAA will give Bezos and Branson its last astronaut wings

Mercedes-Benz gets world’s first approval for automated driving system

Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob

IN THE NEWS

Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet

Amazon’s Server Outage Took Down a ‘Decentralized’ Crypto Exchange

How Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday

Twitter asks judge to throw out Trump's lawsuit over ban

Twitter reportedly knew Spaces could be misused due to a lack of moderation

Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000

NIKE buys RTFKT, a virtual brand that makes metaverse-ready sneakers

Strengthening digital provenance with OpenSea and Adobe

Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation

Senate bill would facilitate social platforms sharing data with outside researchers

Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.

The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says

MEDIA CANDY

Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records

The Expanse Season 6

FC Bayern - Behind the Legend

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Addendum

Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24

APPS & DOODADS

Victor M9012 Sonic 2 Spike, Yellow

Controversial ‘suicide pod’ that ‘kills peacefully’ gets go-ahead in Switzerland

Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition

AT THE LIBRARY

Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files Book 12) by Charles Stross

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

SECURITY HAH!

First Look | "Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser" | With Walt Disney Imagineering | Walt Disney World

Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Welcome video - Very Star Tours like.

Someone 'briefly compromised' the Indian Prime Minister's Twitter account

Logging library for millions of apps has a serious vulnerability

xkcd: Dependency

Google disrupted a massive botnet that hackers used to steal information and mine cryptocurrency

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78

Michael Nesmith — considerably more than a Monkee — dies at 78

Monkees’ Manager on Michael Nesmith’s Final Months: ‘He Died Knowing They Were Beloved — He Finally Got It’

Anne Rice, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Writer, Dies at 80

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533: Schrödinger’s Dorsey Dec 08, 2021

Zuck on a Truck, Taxis & NFTs; Dorsey departs Twitter; Square becomes Block; Logi are SLOBS; AI accountability; debt collectors wants to slide into your DMs; Elon seems to have misplaced all his money, can't help SpaceX; Shang-Chi; Hawkeye; Cruella; Get Back; Listening to Kenny G; Star Trek: Discovery's feelings; Lost in Space; Iron Maiden podcast; True Story; the Power of the Dog; old ears; Lucid; Blinkist; Craft; Bitmart hacked; scaling moderation issues hit Twitter, eBay; to Facebook or not to Facebook, that is the argument.

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Zuck on a Truck

NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again

NFT CryptoPunk owner sold it to himself for $532 million in Ethereum

CryptoPunks NFT Tracker

Long-time Lyft CFO departs to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea

IN THE NEWS

Jack Dorsey Has Stepped Down As Twitter CEO

New Twitter CEO has already begun a 'major reorganization'

Square is changing its name to Block

Square, Inc. Changes Name to Block

OBS Project accuses Streamlabs OBS of stealing name and trademark

The movement to hold AI accountable gains more steam

AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before

Debt collectors can now text, email and DM you on social media

Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

MEDIA CANDY

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Christopher Moore on Discovery

Lost in Space

Wheel of Time

Watch First Episode Of IRON MAIDEN Singer BRUCE DICKINSON's 'Psycho Schizo Espresso' Video Podcast

True Story

The Power of the Dog

Laurence Fishburne Was Never Told Why ‘Matrix 4’ Left Him Out: ‘You Have to Ask Lana Wachowski’

Spotify Hired A Psychic To Channel Your Personal Audio Aura

APPS & DOODADS

How Old are Your Ears?

Chatter Telephone™ with Bluetooth®

SECURITY HAH!

Crypto exchange BitMart loses $196 million to hackers

Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policy

eBay banned some users by mistake

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Geek & Southern

1-800-Contacts

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532: Crypt Bros Nov 24, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving; spam season; Jason's pivoting; scooters back in the news; Zillow's AI disaster; Tesla app locked people out of their cars (except for their keys); Zipline; trolling NFT owners; the NFT Bay; Crypto.com Arena; Apple on right to repair; OpenAI GPT-3; the Orville; Star Trek: First Contact; Jagged, Alanis Morissette; Discovery; Foundation; Wheel of Time; Bored Ape Yacht Club; Buy Nothing Project; ear wax; AirPods are out; Super Agent cookie monster; Twitter Blue; smart dimmers.

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Miami votes to end electric scooter pilot program

IN THE NEWS

What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real-Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet

Tesla app outage locked some owners out of their cars

Zipline starts first commercial US drone deliveries with Walmart partnership in Arkansas

How to Troll an NFT Owner

“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs

Crypto park deal has winner’s curse

Why Apple changed its mind on Right to Repair

Apple will let iPhone users repair their own devices

OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API

MEDIA CANDY

Jagged

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4

Star Trek: Discovery Is Tearing the Streaming World Apart

‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ ‘Dopesick,’ ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Showrunners on Adapting Source Material for TV

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Wheel of Time

Universal Forms Metaverse Band Based on Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs

It’s just a pre-monitezed, not good Gorillaz...

APPS & DOODADS

The Buy Nothing Project

Yes, you DO need a smart ear wax remover. And the Spade Mini is on sale for under $40

Are AirPods Out? Why Cool Kids Are Wearing Wired Headphones

Super Agent - Automatic cookie consent

Introducing Twitter Blue - Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering

Amazon Basics Single Pole Smart Switch, Works with Alexa, Neutral Wire Required - A Certified for Humans Device

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531: WTF Putin? Nov 17, 2021

Timbiebs; Uber, still horrible; Telsla full self-crashing beta; Russians blow up a satellite or two; US government bans some NFTs; science proves NFTs are mostly worthless; Facebook exodus; bitcoin rehab, hodl hodl hodl; Brave browser; sites that track you the most; share a pet, don't plant a tree; Another Life; Foundation; You; Bond; Face to Face & Sting; Jason's Mac Stack; Spotify trolls; Obi-Wan, rollerblading & air fryers in Security; FBI hack; microchip implants; Facebook just won't quit you.

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Tim Hortons teams up with Justin Bieber to launch Timbit flavours called 'Timbiebs'

It's time for freshly cracked eggs in Tim Hortons kitchens: Restaurants across Canada now proudly serving 100% Canadian freshly cracked eggs in all breakfast sandwiches

Uber discriminates against passengers with disabilities by charging them wait fees, a Department of Justice lawsuit alleges

Tesla vehicle in ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta mode ‘severely damaged’ after crash in California

IN THE NEWS

NASA Administrator Statement on Russian ASAT Test

Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud

Russian anti-satellite missile test draws condemnation

The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs

Science proves it: Most NFTs are worthless

Tech recruiters struggled for years to get people to leave Facebook. Now they say there's an exodus building, and the company is having more trouble recruiting, too.

Removing Certain Ad Targeting Options and Expanding Our Ad Controls

Meta’s ban on ‘sensitive’ ad categories doesn’t spell the end for microtargeting on Facebook

Mt. Gox Trustee announces approval of 150,000 BTC Rehabilitation Plan.

Basic Attention Token Up 25% Following Brave's Solana Integration

The 10 Websites That Track You the Most

Share a pet photo, plant a tree? Check before you join a trend, experts say

Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work in 'game changer' remote work law

MEDIA CANDY

The Orville (season 3)

Another Life (Season 2)

You

Three Body Problem TV Show Trailer by Tencent

No Time To Die

No Way out but Through by Face to Face

Sting: Rushing Water

In a new documentary, Alanis Morissette makes multiple allegations of statutory rape. But she won’t attend the movie’s premiere.

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 15.2 Beta 2 Lets Your Family Access Your Data If You Pass Away

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LEVOIT Air Purifier for Home Allergies Pets Hair in Bedroom, H13 True HEPA Filter, 24db Filtration System Cleaner Odor Eliminators, Ozone Free, Remove 99.97% Dust Smoke Mold Pollen, Core 300, White

Spotify finally lets you block other users

SECURITY HAH!

Here's our first look at the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series

Why Rollerblading Died

You Should Know: The First Kidney-Shaped Pool (1939)

Wirecutter - The Best Air Fryer

FBI email servers were hacked to target a security researcher

“Deleted” doesn’t mean deleted, at least not with Facebok

Inside an Online Community of People With Microchip Implants

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530: The Other Shoe Nov 10, 2021

Self-driving cars, still 20 years away; Facebook won't use facial recognition, but Meta sure will; Phhhoto; Elon Musk's tax bill and twitter infantilism; delete your tweets; socialized robots; Uber to dispatch... taxis; ABBA; Olivia Rodrigo; the Cranberries & Sinead; Dexter; Four Hours at the Capitol; Star Trek; Stranger Things; Microsoft OneDrive; Alexa following you; USB chargers; Grammarly; Range by David Epstein; I have the best words; bricked Macs; NextDNS; Robinhood hack; 2FA Google; disrupting parking lots.

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Tech Can’t Fix the Problem of Cars

IN THE NEWS

An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition

Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.

New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition

A forensic analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter poll on Tesla stock

Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he’s selling stock

Elon Musk, world’s richest edgelord, responds to billionaire tax with another stupid tweet

Twitter is rolling out a feature to make it easier to search a user’s tweets

Researchers are working on giving robots social skills

Apple hires Tesla's director of Autopilot software

Uber considers dispatching yellow taxis in New York City

MEDIA CANDY

ABBA - Voyages

Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

Salvation - Inspired by the Cranberries for Pieta

Dexter Season 9

Finch

Does the Dog Die?

Four Hours at the Capitol

'Stranger Things' season 4 teaser hints at trouble in California (update: release info)

APPS & DOODADS

Microsoft OneDrive app will stop syncing with Windows 7 and 8 on March 1st, 2022

Alexa now allows you to move music among different devices with your voice

USB C Charger, Anker Nano II 65W GaN II PPS Fast Charger Adapter, Foldable Compact Charger for MacBook Pro/Air, Galaxy S20/S10, Dell XPS 13, Note 20/10+, iPhone 12/Pro/Mini, iPad Pro, Pixel, and More

Grammarly rolls out full set of features to iPhone and iPad users

AT THE LIBRARY

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Merriam-Webster's Everyday Language Reference Set

SECURITY HAH!

Why Rollerblading Died

Apple fixes macOS Monterey flaw that bricked some T2 Macs

NextDNS

Fuck HBO

There may be a steep privacy cost if you park at this Trader Joe’s

Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted But Nobody Lost Any Money

Google wants every account to use 2FA, starts auto-enrolling users

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529: It’s a Notch, Notch World Nov 03, 2021

Slow week in tech news; we get Meta-stasized; Apple getting into the headset game; Wendy's PR team wins; Facebook takes down Nicaraguan troll farm, but verifies a fake Elon Musk; Snap being investigated for securities fraud; Uber offers up Teslas through Hertz deal; creator coins; companies leaving China; don't tweet after death; Star Trek: Prodigy; delays on screen wipes; music gadgets; being negative; get your notch; the Book of Boba Fett; Trojan Source; Facebook's cringe-worthy internal staff video.

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A Reddit user found a 'black hole' on Google maps, and users couldn't figure out what it was

IN THE NEWS

Meta

Facebook just revealed its new name: Meta

Meta working on new smartwatch with built-in camera to compete with Apple Watch

Apple’s first headset will focus on “high-quality” games, reporter claims

Wendy’s Wins

FACEBOOK 'META' CHANGE - Trademark Applicants Will Sell to Zuck ... FOR $20 MILLION!!!

Facebook takes down government-run troll farm in Nicaragua

Facebook verified a Bitcoin scammer pretending to be Elon Musk

SNAP Investigation Alert: Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP is Investigating Securities Fraud Claims on Behalf of Snap Inc. (SNAP) Investors

Uber will offer up to 50,000 Teslas to its drivers through Hertz rental deal

Patreon may let you reward creators with crypto

CNN: Squid Game crypto plunges to $0 after scammers steal millions of dollars from investors.

As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

Digital end-of-life services are a booming business — not everybody says that's a good thing.

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Prodigy

APPS & DOODADS

Oculus Quest VR headsets to eliminate mandatory Facebook account log-in requirement

Tiny Wings+

Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth

Belkin BOOST↑CHARGE PRO 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe - Black

Fender is buying studio gear company PreSonus

Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming

I wish anyone other than Kanye had made the Stem Player

SECURITY HAH!

Now, Even Older Macs Can Have a Notch

Why macOS updates might brick your Mac, and what you can do about it

The Book of Boba Fett | Official Trailer | Disney+

Trojan Source and Why It Matters

MORON OF THE WEEK

Facebook’s internal staff video is worse than anything revealed by whistleblowers

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Pivoteer

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528: Stay Grump Ye Oct 27, 2021

Jason pivots; health care tech perks; Tesla beta pulled back; Blue Origin space station; Facebook's milk money math; Facebook, we got 'em this time!... er, no; Snap shares plunge with Apple privacy; TRUTH Social hacked pre-launch; WeWork goes public; Invasion; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Foundation; Another Life; ID10T, Curious Creatures podcasts; 20 years since the iPod; Ask Delphi; Facebook data scraping; eyeball scanning for crypto; the splinter net; you won't believe what Dave did this time!

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FOLLOW UP

The Pivoteer

What you need to know about egg-freezing, the hot new perk at Google, Apple, and Facebook

Forget Kanye West. He's now officially just Ye

Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs

Elon Musk says 'issues' have forced Tesla to pull its latest full self-driving beta

Lyft report reveals more than 4K sexual assaults, 10 fatal physical assaults during 3-year span

IN THE NEWS

Blue Origin announces plans for a commercial space station

Facebook fined a record £50m by UK competition watchdog

Internal Facebook documents highlight its moderation and misinformation issues

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

Facebook’s oversight board faults its policy on preferential treatment.

Snap shares plunge 25% as Apple privacy changes hit ads business

Trump to launch his own social media platform, calling it TRUTH Social

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network

Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.

A Changed WeWork Goes Public via SPAC

Warmer welcome for WeWork 2 years later on Wall Street

MEDIA CANDY

Invasion

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 2 Easter Eggs and References

ID10T Episode #1138 – Danny Elfman

Another Life Season 2

Curious Creatures

APPS & DOODADS

20 years ago today iPod changed the world, here’s what it means to us

The AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

Ask Delphi

YouTube will begin demonetizing 'low-quality' kids videos next month

SECURITY HAH!

In a fit of frustration I made a thing

Here’s the YouTube video that put me over the top

Facebook sues programmer who allegedly scraped data for 178 million users

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency

You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye

Worldcoin would like you to gaze upon this orb and receive free crypto

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes

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527: Tribal Knowledge Oct 20, 2021

Congrats, Shatner, boo, Bezos & Takei; rideshare bubble bursts; FCC going after spam texts; Square to build a Bitcoin mining system, maybe; Tesla's really bad Beta-based insurance; Canon USA says no ink-y, no scan-y; Amazon creates its own brands by stealing "tribal knowledge" of competitors; Dune; Squid Game; Succession; Here We Are; Mel Brooks; Disney delays; Sinead & Delores; canceling NYT Cooking, CleanMyMac X subscriptions; USB-C & VPNs; ah, the 80s; pogo-power; Cosby sweaters.

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George Takei Roasts “Star Trek” Costar William Shatner After Rocket Trip

For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts

Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused WayMo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’

Your Deep Dive Into Those Waymo Self-Driving Cars In San Francisco That Went Headstrong Up A Dead-End Street Like Floundering Fish Going Upstream

IN THE NEWS

New FCC rules could force wireless carriers to block spam texts

Jack Dorsey says Square is ‘considering’ building a Bitcoin mining system

Tesla debuts new car insurance that uses Texans' real-time driving behavior

No ink, no scan: Canon USA printers hit with class-action suit

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents show

MEDIA CANDY

Dune

Squid Game

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Mel Brooks Is Back With ‘History of the World, Part II’ Series

Disney delays all of Marvel’s 2022 films

Sinead O’Connor and Pillow Queens to feature on album of covers inspired by The Cranberries

SECURITY HAH!

Apple's latest MacBook Pros have MagSafe, SD card slots and camera notches

At last, a middle ground, a place where skateboarders and rollerbladers can all get together.

The 1985 MTV Music Awards really kind of sucked.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

ExpressVPN Knew 'Key Facts' of Executive Who Worked for UAE Spy Unit

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526: In Over Their Cleggs Oct 13, 2021

Toxic environments on the Enterprise; FB & IG, down again; Instagram wants teens to "take a break" but not sure how; Nick Clegg's vacant words; Magic Leap is back & raking in the cash; Twitch leak reveals full source code, financial data; you oughta get in twitching; celebrity crypto shilling; GM wants you to subscribe to their cars; Apple Developer Academy; tech startups lie; Foundation renewed Storytime with Seth Rogan; Dave Chappelle; the Expanse; Apple TV 4k; iPhone vs Android privacy; Twitter recommends you not go on Twitter; do you or don't you need a VPN?

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Blue Origin delays William Shatner's spaceflight to October 13th

The renowned programmer who created PHP "hates programming" and said he's "not a real programmer."

IN THE NEWS

Facebook and Instagram are down for the second time this week

Instagram will encourage teens to 'take a break'

Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower

Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation

My First Year at Magic Leap and the Opportunity Ahead

Twitch's source code and streamer payment figures have been leaked following hack

Twitch Data Leak Confirms The 100 Highest-Paid Streamers

Celebrity Crypto Shilling Is a Moral Disaster

GM aims to build Netflix-sized subscription business by 2030

Apple opens Developer Academy in Detroit, creating new opportunities for careers in the iOS app economy

Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition

MEDIA CANDY

‘Foundation’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple

Storytime with Seth Rogen

Dave Chappelle The Closer

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Defends Dave Chappelle Special in Staff Memo: ‘Artistic Freedom’ Is Different for Stand-Up (EXCLUSIVE)

Watch the first trailer for The Expanse season 6, arriving December 10th

Baking Impossible: The great nerdish bake-off for the engineering set

APPS & DOODADS

iPhone apps no better for privacy than Android, Oxford study finds

Apple now requires all apps to make it easy for users to delete their accounts

Twitter will now warn you before you participate in a conversation that could get heated

Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law

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SECURITY HAH!

You Probably Don't Need a VPN

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The Lindenbaum Prize for short gamebook fiction

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525: I’m On a Boat! Oct 06, 2021

Oh, Facebook; the things we knew we now know we know and they knew too; AI reckoning; long dark 6 hours of Facebook's soul; Trump sues to get back on Twitter; lip service to climate change from Big Tech; raining drones; the Problem with the Problem with Jon Stewart; Foundation; Ted Lasso; Billions; the Many Saints of Newark; Amazon's terrible new robot; Grammarly; KeyCastr; Disney stories; AirTag Zero-Day; high tech sticker QR attacks; Coinbase; ransomware; DeFi asks nicely, but will punch you; a wealth of show titles too vulgar to use.

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The Great AI Reckoning

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

When I Ran for President, It Messed With My Head

The problem with Amazon’s ‘free college’ benefit

Fireside Chat

IN THE NEWS

Hats off to Twitter

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know

Is Facebook Down?

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview

Facebook Stock Tumbles as Controversies Finally Start to Add Up

Whistleblower's SEC complaint: Facebook knew platform was used to "promote human trafficking and domestic servitude"

Donald Trump sues to get his Twitter account back

Google Maps tracks global warming with new “Fire” layer, Tree Canopy tool

Apple, Amazon and others back groups trying to kill US climate legislation

It’s Raining Drones!

MEDIA CANDY

America’s Untold Stories with Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Ted Lasso Season 2

The Many Saints of Newark Review

APPS & DOODADS

Amazon tells Tesla to hold its beer in contest for stupidest-robot-ever-built

Creators of Amazon’s New Robot Secretly Admitted It’s “Terrible”

A Brief History of Adorable, Vaguely Creepy Robot Dogs

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro’s Macro camera to check patients’ eyes

Grammarly

KeyCastr

Twitter Advanced Search

SECURITY HAH!

The Imagineering Story

Xavier Atencio

Apple AirTag Zero-Day Weaponizes Trackers

QR codes could be the next target for cybercriminals — here’s how to protect yourself

Coinbase hackers exploit multi-factor flaw to steal from 6,000 customers

US will bring together 30 countries to tackle ransomware

Bandwidth CEO confirms outages caused by DDoS attack

How China Conquered The Keyboard

MORON OF THE WEEK

DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it

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524: Scripted Stupid Sep 29, 2021

Deepmind doesn't know how to fix AI; virtual staging; White Claw Surge; crypto unaffected by China news; Instagram for Kids, paused; Samsung's brain; Apple Wallet & vax cards; ravens attacking drones; Shatner in spaaaaccee; Imagineering Story; Sex Ed season 3; the Great Escapists; Foundation; Dune; the Witcher, for kids; Goliath; Nirvana; multiple timers in WatchOS; Cook is a gangster; Tiny Food Fight; iPad Mini; Star Wars: Visions; puppet shows to podcasts; file systems, do we need them; Mini's turn signals; strange blobs on Uranus.

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DeepMind tells Google it has no idea how to make AI less toxic

The Framework Laptop is now shipping!

The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used

IN THE NEWS

Bitcoin, ether, and major altcoins tumble on news that China will completely ban all crypto transactions

Instagram for kids paused after backlash

California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030

Samsung hopes to 'copy and paste' the brain to 3D chip networks

Apple Wallet update will allow digital COVID-19 vaccination card

Bird attacks on drones force Google to suspend home deliveries

William Shatner will boldly go into space with Bezos’s Blue Origin

MEDIA CANDY

The Imagineering Story

Sex Education Season 3

The Great Escapists

They Said Foundation Couldn't Be Filmed, and It Still Hasn't Been

Dune

Sandman First Look

Cowboy Bebop Trailer

Netflix's 'The Witcher' plans include season 3 and a kids' series

Goliath Season 4

Live nirvana concert chronology october 12, 1991 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL

APPS & DOODADS

Apple turns post-lawsuit tables on Epic, will block Fortnite on iOS

Apple TV 4K

Tiny Food Fight

New iPad mini owners report 'jelly scrolling' problems

AT THE LIBRARY

Quit Repeating Yourself: How Today's Leaders Are Using Systems and Processes to Grow Their Business The Right Way by Jaime Jay

Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward

SECURITY HAH!

Dave Bittner: From puppet shows to podcasts.

Only Murders in the Building

Star Wars: Visions

Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work

Lithuanian defence ministry urges people to 'throw away' Chinese phones after discovering censorship tools

Apple ‘Still Investigating’ Unpatched and Public iPhone Vulnerabilities

MORON OF THE WEEK

Congratulations, Mini, You Made The Stupidest Turn Signals Ever

BRIC-A-BRAC

Maps That Show Us A New Perspective

SCIENTISTS INTRIGUED BY STRANGE BLOBS ON URANUS

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523: More Buggy and Less Stable Sep 22, 2021

Send us your Satoshis; bitcoin, Pizza and a movie; eggs in space; yep, Facebook is still awful; Rivian announces subscriptions; Bytedance limiting kids to 40 minutes a day; Amazon cracks down on review fraud; AI generated influencers; Count Me In; Into the Night; The Card Counter; Old; Kate; Only Murders in the Building; Fuzz; Apple iOS 15; hubs & docks; get poked on Clubhouse; AI 2041; authenticator woes; industrious criminals; AI controlled machine guns.

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How to do value4value and earn Bitcoin from your podcast

Bitcoin Pizza Day 2021: Some interesting facts about this special cryptocurrency day

AMC says it will accept bitcoin as payment for movie tickets by year-end

The once-sedate astronomy world is quarreling over whether 'Oumuamua was an alien craft

IN THE NEWS

The Facebook Files

Rivian announces membership plan with complementary charging and LTE connectivity

TikTok owner ByteDance limits younger users to 40 minutes a day in China

Amazon has banned over 600 Chinese brands as part of review fraud crackdown

Amazon will hold a hardware event on September 28th

Apple mandates frequent COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated employees

Social media influencer/model created from artificial intelligence lands 100 sponsorships

MEDIA CANDY

Clarkson’s Farm Season 1

Count Me In

Into the Night Season 2

The Card Counter

Old

Kate

Only Murders in the Building

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 15 is now available

Neumann TLM 102 bk Studio Set

Clubhouse is developing a new way to invite friends to chat called 'Wave'

AT THE LIBRARY

5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee , Chen Qiufan

AI Superpowers - China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

SECURITY HAH!

Ireland's data regulator opens data privacy probes into TikTok

Researcher discloses iPhone lock screen bypass on iOS 15 launch day

Man who unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones sentenced to 12 years in prison

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

Israel reportedly used a remote-controlled gun to assassinate an Iranian scientist

US officials can't decide if Honor smartphones are a national security threat

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522: Ray Banned Sep 15, 2021

Jason considers the gig economy; more billionaires in spaaace; SEC looks to regulate crypto; Wal-Mart pump and dump; Apple ruled to ease App store rules; robot waiters; Facebook gives misinformation to misinformation researchers; Tesla rolls out self driving BETA; losing history to Flash; Picard Season 3, Matrix: Resurrections trailers; Lower Decks got funny; Behind the Attraction; Clarkson's Farm; mailing lists not missed; Facebook's new smart glasses; Roomba's P.O.O.P.; hiding cables; let's talk cookwares; another social network, Minus the social; always get it in writing; a tale of a fateful ship, the Satoshi.

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Steve Wozniak Shares a Video About His New Space Startup

IN THE NEWS

Biden’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency

Posing as Walmart, scammers send crypto surging 25%

Apple must ease App Store rules, U.S. judge orders

Real-life ‘Jetsons’? Watch robots cheerfully serve food at this Dallas restaurant

Facebook has been giving misinformation researchers incomplete data

Tesla rolls out Full Self Driving 10 beta with more confident decision making

Google gave user data to Hong Kong officials despite moratorium promise

Some of the most iconic 9/11 news coverage is lost. Blame Adobe Flash

MEDIA CANDY

Picard Season 3 Trailer

The Matrix: Resurrections – Official Trailer 1

Behind the Attraction

Disney's remaining 2021 movies will debut in theaters first

Clarkson’s Farm

‘We’re just not used to it’: Clarkson farm shop causes stir in the Cotswolds

Into the Night Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

Apple says motorcycle vibrations can damage iPhone cameras

Facebook’s New Camera Glasses Are Dangerously Easy to Use

Watch Mark Zuckerberg announce new Facebook and Ray-Ban smart glasses

FACEBOOK: TAPING OVER CAMERA LED ON OUR GLASSES IS A TOS VIOLATION

NEW ROOMBA BOASTS DOG POOP-AVOIDING AI

125in Cable Cover, Large Cord Cover on Wall Cable Management, Cable Raceway Kit for Mount TVs, Wire Hider Cord Management, Cable Concealer for Home Office, 8X L15.7 W1.18 H0.6 CMC-02-White

Made In Cookware

Blue Carbon Steel Frying Pan

Stainless Clad Saucier

Le Creuset Dutch Oven 5 1/2 qt

T-fal 5qt Dutch Oven, Nonstick, Black

MORON OF THE WEEK

Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.

Pinterest Accused of Not Paying Female ‘Co-Creator’

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

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521: Beans! Sep 08, 2021

That missing Cure track; Apple walks back iPhone image scanning, to add Driver's Licenses to Wallet; Moscow subway facial recognition; WhatsApp fined; Facebook apologies for racist AI; Virgin Galactic off-course; ISS is cracked; Gen-Z developing unexplained tics from social media, beans; Enemies of the State; the Protege; Rick James; Dyson love; Ryan Holiday; Mac Mini; geeking out over Lego; decent customer service; O.MG Cable; ProtonMail logs & court orders; Mandy Patinkin, the Dinner Party; Zoom Dysmorphia; beans.

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The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going On With the McFlurry Machines

IN THE NEWS

Apple delays its criticized plan to scan iPhones for child exploitation images

Apple to Add Driver’s Licenses to Apple Wallet

Subway Passengers in Moscow Will Be Able to Pay for the Ride With Their Faces

Whatsapp hit by £225million fine

Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men

Spaceship carrying Richard Branson flew off course, FAA is investigating

The FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s spaceship after flight deviation

The ISS is cracked and facing ‘irreparable’ failures – and they could be about to get much worse

Gen Z Is Developing Unexplained Tics After Going Online, And Doctors Are Concerned

Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

MEDIA CANDY

Enemies of the State

The Protege

BITCHIN’: THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES

Review: Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez strike gold in 'Only Murders in the Building'

APPS & DOODADS

Dyson Outsize

Your smartphone is not making you dumber — digital tech can enhance our cognitive abilities

Trillion-frames-per-second camera takes photos of light moving

Pharrell- and Grimes-backed music startup Roli files for administration and reboots as Luminary to refocus on beginner musicians

AT THE LIBRARY

Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday

A Book of Secrets: Finding Solace in a Stubborn World by Derren Brown

SECURITY HAH!

A Customer Discovered Their $350 Lego Set was Missing Pieces. The Company's Response Was Brilliant

Someone paid more than $300K for a fake Banksy NFT — and the scammer gave it all back

This Seemingly Normal Lightning Cable Will Leak Everything You Type

O.MG CABLE - C-TO-C DIRECTIONAL

ProtonMail Logs Activist's IP Address With Authorities After Swiss Court Order

BRIC-A-BRAC

Tearful Mandy Patinkin Shares Emotional ‘Princess Bride’ Story With Grieving Fan

The Dinner Party

Zoom Dysmorphia Is Following People Into the Real World

Gut instinct could see you fall for COVID misinformation

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS DEAD AT 54

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520: You Can Be China Sep 01, 2021

Get your GOG NFTs; Telsa Autopilot crashes...again; the iPhone is a Freshman in high school now; constant cookie warnings ending; Apple "agrees" to legally required App store changes; Instagram wants your birthdate; China slashes gaming time for kids; Clubhouse grasping at straws; The Grand Tour: Lockdown; Absolutely Mental; Icon; police dropping phones; T-Mobile, Microsoft security; Bloomberg cancels Galloway; let's get drunk.

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Coinbase mistakenly told 125,000 users their 2FA settings had changed

Tesla on Autopilot crashes into two parked cars… again…

The Best Carbon Fiber Skateboards in 2021

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

IN THE NEWS

An end to constant cookie warnings? UK plans post-Brexit overhaul of data laws

Apple changes key App Store rules in response to class action lawsuit from developers

Instagram will require users to share their birthday in push for teen safety

China further slashes kids’ gaming time to just three hours a week

Clubhouse adds spatial audio to create more immersive audio chats

MEDIA CANDY

The Jump with Shirley Manson

The Grand Tour: Lochdown

They're in this together

Absolutely Mental

Icon: Music through the lens

Clickbait

Apple is building a classical music streaming app after buying Primephonic

APPS & DOODADS

You're Probably Not Using the Web's Best Browser

Meco

AT THE LIBRARY

Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland

SECURITY HAH!

Police Use iOS App to Track Suspect After ‘Accidentally’ Dropping a Phone in His Truck

T-Mobile hacker says the carrier's security is 'awful'

Microsoft Azure cloud vulnerability is the ‘worst you can imagine’

Banksy NFT buyer duped in £244k 'hack'

‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies

SEC Charges Eight Firms for Cybersecurity Shortfalls

MORON OF THE WEEK

Bloomberg canceled Prof Scott Galloway's TV show after he joked about his sex life in a video, topless, in a hard hat

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519: Can Someone Loan Me a Toddler? Aug 25, 2021

Back to Windows; Mr. White Hat returns the stolen crypto; Elon jokes about Tesla Autopilot failures; California gig worker initiative unconstitutional; Facebook admits misleading COVID info is top performing content; purge your Tweets, people; Netflix gets clickbaity; the Hustler; Grace & Frankie; Gimlet's been a bust for Spotify; Nextdoor, for business; Jobs NFT; Cybersecurity resources; Microsoft Power App data leak; iPhone zero-clock exploit; skateboarding, same as it ever was; NFT dining; forgetting CAPS LOCK sign of intelligence.

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FOLLOW UP

Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist

Elon Musk joked about Tesla autopilot mistakes as the technology faces scrutiny: 'I actually have a T-shirt with a stop sign on it. If you flash the car, it will stop.'

The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else From Teslas

AI gave Val Kilmer his voice back. But critics worry the technology could be misused.

IN THE NEWS

Court rules California gig worker initiative is unconstitutional, a setback to Uber and Lyft

Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March

Why Did Facebook Let a Man Livestream His Bomb Threat Near the U.S. Capitol for Hours?

Global Affairs Canada is purging websites, social media amid Taliban takeover

MEDIA CANDY

The Clickbaitification of Netflix

The Hustler

Grace and Frankie

Spotify spent $230 million on Gimlet, but leaked data shows the podcast studio has lagged behind others at the audio giant. Insiders cite unclear strategy and internal tensions.

APPS & DOODADS

Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI

Lumen's metabolism tracking app comes to the Apple Watch

Steve Jobs Inscribed and Signed Apple II Manual

AT THE LIBRARY

A Gift Of Time" by Jerry Merritt

The Cellar by Katherine Lo

SECURITY HAH!

Here are some beginner Cybersecurity and Information Security resources that are free!

Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

Data leak exposed 38 million records, including COVID-19 vaccination statuses

A Hacker Stole and Then Returned $600 Million

New zero-click iPhone exploit used to deploy NSO spyware

Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips

MORON OF THE WEEK

The 1st NFT Restaurant - New York City

BRIC-A-BRAC

Science Confirms That Forgetting Things Is Actually A Sign Of Very High Intelligence

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518: Eternal September of the Nerd Only Internet Aug 18, 2021

Back in the (Canadian) saddle; the metaverse has already peaked; tech expat troubles; Facebook is really just truly awful; AI diagnosing dementia; Motorola wants to be Apple; Making the Cut; Suicide Squad; Shazam; the Ms. Pat Show; Pig; White Lotus; Disney nostalgia; bye, Hallo; right to McFlurry; Children of the New World; Stand on Zanzibar; Apple CSAM debate; Amazon wants to read your palms; scamming as a service; Eternal September; creativity is waning.

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Cineplex unveils subscription CineClub, offering free movies, perks and discounts

Niantic CEO John Hanke says the metaverse is a 'dystopian nightmare'

The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let’s Build a Better Reality.

Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas

IN THE NEWS

Facebook is rebuilding its ads to know a lot less about you

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Building for the Future

Scientists trial AI-system which could diagnose dementia in one scan

Motorola wants to be the new Apple. Its first attempt is, oh, take a look

MEDIA CANDY

The Imagineering Story

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup announces he's leaving the band after 4 decades: 'Just fed up of betrayal'

APPS & DOODADS

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max

Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 650 Open Back Professional Headphone

Why the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining Order

AT THE LIBRARY

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang

Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

The Candle of Crest: A Rhyming Epic Adventure by Demethius Jackson

SECURITY HAH!

Apple’s Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features (Exclusive)

Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried?

Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram for $60

BRIC-A-BRAC

The Day the Good Internet Died

Eternal September

Research Suggests We're All Getting Less Creative and Scientists Think They Know Why

Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds

Why pop music is obsessed with this one note

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

6 essential podcasts for tech heads to tune into

‘The greatest striker’: Gerd Müller, legendary German forward, dies aged 75

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517: You Know, for Kids! Aug 11, 2021

Eric Hunley joins us; Big fines for big tech; Amazon laughs at labor laws; Influencers are falling over each other to get the shot; The Metaverse is a Meta-Dud; Facebook hates research; Apple says it's doing it for the kids; SetApp and new apps; Sennheiser saves the day; Value 4 Value and Lightening to save podcasting.

Show notes at https://gog.show/517

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Eric Hunley on the web

Eric Hunley on Twitter

IN THE NEWS

Highlights from while we were gone...

EU slaps Amazon with record $887M fine over ad targeting practices

France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?

Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

Amazon Unlawfully Confiscated Union Literature, NLRB Finds

Amazon union drive in Bessemer may get a new election

It’s raining influencers!

Chinese TikTok star Xiao Qiumei dies after falling 160 feet from a crane while recording a livestream video

YouTube star Albert Dyrlund dies after falling 656 feet from a mountain while recording a video

Sophia Cheung death: Hong Kong influencer dies after falling while taking photo at edge of waterfall

Let’s talk about the “metaverse” because it’s gonna be the new buzzword for the next 6 months...

MARK IN THE METAVERSE

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Already Sucks

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse: What it means for the enterprise

Microsoft, Facebook and everyone else are building the metaverse. Will you want to live there?

Meanwhile in the real world...

Facebook cuts off NYU researcher access, prompting rebuke from lawmakers

Senators press Facebook for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers

APPLE KEEPS SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE-RUN SURVEYS ON PAY EQUITY — AND LABOR LAWYERS SAY IT’S ILLEGAL

The Tim Apple sized Elephant in the room...

Expanded Protections for Children Frequently Asked Questions

Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope

Opinion: Four problems with Apple’s reported approach to scanning for child abuse images

Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse

APPS & DOODADS

Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 650 Open Back Professional Headphone

Fountain Podcast Player

New Podcast Apps

Value 4 Value Podcasts

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516: Says the Billionaire... Jul 28, 2021

Here we COVID again; FAA rules for being an astronaut; YouTuber's blow anti-tax plot; genetic screening promises; FTC approves right-to-repair; Snapchat doing well; Facebook to become a quasi-religious meta-verse, whatever that is; Jack Dorsey wants BitCoin to make him money, oh sorry, bring world peace; space wants to kill you; the Moon slows down a Tesla; sci-fi trailers; Ted Lasso; more privacy-centric social networks; long-duration batteries; behind the attraction; facial recognition is everywhere; everything is tracked.

Show notes at https://gog.show/516

FOLLOW UP

Anthony Bourdain’s Voice Isn’t the Only Thing the New Documentary Faked

Companies that make people return to the office will lose employees

The FAA Brings Jeff Bezos Back Down to Earth

IN THE NEWS

The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot

A New Kind of Embryo Genetics Screening Makes Big Promises on Little Evidence

The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair

Snapchat just announced its largest user growth in years

Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to transform Facebook from a social-media company into 'a metaverse company'

Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience

Jack Dorsey hopes bitcoin can bring about world peace

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonize space. Here are the 6 biggest problems with their plans, from thinning bones to toxic plants on Mars.

The Moon Tricks Tesla's Full Self-Driving Feature Into Thinking It's a Yellow Light

MEDIA CANDY

‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ trailer is a treat for ‘Voyager’ fans

Dexter Revival Reveals First Trailer at Comic-Con 2021

Watch Your Local Broadcast TV For Free!

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Ted Lasso Season 2!

APPS & DOODADS

Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City

Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries

SECURITY HAH!

Behind the Attraction

From Macy’s to Albertsons, facial recognition is already everywhere

A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn

Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr

QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.

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515: Bro Code Jul 21, 2021

The COVID misinformation dozen; Facebook's Anti-Vax problem; society's collapse, right on schedule; Japan breaks internet speed record; Uber gets away with it, again; robot collisions; don't let a startup scan your eyeballs; Spotify are pirates; Loki; deepfaked Bourdain; Ape marathon; Hallo; AirPods Pro; Los Angeles is hideous; the Bro Code; NSO spyware; MAGA Freedom Phone; encryption lava lamps; appchk; Furry Olympics.

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FOLLOW UP

Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds

The Truth About Facebook’s Anti-Vax Problem

IN THE NEWS

MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.

Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer

Uber negotiated a huge cut to a $59 million fine it received for refusing to share data about sexual assaults on its service

Tesla offers a Full Self-Driving subscription for $199 per month

A robot collision sparked a fire at the UK's top online grocer

Why You Shouldn’t Let a Startup Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Crypto

MEDIA CANDY

The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

Spotify Executive Calls Artist ‘Entitled’ for Requesting Payment of One Penny Per Stream

The new Anthony Bourdain documentary 'Roadrunner' leans partly on deepfaked audio

Anthony Bourdain documentary sparks backlash for using AI to fake voice

A Quiet Place Part II

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

Bosch

Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Escape From the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Grimes, Will.i.am and Alanis Morrissette will judge an avatar singing TV show

APPS & DOODADS

HalloApp

Follow Your Different 226 - Real Digital Relationships | HalloApp Launch with Founders Neeraj Arora & Michael Donohue

Wireless Charger,Amugpill 3 in 1 Fast Wireless Charging Station Dock for iPhone 12/12 Pro/12 Pro Max/11/11 Pro/X/Xr/Xs/8 Plus,Apple Watch SE 6 5 4 3 2,Airpods 2/Pro,Qi Phones (with QC3.0 Adapter)

Here are the emoji finalists for Unicode 14.0

At this made for social media museum, the pictures come to life

Trick Art Museum

AT THE LIBRARY

Los Angeles is Hideous: Poems About An Ugly City by Andrew Heaton

SECURITY HAH!

NSO spyware was allegedly used to target activists and journalists

Microsoft disrupts products from Israeli tech firm used to hack journalists, activists

MAGA-Branded 'Freedom Phone' Is a Black Box That Should Be Avoided at All Costs

Eric Hunley Locals Exclusive the "Freedom Phony"

Encryption Lava Lamps

appchk Privacy Monitor for iOS

The Government Unknowingly Commissioned Furry Art To Promote The Tokyo Olympics

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Billion dollar heists, missing cryptoqueens: Six must-listen cyber podcasts

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514: The Carmen Sandiego Line Jul 14, 2021

We hear from Norway; billionaires in the... upper atmosphere? Just pay your taxes; Biden's Big Tech executive order; Trump's lawsuit has a problem...the law; Facebook owns a city; remote workers aren't leaving cities; TikTok meets LinkedIn; YouTube algorithm recommends policy violating content; bye, Knewz, we never knew ya; Monsters at Work; Black Widow & the new movie business; Summer of Soul; the joy of buying & cancelling; AI soundtracks; car talk; Audacity spyware; Iran's trains hacked; REvil disappears; Cosby wants to tour; Toomics reports... itself.

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SHOW NOTES

IN THE NEWS

Richard Branson Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity

Elon Musk booked a trip to space with Virgin Galactic

Biden’s wide-ranging executive order covers Big Tech, net neutrality and more

Trump sues tech firms for blocking him, and fund-raises off it.

Donald J. Trump: Why I’m Suing Big Tech

Black Mirror in Real Life: Facebook Now Owns and is Developing a City

Remote workers are moving out of big cities — but not to the Midwest

TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig

TikTok will automate video removals for nudity and violence

Mozilla Investigation: YouTube Algorithm Recommends Videos that Violate the Platform’s Very Own Policies

Judge dismisses Amazon’s legal challenge to JEDI after contract cancelation

Rupert Murdoch’s answer to Google News is dead after only 18 months

MEDIA CANDY

Star Wars: Rebels

Monsters at Work

‘The Witcher’ season 2 will hit Netflix on December 17th

What Black Widow’s $60 Million Disney+ Haul Actually Means

Barry Diller says streaming services killed the movie business as he knew it

Summer of Soul

Exclusive TED chats are coming to Clubhouse

Peacock

Epsteins Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell

APPS & DOODADS

Does Your Video Need a Better Soundtrack? Ask an AI to Write One

AT THE LIBRARY

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Polar Vortex by Matthew Mather

How to Live by Derek Sivers

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang

SECURITY HAH!

Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner

MUSE GROUP CONTINUES TONE DEAF HANDLING OF AUDACITY

Cyber-attack disrupts Iran’s national railway system

The world’s biggest ransomware gang just disappeared from the internet

MORON OF THE WEEK

BILL COSBY WANTS TO DO COMEDY TOUR AGAIN Docuseries in Works

Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements

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513: Fury Road Jul 07, 2021

Moving anxiety; WWW NFT with broken code; Billionaires in sppppaccccee; Facebook warns users about content it serves them; GitHub AI coder; TikTok selling its AI; FTC tells Broadcom to knock it off; crypto pump & dumps; Robinhood's real customers; Star Wars: Rebels; Bosch; the Mole; Hear in LA; Loki; charging gizmos; Western Digital exploit; supply chain cyberattack; Android trash app are trash; Norway demands you tell us if you touched up your photo.

Show notes at https://gog.show/513

SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Tim Berners-Lee Sells NFT of the Source Code for the World Wide Web for $5.4 Million

The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error

IN THE NEWS

Virgin Galactic plans to send Richard Branson to space on July 11th

Wally Funk, Trailblazing Female Pilot, Will Join Jeff Bezos on Spaceflight

Facebook test warns users who may have seen ‘harmful extremist content’

TikTok’s AI is being sold to other companies

GitHub previews new AI tool that makes coding suggestions

FTC charges Broadcom with ‘illegally monopolizing’ the chip industry

FaZe Clan suspends players allegedly involved in crypto pump-and-dump scheme

The Cost of Robinhood’s Success

MEDIA CANDY

Star Wars: Rebels

Bosch

The Mole

The Missing Crypto Queen

Hear in LA by Tony Pierce

Quentin Tarantino Says He Bought L.A.’s Vista Theatre

APPS & DOODADS

Nekmit Dual Port Ultra Thin Flat USB Wall Charger with Smart IC

Multi USB Fast Charging Cable，Arsiperd 4 in 1 3A Charger Cord Connector with Dual Phone/Type C/Micro USB Universal Port Adapter, Compatible with Cell Phones Tablets and More(4FT/2Pack)

Finance startup names itself Nonce, a cryptographic term that is also UK term for child rapists

SECURITY HAH!

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices

Western Digital won’t fix a vulnerability found in older My Cloud OS3 storage devices

Hackers conduct one of the largest supply chain cyberattacks to date

I thought MalwareBytes had a particularly good explainer

A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies

Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

MORON OF THE WEEK

New Norway law mandates social media influencers disclose photo editing

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512: It Has a Hole! Jun 30, 2021

Your class-action duty; more Bitcoin exchange disappearances; Facebook may be evil but it isn't a monopoly; words matter; ethical investing; medical algorithms unsurprisingly getting it wrong; your health data is being sold, but hey, it's de-identified; Amazon buys Wickr; everyone wants to work from home; Dune, delayed; Foundation, Ted Lasso coming; LFG; the Dave Bittner orchestra; WD drives; Dreamhost leaks; Peloton demands membership for treadmills; AirTags without holes & Chipolos with holes on thars; drone TRUST certificates; smile!

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SHOW NOTES

FOLLOW UP

Birch Communications Settlement

Drizly Settlement

IN THE NEWS

Founders of South African Bitcoin exchange disappear after $3.6 billion ‘hack’

A judge dismissed the United States’ antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, saying the FTC failed to show that the company was a monopoly

FACEBOOK CAN BE HELD LIABLE FOR SEX TRAFFICKING, SAYS TEXAS COURT

A Major New Index Fund Should Unnerve Climate-Skeptical CEOs

A hospital algorithm designed to predict a deadly condition misses most cases

Hospitals are selling treasure troves of medical data — what could go wrong?

Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr

Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home

MEDIA CANDY

‘Dune’ release gets pushed back another three weeks to October 22nd

Foundation will debut on Apple TV Plus in September

A new ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV show is in the works

‘Frasier’ Revival Release Date Teased by Kelsey Grammer

Kim’s Convenience

Workin’ Moms Season 5

LFG

APPS & DOODADS

Peloton’s mandatory treadmill memberships show how you never fully own your connected devices

Keep AirTags away from children for safety, warns Australian regulator

How your power company can remotely control your smart thermostat

iPod interface for Apple Music and Spotify by Tanner Villarete

The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST)

Chipolo’s One Spot isn’t quite an AirTag, but at least it has a hole

Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices

SECURITY HAH!

How Disney Mismanaged the Star Wars Universe

Not Safe For Work by The Organ Grinders featuring Dave Bittner

Dave Bittner and his K.M.O.X Orchestra

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

DreamHost database leaked 814 million records online, including customer data

What is AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out

MORON OF THE WEEK

The Fan Who Caused A Massive Tour De France Wreck Apparently Fled The Country

A Narcissist With Sign Caused A Huge Pile-Up During The Tour De France

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee dead after prison suicide: report

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511: Amazon Baby Farms Jun 23, 2021

Road tripping a very re-opened California; crypto & NFT drops; Facebook launches Live Audio Rooms, Clubhouse adds DMs, they all start to morph together; Google seeks to stop slander; Google AI/ML/AI/ML; Amazon worries about running out of workers to exploit; introducing Amazon Sub-Prime; Onlyfans pivots; Penn's poor Op-Sec; Reality Winner released; caught by smartwatch; Bo Burnham Inside; pandemic-inspired music; Lupin; Legendary; moving to Podpages; Facebook VR ads; tweaking Twitter; Neeva might be great, someday; Ted Chiang; the world's greatest con.

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FOLLOW UP

It’s Official: El Salvador’s Legislature Votes to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT

MoviePass was even shadier than we thought

IN THE NEWS

Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US

Clubhouse is building a DM text chat feature

Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander

Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they’ll run out of people to employ, according to a new report

Amazon Workers

Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out 6% of office workers

One Amazon warehouse destroys 130,000 items per week, including MacBooks, COVID-19 masks, and TVs, some of them new and unused, a report says

Amazon is reportedly buying 1,000 autonomous truck-driving systems, which could pave the way for one day ditching drivers

Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth

OnlyFans is reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a valuation above $1 billion, as it plots a move away from adult content to become more mainstream

Tesla backs vision-only approach to autonomy using powerful supercomputer

MEDIA CANDY

Bo Burnham – Inside

K.Flay – Inside Voices EP

Lorde – Solar Power

Marina – Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land

Garbage – No Gods No Masters

69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez

APPS & DOODADS

The one developer that publicly agreed to try Facebook’s VR ads is already backing away

Day one has been acquired by Automattic

Mastonaut

Tweak New Twitter for Chrome/Brave

Leviton T5633-W 15-Amp Type-C USB Charger/Tamper Resistant Receptacle, 1-Pack, White

Neeva

Webcam Settings (Mac App Store)

AT THE LIBRARY

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The World Greatest Con

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

SECURITY HAH!

Reality Winner, the Contractor Who Leaked Classified Russian Election Meddling Info, Released From Prison

Smartphone and smartwatch data led husband to confess to murdering his wife

Vigilante malware rats out software pirates while blocking ThePirateBay

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

4 tech podcasts you should be listening to

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510: Delightfully Evil Algorithm Jun 09, 2021

Apple WWDC; NFT market collapsed; Clubhouse shark-fin; Stack Overflow gets a buyer; Twitter's geo-political problems; Facebook ends special treatment for politicians; G7 moves to shut down tax havens; Bezos takes flight; Facebook rolls out Bulletin, which is not them but is; Apple employees don't want to go back; Old; Danny Elfman; A Glitch in the Matrix; assimilating your watch; Airport fetish gear; time travel books; Ring asks for assistance; FBI follows the Bitcoin; here's your bad guy phone; TikTok's delightfully evil algorithm.

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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2021 keynote

The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No

US Pentagon changes its mind about DJI Drones

The Drop-In Audio App Clubhouse Is Dying. It Was Fun While It Lasted

Clubhouse downloads are falling off a cliff: The app was downloaded only about 900,000 times in April, down from February’s peak of 9.6 million

IN THE NEWS

Kinda a big announcement

Twitter suspended in Nigeria amid face-off over president’s tweet

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent beard shavings to Azealia Banks so she could make an amulet to protect him from ISIS

Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban

G7 deal will likely raise taxes for tech giants like Apple and Google

Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of his company Blue Origin in July

Facebook’s ‘Bulletin’ newsletter platform could launch before the end of June

Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office

MEDIA CANDY

Old – Official Trailer [HD]

Danny Elfman Previews First Solo Album in 37 Years With New Song ‘True’

Cruel World Festival

A Glitch in the Matrix

Here’s How Long it Takes to Binge-Watch More Than 50 Popular TV Shows

Apple Watch Faces / Borg and Startrek

Exclusive: watch Lush in A Far From Home Movie

The Missing Cryptoqueen

APPS & DOODADS

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla team up for a ‘common vision’ on extensions

Logitech MX Keys Advanced Illuminated Wireless Keyboard for Mac – Bluetooth/USB

Airportag

A SpaceX fanatic created a website to find out when Starlink satellites were visible in his location.

AT THE LIBRARY

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

Ring Launches Request for Assistance Posts on the Neighbors App

Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang

Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals

DOJ Charges Criminal ‘Influencers’ Who Worked For FBI’s Honeypot Phone Company

Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users’ Biometric Data

CBC SecureDrop

MORON OF THE WEEK

S.Korean designer creates ‘Third Eye’ for ‘smartphone zombies’

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509: Johnny Moronic Jun 02, 2021

Amazon Sidewalk launching; Twitter unsurprisingly pauses verification program; invisible sculptures & fake NFT markets; AI takes on disinformation; Tweet labels based on how wrong you are; Lemonade's bad week on Twitter; WhatsApp backtracks; Venmo to provide some privacy controls; Google buries tracking settings; Elon bores Vegas, Neuralink will end language in 10 years; Army of the Dead; Crime of the Century; Friends; Moby; Star Wars cartoons; Fire tablets; Zoom PodTrak; Drafts Pro; Cook Unity; transformers to the Moon; Muderbots; Code Girls; Have I Been Pwned; dreamy Troy Hunt.

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FOLLOW UP

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

Apple delays paid podcast subscription launch to June

Twitter pauses its new public verification program after just one week

IN THE NEWS

World’s First Invisible Sculpture Sells for a Whopping $18,000

Buying a pink NFT cat was a crypto nightmare

Artificial intelligence system could help counter the spread of disinformation

Twitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are

A disturbing, viral Twitter thread reveals how AI-powered insurance can go wrong

WhatsApp won’t limit accounts for users who don’t accept its new privacy policy

Venmo now lets users hide their friends lists following Biden discovery

Google reportedly made it harder to find Android privacy settings

Watch Elon Musk’s Boring Company test its Tesla tunnel system in Las Vegas with members of the public

Tesla may have to ship Texas-made EVs out of state to sell them to Texans

MEDIA CANDY

Army of the Dead

The Crime of the Century

Friends: The Reunion

Moby: Reprise

Moby: Ambient (1993)

How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?

APPS & DOODADS

All-new Fire HD 10 tablet, 10.1″, 1080p Full HD, 32 GB, latest model (2021 release), Black, without lockscreen ads

Apple TV 4K review (2021): Finally, a Siri remote I don’t hate

Zoom PodTrak P8 Podcast Recorder – $499

Zoom BTA-2 Bluetooth Adapter for P4/P8 PodTrak Recorder – $49.99

Drafts Pro

CookUnity: A Chef Collective

Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the Moon

AT THE LIBRARY

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries Book 6) by Martha Wells

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

SECURITY HAH!

FBI to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned

US soldiers accidentally leak nuclear secrets via study apps

Robert G. Reeve Twitter Thread

Robert G. Reeve Twitter Thread Reader version

motionEyeOS

MORON OF THE WEEK

Neuralink Brain Chip Will End Language in Five to 10 Years, Elon Musk Says

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Spark

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508: PanoptiCondo May 26, 2021

Apple vs Epic; Twitter's verification is back; Chia valuation & IPO; divesting Facebook; a lighthearted look at NFT headlines; US telecoms face no consequences for ripping off the government; Google AI centerpiece of I/O; Virgin Galactic completes flight; streaming Glasto; Gary Numan; the Mosquito Coast; podcasts, podcasts everywhere; Snap's new Spectacles; Muderbots; Amazon's Ringopticon; predictive policing; ransomware & hospitals; more data breaches; Citizen's frightening pivot; caught cheese-handed.

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FOLLOW UP

Tesla driver slept as car was going over 80 mph on Autopilot, Wisconsin officials say

Elon Musk called lidar a ‘crutch,’ but now Tesla is reportedly testing Luminar’s laser sensors

How Apple screwed Facebook

Apple’s Fortnite Trial Ends With Pointed Questions and a Toast to Popeyes

Relaunching verification and what’s next

IN THE NEWS

Blockchain Startup Chia Nabs $500 Million Valuation, Eyes IPO

Tesla, Musk Face Loss on Bitcoin Investment

‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ sold as an NFT, could vanish from YouTube forever

Mark Haines — remembering and honoring a CNBC icon with an NFT auction

The Hollywood Sign Will Be Minted As An NFT

Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World

CRYPTO PLATES Drop First NFT Vanity Plates on OpenSea

5 Andy Warhol NFTs Are Heading to Auction. Art Experts Question Their Authenticity.

US Telecoms Keep Getting Wrist Slaps For Repeatedly Ripping Off The US Government

Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its troubled past at the company

Virgin Galactic completes first spaceflight in over two years, in step toward finishing development

MEDIA CANDY

Glastonbury Festival’s first livestreamed event ran into major snags

Gary Numan – Intruder

Gary Numan – Random

The Mosquito Coast

Streaming giant Netflix is expanding its podcasting footprint

Head of Audio/Podcast Programming, Editorial & Publishing

APPS & DOODADS

Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality

AT THE LIBRARY

Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (The Murderbot Diaries Book 5) by Martha Wells

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – Narrated by Michael York

SECURITY HAH!

Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen

Ransomware gang behind Ireland attack also hit US health and emergency networks

Air India breach compromised data for 4.5 million passengers

Chicago’s predictive policing program told a man he would be involved with a shooting.

Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer’s downfall

MORON OF THE WEEK

Neighbourhood Crime Reporting App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force

Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force

Private Security Force That Works With Citizen Wants the Power to Arrest People

Crime App Citizen Exposed Users’ COVID Data

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

AdoramaXP

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507: DoppelBittner May 19, 2021

No free lunches with cryptocurrency; DMV probing Tesla because words matter; Facebook toxic content moderators offered wellness coaches; YouTube Kids problem with autoplay; get ready for in-car ads; Waymo gets confused by construction; WarnerMedia and Discovery merger; Gates McFadden & Sarah Silverman; the Nevers; ProCon; playing with AirTags; NoPhone & NoPhone Air; On This Day In History; the Egg; pinball wizards; DarkSide Ransomware "quits"; buying data; leaky exercise APIs; Venmo is dumb; double-encryption; facial recognition for the people!

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Amazon Exclusive Star Wars The Child Chia Pet Floating Edition with Stand, “aka Baby Yoda” with Seed Packet, Decorative Pottery Planter, Easy to Do and Fun to Grow

‘Green’ bitcoin alternative Chia is leading to hard disc shortages

IN THE NEWS

DMV probing whether Tesla violates state regulations with self-driving claims

Crypto exchange Binance faces US money laundering probe

Bitcoin and Dogecoin Are at Elon Musk’s Mercy

Chia: the ‘green’ cryptocurrency bounces on Elon Musk’s Bitcoin U-turn

Facebook moderators facing toxic content told to take up ‘karaoke and painting’, Committee hears

Facebook users bypass misinformation rules with anti-vaccine profile frames

How YouTube Kids keeps kids watching

Get Ready for In-Car Ads

Waymo had to rescue an autonomous van that was confused by safety cones

MEDIA CANDY

Gates McFadden Investigates: Who do you think you are?

The Sarah Silverman Podcast

The Nevers

Laura Donnelly

APPS & DOODADS

ProCon

Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops

Apple AirTag

The NoPhone Original Cell Phone

The NoPhone Air

AT THE LIBRARY

On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell

The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir

Effortless by Greg McKeown

SECURITY HAH!

The Mandalorian Pinball

Fireball Pinball

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized

The Pentagon is tracking US citizens without a warrant, Senator says

Echelon exposed riders’ account data, thanks to a leaky API

We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone.

Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick Is Double-Encrypting Your Data

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

This facial recognition website can turn anyone into a cop — or a stalker

PimEyes

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506: Category 5 Super-Karen May 12, 2021

Wait, Uber & Lyft's model doesn't work?; layers upon layers of copyright infringement in NFT; Lord Musk of the Doge-dorks; DOGE-1 to the Moon; Signal makes some honest ads, Facebook not a fan; Twitter puts a pause on mean replies; pay your airbag subscriptions; internet harassment; the Mitchells vs the Machines; vaccine passports & live shows; Audio-Technica record player; Microsoft stops Windows 10x; Beelink PC; Chia pets; Sony's groundbreaking DAT player; Project Hail Mary; ham feedback; Star Wars; DarkSide Colonial Pipeline cyberattack; hacking AirTags.

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FOLLOW UP

Seth “LastXwitness” Miranda

AdoramaXP

The 2017 Battle Over Net Neutrality Somehow Keeps Getting Weirder

More Quarterly Losses From Uber, Lyft Suggest the Current Ride-Hailing Model Just Doesn’t Work

How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT?

Autopilot couldn’t have been engaged during fatal Tesla crash, NTSB says

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s SNL Episode Was a Real Rollercoaster for Dogecoin

SpaceX will launch a Dogecoin-funded Moon satellite

40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg urging Facebook to abandon plans to build an Instagram app for kids under 13

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned

Only 4 percent of US iPhone users have agreed to app tracking after iOS 14.5

Twitter begins to show prompts before people send ‘mean’ replies

This Motorcycle Airbag Vest Will Stop Working If You Miss a Payment

A Vast Web of Vengeance

MEDIA CANDY

The Mitchells vs. The Machines | Official Trailer | Netflix

Vaccine Passports

APPS & DOODADS

Audio-Technica Direct-Drive Turntable (Analog, Wireless & USB) AT-LP120XBT-USB

Microsoft has reportedly stopped development of Windows 10X

Beelink SEi8 Mini PC Windows10 Pro, 8th Generation Intel i5-8259U Processor,16GB DDR4/512GB SSD,Gigabit Ethernet,4K HD,Dual HDMI,WiFi 6,BT5.0,Fan,Support Auto Power On

How Sony paved the way for modern music production

AT THE LIBRARY

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

SECURITY HAH!

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Star Wars Timeline

Wookieepedia

Pipeline cyberattack was likely the work of a ransomware gang

It’s already possible to hack an AirTag

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Tawny Kitaen, ’80s Music Video Vixen and ‘Bachelor Party’ Star, Dies at 59

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505: Hammin’ It Up May 05, 2021

May the 4th; Chia plotting; Facebook Oversight Board; Florida bill will fine social media for banning politicians; Elon vs Bezos; gig workers; NFT news; fungible houses; Epic vs Apple; Verizon sells AOL & Yahoo at bargain prices; EU proposed AI laws; Ted Lasso; Lovecraft Country; Godfather of Harlem; the Great Food Truck Race; pushing to Kindle; Apple Watch health tech; Apple's iOS 14.5 update & privacy; Irish history; Amazon & Ring cameras; wild college Ham radio parties; Robodog put out to pasture.

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FOLLOW UP

Chia on Coin Market Cap

A new green cryptocurrency called Chia uses a less energy-intensive method of minting new coins. Here are 6 things to know about the digital asset before it starts trading on Monday.

Charlie Munger calls bitcoin ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’

AdoramaXP on Twitch

IN THE NEWS

Facebook’s Oversight Board will issue its ruling on Trump’s ban this week

Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are at odds again over a $2.9 billion NASA contract. It’s the latest development in a 15-year feud between 2 of the world’s most powerful CEOs.

Inside $59 billion Atlassian’s sweeping new remote work policy, which lets employees work from almost anywhere without needing managerial approval

Biden’s labor secretary says gig workers should be considered employees

Zoë Roth sells ‘Disaster Girl’ meme as NFT for $500,000

He tried to cash in on the NFT craze by auctioning a house. It didn’t work

As Epic case begins, senior Google engineer undermines one of Apple’s arguments

Verizon sells AOL and Yahoo for about half of what it paid

The EU’s proposed AI laws would regulate robot surgeons but not the military

The EU’s New Proposed Rules on A.I. Are Missing Something

MEDIA CANDY