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Grumpy Old Geeks

We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

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610: And You Get a Tent! Jul 22, 2023

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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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Boot Up with Jason

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

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

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

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

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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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Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced by Two Years

IN THE NEWS

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

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite)

Black Mirror Season 6

Legal Lullabies

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

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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

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical Drinker

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

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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’

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

Streamberry - You are Awful

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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"

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

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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

All the big tech layoffs of 2023

Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace

MGM Casinos Entice Younger Gamblers With New Photo Policy

MEDIA CANDY

Crime Scene Kitchen

Padma Lakshmi Is Leaving ‘Top Chef’ After Its 20th Season

Black Mirror Season 6

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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

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

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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

Show notes

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

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

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

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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

Guys Grocery Games

Supermarket Stakeout

The San Diego Padres are the first to get out of their Bally Sports TV deal

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

Zyll - DOS 1984

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

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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]

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

The Muppets Mayhem

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

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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

Does the Dog Die?

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

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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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