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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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600: Technically Sweet May 06, 2023

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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

Paramount+ tops 60 million subscribers thanks to 'Picard' and the NFL

Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me

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

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

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

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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

All the big tech layoffs of 2023

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

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

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

SK8-HI BOA MTE-2 SHOE

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

Show notes

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

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

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

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

Mandalorian Finale

Rockafire Explosion documentary

Last Squeak Tonight

T-minus Podcast

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597: Annoyingly Well-Informed Apr 15, 2023

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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

Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program

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596: Me Want Cookie! Apr 08, 2023

Show notes

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

The Punk Rock Museum

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

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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

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

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

Apple Music Classical is here

APPS & DOODADS

Analogue Pocket

How to Play ROMs on the Analogue Pocket

Apple Pay Later is finally available in the US, but only with an invite

Apple Magic Trackpad - White Multi-Touch Surface

SECURITY HAH!

The Mandalorian

Biden administration bans federal agencies from using commercial spyware

The New Face of Fraud: FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams

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

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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

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!

The Mandalorian

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

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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’

Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence

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

Ticket to Paradise

The Cure’s Robert Smith Addresses Problems with Ticketmaster’s “Far from Perfect” System

APPS & DOODADS

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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

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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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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

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

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

Show notes

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’

New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies Set at Warner Bros.

History of the World, Part II

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

Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car

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