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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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Latest Episodes:

590: A Zucker Born Every Minute Feb 25, 2023

Show notes

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

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

Screens 4 for MacOS

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.

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

Show notes

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’

As ChatGPT's popularity explodes, U.S. lawmakers take an interest

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!

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

Show notes

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

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

Pen.Tips Textured Feeling PenMat

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

Show notes

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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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'

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

Show notes

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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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

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

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

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

Show notes

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

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

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

Analogue Pocket

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584: AI-Powered Unemployment Jan 15, 2023

Show notes

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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The Vinyl Comeback Continues

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

Jack Ryan Season 3

APPS & DOODADS

Ember Travel Mug²

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

Show notes

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.

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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

Jurassic World Dominion

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Netflix sinks 1899 after one season

The Great Podcasting Market Correction

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

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

Show notes

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

The White Lotus

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

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581: Kany.A.I. Dec 10, 2022

Show notes

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

This is Pop: Hail Britpop!

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The White Lotus

Neal Brennan - Blocks

What The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery Games

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

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Unstable Diffusion

Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork

Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery

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AT THE LIBRARY

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

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SECURITY HAH!

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CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Farewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all time

Super Steve’s Holiday

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