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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!Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/612FOLLOW UPBoot Up with JasonSwapping a Twitter Habit for a Threads OneElon Musk wants a second chance to fail at XTesla Owners Have Soured on Elon Musk, But Still Love Their Model 3sIN THE NEWSInstagram seems to be working on labels for posts 'generated by Meta AI'Facebook and Instagram Begin Their Canadian News BlackoutMonthly NFT sales fell for fifth consecutive month to $495M in JulyChina considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per dayWorldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID systemWorldcoin and Kenyan Argue About Who’s Breaking Up With WhomUber safety driver involved in fatal self-driving car crash pleads guiltyAn Uber change of fortunesConnected car data privacy under investigation by California regulatorAbout CPPAElon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from TwitterX Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarksThe Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las VegasNASA ACCIDENTALLY CUTS CONTACT WITH VOYAGER 2MEDIA CANDYStar Trek Strange New WorldsHow ‘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 trailerFoundation Season 2Good Omens Season 265Shazam: Fury of the GodsGuardians of the Galaxy Volume 3APPS & DOODADSApple surpasses 1 billion paid subscriptions as active devices are double thatRumor: Apple Watch Series 9 to be available in new color option alongside black titanium UltraSprite Mix-tape Art GeneratorTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles MovieBillionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s WhyWealth Without Limits: in Defense of BillionairesCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSPaul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/611FOLLOW UPTwitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrandElon Musk Took the ‘X’ Twitter Handle From a Photographer Without AskingX tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification statusIN THE NEWSSpotify grew far more than expected, but is still losing moneyMeta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverseMeta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsiblyPublishers want billions, not millions, from AITesla under investigation in California over Autopilot safety issues and false advertisingWaymo pushes back its self-driving truck efforts to focus on ride hailingMeta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google Maps, Apple MapsTesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaintsPluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowMEDIA CANDYStar Trek Strange New WorldsThe Boys spinoff Gen V looks like a bloody bacchanal in new trailerGood Omens Season 2Justified: City PrimevalAPPS & DOODADSThreads adds a chronological feed as Twitter burns to the groundGoogle Docs can now automatically add line numbersElon 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 problemExpress your creativity with text posts on TikTokTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopIndiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyNews app Artifact adds AI text-to-speech voices, including Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth PaltrowSEC: Public companies must report cyberattacks within four daysCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSSinéad O’Connor, Irish singer behind ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and more, dead at 56See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/610FOLLOW UPBoot Up with JasonNFT Bro Laments That Nobody Is Buying Expensive JPGs AnymoreMelania Trump’s Apollo 11 NFT Violates NASA’s Photo RulesIN THE NEWSRussia bans state officials from using Apple devices over US spying concernsTesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselvesTesla plans to license its Full Self-Driving system to other automakersUS opens special probe into fatal Tesla crashAn email typo has reportedly sent millions of US military messages to MaliInstagram Not Liable For Copyright Infringement Over Embedded ImagesThreads users are already spending less time in the appThe spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’MEDIA CANDYInside ManDungeons and Dragons: Honor Among ThievesHow to stream the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023Netflix added nearly 6 million new subscribers amid password sharing crackdownNetflix kills off cheapest no-ads plan in the U.S. and U.K.Peacock’s prices are going up in AugustYouTube Hikes Prices For Premium, Music Streaming OfferingsAPPS & DOODADSReddit Just Deleted Every Message You Sent Before 2023Apple Watch Series 8Photographer Uses Adobe Firefly to Fake a Vacation and Fool His Friends‘Elusive’ first-gen 4GB iPhone auctioned for record $190,3731PasswordTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopThe Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity labelBiden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American ConsumersKevin David MitnickFREEDOM DOWNTIME - Kevin Mitnick Hacking DocumentaryTony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96I Got Lost in Her Arms by Tony BennettUsing iPods as hearing aidsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at https://gog.show/609FOLLOW UPElizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced by Two YearsIN THE NEWSAnnouncing xAIElon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the CountryTwitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creatorsTwitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it createdTaliban Leader Endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter Over New Rival ThreadsResearchers find evidence of organic matter on MarsThe risks of AI are real but manageableThe FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumersBig Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and GoogleIntroducing SuperalignmentAI Is a Lot of WorkChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time EverGPT-4's details are leakedGoogle’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitalsThe US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a SpinSarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringementMeta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claimsCelsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested and charged with fraudCanadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreementMEDIA CANDYStar Trek: Strange New WorldsSiloHijackVapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite)Black Mirror Season 6Extraction 2Legal LullabiesWall of ChefsPoop FictionAPPS & DOODADSMeta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a weekJony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntableTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopIn praise of watching your favorite movies in black and whiteThe Ashley Madison AffairWillie Wonka trailerKenneth Copeland’s daughter goes metalSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/608FOLLOW UPHarvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying dataThe Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That “Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other modelsTHE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGETThe Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated CodeIN THE NEWSWe'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 RevolutionCongress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPTThe Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics HandbookElon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at ColosseumItalian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in ColosseumGoogle Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research FindsYouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockersZoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las VegasSoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't existAspartame to be named a possible cancer-causerMEDIA CANDYStar Trek: Strange New WorldsSiloIndiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical DrinkerRealityFubarThe MachineMuscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American GladiatorsTed Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale weekAPPS & DOODADSChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the appSTITCHER FAREWELLGoogle is no longer building its own augmented reality glassesTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice LibraryElevenLabs Voice LibraryCOSPLAYING THE MOMMY WARSJason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon1. Hackers2. The Edge3. Shaun of the Dead4. Fight Club5. The Professional6. Pulp Fiction7. The Hunt for Red October8. Die Hard 39. Hard Boiled10. The CrowThe Electric Mayhem visit SpotifySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/607FOLLOW UPSpotify executive calls Harry and Meghan ‘grifters’ after podcast deal endsThe Class of '09Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVsRead TIME's Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanMicrosoft milestone brings it a bit closer to quantum supercomputerIN THE NEWSElon Musk Might Fight Mark Zuckerberg For RealWebsite Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm ChangeMeta pulls news content from Canadian Facebook and InstagramReddit threatened protesting moderators: Subreddits ‘cannot remain closed’NodeHostBiden administration announces $930 million in grants to expand rural internet accessThe FCC is preparing to take a 'fresh look' at internet data capsGen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existedMEDIA CANDYFriend of the show Felicia Michaels on WTF with Marc MaronNetflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ first look confirms January 2024 premiereBlack MirrorStreamberry - You are AwfulStar Trek: Strange New WorldsSiloS5 E2 - The Grand Tour: EurocrashDarker Wave FestivalSpotify reportely to launch “Supremium” plan with higher monthly ratePurely AI-generated songs declared ineligible for Grammy Awards8 ways Google Lens can help make your life easierGen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office, according to a WSJ reportAwesome ScreenshotMidjourney 5.2 Is Here : Unveiling Incredible New Features!AT THE LIBRARYLords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture Book 3) by Adrian TchaikovskyThe 22 Laws of Category Design: Name & Claim Your Niche, Share Your POV, And Move The World From Where It Is To Somewhere DifferentTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopGet a clue, says panel about generative AI: it's being "deployed as surveillance"Dropbox DashFacebook's Creepy New Ai Can Replicate Your Friends' Voices50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI DungeonCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSChatGPT on the App StoreBing: Chat with AI & GPT-4See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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?Sponsors:SaneBox - Visit https://www.sanebox.com/gog today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/606FOLLOW UPReport: FTC will file to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard acquisitionEx-Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes Says She Can’t Pay $250 a Month to the People She CheatedIn re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defenseIN THE NEWSThousands of Reddit communities go dark to protest company’s controversial new policyReddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interviewReddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related BlackoutsSpotify has been fined $5.4 million for violating GDPR data rules17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s AutopilotMercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system, for some reasonGoogle, one of AI’s biggest backers, warns own staff about chatbotsAI at the Office Makes You a Lonely, Sleepless Alcoholic, New Study FindsTwitter Is Reportedly Getting Kicked Out of One of Its Colorado OfficesElon Musk is hilariously shut down by his ‘favourite’ podcastNew York City sets an $18 per hour minimum wage for food delivery workersGrubhub lays off 15 percent of its employeesAll the big tech layoffs of 2023Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to SquarespaceMGM Casinos Entice Younger Gamblers With New Photo PolicyMEDIA CANDYThe IdolCrime Scene KitchenPadma Lakshmi Is Leaving ‘Top Chef’ After Its 20th SeasonBlack Mirror Season 6Star Trek: Strange New WorldsPatrick Stewart and LeVar Burton Agree ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Was Perfect — But They Pitch One Last HurrahAnt-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaWatch the trailer for the second season of Apple TV+ series 'Foundation'Netflix Sign-Ups Increase 102% After Password Sharing Crackdown: ReportNetflix BitesPaul McCartney is using AI to create a final song for The BeatlesGen Z Is Drinking Less at ConcertsPeppa Pig Heading to Amazon’s Audible Under New Podcasting Deal With HasbroAPPS & DOODADSSol ReaderTORRAS COOLIFY 3 Neck Air Conditioner, Extreme Cooling Version Neck Fan, Full-body Cooling Portable Fan, Vertical Airflow Personal Fan, AI Temp Control Portable Neck FanAT THE LIBRARYYour Bias Is...The School of Thought InternationalSingularity Sky by Charles StrossIron Sunrise by Charles StrossSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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; BarraShow notes at https://gog.show/605 Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.FOLLOW UPWhy AI Will Save The WorldJason Calacanis on Crypto in the age of AIToday's AI is unreasonableMeta plans to put AI everywhere on its platformsFaster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learningSalesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the OfficeIN THE NEWSSEC Says Binance Misused Customer Funds, Ran Illegal Crypto Exchange in U.S.SEC sues Coinbase over alleged violations of securities lawsFTX MADE A VERY SMART INVESTMENT THAT MAY BE ABLE TO PAY BACK ITS CUSTOMERSMicrosoft will pay the FTC $20 million to settle charges over collecting children's dataTwitter's ad sales have reportedly dropped by 59 percent since last yearScreenshots of Instagram's answer to Twitter leak onlineInstagram may roll out its own AI chatbot in the near futureInstagram Connects Vast Pedophile NetworkOpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Embezzlement LawsuitA Waymo self-driving car killed a dog in ‘unavoidable’ accidentIs It Just Me, or Does That Hotel Look Like…?MEDIA CANDYDaniel Sloss: SocioThe Marvelous Mrs. MaiselGood Omens Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime VideoSpotify Cut Staff, Talent to Enter its YouTube EraAPPS & DOODADSStripeiZotope RX 10 AdvancedmacOS Ventura Problems: 5 Things You Need to KnowFirst Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOSHands-on with Apple Vision Pro: This is not a VR headsetEyes (and head) on with the Apple Vision ProThe metaverse is cookedDiablo IVTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopBegin | Ahsoka | Disney+Hannah Gadsby's Picasso exhibit is getting roasted by art criticsPasskey support for 1Password arrives in beta todaySextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media imagesTotal Compromise of Physical Barracuda ESG AppliancesBarracuda: Immediately rip out and replace our security hardwareCan AI report a radio story?Tom Hanks gives the commencement speech at Haaa-vaaad...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:SaneBox - Visit https://www.sanebox.com/gog today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/604FOLLOW UPElizabeth Holmes Reports to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year SentenceThe Facebook Generation Wants Some BoundariesIN THE NEWSThe AI Boom Runs on Chips, but It Can’t Get EnoughAI Is an Insult NowAI 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 AIRay Kurzweil On AI Pause: NoTesla leak reportedly reveals thousands of Autopilot safety complaintsA lawyer faces sanctions after he used ChatGPT to write a brief riddled with fake citationsNo ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checkedMonthly crypto exchange volume tumbled in May, hitting 32-month lowMEDIA CANDYSuccessionBarryTed LassoGood OmensYou can watch the entire first season of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ for free on YouTubeWill TrentGuys Grocery GamesSupermarket StakeoutThe San Diego Padres are the first to get out of their Bally Sports TV dealDear MamaParamount+ Snaps Up Milli Vanilli Feature DocTim 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 THINKINGUNDERUNDERSTOOD - Big Ideas Lost to Mini RoomsA Stunning Scale Model Illustrating The History of TimeAPPS & DOODADSBluesky now lets you choose your own algorithmFidelity marks down value of Twitter stake againAmazon ditches Alexa’s celebrity voices and will issue refunds upon requestGrail Diary Indiana Jones Journal, Indiana Jones Diary Indiana Jones Novels Book, Indiana Jones Grail Diary, Indiana Jones Collection Merchandise, Vintage Leather Journal Classic Movie Prop Replica BiIndiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™ on SteamSteam DeckDarklandsZyll - DOS 1984DOSBoxThe Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthroughAT THE LIBRARYRoadkill by Dennis E. TaylorTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopTop Google Result for "Edward Hopper" an AI-Generated FakeNEW "CAMERA" HAS NO LENS, SIMPLY DETECTS YOUR LOCATION AND GENERATES AN AI PICTURE OF ITDeskilling on the JobDave in Hello Dolly!CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSJason DeFillippo - Technology Lead at David&Goliath - AwardsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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...Sponsors:SaneBox - Visit https://www.sanebox.com/gog today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit.Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/603FOLLOW UPStability AI CEO Says AI Poses an ‘Existential Threat to Humanity’IN THE NEWSMeta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy RulesRon DeSantis Pushed Elon Musk's Twitter to Its Breaking PointAmazon's got a Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar wrap—oopsyUS Surgeon General says social media can pose 'a profound risk' to teens' mental healthNeuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trialsDoorDash faces lawsuit accusing it of charging iPhone users more for deliveryTwitter bug seems to be randomly restoring deleted tweetsSoundcloud will lay off eight percent of its staff in hopes of becoming profitableUniversal Music Group partners with Endel for AI-generated wellness soundscapesAI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidityMEDIA CANDYSuccessionTed LassoThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5Star Wars: Young Jedi AdventuresSiloGraham Yost‘American Gladiators’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Muscles & Mayhem’ to Reveal “Triumph and Turmoil” of Hit ‘90s Show [Exclusive]APPS & DOODADSSo long and thanks for all the headaches, HBO MaxLogic Pro for iPadFinal Cut Pro for iPadIntroducing Spark +AI: your personal email assistantA.I. Photoshopping Is About to Get Very Easy. Maybe Too Easy.Dream Bigger with Generative Fill.8 Ways to Avoid Business JargonAT THE LIBRARYHeather Texle Official WebsiteOn Impulse (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 1) by Heather TexleThe Unnamed Way (The World Walker Book 4) by Ian W. SainsburyNo Kindness Too Soon by Sylvain NeuvelRed Team Blues by Cory DoctorowTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopThe Muppets MayhemSpotify may use AI to make host-read podcast ads that sound like real peopleRemove Watermarks with Photoshop AICLOSING SHOUT-OUTSSinger Tina Turner dies aged 83See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:SaneBox - Visit https://www.sanebox.com/gog today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit.Show notes at https://gog.show/602FOLLOW UPMost states halt use of Google and Apple's COVID-19 exposure notification systemTheranos founder Elizabeth Holmes fails in bid to stay out of prison during appealElizabeth Holmes Must Report to Prison on May 30 and Pay RestitutionIN THE NEWSSupreme Court rules in favor of Twitter and Google, avoiding the issue of Section 230 for nowBefore AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone MoneyProfessor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their PapersMontana's governor signs bill banning TikTokThe EU approves Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard takeoverA third former Apple employee has been charged with stealing self-driving car techApple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voicesApple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutesEveryone should use Personal Voice; it does in 15 minutes what currently takes several weeksOnline-Only Startups Adopt a Bold New Strategy: Opening Actual ShopsThe “return to the office” won’t save the officeRemote 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 FranciscoU.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor WorkforceMEDIA CANDYThe DiplomatSiloFinchDoes the Dog Die?Ted LassoSuccessionOne YouTube-Ripping Site Will Get 4 Billion Visits in 2023; Time to BlameDoctor Who 2023 - Titles Revealed! | 60th Anniversary Specials TrailerThe episode titles for the 60th anniversary specials are revealedFright Night: Peter Vincent ClipBilly McFarland Says He’s Secured Funding for Fyre Fest 2.0 and Broadway MusicalAPPS & DOODADSSoundSource: A Superior Sound ControlTotal Bluesky AccountsChatGPT now has an official iPhone appChatGPT pluginsA Guide to ChatGPT PluginsTelly will give you a free TV if you'll watch non-stop adsYouTube’s recommendations are leading kids to gun videos, report saysYouTube will no longer be deleting videos from inactive accountsHuman DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. Here’s what that could meanTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopDisney to Shut Down ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Starcruiser HotelTerrifying study shows how fast AI can crack your passwords; here’s how to protect yourselfTry 1Password for free for 14 days!I have been playing Frogger.CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSAndy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59Watch Tony Hawk cover Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Wish’ with Trent Reznor and all-star backing bandSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/601FOLLOW UPThe Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's WhyRIP MetaverseVideo shows Mark Zuckerberg fighting in jiu-jitsu match; Facebook founder won gold, silver medalsMark Zuckerberg Has a Problem Even Bigger Than the MetaverseEight things to know about LLMsIN THE NEWSBank of Canada asks for public feedback about a national digital currencyOpenAI 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 stableŌURA Acquires Proxy in All-Equity DealMTV News Signs Off for Good After 36-Year RunMEDIA CANDY‘It’s Going to Be a While’: No End in Sight for Hollywood StrikeSpotify has reportedly removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songsGoogle makes its text-to-music AI publicTurn ideas into music with MusicLMTucker Carlson Is Descending the Food ChainThe DiplomatSlow HorsesSiloTed LassoThe Muppets MayhemMenendez + Menudo: Boys BetrayedBupkusPoker FaceAfter 30 years of saying his name to no avail, Beetlejuice 2 has a release dateThe Foundation season 2 trailer will make you want to suddenly catch up on FoundationAll the Good Omens season 2 news we’ve heard so farDungeons & Dragons Free 24-Hour Streaming Channel Set to Launch This Summer (EXCLUSIVE)APPS & DOODADSBluesky SocialHow I Accidentally Ruined Bluesky With Pictures of Sexy AlfVintage Alf Stationary Paper and Envelopes Set 1987 Alien ProductionsSkeet (Bluesky Slang)Improving Your Communication With the Latest Product UpdatesAT THE LIBRARYHeady Daze: The Mission Years, 1985–1990 by Wayne HusseyNew book “I Thought I Heard You Speak” spotlights women’s integral role at Factory RecordsChip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical TechnologyTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopStar Wars: VisionsSeason 2 of Andor to continue production without writers due to strikeVICE News Presents: Vigilante, Inc.Watch: New Documentary Tells Inside Story of Vigilante App CitizenNew CS:GO map bypasses Russia's censorship of Ukraine war newsCan AI Write a John Mayer Guitar Solo? - ChatGPTCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSFrank Kozik, Acclaimed Graphic Artist and Designer, Dead 61See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:SaneBox - Visit https://www.sanebox.com/gog today to start your free trial and get a $25 credit.Show notes at https://gog.show/600FOLLOW UPThere Is No A.I. by Jaron Lanier‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger AheadEx-Apple employee sentenced to three years in prison after $17 million fraud schemeApple drops lawsuit against former exec who accused company of spyingApple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from CustomersIN THE NEWSSpaceX's Starship didn't immediately respond to a self-destruct commandVice President Harris tells tech CEOs they have a moral responsibility to safeguard AISnoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”IBM Pauses Hiring to Onboard AI InsteadMarissa Mayer on the AI search race, technology fears, and her biggest Yahoo regretsChatGPT is once again available in Italy after a temporary banWe Have No MoatLyft shares tumble as investors react to dim outlookGooglers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffsGoogle will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it meansBlue verified checkmarks are coming to GmailFacebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth dataUS Job Growth Remains StrongMEDIA CANDYDune: Part 2Paramount+ tops 60 million subscribers thanks to 'Picard' and the NFLRIP, Says YouAsk Me AnotherWait Wait... Don’t Tell MePlanet MoneyAll Things ConsideredMorning EditionSuccessionSomeone posted the entire ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ on TwitterAmazon rolls out free Roku-like TV channels for Fire devicesCasa GrandePornhub Goes Dark in Utah to Protest Age Verification LawSEARCHES FOR VPN SOAR IN UTAH AMIDST PORNHUB BLOCKAGEAI Made this VLOG by Casey Neistat and GPT4How To Make Katsu Curry by HowToBasicZero Gravity ConcertsTOURISM COMPANY OFFERING ZERO-G CONCERTSAPPS & DOODADSTweetDeleteThe downfall of Brydge: iPad keyboard company folds, leaving staff unpaid and customer orders unfulfilledGet a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Apple cofounder Steve WozniakAT THE LIBRARYThe Seventeenth Year (The World Walker Series Book 3) by Ian W. SainsburySeason of Skulls: A Novel in the World of the Laundry FilesTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopHow Logan Arcade got its Misfits-playing robot dogsOuttakes 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 starApple releases its first rapid-fire security updates for iPhone, iPad and MacMicrosoft Planning Privacy-Focused Version of ChatGPT as Apple AI Efforts FlounderCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSEggs are perl T-ShirtEileen Saki dead: Final 'MASH' Rosie actor was 79Gordon Lightfoot, Hitmaking Singer-Songwriter, Is Dead at 84See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/599FOLLOW UPHow Hundreds of 24-Ton Bricks Could Fix a Huge Renewable Energy ProblemElizabeth Holmes’ Daughter’s Name May Be Narcissism at Its FinestElizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentenceIN THE NEWSClubhouse is laying off employees and ‘resetting’ the companyLyft is laying off 26 percent of employeesAll the big tech layoffs of 2023JUST RUNNING CHATGPT IS COSTING OPENAI A STAGGERING SUM EVERY SINGLE DAY"GPT" may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its wayRepublicans attack Biden with a fully AI-generated adSpotify CEO says AI progress is both ‘really cool and scary,’ may pose risk to creative industryHow Elon Musk Turned the Blue Checkmark Into a Scarlet LetterGiant SpaceX rocket leaves crater, serious damage at Texas baseElon knows bestGrimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty splitGrimes 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 TikTokMEDIA CANDYThe Super Mario Bros. MovieSuccessionTed LassoGhosted'The Witcher' season 3 trailer shows Henry Cavill's last stint as GeraltSuccession’s Brian Cox to Play Villain in Bond-Themed Reality ShowAPPS & DOODADSWhen 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 devsApple is reportedly developing an AI health coach for Apple WatchFarrago 2 by Rogue AmoebaLoopbackSoundSourceArc BrowserAdobe FireflyMicrosoft makes its AI-powered Designer tool available in previewGrammarlyGOSnapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature, calling for its removalPreSonus Eris E3.5-3.5" Near Field Studio Monitor (Pair)Rode NT1 5th Generation Condenser Microphone with SM6 Shockmount and Pop Filter - BlackDJI Mavic 3 ProVans MTESK8-HI BOA MTE-2 SHOEAT THE LIBRARYThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl SaganSoul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn WilsonAlcoholics Anonymous Large Print Abridged Fourth Edition Does not include the personal stories Paperback.CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSR.I.P. Picard TipsR.I.P. Riker GooglingRiker Googling on MastodonPicard Tips on MastodonJerry Springer, Host of Unapologetically Brash Talk Show, Dies at 79Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and ActivistSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at: https://gog.show/598/FOLLOW UPCanada's CBC is the latest to leave Twitter in objection to 'goverment-funded' labelHuman or Not?IN THE NEWSBuzzFeed Shuts Down Its News DivisionGerman artist refuses award after his AI image wins prestigious photography prizeElon Musk claims to be working on ‘TruthGPT’ — a ‘maximum truth-seeking AI’In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over CautionGooglers say Bard AI is “worse than useless,” ethics concerns were ignoredGoogle’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees SayInsider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AIEurope spins up AI research hub to apply accountability rules on Big TechNiantic shutters its web3 project after less than six monthsMan battling Google wins $500K for search result links calling him a pedophilePurgatory With PerksYou can now apply for your share of a $725 million Facebook data privacy settlement. Here’s howAI moving humanity forward as artificial intelligence advances, Google leaders saySouth Korea Tries $500 Handouts to Help Reclusive Kids Get OutMEDIA CANDYPicard FinaleParamount+ greenlights Star Trek film starring Michelle YeohStrange New WorldsA ‘Galaxy Quest’ series is reportedly coming to Paramount+Ryan Coogler developing ‘X-Files’ reboot, says show’s original creatorBarryAmerican Manhunt: The Boston Marathon BombingAI-Generated Music Is About to Flood Streaming PlatformsFake Drake and The Weeknd Song with AI-Generated Vocals Taken Down from Streaming ServicesLiam 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 platformsAPPS & DOODADSSega to acquire Angry Birds-maker Rovio for $775MInstagram lets you add five links to your profile so you can stop using LinktreeAT THE LIBRARYMake Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own wordsChokepoint CapitalismSnow Leopard: How Legendary Writers Create a Category of OneJames Fell - On This Day in History Sh!t Went DownDead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg JennerCritical Mass: A Novel (A Delta-v Novel Book 2) by Daniel SuarezTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopMandalorian FinaleRockafire Explosion documentaryLast Squeak TonightT-minus PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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?Sponsors:DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/597FOLLOW UPEverything You Should Know About the New MoviePassThe Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for BitcoinThe mounting human and environmental costs of generative AITesla slammed with class-action lawsuit following report that employees internally shared private photos and videos taken from car camerasTwitter Isn’t a Company AnymoreTwitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’NPR is ditching Twitter over 'government-funded media' label on its main accountPBS has also quit Twitter over its 'government-funded media' labelElizabeth Holmes Will Have to Wait Out Her Appeal in PrisonArrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in techWho is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?IN THE NEWSDriverless bus service to start in Scotland in 'world first'NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollutionNEW NASA GODDARD DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS SWORN IN ON A CARL SAGAN BOOKGoogle Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's newVimeo to pay $2.25M in AI-related biometric privacy lawsuitTwitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant For The General PublicElon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUsFTC fines supplement maker $600,000 for 'review hijacking' Amazon listingsMEDIA CANDYThe Labours Of Hercule - The Adventure Of The Cheap FlatIceberg Slim: Portrait of a PimpI’ll Sleep When I’m DeadPerry Mason Season 2'The Americans' cast celebrate show's 10th anniversarySuccessionHow Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’HBO’s Succession PodcastSure, 'Max' sounds dumb, but HBO Max needed a rebootPicardFor 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, seasonDisney is bringing ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ back to theaters on April 28thHonest Trailers | Avatar: The Way of WaterThe Continental: From the World of John Wick | Official Teaser | Peacock OriginalThe Ongoing History of New Music Podcast by Alan Cross - History of Skate PunkAPPS & DOODADSYouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and moreSpotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last yearThe Problem With Weather AppsAwesome ScreenshotStable DiffusionWhat Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? by Cal NewportFinalmouse Centerpiece Keyboard RevealFINALMOUSE CENTERPIECE KEYBOARDAT THE LIBRARYMake Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own wordsDead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg JennerTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopSchmigadoon!10% log back in to 'disrupt' business, reportLayoffs.FYIAnnouncing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty ProgramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at: https://gog.show/596/FOLLOW UPGoldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial IntelligenceThe Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic GrowthPrompt Engineer and LibrarianAI 'prompt engineer' jobs can pay up to $335,000 a year and don't always require a background in techAI prompt engineer: the hottest new job in tech?Prompt engineeringIN THE NEWSSpecial Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer carsJury reduces Tesla's $137 million racism lawsuit penalty to $3.2 millionThe Morning After: Twitter keeps legacy verified blue ticks around, for nowTwitter designates NPR as 'US state-affiliated media'SpaceX's Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Have Started Falling From SpaceMidjourney Bans AI Images of Chinese President Xi JinpingYouTuber Proves ChatGPT Can Manufacture Free Windows KeysGoogle’s Bard Writes Convincingly About Known Conspiracy TheoriesUK privacy watchdog fines TikTok $15.8 million for misusing kids' dataTesla sales again fall short of productionGM to reject “phone projected” audio; will develop in-car subscription platformsVirgin Orbit files for bankruptcy protection as it seeks a buyerMeta’s job cuts are gutting customer service, leaving influencers and businesses with nobody to callMEDIA CANDYMany canceled HBO shows, including ‘Westworld’ and ‘Raised by Wolves,’ are now on RokuPicardSuccessionTed LassoYou’re Dead To Me PodcastEPISODE 59: SHIRLEY MANSON: LOL & BUDGIE LOVE SHIRLEY – TRUE!WORLD'S GREATEST CONZane Lamprey: Tender LooksLucky HankAltered CarbonTravelersThe Punk Rock MuseumCranes Reunite with Original Lineup for 30th Anniversary of “Forever”How to write a Bauhaus song in 1 minuteHow to make a Depeche Mode song in 1 minuteAPPS & DOODADSGoogle removes 5 million file creation cap for Drive after backlashHere’s why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its filesTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopDon't tell anything to a chatbot you want to keep privateTwo alcohol recovery startups just got caught sharing private user dataI declined to share my medical data with advertisers at my doctor’s office. One company claimed otherwiseRansomware hackers leak second batch of city data from Oakland attackFBI seizes a giant online marketplace for stolen loginsCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRemembering Sire Records’ Seymour Stein, whose musical taste shaped a generationSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/595FOLLOW UPThe influencers getting rich by teaching you how to get richChatGPT on AmazonIN THE NEWSIn a leaked message, Amazon's HR chief flatly rejected an internal petition against the new return-to-office policy signed by roughly 30,000 employeesTwitter takes down source code leaked online, hunts for downloadersTwitter source code was leaked on GitHub shortly after Musk’s layoff spreeTwitter source code leaker must be identified; launch of Verified OrganizationsElon Musk says Twitter will only show verified accounts on its algorithmic timelineMusk told William Shatner that Twitter doesn't give VIPs special treatment. That was before Twitter's secret VIP list was releasedMicrosoft to reportedly focus on security and AI in next version of WindowsThat was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing ChatGoogle unveils AI-powered planning tools to help beat climate change's extreme heatScientists Create World's Lightest Paint: Just 3 Pounds Covers a Boeing 747Tech leaders and AI experts demand a six-month pause on 'out-of-control' AI experimentsA misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risksAI Snake OilItaly orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concernsDisney reportedly shuts down its metaverse divisionCrypto giant Binance charged with violating US trading and derivatives lawsGoogle found to have violated order to save chat evidence in Epic antitrust caseMEDIA CANDYThe MenuMH370: The Plane That DisappearedBert Kreischer: Razzle DazzlePicardThe Bad BatchShrinkingSeverenceTed LassoNetflix strikes last-minute deal to retain ‘Arrested Development’ streaming rights'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 premieres June 15thParamount+ Orders Diverse, Teen-Focused ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ SeriesMandy, IndianaSoftcultApple Music Classical is hereAPPS & DOODADSAnalogue PocketSpiritualizedHow to Play ROMs on the Analogue PocketDelphi ForumsApple Pay Later is finally available in the US, but only with an inviteApple Magic Trackpad - White Multi-Touch SurfaceSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopThe MandalorianBiden administration bans federal agencies from using commercial spywareThe New Face of Fraud: FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency ScamsStarhawkThe Story of STARHAWKCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSIn Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”In Memoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 - 2023See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at: https://gog.show/594/Sponsors:DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.FOLLOW UPWhy No One Cried for Silicon Valley Bank’s CustomersHow Elon Musk knocked Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ off courseIN THE NEWSSEC sues celebrities including Lindsay Lohan for endorsing cryptocurrenciesA TikTok ban is a lot more complicated than just shutting down the appTikTok’s Chinese Owner Has a Bunch of Other Popular AppsTikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DCThe TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the ProblemTikTok CEO says company scans public videos to determine users’ agesNot Everything Needs a Chatbot!New! Try Zapier's ChatGPT pluginGitHub CopilotMeta slams telco fee proposal, says ISPs should pay their own network costsTwitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speechMEDIA CANDYSouth Park Creators Use ChatGPT To Co-Write Episode About AICable and satellite providers may have to advertise the true price of TV serviceThe best live TV streaming services in 2023Apple TV+ global market share shrinks and platform is overtaken by Paramount+Spotify has reportedly spent less than 10 percent of its Joe Rogan apology fundDepeche Mode - Memento MoriTed LassoPicardThe Last of UsMoney Shot: The Pornhub StoryBeethoven’s genome, sequenced for first time, yields clues on cause of deathImmortal BelovedThe Labours of Hercule PodcastAPPS & DOODADSDPReview.com is closing April 10thAdobe is bringing generative AI features to Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere ProDuolingo is building a music learning appSend a voice message in chats on InstagramMOFT Magnetic Laptop iPhone Mount, Continuity Camera Mount, Foldaway Portable Laptop Top & Side Holder for Dual-Screen Setup - GraySAMSUNG CJ79 Series 34-Inch ViewFinity Ultrawide QHD (3440x1440) Computer Monitor, 100Hz, Thunderbolt 3 Daisy Chain, QLED, HDMI, USB Hub, Height Adjustable Stand (LC34J791WTNXZA), WhiteSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopThe MandalorianThe Bad BatchBLACKMAMBA: USING AI TO GENERATE POLYMORPHIC MALWAREMeredith Willson: America's Music ManCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSR.I.P Lance ReddickSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Show notes at https://gog.show/593FOLLOW UPOpenAI's new GPT-4 can understand both text and image inputsThe AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble by Cory DoctorowLightning AI CEO slams OpenAI’s GPT-4 paper as ‘masquerading as research’Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial IntelligenceWould You Date a Podcast Bro?Follow Your Different: 308 Silicon Valley: What Happened & What People Are Confused AboutCrypto Faces a Banking Crisis. For Some, It’s a ConspiracyIN THE NEWSFormer 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 SucksMicrosoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teamsHow Google’s 2021 AI ethics debate foreshadowed the futureMeta to Lay Off Another 10,000 WorkersA 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 burnerZuckerberg Was Warned on Social Media Addiction, Filing SaysMeta is killing NFT support on Facebook and InstagramSesame 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 TownHe mistakenly entered a stranger’s Tesla. The app let him drive it, he says.Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly EveryoneSamsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proofSamsung explains its 'fake' Moon photosYou can now ‘enhance’ your LinkedIn Profile with AI-written 'suggestions'Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay deathWing likens its drone ‘delivery network’ to ridesharePornhub owner MindGeek sold to private equity firmMEDIA CANDYOffline with Jon Favreau - Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and StupidityThe MenuTicket to ParadiseThe Cure’s Robert Smith Addresses Problems with Ticketmaster’s “Far from Perfect” SystemAPPS & DOODADSPen.Tips PenMatThe internet isn't happy with Spotify's new designSolar Panels Floating in Reservoirs? We’ll Drink to ThatThis is the spacesuit NASA's Artemis astronauts will wear on the MoonBest printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fineSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Adventure Awaits!FBI says Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scammers in 2022Ransomware Group Claims Hack of Amazon's RingGM plans to let you talk to your car with ChatGPT, Knight Rider-styleTeens 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 ManSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Show notes at https://gog.show/592FOLLOW UPE5: The Embedding Revolution w/ Anton TroynikovDoomerSolarpunkIN THE NEWSGPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft GermanyPolice are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do itJustice Department wants Sam Bankman-Fried to use a flip phone for the rest of his bailElon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 by Ethan ZuckermanA Twitter engineer says at least 2 bodyguards accompany Elon Musk around Twitter HQ — even to the restroomHow a single engineer brought down TwitterUS probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come offResearchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain ActivityCity Council weighing whether to accept donation of robot dog for LAPDMEDIA CANDY'Star Trek: Discovery' is ending with season 5 next yearJon Bernthal Returning as The Punisher for Daredevil: Born Again SeriesChris Rock: Selective Outrage'Silo' teaser reveals Apple's latest post-apocalyptic dramaPerry Mason Season 2Godfather of Harlem Season 3Last DaysBlack Panther: Wakanda ForeverHistory of the World, Part IIAPPS & DOODADSThe privacy loophole in your doorbellMeta announces big price cuts for its VR headsetsInsta360 LinkOpal C1DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering toolBrave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant resultsWith the help of OpenAI, Discord is finally adding conversation summariesEven Slack has a ChatGPT app nowThe making of Ice Cubes, an open source, SwiftUI Mastodon client.Ivory now lets users create a Mastodon account directly from the appAT THE LIBRARYProust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne WolfDeep Questions with Cal Newport - EP. 238: THE JOYS OF THE READING LIFEDead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg JennerCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSR.I.P. Tom SizemoreA Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s FutureAI Looks Like a BubbleSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Kolide - Visit kolide.com/gog to learn more or book a demo.Show notes at https://gog.show/591/FOLLOW UPAI's rise generates new job title: Prompt engineerIntroducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIsOpenAI Price Drop: [Another] MegathreadAdobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI — and why it’s not going to end up like web3In todays iteration of unchecked emerging tech concernsIN THE NEWSFTX co-founder Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud and conspiracy chargesAI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technologyDeepfake AI Hack Dupes Avenged Sevenfold Fans into Thinking the Band Canceled Festival DatesMeta revamps AI unit to get generative tech into productsElon Musk's Twitter lays off yet even more workersJack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative Bluesky is now available in closed betaTwitter hit with new lawsuits for not paying billsFighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI RivalTesla Pauses Rollout of Driving Software Subject to US RecallWaymo is starting driverless taxi tests in Los AngelesMEDIA CANDYThe MandalorianMarc Maron: From Bleak to Dark‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist’s racist rantMusk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’MAGAbertNew ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies Set at Warner Bros.History of the World, Part IIDie HartHow to write a Smiths song in 1 minute'Ted Lasso' season 3 trailer previews the highs and lows of the Premier LeagueDamian Lewis Returning To ‘Billions’ For Season 7APPS & DOODADSNew Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbarAI Tool Reveals How Celebrities’ Faces Have Been PhotoshoppedYouTube’s new leader teases AI tools that can virtually swap creators’ outfits and locationsGovernment agencies have 30 days to purge devices of Tik TokCanada is reportedly banning TikTok from government-issued devicesThe Camera-Shy HoodieJailbreak ChatFord files patent for system that could remotely repossess a carSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/590/FOLLOW UPMicrosoft limits Bing conversations to prevent disturbing chatbot responsesMicrosoft is already reversing some of the limits it put on Bing's AI chat toolsWhat did they know, and when did they know it? The Microsoft Bing edition.This AI chatbot "Sidney" is misbehavingBen’s BitesLochhead on Marketing #167 The Monster Category Battle: OpenAI & Microsoft vs GoogleThis Vancouver Island brewery hopped onto ChatGPT for marketing material. Then it asked for a beer recipeIN THE NEWSThe US Supreme Court Doesn’t Understand the InternetExclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet faltersNew online superstore surpasses Amazon and Walmart to become most downloaded app in USAmazon wants employees to return to the office in MayAmazon welcomes One MedicalApple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its WatchTwitter is making text-based two-factor authentication a paid featureTesla workers accuse Twitter of hiding their union account from search resultsMeta reveals its ‘blue tick’ verification service for Facebook and InstagramMEDIA CANDYThe Nevers never had a chance — and still doesn’t, even with unaired episodes streaming for freeNetflix Crossed a Line‘Last of Us’ Episode Has Embarrassing Mistake TikTok Calls “Better Than a Starbucks Cup”APPS & DOODADSTripModeScreens 4 for MacOSNest ProtectNest DoorbellInstagram’s co-founders’ personalized news app Artifact launches to the public with new featuresBiden declines to veto Apple Watch banThere’s An Ozempic Shortage. Here's What Happens When You Stop Taking It.AT THE LIBRARYThe Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick RubinIgnore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeodThe Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain by Nick ChaterFingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki BerenyiThe Kindle Store has a prolific new author: ChatGPTScience Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated StoriesSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopWelcome to Mastodon - Forget Twitter, Mastodon has 10x the engagement.Spirit MeHow I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated VoiceI saw your KITT work, Dave, and I’m a major electronic musician and DJ, hold my beer...A Device to Turn Traffic Lights GreenHacker Uncovers How to Turn Traffic Lights Green With Flipper ZeroReport: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the doorA Chess Master plays against ChatGPT.CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRichard Belzer, Extraordinarily Smart-Ass as a Comic and a TV Cop, Dies at 78Happy Twin Peaks Day!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/589FOLLOW UPAmazon 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 firstBing AI Can't Be TrustedAI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica articleChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web By Ted ChiangFather 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 interestBing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’IN THE NEWSAn AI agent flew a USAF training aircraft for over 17 hoursBuzzFeed’s AI-powered quizzes are here and they could be funnierTesla admits Full Self-Driving beta may cause crashes, recalls 363,000 vehiclesTesla fires over 30 workers after union effort: groupAmazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First TimeAmazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery storesWalmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to OfficesFord reportedly plans to build a $3.5 billion EV battery factory in MichiganTwilio to lay off about 1,500 employees, or 17% of its workforceMicrosoft Kills Its Industrial Metaverse Team After 4 MonthsElon Musk Says He May Lead Twitter for Almost Another YearMusk’s Twitter is getting worseYouTube CEO Wojcicki, one of the first Google employees, steps downMEDIA CANDYPicardEPISODE 52: MIKI BERENYI PT. 1: MISS BEING IN A BAND? LOVED IT BUT NAH!ShrinkingInvestor ValueAct Takes Spotify Stake to Back Cost Cuts at the Music Streaming LeaderAPPS & DOODADSElgato Stream Deck PedalParallels Desktop Now an Authorized Solution to Use With Windows 11 on Mac With Apple SiliconInside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy OfficeAT THE LIBRARYA Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce SchneierSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopIf an Aussie was in Star WarsStormtroopers, but They're ACCURATEWinnie the Pooh horror film turns intellectual property into nightmare fuelCybersecurity pros less likely to be impacted by layoffs if economy slowsCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSBRUCE WILLIS - Aphasia Worsens ... NOW DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/588FOLLOW UPExclusive Q&A: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General IntelligenceI Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.IN THE NEWSDell to cut roughly 6,650 jobs as PC sales dropZoom is laying off around 1,300 workersIger Announces Layoffs as Disney Grapples With Streaming LossesExclusive: Yahoo to lay off more than 20% of staff as it shrinks ad bizWarner Bros. Discovery to Keep Discovery+, in Strategy ShiftLeaked emails show Amazon will only hire students and recent graduates for entry level software engineering positionsTwitter Considers Charging Brands $1000 Per Month to Stay VerifiedTwitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Creators. But There’s A CatchTrump White House asked Twitter to take down Chrissy Teigen's mean tweet about himTwitter reportedly had only 180,000 subscribers in the US last monthMusk Found Not Liable in ‘Funding Secured’ Tesla TrialGoogle unveils Bard, its ChatGPT rivalBard’s first public mistake cost Google $100 billionGoogle will soon default to blurring explicit image search resultsHermes wins U.S. trademark trial over 'MetaBirkin' NFTsMEDIA CANDYM3GANLinda Rondstadt: The Sound of My VoiceANDY PRIEBOY - LIVE AT LARGO - 1997-ISHMiles Hunt Live in LeedsMinions: The Rise of GruThe Peripheral Season 2 Renewed At Prime VideoClarkson’s Farm Season 2APPS & DOODADSNuclear War Simulator | Out Now“What if?”: Academic Scenario Simulation Tool “Nuclear War Simulator” Launches Today on SteamOPEN-RISOPPen.Tips Textured Feeling PenMatPaperlikeAT THE LIBRARYThe Unmaking Engine (The World Walker Series Book 2) by Ian W. SainsburyLife: What Nat to Do - A Hot Take on the Advice You Never Asked For by Nat's What I ReckonNat’s What I Reckon on YouTubeSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl Loop‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AIDisney World’s struggling $5,000 Star Wars hotel slashes prices, cancels summer datesChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure WhyDave Bittner on WazeCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSBurt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, dies aged 94See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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'.Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/587FOLLOW UPWorld’s first electric dump truck stores as much energy as 8 Tesla Model S carsIN THE NEWSPayPal is laying off 2,000 employeesReport: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeksChatGPT Plus FAQOpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per monthChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million users in JanuarySpotify reaches 205 million Premium subscribers as losses mountTesla records $204M loss from bitcoin in 2022The DOJ is looking into Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving claimsSan Francisco asks California regulators to halt or slow the rollout of driverless taxisEU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violationsAmazon Plans to Close Some Grocery and Convenience StoresDocuments show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing itAI Finds Possible Overlooked Alien Signals In Radio Telescope DataMEDIA CANDYPicard Season 3 TrailerParamount+ Premium will absorb Showtime and rebrand as 'Paramount+ With Showtime'Cunk on EarthAT THE LIBRARYEarthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. TaylorAsk A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg JennerAfter Babel - Jonathan HaightHow Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra KleinWikenigma - an Encyclopedia of UnknownsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopCyber CraftKirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy outwit the AndroidsElevenLabs BetaChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very WellNew AI classifier for indicating AI-written textSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/586FOLLOW UPGOG on StitcherGOG on PandoraGrumpy Old Geeks by Drayk.itIN THE NEWSTech experts ask Supreme Court to rule that Section 230 protections apply to algorithmic recommendationsGravity batteries in abandoned mines could power the whole planet, scientists sayTesla will spend $3.6 billion to build a Semi and a battery factory in its Nevada complexSpotify Will Cut About 6% of Jobs in Latest Tech LayoffsVox Media Lays Off 7% of StaffThe Justice Department is suing Google to break up its ad businessTikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viralTwitter engineers can still use 'GodMode' to tweet as any account, claims whistleblowerTwitter makes it easier to avoid the annoying 'For You' tabAmazon Web Services to Spend $35 Billion on Data Centers in VirginiaMEDIA CANDYEaster SundayElvisMadoff: The Monster of Wall StreetEncanto at the Hollywood BowlStrange WorldRalph Breaks the InternetSlow Horses, Season OneWhite Lotus, Season TwoWhy Do We Do That?The Last of UsENG SUB [Three-Body] EP01 | Tencent VideoNetflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New ShowsFuture Tense Newsletter: My Husband Was Right About DVDs All AlongAPPS & DOODADSApple M2 Macbook Air, MidnightApple iPad AirApple TV 4KJason on Mastodon - @[email protected] invests billions more dollars in OpenAI, extends partnershipChatGPT users spot $42 Professional Plan with perksGoogle is freaking out about ChatGPTBYRNA BALLISTIPAC IIIA - BLACK - [HANDGUN RATED] [NO MOLLE] - $499.00 USDRezvani VengeanceAT THE LIBRARYThe World Walker (The World Walker Series, Book One) by Ian W. SainsburyThe Mechanical: The Alchemy Wars Book 1 by Ian TregillisThis Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie GraceRecovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell BrandReadowSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopMacGPTMacWhisperUnderstanding The Safety DanceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with a Lectric XP 3.0 today. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more, and mention GOG at checkout because you love us!Show notes at https://gog.show/585INTROThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopFOLLOW UPIs It Human or AI? New Tools Help You Spot the BotsWas that essay written by AI? A student made an app that might tell you.Awesome ChatGPT PromptsPromptableWhat's faster than a Corvette? A 'Vette with an electric motorIN THE NEWSGoogle parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 peopleTwitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIsTHE END OF THE TWITTER CLIENT ERATwitter continues to disrespect developers with weak explanation on third-party clients not workingTwitterrific: End of an Era by Sean HeberHachydermWith $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t greatMusk wins legal battle to force laid-off Twitter employees into arbitration“Talented but crazy”: Potential jurors give court their opinions on Elon MuskTesla engineer testifies that 2016 video promoting self-driving was fakedMusk Oversaw Video That Exaggerated Tesla’s Self-Driving CapabilitiesAmazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmileCNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff SayArtists sue developers of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, claiming copyright infringementStable Diffusion litigationMEDIA CANDYThe Last of UsHBO's The Last of Us PodcastDerren Brown: UNLOCK The Secret Power Of Your Mind! | E212 The Diary Of A CEOFleishman is in Trouble20 year old meI wants to skate on this courseBlue Man Group with Venus Hum - I Feel LoveAPPS & DOODADSUniversal Audio Apollo Solo Heritage Edition, APLS-HEYubiKey 5C NFCAnalogue PocketSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with the Lectric XP 3.0 today. Order now and save up to $250 with a special Holiday Bundle and 0% interest for 6 months. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more.Show notes at https://gog.show/584 FOLLOW UPThe Vinyl Comeback ContinuesIN THE NEWSMicrosoft Combat Goggles Falter as Congress Says No to Buying MoreProof-of-delivery photos for many Amazon packages publicly accessible for monthsNYC Schools Ban ChatGPT, Citing Fears About Safety and AccuracyIBM Loses Top Patent Spot After Decades as LeaderMicrosoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audioEXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER ELON MUSK ANNOUNCES “SELF-DRIVING” FEATUREMEDIA CANDYThe Pale Blue EyeThree Thousand Years of LongingThe BoysJack Ryan Season 3APPS & DOODADSEmber Travel Mug²SECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopAdobe PodcastsChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malwareA Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and SuspectsWeb Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and MoreMillions of Vehicles at Risk: API Vulnerabilities Uncovered in 16 Major Car BrandsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/583Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPIn Praise of Real (Not Tweetable) ConversationsIN THE NEWSWhat It Really Means for a Tweet to Have a Lot of ViewsTwitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rentMeta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. LawCoinbase reaches $100M settlement over background check failuresFrance sticks Apple with €8M fine over App Store personalized advertising complaint from iOS 14NLRB says Tesla violated the law by telling employees not to talk about payTesla delivered over 405,000 vehicles in Q4 2022, setting a new company recordGrubhub ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle Washington DC deceptive practices lawsuitTikTok will be banned on most US federal government devicesSalesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemicAmazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers, the Most in Recent Tech WaveMEDIA CANDYGood RivalsNopeJurassic World DominionThree Thousand Years of LongingNetflix sinks 1899 after one seasonSlow HorsesTreasonGlass OnionThe Great Podcasting Market CorrectionAPPS & DOODADSApple’s Find My helps firefighters rescue car crash victim in CaliforniaArtists fed up with AI-image generators use Mickey Mouse to goad copyright lawsuitsArtists Are Revolting Against AI Art on ArtStationJohn Carmack Quits Meta, Burns His Virtual Bridges Behind HimHow China is building a parallel generative AI universeAT THE LIBRARYVisual Thinking by Temple GrandinNomad: The Nomad Trilogy Book 1 by Matthew MatherSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopHonest Trailers | AndorThe LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security expertsA Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us AllEMOJI DRUG CODE | DECODEDAdobe Podcast AI Demo for Location Audio ProcessingAdobe PodcastButter URL CleanerCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSPelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with the Lectric XP 3.0 today. Order now and save up to $250 with a special Holiday Bundle and 0% interest for 6 months. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more.ButcherBox - Sign up today at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG and get a Free Tomahawk steak in your first box. Offer valid for one week ONLY.Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/582 IN THE NEWSBreakthroughs of the YearScientists achieve fusion ignition, a major milestone in clean energy productionAudio from a Martian dust devil captured for the first timeThe AI Revolution: The Road to SuperintelligenceDeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scriptsGoogle execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technologySocial Media Is for Strangers NowMeta releases an open-source tool that can scan for terrorist contentA New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in EthiopiaTwitter disbands its Trust and Safety Council of external advisorsElon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awfulThe 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 ItElon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspendedTesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple MusicSam Bankman-Fried Arrested by Royal Bahamas Police ForceSam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder charged with defrauding investorsCelebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT EndorsementsCrypto 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 schemeMEDIA CANDYThe Lord of the Rings Marathon FeastWednesdayThe PeripheralThe White LotusSlow HorsesAPPS & DOODADSDonald Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs)FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring pageChrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes1600 Tabs in EdgeApple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU LawsApple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKitApple’s new whiteboard app gives you and up to 99 friends an ‘infinite canvas’SECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopTwitter has suspended the Helicopters of DC account.FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ HackedThe Story of the Marshall amp. from the BBCCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRIP Angelo BaldalamentiRIP tWitchSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/581/FOLLOW UPSan Francisco approves police petition to use robots as a 'deadly force option'San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turnWho Said It: Kanye or Hitler?IN THE NEWSChinese Bots Inundate Twitter With Pornographic Spam Amid COVID ProtestsTwitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policyTwitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accountsTwitter’s Janitors Are on Strike at Its San Francisco HeadquartersNeuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six monthsNFTs, on the Decline Elsewhere, Are Embraced by Some MuseumsCrypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid FTX falloutMeta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EUDoorDash is laying off around 1,250 corporate employees‘Purely economic’: Deliveroo Australia’s CEO on why management pulled the pinMEDIA CANDYThe PeripheralThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday SpecialMickey: The Story of a MouseWednesdayThis is Pop: Hail Britpop!Knives OutGlass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryMemoryThe White LotusNeal Brennan - BlocksWhat The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery GamesAPPS & DOODADSDropbox support for macOS FAQs20-year-old California student creates viral Spotify festival poster appOpenAI’s New Chatbot Will Tell You How to Shoplift And Make ExplosivesUPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW imagesPrisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudesMeet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generatorsUnstable DiffusionAdobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artworkApple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imageryApple Music’s Latest Party Trick? Karaoke!F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of ActivisionThe Tower - Idle Tower DefenseAT THE LIBRARYOutland by Dennis E. TaylorDeath Threats From an 8 Year Old - The Story of Jesus Jones by Mike EdwardsThe Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Paul LairdNine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022Critical MassSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopThe 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 #131RadioShackComputer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your DataThinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraidTikTok ‘Invisible Body’ challenge exploited to push malwareLastPass reveals another security breachGPT-2 Output Detector DemoCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSFarewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all timeSuper Steve’s HolidaySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at https://gog.show/580Sponsors:ButcherBox - Sign up today at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG to get $10 off your first box and ground beef for the life of your membership.FOLLOW UPI Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.IN THE NEWSElon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter AccountPermanent suspension of @realDonaldTrumpAll 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 channelsTwitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measuresTwitter is Going Great!Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret textFrom Tom Brady to Shaq, FTX’s Celebrity Promoters May Be On the Hook for DamagesNew York's crypto mining restrictions are the first in the nationEU confirms multiple ongoing investigations into TikTok data practicesElizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for FraudProtests break out at a major iPhone factory in ChinaMass resignations of iPhone workers after unrest, with report of 30% production lossFCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocallsMEDIA CANDYA Christmas Story ChristmasSlow HorsesThe PeripheralDownton Abbey: A New EraLove Actually Cast Reuniting for 20th Anniversary TV SpecialBob Iger is returning as Disney CEO in a dramatic shakeupAmazon 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 EvenPlanet Money - Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular fall of his crypto empire, FTXSomething's Burning - 1-Year of Access pass.APPS & DOODADSScreenFlow Pro 10Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North AmericaJason DeFillippo#DystopiYAY!Hive SocialPostPineHey.CaféSan Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly forceAmazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this yearSECURITY HAH!Husband Lured Wife for a Selfie on Cliff Edge Before Killing HerResearchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claimsTax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to FacebookMetaMask will start collecting user IP addressesEthereum: MetaMask Privacy Policy Is Worse Than It Looks At First Glance – Here’s WhySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Start your next adventure with the Lectric XP 3.0 today. Order now and save up to $250 with a special Holiday Bundle. Visit lectricebikes.com to learn more.Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPRethinking Black FridayCoachella NFTs Seemingly Unavailable Amid FTX Crypto CollapseIN THE NEWSElon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29thTwitter fired employees who publicly called out Elon MuskElon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'hardcore' Twitter or lose their jobsFTX and Star Backers Including Brady, Curry Sued by InvestorAmazon reportedly plans sweeping layoffs that could affect thousands of employeesThe End of Silicon Valley’s 20-Year BoomMEDIA CANDYThe Mole 2022The Crown Season 5Netflix now lets you log out of specific devices remotelyAT THE LIBRARYNASA Scientists Suggest the Reason We Haven't Found Aliens Is They All Killed ThemselvesRoadkill by Dennis E. Taylor - Narrated by Ray PorterOutland by Dennis E. TaylorSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopWhite Trash Wins LottoThriller is on Archive.org in 4KEnhance SpeechMic CheckEurope’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup CallCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRob Sheridan’s Glitch Goods StoreSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPCome Join Me On Mastodon, FolksIN THE NEWS‘It’s Difficult to Resist’: Surviving Twitter Employees Weigh a Flood of Offers From RivalsTwitter offering some laid-off staff only half what they’re owed, lawsuit saysTwitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come BackTwitter starts rolling out its 'official' checkmarks to celebrities and publishers (updated)Musk ‘killed’ Twitter’s official checkmarks after only a few hoursTwitter’s Free Speech Problem Is Tesla’s, TooElon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $3.95 bln days after Twitter dealTesla recalls over 40,000 cars to address power steering flawHere’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeksStephen Fry Joins Celebrity Twitter Exodus, Says “Goodbye” With Scrabble MessageFacebook Parent Meta Plans Large Layoffs This Week – ReportMeta Lays Off More Than 11,000 EmployeesAlphabet’s Wing drones will soon be delivering DoorDash orders in AustraliaMEDIA CANDYWelcome to WrexhamStar Trek: Lower DecksDisney now matches Netflix's subscriber numbers across its combined servicesAMC Entertainment To Open “Zoom Room” Auditoriums At Theaters In 17 MarketsAPPS & DOODADSBlocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent bannersSpotify’s redesigned Apple Watch app feels less like an afterthoughtInstagram on the web has been redesigned for large screensAT THE LIBRARYEyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian TchaikovskySECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopMagic Journeys - Full Film - August 1991THE MAKING OF CAPTAIN EODisney's Captain EO Grand OpeningCaptain EO - Rare Dance Rehearsals & MoreCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSDashaunSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPFact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022IN THE NEWSTwitter has removed 1,500 accounts following coordinated trolling campaignMeta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globallyElon Musk’s First Grand Plan for Twitter? Charging $8 Per Month for a Blue CheckmarkElon Musk wants to make Twitter's edit button free for everyone, report saysElon Musk reportedly wants Twitter to bring back VineAmazon Pauses Corporate Hiring on Economic UncertaintyGoogle buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTokDOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion dealMEDIA CANDYThe PeripheralNetflix renews 'The Witcher,' recasts Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of RiviaThe Machine Teaser TrailerAPPS & DOODADSA swarm of 500 drones will plague New York City with advertising tomorrow$550 PlayStation VR2 launches on Feb. 22, 2023Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading ToolsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopNational Theater LiveThe Met: Live in HDWhite Snake ProjectsOptimizing Apps for Shared iPadGordon Ramsay Fish & ChipsHoly Chicken Ship! The full-length "Captain EO" is more brilliant than you can possibly rememberStar ToursCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSBoot Up with JasonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/576Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.FOLLOW UPIt’s time to admit self-driving cars aren’t going to happenPogues’ hard-living former frontman finds success as an artistDoes Faking a Smile Make You Happier? The Latest Findings Are InIN THE NEWSMusk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top ExecutivesFord CEO Farley explains the business factors behind Argo AI's shutteringSpaceX's costlier Starlink internet service for RVs works on moving vehiclesShutterstock and OpenAI will team up to sell AI-generated stock imagesiPhones will get USB-C charging to comply with EU law, Apple SVP confirmsSpotify accuses Apple of impeding its fledgling audiobook businessMEDIA CANDYInternet RadioBrian 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 - 2021The PeripheralAmazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with AlexaFuture ‘Doctor Who’ seasons will air on Disney+APPS & DOODADSGOG DiscordRedditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storageAn AI Created 100,000 Full-Body Photos of People Who Don’t ExistBumble open sourced its AI that detects unsolicited nudesThis audio recording of Earth's magnetic field is the "stuff of nightmares"European Space Agency · The scary sound of Earth's magnetic fieldLevel’s new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key is smart lock perfectionApple releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16SECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopStar Wars: Tales of the JediSamsung's Maintenance Mode protects your personal data while your phone is out for repairDEF CON 30 - Andrew Logan - Tracking Military Ghost Helicopters over Washington DCCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRobbie Coltrane Cause Of Death Revealed A Week After The Loss Of ‘Harry Potter’ StarCrackerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Go to LectriceBikes.com and get $100 off any eBike purchase.Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.ButcherBox - Sign up at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG to get one 10 to 14-pound Turkey FREE in your first box!FOLLOW UPNow it’s getting meta...11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehiclesIN THE NEWSTwitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk DealsAmazon warehouse in Albany votes against unionizationAmazon’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 moreBird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA marketsUber Plans to Advertise to You At Every Stage of Your Ride, Using Your Own DataMicrosoft lays off hundreds of employeesRedditors have created millions of crypto wallets to buy NFT avatarsKanye West to acquire ‘uncancelable’ social media platform ParlerLeak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a MonthMeta will have to sell Giphy after losing UK appealThe GIF Is on Its DeathbedUnstoppable 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 CANDYBill & Ted Face the MusicWeed Is Coming to Circle K Gas Stations in US Next YearNopeWarner Bros. teams up with Web3 startup Eluvio to launch ‘Lord of the Rings’ NFTsNetflix will begin charging 'extra user' fees early next yearNetflix Returns to Growth, Saying the Worst of Slowdown Is OverFirst look at 'Ralphie' star Peter Billingsley's returns for 'A Christmas Story' sequel"Directed by David Lynch" stickers reveal the true nature of our realityTikTok is raising the age requirement for TikTok Live, adding adult-only livestreamsTikTok appears to be preparing to launch a podcast appTHE WALK OF LIFE PROJECTQueen unearths 'lost' 1988 track 'Face it Alone' featuring Freddie MercuryAPPS & DOODADSDuckDuckGo for Mac moves to public beta with cookie pop-up handling, ‘Duck Player,’ moreDiscmasterApple will release iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura on October 24Apple’s new M2 iPad Pro arrives October 26Adobe Photoshop update adds refined selections and AI photo restorationAT THE LIBRARYThe Forever War, Book 1 by Joe HaldemanForever Peace: The Forever War, Book 2 by Joe HaldemanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/574Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPWhat’s the magic number of steps to keep weight off? Here’s what a new study saysSurvey: 42% of Tesla Autopilot Drivers Think Their Cars Can Entirely Drive ThemselvesIN THE NEWSAlex Jones ordered to pay $965 million after misinformation campaign targeting Sandy Hook familiesLawsuit accuses Meta executives of taking bribes from OnlyFansMeta files to dismiss FTC complaint over acquisition of VR fitness company Within$1.2 BILLION METAVERSE HORRIFIED BY REPORT IT ONLY HAD 30 ACTIVE USERSMeta'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 saysNFT Purchased by Logan Paul for 623k is now worth $10From Over $620K to $10: Logan Paul’s Unsuccessful NFT InvestmentSatoshi Island project aims to turn a remote Pacific island into a city built on cryptocurrencySteering Defect Forces Tech Darling Rivian to Recall Nearly Every Car Its Ever MadeNew iPhone Crash Collision Feature Is Calling 911 For People On RollercoastersDeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week laterLabor Department proposal may lead to gig workers gaining employee statusNASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroidMEDIA CANDYNetflix with ads launches Nov. 3, will be missing up to 10% of Netflix catalogApple 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 JoyProsecutors drop charges against ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan SyedSuccessionThe Murdochs: Empire of InfluenceWerewolf By NightShane MacGowan "waved willy" at trains passing Bono's houseAPPS & DOODADSWhat is eero Internet Backup?Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bagsLufthansa Says Apple AirTags Are Once Again Allowed in Checked BagsDJI Mavic 3 - Flying Over Mount EverestGoogle’s 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real worldGoogle completes iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets rollout with Maps and SearchSpark Mail 3.0SECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopE Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in CaliforniaRPlate by ReviverApple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging InNreal 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 CompatibleBetter ingredients, better trackers: Papa John’s sued for allegedly snooping on website usersBeware cars that may have come from the Florida hurricane Ian floodplains.Big John by Jimmy DeanRingo by Lorne GreenTeddy Bear by Red SovineConvoy by CW McCallWilliam Shatner - Good King WenceslasCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSAngela LansburySweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - IMDBSweeney Todd (1982) - FULLSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at https://gog.show/573Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPBruce Willis’ Rep Refutes Report That He Sold His Digital Likeness to Deepfake CompanyIN THE NEWSElon 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 ShareMusk’s Twitter Deal Has Employees Asking: Should I Stay or Should I Go?For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We ExpectedKim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million to settle SEC charges over a crypto postEconomic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital goldCoinbase users were unable to withdraw funds to US bank accounts for six hoursFCC will start kicking voice providers out of its robocall databaseMEDIA CANDYThor: Love and ThunderNothing ComparesA New Movie About One of Our Most Controversial Pop Stars Shows We’ve Still Got a Lot of Reassessing to DoPoseThe Real Bling Ring: Hollywood HeistBobby’s Triple ThreatOutChef’dEmily Watson and Shirley Henderson to Star as Harkonnen Siblings in Sisterhood of DuneSpotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of podcast staffAPPS & DOODADSTwitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to waitAmazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with AlexaDJI AvataLoewe's Metaverse Fashion Works IRLSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopMandalorian Dark SaberThe Langley Files: A CIA PodcastGriftonomicsSpotify acquires firm that detects harmful contentFormer Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-UpOrson Welles and Johnny Carson discuss the merits of audio contentCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSLoretta Lynn’s Family Statement and ObituaryJudy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing Comedian, Dies at 72See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at https://gog.show/572/Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Go to LectriceBikes.com and get $100 off any eBike purchase.Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.FOLLOW UPElon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond HimIN THE NEWSUK warns TikTok of £27 million fine over child privacy violationsTikTok breaks records as top grossing app in Q3, as overall app store revenue declinesTikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles RemainGoogle to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’Apple Pay Later may not arrive until next year due to 'technical and engineering' setbacksDepartment of Transportation approves EV charging plans for all 50 statesWebb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impactHurricane Ian Flyover CoverageAll Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now share NFTs, cross-post between both appsMeta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from textMEDIA CANDYAn AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retireActor Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake FirmNetflix’s adaptation of 'The Three-Body Problem' will arrive in 2023Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser TrailerNetflix is building its own game studioAPPS & DOODADSBrave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent bannersAphex Twin's free 'sample mashing' app feeds on your music libraryChipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurantThe OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feedApple removed The OG App from the App Store for unauthorized access of Instagram’s servicesStar Trek: Lower Decks - The Badgy DirectiveHere's everything Amazon announced at its fall hardware eventAT THE LIBRARYThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanMatthew Mather (1969-2022)Matthew Mather BooksSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopBoot Up with JasonAndorCloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devicesHow Your Smartphone Is Listening to You AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSCoolio Found Dead at Age 59See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show Notes at https://gog.show/571/Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.ButcherBox - Sign up at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG to get Free Chicken for a Year!FOLLOW UPPatreon Acquires MemberfulPatreon was in talks to onboard MrBeast in a deal that could have been worth millions but never came to passMAS*H MattersIN THE NEWSTikTok reportedly gives 'a bit more leniency' to popular accountsUber Agrees to Pay N.J. $100 Million in Dispute Over Drivers’ Employment StatusMeta ordered to pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer $175M for patent infringement$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctionedMEDIA CANDYDeep Space Whine‘Constantine’ Sequel Officially Announced with Keanu Reeves Returning!‘Scanners’ Series Remake In The Works At HBO – DeadlineApple TV+ lands Vince Gilligan’s new TV project with two season order, starring Rhea SeehornWool — cast, plot and everything you need to know about the dystopian sci-fi dramaSuccession Season 3The Grand Tour: A Scandi FlickJudge orders release of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan SyedPhotographer spent the day inside Kurt Cobain's abandoned housemusicForProgramming();APPS & DOODADSRogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th AnniversaryDJI Osmo Mobile 6OpenAI 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 AliveHow AI Sees LAGetty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challengesAT THE LIBRARYSurvival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas RushkoffSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopAndorStar Wars: LARRY - Episode 1Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 2Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 3Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 4Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 5FXRant: The Death Star and the Final Trench RunCelebrating 70 Years of Walt Disney ImagineeringFur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.Stable Diffusion running on M1 MacsInside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State: ‘They Are Watching’ - The New York TimesCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSSAVANNAH COMIC CON 2022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!"Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/570FOLLOW UPPatreon is laying off 17 percent of its workforce and closing offices / Around a week after it laid off its security teamThe Patreon Problem: Who is subscribing to these children's accounts?The Patreon Problem Vol 2: It's worse than we thought.IN THE NEWSAmazon is buying a company that makes pallet-stacking robotsTwitter shareholders approve the $44B merger Musk is trying to get out ofDrivers sue Tesla for alleged false advertising of Autopilot and FSD softwareTwitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribersMeta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundationAdobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital designAdobe’s $20 Billion Deal For Figma is More Than 50 Times the Startup’s RevenueStarbucks thinks you'll want to collect NFTs to earn rewardsMerriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionaryMEDIA CANDYThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerShe-Hulk: Attorney At Law | Disney+ OriginalsThe first 'Mandalorian' season three trailer reunites a favorite Star Wars familyThe Mandalorian S3Star Wars: AndorTales of the JediKiki (2016 film)PoseLegendary | HBO Max OriginalsAPPS & DOODADSReview: Sonos RayiOS 16 is now availableApple Releases watchOS 9 With Medication Tracking, New Watch Faces, Sleep Updates, and MoreiOS 16's haptic keyboard is the best feature you haven't found yet | MacworldiPhone 14 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes – LuxI deleted and edited my texts with Apple's new iOS update — and it's the coolest thing the company has done in a long timeHow to remove the Search button from your Home Screen in iOS 16Apple-Acquired Weather App Dark Sky Reminding Users That iOS App Shutting Down on January 1DraftsiZotope RX 10Discord revolutionizes online conversations with... forumsAT THE LIBRARYThe Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will StorrChatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan KrossThe Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David GraeberEyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian TchaikovskySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/569/FOLLOW UPThe Birth of the Modem WorldWhen bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the online community praying for the end of cryptoIN THE NEWSMeta faces $402 million EU fine over Instagram's privacy settings for childrenDOJ antitrust action against Google could see Apple lose billions of dollars a yearFacebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your DataMeta dissolves team responsible for discovering 'potential harms to society' in its own productsMore Americans are using iPhones than Android phones for the first time ever, new report says — a major milestone for AppleTim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubblesLG brings NFTs to its LED and OLED TVsSLS fuel leak likely to delay Artemis 1 launch to OctoberMEDIA CANDYStar Trek: Lower DecksThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerHouse of the DragonPhil still fed as Somebody Feed Phil gets sixth-season renewalStranger Things Season 4‘The Wrath of Khan’ is getting an official Star Trek podcast prequelKids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians ProfitAPPS & DOODADSApple Watch UltraApple’s New ‘Ultra’ Watch Goes Toe-to-Toe With GarminSetAppAT THE LIBRARYTravel by Bullet - The Dispatcher, Book 3 by John Scalzi11 Books Like The Hyperion Cantos by Dan SimmonsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl Loop‘Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae Lands Male Lead In ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’ From Leslye Headland And LucasfilmBYRNA SD KINETIC KITBYRNA FOLDABLE TARGET TRAPC2C caberQU - USB C cable testerLightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack AdapterRode VideoMic NTG Camera-mount Shotgun MicrophoneSmallRig Universal Smartphone Video Rig for iPhone Samsung, Filmmaking Vlogging Rig Aluminium Alloy Phone Video Cage Grip with Cold Shoe Mount for Videomaker Videographer - 2791The Los Angeles Unified School District is dealing with a ransomware attackAnonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploitCloudflare blocks trans harassment forum Kiwi Farms following escalation of 'targeted threats'CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSPeter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43MAS*H 50th Reunion FundraiserSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Sponsors:Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/568FOLLOW UPPrivate Internet AccessFBI says investors should take precautions before putting money into decentralized finance platformsThe SEC’s Escalating Crypto Crackdown; Exclusive: Bill Qian’s New RoleMoviePass Will Work This Time*Touring the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, ILVirtual Tour of the Billy Graham Library Lobby with a Talking CowIN THE NEWSFacebook now supports NFTsWORLD'S TOP NFT MARKETPLACE HAS ALLEGEDLY LOST 99 PERCENT OF ITS TRADING VOLUME SINCE MAYThe Metaverse Needs Standards, TooNVIDIA 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 ChinaSnap reportedly plans to lay off around a fifth of its employeesMedia Versus Time By Jessica E. LessinSubstack Reins in Cash and Perks for Writers as Creator Economy RetrenchesCalifornia Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The ChildrenWho Would Benefit From California’s Age Appropriate Design Code? Apparently Porn Companies, Privacy Lawyers, And Medical Disinfo Peddlers. But Not KidsAge Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You VisitTruth Social's inadequate moderation is keeping it off the Google Play StoreScoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdupHow Twitter’s Child Porn Problem Ruined Its Plans for an Onlyfans CompetitorEXPERTS SAY ELON MUSK IS WRONG ABOUT THAT POPULATION THING HE KEEPS SAYINGMEDIA CANDYThe Pixar StoryA League of Their OwnSnoop Dogg, Eminem's NFT Performance At VMAs Looks Like Bad Instagram FilterThe Church - The HypnogogueThe Boys Season 3Animal KingdomEdgar Wright | Pre-order Filmmaking Online Course | BBC | BBC MaestroAPPS & DOODADS1Password 8 for iOSGet a deal on 1Password!UK police accused of uploading misleading Waze reports to encourage safer drivingJason Allen takes 1st place in "Digital Category" at Colorado State Fair with AI-Generated contentDALL·E: Introducing OutpaintingMidjourneySECURITY HAH!FTC sues company for selling identifiable location data, including abortion clinic visitsHackers hide malware in James Webb telescope imagesApple may face a DOJ antitrust complaint over AirTagsA Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Show notes at https://gog.show/567 Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Go to LectriceBikes.com and get $100 off any eBike purchase.ButcherBox - Sign up at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG to get Free Chicken for a Year!FOLLOW UPPodcast Magazine 40 over 40MoviePass will return on September 5th with plans starting at around $10 per monthIN THE NEWSElon Musk’s ‘Absurdly Broad’ Strategy Against Twitter Is LosingA Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here's What Happened InsteadAxie Infinity Leaves Filipino Players Penniless and DefeatedCapitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over StereotypesFormer Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing Project Titan trade secretsBitcoin Mining Company Sells 26,200 Rigs to Eliminate $67M DebtsMicrosoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in IrelandElon Musk's Neuralink will show brain implant progress at a Halloween show-and-tellSpaceX and T-Mobile to Connect Starlink Satellites to Mobile PhonesSpaceX & T-Mobile to bring direct satellite connection to cell phones with ‘Coverage Above and Beyond’MEDIA CANDYTop Gun MaverickDay ShiftLight & MagicGoing Back To Xanadu (2008 Xanadu documentary)APPS & DOODADSMirra 2Opera GX review – worth using in 2022?qdomyos-zwift GuideAuto resistance on Peloton Workout and Charts for your Echelon bikes with qdomyos-zwiftHow to Play Netflix Games for FreeSECURITY HAH!Hackers reportedly deepfaked a Binance exec to carry out listing scamsCybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance CamerasTwitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security riskCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSThe NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Showdepression lies – WIL WHEATON dot NETSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.Show notes at https://gog.show/566/FOLLOW UPShannon StameyWinamp's revival includes platforms for musicians and fansIN THE NEWSApple employees will need to work from its offices three times a week starting in SeptemberApple reportedly lays off recruiters amid hiring slowdownReport: Apple wants to triple its revenue from ads business, likely expanding Search Ads to Maps appAdam Neumann’s New Company Gets a Big Check From Andreessen HorowitzAdam Neumann, Vibes LandlordAirbnb starts testing anti-party tech in the US and CanadaMark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse selfie is so bad people can’t believe it’s realMEDIA CANDYThe SandmanEndless: A Sandman PodcastBetter Call SaulWestworldThe Most Hated Man on the InternetShe-Hulk: Attorney at LawLight & MagicHere to Be Heard: The Story of the SlitsAPPS & DOODADSStealth Tubeless Tag HolderNinja Mount Launches a Range of Apple Airtag MountsStealth Tag®- A hidden AirTag mountain bike holder to track and protect your bikeSimpliSafeSurvey: Nearly half of Android users consider switching to iPhone over security and privacy concernsFitness BlenderPeloton may open its workout content to competing bikes and treadmillsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopSignal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbersGoogle 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 debateWhat you’ll need to survive the California wildfires this summeriOS Privacy: Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browserApple security updates fix 2 zero-days used to hack iPhones, MacsBetter Call Saul prop auctionTips for GalagaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/565Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPSOLE SB900Fitness BlenderZwift Compatible EquipmentCycleOps Magnus Smart Trainer40 Over 40 in Podcasting for 2022IN THE NEWSPresident Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor productionMark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager ‘Ponzi scheme’Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in CaliforniaFacebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study saysA fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behindTikTok’s $4 Billion Advertising Machine Is Messy Behind the ScenesFCC rejects Starlink request for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidiesMEDIA CANDYThe SandmanThe Orville New HorizonsThe NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture ShowHow Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk FestivalSurface on Apple TV+WestworldPreyBeing CanadianNadiya's Asian OdysseyNew Rule: Fat Acceptance | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)APPS & DOODADSPlexHBO Max finishes rolling out its much-needed app redesignWhat we bought: How DeWalt's 20V Max cordless drill became my most versatile home-reno toolDEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill Combo Kit, 2-Tool (DCK240C2),Yellow/Black Drill Driver/Impact Combo KitCraftsman 3-in-1 Corded Blower/Vacuum/MulcherMITBAK Cocktail Smoker with Dome Lid and Woodchips | Electric Food and Drink Portable Smoking Gun| Indoor-Outdoor Smoke Infuser Machine | Excellent GiftGM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac ModelsSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopBYRNA CA COURSE - SECURITY GUARD AND CHEMICAL AGENT CERTIFICATIONBYRNA SHIELD BULLET RESISTANT BACKPACK BODY ARMORNebraska mother, teenager face charges in teen's abortion after police obtain their Facebook DMsIn-app browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk, developer showsActive scam making the rounds on TwitterCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSRIP Olivia Newton JohnOLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN DEAD AT 73Darryl Hunt of The Pogues has died aged 72See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Show notes at https://gog.show/564Sponsors:Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.MasterClass - Head over to m365masterclass.com and enter code GOG at checkout for 20% off your subscription for life.Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.com/gog and get 10% off your first purchase.FOLLOW UPJason on Goodreads10 Terrific Exercises for Tennis ElbowPFAS In Rainwater Mean It's Unsafe To Drink Anywhere, Even In AntarcticaIN THE NEWSTwitter subpoenas associates of Elon Musk in preparation for lawsuitThe Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto EndorsementsSEC charges 11 people over 'textbook' $300 million crypto Ponzi schemeHacking free-for-all relieves crypto bridge users of $200 millionNew York regulators slap Robinhood's crypto business with $30 million fineRobinhood lays off almost a quarter of its staffInside the Crypto-Bot Ghost Towns of TelegramMeta 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 CANDYTrainwreck: Woodstock ‘99Best SellersThe Lost CityAPPS & DOODADSOpal C1 Camera - invite code: OP-5i7SOFb-ALApple Arcade removes first batch of originals, ‘Leaving Soon’ tab now goneJetpack Joyride will soon have a sequel available exclusively on Apple ArcadeWinamp, your parents' favorite MP3 software, is backWebbCompareSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopMeta faces lawsuit for allegedly collecting patient health data without consentFOR PROBABLY TOTALLY INNOCENT REASONS, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ALSO DELETED THE JANUARY 6 TEXT MESSAGES OF TOP TRUMP OFFICIALSConspiracy theories have legitimized violence, impaired public health, and undermined democratic governance. Containing their harms begins with understanding the theorist, not the theory.CLOSING SHOUT-OUTSAirtags on ThingverseNichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different FutureVin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers for 67 Years, Dies at 94See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/563Sponsors:Lectric eBikes - Go to LectriceBikes.com and get $100 off any eBike purchase.ButcherBox - Sign up at butcherbox.com/GOG and use code GOG to get 1 pack of free bacon in EVERY box for the life of your membership PLUS $10 off your first order.Kolide - Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here.MasterClass - Head over to m365masterclass.com and enter code GOG at checkout for 20% off your subscription for life.FOLLOW UPWhite House launches a website to help people cope with extreme heatGoogle fired engineer who said its AI was sentientGOOGLE FIRES ENGINEER WHO SAID ITS EXPERIMENTAL AI GAINED SENTIENCEIN THE NEWSMartin Shkreli Is Out of Prison, So of Course He's Getting Into web3A Filipino politician wants to make ghosting a criminal offenseSenate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scamsCHIPS Act passes House on way to Biden signingMEDIA CANDYSTAR TREK CONTINUES‘The Old Man’ Finale: Producers Address Mysterious Morgan & Whether Zoe (And Those Dogs) Will Be BackSpotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose moneySpotify has stopped making its Car Thing dashboard accessoryAPPS & DOODADSInstagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTokInstagram will survey US users about race to assess if it is ‘fair and equitable’Instagram Pauses Changes to Feed After Week-Long DramaTwitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription for the first timeSocial subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter BlueTinder revives 'Desk Mode' feature for singles returning to the office, offering them a button to quickly hide swipingManchester City shows off a smart scarf that tracks fan reactionsClipdropApple’s Butterfly Keyboard Fiasco Leads to a $50M SettlementLatest iOS 16 beta limits the ability to edit and delete messagesWireless Portable Charger Power Bank, 33800mAh 15W Fast Wireless Charging 25W Power Delivery QC 4.0 Phone Charger, 5 Output & Dual Input External Battery Pack Compatible with iPhone, Android etc3Dio FS XLR (FSXLR-2W-002)AT THE LIBRARYChuck Palahniuk's Plot SpoilerStar Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the FutureCLOSING SHOUT-OUTSDavid Warner, British Actor Known for ‘The Omen’ and ‘Tron,’ Dies at 80See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.