Apple WWDC; NFT market collapsed; Clubhouse shark-fin; Stack Overflow gets a buyer; Twitter's geo-political problems; Facebook ends special treatment for politicians; G7 moves to shut down tax havens; Bezos takes flight; Facebook rolls out Bulletin, which is not them but is; Apple employees don't want to go back; Old; Danny Elfman; A Glitch in the Matrix; assimilating your watch; Airport fetish gear; time travel books; Ring asks for assistance; FBI follows the Bitcoin; here's your bad guy phone; TikTok's delightfully evil algorithm.

510: Delightfully Evil Algorithm

As one of the longest-running podcasts, "Grumpy Old Geeks" discovers what went wrong on the Internet, and who's to blame. Every week they cut through the BS from big tech and tell you what's really going on. With wide-ranging topics, this show has something for everyone. There is a reason Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and that crowd all hate this podcast. Listen and find out for yourself!

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Google AI search is a mess; robocall fines; no one wants a used Tesla; Neumann gives up on WeWork; OpenAI, Twitch give up pretending they have Safety Advisory boards; Vimeo says no to AI; xAI raises 6 billion; massive Ticketmaster hack; Star Trek Discovery ends; Moana 2; Stax: Soulsville USA; Ken Burns the Civil War; Wu-Tang Clan album; the Night Manager; Sony Pictures to focus on AI; Showrunner app; ICQ shuts down; Instagram "limit" & "restrict"; SEO is dead; UniSuper cloud gets nuked; Amazon AI-powered Fire TV search; no one really understands clouds; the Ewok Line; we are all nostalgic for our youth; RIP Richard Sherman; Bats Day at the Park.

650: The Ewok Line

Dead Internet Theory & Shrimp Jesus; the Portal is back; Apple set photo visibility to zero; jailbreaking major LLMs; OpenAI party time; getting some decent data in; you win an award, now you're suspended; Google sends DOJ a check; TikTok cracking down on drug promotion; stealing crypto; Bitcoin Pizza Day; Franklin; Sugar; Beetlejuice; 3 Body Problem; Dexter prequel; Pixar layoffs; Scarlett Johansson's voice; Humane up for sale; Windows Recall; Han Solo; Star Wars & Star Trek; snakes and clouds, maaaannnnn...

649: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can deliver; Twitter redirecting to X; entire Supercharger staff fired; enshittification of the Web speeds up; Google AI search will kill what's left of the old internet; Uber announces new, worse bus; Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; the Rings of Power returns; Dune: Prophecy; MoviePass, Ashley Madison docs; bundling & a return to cable; no MTV Movie Awards this year; ToDoIst; Sonos app; PPSSPP; META Quest on a plane; the Far Reaches & Forward Collections; Erik Larson; Neal Stephenson; Star Wars Oreos; Chuck E. Cheese Band, Jasper T. Jowls in the wild; Fabio and the Goose; Thelma.

648: Some Superheroes Ride Motorized Scooters

Neuralink, insulin pump software bugs & abandoned brain implant technologies; Dorsey peaces out from Bluesky; Dell RTO tracking; Meta pumps businesses for customer support; Uber hits a financial snag; Spotify's new royalty model screws songwriters; gaming platforms abandon X integration; Ghostbusters; Lord of the Rings new movies; Franklin; Dark Matter; Sugar; more streaming consolidation; Rabbit R1 real reviews roll in; Apple ads, good & bad; AI music, programming news; Portal; death of the web; hotel art; Tales of the Empire; IRS hold music; Peter Paints a Portrait in Pantaloons.

647: DarJar

Kagi not worth it; RIP Passcodes; Sora demo not exactly Sora; FCC fines carries for selling location data; TikTok ban signed; Meta's ad-buying AI blows through budgets; fighting the algorithm; OpenAI privacy complaints; Amazon ad revenue big leap, wonder why; blockchain's real use case; ludicrously hard-core at Tesla; Lord of the Rings returns to theaters; Dune Part 2; The Bad Batch series finale; Fallout; UMG artists return to TikTok; Walmart selling IRL items to kids in Roblox; Snapchat will let you edit chats, if you pay; Bluesky ads GIFs; short sci-fi fiction with Amazon; Essentialism; AI wrappers; Gary's valuable GOG contributions; vision issues; stay on target, stay on target!

510: Delightfully Evil Algorithm

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