By Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
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
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Microsoft outage linked to Crowdstrike takes down computers around the world; german floppies; AT&T Snowflake crowd hack; Verizon piracy lawsuit; META won't offer future AI models in EU; EU over-regulation with X, META; AI models still using YouTube for training data; USPS sharing data; Instagram and teen mental health; birds versus drones; public Venmos; set Phasers to pricey; AMC makes distribution deal with Netflix; BeetleJuice & Dune trailers; John Wick 4; the Boys & the Acolyte season finales; AI courses; AI new model releases; Scott Adams taught ChatGPT dangerous techniques; AI diseased hot dog or not app shuts down; Apple public betas; Overcast update fail; more alternative power for Dave; dark patterns everywhere.
Show notes at https://gog.show/657/
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Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement
IN THE NEWS
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
Verizon faces lawsuit after record labels say it profits from piracy
Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU
Elon Musk’s X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive
Meta accused of breaking European law with its ‘pay or consent’ model
Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Meta Would Also Like to Know If Instagram Is Bad for Teens
Meta gives researchers access to Instagram data for teen mental health study
TikTok will still be a 'gatekeeper' under the Digital Markets Act, EU rules
Tinder will use AI to help you pick your best profile picture
OpenAI Wants to See All of the New York Times Reporters’ Notes and Memos
‘Very Annoyed’ Birds Are Waging War on NYC’s Beach Drones
Police Drone Nabs Vehicle Burglary Suspect in Santa Monica as ‘Futuristic’ Surveillance Becomes Reality
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words
MEDIA CANDY
Now You Can Own Captain Kirk’s Original ‘Star Trek’ Phaser (Exclusive)
AMC Inks Expanded Deal With Netflix, Bringing 13 Series to Streaming Giant
Internal Disney Communications Leaked Online After Hack
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Official Trailer 2
Dune: Prophecy Teaser Trailer 2
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Boys Season 4
APPS & DOODADS
AI for Everyone
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
Mistral NeMo
My trip to the frontier of AI education
Anthropic teams up with venture capital firm to kickstart $100M AI startup fund
Dilbert Creator Claims He Taught ChatGPT ‘Dangerous’ Hypnosis Techniques
AI App That Claimed to Detect STDs From Dick Pics Shuts Down After It Turns Out It Doesn't Work at All
Apple releases public betas for iOS 18, macOS, and more
Amazon discontinues Astro for Business robot security guard to focus on Astro home robot
Amazon Astro, Household robot for home monitoring, with Alexa, Includes 30-day trial of Ring Protect Pro
The Tragedies of Reality Are Coming for You
Farcry 6 - PS 5
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Dave Bittner
The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
Overcast
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Catalog of Dark Patterns
FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Charmed Star Shannen Doherty Has Died at Age 53
Mallrats
Bob Newhart Dead at 94
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Opting out & class actions; school TikTok mob attack; Boeing's troubles; health crisis in a Texas Bitcoin town; unlocking Ticketmaster resales; Trump threatens Zuckerbucks; Humane execs leave to launch AI fact-checking startup; comment sections are garbage, Spotify adds one for podcasts; Amazon's questionable climate goal claim; FTC bans NGL from hosting minors; taking student's phones; Elon still planning to colonize Mars; Lilith Fair doc; Skydance buys Paramount; CNN layoffs; TUAW AI zombification; Watch Duty; Notepad gets spellcheck; Affinity over Adobe; Epic Games & Apple; Flow Pro; Blue-Ray; Fitbit, Nike losing services; e-bikes; the Acolyte; the Charismatic Voice; Shelly Duvall & Faerie Tale Theater; Dave's security camera odyssey.
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Redbox Owner Chicken Soup For The Soul To Liquidate In Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Shift; Workforce Of 1,000 To Be Let Go And 24,000 Kiosks Shut Down, Lawyer Says
IN THE NEWS
First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers
Your Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?
Boeing agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government
Wheel Falls Off United Airlines Boeing Plane in Mid-Air
‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
Hackers reverse-engineer Ticketmaster’s barcode system to unlock resales on other platforms
Trump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg With Prison In Unhinged Truth Social Rant
Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care
Microsoft and Apple give up their OpenAI board seats
Google's search market dominance grows as ChatGPT falters
Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content'
Spotify is launching a comment section for podcasts
Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early
NGL becomes the first app banned from hosting minors by the FTC
A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates
How Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan to Colonize Mars
Schmactors EP02 - Clowns, Nudity, and the Red Planet: A Wild Ride Through the Unbelievable
MEDIA CANDY
Lilith Fair Documentary to Feature Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu
Paramount and Skydance will merge to create new tech-media giant
CNN to Lay Off 100 Staffers as It Preps Major Revamp of Digital Efforts
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
TikTok Star Murders
Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington
The Umbrella Academy | Final Season | Official Trailer | Netflix
‘Constellation’ Canceled By Apple After One Season
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora Dragons
APPS & DOODADS
Watch Duty
Microsoft Notepad Receives Spell Check for The First Time Since 1983
Canva’s Melanie Perkins says it’s time to stop overpaying for Adobe
Affinity six-month free trial
After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS
YouTube upgrades its 'erase song' tool to remove copyrighted music only
Flow Pro is the First AI Tracking iPhone Stabilizer with Apple DockKit
Sony Killing Off Blu-Ray Production Is a Mistake
You Won’t Be Able to Access Your Fitbit Web Dashboard After Today
Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
The Charismatic Voice
The Shining actress Shelley Duvall dies at 75
Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre
Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre The Complete Collection
How Shelley Duvall Was Discovered by Robert Altman | Letterman
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Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy.
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Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent
Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court
FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls
Greece becomes first EU country to introduce a six-day working week
Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone
IN THE NEWS
A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint
Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To
You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You
Cloudflare is taking a stand against AI website scrapers
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself
US Treasury finalizes crypto rules to prevent tax evasion
Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail
Tesla Full Self-Driving is "a bad thing" for getting public buy-in for autonomous driving tech, rival engineer says
Tesla patents "Full Self Sanitizing" taxis
Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries.
NASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner For Managing Not To Explode While Docked To Space Station
MEDIA CANDY
Inside Out 2
I Am: Celine Dion
The Mole Season 2
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
The Acolyte
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (TCF, 1983), Carrie Fisher "Princess Leia" Production Made Bikini Costume from Richard Miller.
The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren’t Piracy Police or Instantly Liable
AI is ruining the internet by Drew Gooden
APPS & DOODADS
People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are
OpenDyslexic for iOS
Diablo IV
Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
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ID authentication systems are a bad idea; Tesla traps a toddler inside car, vandalized Cybertrucks & Cybertruck run amok; Rivian makes a deal with VW; celeb crypto spam deepfakes & hacks; Assange free; META tags real photos as Made with AI; Apple, Microsoft run afoul of the EU; Google stops infinite scroll; Gen AI can't site sources; AI companies scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them; OpenAI exec doesn't care that you're going to lose your job; the Acolyte gets exciting; music industry sues or makes deals with AI companies; Paramount's financial troubles; new Prius; Rabbit R1 security flaws; Neil Gaiman; Peter Hook; AI will tear us apart, again.
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ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
IN THE NEWS
Tesla Traps Toddler Inside Car After 12-Volt Battery Dies In 100-Degree Heat
Florida car lot full of vandalized cybertrucks
POLICE HUNTING VANDAL WHO SPRAY PAINTED "F**K ELON" ON 34 CYBERTRUCKS
Wild video shows out-of-control Cybertruck smash into neighbor's home hours after it was bought
Volkswagen and Rivian agree to $5 billion partnership
Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions
Julian Assange Receives $500,000 Bitcoin Donation as He Officially Becomes a Free Man
Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers
Apple may face a mammoth fine after the EU said it violated competition rules
EU finds Microsoft violated antirust laws by bundling Teams
Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
Time strikes a deal to funnel 101 years of journalism into OpenAI's gaping maw
Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources
AI companies are reportedly still scraping websites despite protocols meant to block them
Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice
Can a /robots.txt be used in a court of law?
OPENAI EXEC SAYS AI WILL KILL CREATIVE JOBS THAT "SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE"
MEDIA CANDY
The Acolyte
Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms
YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training
Paramount Chiefs to Staff: We’re Cutting $500M in Costs After “Unacceptable” Profit Drops
Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years
Paramount+ is raising prices again for all of the Tulsa King fans out there
The YouTube Effect
New reality TV gameshow for flat earthers
'The Origin of Toys"R"Us', The First Brand Film Made Using OpenAI's Sora Technology
APPS & DOODADS
The New Prius is... SICK?!
Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody
FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT SAYS IMPLANT HAS GIVEN HIM INCREDIBLE GAMING SKILLS
Ebay Seller Offers $100,000 Stingray Device So You Can Track Your Friends and Enemies
eBay Removes Listing for StingRay Cellphone Spying Tech
How the ‘Owner’s Guide’ Became a Rare Book
AT THE LIBRARY
Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back - BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
Neverwhere BBC Miniseries
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
JOHN SCALZI DISCOVERS THAT ONE OF HIS BOOK COVERS WAS CREATED USING AI
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Opting out of META AI data training; 11 steps, or be in the EU; why I hate Elon, let me count the ways; SCiFi Foods, Fisker shut down; social media warning labels; TikTok child privacy case; Safe SuperIntelligence; Apple Pay Later discontinued; Adobe lawsuit; Amazon labor law fines; emotion canceling & mental shields; Dell return to work not working; real phot wins AI image contest; Time Bandits reboot, Spaceballs sequel; the Boys; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Runway Gen-3; SoundLabs; McDonalds ditches drive-thru AI; the Acolyte & Oreos; small home projects that spin out of control.
Show notes at https://gog.show/653
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11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI
IN THE NEWS
Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI
SPACEX'S STARLINK MAY BE KEEPING THE OZONE FROM HEALING, RESEARCH FINDS
SpaceX debuts portable Starlink Mini for $599
Buzzy Bay Area lab-grown meat company shuts down
Fisker is the latest EV startup to declare bankruptcy
Social media apps with tobacco-like warning labels? It may happen
Surgeon General Can't Convince Himself on Social Media Warning
The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company
Meta pauses plans to train AI using European users’ data, bowing to regulatory pressure
Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall
Apple Pay Later withdrawal likely because of a law passed in 1968
The US has sued Adobe over early termination fees and making subscriptions hard to cancel
Amazon faces nearly $6 million in fines over California labor law violations
Call Centers Introduce ‘Emotion Canceling’ AI as a ‘Mental Shield’ for Workers
More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
Artist Wins AI Image Contest with Real Photo, Then Gets Disqualified
MEDIA CANDY
Apple TV+ announces the date for “Time Bandits” starring Lisa Kudrow
Shaun of the Dead
The Boys
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
The Schwartz Is With Us: That Spaceballs Sequel Is Apparently Actually Happening
MoviePass Gets Investment From Comcast's Forecast Labs
APPS & DOODADS
Affinity Suite
Mylio
Apple @ Work: If you think Apple 'Sherlocked' 1Password, you aren't paying attention
Don’t Expect a Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Anytime Soon
Final Cut Camera and Updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad and Mac Are Available Today
Runway Gen-3 Can Make AI Videos of 'Photorealistic Humans'
The World’s Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones
McDonald's Ditches AI Drive-Thru Partnership With IBM
GOP Candidate Endorsed By ‘Back From The Dead’ MLK In Unhinged AI Video
U.S. House of Representatives Narrowly Passes DJI Drone Ban Bill
Your Apple Watch can now control DJI Osmo Mobile gimbals
TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough
Get ready for a wave of Threads apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
The Acolyte
Star Wars Oreos
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93
Donald Sutherland Dead at 88
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OpenAI was open to bidding wars between USA, China & Russia; AI hitting wall where it can't get smarter; visibility set to zero; walking back Windows Recall; Tesla FSD false advertising, SpaceX bad behavior; refreezing the arctic; casual piracy; flying the personalized ad skies; Netflix wins the hot dog wars; Stax; Interview with the Vampire; Camden; Bad Boys; Computer, wine, no merlot; Shkreli; the 90s; Adobe pricing; everything Apple killed at WWDC 2024; smartphones are the new eggs; Spotify; A Science-Fiction Thriller; the Acolyte; Kings Dominion & theme parks; driving in the USA.
Show notes at https://gog.show/652
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Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start Agi Bidding War With China and Russia
AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter
Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers
Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
IN THE NEWS
Tesla shareholders vote yes again to approve Elon Musk’s $56B pay plan
Tesla Must Face False Advertising Claims Around 'Full Self-Driving' in California: Report
Elon Musk sued for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation by former SpaceX engineers
Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic
The Ads on Your United Airlines In-Flight Screen Are Getting a Lot More Specific
Netflix has Sherlocked Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board
MEDIA CANDY
Cheaper Prices Reduce Indirect Visits to Pirate Sites, Research Finds
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A
Interview With The Vampire
Camden
The Boys Will End After Season 5
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Paul Giamatti Is Beaming Aboard Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli accused of copying $4m one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
90’s Electronica / Alternative
APPS & DOODADS
Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2024
Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light
Spotify’s HiFi plan could finally arrive this year, but you may need to pay extra
Spotify will start showing you personalized banners and messages based on your listening habits
Music publishers accuse Spotify of 'bait-and-switch subscription scheme'
watchOS 11 lets you take a day off working out without losing your streak
Elon Musk Just Cancelled iPhones
X is about to start hiding all likes
AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
MacWhisper
Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
AT THE LIBRARY
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott Young
Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
The Acolyte
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Humane AI chargers go up in flames; Google scales back AI Overviews; we've all been pwnd; Windows Recall a Category 5 s-storm; Microsoft downsizes mixed reality division; leaked Google privacy incidents; ChatGPT AI hype & reckless race for dominance; AI fake stories in NewsBreak; parental control over kids social media; Shutterstock cashing in; Instagram testing in-feed ads you can't scroll past; SpaceX new milestones; Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; Jim Henson: Idea Man; the Acolyte; music react videos; Spotify raising prices even though "content costs near zero"; expensive Boba Fett dolls; Joshua T. Calvert's Hard Science Fiction; Erik Larson; content, content, content.
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After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too
If you aren't seeing AI Overviews in your search results, it's probably thanks to Google
IN THE NEWS
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
The Ultimate Infostealer … Microsoft Recall?
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall
Microsoft announces layoffs and restructuring in its mixed reality division
EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT
This Week in AI: Ex-OpenAI staff call for safety and transparency
Intro thread by Daniel Kokotajlo
A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner (PDF)
Popular US news app accused of using AI to make up fake stories
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI
New York is about to give parents more control over their kids' social media feeds
Shutterstock Made $104 Million Licensing Assets to AI Devs Last Year
Meta is testing a new ad in the Instagram feed that you can't scroll past
Vengeful Club Penguin Hackers Reportedly Steal 2.5 GB of Disney’s Data
SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built
Boeing's new Starliner capsule carrying 2 astronauts safely docks with space station
MEDIA CANDY
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Godzilla Minus One
Jim Henson: Idea Man
The Acolyte
‘3 Body Problem’ to End With Season 3 on Netflix
Alien: Romulus
Nathan Brown Music
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers
APPS & DOODADS
Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again
Max Announces New Price Increases for Ad-Free Plans
YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos
This Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Is Officially the World's Most Valuable Vintage Toy
AT THE LIBRARY
The Object: Hard Science Fiction by Joshua T. Calvert
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
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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.
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Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls faces $6 million fine and criminal charges
FCC Proposes $6M Fine For N.H. Robocalls
Who Wants to Buy 30,000 Used Teslas From Hertz?
IN THE NEWS
WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Abandons Bid to Regain Control of the Company
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman
Twitch removes every member of its Safety Advisory Council
Vimeo Sides With Creators, Will Not Allow AI Companies to Scrape Content
The Atlantic and Vox Media made their own deal with the AI Devil
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B from Valor, a16z, and Sequoia
xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.
Elon Musk Blind With Rage After Analysts Recommend Rejecting His $56 Billion Pay Package
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities
Ticketmaster Hack Reveals Sensitive Data for 560 Million People
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Discovery
Moana 2
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A
The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
Wu-Tang Clan: Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the band’s one copy album… but there’s a catch
'Dungeons & Dragons' Live-Action Series Not Going Forward @ Paramount+
‘The Night Manager’ Returns With Supercharged Two-Season Order At BBC & Amazon; Tom Hiddleston Back To Star With Hugh Laurie As EP
Sony Pictures Will Cut Film Costs 'Using AI, Primarily'
This AI App Lets You Create Your Own TV Episodes That Look Just Like ‘South Park’
APPS & DOODADS
ICQ is shutting down after almost 28 years
Instagram is expanding its anti-bullying features for teens
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account
Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
Hands-on with Amazon’s new AI-powered Fire TV search - The Verge
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
No One Really Understands Clouds
Hate "The Phantom Menace"? The Ewok Line theory could explain why
America’s best decade, according to data
Disney Musician Richard Sherman Has Died at Age 95
Bats Dat in the Fun Park
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Spizz Energi - Wheres Captain Kirk - (Official Video 1979)
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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...
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FOLLOW UP
Is The 'Dead Internet Theory' True? Shrimp Jesus Phenomenon Explained
Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features
Following OnlyFans-Related Mishap, the Portal Is Back
Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’
Apple fixes ‘rare’ iPhone bug that restored deleted pictures
Apple elaborates on iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos
IN THE NEWS
UK's AI Safety Institute easily jailbreaks major LLMs
Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties
Sam Altman is ‘embarrassed’ that OpenAI threatened to revoke equity if exiting employees wouldn’t sign an NDA
OpenAI will reportedly pay $250 million to put News Corp's journalism in ChatGPT
Emory University awarded two students $10,000 for their AI study tool, then suspended them
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant
Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial
The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM
What happened when TikTok said users can’t promote weight-loss drugs
US brothers arrested for stealing $25m in crypto in just 12 seconds
MEDIA CANDY
Franklin
Sugar
Ghostbusters II
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
More 3 Body Problem Is Coming, But How Much More?
Dexter Prequel Series Casts Young Dexter and Christian Slater as His Mentor
Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows
APPS & DOODADS
Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice
Wearable AI Pin maker Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Star Trek: TNG – "Five-card Stud, Nothing Wild... And the Sky's the Limit."
Physics of snakeskin sheds light on sidewinding
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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.
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FOLLOW UP
Portal Between New York And Dublin Closed After A Week Due To "Inappropriate Behavior"
The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a Toilet
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away | Ars Technica
Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being
IN THE NEWS
Apple Reportedly Close To Deal With OpenAI To Add AI Features To iPhone
OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data
Google Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it’s going to be a while
For self-driving cars, the free ride is over - The Verge
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says
Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff - Autoblog
Enshittification
As Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage - The Washington Post
Google is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization - The Verge
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results
Google I/O 2024: Here's everything Google just announced | TechCrunch
Learn how to use ChatGPT for SEO
ChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that’s a problem
Uber announces its new, worse version of a bus
MEDIA CANDY
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser Trailer
The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season
Max Releases First Dune: Prophecy Teaser: Watch
Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max - YouTube
HBO’s upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecks
Ashley Madison - Sex, Lies & Scandal
'The Boys' Renewed for Season 5
Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: See His Best Jokes
A ‘vastly reduced’ Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV+ bundle is coming this month
The MTV Movie & TV Awards Scrapped for 2024, Returning Next Year
Sony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists’ Content
APPS & DOODADS
ToDoIst
URL Cleaner
Is Sonos' New App a Podcast Killer? : r/sonos
Apple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPads
PPSSPP game emulator now available on the iOS App Store
Wipeout Pure
Meta encourages you to disregard your seat mates and use VR headsets on a plane
AT THE LIBRARY
The Far Reaches collection
The Forward Collection, curated by Blake Crouch
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
The CyberWire
Dave Bittner
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Oreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner Wookiee
The Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking Up
Fabio and the Goose
Thelma - Official Trailer | June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Fred Hechinger
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