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In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we break down the latest chaos in tech, pop culture, and humanity’s never-ending quest to out-stupid itself. Hackers are raiding Ticketmaster accounts (again), and Chegg is circling the drain after ChatGPT obliterated its business model. Meanwhile, Amazon is hawking boner pills that tanked Hims’ stock, 23andMe is laying off nearly half its staff, and Bluesky is quietly stealing users who’ve had it with Elon’s dumpster fire over at X.
Driverless Waymo cars take over LA, nuclear safety gets outsourced to AI, and Apple wants to track your luggage with AirTags (but only on planes they like). Oh, and let’s not forget Mark Zuckerberg’s bizarre karaoke moment with Get Low.
On the pop culture front, The Penguin finale cements it as TV’s best comic book adaptation, Moana smashes Disney streaming records, and The Beatles are back—kind of—thanks to AI. Plus, Mattel accidentally linked kids’ toys to a porn site, and some genius in a bear costume is faking car accidents for insurance money. It’s all as dumb, messy, and oddly entertaining as you’d expect. Tune in for the snark, stay for the schadenfreude!
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Hackers Keep Stealing Tickets From People’s Ticketmaster Accounts
Trump Media Execs Dumped Millions in Stock After the Election
Study Finds Eggs Might Protect Brain Health And Lower Cholesterol
IN THE NEWS
FTX bankruptcy estate sues Anthony Scaramucci, FWD.us, others
Chegg Is On Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99%
AI travel influencers are here. Human travelers hate it.
Bluesky reaches 15 million users; people look for alternatives to X
Jason on Bluesky
Brian on Bluesky
Graysky
Bluesky scoops up the developer of popular third-party app, Graysky
23andMe is laying off 40 percent of its staff
Amazon Gets Into the Boner Pill Business, Hims Stock Goes Limp
Waymo's driverless cars in LA County are now available to everyone
Telecom Builds AI ‘Grandmother’ Bot to Talk to Phone Scammers and Waste Their Time
Anthropic, feds test whether AI will share sensitive nuclear info
New artificial intelligence search solution deployed at Diablo Canyon Power Plant
The Manhattan Project (1986)
AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
'Hawk Tuah' girl launches Pookie Tool, an AI-powered dating advice app, and it's fine?
The Onion Purchases Alex Jones’ InfoWars in Bankruptcy Auction
MEDIA CANDY
Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson
Paul vs. Tyson
Super League: The War for Football
Shrinking
Nobody Wants This
Silo Season Two
Moana is Disney’s Biggest Movie on Streaming Ever
The Penguin Finale Cemented It as One of the Best Comic Book Shows Ever
The Beatles are nominated for two Grammys thanks to AI
Gates McFadden InvestiGates: Who do you think you are?
ERIC SAYS
The story of Love And Rockets, the former Bauhaus members who helped sell goth to America
Mark Zuckerberg Just Released a Cover of Lil Jon's "Get Low" and Yes, He Says the Line About Balls
Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström
APPS & DOODADS
Good News: Instagram Chief Says App Won’t Refresh Right When You Open It Anymore
Meta Will Get Its Unwanted Day in Antitrust Court
Apple Has Begun Selling iPhone 16 Replacement Parts
Apple teams up with airlines for new ‘Share Item Location’ AirTags feature in iOS 18.2
"Wicked" toys from Mattel featuring link to porn site pulled from shelves, now available on eBay
Sound Studio 4
Redact
Tangle News
AT THE LIBRARY
This photography book shows people just standing in front of Danzig's house
Beacon 23: The Complete Novel by Hugh Howey
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Dave Bittner
The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
Andor Will Gloriously Rebel Once More in April 2025
Andor Season 2 Will Pit Your Favorite Miserable Imperials Against Each Other
How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers
Person dressed in bear costume to fake attacks on cars for insurance payout, California officials say.
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Tony Todd, ‘Candyman’ and ‘Final Destination’ Actor, Dead at 69
Tony Todd Made One of Deep Space Nine‘s Greatest Episodes Shine
Happy Birthday Gigi Edgley!
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OpenAI defeats news outlets' copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now
Truth Social Stock Is Crashing Even Though Trump Won
IN THE NEWS
Mozilla Foundation cuts 30 percent of its staff
iRobot lays off another 105 employees
Nissan is laying off 9,000 workers and giving its CEO a pay cut
San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month
Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI
Striking ‘NYT’ workers are asking you to skip Wordle—but they made other games for you to play
Disney forms dedicated AI and XR group to coordinate company-wide use and adoption
Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center
AI Slop Website Sent Thousands of People to a Halloween Parade That Didn’t Exist
New report details ‘vast spying’ by China-linked telecom hackers
Canada orders TikTok to shut down its business operations in the country due to 'national security risks'
Australia proposes 'world-leading' ban on social media for children under 16
Tesla updated its summon feature. Now this owner can’t get to his car.
Google has no duty to refund gift card scam victims, judge finds
Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run
North Korean Soldiers Deployed to Ukraine Reportedly "Gorging" on Uncensored Internet's Porn
MEDIA CANDY
AI Replaced All the Staff at a Radio Station in Poland
You can now post tracks to TikTok from Spotify and Apple Music
Squid Game: Season 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix
The Apprentice - An American Horror Story
The Diplomat Season 2
THE CURE :: SONGS OF A LOST WORLD :: FULL LIVE STREAM
APPS & DOODADS
Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader shipping is cancelled
X now lets blocked users see your posts
AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad
New Apple repair program will fix iPhone 14 Plus' rear camera issue for free
iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
Apple Acquires Photo Editing Software Company Pixelmator
Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year
Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You'll be needing 98.css
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The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
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Only Malware in the Building
Guy calls the ISS with an Amateur Radio
A New Star Wars Trilogy Is Coming, and It Could Be Episodes 10, 11, and 12
Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Greg Hildebrandt, iconic Star Wars and Lord of the Rings artist, has died at 85
Quincy Jones, music legend who shaped Michael Jackson's career, dies at 91
Voice of AOL’s Iconic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Alert Dies at 74
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Cash App class action; Tesla camera-based FSD questioned; Trump Media stock swings; standing desks are the new eggs; Dropbox layoffs; OpenAI Whisper invents parts of transcriptions, frequently; ChatGPT search; post scarcity AI BS; AI coding ouroboros of confusion; Musk crypto scams; Underworld; The Cure; A Man on the Inside; the Diplomat; Instagram throttles video quality; META to fill feeds with more AI; SetApp; Echoes of Extinction; Polostan; the Cube Rule of food identification; Disney hack; this is Halloween.
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Cash App users can claim thousands of dollars in a data breach settlement
Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct
IN THE NEWS
Trump's social media company is now worth more than Musk's X after recent surge in stock price
Trump loses $1.3 billion in net worth after the worst-ever day for his social media stock
Standing Desks Aren’t Just Useless—They Might Also Be Bad for Your Health
Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight
Dropbox is laying off 20 percent of its workforce
OpenAI's Whisper invents parts of transcriptions — a lot
Introducing ChatGPT search
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company's products
Google CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams
MEDIA CANDY
Underworld - Strawberry Hotel
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
A Man on the Inside
APPS & DOODADS
Mosseri confirms Instagram reduces video quality for posts that aren’t raking in views
Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop
Feds Recall Humane AI Pin Charger Due to Fire Risk
From Goodreads' founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers
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Obsidian
Ulysses
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Apple Notes
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Destiny: Echoes of Extinction: Book 4 by D. Ward Cornell
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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Dave Bittner
The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
Skeleton Crew | Official Trailer | Disney+
The Cube Rule of Food Identification
A fired Disney employee allegedly altered menus to change allergy markers
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Jeri Taylor, Co-Creator of Star Trek: Voyager, Dies at 86
Teri Garr, Star of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79
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San Fran embracing self-driving cars; not-Bitcoin creator in hiding; i h8 ai; anti-AI artist open letter; X updates their policies; more people leave OpenAI; SynthID; 23andMe and your genetic data; no more fake online reviews; private equity acquires Squarespace; right to repair; Tesla Blade Runner AI ripoff; Star Trek frogs; the Riker Maneuver; de-extinction; a whole slew of great new shows dropping - Star Trek, Dune, Silo & more; Good Omens season 3 now just a movie; Cruel World and nostalgia fatigue; are we not retired? we are Devo; Fresco, free; Penguin adds a robots.txt file to their books.
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How San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars
Peter Todd Is in Hiding After a Documentary Named Him as Bitcoin’s Creator
IN THE NEWS
i h8 ai
More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training
X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data
Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism
ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models
Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit
23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data
A federal ban on fake online reviews is now in effect
Private Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2 Billion
The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair
Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads
Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion
Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek
Riker sits down
De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts
MEDIA CANDY
Shrinking S2 - Out now
The Diplomat S2 - Oct 31
Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 - Oct 24
Silo S2 - Nov 15
Dune: Prophecy - Nov 17
Star Trek: Section 31 - Jan 25, 2025
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 - 2025
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal, Adds Tatiana Maslany As Recurring
‘Black Mirror’: ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘She Hulk’ Actor Nicholas Cirillo Joins Cast Of Season 7
‘Good Omens’ To End With One 90-Minute Episode As Neil Gaiman Exits Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Midnight Mass
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Finally Streaming for Free in Time for Halloween
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3
Lioness | Season 2 Sneak Peek | Paramount+ - Oct 27th
Cruel World Fest
Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire
APPS & DOODADS
Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate
Midjourney launches AI image editor: how to use it
Startup School: Gen AI
AI in Marketing: Fast-track your skills
Perplexity AI app for macOS now available on the Mac App Store
Bluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode After Elon Musk’s Destruction of Twitter
New AirPods Pro 2 firmware now available for iOS 18.1’s hearing health features
Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how
Web Design Museum
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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
AT THE LIBRARY
Penguin Adds a Do-Not-Scrape-for-AI Page to Its Books
Bookcase by Astropad
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Philip G. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist behind the controversial 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But 'Fernandomania' will live forever.
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More Wordpress & WPEngine shots fired; hate mail; European road organizations reject the Cybertruck; EU fines against X; civil rights commission pans FART (facial recognition technology); FCC looking into broadband caps; NYT tells Perplexity to stop using its content; AI writing police reports; Instagram becoming Myspace; TikTok knows damn well how bad their product is; Google, Amazon go nuclear for their AI; the Diplomat; Lincoln Lawyer; Shrinking; Silo; Apple digital car keys; new Amazon kindles; robot vacuum hacked; Ham license update; fridges; old songs on road trips.
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Response to DHH - Original
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WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
Secure Custom Fields
Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using 'nice and not nice lawyers'
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
IN THE NEWS
European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck
The EU’s Fines Against Elon Musk May Be Much Larger Than Anticipated
Civil Rights Commission Pans Face Recognition Technology
FCC launches a formal inquiry into why broadband data caps are terrible
The New York Times tells Perplexity to stop using its content
From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup
Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don’t Use Gen AI to Write Reports
Instagram is introducing profile cards to help users find new friends
TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users
Google strikes a deal with a nuclear startup to power its AI data centers
Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Jupiter
MEDIA CANDY
The Diplomat, Season 1
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3
Apple TV+ announces sixth season for “Slow Horses,” starring Gary Oldman
Shrinking on Apple TV+ gets early season 3 pickup
Silo — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+
APPS & DOODADS
Apple may be adding digital car key support for specific Volvo, Polestar and Audi vehicles
Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store
Adobe starts rolling out generative AI video tools in beta
Adobe shows off 3D rotation tool for flat drawings
Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279
Robot vacuums spew racial slurs at owners in wake of hack
Walk the Distance app deleted...
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WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources
HamStudy
She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain
Roll Out The Barrel
Oh! Susanna
I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
This Land is Your Land
Oh My Darling Clementine
Clementine (Live) - Tom Lehrer
This Land Is Your Land (Live) - The Clancy Brothers
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The beginning of the end for Wordpress; open source, or not; police Cybertrucks; Apple Intelligence rolling out; dystopian AI text summaries; X sends money to the wrong bank, argues that Twitter ceased to exist; Internet Archive attacked; Instagram, Threads moderation out of control; the Penguin; Beetlejuice; Salem's Lot; Joker; Kaos cancelled; Bitcoin doc; Green Day demastered; Roblox; Megalopolis; Tesla's Cybercab; is Elon a modern PT Barnum, or worse; ham radios, HamFests, TRS-80, cameras, Disneyland and chasing the nostalgia dragon.
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Jason’s Threads Post
Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’
Why WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech investing giant Silver Lake
WPEngine, Matt, Automattic & Wordpress.org megathread
Wordpress.org/Matt vs WPEngine megathread, Part 2
Automattic is doing open source dirty
The Pettiest Drama in the Tech World Is Taking Place at … WordPress?
Directus
California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies
Teslas "nearly unusable" for police work
IN THE NEWS
The first Apple Intelligence features are expected to arrive on October 28
Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts
X reportedly paid its Brazil fines to the wrong bank, causing further delay in reinstatement case
X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘Twitter ceased to exist’
The Internet Archive taken down by DDoS attacks
Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control - The Verge
China Joins SpaceX in Ruining Astronomy for Everybody
MEDIA CANDY
The Penguin
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Salem’s Lot
Salem’s Lot 1979
Joker: Folie à Deux Bombed—What Went Wrong?
Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan in Talks for Guy Ritchie’s ‘Ray Donovan’ Offshoot ‘The Donovans’
'Kaos' Canceled: Jeff Goldblum Netflix Comedy Series Won't Get Second Season
Reacher Gets Early Season 4 Renewal At Prime Video
Controversial HBO Documentary Concludes Peter Todd Invented Bitcoin
Green Day's Dookie has been demastered into Game Boy carts, a toothbrush and other weird formats
Amazon Seeks to Dismiss Prime Video Ad Tier Lawsuit
APPS & DOODADS
Roblox Is Playing Dumb About the Bots and Predators on Its Platform, Hindenburg Research Says
Meta is working to fix Threads' engagement bait problem
AT THE LIBRARY
Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson
Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt
Polostan: A thrilling historical epic from #1 New Yortk Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, perfect for fans of historical fiction and espionage thrillers. (Bomb Light) Kindle Edition by Neal Stephenson
Mists of Time: Echoes of Extinction: Book 3 by D. Ward Cornell
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The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
Enable iPhone orientation lock for specific apps
A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
Megalopolis
Tesla's Cybercab Is Here
I am seriously considering getting my ham radio license.
I want this, but I do not need this - stuff vs. experiences
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OpenAI training data, dynamic pricing & digital IDs; Elon's good week; dockworkers strike over robots averted, for now; more AI models; some AI training techniques make AI better at deceiving humans; weaponizing DMCA takedowns; Cruise fined for omitting details; Cybertruck gets FSD; EV Jeeps catching fire; Neumann back doing workspaces; COVID-19 affected the moon; the Diplomat; Wolfs; The Traitors Canada; The Rings of Power; more Prime Video ads; Juicebox quits the US; facial recognition & smart glasses; iPhone 16; cable testing; AI in education.
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OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases
Oasis opts out of Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing, calling it 'an unacceptable experience for fans'
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Elon Musk claims victory after judge blocks Calif. deepfake law
Elon Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla self-driving claims with embarrassing defense
IN THE NEWS
U.S. Dockworkers Go on Strike Over Robots and Wages
California Governor Vetoes AI Bill Aimed at Preventing Catastrophic Harms
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B
Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims
OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren't Allowed to Back Its Rivals
MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art
Human Feedback Makes AI Better at Deceiving Humans, Study Shows
Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
Google Wins Lawsuit Against Scammers Who ‘Weaponized’ DMCA Takedowns
GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash
Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
A Stalled Waymo Blocked Kamala Harris’s Motorcade in San Francisco
Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks
Adam Neumann’s Latest Project Is a WeWork Competitor
COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim
MEDIA CANDY
California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
The Diplomat
Wolfs
The Traitors Canada Season 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2
Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
Apple’s acclaimed drama “Sugar” lands season two renewal
Shrinking Season 2
APPS & DOODADS
Google introduces new way to search by filming video
The company that owns Juicebox is quitting the US market and removing all its apps and software updates.
Covid Testing Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to Giving Fake Test Results
Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
Walk the Distance
AT THE LIBRARY
Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson
Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt
Polostan: A thrilling historical epic from #1 New Yortk Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, perfect for fans of historical fiction and espionage thrillers. (Bomb Light) Kindle Edition by Neal Stephenson
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C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester
BLE caberQU: a digital USB-C to USB-C cable tester
Ethical use of AI in higher education
Ethical AI for Teaching and Learning
ENAI Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education - International Journal for Educational Integrity
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Tributes paid to 'true legend' Dame Maggie Smith
‘Beverly Hills Cop’ actor John Ashton dead at 76 after battle with cancer
‘American Pickers’ star Frank Fritz dead at 60
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Sam Altman stands alone at OpenAI; Gen Z employees not impressing bosses; X complies with Brazil's Supreme Court, but kill blocking; former FTX Exec given light sentence; Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI; banning Chinese smart cars; Click to cancel bill passed into law in California; The Cure, Underworld new albums; Bad Monkey; Culinary Class Wars; BBC sound effect library; Duolingo piano; Wordpress vs WP Engine; Jony Ive working on a new AI device startup; AI playlists; Archive.today; more books released as Audible first exclusives; grumpy old Greeks.
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The Intelligence Age by Sam Altman
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company
OpenAI's chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati's exit
How it started vs. How it's going
If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?
London Newspaper Plans to Revive Dead Art Critic With AI, Lays Off Real Writers
Man Behind Biden Deepfake Robocalls Hit With $6 Million Fine
ChatGPT’s New Voice Assistant Is Here to Creep You Out
Here’s why companies are rapidly firing Gen Z employees
IN THE NEWS
X is reportedly now complying with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court
X is nerfing the block button: Blocked users will be able to see your posts
Former FTX Exec Caroline Ellison Sentenced to Two Years and Must Forfeit $11 Billion
DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
Qualcomm is reportedly eyeing a takeover of Intel
First TikTok, now smart cars: How Biden’s new proposed ban will affect U.S. automakers
Cloudflare’s new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping
California's 'click to cancel' subscription bill is signed into law
Dramatic Drone Video Shows Chinese Rocket Crash-Landing in Failed Test
MEDIA CANDY
The Cure Announce the Release of “Alone,” Their First New Single in 16 Years
Underworld - Black Poppies
Bad Monkey
Culinary Class Wars
The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
The Last of Us Season 2 | The Last of Us Day Official Teaser | Max
APPS & DOODADS
Duolingo, best known as a language learning app, now makes a piano
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
Mullenweg: WP Engine Filed Legal Action Against WordPress
Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine
Charitable Contributions
WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Announcing Panels
Tech YouTuber MKBHD's Panels app is a bit underwhelming
Skewered by so many people
The Obligatory Mea Culpa Post
links to all wallpapers (hd/sd) are preloaded right after the app is launched, all you need are basic mitm skills to get them for free. the file with links isn’t authenticated or protected at all
Yup, Jony Ive is working on an AI device startup with OpenAI
Spotify’s AI Playlists are rolling out for Premium users in the US
Archive.today
AT THE LIBRARY
The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal
Not Till We Are Lost Bobiverse Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor
Echoes of Extinction by D. Ward Cornell
Reverberations: Echoes of Extinction: Book 2 by D. Ward Cornell
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Former MoviePass CEO reportedly pleads guilty to securities fraud
IN THE NEWS
23andMe will pay $30 million to settle 2023 data breach lawsuit
23andMe independent directors quit board over unsatisfactory buyout plan from CEO
Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden and Harris
Gov. Newsom Signs Union-Championed A.I. Bills at SAG-AFTRA Plaza
Here is what's illegal under California's 8 (and counting) new AI laws
Creator of fake Kamala Harris video Musk boosted sues Calif. over deepfake laws
Trump jumps into cryptocurrency, appears to know nothing about it
Here’s how Google will start helping you figure out which images are AI generated
Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week
Moderna’s ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trial Data
MEDIA CANDY
Rebel Ridge
Help I’m genuinely invested in the Gordon Ramsey AI cooking series
The Grand Tour: One for the Road
‘Time Bandits’ Canceled By Apple TV+ After 1 Season
APPS & DOODADS
iOS 18: Here’s the list of iPhone models compatible with the update
iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review By Federico Viticci
iOS 18.1 public beta 1 now available with Apple Intelligence features
Instagram tightens restrictions on teen use, putting parents in control
Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR
Fantasy Hike - Completed!
Californians can now add their driver’s licenses to Apple Wallet
AT THE LIBRARY
Echoes of Extinction by D. Ward Cornell
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger
Not Till We Are Lost Bobiverse Book 5 by Dennis E. Taylor
The Subprime AI Crisis by Edward Zitron
Is anyone out there?
OnlyBots
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Dave Bittner
The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
Generation Z right now
Pagers Explode in Lebanon, Injuring Hundreds of Members of Hezbollah
Walkie-Talkies Explode in Lebanon as Part of a Second Wave of Attacks
CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY SUES ELON MUSK FOR 15 MILLION DOLLARS
OUTRO
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Good Omens Season 3 Reportedly Paused Amid Neil Gaiman Controversy
Report: Neil Gaiman May Step Back From Good Omens‘ Final Season
What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'
Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
Waymo Safety Impact
IN THE NEWS
Apple ordered to pay back its illegal $14.4 billion Irish tax break
Google loses its seven-year fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine
DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial
Google Teams With the Internet Archive to Revive Cache Feature
Genetic Testing Company Must Issue Refunds After Security Breach Disaster
Meta scraped every Australian user's account to train its AI
Australia’s Prime Minister wants to ban social media for children
Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits
Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely
MEDIA CANDY
Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Back One Last Time With a Swashbuckling New Clip
Untold: Hope Solo vs US Soccer
Alan Cumming Wins Best Host Emmy for ‘The Traitors,’ Ending RuPaul’s Eight-Year Streak
The Perfect Couple
KAOS
The Penguin | Official Trailer | Max
Salem's Lot | Official Trailer | Max
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Tears for Fears Announce First Live Album Songs for a Nervous Planet, Reveal New Song “The Girl That I Call Home”: Stream
APPS & DOODADS
FruitJuice
Apple just got authorization for AirPods Pro 2’s hearing aid feature
Meet the first major release of Flipper Zero firmware — version 1.0.
Audible narrators to create voice replicas using AI
Google's AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes
Man Used Fake Rock Camera to Film 1,000 Women Bathing in Hot Springs
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Dave Bittner
The CyberWire
Hacking Humans
Caveat
Control Loop
Only Malware in the Building
James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93
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