Kicking things off, Jack Dorsey—a man with too much time on his hands—has vibe-coded his beard into an insecure messaging app that the company admits you shouldn't trust... yet. Meanwhile, if you want a piece of a legendary disaster, the Fyre Festival brand sold for a mere $245k after some shady bidding that might be a "shitty agentic AI" at work.

In the world of our future robot overlords, Nvidia's CEO calmly admitted "some harm will be done," while billionaires like Travis Kalanick are busy discovering "vibe physics" with Elon Musk's Grok—an AI that literally checks what its dad thinks before answering. But the real insanity? The internet is demanding an apology from Elmo's hacked account, proving we're mad at the puppet, not the puppeteer. On the more tangible front, Tesla is making desperate moves in Canada and India as sales collapse, while we learn that hackers have been able to stop US trains for over a decade remotely, but no one has bothered to fix the issue. Oh, and laid-off Candy Crush staff? They were forced to train their AI replacements on the way out the door. The future is bright.

Over in Media Candy, we're grudgingly impressed by Andor's 14 Emmy nods and the genius faux '90s action movie trailer for Karl Urban's Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II. We also got trailers for Stranger Things 5 and Tron: Ares, where Jared Leto thankfully only speaks two words.

Finally, Dave takes us to the Dark Side for a nostalgia trip through the history of the Apple II and the Kaypro 2000 laptop, sparking a debate on why we all coveted a computer that, in retrospect, wasn't that great. This is contrasted with the modern reality of an IPTV pirate getting three years in prison and Metallica issuing a copyright strike against the Pentagon. To wrap it all up, a TEDx talk poses the ultimate question: Has tech delivered on its promises? We're still thinking about that one.

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Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Snag

Fyre Festival’s Brand Rights Get a Fire Sale on eBay

Get Paid Podcast -Why AI Won't Kill Salesforce | Aaron Levie (Box)

IN THE NEWS

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart

The CEO of Nvidia Admits What Everybody Is Afraid of About AI

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer

Elon Musk Wants to Turn AI Into a Cosmic Religion

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created

Laid-Off Staff At Candy Crush Maker Say They've Been Training Their AI Replacements

Memecoin Platform Pump.fun Raises $600 Million Within 12 Minutes

Hacked Elmo X account posts antisemitic remarks

Elmo Breaks Silence on His Antisemitic Social Media Posts

Tesla Makes a Desperate Move in Canada as Sales Collapse

As Sales Drop, Tesla Makes a Big Gamble on India

Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

A Company Tried to Put Real Estate on the Blockchain and Now It's Facing a Legal Disaster

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

A Cloudflare issue is breaking websites for some users

MEDIA CANDY

‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

‘Slow Horses’ Renewed for Season 7 at Apple TV+

Mortal Kombat II | Official Red Band Trailer

See Johnny Cage in Uncaged Fury

Watch Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage Be a B-List Movie Star in This Faux Movie Trailer

Stranger Things 5 | Official Teaser | Netflix

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

Murderbot

Fountain of Youth

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Dexter: Resurrection

The Institute

PlutoTV

7 Weird Sci-Fi Network TV Shows That Aired Just as Streaming Was Taking Over

Helix IPTV Owner Sentenced to 3 Years Prison For Piracy & Money Laundering

Metallica Issues Copyright Strike Against US Govt for Military Drone Video

APPS & DOODADS

Jack Dorsey's new app tracks your sun exposure

Taking a Photo in Dubai Could Land You with a $136k Fine or Jail

Pointer Pointer

Meta Cracks Down on Facebook Users Who Steal and Repost Others’ Photos

Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Irish Video Game Orchestra

YouTuber faces jail time for showing off Android-based gaming handhelds

Are We Trek Yet?

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?

Apple II History

Kaypro 2000 laptop

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Apparently, you can’t keep a good grifter down, as Billy McFarland’s seven-figure Fyre Fest deal collapsed, so he’s hawking the brand on eBay like a box of junk. Meanwhile, Indeed and Glassdoor are laying off over 1,000 workers, probably to pay for the AI that’s jacking up our electric bills. Speaking of AI, a Tesla robotaxi crashed itself while Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot went full Nazi, which is of course being installed in Teslas "next week." Fittingly, X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down and promptly lost her blue check. To cap off the dystopian news, the DOJ is targeting an anti-ICE app developer, the 'click-to-cancel' rule is dead, and you can hack McDonald’s with the password ‘123456’. The future is now, and it's dumber than we ever imagined.

On the media front, Murderbot gets a second season, and the Jim Henson and The Beach Boys documentaries are must-sees. Sadly, Netflix canceled The Residence. We also got trailers for Neuromancer, Project Hail Mary, and Edgar Wright's The Running Man. Speaking of building the future, we took a deep dive into AI-assisted coding using tools like Cursor, building a functional app in hours with zero original code. It’s a stark reminder that while the "free lunch" of AI development is ending, the future for junior coders is already cooked. This glorious new world also includes playing every retro game ever on your phone, thanks to emulators like Delta and PPSSPP and the Backbone controller, which led to a nostalgic dive into the classic soundtracks of Mega Man 2 and Wipeout XL. This all culminated in a personal victory: conquering all 4,678 boards in Mahjong Titan+, freeing us from our porcelain thrones.

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Billy McFarland Says His Seven-Figure Deal to Sell Fyre Fest Has Fallen Through

Own FYRE Festival – Iconic Brand, Trademarks, IP, Social Media Assets, and More

Billy McFarland Is Now Trying to Unload the Fyre Fest Brand on eBay

IN THE NEWS

Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting more than 1,000 jobs

A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car

Major US power operator says AI and data center demands are pushing prices up

An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs

‘Round Them Up’: Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk’s AI Tool Goes Full Nazi

Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

Elon Musk says Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles just after it went full Hitler

Elon Musk Says He's Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas "Next Week"

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down after two years

They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check!

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible

How SpaceX is blocking astronomers' view of space

New Research Bolsters Freaky Theory That Earth Sits in a Giant Cosmic Void

DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

Trump’s FTC Let Lobbyists Kill Popular Click-To-Cancel Rule, Advocates Say

EU regulators are once again investigating TikTok over data transfers to China

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon

Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot

Murderbot is getting a season 2 on Apple TV Plus

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy: A Tor Original (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells

Netflix Cancels ‘Pulse’ and Shondaland’s ‘The Residence’ After One Season Each

Neuromancer — In Production | Apple TV+

PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer (2025) Ryan Gosling

The Running Man | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Edgar Wright, Glen Powell

Sandman Season 2

Animal Kingdom

Guy Ritchies The Covenant

Thunderbolts

The Old Guard 2

Jim Henson Idea Man

The Beach Boys

AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes’ of ads and trailers

APPS & DOODADS

Anker issues new global power bank recall over fire hazard

Visual Studio Code

Cursor

Windsurf

Anthropic Academy

The Onion in 2056: A dystopian world of Flash animation

Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet

WhereGoes Link Checker

YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Backbone iPhone Game Controller

PPSSPP - A PSP emulator

Delta Emulator

OpenEMU

Major Nintendo Switch Piracy Website Seized By FBI

Update on the Anbernic emulator device

MegaMan 2 music performed by an orchestra

Music by John Williams

Wipeout XL

Wipeout XL Playlist

Mahjong Titan+ Apple Arcade

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This week, we saddle up for another bumpy ride through the dystopian tech clown show. We kick off with the surveillance state’s greatest hits: ICE raids sweeping L.A., a website literally called FuckLAPD.com that lets you ID cops by their mug shots, and a Norwegian tourist who learned the hard way that having a JD Vance chipmunk meme on your phone is now grounds for deportation. Pro tip: if you’re traveling to the U.S., you might want to wrap your phone in lead and bury it in a cornfield.

In the news, Big Balls has apparently rolled his way from Elon’s Department of Government Efficiency to the Social Security Administration—because nothing says “government modernization” like a 19-year-old tech bro with a meme nickname. Meanwhile, Tesla robotaxis are hitting the roads (and maybe a few pedestrians) with human babysitters in tow, Waymo and Uber are turning Atlanta into Blade Runner Lite, and Texas wants a permit for your self-driving car. Over in AI hell, judges can’t agree if training your chatbot on stolen books is fair use or just digital asbestos. YouTube, never one to miss a race to the bottom, is rolling out an AI Slop button so you can crank up the crap to 11.

In Media Candy, Russell Crowe is beefing up his IMDb with Highlander, Henry Cavill is along for the ride, and Anthony Bourdain Day is apparently a thing (even though he’d have rolled his eyes at it). We also dig into everything from Minecraft movies to the sad demise of Blue Microphones at the hands of Logitech. Plus, Dave Bittner drops by to commiserate about malware, retro gaming handhelds, and why some Star Wars maps are basically porn for nerds. And yes—Windows is finally killing the Blue Screen of Death, proving even Microsoft can eventually learn to read the room.

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The mad scramble to track ICE raids across L.A. County

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

European tourist denied entry to US over JD Vance meme on his phone

'My Bad:' Babyface Vance Meme Creator On Norwegian Tourist's Detainment

Travelling to the U.S.? Here's a guide to locking down phones and other devices

IN THE NEWS

The Tyranny of ‘Big Balls’ Has Come to an End

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration

‘Techno King’ Elon Musk Doesn’t Own a Computer, His Lawyers Tell Court

Tesla's inaugural Robotaxi rides will have a human 'safety monitor' on board

Tesla's first robotaxi rides are already running into a few bumps

Waymo and Uber launch robotaxi service in Atlanta

Texas will require permits for self-driving cars starting in September

What We Know So Far About the Supposed ‘Mother of All Data Breaches’

Digital Asbestos

The Oversight Board calls Meta's uneven AI moderation 'incoherent and unjustifiable'

Judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted materials is fair use

Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

Two Courts Rule On Generative AI and Fair Use — One Gets It Right

YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source

First images from the largest camera ever built reveal millions of galaxies

MEDIA CANDY

Russell Crowe Lends His Russell Crowe-ness to ‘Highlander’

Russell Crowe Arming Up Opposite Henry Cavill In Chad Stahelski’s ‘Highlander’ At Amazon MGM Studios & UA

The Amateur

The Accountant 2

The Godfather of Harlem

In Vogue: The 90s

A Minecraft Movie

Anthony Bourdain didn't say that (but we wish he did)

How to celebrate Bourdain Day, a thing Tony probably would have hated

Quote Investigator

Doug Liman Will Attempt to Cram Stephen King’s Epic Novel ‘The Stand’ Into a Single Movie

The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone on Amazon Prime Video

‘The boys got sex. I got poetry’: what Britpop was like for women

The Story Behind the Song: The Bangle’s Susanne Hoffs - Eternal Flame

Less Than One

APPS & DOODADS

Brave keeps opening google app

Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

Philips Hue says US prices will go up in July because of tariffs

iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification

HDMI 2.2's full specs have been finalized, with better support for modern displays

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Andor

I Can’t Stop Staring at This Massive ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy Map

Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts

RG35XX H, Anbernic Retro Handheld Gaming Console with 64GTF Card, Dual Joystick Design 3.5-inch HD Screen Lasts up to 8 Hours High-Capacity Battery for Better Experience (64G Black)

DRAGON GRIP- The Martial Arts Sound Effects Toy

Reminds me of Weird Al poking fun of this in the “Fat” video

How Logitech Killed A Great Microphone Company - The History of Blue Microphones

Homemade Disneyland Star Tours Attraction (Full Ride Experience)

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In this week’s episode, Trump delays the TikTok ban for the third time—because procrastination is the new policy—and Twitter’s old sign finds new purpose as desert firewood. Tesla continues its streak of “hold my beer” engineering by blowing past a school bus in FSD tests, then mysteriously dumps Cybertrucks in Jersey parking lots while prepping a July 4th factory nap. Meanwhile, Elon’s xAI is incinerating a billion bucks a month and allegedly poisoning Memphis, OpenAI and Microsoft are beefing over who’s the bigger megalomaniac, and Sam Altman thinks your power bill should fund his robot overlords.

In other signs of the apocalypse: Amazon is gleefully replacing workers with AI, Microsoft finally admits it might’ve wasted billions chasing Skynet, and Wikipedia’s editors say no thanks to dumbed-down AI summaries. Studies warn ChatGPT may be turning your brain into smooth pudding, while swearing data reveals the internet prefers the F-word with regional flair. A broke crypto TikToker gets released because he’s too poor to ransom, and bankruptcies spike across the Bay as tech jobs vanish like investor confidence.

Media Candy brings a buffet from Inside Out to Murderbot to Stick, and Liam Neeson somehow makes the Naked Gun reboot look awesome; Apple tunes CarPlay to fit your weird dashboard, Trump sells a gold Android that’s tackier than his ties, and Dave goes full retro with Open EMU 2 and FPGA gaming; plus: Dr. Demento retires, Disneyland hits your screen, and we swear this isn’t all a fever dream.

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Donald Trump will delay a looming TikTok ban for a third time

The 560-pound Twitter sign met a fiery end in a Nevada desert

IN THE NEWS

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in Full Self-Driving tests

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Nine Times

What are hundreds of Teslas doing in a New Jersey mall parking lot?

Residents Baffled as Tesla Dumps Dozens of Cybertrucks in Shopping Center

Tesla plans to shut down Model Y and Cybertruck production over the week of July 4

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point

Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees

Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shocks industry by admitting AI has yet to deliver real value despite massive investment

Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI

xAI faces legal threat over alleged Colossus data center pollution in Memphis

Kidnappers free TikTok crypto influencer after realizing he has no money

Personal bankruptcy surges in the Bay as tech employment sags - The San Francisco Standard

201 ways to say ‘f**k’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears

Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world

MEDIA CANDY

Brave

Inside Out

Families Like Ours

Stick

Murderbot

FUBAR

Sinners

Rear Window

The Snake

The Naked Gun - Official Trailer (2025) Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson

The Sandman: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix

David Zaslav Is Getting a Pay Cut

How adversarial attacks in audio files give musicians new power against AI theft – Here’s what you need to know

Music Music tech Tech WebBenn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 26 will fit CarPlay to better match the shape of your car's screen

Mahjong Titan+

Trump’s New Cash Grab Is a Gold iPhone Lookalike That’s Worse Than Any Budget Android

The golden Trump Phone is almost certainly not made in the US

AT THE LIBRARY

Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan

Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years (Michael Palin Diaries Book 1)

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Open EMU 2

Analogue Pocket OpenFPGA Guide

All Major Gen-AI Models Vulnerable to ‘Policy Puppetry’ Prompt Injection Attack

Visit Disneyland From the Comfort of Disney+ With More POV Walkthroughs

Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55 Years

Star Wars metal.

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This week, we light a candle for lost legends and torch a few bad takes. In Follow Up, Molly White reminds us that giving a damn still matters—despite the rising tide of apathy (and flaming robotaxis in downtown L.A.). Protesters across the country chant “No Kings!” while Elon does his best impression of a bootlicker groveling back to Trump. Meanwhile, we take a moment to reflect on 2025’s greatest hits: riots, rollbacks, and rampant idiocy.

In the news, Uber decides buses are cool again—but shittier and more expensive. The UK jumps into the robotaxi game while Tesla, shockingly, misses another launch date. French Tesla fans are suing over the brand’s fashy vibes, Google is ghosting employees via buyout, and Meta’s trying to buy its way to artificial godhood. Oh, and Trump’s launching an AI chatbot. What could go wrong? Elsewhere, China turns off AI so kids can cheat the old-fashioned way, Disney and Universal are gunning for Midjourney, and Shopify goes stablecoin with Coinbase and Stripe.

Media Candy’s popping off: Foundation returns, Strange New Worlds prepares for its final warp, and Spaceballs is back—with the original cast! Meanwhile, we review Mythfits, Princess of Power, and the slow striptease that is David Zaslav’s credibility. On the gadget front: forget your canned air—go full vacuum-blower-keyboard-cleaner madness. And in The Dark Side with Dave, stormtroopers vlog, AI kills joy, and we race the beam in retro game land. Finally, we say goodbye to a few greats—Sly Stone, Brian Wilson, Ananda Lewis, Douglas McCarthy, and Apple legend Bill Atkinson. Play God Only Knows, pour one out, and stay grumpy.

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It matters. I care. by Molly White

Waymo Halts Service in Downtown Los Angeles After Its Taxis Are Set on Fire

What to know about 'No Kings' protests against Trump's policies

What It Was Like in the Shit in 2025

Elon Cuck Apologizes to Donald Trump

IN THE NEWS

Uber’s New Shuttle Is Basically a Bus, but Worse

The UK will get its first robotaxis next year

With Roadblock After Roadblock, Is Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Doomed to Fail?

Tesla's Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We're Shocked to Hear That It's Been Pushed Back - Shocked, we say.

French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol

Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search

Meta is reportedly forming an 'AI Superintelligence' team

The Trump Administration Is Launching an AI Chatbot

China Takes on Student Cheating by Shutting Off AI Nationwide During Exams

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say

Disney and Universal file major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney over AI-generated characters

Shopify partners with Coinbase and Stripe in landmark stablecoin deal

MEDIA CANDY

Mythfits Podcast

Marina - PRINCESS OF POWER

Foundation — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - July 11th

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With a Fifth and Final Season

Spaceballs Sequel Set for 2027 with Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks, and Bill Pullman All Returning

David Zaslav Has No Clothes

The Gauge

APPS & DOODADS

Supertone Clear

Blue Scold

The Real Problem With Bluesky

Compressed Air Duster with Air Blower 160000RPM Vacuum Cleaner and Air Duster 4 in 1 Keyboard Cleaner,No Canned Air Duster,Electir Air Duster,Replaces for Compressed Air Cans &Vacuum Cleaner for PC

BLACK+DECKER 20V MAX Lithium-Ion Cordless 10 in. String Trimmer/Edger with 1.5Ah Battery and Charger

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

A Stormtrooper Vlog | The Adventures of Dave and Greg

Soapy “Verticals” Helping to Keep Hollywood Employed in L.A. As Film and TV Projects Leave

How AI is killing joy

Finding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data

Racing The Beam: The Story of Stella

Analogue Pocket

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Stremio

Sly Stone, Pioneering Bandleader and Funk Virtuoso, Dead at 82

SLY LIVES!

The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82

Sting Performs Moving Cover of “God Only Knows” in Tribute to Brian Wilson: Watch

Strong Songs - "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys

Ananda Lewis, Host of MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’ and ‘Hot Zone,’ Dies At 52

Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy has died at 58

RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac

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On this week’s episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we kick things off with the glorious meltdown of two of our least favorite Bond villains: Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Not only is their public pissing match tanking Tesla’s market cap, but now Trump’s launching a crypto wallet to… fund freedom? Or at least funnel it straight to his latest shell game. Meanwhile, someone at DOGE admitted the U.S. government wasn’t entirely incompetent, so naturally, they got fired. Efficiency is un-American, after all.

In the news, Ukraine leveled up with an unprecedented drone blitz on Russian airbases using—you guessed it—open source software. GitHub just became a geopolitical weapon. Back home, Nebraska wants to unplug your kids, Florida’s trying (and failing) to legislate dopamine, and Tesla’s panicking that their crash data might expose how their “Full Self-Driving” is really just short bus autopilot. And because the AI dystopia train never stops: OpenAI’s bot is recommending meth to recovering addicts, Meta’s replacing humans with risk-assessing algorithms, and one “AI startup” turned out to be 700 dudes in Bangalore with a decent VPN. Cue the dramatic zoom on Diabolus Ex Machina.

Media Candy this week is a buffet: Downton Abbey finally closes up shop, Stranger Things 5 sets a date, and Foundation still sucks. Marc Maron’s locking the gates for good, Garbage drops a surprisingly optimistic album, and Hollywood’s quietly been using AI like it’s a studio intern who doesn’t need sleep. Over in The Library, Jason’s back with Hitchhiker’s Guide and Brian dives in to Michael Palin’s Python diaries—because reading actual books is still a thing, damn it. Plus: Dave Bittner wants to “go antiquing” with Amy Sedaris with a Ben Franklin playbook. Closing shout-outs go to the legendary Loretta Swit—Hot Lips forever—and yes, we finally answer the question nobody asked: what is under a Jawa’s hood?

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Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk's Government Contracts as Feud Escalates

Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap

Trump to launch branded crypto trading application

DOGE Fires Operative After He Admits the Government Was Already Pretty Efficient

IN THE NEWS

Ukraine destroys 40 aircraft deep inside Russia ahead of peace talks in Istanbul

A surprise drone attack on airfields across Russia encapsulates Ukraine’s wartime strategy

Explained: Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack on Russian Warplanes

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

How Ukraine’s Killer Drones Are Beating Russian Jamming

The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine

A new Nebraska law wants to make social media less addictive for kids

Florida's social media law has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge

Tesla is trying to stop certain self-driving crash data becoming public

Tesla admits it would ‘suffer financial harm’ if its self-driving crash data becomes public

Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

Meta will reportedly soon use AI for most product risk assessments instead of human reviewers

Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says

The FDA rolls out its own AI to speed up clinical reviews and scientific evaluations

AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers

Diabolus Ex Machina

Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Often Overlook

MEDIA CANDY

DOWNTON ABBEY: The Grand Finale

Stranger Things 5 finally has its release date

Poker Face

Foundation

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders

American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden

The Last of Us

The Taste UK

Somebody Feed Phil

How George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Is Preparing to Go Live on CNN

Mountainhead

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)

Lionsgate Explores AI for Content Adaptation and Production Efficiency

Marc Maron Will Lock The Gates One Last Time

Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light

Schmactors

AT THE LIBRARY

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Michael Palin Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years (Michael Palin Diaries Book 1)

Jason DeFillippo on Goodreads

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army Grand Military Parade and Celebration

Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress

Disney Pulls Back the Curtain on Its New 'Cars' Land

"Thank You, Muppet*Vision 3D" — Official Music Video

Peli is REALLY familiar with Jawas... The Book of Boba Fett - E5

Star Wars: What's Beneath a Jawa's Hood? The Stuff of Nightmares

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Loretta Swit, Who Played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on MAS*H, Dead at 87

MASH Matters Podcast

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In this week’s “we told you so” edition, we kick things off with the latest AI faceplant—go ahead, Google “Is it 2025?” and try not to spit coffee on your keyboard. Meanwhile, over at Meta, Zuckerberg’s brilliant idea to loosen content moderation has, shocker, led to more harassment and violent content. Elsewhere in tech dystopia: Texas is trying to ground all minors off social media, Germany wants to slap a 10% tax on Silicon Valley, and Anthropic is handing out free search powers and a board seat to Netflix’s Reed Hastings. Because nothing says “trusted AI governance” like a guy who greenlit Love Is Blind.

But wait, crypto bros are having their own John Wick arc: a luxury townhouse, a missing wallet, and possibly an NYPD detective tangled in a real-life “crypto millionaire torture” flick. As if that isn’t enough, Trump Media is fundraising to buy $2.5B in Bitcoin—and DJT stock promptly nosedived. Also feuding this week: Marjorie Taylor Greene vs. Grok, because nothing screams Christian values like rageposting at Elon’s AI. And speaking of Elon, he’s now in bed with Telegram to the tune of $300 million, which we’re sure won’t be a disinformation factory.

MEDIA CANDY is stacked: from the Murderbot diaries to a My Dinner with Andre rewatch, and yes, the Wheel of Time got axed after 3 seasons. Apps? Opera Neon is a UI fever dream, Starling Home Hub adds more smarts to your house, and WhatsApp finally arrives on iPad—welcome to 2016. In THE DARK SIDE, Dave Bittner brings the latest digital dirt, including the CIA’s bonkers Star Wars fan site op. And if you’re hitting the library, grab The AI Con or something more romantic—like Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse. Just be careful if you read that on public transit.

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Don't Google "Is it 2025?" unless you want to laugh at the state of AI

IN THE NEWS

Facebook sees rise in violent content and harassment after policy changes

What we know about the NYC crypto kidnapping and torture case

Manhattan Crypto Kidnapping and Torture Case: What We Know

NYPD detective on Adams' security detail may be tied to crypto millionaire torture case: Sources

Judge denies bail to crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing man in posh NYC townhouse

Trump Media Raises Money to Buy $2.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Trump administration ramps up push as crypto ally

DJT shares drop after Trump Media announces bitcoin raise - CNBC

Texas is getting ready to ban social media for anyone under 18

Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

Germany is considering a 10 percent digital service tax on US tech giants

EU regulators are investigating Pornhub and three other sites

Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users

Reed Hastings appointed to Anthropic's board of directors

Anthropic appoints Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings to board - CNBC

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings joins Anthropic's board | TechCrunch

RFK Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Cites Fake Studies

Marjorie Taylor Greene feuds with AI bot over her Christian cred

Telegram CEO announces $300 million partnership with Elon Musk's xAI and Grok

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot

Long Way Home

Lilo and Stitch

Martha

‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons

Billy Joel Cancels Concerts Due to Brain Disorder

My Dinner with Andre

Grumpy Old Geeks Information on RocketReach

Schmactors with James Marsters, Mark Devine, and Jason DeFillippo

APPS & DOODADS

Opera Neon

Apple Reportedly Says ‘Screw It’ and Jumps From iOS 19 to iOS 26

Starling Home Hub

WhatsApp finally launches an official version for iPads

AT THE LIBRARY

The Essential Terry Pratchett

Good Omens TV Companion Misprint

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

LIVE: Kermit the Frog gives commencement speech at University of Maryland

Billy Joel - I've Loved These Days (Audio)

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This week, we kick things off with the return of Space Karen’s meltdown tour: Elon Musk got flustered in an interview, sputtered out one-word answers, and called the journalist an “NPC,” which is rich coming from the guy whose only real upgrade since PayPal is yelling “freedom” in meme fonts. Meanwhile, 23andMe sold your DNA to Regeneron at a bankruptcy auction, proving once and for all that your spit is more valuable than most tech startups.

IN THE NEWS is a parade of corporate idiocy and dystopian fuckery. Coinbase employees got bribed into leaking user data (because clearly we didn’t have enough crypto chaos), Klarna keeps flip-flopping between AI and human workers like it’s a bad Tinder date, and OpenAI is out here buying Jony Ive’s design firm for $6.5 billion because sure, what’s another billion when you’re trying to build a surveillance device to stalk 100 million users? Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times is publishing AI-generated trash with imaginary authors, Anthropic’s new model attempts blackmail, and researchers dumped two billion Discord messages online just for kicks. And yes, Elon’s Tesla robotaxis will now only roam the safest parts of Austin, which is code for “we still can’t make this thing turn left.”

In MEDIA CANDY, we’re watching Murderbot, Godfather of Harlem, and Hotel Cocaine because who doesn’t love a little synthetic assassin, crime drama, and coke-fueled nostalgia? Notepad.exe now writes for you (and probably files HR complaints too), and Audible is teaming up with publishers to replace narrators with robot voices. Yay, progress. Over in THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, Bittner brings the malware, monsters, and a new theme park review that’s somehow less terrifying than the news. Bookworms, don’t miss Curepedia and The AI Con — one’s about goth gods, the other’s about taking down our techno-overlords. And pour one out for George Wendt — Norm from Cheers is now drinking with the angels.

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Elon Musk Gets Rattled by Hard Questions He Can't Answer, Calls Interviewer an "NPC" While Giving One-Word NPC-Like Responses Himself

23andMe (and Your Genetic Data) Sold to Regeneron in Bankruptcy Auction

IN THE NEWS

Extortionists bribed Coinbase employees to give them customer data

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion

Sam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users' Lives

Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI

Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive's OpenAI deal

Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings

Klarna users are buying now, but not paying later

DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

We’re Focused on the Wrong A.I. Problem in Journalism

Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI

Researchers Dump 2 Billion Scraped Discord Messages Online

Musk says Tesla's self-driving tests will be geofenced to 'the safest' parts of Austin

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot

Godfather of Harlem

Hotel Cocaine

APPS & DOODADS

The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws

Apple confirms iOS 19 will end support for legacy Home app system

Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

AT THE LIBRARY

Curepedia: An A-Z of the Cure by Simon Price

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

First photos from inside Universal Studio’s new Orlando theme park Epic Universe revealed

A Very Honest Review on Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment | Universal's Epic Universe

Gadget recommendation - Electric Air Duster with Flashlight

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

George Wendt, Norm From Cheers, Dead at 76

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This week on Grumpy Old Geeks: FOLLOW UP kicks off with Manus madness, a $2 million ticket to Trump’s crypto cash-grab, and Elon’s Boring Company worming its way into an $8 billion Amtrak boondoggle. Meanwhile, CryptoPunks gets handed off to a nonprofit like an expired Groupon—proof the NFT hype cycle ends with a 501(c)(3) and a shrug.

IN THE NEWS, Microsoft trims another 3% of its workforce while a former Metaverse engineer delivers DoorDash from a trailer—living proof that “the future of work” is just working for the apps. Klarna quietly admits AI sucks at customer service and hires back actual people, just as OpenAI’s reasoning models hit the brakes. The Pope wants to exorcise AI, Elon’s backfiring Copyright Office coup leaves him empty-handed, and YouTube starts banning AI-faked trailers that made Screen Culture money off Marvel lies. Jamie Lee Curtis goes full Final Girl on Zuckerberg, and Tesla drama ramps up: robotaxis under investigation, employees revolting, and one poor dealership manager gets canned for telling the truth about ol’ Musky. Oh, and scientists say the universe might die sooner than expected—cool cool cool.

In MEDIA CANDY, Murderbot arrives May 16, NIN launches the Future Ruins Festival, and Star Trek and Star Wars both dig up classic soundtracks for some retro feels. Jessica Jones returns in Daredevil: Born Again, Fallout gets Seasons 2 and 3, and even Nobody 2 is back for more murder-dad mayhem. In THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE, Mr. Bittner shares two truly bleak customer service horror stories and gets bamboozled by a flower shop on Brian’s birthday (happy birthday, Brian!). Also: animatronic Mickey Mouse serves popcorn, Walt Disney’s ghost haunts the parks, Muppets get a pre-show for their 70th, and yes, there’s a guide to toilet-training your cat. Because sure, why not. Closing shout-out? Everyone is entitled to my own opinion.

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Leave it to Manus

A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million

Elon’s Boring Company Is ‘Helping’ the Government With an $8 Billion Amtrak Tunnel Project

CryptoPunks was just sold to a nonprofit

IN THE NEWS

Microsoft is laying off 3 percent of its global workforce

Laid-Off Metaverse Engineer Says He Is DoorDashing and Living in a Trailer

Silicon Valley’s Elusive Fantasy of a Computer as Smart as You

Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI

Improvements in 'reasoning' AI models may slow down soon, analysis finds

The New Pope Wants to Take on AI

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired

Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use

YouTube Cracks Down on Fake Movie Trailer Channels Making Money

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

Tesla's robotaxi plans have the attention of federal investigators

A Tesla Dealership Manager Blamed Elon Musk for Tanking Sales and Was Immediately Fired

Tesla Employees Against Elon

Open Letter to Elon

Open Letter to Elon - @openletter2elon

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

MEDIA CANDY

Murderbot premiers May 16th

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nine Inch Nails Announce Future Ruins Festival, Celebrating Influential Music Composers

Andor

Rogue One

Long Way Home

Krysten Ritter Will Return as Jessica Jones in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2

Fallout Season 2 Coming in December and Season 3 Is a Go

Nobody 2 | Official Trailer

Superman | Official Trailer | DC

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finally Returns This July

Star Trek: Prodigy May Need a New Home Again Soon

ESPN's streaming service will cost up to $30 per month and be called... ESPN

Fox One is a new streaming service that should launch before September

Max Renamed HBO Max as Warner Bros. Discovery Gives Up

Lived Through That - Episode 76 - Andy Prieboy

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Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

You Can Now Eat Popcorn Out of a Moving, Talking Mickey Mouse at Disneyland

Disney Says It Made Its Walt Disney Robot to Remind Fans He Was an Actual Person

Disneyland Didn’t Want to Do the Muppets Totally Dirty for Their 70th Anniversary

Muppets Pre-Show for World of Color Happiness! at Disneyland Resort for 70th Anniversary

How to Toilet-Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home

How to Toilet-Train Your Cat: 21 Days to a Litter-Free Home Download

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

everyone is entitled to my own opinion

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In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks, we’re serving up a buffet of dystopia with a side of snark. First, Kuwait has finally realized crypto bros are an energy drain, not a feature. Celsius Network’s founder gets 12 years for running a “safe investment” Ponzi scheme. And in Lopez v. Apple, we find yet another reason to question Cupertino’s moral compass.

Then it’s time for a trip through the tech trash fire. DoorDash gobbles up Deliveroo, proving there’s no such thing as too many overpriced salads. Google wants your kids to befriend Gemini—because what could go wrong giving tweens supervised AI access? Tesla’s “Robotaxi” trademark gets the boot for being as generic as Elon’s pickup lines. Meanwhile, Grok strips in public, deepfake porn sites get the axe, and dating app “Raw” rawdogs user data like it’s the early 2000s internet. We also hit peak Black Mirror with brain-typed tweets, AI-resurrected relatives, and crypto kidnappers playing real-life GTA.

On Media Candy, the streaming overlords dump trailers like Halloween candy. Squid Game is back to traumatize you, Star Trek: Lower Decks keeps boldly going where no animated series should, and The Old Guard 2 teases a Theron-vs-Thurman sword fight. Plus, Apple’s UX team found the “enhance” button, Netflix wants to be helpful (lol), and Google dreams of becoming a Hollywood darling. Over in Apps & Doodads, Apple wants to stagger iPhone drops, Disney sells you a $3,000 droid with zero sass, and Smart Flowerpots are now a thing because apparently, you can’t be trusted to water your plant.

And finally, it’s time for The Dark Side with Dave, where Bittner brings us malware, click tracks, fake vocals, and the shocking truth about KISS’s lipsync disaster in Antwerp. We also dip into ILM’s jaw-dropping legacy, Star Wars’ shady back alleys, and a new Disneyland in Abu Dhabi, because nothing says “happiest place on Earth” like 120°F desert heat. All this and more, right here on your favorite snark-fueled ragecast

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FOLLOW UP

Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners to cut down on electricity usage

Founder of crypto platform Celsius Network is sentenced to 12 years in prison

Lopez v. Apple Inc.

IN THE NEWS

DoorDash is buying British rival Deliveroo for $3.9 billion

Shrinking Website Run By Nazi Psychopath Wants to Improve Its Image

Tesla 'Robotaxi' trademark refused for being too generic

Kids under 13 will soon get supervised access to Google Gemini

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

Dating App ‘Raw’ Accidentally Rawdogs Users’ Location Data, Personal Info

GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show

Leading deepfake porn site is shut down for good

Lehigh County's $500 Million Pension Fund Halts Tesla Investments

NOAA Warns of Attacks on Radar Systems by Militia That Thinks They Are ‘Weather Weapons’

Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial

We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Spring Baking Championship

Unveiling Our Innovative New TV Experience Featuring Enhanced Design, Responsive Recommendations and a New Way to Search

Apple renews Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire 'The Studio' for season two ahead of finale

The End Is Here in the First Trailer for Squid Game 3

The Long Walk (2025) Official Trailer

The Third Crisis dawns in Foundation S3 teaser

New Old Guard 2 Trailer Sees Charlize Theron Cross Swords With Uma Thurman

The best travel show on Apple TV+ just made its triumphant return

Poker Face Season 2

Google is reportedly getting back into film and TV with a tech-friendly production initiative

Golden Globes Adding Best Podcast Category Beginning In 2026

APPS & DOODADS

Apple reportedly wants to split up the iPhone’s release schedule

Apple to add AI search partners to Safari as Google usage falls

Patreon update lets U.S. fans bypass Apple’s 30% fee in iOS app, more changes coming

Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store change

Disney’s Got a Star Wars Droid to Sell You…for $3,000

Smart Flowerpots,Smart Pet Planter,Ai Planter,Intelligent Flowerpots,Multiple Expressions,7 Smart Sensors, and Ai Chips Make Raising Plants Easy and Fun for Living Room,Plant-Free,Yellow

Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program

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Dave Bittner

The CyberWire

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Only Malware in the Building

Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects

Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation

Digital Dreams: The Work of the Sony Design Center

Andor

Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld

Disney Just Announced a Brand New Theme Park: Disneyland Abu Dhabi

KISS : Total Lip Sync Fail in Antwerp Belgium 6 June 2022

KISS In Ear Monitor Feed with Click Track, Cues and FAKE VOCALS The Smoking Gun Eddie Trunk

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