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Google search results really are getting worse; Artifact shutting down; more Google layoffs, even more coming; Uber shuts down Drizzly; Sandberg leans out of Meta; Zack's general intelligence; OpenAI a-ok with military & warfare; drone attack prep; Bluey; the Brothers Sun; Bear; She-Hulk; Fargo; Weird: the Al Yankovic Story; Carlin AI special; Rick Rubin; What Next: TBD; BBEdit; Vienna RSS; Permute; Apple overtakes Samsung; AI binoculars; self-checkout nightmare; Wordpress; Greg Bear; Dr. Karan Rajan; Martha Wells Murderbot; Dune & David Lynch; Star Wars; Disneyland; Star Wars Land; HoloTile; Incognito mode only hides things from yourself; Apple Vision Pro; defending Apple.

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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles

IN THE NEWS

Instagram's founders are shutting down Artifact, their year-old news app

Google is laying off hundreds of workers who sell ads to big businesses

Google CEO says more layoffs expected 'throughout the year' in internal memo

Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion

Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving the Meta Board

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

OpenAI's policy no longer explicitly bans the use of its technology for 'military and warfare'

U.S. tech companies prepare for potential drone attacks as international strikes spark concern

Las Vegas Criminalizes Stopping For Selfies on Pedestrian Bridges

MEDIA CANDY

Bluey’s cricket episode: why did it leave Australians in tears and Americans puzzled?

The Brothers Sun

The Trust - A Game of Greed

She-Hulk Season 2 Seems Unlikely, According to Tatiana Maslany

Netflix Reveals a New Look at Its 3 Body Problem Adaptation—and Its Release Date

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

EU says music streaming platforms must pay artists more

George Carlin's Daughter Doubles Down in Bashing AI Comedy Special

George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead (2024) - Full Special

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

What Next: TBD

APPS & DOODADS

BBEdit 15 is here!

Vienna RSS

Permute

Get Permute on SetApp

Apple ends Samsung's decade-plus run as global smartphone shipment leader

Apple updates US App Store guidelines allowing developers to link to third-party payments

Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

Marc Newson designs Swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own

The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

AT THE LIBRARY

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Dr. Karan Rajan

System Collapse - Murderbot Diaries Book 7 by Martha Wells

David Lynch's Lost Dune 2 Script Has Been Found

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

The New and Updated Guide to Every Star Wars Movie and TV Show We Know Is Coming

'The Mandalorian' Is Getting a Movie—Which It Should Have Been All Along

All Your Questions About The Mandalorian & Grogu, Answered

No, Rey's Star Wars Movie Hasn't Been Delayed

Meet the Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'

Google now admits it could collect data in Chrome's Incognito mode

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We're back; class-action lawsuits; Hertz ditching TVs; SEC approves Bitcoin ETFs but does not endorse Bitcoin; ChatGPT store, auto implementations; a pink-slip tsunami: Unity, NASA, Duolingo, Amazon, Audible, Twitch, Pixar, Humane, Google, oh my; Happiest Season; Family Switch; Barbie; Trevor Noah; Dave Chappelle; the Killer; Mission Impossible; food documentaries; the Traitors; Reacher; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; upcoming shows; Audacity files for bankruptcy; Tom Lehrer; Squaresapce; SetApp; iPhone 15 Plus; Fantasy Hike; Instagram post-holiday ads; Apple Vision Pro; MouthPad; shaving & Apple Watch Ultra updates; hacked Nutrunners; public transport; Canadian right to privacy, even for thieves.

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Esposito et al. v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless

Rental giant Hertz replacing Teslas with gasoline cars

eBay Sent Critics a Bloody Pig Mask. Now It’s Paying a $3 Million Fine

IN THE NEWS

SEC approves bitcoin ETFs (for real this time)

ChatGPT maker OpenAI launches GPT Store and a subscription tier for teams

A Volkswagen with ChatGPT told me a story about dinosaurs at CES 2024

Amazon and BMW are replacing the driver's manual with AI

Unity to lay off another 1,800 employees, representing 25% of its workforce

Layoffs Loom at NASA After Termination of Over 100 Contractors Amid Mars Budget Constraints

Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractor workforce as the company embraces AI

Amazon is laying off ‘several hundred’ employees at Prime Video and MGM Studios

Amazon-owned Audible lays off 5% of staff

Twitch is laying off 35 percent of its workforce

As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024

Humane lays off staff before its 'Ai Pin' begins shipping

Google lays off “hundreds” more employees, strips Google Assistant features

Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

MEDIA CANDY

Happiest Season

Family Switch

Barbie

Obliterated

Trevor Noah: Where Was I?

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon

The Killer

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING, PART ONE

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

The Traitors UK Season 2

The Traitors US Season 2

Fargo Season 5

Reacher Season 2

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Halo Season 2 trailer promises a live-action "Fall of Reach"

‘Slow Horses’ Rides to Season 5 Renewal at Apple

The Last Season of Stranger Things Has Finally Begun Production

Netflix’s sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem finally gets a full-sized trailer

Broadcaster Audacy Files for Bankruptcy After Deal to Slash Debt

Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

APPS & DOODADS

The King of Vogue - Dashaun Wesley

SetApp - Dozens of apps. One subscription. $9.99

An iPhone Fell From Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and Survived Unscathed

MagSafe Charger Stand, Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe, 15W Max Fast Charging Stand, Foldable Wireless Charger for iPhone 15/14/13 Series, Apple Watch S1-8/Ultra, AirPods (30W USB-C Charger Included)

Play background sounds on iPhone to mask environmental noise

Fantasy Hike

The Conqueror

Job Town Tools

Sandbox VR

Learn more about Apple Vision Pro

Samsung debuts the world's first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024

MouthPad turns your tongue into a mouse for your phone

Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them.

Chrome Users Now Worth 30% Less Money Thanks to Google's Cookie Killing, Ad Firm Says

Using the 2003 Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED to Digitize Film in 2023

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

How to Turn Your iPhone Screen Red

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

Wave of the hand defeats new $700k subway gates meant to deter fare evaders

Canadian Police Say 'Porch Pirates' Have a Right to Privacy

The Jewel Thief

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Last show of the year; YouTube jail; Google; Blue Origin; AI bubbles; dealing with Musk; Hue pink slips; brain-scale supercomputers; more tech fraud; X under EU investigation; Teslas crash most; Adobe Figma deal off; Hyperloop One done; AI dataset riddled with CSAM; Bird goes bankrupt; stop planting trees; Kang verdict; potential Discovery/Paramount merger; the Family Plan; Monarch; Reacher; Slow Horses; Bookie; The Crown; French streaming music tax; Apple Watch sales halted, sorta; iPod wallpapers; TikTok on tablets; VPNs come to Apple TV; Synology sunset; sleeping; a tale of holiday roasts; Happy Holidays!

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Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states

Blue Origin Rebounds With New Shepard's Successful Launch After Previous Mission Failure

DoorDash and Uber minimum wage ruling leads companies to hit back on tipping

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

IN THE NEWS

Philips Hue announces job cuts and reorganization amid 'market uncertainty'

World's First Human 'Brain-Scale' Supercomputer Will Go Online in 2024

Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison for fraud

X Under Investigation for Spreading ‘Illegal Content’ on Israel and Hamas in EU

Teslas Crash More Than Any Other Brand, Analysis Finds

Adobe Officially Cancels $20 Billion Figma Acquisition

Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down

How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

Electric scooter rental company Bird files for bankruptcy two years after going public

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

MEDIA CANDY

Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors as Kang After Assault Trial Verdict

Actor Jonathan Majors Found Guilty of Assault and Harassment

Tolkien Estate and Amazon Win Court Case for Lord of the Rings Rights

A Potential Warner Bros and Paramount Merger Could Be Hollywood's Next Megacorp

The Family Plan

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Reacher

Slow Horses S3

Bookie

The Crown Season 6, Part Deux

New French streaming music tax would finance a music industry support group. Streamers counter.

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales paused in the US due to a patent dispute

Apple Settles Family Sharing Subscription Lawsuit

iPod wallpapers for iPhone: Download these now

TikTok rolls out an enhanced app experience for tablets and foldables

NordVPN comes to the Apple TV

Private Internet Access - Smart DNS on AppleTV

Private Internet Access GOG Deal!

Spark Mail on SetApp

Synology to Sunset DSM 6.2 Operating System: What Users Should Know

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The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Company Brags About Using Smart Device Microphone Audio to Target Ads on Their Podcast

Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents

Xfinity breach may have affected as many as 35.8 million customers

The DOJ says it disrupted the Blackcat ransomware group

INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation

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Pink slips and "challenging environments" at Hasbro, Etsy, Cruise & Twit; San Fran tech CEO slave contract; Epic will case vs Google; Meta fact-checking plan for Threads; Starlink loses out on subsidies; Microsoft plays nice with unions; Tesla's Swedish Trash Metal, recalls over Autopilot software, Cybertruck; SpaceX & Blue Origin; communing with the whales; more Traitors; Slow Horses; Sliced Bread; streaming consolidation & confusion; Netflix metrics; Murderbot; Apple updates; GM drops CarPlay for... safety; Mistral; E3 is officially dead; Teresa Strasser; Longitude by Dave Sobel; Charlie Stross Accelerando; hello, Computer?

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Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving

Etsy stock falls after company lays off 11% of its staff, citing ‘very challenging’ environment

Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise

A HEARTFELT FAREWELL: TWIT SAYS GOODBYE TO VALUED TEAM MEMBERS

IN THE NEWS

San Francisco tech CEO Christian Lanng accused of forcing assistant to sign 'slave contract,' sexual torture

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Meta is going to fact-check content on the Threads app

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

Microsoft agrees to union contract terms involving the use of AI

Tesla's Fight With Swedish Unions Just Got Trashy

Tesla Recalls 2 Million Vehicles Over Autopilot Software Issue

Tesla could still sue Cybertruck owners if they flip their vehicles too soon

Watch a Cybertruck get towed by a Ford pickup after the Tesla appears to get stuck off-roading

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment

Researchers fuse lab-grown human brain tissue with electronics

SpaceX shares cinematic footage of last month’s Starship mission

Bezos’ Blue Origin aiming to make long-awaited return to launch next week

Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter with Humpback Whales Reveals Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication

MEDIA CANDY

The Traitors UK

Slow Horses

Gary Oldman looks worlds away from his usual self as he sports a bushy grey beard at screening of Slow Horses in NYC after receiving Golden Globe nod

Doctor Who Special 3

Sliced Bread

Showtime's Cable Channel Is Changing Its Name to... Paramount+ With Showtime

Google begins shifting users from Play Movies & TV ahead of its January shutdown

Netflix’s first engagement report reveals its most popular shows and movies

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Explains Why It Has Been Hiding All That Streaming Data

Tucker Carlson Launches Subscription Streamer, Because X Reportedly Couldn’t Do the Job

Apple will reportedly reward artists for offering music in spatial audio

Apple is making a Murderbot series starring Alexander Skarsgård

APPS & DOODADS

iOS 17.2 and Apple's new Journal app are now available

Apple tvOS 17.2 has a redesigned TV experience and no iTunes Movies or TV Shows apps

Apple launches Stolen Device Protection for iPhone with iOS 17.3 beta, here’s how it works

GM’s latest excuse for dropping CarPlay is its dumbest yet

Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI

OpenAI inks deal with Axel Springer on licensing news for model training

E3 is officially dead

AT THE LIBRARY

Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League by Teresa Strasser

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Accelerando by Charles Stross

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

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California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's Spotify Wrapped message; podcast industry problems; Mint, Google Podcasts shutting down; anti-woke AI Grok is here, what could possibly go wrong; Google launches Gemini, fakes demo; Amazon sued over "guaranteed delivery"; Star Trek: Discovery back for final season; Foundation season 3; Disney+ Hulu integration begins; Titans; Robbie Williams; Q Magazine; Playstation removes shows people paid for; holiday playlists; Clash Royale, end of an era; MacWhisper transcription; 23andMe hack much larger than originally reported; AI is spackle; COX Media is listening; shave & a haircut, two bits.

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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Continues to Go Terribly

World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part I

World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part II

Story Living by Disney

GM’s Cruise Threatened With Fines Over Allegedly Misleading Regulators

IN THE NEWS

Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb

Spotify’s CFO is out days after mass layoffs

Spotify and its CFO Paul Vogel have decided to part ways

Tidal is laying off 10 percent of its staff

All the big tech layoffs of 2023

'Washington Post' journalists stage daylong strike under threat of job cuts

Satirist Andy Borowitz Out at The New Yorker Amid Cost Cuts

“Weird Al” Yankovic on Viral Spotify Comments: There’s a Reason Why I Don’t Release Albums Anymore

Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie

Here's how to move your subscriptions off Google Podcasts before it shuts down

Intuit is shutting down Mint, its popular free budget-tracking app

Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply

Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real

Amazon, fighting consumer lawsuit, says 'guaranteed' delivery has limits

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date

The Last of Us Season 2 Will Debut in 2025

Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is coming back for season 3

‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed for Three More Seasons at HBO

Disney+ adds a Hulu tab as the streaming services start integrating

Titans

Robbie Williams

Q Magazine

Cruel World Festival III

PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

BBC 6 Music’s Alternative Christmas

80(ish) Alternative Christmas

A New Wave Christmas

Indie Christmas

Electronic Christmas

Christmas for Goth

X-Mas Punk

Christmas Peaceful Guitar

Christmas Classics

The Labours Of Hercule Podcast

Darknet Diaries EP 140: REVENGE BYTES

APPS & DOODADS

Entire team behind popular iPhone video app Filmic reportedly laid off

Blackmagic Camera

Half of London's famed black cab taxi fleet are now EVs

MacWhisper transcription now up to 3x faster on Macs with Apple silicon

MacWhisper

Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers

23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court

The cops think iOS 17’s NameDrop is dangerous

AI is spackle - from Mark Hurst.

COX Media group is listening.

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Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit; pink slip season appetizers; DevTernity female cos-play; death at Amazon; Moscow's criminal wanted list adds Andy Stone; locked out of Google; as the TwiX turns; Mr. Free Speech; The Crown; Welcome to Wrexham; Doctor Who; Squid Game Challenge; Milli Vanilli; AI video goes Giffy; no-BS games; Jason beats Auphonic; IKEA's smart home devices; Google drive files goes missing; DeepMind finds the Dark Crystal; finishing up The Last Emperox; Galaxy Outlaws; Fooled; Comixology; 404 Media; sleep data; AT&T Hemisphere; public transit & privacy; gadget catalogs; shaving & supple, elastic skin.

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Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses

Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges

Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers

Guy Brags About "Stealing" Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors' Articles Using AI

Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet

Seven years after Elon Musk started The Boring Company, the company only has 2.4 miles of tunnel to show for it

IN THE NEWS

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs

Mass layoffs reportedly hit Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse

A popular female coding influencer's Instagram is apparently run by a man

A 20-year-old Amazon employee died at work. Indiana issued a $7,000 fine.

Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports

How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out

Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content

X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says 'f*ck yourself' to advertisers

After Musk tirade, X faces prospect of more advertisers fleeing

‘If Tesla gets unionized it’s because we deserve it’: Elon Musk says he’s made his factory workers millionaires but concedes some may still turn against him

Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 – a critical update to self-driving effort

MEDIA CANDY

Milli Vanilli

Squid Game Challenge

Slow Horses

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies On the Importance of Showing Trans Struggles

The Crown Season 6

Welcome to Wrexham Season 2

APPS & DOODADS

AI Video is Animating Classic Memes

Generative AI for Beginners - A Course

No-Bullshit Games

IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage

Google is investigating a Drive issue that causes files to go missing

New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning

AT THE LIBRARY

The Last Emperox (The Interdependency Book 3) by John Scalzi

Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions, 1-16.5 by J. S. Morin

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Important Changes to the Comixology app starting December 4, 2023

George R.R. Martin Has No (New) Pages

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama

US Senator calls for the public release of AT&T ‘Hemisphere’ surveillance records

Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymity

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs

Viking Revolution Pre Shave Oil for Men

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Shout out to Ted (aka Trackpants) & Christine @ Reid’s Chocolates

Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP

Shane MacGowan, Pogues Singer, Dead at 65

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While we were away; Thanksgiving gratitude bombs; OpenAI's overworked HR department; Meta disbands Responsible AI team; Truth Social hemorrhaging money; no idea how many people Cruise have hit; JenniCam & Justin.tv; Binance money laundering; Jason vs CZ; YouTube adblocking causing "suboptimal viewing experiences"; Amazon's AI Olympus; Loki finale; lawmakers stepping into media; the Traitors around the world; Pigeon Tunnel; Slow Horses; anime; mildly buzzed on a plane movie reviews; Not Today, Pal; the President's Daily Brief; Apple Watch; Spotify; Sonos; Filoni given the Star Wars keys; Apple Watch; Autozone breach.

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WHILE WE WERE AWAY

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows

Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

Cruise's Kyle Vogt resigns as CEO of the robotaxi company

Cruise co-founder resigns following CEO exit

IN THE NEWS

Binance Founder Agrees to Plead Guilty to Violating Money Laundering Rules

Google admits YouTube's war on ad blockers is resulting in 'suboptimal viewing' experiences

Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model codenamed 'Olympus' -sources

OpenAI drops a big new ChatGPT feature with a joke about its CEO drama

MEDIA CANDY

The Night Manager

Lawmakers Press Apple on Whether Jon Stewart’s Show Was Canceled Because of China Concerns

Senator Joaquin Castro on the WBD decision to cancel the Coyote vs. ACME movie

The Traitors Season 2 Features an All-Star Reality TV Cast

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test

The Pigeon Tunnel

Slow Horses

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Asteroid City

Americanish

Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love

Darker Waves Festival

The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing.

The President's Daily Brief

Monday Movie Marathon

Not Today Pal

APPS & DOODADS

How to try out the new double tap gesture on your old Apple Watch

A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees

Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays

Sonos' long-rumored headphones will reportedly arrive by April 2024

THE DARK SIDE WITHOUT DAVE

Dave Filoni Just Got a Bigger, More Important Star Wars Job

Apple Watch battery life bug is fixed with watchOS 10.1.1

AutoZone warns almost 185,000 customers of a data breach

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Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse than previously reported; OpenAI's expanding; Google generative AI ads; bros on a boat; AI bot engages in insider trading, lying about it; Loki, the Marvels & superhero fatigue; SAG-AFTRA strike ends; Musk biopic; streaming media accounting; Marianne Faithfull; Star Trek escape room; the Traitors; YouTube ad-blocking; Humane AI Pin; the Interdependency; new sci-fi trilogy from the Expanse writers; thoughts are with the Great Woz.

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Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’

Sam Bankman-Fried and the People Who Gave Up Their Money for Nothing

Citation Needed

IN THE NEWS

WeWork files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes

Things are going from bad to worse for Cruise's robotaxis

Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?

Cruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles

Everything announced at OpenAI's first developer event

Google brings generative AI to ads

Google Announces Expansion of AI Partnership with Anthropic

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform

AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers

MEDIA CANDY

Loki

‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before

Hollywood studios reportedly want to recycle dead actors’ AI likenesses without family permission

Darren Aronofsky Will Direct an Elon Musk Biopic for A24

Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers, Still Loses Money

Marianne Faithfull Covers Album Features Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson, Cat Power, and More

Star Trek: Quantum Filament

The Traitors Australia

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University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

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