Grumpy Old Geeks

We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps; Dramatron; social media for strangers; Meta's Hasher-Matcher-Actioner; Twitter's do what I say not what I do; Tesla's failure is not fraud; Sam Bankman-Fried & continued crypto arrests & lawsuits; Lord of the Rings marathon feast; Wednesday; The Peripheral; the White Lotus; Slow Horses; Drumpf NFT; too many tabs; Apple to allow outside app stores, dropping Webkit requirement; password managers; Twitter suspensions; the Marshall amp.

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IN THE NEWS

Breakthroughs of the Year

Scientists achieve fusion ignition, a major milestone in clean energy production

Audio from a Martian dust devil captured for the first time

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts

Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology

Social Media Is for Strangers Now

Meta releases an open-source tool that can scan for terrorist content

A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety Council of external advisors

Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful

The college student tracking Elon Musk's jet lashes out after Twitter bans his account. He says he'll keep posting.

Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It

Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended

Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’

Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple Music

Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force

Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder charged with defrauding investors

Celebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT Endorsements

Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors

‘O.C.' star and crypto critic Ben McKenzie tells lawmakers that the crypto market is the 'largest Ponzi scheme in history'

DOJ and SEC charge social media influencers in alleged $100 million stock pump-and-dump scheme

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings Marathon Feast

Wednesday

The Peripheral

The White Lotus

Slow Horses

APPS & DOODADS

Donald Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs)

FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page

Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes

1600 Tabs in Edge

Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws

Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit

Apple’s new whiteboard app gives you and up to 99 friends an ‘infinite canvas’

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Twitter has suspended the Helicopters of DC account.

FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

The Story of the Marshall amp. from the BBC

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Angelo Baldalamenti

RIP tWitch

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We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined for data scraping; DoorDash, Deliveroo profitability problems; I am Groot's Holiday; Mickey Mouse's evolution; Wednesday; BritPop; Knives Out; Memory; the White Lotus; Neal Brennan; Dropbox changes; Spotify festival posters; AI gets... weird & creepy; Apple Karaoke; FTC wants to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision; the Tower; Dennis E. Taylor; Jesus Jones & the cesspool of the music industry; Nine Nasty Words; the Muppets & adult Star Wars; Radioshack, Kinkos & Egghead; Goblin mode!

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Show notes at https://gog.show/581/

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San Francisco approves police petition to use robots as a 'deadly force option'

San Francisco lawmakers vote to ban killer robots in drastic U-turn

Who Said It: Kanye or Hitler?

IN THE NEWS

Chinese Bots Inundate Twitter With Pornographic Spam Amid COVID Protests

Twitter has stopped enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy

Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts

Twitter’s Janitors Are on Strike at Its San Francisco Headquarters

Neuralink CEO Elon Musk expects human trials within six months

NFTs, on the Decline Elsewhere, Are Embraced by Some Museums

Crypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid FTX fallout

Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU

DoorDash is laying off around 1,250 corporate employees

‘Purely economic’: Deliveroo Australia’s CEO on why management pulled the pin

MEDIA CANDY

The Peripheral

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

Wednesday

This is Pop: Hail Britpop!

Knives Out

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Memory

The White Lotus

Neal Brennan - Blocks

What The Cameras Don't Show You On Guy's Grocery Games

APPS & DOODADS

Dropbox support for macOS FAQs

20-year-old California student creates viral Spotify festival poster app

OpenAI’s New Chatbot Will Tell You How to Shoplift And Make Explosives

UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images

Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes

Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

Unstable Diffusion

Adobe Stock begins selling AI-generated artwork

Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery

Apple Music’s Latest Party Trick? Karaoke!

F.T.C. Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision

The Tower - Idle Tower Defense

AT THE LIBRARY

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

Death Threats From an 8 Year Old - The Story of Jesus Jones by Mike Edwards

The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Paul Laird

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

‘Goblin mode’ chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022

Critical Mass

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The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

The Muppets Christmas Carol Extended Cut Coming to Disney+

Video press kit for Star Tours when it launched, showing that Anthony Daniels is a team player.

Star Wars w/ Dan Zehr | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies #131

RadioShack

Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

TikTok ‘Invisible Body’ challenge exploited to push malware

LastPass reveals another security breach

GPT-2 Output Detector Demo

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Farewell to Christine McVie, who gave us music for all time

Super Steve’s Holiday

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Claritin to the rescue; Jack wasn't all that great; Trump is back, no he's not; celebrities leaving Twitter, questioning social media; Scrooge McMusk not paying contractors, charities; Sam-Bankman-Fried, FTX lawsuits; New York restricts crypto mining; EU investigating TikTok; Elizabeth Holmes sentences for fraud; Foxconn protests in China; FCC finally cuts off a voice provider for robocalls; A Christmas Story Christmas; Slow Horses; the Peripheral; Andor; Downton Abbey; Love, Actually; Disney Bobiverse; 1899; ScreenFlow Pro; self-driving betas for Christmas; social media alternatives; robots with deadly force; voice assistants are failures, financially; Meta's leaky Pixel; death by selfie.

Show notes at https://gog.show/580

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I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter Account

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

All the Celebrities Who’ve Quit Twitter Because of Elon Musk

"Enjoy it before it destroys your soul" – why Trent Reznor, Joe Bonamassa and Jack White are withdrawing from social media channels

Twitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measures

Twitter is Going Great!

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text

From Tom Brady to Shaq, FTX’s Celebrity Promoters May Be On the Hook for Damages

New York's crypto mining restrictions are the first in the nation

EU confirms multiple ongoing investigations into TikTok data practices

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud

Protests break out at a major iPhone factory in China

Mass resignations of iPhone workers after unrest, with report of 30% production loss

FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls

MEDIA CANDY

A Christmas Story Christmas

Slow Horses

The Peripheral

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Love Actually Cast Reuniting for 20th Anniversary TV Special

Bob Iger is returning as Disney CEO in a dramatic shakeup

Amazon Plans to Invest $1 Billion a Year in Movies for Theaters

‘Avatar 2’ Is So Expensive It Must Become the ‘Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History’ Just to Break Even

Planet Money - Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular fall of his crypto empire, FTX

Something's Burning - 1-Year of Access pass.

APPS & DOODADS

ScreenFlow Pro 10

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America

Jason DeFillippo

#DystopiYAY!

Hive Social

Post

Pine

Hey.Café

San Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly force

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

SECURITY HAH!

Husband Lured Wife for a Selfie on Cliff Edge Before Killing Her

Researchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims

Tax prep websites have been sending sensitive financial data to Facebook

MetaMask will start collecting user IP addresses

Ethereum: MetaMask Privacy Policy Is Worse Than It Looks At First Glance – Here’s Why

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Breaking news on Twitter, Twitter is breaking; it's World Cup time; Black Friday spam; Coachella VIP NFT's go poof; outdated Twitter news - move fast, break things; FTX & celebs being sued; Amazon layoffs; the end of the tech boom; the Mole 2022; the Crown Season 5; Netflix updates; the Peripheral; Andor; Jason's Audible Anniversary & inclusion; the Great Filter theory; Dennis E. Taylor - Roadkill, Outland; White Trash Wins Lotto; musical theater; Thriller in 4k; doom scrolling & ditching social media; Adobe Mic Check and audio utilities; Shasta Cola; an actual security story.

Show notes at https://gog.show/579 

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Rethinking Black Friday

Coachella NFTs Seemingly Unavailable Amid FTX Crypto Collapse

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29th

Twitter fired employees who publicly called out Elon Musk

Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'hardcore' Twitter or lose their jobs

FTX and Star Backers Including Brady, Curry Sued by Investor

Amazon reportedly plans sweeping layoffs that could affect thousands of employees

The End of Silicon Valley’s 20-Year Boom

MEDIA CANDY

The Mole 2022

The Crown Season 5

Netflix now lets you log out of specific devices remotely

AT THE LIBRARY

NASA Scientists Suggest the Reason We Haven't Found Aliens Is They All Killed Themselves

Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor - Narrated by Ray Porter

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

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The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

White Trash Wins Lotto

Thriller is on Archive.org in 4K

Enhance Speech

Mic Check

Europe’s Spyware Scandal Is a Global Wakeup Call

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Rob Sheridan’s Glitch Goods Store

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Moving to Mastodon; doom scrolling & would you really miss social media; Boot Up shanghai'd; lingering COVID societal effects; Twitter's insane week continues - a masterclass is what not to do; Tesla's recalls; collapse through small cascading failures; META layoffs; Wings delivery via Wing; Welcome to Wrexham; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Disney+ catches up to Netflix; AMC attempts another pivot; Brave cookie blocking not working; Spotify Apple Watch update; still no iPad Instagram app; Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Magic Journeys, more Captain EO, Michael Jackson, Disney & Star Wars memories.

Show notes at https://gog.show/578/

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Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks

IN THE NEWS

‘It’s Difficult to Resist’: Surviving Twitter Employees Weigh a Flood of Offers From Rivals

Twitter offering some laid-off staff only half what they’re owed, lawsuit says

Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back

Twitter starts rolling out its 'official' checkmarks to celebrities and publishers (updated)

Musk ‘killed’ Twitter’s official checkmarks after only a few hours

Twitter’s Free Speech Problem Is Tesla’s, Too

Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $3.95 bln days after Twitter deal

Tesla recalls over 40,000 cars to address power steering flaw

Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

Stephen Fry Joins Celebrity Twitter Exodus, Says “Goodbye” With Scrabble Message

Facebook Parent Meta Plans Large Layoffs This Week – Report

Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees

Alphabet’s Wing drones will soon be delivering DoorDash orders in Australia

MEDIA CANDY

Welcome to Wrexham

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Disney now matches Netflix's subscriber numbers across its combined services

AMC Entertainment To Open “Zoom Room” Auditoriums At Theaters In 17 Markets

APPS & DOODADS

Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners

Spotify’s redesigned Apple Watch app feels less like an afterthought

Instagram on the web has been redesigned for large screens

AT THE LIBRARY

Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Magic Journeys - Full Film - August 1991

THE MAKING OF CAPTAIN EO

Disney's Captain EO Grand Opening

Captain EO - Rare Dance Rehearsals & More

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Dashaun

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A two-factor pain; Jason hops on Brian's soapbox; the self-driving Twitter crash; Meta ditches human-curated newsfeed; verification has always been a joke, but this is really hilarious; Amazon pauses corporate hiring; Google buys an AI startup to compete with... TikTok?; Adobe's Pantone, Figma issues; the Peripheral; the Witcher renewed, recast; the Machine; drone swarms for Candy Crush; Playstation VR2; Instagram plans NFT minting; Captain EO, amusement parks and mixed media theater; sharing iPads.

Show notes at https://gog.show/577/

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Fact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022

IN THE NEWS

Twitter has removed 1,500 accounts following coordinated trolling campaign

Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally

Elon Musk’s First Grand Plan for Twitter? Charging $8 Per Month for a Blue Checkmark

Elon Musk wants to make Twitter's edit button free for everyone, report says

Elon Musk reportedly wants Twitter to bring back Vine

Amazon Pauses Corporate Hiring on Economic Uncertainty

Google buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTok

DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20 billion deal

MEDIA CANDY

The Peripheral

Netflix renews 'The Witcher,' recasts Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia

The Machine Teaser Trailer

APPS & DOODADS

A swarm of 500 drones will plague New York City with advertising tomorrow

$550 PlayStation VR2 launches on Feb. 22, 2023

Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

National Theater Live

The Met: Live in HD

White Snake Projects

Optimizing Apps for Shared iPad

Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips

Holy Chicken Ship! The full-length "Captain EO" is more brilliant than you can possibly remember

Star Tours

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Boot Up with Jason

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Elon is in the Birdhouse; is social media on the way out; we were right about Kanye & self-driving cars; smiles are the new eggs; Ford pivots to data mining; Shutterstock embraces AI-generated art; Apple begrudgingly embraces USB-C; Spotify doesn't follow Apple rules, gets mad; Internet "Radio"; Brian Eno; Andy Prieboy; the Perephrial; big-ass TVs; Doctor Who comes to Disney+; Netflix massive servers; Spark Mail; Bumble AI cyberflashing; stuff of nightmares audio from magnetic field; smart-locks, Level Lock+; Apple OS updates; Andor & Tales of the Jedi; smart Samsung privacy feature; cord-cutting through anger; live theater & the death of public norms; RIP Cracker, Hagrid.

Show notes at https://gog.show/576

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It’s time to admit self-driving cars aren’t going to happen

Pogues’ hard-living former frontman finds success as an artist

Does Faking a Smile Make You Happier? The Latest Findings Are In

IN THE NEWS

Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top Executives

Ford CEO Farley explains the business factors behind Argo AI's shuttering

SpaceX's costlier Starlink internet service for RVs works on moving vehicles

Shutterstock and OpenAI will team up to sell AI-generated stock images

iPhones will get USB-C charging to comply with EU law, Apple SVP confirms

Spotify accuses Apple of impeding its fledgling audiobook business

MEDIA CANDY

Internet Radio

Brian Eno discusses his latest album, art as simulation, and the dangers of "premature sheen"

Andy Prieboy - ONE and ONE MAKE THREE - FORGOTTEN, ABANDONED, UNFINISHED SONGS 1979 - 2021

The Peripheral

Amazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with Alexa

Future ‘Doctor Who’ seasons will air on Disney+

APPS & DOODADS

GOG Discord

Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage

An AI Created 100,000 Full-Body Photos of People Who Don’t Exist

Bumble open sourced its AI that detects unsolicited nudes

This audio recording of Earth's magnetic field is the "stuff of nightmares"

European Space Agency · The scary sound of Earth's magnetic field

Level’s new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key is smart lock perfection

Apple releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Samsung's Maintenance Mode protects your personal data while your phone is out for repair

DEF CON 30 - Andrew Logan - Tracking Military Ghost Helicopters over Washington DC

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Robbie Coltrane Cause Of Death Revealed A Week After The Loss Of ‘Harry Potter’ Star

Cracker

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Automated-tech vehicle deaths; Twitter tumbles as Musk deals reviewed; Amazon's bad news week - unions, attrition costs & lawsuits; Bird migrating out of markets; in Uber ads are coming; Microsoft layoffs; Reddit NFTs booming; Kanye & Parler; Metaverse attrition; Meta has to sell Giphy; Unstoppable Domains stopped; Keanu returning to franchises; She-Hulk gets too meta; Nope is a yep; WB launches LOTR NFTs; Netflix "extra user" fees; Directed by David Lynch; TikTok adult-only livestreams; DuckDuck No Thank You; Discmaster; Apple & Adobe updates; the Forever War; the Walk of Life; Flash, ahhhaaaa!

Show notes at : https://gog.show/575/

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Now it’s getting meta...

11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles

IN THE NEWS

Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals

Amazon warehouse in Albany votes against unionization

Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.

Amazon faces $1 billion lawsuit over claims it 'tricks' UK customers into paying more

Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and ‘several dozen’ US, EMEA markets

Uber Plans to Advertise to You At Every Stage of Your Ride, Using Your Own Data

Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees

Redditors have created millions of crypto wallets to buy NFT avatars

Kanye West to acquire ‘uncancelable’ social media platform Parler

Leak: Most Facebook Metaverse Users Have Quit in a Month

Meta will have to sell Giphy after losing UK appeal

The GIF Is on Its Deathbed

Unstoppable Domains disables .coin extensions, illustrating an issue with the idea that "you'll always own your NFT"

"Why we’re no longer offering .coin"

MEDIA CANDY

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Weed Is Coming to Circle K Gas Stations in US Next Year

Nope

Warner Bros. teams up with Web3 startup Eluvio to launch ‘Lord of the Rings’ NFTs

Netflix will begin charging 'extra user' fees early next year

Netflix Returns to Growth, Saying the Worst of Slowdown Is Over

First look at 'Ralphie' star Peter Billingsley's returns for 'A Christmas Story' sequel

"Directed by David Lynch" stickers reveal the true nature of our reality

TikTok is raising the age requirement for TikTok Live, adding adult-only livestreams

TikTok appears to be preparing to launch a podcast app

THE WALK OF LIFE PROJECT

Queen unearths 'lost' 1988 track 'Face it Alone' featuring Freddie Mercury

APPS & DOODADS

DuckDuckGo for Mac moves to public beta with cookie pop-up handling, ‘Duck Player,’ more

Discmaster

Apple will release iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura on October 24

Apple’s new M2 iPad Pro arrives October 26

Adobe Photoshop update adds refined selections and AI photo restoration

AT THE LIBRARY

The Forever War, Book 1 by Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace: The Forever War, Book 2 by Joe Haldeman

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F around & find out; eggs, legs & self driving cars; Alex Jones; Meta, OnlyFans bribes & Within; what's the ROI for 1.2 billion & 38 users; the Metaverse is getting legs; more NFT & crypto news; Rivian recalls almost all it's trucks; DeepMind & DeepCake; DART worked; Netflix announces ad-tier, Apple is considering it; Succession & the Murdochs; Werewolf By Night; Sportsball; Shane MacGowan; eero Internet Backup; AirTags in luggage; 3D calling; Spark Mail; ePaper License Plates; Apple AR headsets; website tracking; patter & spoken word songs; Shatner gold!

Show notes at https://gog.show/574

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What’s the magic number of steps to keep weight off? Here’s what a new study says

Survey: 42% of Tesla Autopilot Drivers Think Their Cars Can Entirely Drive Themselves

IN THE NEWS

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million after misinformation campaign targeting Sandy Hook families

Lawsuit accuses Meta executives of taking bribes from OnlyFans

Meta files to dismiss FTC complaint over acquisition of VR fitness company Within

$1.2 BILLION METAVERSE HORRIFIED BY REPORT IT ONLY HAD 30 ACTIVE USERS

Meta's avatars are getting legs

'The devices would have gotten us killed.' Microsoft's military smart goggles failed four of six elements during a recent test, internal Army report says

NFT Purchased by Logan Paul for 623k is now worth $10

From Over $620K to $10: Logan Paul’s Unsuccessful NFT Investment

Satoshi Island project aims to turn a remote Pacific island into a city built on cryptocurrency

Steering Defect Forces Tech Darling Rivian to Recall Nearly Every Car Its Ever Made

New iPhone Crash Collision Feature Is Calling 911 For People On Rollercoasters

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Labor Department proposal may lead to gig workers gaining employee status

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid

MEDIA CANDY

Netflix with ads launches Nov. 3, will be missing up to 10% of Netflix catalog

Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies

‘The Peripheral’: Prime Video Drops New Trailer For Sci-Fi From Jonathan Nolan And Lisa Joy

Prosecutors drop charges against ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

Succession

The Murdochs: Empire of Influence

Werewolf By Night

Shane MacGowan "waved willy" at trains passing Bono's house

APPS & DOODADS

What is eero Internet Backup?

Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags

Lufthansa Says Apple AirTags Are Once Again Allowed in Checked Bags

DJI Mavic 3 - Flying Over Mount Everest

Google’s 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world

Google completes iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets rollout with Maps and Search

Spark Mail 3.0

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

RPlate by Reviver

Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In

Nreal Air AR Glasses, Smart Glasses with Massive 201" Micro-OLED Virtual Theater, Augmented Reality Glasses, Watch, Stream, and Game on PC/Android/iOS – Consoles & Cloud Gaming Compatible

Better ingredients, better trackers: Papa John’s sued for allegedly snooping on website users

Beware cars that may have come from the Florida hurricane Ian floodplains.

Big John by Jimmy Dean

Ringo by Lorne Green

Teddy Bear by Red Sovine

Convoy by CW McCall

William Shatner - Good King Wenceslas

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Angela Lansbury

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - IMDB

Sweeney Todd (1982) - FULL

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Getting hit by a Tesla at Whole Foods; Deepcake; Elon's wild Twitter week, TeslaBot Prime; Kim K pays up for crypto pump-and-dump; Bitcoin, climate change & personal impact; Coinbase allows buys, unable to cash out for 6 hours; FCC taking robocall database seriously; Love and Thunder; reassessing Sinead; Pose; Deshaun; the Real Bling Ring; Food Network; more Dune coming; Spotify downsizes podcast division; Twitter edit; too big TVs; another drone; Metaverse fashion IRL; Media, HAH; Andor, She-Hulk and short seasons & series; Spotify looking for harmful content; Uber cover-up; Orson Wells, Johnny Carson and the theater of the mind.

Show notes at https://gog.show/573

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Bruce Willis’ Rep Refutes Report That He Sold His Digital Likeness to Deepfake Company

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

“Are You Going to Liberate Twitter From the Censorship Happy Mob?”

Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

Musk’s Twitter Deal Has Employees Asking: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

Kim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million to settle SEC charges over a crypto post

Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold

Coinbase users were unable to withdraw funds to US bank accounts for six hours

FCC will start kicking voice providers out of its robocall database

MEDIA CANDY

Thor: Love and Thunder

Nothing Compares

A New Movie About One of Our Most Controversial Pop Stars Shows We’ve Still Got a Lot of Reassessing to Do

Pose

The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist

Bobby’s Triple Threat

OutChef’d

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson to Star as Harkonnen Siblings in Sisterhood of Dune

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of podcast staff

APPS & DOODADS

Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait

Amazon Fire TV 75" Omni Series 4K UHD smart TV with Dolby Vision, hands-free with Alexa

DJI Avata

Loewe's Metaverse Fashion Works IRL

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Mandalorian Dark Saber

The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast

Griftonomics

Spotify acquires firm that detects harmful content

Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-Up

Orson Welles and Johnny Carson discuss the merits of audio content

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Loretta Lynn’s Family Statement and Obituary

Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing Comedian, Dies at 72

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