Grumpy Old Geeks

Why haven't you deleted TikTok yet; Google search gets immersive; Apple Pay Later coming... later; why we aren't going EV or even hybrid yet; space news makes tech cool again; Meta brings the NFTs and... Make-A-Video; James Earl Jones retires, AI Darth Vader is your daddy now; Bruce Willis sells rights to Deepfake firm; Three-Body Problem, Avatar: the Way of Water have us snoozing; Netflix building a game studio; Bravo; Aphex Twin software 20 years too late; tortilla robots and predictive AI; OG app announced, dead on arrival; Amazon's hardware event; the Forever War; Matthew Mather; Cloudflare eSIM; Uber, GTA 6 hack suspect arrested; Andor.

Show notes at https://gog.show/572/

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Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

IN THE NEWS

UK warns TikTok of £27 million fine over child privacy violations

TikTok breaks records as top grossing app in Q3, as overall app store revenue declines

TikTok Seen Moving Toward U.S. Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain

Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’

Apple Pay Later may not arrive until next year due to 'technical and engineering' setbacks

Department of Transportation approves EV charging plans for all 50 states

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

Hurricane Ian Flyover Coverage

All Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now share NFTs, cross-post between both apps

Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text

MEDIA CANDY

An AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retire

Actor Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm

Netflix’s adaptation of 'The Three-Body Problem' will arrive in 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Teaser Trailer

Netflix is building its own game studio

APPS & DOODADS

Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

Aphex Twin's free 'sample mashing' app feeds on your music library

Chipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurant

The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed

Apple removed The OG App from the App Store for unauthorized access of Instagram’s services

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Badgy Directive

Here's everything Amazon announced at its fall hardware event

AT THE LIBRARY

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Matthew Mather (1969-2022)

Matthew Mather Books

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Boot Up with Jason

Andor

Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices

How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You 

AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken 

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Coolio Found Dead at Age 59

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Patreon & MASH; TikTok treats celebrities not just like us; everyone's getting fined - Uber, Meta & Morgan Stanley; Deep Space Whine; Constantine sequel; Scanners remake; Apple TV+ upcoming projects; Succession; The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick; Serial has an update; Kurt Cobain's abandoned house photography; music for programming; Rogue Amoeba celebrates 20 years; OpenAI open-sources Whisper; AI imagery and legal challenges; Douglas Rushkoff and the horrific tech billionaires; Star Wars: Andor & Larry; ILM and the trench run; AI gone Furry.

Show Notes at https://gog.show/571/

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Patreon Acquires Memberful

Patreon was in talks to onboard MrBeast in a deal that could have been worth millions but never came to pass

MAS*H Matters

IN THE NEWS

TikTok reportedly gives 'a bit more leniency' to popular accounts

Uber Agrees to Pay N.J. $100 Million in Dispute Over Drivers’ Employment Status

Meta ordered to pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer $175M for patent infringement

$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned

MEDIA CANDY

Deep Space Whine

‘Constantine’ Sequel Officially Announced with Keanu Reeves Returning!

‘Scanners’ Series Remake In The Works At HBO – Deadline

Apple TV+ lands Vince Gilligan’s new TV project with two season order, starring Rhea Seehorn

Wool — cast, plot and everything you need to know about the dystopian sci-fi drama

Succession Season 3

The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

Judge orders release of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

Photographer spent the day inside Kurt Cobain's abandoned house

musicForProgramming();

APPS & DOODADS

Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary

DJI Osmo Mobile 6

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

"As If Nothing Happened": I Used Artificial Intelligence To See How Some Celebrities Would Look Today If They Were Alive

How AI Sees LA

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

AT THE LIBRARY

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Andor

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 1

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 2

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 3

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 4

Star Wars: LARRY - Episode 5

FXRant: The Death Star and the Final Trench Run

Celebrating 70 Years of Walt Disney Imagineering

Fur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.

Stable Diffusion running on M1 Macs

Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance State: ‘They Are Watching’ - The New York Times

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

SAVANNAH COMIC CON 2022

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Patreon drama ramps up, considerably - allegedly; Amazon accelerates robotics; Twitter's innovation vs Meta's; this week in Musk; Adobe's weird Figma play antitrust cough; Starbucks rewards NFTs; Merriam-Webster yeets pumpkin spice; Rings of Power; She-Hulk; Star Wars trailers; Kiki, Pose, Legendary and the power of sub-cultures; Sonos Ray; Apple OS updates generally good, kill Dark Sky bad; iZotope RX 10; Discord adds... forums; the Status Game; Chatter: the Voice in Our Head "I am a Golden God!"

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Show notes at https://gog.show/570

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Patreon is laying off 17 percent of its workforce and closing offices / Around a week after it laid off its security team

The Patreon Problem: Who is subscribing to these children's accounts?

The Patreon Problem Vol 2: It's worse than we thought.

IN THE NEWS

Amazon is buying a company that makes pallet-stacking robots

Twitter shareholders approve the $44B merger Musk is trying to get out of

Drivers sue Tesla for alleged false advertising of Autopilot and FSD software

Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers

Meta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundation

Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design

Adobe’s $20 Billion Deal For Figma is More Than 50 Times the Startup’s Revenue

Starbucks thinks you'll want to collect NFTs to earn rewards

Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary

MEDIA CANDY

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law | Disney+ Originals

The first 'Mandalorian' season three trailer reunites a favorite Star Wars family

The Mandalorian S3

Star Wars: Andor

Tales of the Jedi

Kiki (2016 film)

Pose

Legendary | HBO Max Originals

APPS & DOODADS

Review: Sonos Ray

iOS 16 is now available

Apple Releases watchOS 9 With Medication Tracking, New Watch Faces, Sleep Updates, and More

iOS 16's haptic keyboard is the best feature you haven't found yet | Macworld

iPhone 14 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes – Lux

I deleted and edited my texts with Apple's new iOS update — and it's the coolest thing the company has done in a long time

How to remove the Search button from your Home Screen in iOS 16

Apple-Acquired Weather App Dark Sky Reminding Users That iOS App Shutting Down on January 1

Drafts

iZotope RX 10

Discord revolutionizes online conversations with... forums

AT THE LIBRARY

The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber

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

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Meta's new fine, data black box, and dissolution of "Responsible Innovation" team; DOJ antitrust action against Google could hurt Apple; more iPhones than Androids in the US for the first time; Tim Cook's burn; LG inexplicably adds NFTs to TVs; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Rings of Power & House of the Dragon; feeding Phil; Stranger Things; Khan prequel; poop for profit; Apple Watch; SetApp; Travel By Bullet, Scalzi; Star Wars upcoming series; Robocop self-defense; cable testing & ranting; ransomware attacks; fun Anonymous hack; being taken off the internet.

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Show notes at https://gog.show/569/

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The Birth of the Modem World

When bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the online community praying for the end of crypto

IN THE NEWS

Meta faces $402 million EU fine over Instagram's privacy settings for children

DOJ antitrust action against Google could see Apple lose billions of dollars a year

Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data

Meta dissolves team responsible for discovering 'potential harms to society' in its own products

More Americans are using iPhones than Android phones for the first time ever, new report says — a major milestone for Apple

Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles

LG brings NFTs to its LED and OLED TVs

SLS fuel leak likely to delay Artemis 1 launch to October

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Lower Decks

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

House of the Dragon

Phil still fed as Somebody Feed Phil gets sixth-season renewal

Stranger Things Season 4

‘The Wrath of Khan’ is getting an official Star Trek podcast prequel

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit

APPS & DOODADS

Apple Watch Ultra

Apple’s New ‘Ultra’ Watch Goes Toe-to-Toe With Garmin

SetApp

AT THE LIBRARY

Travel by Bullet - The Dispatcher, Book 3 by John Scalzi

11 Books Like The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

‘Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae Lands Male Lead In ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’ From Leslye Headland And Lucasfilm

BYRNA SD KINETIC KIT

BYRNA FOLDABLE TARGET TRAP

C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester

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Rode VideoMic NTG Camera-mount Shotgun Microphone

SmallRig Universal Smartphone Video Rig for iPhone Samsung, Filmmaking Vlogging Rig Aluminium Alloy Phone Video Cage Grip with Cold Shoe Mount for Videomaker Videographer - 2791

The Los Angeles Unified School District is dealing with a ransomware attack

Anonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploit

Cloudflare blocks trans harassment forum Kiwi Farms following escalation of 'targeted threats'

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79

Peter Eckersley, co-creator of Let’s Encrypt, dies at just 43

MAS*H 50th Reunion Fundraiser

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FBI warns about DeFi; SEC after crypto; Facebook supports NFTs while trading tanks; Metaverse standards; blinking pants MetaHTML; Nvidia top AI chip dog; Snap layoffs; Substack reins in spending & perks for writers; Twitter's Onlyfans plans canned; Elon's bad prediction record; Pixar; A League of Their Own; NFT performers at the MTV awards; the Church; the Boys; Animal Kingdom; iPassword; UK police game Waze; digital art & AI created content; Midjourney; FTC sues data broker; malware hidden in James Webb images; Apple antitrust complaint; Google's automated tool messed up, shocking.

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Private Internet Access

FBI says investors should take precautions before putting money into decentralized finance platforms

The SEC’s Escalating Crypto Crackdown; Exclusive: Bill Qian’s New Role

MoviePass Will Work This Time*

Touring the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, IL

Virtual Tour of the Billy Graham Library Lobby with a Talking Cow

IN THE NEWS

Facebook now supports NFTs

WORLD'S TOP NFT MARKETPLACE HAS ALLEGEDLY LOST 99 PERCENT OF ITS TRADING VOLUME SINCE MAY

The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

NVIDIA Explains Why it Believes a Pixar-invented Protocol is the “HTML of the metaverse”

U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

Snap reportedly plans to lay off around a fifth of its employees

Media Versus Time By Jessica E. Lessin

Substack Reins in Cash and Perks for Writers as Creator Economy Retrenches

California Legislators Seek To Burn Down The Internet — For The Children

Who Would Benefit From California’s Age Appropriate Design Code? Apparently Porn Companies, Privacy Lawyers, And Medical Disinfo Peddlers. But Not Kids

Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

Truth Social's inadequate moderation is keeping it off the Google Play Store

Scoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdup

How Twitter’s Child Porn Problem Ruined Its Plans for an Onlyfans Competitor

EXPERTS SAY ELON MUSK IS WRONG ABOUT THAT POPULATION THING HE KEEPS SAYING

MEDIA CANDY

The Pixar Story

A League of Their Own

Snoop Dogg, Eminem's NFT Performance At VMAs Looks Like Bad Instagram Filter

The Church - The Hypnogogue

The Boys Season 3

Animal Kingdom

Edgar Wright | Pre-order Filmmaking Online Course | BBC | BBC Maestro

APPS & DOODADS

1Password 8 for iOS

Get a deal on 1Password!

UK police accused of uploading misleading Waze reports to encourage safer driving

Jason Allen takes 1st place in "Digital Category" at Colorado State Fair with AI-Generated content

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

Midjourney

SECURITY HAH!

FTC sues company for selling identifiable location data, including abortion clinic visits

Hackers hide malware in James Webb telescope images

Apple may face a DOJ antitrust complaint over AirTags

A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

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MoviePass, if at first, you don't succeed; Musk, absurdly broad & overly burdensome; crypto games; virtual rappers; stealing Project Titan; bitcoin mining, data centers & a global energy crisis; Neuralink's Halloween show-and-tell; SpaceX & T-Mobile team up; the Gen-X joys of Top Gun: Maverick; Day Shift's dialogue; Light & Magic; She-Hulk; House of the Dragon; Going Back to Xanadu; our preferred chairs, browsers, and fitness apps; trackers on bikes; Netflix games; Binance scammers get scammed; those Chinese surveillance cameras; Twitter's whistleblower claims.

Show notes at https://gog.show/567 

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Podcast Magazine 40 over 40

MoviePass will return on September 5th with plans starting at around $10 per month

IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk’s ‘Absurdly Broad’ Strategy Against Twitter Is Losing

A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here's What Happened Instead

Axie Infinity Leaves Filipino Players Penniless and Defeated

Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes

Former Apple engineer pleads guilty to stealing Project Titan trade secrets

Bitcoin Mining Company Sells 26,200 Rigs to Eliminate $67M Debts

Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland

Elon Musk's Neuralink will show brain implant progress at a Halloween show-and-tell

SpaceX and T-Mobile to Connect Starlink Satellites to Mobile Phones

SpaceX & T-Mobile to bring direct satellite connection to cell phones with ‘Coverage Above and Beyond’

MEDIA CANDY

Top Gun Maverick

Day Shift

Light & Magic

Going Back To Xanadu (2008 Xanadu documentary)

APPS & DOODADS

Mirra 2

Opera GX review – worth using in 2022?

qdomyos-zwift Guide

Auto resistance on Peloton Workout and Charts for your Echelon bikes with qdomyos-zwift

How to Play Netflix Games for Free

SECURITY HAH!

Hackers reportedly deepfaked a Binance exec to carry out listing scams

Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Twitter whistleblower claims company’s practices pose national security risk

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

The NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Show

depression lies – WIL WHEATON dot NET

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Technology no one wants: palm scanners, the Metaverse, NFTs & crypto; buying real art; Apple's return to work, hiring freeze, Maps & looking into tripling it's ad revenue; Neumann's back, again; fighting for your right to party at an Airbnb; the Sandman, Better Call Saul nail it; Westworld... WTF; the Most Hated Man on the Internet; She-Hulk; Light & Magic; the Slits; VPNs, AirTags, Simplisafe & fitness apps; Jason Bumbles with a bot; Signal third-party breach; Google shutters IoT Core; getting jiggler with it; Apple 0-days updates; Galaga; it's like camping, but involuntary!

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Show notes at https://gog.show/566/

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Shannon Stamey

Winamp's revival includes platforms for musicians and fans

IN THE NEWS

Apple employees will need to work from its offices three times a week starting in September

Apple reportedly lays off recruiters amid hiring slowdown

Report: Apple wants to triple its revenue from ads business, likely expanding Search Ads to Maps app

Adam Neumann’s New Company Gets a Big Check From Andreessen Horowitz

Adam Neumann, Vibes Landlord

Airbnb starts testing anti-party tech in the US and Canada

Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse selfie is so bad people can’t believe it’s real

MEDIA CANDY

The Sandman

Endless: A Sandman Podcast

Better Call Saul

Westworld

The Most Hated Man on the Internet

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Light & Magic

Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits

APPS & DOODADS

Stealth Tubeless Tag Holder

Ninja Mount Launches a Range of Apple Airtag Mounts

Stealth Tag®- A hidden AirTag mountain bike holder to track and protect your bike

SimpliSafe

Survey: Nearly half of Android users consider switching to iPhone over security and privacy concerns

Fitness Blender

Peloton may open its workout content to competing bikes and treadmills

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Signal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbers

Google Cloud will shutter its IoT Core service next year

‘My manager caught me’: Remote worker says they got reprimanded for using ‘mouse jiggler’ app, sparking debate

What you’ll need to survive the California wildfires this summer

iOS Privacy: Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

Apple security updates fix 2 zero-days used to hack iPhones, Macs

Better Call Saul prop auction

Tips for Galaga

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Incompetencies; magnets on a stick; tennis elbow & fitness; go ahead and drink the rain in Spain; CHIPS is a go; Cuban does good & bad; Amazon's solutions without problems; Facebook still can't remove white supremacists; Pew study on teen social media usage; FCC rejects Starlink request for subsidies; the Sandman; NeuroNerds; Joni Mitchell; Surface; Prey; Being Canadian; Twitter content AI is crap; home tools; cocktail smoking; Jason goes to Mall Cop school; Meta releases messages in abortion case; in-app browsers are bad; does Wisdom listen?

Show notes at https://gog.show/565

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IN THE NEWS

President Biden signs CHIPS Act to boost semiconductor production

Mark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager ‘Ponzi scheme’

Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California

Facebook still has trouble removing white supremacists, study says

A fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behind

TikTok’s $4 Billion Advertising Machine Is Messy Behind the Scenes

FCC rejects Starlink request for nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies

MEDIA CANDY

The Sandman

The Orville New Horizons

The NeuroNerds: A Brain Injury Recovery & Pop Culture Show

How Joni Mitchell Learned to Play Guitar Again After a 2015 Brain Aneurysm–and Made It Back to the Newport Folk Festival

Surface on Apple TV+

Westworld

Prey

Being Canadian

Nadiya's Asian Odyssey

New Rule: Fat Acceptance | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

APPS & DOODADS

Plex

HBO Max finishes rolling out its much-needed app redesign

What we bought: How DeWalt's 20V Max cordless drill became my most versatile home-reno tool

DEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill Combo Kit, 2-Tool (DCK240C2),Yellow/Black Drill Driver/Impact Combo Kit

Craftsman 3-in-1 Corded Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher

MITBAK Cocktail Smoker with Dome Lid and Woodchips | Electric Food and Drink Portable Smoking Gun| Indoor-Outdoor Smoke Infuser Machine | Excellent Gift

GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

BYRNA CA COURSE - SECURITY GUARD AND CHEMICAL AGENT CERTIFICATION

BYRNA SHIELD BULLET RESISTANT BACKPACK BODY ARMOR

Nebraska mother, teenager face charges in teen's abortion after police obtain their Facebook DMs

In-app browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk, developer shows

Active scam making the rounds on Twitter

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

RIP Olivia Newton John

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN DEAD AT 73

Darryl Hunt of The Pogues has died aged 72

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Earth no longer has drinkable rain; Goodreads; Pickleball elbow; Twitter goes after Musk; the week in grift - Ponzi schemes, hacks, regulatory lies, "preemptive" theft, oh my; Meta's Super live streaming platform; movies we haven't watched & some we have; Westworld; Trainwreck, Woodstock '99; Opal C1 camera; Apple Arcade removes titles; Winamp is back; WebbCompare; fitness apps; Meta Pixel HIPAA lawsuits; everyone's texts have been deleted except Alex Jones; deprogramming conspiracy theorists, Happy Birthday, Jason!

Show notes at https://gog.show/564

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Jason on Goodreads

10 Terrific Exercises for Tennis Elbow

PFAS In Rainwater Mean It's Unsafe To Drink Anywhere, Even In Antarctica

IN THE NEWS

Twitter subpoenas associates of Elon Musk in preparation for lawsuit

The Disastrous Record of Celebrity Crypto Endorsements

SEC charges 11 people over 'textbook' $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme

Hacking free-for-all relieves crypto bridge users of $200 million

New York regulators slap Robinhood's crypto business with $30 million fine

Robinhood lays off almost a quarter of its staff

Inside the Crypto-Bot Ghost Towns of Telegram

Meta has been quietly testing a new livestreaming platform and is ramping up creator outreach. Read a leaked 17-page pitch deck it sent influencers.

MEDIA CANDY

Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99

Best Sellers

The Lost City

APPS & DOODADS

Opal C1 Camera - invite code: OP-5i7SOFb-AL

Apple Arcade removes first batch of originals, ‘Leaving Soon’ tab now gone

Jetpack Joyride will soon have a sequel available exclusively on Apple Arcade

Winamp, your parents' favorite MP3 software, is back

WebbCompare

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Meta faces lawsuit for allegedly collecting patient health data without consent

FOR PROBABLY TOTALLY INNOCENT REASONS, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ALSO DELETED THE JANUARY 6 TEXT MESSAGES OF TOP TRUMP OFFICIALS

Conspiracy theories have legitimized violence, impaired public health, and undermined democratic governance. Containing their harms begins with understanding the theorist, not the theory.

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Airtags on Thingverse

Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future

Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers for 67 Years, Dies at 94

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Hot, Hot, Hot; Google fires engineer that claimed AI was sentient; Shkreli, Cracker Barrel enthusiast & ponzi schemer, is back; ghosted politician wants to make ghosting a crime; Senate grills Apple, Google over crypto app scams; Jon & Punch & the CHIPS act; Westworld turns the ship around; John Oliver is back; the Old Man; Spotify gains users, loses money, ditches Car Thing; hiding AirTags on bikes; Instagram's very busy week; Twitter Blue price hike; Snapchat+ inexplicably doing well; Tinder "desk mode"; smart scarves; Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler; Star Trek coffee table book; Happy Birthday Dave!

Show notes at https://gog.show/563

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FOLLOW UP

White House launches a website to help people cope with extreme heat

Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient

GOOGLE FIRES ENGINEER WHO SAID ITS EXPERIMENTAL AI GAINED SENTIENCE

IN THE NEWS

Martin Shkreli Is Out of Prison, So of Course He's Getting Into web3

A Filipino politician wants to make ghosting a criminal offense

Senate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scams

CHIPS Act passes House on way to Biden signing

MEDIA CANDY

STAR TREK CONTINUES

‘The Old Man’ Finale: Producers Address Mysterious Morgan & Whether Zoe (And Those Dogs) Will Be Back

Spotify has 188 million Premium users, but continues to lose money

Spotify has stopped making its Car Thing dashboard accessory

APPS & DOODADS

Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok

Instagram will survey US users about race to assess if it is ‘fair and equitable’

Instagram Pauses Changes to Feed After Week-Long Drama

Twitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription for the first time

Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue

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