Episode Notes

News

Apple News

* US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, claimed the UK is ceasing efforts to gain backdoor access to Apple devices

* Apple announced a new “Awe Dropping” event on September 9th

* Two new Apple Stores opening in India

Linux/FOSS News

* LibreOffice 25.8 released

* Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8

* Firefox 142 released

* Thunderbird 142 released

* Arch Linux and AUR still under DDOS attack

Microsoft News

* 8/19 - Worker Intifada Occupies Microsoft Main Campus, Demands MS Cut All Ties With Israel

* 8/20 - Microsoft "Intifada" Shut Down After 4 Hours

* 8/21 - Microsoft “Worker Intifada” Escalates, 18 Arrested, More Violence Planned

* 8/23 - Microsoft "Worker Intifada" says "Go Away, Jews!"

* 8/24 - How Will Microsoft Solve Their Intifada Problem?

* 8/26 - Video of "Worker Intifada" Occupying Microsoft President's Office

* 8/27 - Microsoft Fires "Intifada" Employees

* Microsoft Office NT for PPC found on eBay, demoed, and archived for community preservation

Other Tech News

Nothing to see here this time…

Creepy AI News

* ChatGPT user creeped out after AI shares others’ info — in yet another eerie episode: ‘Very scary’

* University of Colorado Boulder: AI ghosts are coming

* Research paper: Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives

Retro Gaming/Tech News

* New Open Source GameCube ODE (optical drive emulator)

* PicoLoader Github: https://github.com/makeo/PicoLoader

* Atari and Limited Run Games have released the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection for Xbox Series, PS5, Switch and Switch 2

Command Line Tool of the Month: SCLI

scli is a simple terminal user interface for Signal. It uses signal-cli and urwid.

Main Topic: My Top 10 Substacks Right Now

Tech & Tech History

* The Video Game Library’s Substack

* GoTo 10

* Al’s Geek Lab

* Abort, Retry, Fail

* Obsolete Sony

* Computer Ads from the Past

* The Lunduke Journal

Christianity

* The Anglican Catholic

* Christian Warrior Training

Tech & Culture

* After Babel

Ways to Join the Community

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